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Martin Lewis, in conversation with Nicholas Barr, discusses his work to empower individuals to have more control of their finances, as well as his campaigning for policy changes to address everyday financial inequality.

We discuss the implications for thinking about how historical context and social change affects your life chances.

Citizenship is often seen as a great equaliser. Yet access to citizenship itself is not equally distributed, nor are the rights gained from citizenship equal for all.

How do we escape this perfection trap and embrace the idea of “good enough”?

This talk will demonstrate how generative AI can be used to create engaging and personalised learning experiences for students in higher education.

African nations are among the most affected by the consequences of climate change. Policymakers are attempting to address this inequity through climate credit, debt exchanges, and the Loss and Damage Fund, which was established at COP27.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, discusses his first book Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency with LSE's President and Vice Chancellor Minouche Shafik.

Novel technologies enable or facilitate access to information, bringing change to the tasks people conduct or providing a new means to accomplish old tasks.

Tackling climate change requires significant and rapid economic and societal change.

Whilst we celebrate the power of people to bring about change in society, we must also acknowledge what a tortuous and slow path meaningful change can take.