III Acting Director Kirsten Sehnbruch was interviewed on El Mostrador to discuss her recent report on job quality in Latin America.

Watch it back now (in Spanish) ⬇️
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Rising wealth inequality is causing social and environmental harm but political action is not keeping pace.

In a new Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, Wealtherty and Michael Vaughan ask whether changing the way we talk about wealth inequality could drive political action 👇
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'Black Arsenal: Club, Culture, Identity' edited by Clive Nwonka is now available to pre-order!

The book recounts the stories and experiences of how Arsenal became an important and underexamined feature of modern Black British culture and identity.

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Happy #InternationalWorkersDay 🌹

Check out #LSEPPR journal's new special issue on 'changing labour markets and the future of social protection'🔗ppr.lse.ac.uk/11/volume/3/is…

#MayDay #LabourDay2024 #OpenAccess LSE LSE British Politics and Policy LSE School of Public Policy Andrés Velasco Kirsten Sehnbruch

#HumanRights are under threat globally 🌎

In this The Wollstonecraft Society, LSE Inequalities & LSE Human Rights event, Shami Chakrabarti, Conor Gearty, Bee Rowlatt & Alpa Shah will discuss why human rights are essential for our future.

Know more ⤵️ lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

'Epistemic injustice” is where the voices of marginalised groups are either unheard or dismissed as less valid than those of more powerful members of society.

But what do these injustices mean for the criminal justice system? LSE Inequalities explains👇
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What are the parallels between earlier stages of colonialism and today’s digital world? 📱

In our latest blog post, NICK COULDRY MASTODON @[email protected] and Ulises A. Mejias argue that instead of a land grab, we are today witnessing today a data grab. #LSEInequalitiesBlog
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Wealth inequality has been sharply rising around the world, but due to a lack of data, we know little about how this trend has unfolded across locations within countries.

The new article by Joel Suss Tom Kemeny and Dylan Connor addresses this gap 👇
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🌍 Researchers have developed new and more robust ways to measure global extreme poverty.

This data presents a more complex – and more troubling – story of global poverty than existing narratives would suggest.

#LSEInequalitiesBlog Jason Hickel
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Join us on 9 May to hear Shamus Khan in conversation with Mike Savage 🎟️

Shamus will centre families within the studies of the super-rich, arguing that the approach transforms what we see and find when looking at the social world.

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Join us on 8 May for the launch of CostasDouzinas's 'The States of Exception: Biopolitics, Human Rights, Utopia'!

Costas will be joined by Kirsten Campbell, Conor Gearty, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera and Ayça Çubukçu!

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🔜Next week!

We are thrilled to be joined by Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, an indispensable guide to the law and logic underpinning human dignity and universal freedoms.

With Conor Gearty Bee Rowlatt and Alpa Shah

Register now ⬇️
lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

Registrations are now OPEN for our 2-day Symposium on Generative AI and the Knowledge Economy in partnership with Imperial DSI

Join us on May 20/21 for insightful talks on AI and its impact on research and education.

lse.ac.uk/DSI/Events/202…

#generativeAI #AI #knowledgeeconomy

📢Our Inequalities Seminar Series is back next Tuesday 7 May!

We are joined by Fabrício Mendes Fialho and Alberto C. Almeida to discuss how values have changed in Brazil over time.

🎟️Register for in-person: ow.ly/xGQm50RqHgC
💻Register for online: ow.ly/Wk1750RqHgB

🚨Call for papers🚨

On the 21 - 22 November, the III will co-host a workshop on Wealth Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and Equality of Opportunity with WU Vienna and ZEW.

📅Deadline for submission: Wednesday 15 May

Find out more:
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🎙️ How to ensure gender equality for the next generation?

On #OurWorldConnectedPodcast , host Christine Wilson Christine Wilson and guests Prof Naila Kabeer and Dharini Priscilla explore digital tech, education, politics, and the motherhood penalty.

Listen now: britishcouncil.org/research-insig…

📣We are excited to be joined by Daniel De Simone, who will discuss his major BBC investigation into the racist murder of Black teenager Stephen Lawrence that changed policing and race relations in Britain.

🔴With Clive Nwonka and Ann-Marie Cousins

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📣 We're excited to have BBC reporter Daniel De Simone, who investigated the 1993 racist murder of Black teenager Stephen Lawrence, speak at LSE!

He will be joined by Clive Nwonka, Ann-Marie Cousins & Shakuntala Banaji.

LSE Inequalities talk. More info 👉 lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

“Without a raft of equalising policies, the damaging legacy from Covid school closures will be felt by generations of pupils well into the next decade.”

Lee Elliot Major discusses failures to tackle the legacies of school closures during Covid for The Guardian 👇
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In the latest episode of the Democracy Sausage podcast, Mike Savage joins Mark Kenny to discuss the wealth divide and how to create a more even playing field.

Listen here 👇
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