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Peak injustice: solving Britain's inequality crisis

Hosted by the Department of Sociology

In-person and online public event (Old Theatre, Old Building)

Speakers

Professor Danny Dorling

Professor Danny Dorling

Dr Danny Sriskandarajah

Dr Danny Sriskandarajah

Professor Kitty Stewart

Professor Kitty Stewart

Polly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee

Chair

Professor Aaron Reeves

Professor Aaron Reeves

Why has absolute deprivation continued to grow in the UK? What role does high inequality play in understanding how we have got to the point of peak injustice?

With child mortality rising in the UK and a majority of parents with three or more children going to bed hungry, Danny Dorling looks to the future, highlighting the challenges ahead and identifying solutions for change.

Danny will be joined by Polly Toynbee of the Guardian; Kitty Stewart - Professor of Social Policy and Director of CASE, and Danny Sriskandarajah - Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation.

Meet our speakers and chair

Danny Dorling (@dannydorling) joined the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University in September 2013 to take up the Halford Mackinder Professorship in Geography. He was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has also worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand, went to university in Newcastle upon Tyne, and to school in Oxford.

Danny Sriskandarajah (@dhnnjyn) is Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation and Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE International Inequalities Institute. He has previously led Oxfam GB, CIVICUS, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Commonwealth Foundation and held positions at the Institute for Public Policy Research. He is a trustee of the Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation and has previously been a trustee of the Baring Foundation, Comic Relief, Disasters Emergency Committee and Praxis Community Projects.

Kitty Stewart (@kittyjstewart) is Professor of Social Policy and Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE). Kitty joined LSE in 2001 as a STICERD post-doctoral fellow, having previously worked at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence. She has a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence.

Polly Toynbee (@pollytoynbee) is a Guardian columnist. Her recent books include An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals and The Only Way Is Up: How to Take Britain from Austerity to Prosperity, a post-election book co-authored with David Walker

Aaron Reeves (@aaronsreeves) is Professor of Sociology at LSE. An award-winning sociologist who has conducted pioneering studies on health and social class, he is the co-editor of the British Journal of Sociology.

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