Events
Events Calendar 2025-2026
February 2026
Agenda-setting for selective schooling: A Swedish case study on the policy reframing of comprehensive education
Thursday 5 February 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online, OLD 2.21.
Education Research and Policy Hub Seminar
Presenter: Jonathan Lilliedahl (Linnaeus University)
Chair: Dr Sonia Exley (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Rainbow Trap: Diversity Policies, LGBTQ Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion
Thursday 12 February 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online, OLD 2.21.
Global Sexual & Gender Identities Policy Lab Seminar
Presenter: Dr Kevin Guyan (University of Edinburgh)
Chair: Professor Hakan Seckinelgin (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
The Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty in the United States
Thursday 19 February 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online event, OLD 2.21.
CASE seminar
Presenter: Professor Zach Parolin (University of Oxford)
Chair: Professor Kitty Stewart (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
March 2026
2026 Annual LSE Behavioural Public Policy Lecture
Thursday 5 March 2026, 6.45pm-8.00pm, In-person and online (Wolfson Theatre, CKK Building)
Speaker: Professor Ching Leong (National University of Singapore)
Chair: Professor Adam Oliver (Department of Social Policy, LSE)Professor Ching Leong will deliver the 2026 Annual LSE Behavioural Public Policy Lecture. The title of the lecture is “Not a Drop to Drink: How Behavioural Biases Keep Us from the Water We Need, and How We Can Fix It.”
Segregation by the Dispossession of Aspirations: Young Muslim Professionals and the Politics of Othering in Rental Housing Markets, New Delhi, India
Thursday 26 March 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online event, OLD 2.21.
Department of Social Policy seminar
Presenters: Dr Sunil Kumar (Department of Social Policy, LSE) and Rifan Rahim (Development Practitioner)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
April 2026
Does Speed Improve Justice? Fast-Track Courts and Violence Against Women in India [joint work with Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich]
Thursday 2 April 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online event, OLD 2.21.
Mannheim Centre for Criminology seminar
Presenter: Dr Nirvikar Jassal (Department of Government, LSE)
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
May 2026
Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places
Tuesday 19 May 2026, 4.00pm-5.30pm, in-person public event, Alumni Theatre, CKK Building.
Hosted by the Mannheim Centre for Criminology
The LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to host Professor Alison Liebling for the Centre’s inaugural Annual Mannheim Lecture.
In her new book, Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places, Alison draws on her professional lifetime’s work researching prisons. She shows how damaging and unsurvivable most prisons are, except in exceptional examples, from which we can learn a great deal.
Speaker: Professor Alison Liebling
Discussant: Professor Nicola Lacey
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler
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