Four innovative projects focusing on inequalities across the world have been awarded funding by Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) as part of the second round of the Atlantic Equity Challenge (AEQ) research grant*.
Focusing on sites across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America and Caribbean, the projects all met the AEQ brief of bringing researchers and practitioners together to undertake innovative, solutions-oriented, and collaborative research and thinking directed at tackling social and economic inequalities. The projects are expected to provide important new knowledge on inequalities in higher education in Latin America, resisting inequalities through a global arts network, improving inequality statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean, and catalysing collaboration between disability and inequality campaigners in Ghana and Kenya.
LSE researchers Professor Ellen Helsper, Professor Facundo Alvaredo, Liz Sayce, Dr Philippa Mullins, and Dr Valentina Contreras will form the principal investigator teams for the four projects with AFSEE Senior Fellows Jack Nissan (Scotland), Roseline Orwa (Kenya), Andrea Encalada Garcia (Chile), Fredrick Ouko Alucheli (Kenya), and Rosario Fassina (Argentina). In this second round of the AEQs, there will be a record number of 13 AFSEE Fellows involved in the successful projects.
Generating valuable insights into alternatives and solutions that reduce inequality
The aim of the AEQ is to support work that lies at the intersection of research and practice. The AEQ grants offer a unique opportunity for collaborative research that can generate valuable insights into alternatives and solutions that reduce inequality, rather than focusing solely on its causes and consequences. Working in tandem with the International Inequalities Institute and the London School of Economics and Political Science’s research community as a whole, Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity are proud to be supporting innovative research collaborations on inequalities.
The AEQ projects will commence in Autumn 2024 and run for up to 24 months. Each project will receive up to £100,000 in funding from the AFSEE Programme.
In creating space to bring practice and scholarship together, we hope to allow new ideas to flourish. That’s really what the Atlantic Equity Challenge is intended to do: in supporting projects whose unique approach might mean they might not be funded elsewhere, we aim to build on synergies, and ultimately to push the frontiers of work on inequalities around the world. The AEQ underscores the uniqueness of the AFSEE Fellowship as a dialogic and global space.Professor Armine Ishkanian, Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity
The funded projects are:
Connecting Disability Justice with Wider Challenges to Inequalities
Higher Education in Latin America: Boosting Upward Mobility or Reproducing Inequality?
Improving Inequality Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean
RIGAN - Resisting Inequalities through a Global Arts Network
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*A fifth project was given a conditional award subject to final eligibility checks
