Research & Projects
We bring practitioners and academics together
The Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme brings practitioners and academics together for interdisciplinary research projects.
Current projects and research
Atlantic Equity Challenge
The Atlantic Equity Challenge (AEQ) is an LSE-based research initiative offering researchers and practitioners an opportunity to undertake innovative, solutions-oriented, collaborative research and thinking directed at tackling social and economic inequalities.
Academic-Practitioner Collaborations for Social Change
The Academic-Practitioner Collaborations for Social Change (AcPrac) project explores how we can better understand the drivers, impacts, and challenges of building and sustaining collaborations between academics and practitioners working on inequalities.
AFSEE Incubation Labs
The AFSEE Incubation Labs is an initiative designed to foster and support impactful and innovative cross-cohort collaborative projects that are started, led, and implemented by AFSEE Senior Fellows.
AFSEE Inequalities Glossary
The Inequalities Glossary aims to demystify key concepts that are often discussed when theorising, researching, and attempting to address issues of social and economic inequalities.
Pedagogy and Social Change
Pedagogy and Social Change is an AFSEE research initiative exploring how education can respond to and challenge social and economic inequalities.
Relational Humanity
The Relational Humanity seminar series is a collaboration between LSE scholars and AFSEE Fellows, which seeks to critically examine the philosophical, material and emotional foundations of democratic action in the 21st century.
Politics of Inequality
Politics of Inequality was a joint International Inequalities Institute/Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity research theme which explored the practices of resistance, mobilisation, and contestation that constitute a politics of inequalities from a bottom-up perspective.
Urban glory for the few: extreme urban inequality and its impacts on access to housing in Kinshasa (DRC)
The research project in partnership between AFSEE and NYU Center on International Cooperation examined how financialisation and state capture impact access to adequate housing in cities across the Global South.
Female Leaders in Business and Politics: Comparing Chile and the UK
The collaborative project between AFSEE and COES examined female elites in both the political and economic fields in order to explore the extent to which these relate to gender equality and social cohesion.
COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund
The COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund (CRRF) was launched in May 2020 as a vehicle to fund timely and nimble research projects with the potential to respond quickly to the COVID-19 crisis and its connections to global inequalities.
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