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Atlantic Equity Challenge

The Atlantic Equity Challenge (AEQ) is a research grant programme developed and funded by the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE). It offers researchers and practitioners an opportunity to undertake innovative, solutions-oriented, collaborative research and thinking directed at tackling social and economic inequalities. The research grant is envisioned as more than a funding opportunity: it is the beginning of a long-term partnership between the project teams, the AFSEE programme, and the LSE International Inequalities Institute.

Atlantic Equity Challenge 2026: Winners Announced 

The Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) programme at the International Inequalities Institute is pleased to announce the winners of the third round of the Atlantic Equity Challenge (AEQ) research grant. This grant offers researchers and practitioners an opportunity to undertake innovative, solutions-oriented, collaborative research and thinking directed at tackling social and economic inequalities. In this round of the AEQ research grant, the AFSEE programme again seeks to promote research collaborations between LSE academics and AFSEE Fellows for projects addressing fundamental questions related to socio-economic inequalities.

Since 2021, the AEQ has funded fourteen projects across Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the UK, bringing together researchers and practitioners to generate new insights, models, and approaches for tackling socio-economic inequalities.

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Current Projects

Advancing Reparative Pathways for Debt and Climate Justice in a Transatlantic Perspective Across Africa and the Caribbean: the case of cocoa producers in Ghana and Trinidad & Tobago

Invisible Women as Architects of Reform: Institutional Belonging in Education among Mobile and Romani Women in India and Hungary

Modern Slavery in Pakistan: How workers and their families live in and strive against debt-bondage

The Tipping Point: Embedding Participatory Systems to Redesign Inequitable Public Policy (RIPP)

Understanding and Countering Anti-Egalitarian Backlash in Europe

Past Projects

Connecting Disability Justice with Wider Challenges to Inequalities

Demanding a ‘just recovery’ from below: the role of grassroots accountability activism in safeguarding labour migrants’ rights in the pandemic era

Ethnographic solutions to inequalities in South Asian advicescapes

Higher Education in Latin America: Boosting upward mobility or reproducing inequality?

Improving Inequality Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean

Peace and gender (in)equality: lessons from the Colombian Peace Agreement of 2016

Resisting Inequalities through a Global Arts Network: Online and offline barriers to and facilitators of connection and impact

Shifting the dial on structural racism against Gypsy Travellers in Scotland

Social media and the crisis of urban inequality: transnational analyses of humanitarian responses across the Middle East, South Asia and Africa

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