This is the seminar series of the Centre for Public Policy Research. The series invites speakers from across disciplines to discuss questions of social justice.
It focusses on how interdisciplinary social science and humanities perspectives develop in dialogue with public policy, professional practice, and social activism. Topics covered range from education and educational policy, youth work and public health to racism, migration and border regimes, gender and sexuality, disability, the politics of representation, environmental activism, work and social inequality.
Some of the past events have recordings available to watch.
The series is open to the public. If you are interested in attending one of the events, please contact Dr Billy Holzberg: billy.holzberg@kcl.ac.uk or Hannah Walters (hannah.1.walters@kcl.ac.uk)
Previous Events
“You laugh at it as a joke, but it’s not funny:” Young People’s Experiences of Colourist Banter
This paper explores how young people in the UK use jokes and banter to perpetuate colourism, particularly targeting those with dark and very dark skin.
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Exploring abolitionist disruptions to Scotland's progressive penal state
In this seminar Martha will draw on the findings of her research to cast Scotland’s penal reputation in a new light and explore the implications of this in...
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Ambiguities in Black: Black feminism and the transracialism discourse
Alanah Mortlock asks, what does the discourse that emerged in the wake of the Rachel Dolezal transracialism scandal do to ways of talking and thinking about...
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Framing pocket money in teenage girls’ consumption through entitlements, payments, and enterprise
Dr Gaby Harris draws on qualitative interviews with girls aged 15-17 to consider how pocket money connects young people’s consumption practices.
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‘New’ men and pedagogies of self in the Indian Manosphere
In this seminar, we explore the educational role of the manosphere in India by calling attention to the pedagogies of self it employs to educate a ‘new’...
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Mapping life course trajectories of young mothers in the family justice system
In 'Mapping life course trajectories of young mothers in the family justice system: a group-based multi-trajectory modelling approach', Mariam Aboulein will...
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'Hearts and minds’: Imperial logics and the franchising of elite British schools overseas
Dr Emma Taylor looks at the expansion of British elite school overseas and how this acts as a reproducer of privilege and imperial logic.
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Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow
This article analyses how practices characteristic of hegemonic masculinity are incorporated by male migrant workers in the process of crafting labour...
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Reproductive Injustice: A Feature, Not a Bug of Settler Colonialism
In this talk, Gala Rexer draws from and contextualizes fieldwork she has conducted with Palestinian women with different legal statuses vis-à-vis the Israeli...
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Decentring London: Education Policy Enactment outside the anglosphere
This seminar discusses education policy enactment in Tokyo as an additional case to develop theory
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Black Studies as Resistance at Canadian Universities
This talk will be based on some of Rosalind Hampton’s recent research into Black student activism, coalition building, and the belated arrival of Black...
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About the war on Gaza
Sari Hanafi discusses the current contours of the war, the politics of denial in Western media and academia and the officially sanctioned cancel culture...
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From Europe, We Stand With You: Tensions, Limitations, Possibilities of Transnational Decolonial Solidarities
This talk will be based on Samira’s decade-long experience in conducting extensive fieldwork in and with Central American communities in Guatemala, Nicaragua,...
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Performance, Citizenship and Activism in Chile 2010-2020
This talk is based on Paula Bronfman’s recent book and explores the relationship between performance and activism in Chile as a form of political expression...
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Another World Queer, Decolonial, Feminist and Anti-Racist Dreams for Higher Education in South Africa
Another World Queer, Decolonial, Feminist and Anti-Racist Dreams for Higher Education in South Africa: CPPR Lunchtime Seminar Series talk
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