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Estate ‘regeneration’: why it isn’t just about the money
An anonymous blog from a resident of Gascoigne Estate in Barking. Due to this anonymity, the individual’s real photos will not be used. The Gascoigne Estate in Barking and it’s signature high rise...
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More harm than good
By Jo Gregory A small ex-mining town in North-East Derbyshire has recently garnered an unprecedented media interest. With specific reference to two recent articles weaving stories of racial and...
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Inequality by design? Why we need to start talking about aesthetics, design...
By Mona Sloane. Twitter: @mona_sloane Mona Sloane is a PhD student in the LSE Department of Sociology. She is an ethnographer and works and publishes on the sociology of design, material culture,...
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On Rabia Nasimi – Making a difference to refugees from Afghanistan finding a...
By Chloe Blades- a social activist aiming to uncover the reality for refugees in Britain The politics within Afghanistan is turbulent to say the least with conflict spanning centuries, mostly due to...
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Cathy Come Home: Why it is still relevant 50 years on and why the world needs...
by Ronda Daniel – @rondaemily_ Source: British Film Council TV play Cathy Come Home was broadcast for the first time in 1966. Why, in 2016, is it still relevant? With Stand By Me playing in the...
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I, Elena Nicola
by Elena Nicola, a recent LSE Sociology graduate – @elenatheolive This is not a review, more something akin to the appreciation of a work of art. Last week, on a very rare occasion, I felt a spark of...
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Is there a class issue at LSE?: Episode 1
By Ronda Daniel, LSE undergraduate and Researching Sociology @ LSE blog editor (@rondaemily_) This week, the Researching Sociology @ LSE blog will feature a series of posts about a panel discussion...
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The Homelessness Reduction Bill is a Piece of Token Legislation
By Helen Foster The Homelessness Reduction Bill proposed by Bob Blackman MP was unanimously voted through Parliament on 28th October 2016. Its proposals originally included expanding the duty of Local...
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Is there a class issue at LSE?: Episode 2
Following from yesterday’s blog, this week at Researching Sociology @ LSE, we will be discussing the LSE’s Social Mobility Society’s panel discussion, ‘Is there a class issue at LSE?’, which involved...
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It was 2016 that done it, guv
By Lisa McKenzie – @redrumlisa Few will be sad to see the back of 2016, as it reaches its finale. This rotation by the Earth around the sun is apparently to blame for the tectonic shifts in our social...
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