Sutton Trust’s latest analysis of the educational backgrounds of those in influential roles across the country – this makes it “one of the professions with the lowest private school attendance” in the report. The proportion who attended a state school has increased by 29 percentage points in a decade. The report also looks at what proportion of Britain’s different “elite” professions attended university, and what proportion attended the Russell Group or Oxbridge.

Latest insights on the most popular undergraduate routes from Southeast Asia to the UK.

Explore key findings and recommendations to improve HIV prevention for Black African and Caribbean communities in London. Actionable insights and stats.

Research prepared for DCMS in 2023 exploring access to culture for lower socio-economic groups.

More than a book: a tool for collective action. As part of DAWN’s 40th anniversary celebrations, we released Pandemic Policies & Resistance: Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of Covid-19, a book documenting state responses to the pandemic across twelve countries in the Global South. Now, we’re proud to share a brand-new resource: the Southern Feminist […]

Explore a living collection of books, essays, and articles by and for Black women leaders — curated to support your confidence, clarity, and career growth.

Exclusive: Letter to the Met says technology ‘unfairly targets community that carnival exists to celebrate’

Over the past 30 years, museums have turned to participation in the hope that direct involvement of non-museum staff would serve their claims to be accessible, inclusive, representative and diverse. And yet, adding participation to museums has often generated conflict, disappointment and anger. Deconstituting Museums argues that the difficulties produced by adding participatory practice arise […]

Reparations are not only necessary, but achievable. When done right, they benefit us all.

For East and Southeast Asia (ESEA) Month 2025, we share a list of twelve must-read books about ESEA culture and history recommended by the LSE community.

The Correct the Map campaign challenges the distortion of Africa’s true size on world maps, aiming to empower global understanding and respect for the continent’s significance.

Drawing on Marx’s claim that ‘[t]he ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas’ this editorial explores how the values and norms of the rich and powerful contiue to circulate in contemporary society. It analyses the legitimisation of the neo-liberal political, cultural and economic hegemonic constellation of individualism, competition, compliance and the postmodern rejection of a complex but foundational totality. Arguing that an understanding of how subjectivity and structure exist in a mutual relationship makes possible challenges to a whole range of practices presently responsible for dispositions amenable to incorporation into the present unequal anti-democratic order: an order that demands the denigration, silencing and effective erasure of the concerns and experiences of the working class in order to function.

Uyiosa Omoregie argues, Indigenous knowledge systems, such as Ifá, provide an alternative lens through which to understand AI & its impact on society.