Inequality comes in many different forms. For example, consider the large differences in income, wealth, and health between people. The opportunities an individual has over their life will largely be influenced by what happens in their early years, if we also include parent’s health behaviours then before they’re even born.
Consider how wealth and income of parents or even grandparents can affect schooling opportunities for an individual; this will affect their subsequent employment earnings and wealth accumulation over their life. And so the cycle continues.
Of course, employment earnings are also related to health and disability: not all individuals are born with the same level of health. Disabilities can have a significant impact on individual life chances even in developed economies.
A lot depends on the tax treatment of wealth and income in a country in addition to the education system: these vary significantly across the world. Our researchers analyse how different types of inequalities affect individuals at important life stages and what policy can do to reduce inequality in life chances.
Current projects
- CO-CREATION: the cohesive city: addressing stigmatisation in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods
- The art of organising hope
Completed projects
- NEWFAMSTRAT: the new shape of family-related gender stratification
- The rehabilitation prison
- Social mobilisation for social policy: building the policy making of state and society in the Arab region
- Transmitting justice: transparency, visualisation and mediation
- Young people at risk of poor educational and labour market outcomes: The role of education institutions
- New paradigms of social protection
- Media and criminal justice
- Child poverty and social mobility: Lessons for research and policy
- Understanding childhoods - A qualitative longitudinal research project with low income children
- Addiction and lifestyles in contemporary Europe reframing addictions projects (ALICE RAP)
- Lifetime economic mobility: Understanding mobility within and across generations
- Implementing Schwartz Centre Rounds® in community and mental health services: How can processes of group reflection support health and social care staff?
- Sowing the seeds of innovation: developing local solutions to tackle child maltreatment in China
- Understanding the determinates of intergeneartional mobility and the processes underlying individual decision-making
- The changing nature of lone parenthood and its consequences
- Exclusion diets: Exploring relationships between diet, lifestyle, health and social disadvantage in the UK
- From boys to men: precluding the proclivity to perpetrate
- An examination on the impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in late childhood and adolescence
Researchers with current inequality research interests
- Louise Brown
- Mel Channon
- Aurelie Charles
- Lynn Prince Cooke
- Joe Devine
- Matt Dickson
- Ana C Dinerstein
- Jeremy Dixon
- Rachel Forrester-Jones
- Anna Gilmore
- Chris Griffin
- Anna Hagglund
- Rossella Icardi
- Jonathan James
- Rana Jawad
- Yvonne Jewkes
- Ricky Kanabar
- Hugh Lauder
- Sarah Moore
- Harry Rutter
- Tina Skinner
- Richard Velleman
- David Wainwright