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Helsinki Inequality Initiative - INEQ
How to build and protect a fair and justifiable society? INEQ – Helsinki Inequality Initiative brings together academics whose work enhances understanding of causes and consequences of intersecting inequalities.
INEQ - Helsinki Inequality Initiative
Life trajectories of wealth, health and well-being diverge. Multiculturalism and migration complicate civic life and solidarity. Neighborhoods become segregated. Digitalization and datafication open new opportunities but also intensify polarization. Making sense of social inequality is a constitutive task of social sciences and humanities. INEQ – Helsinki Inequality Initiative is a strategic, multidisciplinary research initiative of the University of Helsinki. This initiative brings together academics whose work enhances an in-depth understanding of causes and consequences of intersecting inequalities. INEQ is shaped by three interrelated themes: recognition, representation, responses.
Recognition
How do we experience and recognize inequalities?
Representation
How do we collect knowledge and data about inequalities?
Responses
How do our policy choices response to inequalities?
Activities
INEQ – Helsinki Inequality Initiative brings together scholars and other actors to explore the global challenge of inequality through seminars, workshops and teaching.
Inequality talks
Inequality talks series brings leading academics to the University of Helsinki to discuss the multilayered questions of intersecting inequalities. Watch their I2 Talks and listen how they respond to some of the key questions concerning global inequality.
Research seminars and workshops
INEQ organizes monthly the I2 seminar to debate the questions of inequality from an interdisciplinary angle. INEQ also holds thematic workshops for UH scholars and their collaborators and coordinates the interdisciplinary doctoral research seminar.
Associated teaching
Many INEQ affiliates and collaborators actively engage in teaching on inequality related questions and methodologies.
News and bulletins
News from the INEQ and research on inequality.
Events
Events organised by INEQ and collaborators. Events listed here are open to the public. Registration may be required.
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