Events

Intergenerational Educational Mobility During the Twentieth Century

Intergenerational educational mobility, capturing the extent to which children’s education is associated with their parents’ education, has become a major global policy discussion. Studying its long-term patterns across countries remains difficult, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), due to limited early twentieth-century data. Analyzing about 53.7 million observations from 92 countries using mainly IPUMS census data, we find that recent cohorts exhibit increasing educational mobility across various world regions, with post-Soviet countries as exceptions.

Speaker: Hossain Mobarak, Assistant Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science

Moderator: Liu Jaiqi, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University

Reflections on Design, Ethics and Inclusion

Humanising Technology

We created technology to enrich and enhance our lives, but have we ever paused to reflect on whether we are still in the driver’s seat, or if the very tools we built are now subtly steering us?

Join Professor Sun Sun Lim at the launch of Humanising Technology: Reflections on Design, Ethics and Inclusion, a collection of 50 of her opinion editorials that interrogate the multifaceted social impacts of technology. Drawing from over two decades of research and public engagement, she offers insights into how technology intersects with human values and societal norms. It is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding how we can navigate the digital age responsibly, ensuring that technological progress aligns with and enhances our shared humanity.

The session will feature a fireside chat moderated by Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at SMU’s College of Integrative Studies Dr Aidan M. Wong.