Keetie Roelen

@keetieroelen.bsky.social

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📝 poverty and social protection researcher
📚 author of The Empathy Fix
🎙host of Poverty Unpacked podcast
🌎 Deputy Director of Centre for the Study of Global Development at The Open University

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 2d

How do empathy and dignity reshape anti-poverty policy?
Join @keetieroelen.bsky.social, @oucsgd.bsky.social at the Inequalities Seminar.
📚 Based on her book The Empathy Fix
📅 Feb 10th, 2026
📍 LSE Centre Building 2.04 and on Zoom

Find out more: buff.ly/1VecjVM

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Keetie Roelen @keetieroelen.bsky.social · 2d

Thought-provoking piece by my colleagues Julia Chukwuna and Kevin Deane with critical reflections on targeted #cashtransfers through lens of #coloniality
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Based on research @oucsgd.bsky.social at @theopenuniverse.bsky.social in collaboration with @idos-research.bsky.social

socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · 2d

🚨 Can cash transfers really reduce health inequalities, or do they hide deeper structural injustices?

✍️ New blog applies a coloniality lens to CT and CT+ programmes in Africa.
👉 Read here: buff.ly/Nx5fWXN
📚 Second post of the series “The long shadows of colonialism on social protection”

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socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · 2d

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 3d

How can we develop a more empathetic and dignified approach to anti-poverty and welfare policies?

In our next seminar, @keetieroelen.bsky.social explores the double standards and myths that underpin attitudes to poverty.

💻️ Attend online: buff.ly/GgEC13T
🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/fNtpaAX

Keetie Roelen @keetieroelen.bsky.social · 3d

What can the lens of #empathy bring to understanding #poverty and #policies that seek to tackle it?
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Excited to be holding seminar next week at @lseinequalities.bsky.social
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10 February 12.30 GMT - in person or online
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👉 www.ticketleap.events/tickets/iiil...

Inequalities Seminar - Examining poverty reduction and welfare through the lens of empathy and dignity

Examining poverty reduction and welfare through the lens of empathy and dignity LSE Centre Building 2.04 and on Zoom Speaker:Dr Keetie Roelen, Senior Research Fellow in Poverty and Social Protection ...

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Keetie Roelen @keetieroelen.bsky.social · 5d

Great to see our research on experiences of living im new estates in #MiltonKeynes making #BBCnews once more
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@openuniversity.bsky.social
@oucsgd.bsky.social
#CommunityActionMK
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BBC News - Milton Keynes residents 'cut off by lack of transport links' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Milton Keynes residents 'cut off by lack of transport links'

A report looks at transport inequality and finds one family spends £800 a month getting to school.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 7d

Thrilled to receive Josh Seim’s new book THE WELFARE ASSEMBLY LINE.

This is the BEST book on the administration and delivery of welfare programs I’ve read in years. Totally changed how I think we should think about the delivery of social services.

www.ucpress.edu/books/the-we...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10d

About 6.8 million people – half of all those in poverty – were in very deep poverty, the highest number and proportion since records began three decades ago - @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows

Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’

www.theguardian.com

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 14d

"While poverty rates and the contexts in which they play out are different across country contexts, there is one common denominator in the existence of poverty and the stagnating fight against it: a lack of empathy."

✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492

Why We Need Empathy to Tackle Poverty

By Keetie Roelen“You need a new vacuum cleaner? Can you prove that your current one is really broken?” This was the response Hanny received from the welfare office in the Dutch city of Tilburg when…

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socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · 16d

🚨 Social protection isn’t just about the future. Colonial legacies and postcolonial power still shape who is protected - and who is left behind.

✍️ New blog: Social protection and coloniality
👉 buff.ly/g1VzvmK
📚 First post in a new #BlogSeries

@openuniversity.bsky.social

Keetie Roelen @keetieroelen.bsky.social · 16d

What happens when education works WITH communities, not around them?
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This story of PLACE in Tees Valley offers an insight!
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Lots here for anyone interested in place-based working, collaboration, and impact beyond the school gates
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www.teesvalleyeducation.co.uk/place-impact...
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#PLACE #TVEd

PLACE Report - Welcome to Tees Valley Education - Tees Valley Education

Tees Valley Education is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with company number 09630999

www.teesvalleyeducation.co.uk

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Keetie Roelen @keetieroelen.bsky.social · 17d

Delighted to drop this #podcast episode of @povertyunpacked.bsky.social with Dutch MP @esmahlahlah.bsky.social 🇳🇱 about how to change #welfare towards #trust #dignity and #solidarity
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👉 poverty-unpacked.org/2026/01/18/e...

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