An interesting looking new blog of interviews with leading Social Scientists - called Social Science Bites - kicked off at the start of May with an interview with human geographer Danny Dorling on the issue of equality and inequality.

Well worth a listen here. 

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Ideas to tackle Income Inequality: A report from Claiming our Future’s Second National Event,

Galway, May 2011

This is the report from the four ‘consensors’, appointed by the Claiming our Future Coordinating

Committee to draw together and summarise the key elements of the deliberations

which emerged at the second National Event. The report is drawn from the short report…

One of the key themes of Is Feidir Linn, also reflected in the Income Inequality theme of Claiming our Future, has been the rapid growth in the pay of CEOs and other higher corporate executives. The Claiming our Future event in Galway in May came up with a few ideas about how to tackle this - a High Pay Commission, requiring companies to publish the ratio between their lowest and highest paid workers in their annual…

The second national Claiming our Future event in Galway went off extremely well with up to 250 people participating in a detailed and passionate deliberation about income inequality and what to do about it.

The event gathered a good deal of national publicity, with RTE radio bringing their Saturday View programme to Galway for the event. Is Feidir Linn's Mary Murphy represented Claiming our Future on the…