The British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Festival of Science took place from 7-12 September at the University of Leeds. This year, Section F (economics), under the presidency of Professor Tony Atkinson, Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford and President of the Royal Economic Society, featured a series of presentations on the economics of equality, opportunity, poverty, unemployment and social exclusion:

• Social Exclusion, Poverty and Unemployment - Speaker: Professor Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford
• Employment and Social Cohesion - Speaker: Andrew Britton, Executive Secretary, Churches’ Enquiry into Unemployment and the Future of Work
  Intergenerational Mobility - Speaker: Professor Steve Machin, University College London
• Labour Market Flexibility and Skills Acquisition: Is there a Trade-Off? - Speaker: Professor Alison Booth, University of Essex and CEPR
  Are British Workers Getting More Skilled? - Speaker: Professor Francis Green, University of Leeds
• Opportunity and Equality in a Global Economy - Speaker: Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, The Guardian

For further information, contact Royal Economic Society/Economic and Social Research Council Media Consultant for Economics Romesh Vaitilingam on 0171-878-2919 or e-mail rvaitilingam@cepr.org