An inaugural lecture is a special moment in an academic’s career as it marks that they have now been promoted to a professor or have recently joined the School. These lectures are a chance to ...

The Department organises an exciting range of student events throughout the year. Don't forget to check out our Careers Events schedule, as well as our Department events schedule.

The URF programme has been a wonderful opportunity for me to actively participate in some of the valuable research that the Southeast Asia Centre is doing whilst working with supportive and engaging ...

This workshop will explore emerging policy challenges and cutting-edge research on gender inequality in a rapidly changing world. It will examine how transformative forces like technology and climate ...

These informal sessions put the spotlight on a topical issue in IR in a friendly debate with your fellow IR students. Conversational and casual, (Un)Resolved is a brilliant way to put your knowledge ...

This project will use collaborative story writing as research method and dissemination tool to advance the PI’s longitudinal ethnographic research with young women in service work in Delhi, India. It ...

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR), long considered regionally and geopolitically as the ‘Battery of Asia’, has often been positioned as a central provider of regional hydroelectric power to ...

The LSE Phelan US Centre's Essay Competition seeks 1000-word articles from current LSE Master's students on a specific topic which relates to the United States. 2025 Essay Competition - Is AI a threat ...

Diana Koester focuses on gender and governance, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Her doctoral research on gender and post-conflict statebuilding (University of Oxford) was ...

The Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub is hosting its inaugural workshop on Tuesday 24th June 2025. The workshop aims to bring together researchers who are working on the social ...

Historically, one of the main reasons for the establishment of the Department of Methodology was the identification by the Economic and Social Research Council of a 'methods gap' in the training of ...

Since LSE's founding in 1895, Geography has been one of its cornerstone subjects. From our very first lectures on commercial geography, to today’s cutting edge research, we’ve been at the forefront of ...