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🗣️ Sign up now for our next MY580 Methods Short Course: How to write a qualitative methods section for academic manuscripts, by Dr @aliyarao.bsky.social 📚

⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm
📆 30 Mar, in person at The PhD Academy R4.02

Sign up to join👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-wri...

Get tickets – Gender and Conflict: Kurdish Narratives – MAR.1.04 (Marshall Building) Gender and Conflict: Kurdish Narratives – MAR.1.04 (Marshall Building), Wed 18 Mar 2026 - This event explores how gender, culture, literature, and practices of writing both shape—and are shaped by—Kur...

Join us and @lsegender.bsky.social for an event exploring how gender, culture, literature and practices of writing both shape - and are shaped by - Kurdish lifeworlds.

🗓️ Wednesday March 18
⏰ 5:30-7:00 pm
📍 MAR.1.04 (Marshall Building), LSE

Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/lsede...

From Peripheral Players to Game Changers: Regional States and States-to-be in International Relations - Middle East Centre For decades, IR was explained through a simple divide: powerful 'core' states and weaker 'peripheral' regions. That no longer holds, argues Charountaki.

Politics in the Middle East have shifted: alongside global powers, states like Turkey, Iran & influential non‑state actors now shape outcomes.

Sustainable political change requires frameworks that involve all key actors in the region’s future, writes Marianna Charountaki @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social

Episode 2 of our new season of Instant Coffee is now live 🎧

Manar Alzraiy, a Palestinian education professional dedicated to resilience and equity in crisis-affected schools, brings together her colleagues to talk about keeping education going in Gaza.

Listen here: https://ow.ly/EyRS50Ypz3L

Do women academics need to work 2.4 times harder to succeed? - LSE Impact What reproducing Wennerås & Wold's classic 1997 study on peer review bias reveals about policymaking and the use of evidence in research policy.

💥New | Do women academics need to work 2.4 times harder to succeed?

✍️Ulf Sandström

#AcademicSky #GenderBias

Submit your suggestions for the Lakatos Award 2027 | LSE Philosophy Let us know which Philosophy of Science book deserves the prestigious Lakatos Award 2027!

📣 We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Lakatos Award 2027! Deadline: 1 September 2026.

📚 Submit in your nominations for the best monograph in the philosophy of science!

More information: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/n...

#PhilSci #Lakatos #LSEPhilosophy #Philosophy

Al Jazeera’s ‘Head to Head’ – Venezuela, the ‘Donroe Doctrine,’ and the Illusion of Democratic Restoration Dr. Vanessa Neumann, joined Mehdi Hasan on Al Jazeera’s Head to Head to discuss "Does foreign-backed regime change in Venezuela offer a democratic solution or does it entrench crisis and polarization?...

Dr. Vanessa Neumann joined Mehdi Hasan on Al Jazeera’s Head to Head to debate whether foreign‑backed regime change can deliver democracy or instead deepens crisis.

MSc candidates Anandini Gupta and Amaya Lilles attended and reflect on the tensions raised: blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

In spite of war Ukrainian academic publishing leads - LSE Impact Frances Pinter describes how a delegation of Ukrainian librarians & publishers highlighted innovative approaches to open research & their fight to reclaim ISSNs.

👀ICYMI: Frances Pinter describes how a recent delegation of Ukrainian librarians and publishers highlighted innovative Ukrainian approaches to scholarly publishing.

#ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

Do molecules have structure? The view from quantum physics | LSE Event YouTube video by LSE

Here is the recording of our Inaugural BSPS Popper prize lecture we gave w/ Alex Franklin at the LSE yesterday. This was such an amazing experience!!

@lsephilosophy.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa...

Europe in a changing world 3pm Monday 2 March | Xavier Bettel | Registration Required | Free hybrid public event at LSE

Register to join us for an exciting event with Xavier Bettel (@xavierbettel.bsky.social),the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs of Luxembourg 🎤

www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

⚛️ Do molecules have structure?

Yesterday, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social and Alexander Franklin delivered the BSPS Popper Prize lecture and talked about their award winning research.

📹 Lecture recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa...

#PhilSci @aliboyle.bsky.social
@thebsps.bsky.social

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The education development centre dilemma: focus on scholarship and be asked "what are you doing to improve teaching?" Focus on practice and risk being dismissed as admin rather than academic partners. Claire Gordon & Sam Smidt offer a solution to the identity crisis.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

Evidence everywhere, justice nowhere? Techno-humanitarianism under pressure | Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke Wed 18 March | 5.30pm | LSE | Free and public event

🤳 Evidence everywhere—#justice nowhere?

What happens when the power to see violence outpaces the power to act on it? Join us at LSE for a talk on techno‑humanitarianism under pressure. Chaired by @aycacu.bsky.social.

🎫 Open to all and free to attend

#LSE #Sociology #HumanRights

Cutting-Edge Issues in Development – Analysis of Dr Ritika’s Talk on Parental School Choice and Majoritarian Politics in India - LSE International Development Last Friday, Dr Ritika Arora presented her PhD research on Parental School Choice and Majoritarian Politics in India in a Cutting-Edge Issues in Development lecture session, joined by Dr Laura Mann as...

Last week at #CuttingEdge, Dr Ritika Arora presented her vital PhD research on School Choice and Majoritarian Politics in #India.

Nidhi Shanbhogue’s recap explores how grassroots pressures and market dynamics allow prejudice to reshape India's modern classroom.

#LSE #Development #EducationPolicy

Join us for a presentation with Dr Francesca Torti, who will explore how the Joint Research Centre’s framework is used to track the EU’s imports and exports, & why these insights matter for trade policy.

📍 Leverhulme Library | 1-2pm
🎓 Open to all LSE staff and students

Still spaces left for our AI in Education Showcase today! Join us at 1pm (CBG.1.04/online) for examples of emerging practice from Casey Kearney of @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social and Carrie Friese of @lsesociology.bsky.social. Recordings up on our YouTube channel tomorrow info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisi...

LSE Press books are now available on JSTOR open access LSE Press is delighted to announce a new collaboration with JSTOR, providing access to open access books on the digital library’s widely accessed platform.

Good news for academic readers - LSE Press books are now available on @jstor.bsky.social open access! 🔓 📖

LSE Press’s recent partnership with @thoth-metadata.bsky.social has helped the Press extend its presence on a broader range of discovery platforms.

🔎 Read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...

Join us as Dr Alex Wellerstein talks about his new book 'The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age' Dr Alex Wellerstein argues our understanding of President Truman's specific role in the use of the atomic bomb in 1945 has been dramatically misunderstood. With a new interpretation, Dr Wellerstein ar...

This Thursday I will be giving a talk about my NEW BOOK on Truman and the bomb at the London School of Economics (LSE): www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

SERG Seminar by C. Thi Nguyen: "The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game" YouTube video by LSE Philosophy

👉The recording of our Social Epistemology Research Group (SERG) Seminar by C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social is now available online!

🎲The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeSz...

#epistemology #philosophy #games #partoflse #lsephilosophy

Remembering Professor Tim Allen - LSE International Development The Department of International Development is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Tim Allen. Tim joined the Department in 1997, later served as Head of Department, and went on to become the D...

Remembering Professor Tim Allen

The Department of International Development is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Tim Allen, former Head of our Department.

One of his long‑standing colleagues, Professor David Keen, shares the following tribute on behalf of the Department.

Food and snacks for the Lunar New Year celebrations

Red envelopes with gold horses on the front

Group of 4 health policy students holding fortune cookies

Group of 4 health policy students holding red envelopes

✨ Happy New Year ✨ from the Department of Health Policy.

We had an amazing time celebrating the #YearoftheHorse with our students and staff. We had delicious snacks, sweet treats and prizes to be won 🥠🧧🎊

Thank you to everyone who joined the celebration.

#LSEHealthPolicy #PartofLSE

The UK’s AI training ambition deserves better than a course directory - LSE Impact A lack of connection to the UK government’s own assessment of AI skills requirements &a wider vision beyond work undermines the potential of the AI Skills Hub.

💥New | The UK’s AI training ambition deserves better than a course directory

✍️Jon Cardoso-Silva & Jeni Brown (@lsedatascience.bsky.social)

#AISkills #EdTech #AcademicSky

Professor Sonia Livingstone appointed to United Nations Panel on AI Professor Sonia Livingstone joins the UN’s first global scientific panel on AI, uniting 40 experts to guide evidence‑based understanding of how AI is reshaping our lives. Learn more.

👏 Delighted to announce that @sonialivingstone.bsky.social has been appointed to the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI.

🌐 The first global scientific panel on AI brings together 40 experts to study AI’s impact and guide policy with evidence:
www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

⏰ Next week!

@aliboyle.bsky.social
@thebsps.bsky.social
@vanessaseifert.bsky.social

#PhilSci #Philosophy #Popper

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Research funding is being restructured.. Students now work 13+ hours a week and live at home. The traditional university model won't survive. Yet most institutions plan as if minor adjustments will suffice. They won't, says Huw Morris
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

History holds the key to understanding the crises facing our oceans A new project - The Blue Sustainability and Society Initiative - shows how history can help us to understand and tackle the crises facing the world's oceans.

History can play a critical role in helping us to understand the crises affecting the world's oceans.

By situating contemporary concerns within long-term histories, we can open up new possibilities for conceiving sustainable futures.

✍ Ronald Po @lsehy.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Fire in every direction | Public conversation with author Tareq Baconi 6pm Mon 16 Feb | Tareq Baconi | Free public event at LSE

Join us tonight for 'Fire in every direction' with Tareq Baconi.

This talk will explore themes of political and queer awakening, drawing on personal experiences of displacement, belonging, and resistance.

🕡 6pm
📍 OLD.3.24, LSE Old Building
🔗 buff.ly/eJFXV1f

#Sociology #HumanRights

What a UN Internship Taught Moona Shaik - LSE International Development Moona Shaik, who recently graduated from the MSc in Development Management at LSE, reflects on how her academic journey and internship with the United Nations shaped her understanding of gender equali...

🎙️ New on Voices from IDeaSphere

Moona Shaik (MSc Development Management) reflects on how her UN internship — including work on the Women in Tech campaign — shaped her views on gender equality, global development & the power of mentorship.

Read her insights👇

Governing with nature: towards transformative change? | Professor Harriet Bulkeley 6.30pm Wed 11 Feb | Harriet Bulkeley | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Join us tonight for 'Governing with nature' with Professor Harriet Bulkeley.

This talk will explore the rise, and limits, of nature‑based solutions in urban governance.

🕡 6.30pm
📍 In person & online
🎟️ Open to all and free to attend | register now

#LSEEvents #ClimateChange #Sociology

Department Seminar next week!

💡How does environmental noise affect our health — and even our lifespan?

This seminar explores new evidence on how noise reduction reduces mortality, & why noise policy matters for #publichealth.

👉Register: bit.ly/4kMAjBf