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The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is one of the foremost social science universities in the world. LSE was founded in 1895 and has grown to become one of the foremost social science universit

ies in the world, ranked alongside Harvard, UC Berkeley and Stanford. A specialist university with an international intake, LSE's reach extends from its central London campus to around the world. The School has a cosmopolitan student body, with around 10,800 full time students from 160 countries. It has a staff of just over 3,300, with about 46 per cent drawn from countries outside the UK.

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🎟️ Six free to attend in June!1. In this LSE International Inequalities Institute, University of Chicago Booth School ...
02/06/2026

🎟️ Six free to attend in June!

1. In this LSE International Inequalities Institute, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Prof Eric Zwick will discuss how the rich have gotten richer by quietly rewriting the rules of money and power: https://ow.ly/3vys50Z6zMG

2. How has Brexit transformed political identities, party competition, public trust, and Britain’s place in the world? Find out at our LSE Department of Government event which will address the above question: https://ow.ly/CnTq50Z6zMF

3. Who gets access to books? In this LSE Law School event, LSE President Larry Kramer will discuss Don Herzog’s new book, Reading Wars, which examines the political struggles over who gets to read and what they get to read: https://ow.ly/AGcT50Z6zMH

4. Join LSE Department of Management Prof Youngjin Yoo, for his inaugural lecture. He'll set out a new agenda for understanding how AI is reshaping value creation and technological design: : https://ow.ly/cYn150Z6zME

5. This LSE International Relations by Marwa Daoudy will explore the entanglement of colonialism, capitalism, and environmental exploitation that has shaped the modern global order: https://ow.ly/lggL50Z6zMO

6. This Global School of Sustainability at LSE School of Sustainability event marks the global launch of Smarter Than the Storm, a new book by Amitabh Kant and Siddharth Sinha, and explores its core ideas in conversation with Nicholas Stern: https://ow.ly/WgKb50Z6zMJ

🎉LSE has been ranked as the top university in London for the fifteenth year in a row by the Complete University Guide 20...
02/06/2026

🎉LSE has been ranked as the top university in London for the fifteenth year in a row by the Complete University Guide 2027!

Our School was also ranked third overall among UK universities, maintaining its place among the country's leading higher education institutions.

Find out more: https://ow.ly/BuVf50Z6zfH

Sayeh Yousefi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. Her research explores persu...
01/06/2026

Sayeh Yousefi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. Her research explores persuasion, attitude change and the role of AI in shaping political beliefs.

Sayeh’s work examines how people form and shift political attitudes on issues such as immigration and vaccines, with a particular focus on how AI is emerging as a new source of political information. She is interested in both the potential benefits and risks of AI in influencing political attitudes and behaviour.

Speaking about her research, Sayeh said: "It seems like people are growingly unyielding or unwilling to change in their political attitudes, and I hope to find out if attitudes are as entrenched as they seem, and if they can be changed, how that change happens."

Read the full interview with Sayeh on her research, career journey and advice for PhD life at LSE here: https://ow.ly/sMnh50Z4O78

01/06/2026

To future-proof the planet, we need to work together as a community.

Ahead of on the theme of How to Save the Planet, Professor Sir Tim Besley of LSE Department of Economics explains how adapting our lifestyles and systems to climate change makes sense economically. The challenge lies in understanding that the economic and political factors can work together to create a more sustainable society.

️🗓️ 15 to 20 June 2026
🎟️ ️Book FREE tickets: lse.ac.uk/events/lse-festival/2026/lse-festival-ticket-information?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=cdev_festival_26

On 31 May 1858, LSE co-founder and political scientist Graham Wallas was born in Sunderland. He was educated at Oxford a...
31/05/2026

On 31 May 1858, LSE co-founder and political scientist Graham Wallas was born in Sunderland. He was educated at Oxford and then became a schoolteacher at Highgate School, where one of his colleagues was the poet T S Eliot.

He met Sidney Webb and G Bernard Shaw through his college friend Sydney Olivier, and all four became members of the Fabian Society. Wallas was best man at Sidney and Beatrice Webb’s wedding in 1892. In August 1894, he was a house guest of Webbs’ at Borough Farm in Surrey when Sidney Webb discussed his plans for the London School of Economics and Political Science with his wife Beatrice, Wallas and George Bernard Shaw, who had cycled over for breakfast.

Graham Wallas was Sidney Webb’s first choice for the post of Director but he turned down the post. He delivered the School’s first political science lectures, on the English Constitution since 1832, a course of 20 lectures at 6.30pm on Tuesdays. Even though, Wallas resigned from the Fabian Society in 1904, he remained on good terms with his friends and LSE. In 1914 he was appointed Professor of Political Science at LSE and on his retirement in 1923 he continued as emeritus professor and occasional lecturer.

Graham Wallas’s publication in 1908 of Human Nature in Politics is one of the founding works of political psychology and this and his later works The Great Society (1914) and Our Social Heritage (1921) investigated the psychological basis of democratic and urban societies. On his death in 1932, his LSE colleague Harold Laski described him as “the supreme teacher of social philosophy”.

đź”—: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2018/01/24/graham-wallas-the-supreme-teacher-of-social-philosophy/

đź“š LSE book launches coming up in June:1. What brought the decline of the European left? University of Oxford historian, ...
30/05/2026

đź“š LSE book launches coming up in June:

1. What brought the decline of the European left? University of Oxford historian, Professor Matt Myers, will discuss his book, The Halted March of the European Left, which explains the decline.

2. The rich have gotten richer by rewriting the rules of money and power. In this LSE International Inequalities Institute event, Eric Zwick will explain how this came to be in by discussing forthcoming book The Everywhere Millionaire, co-authored with Owen Zidar.

3. Could trade wars lead to hot wars? Dr Chad P Bown and Soumaya Keynes will discuss their new book, How to Win a Trade War, and explore the history, players, and rules of trade.

4. Who gets access to books? Does the act of reading shape our humanity? In this LSE Law School event, Don Herzog will discuss new book, Reading Wars, which examines the heated, even murderous, political struggles over who gets to read and what they get to read.

5. Join us for this event which discusses Smarter Than the Storm, a new book by Amitabh Kant and Siddharth Sinha. Our speakers will explores its core ideas in conversation with Lord Nicholas Stern.

Click the link to book your place: https://www.lse.ac.uk/events

Clement House: then and now 🌼
30/05/2026

Clement House: then and now 🌼

LSE PhD candidate Manas Chawla has been named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2026 list in the Social Impact category.M...
29/05/2026

LSE PhD candidate Manas Chawla has been named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2026 list in the Social Impact category.

Manas is an MPhil/PhD candidate in LSE International Relations, where his research focuses on the geopolitics of artificial intelligence and how emerging technologies are reshaping power, security and global governance.

The Forbes recognition highlights his work as founder of London Politica, a geopolitical risk advisory firm established in 2021 to support NGOs, international organisations and human rights agencies operating in conflict zones and volatile environments. The organisation aims to make high-quality political risk analysis more accessible to those working in complex and high-risk settings.

Reflecting on his time at LSE, Manas said: “LSE gave me the intellectual foundation to think seriously about power, conflict and global order, but also the confidence to apply those ideas beyond academia.”

Find out about Manas’ work and achievement: https://ow.ly/nANC50Z4KSR

29/05/2026

🤝 NGOs have traditionally acted as activists, speaking out against governments and advocating for those in need. The fact that they exist in authoritarian states, however, raises questions about their role today.

Today, Indira is diving into the research of Dr Timothy Hildebrandt and Guodong Ju from the LSE Dept of Social Policy on the changing roles of NGOs and how they have evolved to survive.

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