Last week saw our annual milestone PhD Day, where current students presented their research to peers and wider faculty📚 It was great to see exciting multidisciplinary research from all of our students. We can't wait to see them go on to shape the world💡

👏Dr @cteeger.bsky.social article, "(Not) feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion", will be recognised with an honourable mention from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM) Section of the American Sociological Association Read the full paper👉 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Calling all LSE alumni with 5+ years’ experience, join us for an informal evening to reconnect and expand your network with fellow experienced alumni 📅 Thursday 11 June 2026 🕠 5:30pm – 7:00pm 📍 LSE Campus We’d love to see you there! ⚠️ Secure your place by emailing [email protected]

There's still time to join our final MY580 session of the year⏰️ 📚 Measuring policy positions of political agents by Emeritus Professor Michael Laver ⏰10:00am - 3:00pm 📆16 June ➡️In-person only at CON.1.01 Sign up to join👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/1984127318...

Last night we welcomed our MSc Alumni back to campus 🥂 Former students reconnected with their LSE community, and heard from current faculty about what the department is up to now💡 Are you an LSE Methodology Alum? Update your details to stay in the loop➡️ www.alumni.lse.ac.uk/s/1623/inter...

Without exaggeration the class I took with Mik Laver (in 1993!) was life altering; completely rewired my brain. Can’t recommend this enough

🚨 Get your tickets for our next MY580 workshop with Emeritus Professor Michael Laver 👉️ Measuring policy positions of political agents ⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm 📆 16 June ➡️ In-person at CON.1.01 ‼️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuring-...

‼️ We are delighted that our MSc student, Zoey England, will be presenting her research at LSE100's Knowledge Beyond Boundaries 2026: “I found these in my garden and nobody asked: knowledge silos and citizen science at the edge of an ecological crisis." Sign up ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/events/lse-f...

🗣️There are limited tickets for next week's MY580 Methods Short Course 👉 Small-n and comparative case study design by Dr Raphael Susewind ⏰10:00am - 3:00pm 📆3 June ➡️In-person only at CON.1.01 Sign up to join➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1984123922...

💥Registration is now open for the LSE Dep of Stats Research Showcase 2026! Join us for 3 days packed with: industry, faculty & PhD student speakers; new & emerging research highlights; drinks reception & in-person networking opportunities. Get your free tickets now👇 lse.ac.uk/statistics/e...

🌳 @audreyalejandro.bsky.social has been awarded the @gsos-lse.bsky.social Grant for her project: "Rewilding the City: Collaborative Governance and Local Action in Islington, London" Read more👉️ www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

🗣️ Sign up now for our next MY580 Methods Short Course: 📚Measuring policy positions of political agents by Emeritus Professor Michael Laver ⏰10:00am - 3:00pm 📆16 June ➡️In-person only at CON.1.01 Sign up to join👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/1984127318...

Black men and children face a higher likelihood of strip-search in police custody, new research finds🚔️ Amal Ali, a PhD candidate in Social Research Methods, commented: “These results reveal a deeply troubling pattern that is difficult to ignore" Read more 👉️ www.lse.ac.uk/news/black-m...

🌍 Do you have a question one of our 240,000+ alumni could answer? Are you interested in making connections from around the world? 💭 Whatever your question, someone in our community has the answer – ask away➡️ ask-an-alum.lse.ac.uk

👮‍♂️Why didn’t high-profile federal force reduce ICE legitimacy? Jon Jackson presented new work at UChicago Law last week, using a 2-wave panel around immigration enforcement killings. Views stayed stable overall—but masked polarisation, shaped by who respondents saw as within their “moral community”

Our favourite time of year is here 🤸‍♂️ Last week, our MSc students presented their in-progress dissertations and Capstone Projects to their peers and supervisors. As always, there was brilliant research on a huge range of topics - we can't wait to see the end results! ✅

Dr @audreyalejandro.bsky.social took a trip to Tallinn this week, to share her expertise on Discourse Analysis ⤵️

📢Calling all LSE Methodology Alumni... you're invited to our annual alumni reception Reconnect with your Methodology community over drinks and nibbles, and hear about the latest department research 🥂 🗓️ 3 June, 6.00 – 8.00pm 📍 Alumni Centre, LSE Campus Sign up👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

📢 Upcoming event at #LSE | From citizen to subject: police militarisation and the imperial boomerang with Julian Go. 📅 Wed 27 May 🕡 6.30pm 📍 LSE & online

@zachdickson.bsky.social has been awarded the @gsos-lse.bsky.social Grant for his project "From Evidence to Support: Communicating the Co-Benefits of Driving Restrictions"🚗 🚦Exploring driving restriction policies like ULEZ, it will run until April 2027 👉️ www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

📢 Missing data can seriously distort causal discovery – even when using “standard” imputation-first approaches Dr Tom Robinson's new preprint introduces PAIR-CI, a calibrated conditional independence test that builds imputation uncertainty directly into inference 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2605.04838

ANOTHER massive congratulations to Amal Ali for passing her PhD viva with ZERO corrections yesterday💯 👮‍♀️ Amal's doctoral research examines the staged (re)production of inequalities in coercive police encounters in England and Wales

📚 Dr Seila Panizzolo recently wrapped up her visit to the Centro Internacional de Estudios Políticos y Sociales (CIEPS) In Panama’s City of Knowledge, CIEPS is a former US base and now a national and regional hub for science and international organisations Read more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

What if capitalism’s deepest ill is not exploitation or domination, but #alienation? Chiara Cordelli explores capitalism as a "rule of none" at this year's Brian Barry Memorial Lecture. 📆 Wed 20 May | 6.30-8pm 📍 The Old Theatre, #LSE Tickets here👇🏾 www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...

Huge congratulations to Jasmine Oware, for passing her PhD viva with zero corrections! 🎉 Jasmine's doctoral research focuses on the disproportionate use of force by police, using advanced quantitative techniques. It is a collaborative research project with the College of Policing 👮‍♂️

👉️ Speaking up online when it's costly: evidence from Russia, 2022 📅 27 May, 2026  🕡 12.30pm - 1.15pm 📍  COL.1.06 Dr Lanabi La Lova is leading a seminar at the Data Science Institute exploring how repression shapes protest participation Sign up: www.lse.ac.uk/dsi/events/2...

💡 How has the atomisation of human experience into data reshaped capital, competition and moral judgement? Join us for The Ordinal Society, a public event hosted by @lsesociology.bsky.social

📚 Citizens to Traitors: Bengali internment in Pakistan, 1971–1974 Ilyas Chattha will discuss his book on Bengali internment after the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and the making of “traitors” by the state. 🕒 Wed 20 May, 3pm 📍 Wolfson Theatre, LSE

📢📖 Join us for the launch of Walking: A sociological field guide, edited by Emma Jackson. What does it mean to walk sociologically? Discover walking as a creative, critical and embodied research method. 📅 14 May | 🕕 6pm | 📍 LSE |🎟️ All welcome

🗣️Sign up now for our next MY580 Methods Short Course: 📚Small-n and comparative case study design by Dr Raphael Susewind ⏰10:00am - 3:00pm 📆3 June ➡️In-person only at CON.1.01 Sign up to join👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/small-n-an...

Don't forget to sign up for our final Seminar Series of the year, with Professor @adamberinsky.bsky.social 💡 Rethinking Misinformation Interventions: Beyond the Search for a Magic Bullet 🗓️ Friday 8 May ⏰️ 4.30pm - 5.30pm Join here👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

🔊 Politics of forced eviction in China-Africa relations: A case of natural resource conflict in Ghana In his British Academy-funded paper, Dr Isaac Ziaba argues "forced eviction is a political means to an economic end" Read it here➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join Dr @zachdickson.bsky.social and colleagues at the Exclusionary Politics @civica.bsky.social workshop Find out more⤵️

📢 New event! How has the power of a select ultra-rich few reached such staggering heights? Join Jeffrey Winters for a discussion of his timely new book, The Blind Spot: How Oligarchies Dominate our Democracies. 📆 Mon 18 May | 5-6.30pm 📍 The Thai Theatre, #LSE www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...

Adam will now be speaking at 4.30pm - 5.30pm on 8 May. Get your tickets below⤵️

Join us for our final Seminar Series of the year, with Professor Adam J. Berinsky 💡 Rethinking Misinformation Interventions: Beyond the Search for a Magic Bullet 🗓️ Friday 8 May ⏰️ 2.00pm - 3.00pm Sign up here👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

🚨 Not long left to apply for our LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods position We are seeking an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in advanced quantitative methods and computational social science‼️ Apply before 26 April👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🎓️ We're hiring an LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods We are seeking to appoint an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in qualitative methods🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Applications close👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🗣️Our next MY580 Methods Short Course is live: 📚Modern Text Analysis and NLP with Python, by Dr Patrick Gildersleve ⏰10:00am - 3:00pm 📆20 May ➡️Hybrid: in-person at CON.1.01 and online via Zoom Sign up👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-tex...

I had the pleasure of presenting my research at @eui-eu.bsky.social on technicization and the governance of male circumcision in global health policy, as part of a @civica.bsky.social initiative. The paper is available open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

🌎 Migration as anti-fascist movement? Rethinking the question of solidarity Join us for our Annual Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Lecture, exploring migration, social relations, and transnational solidarity.

🗣️ Sign up for our next MY580 Methods Short Course: 📚Using Agentic AI to Automate Research Workflows, by Dr Daniel de Kadt ⏰10:00am - 3:00pm 📆14 May ➡️Hybrid: in-person at CON.1.01 and online via Zoom Join👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-agen...

🎓️ We're hiring an LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods We are seeking to appoint an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in qualitative methods🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Applications close👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

We're hiring an LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods‼️ We are seeking an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in advanced quantitative methods and computational social science🚨 Apply here before 26 April👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

📢 Public Event Announcement Join us for the launch of "Tribal Politics: How Brexit decided Britain" on Tuesday 5 May at 6.00pm Further details and tickets available 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/government/e... #LSEEvents @lseevents.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social

🎓️ We're hiring an LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods We are seeking to appoint an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in qualitative methods🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Applications close👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

We're hiring an LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods‼️ We are seeking an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in advanced quantitative methods and computational social science🚨 Apply here before 26 April👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

New publication: Studying Knowledge: An Analytical Guide for International Politics. This chapter offers a practical toolkit for more rigorous research: clarify core concepts, structure your research design across 6 dimensions, and avoid common pitfalls. DM for access. @lsemethodology.bsky.social

🗣️Our 2026 Alumni Survey is open! Share your insights with us to help shape our alumni engagement programming, so that we can offer opportunities to connect in ways that matter to you🫵 All alumni who complete the survey will be entered into a £250 prize draw ➡️ lse.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🗣️ Sign up now for our next MY580 Methods Short Course: 📚Fieldwork preparation and logistics: funding, budgets, ethics, by Dr Florian Kern ⏰10:00am - 3:00pm 📆1 April ➡️Hybrid: in-person at CON.1.01 and online via Zoom Sign up to join👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/fieldwork-...