Great to see my interview with Lucy Robinson published in Postgraduate Pedagogies!
Supported by an @edenlse.bsky.social Eden Fellowship, I spoke to Lucy about punk (and rave) pedagogies and changes in Higher Ed since the 1990s:
postgradpedagogies.lse.ac.uk/articles/10....
@lsepress.bsky.social
💥New | What policy citations “do” and “do not” reveal about the societal impact of research
✍️ Marion Poetz, Christoph Grimpe & Andreas Distel
#PolicyCitations #EvidenceBasedPolicy #ResearchImpact
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"The real risk is not that students will use AI; but that educators continue to grade outputs AI can generate while pretending they still certify human competence" – Ignacio Aravena Gonzalez on redesigning assessment: grade the audit, not the artefact
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
NEW: @annpettifor.bsky.social reviews The Story of Capital by @davidharvey.org @versobooks.bsky.social, an authoritative and essential reading of Marx's Capital for our age of spiralling accumulation and finance capital.
📣 Dr @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social has edited a special issue of the journal Indian Politics & Policy.
He also authored the issue’s introduction, “Domestic Change and Foreign Policy in Contemporary #India,” available here: bit.ly/4tQ0OZO
🔗 Explore the full special issue here: bit.ly/41xbtwo
#PoliSky
The Longevity Economy: Financing Healthy Ageing
How do individuals, markets & governments finance longer lives? LSE Health's @lseahil.bsky.social invites researchers to its 2026 Longevity Economy Workshop 🌍 Pensions, LTC, housing, behavioural econ & more.
Deadline 1 May 2026. #LSEHealth
🔗 bit.ly/47oUnUs
Work with me! LSE's media & comms dept is hiring a new Fellow. Research + teaching role in a very supportive dept (one that will treat you WELL as both a colleague and a human – rare!)
It's fixed term..but you get a mentor to actually help you develop along the way 🤓
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
The Eden Centre (and LSE) are now closed until Friday 10 April, for the Easter Break. We will re-open and respond to any messages then. Have a great break! 🙂
💥New | The real threat to trust in science isn’t outright fraud, but the pervasive tweaking of research designs and models
✍️ Thomas Plümper & Eric Neumayer
@mitpress.bsky.social @lsegeography.bsky.social #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky
We are looking forward to the official book launch of #Tribal #Politics on Tuesday 5 May from 6pm to 7.30pm in the #LSE Shaw Library!
Tickets are limited and are available now: www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...
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🗣️ 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-...
NEW: Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain by @sarahobolt.bsky.social
@lsegovernment.bsky.social & James Tilley @ox.ac.uk examines the two opposing, enduring political identities forged by the 2016 Brexit Referendum: Leavers & Remainers.
Review by @timbale.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social 👇
LSE Health is joining a national consortium to tackle cardiovascular health inequalities in the UK
LSE Health has joined a national consortium led by the University of Birmingham, tackling cardiovascular health inequalities across the UK 🫀 — part of the £50m NIHR Cardiovascular Inequalities Challenge. 👇
bit.ly/47ivUAt
#HealthInequalities #CardiovascularHealth
Intersectionality helps us understand how different social identities combine to create unique, compound experiences of discrimination or privilege.
The concept treats the protected categories as distinct, stable facts – an arguably limiting view, argues Annalena Oppel @lseinequalities.bsky.social
The Longevity Economy: Financing Healthy Ageing
🎤 LSE Health's @lseahil.bsky.social Longevity Economy Workshop welcomes keynote speaker Prof Jim Poterba (MIT & NBER President) — a world-leading economist on ageing & public finance. 29 June 2026.
Submit by 1 May. #LSEHealth
🔗 bit.ly/47oUnUs
Do traditional media theories still hold up in a digital world? 🌐
Join #BartCammaerts at for his book launch, Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory.
🗓️ Tues 31 March 6.30-8pm
📍 LSE + Online
🎟️ Register: www.lse.ac.uk/events/media-1
#LSEMedia #MediaTheory #London @routledgebooks.bsky.social
The LSE-Kuwait Programme is inviting applications for academic collaborative research projects between scholars at #LSE and institutions in #Kuwait.
Expressions of interest must be submitted by 15 April and the full application deadline is 13 May.
Find out more: www.lse.ac.uk/asset-librar...
"The idea of a ‘free’ internet... has paradoxically fuelled a mainstream business model based on the commodification of users' sociality."
#BartCammaerts explores how subcultures were captured by surveillance #capitalism.
@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social book extract:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
Join our Conjectures and Refutations Inaugural Workshop on Scientific Modelling next month!
🗓️ Thursday 2 April 2026, 11am - 7pm
📍 LAK 2.06, LSE Campus
Free and open to all!
💻 Abstract and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
#PhilSci #Philosophy #LSEPhilosophy
This was another great session. We should have videos online in the next few days! 😄
Join us for our lunchtime AI in education showcase tomorrow! In 45 mins, two colleagues - on Wed 18th, Saipriya Kamath (LSE Accounting) and Marcos Barreto (@LSEdepofstatistics.bsky.social) - succinctly share their practice and ideas. Online or in person - sign up here! apps.lse.ac.uk/training-sys...
🔴 We are live! Join Professor #ShakuntalaBanaji now for her professorial lecture, "Infinite Justice: Political Cosmologies That Protect Our Future."
🌍 Watch live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM7w...
@banaji.bsky.social #socialjustice #capitalism #mediastudies #AI #neoliberalism #genocide
🥑 From Super Bowl #guacamole to avocado toast, America’s love affair with a Mexican superfood runs deeper than brunch culture and health trends.
Christina Tanner traces how a fruit became a mirror for US anxiety about #immigration, borders and the hidden human cost of our appetite.
How to prevent consumption of non-consensual intimate images
Helen Frowe @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and Jonathan Parry @lsephilosophy.bsky.social for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
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Our amazing PSS team picked up several nominations and awards at yesterday’s LSE Values in Practise Awards 🏅💅🏼
Congratulations to Olivia for being Commended for Student Experience Ambassador, and to Department Manager John Curtis for Winning the esteemed President and Vice Chancellor’s Award 👑
👀ICYMI: "Higher education is full of “policy anchors”: emblematic studies that become reference points for reform"
#AcademicSky #GenderBias #Policymaking
HY120 students visited the UK’s National Archives with Dr Alex Mayhew, exploring records on colonial Ireland, the World Wars, and the British Empire - funded by an Eden Centre Catalyst Grant. @edenlse.bsky.social #students #undergraduate #history #lse
🔥This must‑read book will be launched at the London School of Economics (LSE) next Wednesday, March 18.
Register here to attend the launch: lnkd.in/eyswjav4
In the workshops, students were able to engage with materials spanning colonial Ireland, the First World War, Africa and the Second World War, communism in the British Empire, and decolonization in SE Asia.
The adventure was kindly funded by a generous @edenlse.bsky.social Catalyst Grant.
