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We provide outstanding education in the changing social world, and state-of-the-art, public-facing research on social issues ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology
A Mouse in a Cage by Dr Carrie Friese explores the ethical challenges of using animals in scientific research, bringing a thoughtful and humane perspective to debates around animal testing in scientific research.
Read more in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social 👇
📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!
The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.
Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
🎉 Congratulations to @sachahilhorst.bsky.social!
”‘Corruption talk’ and the politics of class in 21st century Britain”, a co-authored paper drawing on Dr Hilhorst’s award-winning doctoral thesis, is out now #openaccess in The Sociological Review journal.
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We're pleased to announce that our Inaugural Craig J. Calhoun Prize for an Outstanding Thesis in Sociology has been awarded to @sachahilhorst.bsky.social. Her thesis investigated the shifting politics of ex-mining and manufacturing towns in the Midlands.
Read more about the prize 👇
📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!
The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.
Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
Are migrants invading Europe? This @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social article explores how European conceptions of white nativeness have combined with the legacy of colonialism to portray migration as a state of siege.
03.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
💡New! Elite school students end up in better universities than expected.
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We're delighted to be joined this evening by Adrian Favell and Mike Savage for our special screening of 'From Where We Stand', a documentary on post-Brexit Northern England and how ethnic diversity is negotiated in the often tough post-Brexit landscape. #LSESociology
02.10.2025 16:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Is the use of laboratory animals ethical? Carrie Friese argues that while there are no easy answers to this question, humans can learn a great deal by considering the seemingly faraway life of a laboratory mouse.
Read more in @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social ⬇️
📣 #Public #event announcement!
💡 Thinking Popular Mobilization with Gramsci
📅 Wednesday 15 October, 5.30pm to 7pm, #LSE
📖 Book launch and discussion of Professor John Chalcraft's book
📧 Sign up required
👉🏽https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/events/2025/Thinking-Popular-Mobilization-with-Gramsci
Join us tonight for our screening of From Where We Stand and Q&A with its director, Lucy Kaye.
This documentary explores race, belonging & post-Brexit Northern England.
🕔 5pm to 7.30pm
📍OLD 3.24, LSE Old Building
🎟️ Free and open to all!
🔗 buff.ly/f7Ycglm
#LSESociology #LSEEvents
NEW✨ Should lab animals have rights?
A Mouse in a Cage by Carrie Friese @lsesociology.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social explores the #ethical challenges of using #animals in scientific #research.
#Review by Luciano Magaldi Sardella.
The research video for our book Born to Rule (made by the brilliant Maayan Arad) is a Finalist for a Lovie Award. It’s now down to a public vote so please have a watch and, if you like it, vote for us! vote.lovieawards.com/PublicVoting... @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social
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In this paper by @aycacu.bsky.social on moral judgment and genocide in Palestine, Arendt and Scott are brought into dialogue to confront the ethics of responsibility, complicity, and redress in our present.
Read the full article here ⬇️
📢 Don’t miss Professor Anthony Bogues at LSE!
Drawing on radical anti-colonial thought, he’ll unpack how liberalism’s history shapes today’s authoritarian turn.
🗓️ Wed 22 Oct | 🕔 5pm to 6.30pm | 📍 OLD.3.24
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#LSEHumanRights #LSESociology
Join us this week for a screening of From Where We Stand – a moving portrait of race, nation & belonging in post-Brexit Britain.
🎤 With filmmaker Lucy Kaye, Professor Adrian Favell, and Professor Mike Savage.
🔗 buff.ly/f7Ycglm
Is the use of laboratory animals ethical?
Carrie Friese @lsesociology.bsky.social argues that while there are no easy answers to this question, humans can learn a great deal by considering the seemingly far away life of a laboratory mouse. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
📢 Submit your paper for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference (@bjsociology.bsky.social) by Monday 20 October - three weeks today.
There is no predetermined theme. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts relating to any aspect of sociology.
Find out more: www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
💭 What does it mean to belong in post-Brexit Britain?
Next week, join us for a screening of From Where We Stand and a live Q&A with Professor Adrian Favell, Professor Mike Savage, and filmmaker Lucy Kaye.
More info & registration details⬇️
🗞️ Dr Mai Taha's research traces the role of Palestinian women in sustaining the 1930's Arab Revolt. She argues that during wartime their homes were revolutionary spaces, but the domestic nature means it is overlooked by traditional accounts.
Read more in LSE Research for the World👇
📣 We're currently accepting papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference!
The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline.
We invite scholars to submit abstracts of up to 400 words on topics relating to any aspect of sociology➡️ buff.ly/wTaE0fI
We are honoured to be hosting LSE's annual Black History Month event!
40 years on from the Broadwater Farm riots, our speakers will examine methods of resistance that continue to address present-day questions of race, racism and social inequality.
Registration required ⬇️
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📣Upcoming event: Illiberalism, war, violence and authoritarianism: the current conjuncture
This talk will posit a history of liberalism's deep relationship to illiberalism, raising questions of the figure of the human and of life itself.
📅 Wed 22 Oct, 5pm
📍LSE
More info➡️
I wrote an essay, "A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice" for the Journal of Genocide Studies..
Thanks to Dirk Moses for editing the roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies where it appears.
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A new issue of @bjsociology.bsky.social is out now!
Find the latest articles in the British Journal of Sociology #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/oNaSQsN
🌟 The rankings use eight metrics, including what students say about their teaching and feedback in the annual National Student Survey and career prospects following graduation.
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🏆 We're delighted to have been named number one in the UK for Sociology in the latest Guardian University Guide!
Thank you to our students, alumni and staff who make the LSE Sociology community so special 🎉
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From Where We Stand captures life in Northern England post-Brexit—stories of loss, migration, & friendship.
🎬Screening + Q&A with the films director Lucy Kaye, with Professor Adrian Favell and Professor Mike Savage.
🎟️Free and open to all, register here⬇️https://buff.ly/4IWnnbf
📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!
The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology, bringing together over 200 academics to advance their research.
Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur
📣Upcoming event!
🎬A special screening of From Where We Stand — a film on race, belonging & post-Brexit Northern England.
Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Lucy Kaye, Professor Adrian Favell, and Professor Mike Savage.
📅 Thurs 2 Oct, 5pm
📍LSE
More info➡️ buff.ly/f7Ycglm
