LSE Methodology

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It's your final chance to be a student content creator!📲

You'll gain valuable communication and presentation skills, and expertise in creating inspiring and informative content that reaches thousands of students

➡️Apply before 5 October at 11.45pm (UK time)

www.lse.ac.uk/student-life...

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Welcome Week is over and we're straight into the first week of term 📚

Best of luck to our new MSc and PhD students as you start your new chapter ✨

Celebrating 130 years of LSE's impact | LSE 130th anniversary Since 1895, the London School of Economics has shaped society and driven global change. Join us as we celebrate 130 years of LSE’s impact and enduring legacy.

130 years ago, LSE was founded on a bold idea: that knowledge, shared widely, could help build a better society.

Discover our 130-year story of learning, innovation, research, and the incredible people who make our LSE community what it is today.

www.lse.ac.uk/about-lse/ls... #LSE130

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📣 Dr Douglas de Toledo Piza, Lafayette College, is joining us for this year's first Seminar Series

📚 "Overseas Chinese Engagement in Brazil and Paraguay: Migrants’ Associations, Diaspora Agencies, and Extraterritorial Policies"
📆 Friday 10 Oct, 2 - 3pm

Sign up➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

In case you haven't seen.... we're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

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Welcome Class of 2025/26 ✨📚

It's been a busy week on campus as our new MSc and PhD cohorts arrive.

We can't wait to see what you achieve this year 👏💡

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Student Content Creators - apply now!📲

As a content creator, you'll be involved in creating vlogs and social media campaigns that give insight into life at LSE 📚☕

➡️ Complete the application form and submit a sample of your work before 5 October at 11.45pm (UK time)

www.lse.ac.uk/student-life...

Ukrainian civil society has redefined security in wartime Ukrainian civil society has been key to the defence against Russia, offering a powerful example of how wartime democratic resilience can emerge from below.

🌎 Russia’s war has pushed Ukrainians to rethink security not only as the state’s responsibility, but as something citizens do together.

Yet, is Ukrainian civil society fighting for more than territory?

✍️ @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social for @lseblogs.bsky.social EUROPP

blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one? - Impact of Social Sciences Large language models like ChatGPT adopt aspects of human speech to give the impression of human intelligence. George Gaskell highlights the limits of ChatGPT’s conversational ethics, common sense…

An #LLM like #ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one?

It may try to imitate human intelligence, but George Gaskell @lsemethodology.bsky.social highlights the limits of ChatGPT’s conversational ethics, common sense and cultural sensitivity on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social.

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

Read the latest from Professor George Gaskell in @lseimpactblog.bsky.social ⤵️

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

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LSE Environment Week 2025 is taking place from 22-25 September 🌎

🌱Working with partners across LSE and the world, this week will encourage economists from all fields to work on environmental issues and connect to policy change

Register online now ➡️ www.lse-environment-week.com/environment-...

📣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
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More info➡️ buff.ly/f7Ycglm

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We're getting ready to welcome everyone back for 2025/26🌎💡

See you soon in our newly refurbished Department of Methodology 👀👏

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

Annual Meeting | American Sociological Association The Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association provides the opportunity for professionals involved in the scientific study of society to share knowledge and new directions in research and...

In August, Dr Aliya Rao presented her ongoing redundancies in journalism project at the annual American Sociological Association Conference💼

The session discussed "Hiring, Firing, Discrimination, and Wrongdoing: Investigating Understudied Organizational Mechanisms"

www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...

You haven't aged a day to us @oliveiratr.bsky.social ! Congratulations again 🙏

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Professor @jacksojp.bsky.social was back in Santiago, Chile on August 28 - visiting Universidad Católica with former PhD student Ben Bradford

They joined Professor @monicagerber.bsky.social for a seminar on "Why We Follow and Invoke the Law: Legitimacy and Public Engagement with the Police"

Aggressive policing and undermined legitimacy: assessing the impact of police stops at gunpoint on perceptions of police in São Paulo, Brazil - Journal of Experimental Criminology Objectives Test the effects of a recent police stop and a recent police stop at gunpoint on changes in attitudes towards the police among residents of Brazil’s biggest city. Methods A three-wave longi...

"This ground-breaking work exemplifies the world-class research emerging from LSE Methodology"

Well deserved recognition for an outstanding researcher! 👏

Read the research 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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🥳Congrats to @oliveiratr.bsky.social, winner of the prestigious 2025 ESC Policing WG Early Career Researcher prize!

@jacksojp.bsky.social said "this research on aggressive policing in São Paulo provides crucial insights into how confrontational police tactics undermine public trust and legitimacy"

📭 Just published: The Case for Asking “What Is This a Case Of?”
My students pushed me to write this — maybe yours will find it useful too.
Curious what you think!
#caseselection #methodology #researchdesign #researchmethods
www.audreyalejandro.com/the-methodol...
@lsemethodology.bsky.social

I spoke a little bit on the radio about why the deconstruction of Grenfell Tower weighs so heavily. The Tower sustains the memory of Grenfell, it is a part of the community. Out of sight, out of mind? (As Karim Mussilhy said at the anniversary). Another tough week for everyone. Sending strength.

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📝 Aliya Hamid Rao is the new Deputy Editor for SAGE Gender and Society Journal - a leading journal for gender in the social sciences 👏

She has been on the editorial board for the last few years, and her paper was published there previously ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE.

📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

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As the careful demolition of Grenfell Tower begins this week, Professor @floracornish.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio 4 Today about her work with Grenfell's communities 💚

🎧 Listen back to the interview now, from 48.25 onwards ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

How is the far right shaping our future? Far-right ideas once on the fringe now dominate feeds and headlines, reshaping politics and threatening democracy worldwide.

❓ How is the far right shaping our future? 🌎

Far-right ideas once on the fringe now dominate feeds and headlines, reshaping politics and threatening democracy worldwide.

🎧 Listen to the latest LSE IQ podcast episode 👉 www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i...

Welcome to LSE Methodology @lanabi.bsky.social 🌎✨

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We were nominated for Departmental Excellence at the LSESU Teaching Awards 📚

🗣️ "The entire team is super helpful, providing timely advice and suggestions. They take our PhD ideas seriously!"💡

Our students and their research is a massive part of what makes us a world-leading department 💪

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