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The Engine of Scientific Discovery: How New Methods and Tools Spark Major Breakthroughs Abstract. How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem even accidental? And most importantly, how can we accelerate them and

⚗️🔭 How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem accidental?

The new book 'The Engine of Scientific Discovery' by CPNSS Research Associate Alexander Krauss is for anyone who wants to understand how we make discoveries.

➡ Link to the book: doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

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🗣️There's still time to sign up for our next MY580 Methods Short Course: Applied large language models for social science research, by Dr Zach Dickson 📚

⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm
📆 4 Mar, in person at CON.1.01

Sign up to join👉https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1983440984377?aff=oddtdtcreator

LSE Methodology Alumni Connect with Current MSc Students at Networking Event Current and former LSE Methodology students attended a networking and panel event on Wednesday, 11 February, designed to inspire and connect the department's student community.

On 11 Feb, Methodology students attended an alumni panel event, to inspire and connect our student community

LSE Careers Consultant, Pam Achiume, said "we are so lucky to have alumni who are willing and able to share their rich insights and stories"

➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

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Join us for a Seminar Series with Dr Saide Mobayed Vega, exploring "Methods of Care: Relational Accountability in Data Practises"🌎

🗓️ Friday 6 March
⏰️ 2-3pm

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

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👇 Our mood today because we've reached nearly 500 followers on here 💯

We launched our BlueSky profile at the end of 2024, and its amazing to see so many of you following what LSE Methodology is up to 👏

As always, watch this space for more cutting-edge methods research 👀

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🗣️ Sign up now for the next MY580 Methods Short Course: Applied large language models for social science research, by Dr Zach Dickson 📚

⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm
📆 4 Mar, in person at CON.1.01

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CITY Annual Lecture | Planning amid division with Prof Mona Fawaz 6.30pm Mon 2 March | Mona Fawaz | Free public event at LSE

🌍 From #Beirut’s 2020 Port explosion to #global planning debates: Prof. Mona Fawaz reflects on knowledge, politics, and representation in polarised contexts. Chaired by @davidjmadden.bsky.social.

📅 2 March | 6.30pm
🎟️ Open to all and free to attend

#LSE #Sociology #Cities

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🗣️ Don't forget to sign up for our next MY580 Short Course

Questionnaire and question design (survey methods) by Dr Sally Stares💡

⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm
📆 23 Feb, in person at CON.1.01

Sign up to join👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/questionna...

Are you sure? Paul McKeown, Adrian Keane Sally Stares analyse the problems with the current directions on the criminal standard of proof

📣 Are you sure?

A new survey from LSE Methodology's Sally Stares, Paul McKeown and Adrian Keane highlights the risk that jurors understand ‘sure’ as ‘absolutely certain’

👩‍⚖️It suggests that juries need more help on the types of doubt that require acquittal

👉 www.newlawjournal.co.uk/content/are-...

Dr Sidra Kamran's article ''Do what you love' in low-wage work: navigating stigma through narratives of work passion' has been described as "rich in qualitative detail... this article makes a unique and important contribution"

Read Sidra's article here➡️ academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

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Not long until Dr Iman Dawood presents our next Seminar Series💡

🌎How Ideologies Become Invisible: Methodological Reflections on the Study of ‘Common Sense’
🕙13 Feb, 2.00pm - 3.00pm

Secure your place➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980479983...

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Dr Roni Kuppers addresses and thanks his peers, who are all sat in a circle of chairs

Congratulations to Dr Roni Küppers, the latest of our PhD students to pass their viva.

We are so proud of you all. Next step, graduation👏🎓️

@rivb.bsky.social

Does physical appearance impact who you vote for?🗳️

Dr Rachel Bernhard spoke at last week’s Seminar Series about her research 🤔

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🗣️Sign up for our next MY580 Short Course

Questionnaire and question design (survey methods) by Dr Sally Stares💡

⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm
📆 23 Feb, in person at CON.1.01

Sign up to join👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/questionna...

Just under a week left to apply for our Research Officer post at @lsemethodology.bsky.social to oversee and expand the ENDOW database!

Applications due 15 February.

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There's still time to sign up for Dr @rivb.bsky.social 's Seminar Series💡

🌎Kiss, Marry, Kill: Appearance-Based Discrimination in Politics
🕙6 Feb, 2.00pm - 3.00pm

Get your tickets➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

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We are thrilled to have Dr Iman Dawood present our next Seminar Series💡

🌎How Ideologies Become Invisible: Methodological Reflections on the Study of ‘Common Sense’
🕙13 Feb, 2.00pm - 3.00pm

Secure your place➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

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📰❗We're launching a newsletter

Sign up to recieve all the latest LSE Methodology news in one place👉 lse.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Fire in every direction | Public conversation with author Tareq Baconi 6pm Mon 16 Feb | Tareq Baconi | Free public event at LSE

🌏 What does it mean to return home?

Join us for a public conversation with author Tareq Baconi, Dr Mai Taha, and @aycacu.bsky.social on personal and political journeys, displacement and belonging, and identity.

📅 16 Feb | 🕕 6pm | 📍 LSE
🔗https://buff.ly/eJFXV1f

#Sociology #HumanRights #memoir

Governing with nature: towards transformative change? | Professor Harriet Bulkeley 6.30pm Wed 11 Feb | Harriet Bulkeley | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

🌏 Upcoming event | Governing with nature: towards transformative change?

Find out how nature‑based solutions are reshaping urban governance and what this means for climate action, social justice, and cities.

📅 11 Feb | 🕡 6.30pm | 📍 In person & online

#LSEEvents #Sociology

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Is that sunshine we see on campus?!?! 😎😎😎😎

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Happy 5th Birthday Research for the World🎂🎉

The new edition is live, featuring LSE research articles on remote working, religion, climate change, social media and riots. Plus a video on quantum computing and the latest episode of the LSE iQ Podcast on cyberwar...

➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

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📣 Vacancy Alert!

The ENDOW project (Economic Networks and the Dynamics of Wealth Inequality) is hiring a Research Officer in Research Database Management

Apply now➡️https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/2357/0/462865/15539/research-officer-in-research-data-management

❗Deadline: 15 February 2026

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We are thrilled to have Dr @rivb.bsky.social present our first Winter Term 2026 Seminar Series💡

🌎Kiss, Marry, Kill: Appearance-Based Discrimination in Politics
🕙6 Feb, 2.00pm - 3.00pm

Secure your place➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

Bayesian Statistics for Applied Research In partnership with the LSE

MY580 Methods Short Course ➡️

Bayesian Statistics for Applied Research with Dr Douglas Leasure, delivered in collaboration with Oxford DTP

⏰ 9:00am - 5:00pm
📆 5 - 6 Feb, in-person

Sign up now or join the waiting list👉 www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/event/bayesi...

Read the latest from @aliyarao.bsky.social below⤵️

Dr Chana Teeger's book, Distancing the Past, has new reviews📚

💡"Brilliant, provocative, and beautifully written” - Teachers College Record

👉 journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

The Problem with Rapport in Interview-Based Studies - Qualitative Sociology Rapport is an orienting principle in qualitative research. It is a capacious concept which, in practice, is deployed by researchers in a wide variety of ways. Despite its definitional ambiguity, in…

New article👉 The Problem with Rapport in Interview-Based Studies🤝

Dr @aliyarao.bsky.social has been published in Qualitative Sociology, that questions the value of rapport in qualitative interviewing💡

Read it here➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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🗣️There's still time to sign up for Agent-Based Modeling with Dr Milena Tsvetkova, our My580 Methods Short Course of 2026💡

⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm
📆 28 Jan, in person at the Data Science Institute

Sign up to join👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/agent-base...