Academic life

The Hellenic Observatory, located in LSE’s European Institute, celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2016. Kevin Featherstone looks back at its story so far.

In the mid-1990s, a campaign was launched to establish a Chair on Contemporary Greece that was neither concerned with the ancient or classical past, nor the arts and humanities. LSE would champion the study of contemporary Greek society, politics […]

British Government@LSE is an initiative based in the Department of Government to promote and develop research on British Government conducted at LSE. From Graham Wallas to Christine Whitehead, the British Government @ LSE timeline takes in a tour of influential thinking from 1895 to the 2000s.
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Contributed by Martin Rogers (Communications and Events Officer, British Government@LSE, Department […]

LSE Cities researcher Harry Blain shares the story of the Urban Age Programme, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2015.

Although more than half the global population is now urban dwelling, we are still a long way from resolving some of the major challenges and contradictions of life in the city. Indeed, Alexis de Tocqueville’s comments on Manchester in 1835 […]

18 LSE alumni or staff members have been awarded Nobel Prizes – so far. Will you be LSE’s next Nobel?

2016: Oliver Hart, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (jointly)

Professor Oliver Hart was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016 jointly with Bengt Holmström of MIT for their contributions to contract theory. Their work was described by the […]

By July 1895 LSE had an address, 9 John Street, a Director, William Hewins and an opening date, October 1895. It was time to recruit some students and launch the new School’s prospectus. In eleven pages it outlined the reasons behind the new institutions, its aims, curriculum, teachers, teaching arrangements and fees.

Aims

The first few paragraphs of the prospectus explained […]

William Alexander Robson (1895-1980) was an influential scholar in administrative law as well as political science. An important academic entrepreneur, he helped set up some of the early institutions of the discipline of political science. Through his work in the Greater London Group at LSE he had a significant impact on the reform of London government in the 1960s.

Robson’s […]

LSE accepted women students from its earliest days. For Women’s History Month 2015 we take a look at the women who stood at the front of the classroom during the early years of the School.

Gertrude Tuckwell

The first woman to appear in the list of teachers in the LSE Calendar is Gertrude Tuckwell in the School’s second year. Gertrude Tuckwell (1861-1951) […]

Back in 2012, when planning got underway for LSE Research Festival 2013, it was suggested that a public exhibition of multi-media works by researchers be staged. It was a bold ambition, and one that raised some anxieties as well as excitement. Would researchers have the time (and inclination) to produce films, posters and photographs about their work? Would the […]

On the hundredth anniversary of LSE economist and inventor Bill Phillips’ birth, Professor Nicholas Barr remembers the adventures and achievements of his former teacher.

AWH ‘Bill’ Phillips (1914-1975) is famous as the originator of the Phillips Curve. Less well-known is his adventurous early life, extraordinary war record and unorthodox entry into an academic career. The son of a New Zealand dairy farmer, […]

As LSE’s Department of Social Psychology begins 50th anniversary celebrations, Professor Martin Bauer looks back at the 1960s and the emergence of Social Psychology as an academic department at LSE. 

In the early 1960s, LSE was made up of a college of academic staff who contributed to a programme of courses across Economics, Social Administration, Geography, History, International Studies, Language Studies, […]