This year the LSEUPR launched its fifth annual essay competition, aimed at year 12s and 13s (or equivalent), to give them real experience in writing an academic essay.
The questions for this year were:
“Russia’s war on Ukraine provides the European Union with a chance to reunite its member states.” To what extent do you agree with […]
Essay Questions 2022 (Choose 1 question to answer):
1. “Russia’s war on Ukraine provides the European Union with a chance to reunite its member states.” To what extent do you agree with this claim?”
2. The outbreak of the pandemic and the escalation of geopolitical tensions have cast a shadow over the world’s economic development.
(a) To what extent do you agree […]
Salil Jain
The Oberoi International School, India
To what extent have emerging social movements caused politicians to respond with effective social change?
A social movement must have the capacity to exert pressure on politicians into passing reform and creating real social change without drastic measures such as resorting to violent resistance if it is to be successful. Therefore, the polity of the society in which […]
Evie Bowden
Lady Eleanor Holles School, United Kingdom
To what extent have emerging social movements caused politicians to respond with effective social change?
‘Effective social change’ is difficult to define. Should social change be measured in statues toppled, in flags changed, in buildings renamed? Should social change be measured in diversity officers appointed, in hours of equality training undertaken, in progressive leaders celebrated? […]
Vidushi Singhai
The Tiffin Girls’ School, United Kingdom
To what extent have emerging social movements caused politicians to respond with effective social change?
Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion, Brexit, all these social movements are social movements. They have caused politicians to respond with change through parliamentary acts. However, they have not changed the systemic issues prevalent within society as the same injustices remain, highlighting […]
This year the LSEUPR launched its fourth annual essay competition, aimed at year 12s and 13s (or equivalent), to give them a real experience in writing an academic essay.
The question for this year was
To what extent have emerging social movements caused politicians to respond with effective social change?
The essay question was superbly tackled by over 100 students all over […]
Our Annual Essay Competition has returned!
Essay Question 2021:
To what extent have emerging social movements caused politicians to respond with effective social change?
In May 2020, the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis galvanised the Black Lives Matter movement in an unprecedented manner. The uproar for justice echoed throughout the globe calling for a confrontation of the racial violence inherent in […]
This year LSEUPR launched its 3rd annual essay competition, aimed at incoming or outgoing year 12s and 13s (or equivalent), to give them real experience in writing an academic essay.
The question for this year is
What is the most important lesson for political leaders to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic?
which was superbly tackled by 83 students all over the […]
Exciting News! Our Annual Essay Competition has returned!
Essay Question 2020:
What is the most important lesson for political leaders to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic?
In early 2020, a major outbreak of SARS‑CoV‑2 spread across the globe. Virtually no aspect of human existence was untouched by the pandemic, which disrupted economic systems, tested political ones, and—in many cases—suspended public life altogether. […]
“What are the effects of the rise of China on the present world order?”
This article was written by Joseph McGrath, year 13 student at the Judd School.
The rise of China onto the forefront of the world stage is both remarkable and concerning, signalling at the very least a threat to the present world order, currently dominated by the ever-present […]
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