London School of Economics

🏅 We recently held a special event with LSE's Philippe Aghion, joint recipient of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Carlota, a Master's student in the European Institute at LSE, went along to learn more about how the Schumpeterian growth paradigm can shed light on recent history debates (secular stagnation, middle-income trap, European decline, impacts of AI) and be used to rethink capitalism.

It's World Wildlife Day today, and here at LSE we are very lucky to be surrounded by some excellent green spaces that are packed with birds and animals! Here are some of our favourite parks for spotting wildlife near LSE: 🌸 Lincoln's Inn Field/Lincoln's Inn 🌷 Temple Gardens 🌳 St James' Park 🌴 Regent's Park ➡️ Comment below your favourite green space in London!

In 1950, the global average was around five live births per woman. Today, that number has more than halved to 2.2, and in England and Wales, it’s closer to 1.4. The UK’s falling birth rate reflects what the United Nations has described as ‘a global fertility slump’.  In this episode of our award-winning #LSEiQ podcast, Anna Bevan asks: Why are we having fewer children? 🎧 Link in bio to listen to the episode and learn what experts Emily Jackson, Berkay Ozcan, and Zoe Noble have to say.

Fatima-Zahrae, a Master's student in the School of Public Policy, and her friend Sumayya talk to us about Ramadan and how to support your Muslim friends and peers during this holy month ☪️

With Reading Week in the rearview mirror, it can feel like a bit of an overwhelming time in the term 📚 Here's how Shehzeen, an undergraduate student in Psychological and Behavioural Science, likes to destress and take care of her mental health during term time.

Just one week to go until the next instalment of our "Universities in the Age of Polarisation" series 🗣️ Leyla went along to our last event, which focused on the effect of social media on growing polarisation. We heard from Charlie Beckett (Professor of Practice, Director of Polis and the Polis / LSE JournalismAI project, LSE), Florian Foos (Associate Professor in Political Behaviour, LSE) and Helen Margetts (Visiting Professor and Senior Adviser, LSE Data Science Institute and Professor of Society and the Internet, University of Oxford), who discussed the role that social media and other digital phenomena play in the age of polarisation. Our next event, on Monday 9 March, will focus on the psychology of polarisation. Book your free ticket via the link in our bio 🔗 Note: this lecture series is open to LSE staff and students only.

Cycling in London has become safer over the last few decades, but concerns about road safety remain the number one factor putting people off cycling in the city 🚴‍♀️ We caught up with Jenevieve Treadwell, LSE's London Policy Fellow, whose research uses AI to incorporate perceptions of road danger into cycling policy. 🔗 If you're interested in making London's roads safer for everybody, you can take her survey via the link in our bio.

Being a student in London means you can be in the Library one minute, and then watching a West End show the next 🇬🇧 Check out what a typical day looks like for Mariia, a BSc Accounting and Finance student here at LSE...

Back in February, Eline Thor and her friends from @lsesunordic had the opportunity to attend the annual Scandinavian Ambassadors’ Dinner at Oxford University, alongside fellow Nordic societies from across the country. Hosted by the Oxford Scandinavian Society together with the British Scandinavian ambassadors, the evening brought together Nordic students from across UK universities. This is just one of many opportunities for collaboration, friendship, and experiences between societies across the country 🌎

Our students come from all over the world, so we asked them to name a famous person from their home country 🗣️

Come and meet us in China! 🇨🇳 We’re bringing our Graduate Discovery Sessions to three cities this March, and we’d love to meet prospective LSE students in person. We’ll be in: 📍 Guangzhou — Monday 2 March 📍 Shanghai — Tuesday 3 March 📍 Beijing — Saturday 7 March 🗣️ Join us to learn more about life at LSE — London’s top university for Social Sciences and Management subjects (QS). Get your questions answered, and explore your options for graduate study, including taught master’s, graduate diplomas, and PhD programmes. We can’t wait to connect with you there!

Meet Moudy, an LSE graduate of the Media and Communications of Development programme, who now works for Plan International Indonesia 🌎 While Eline was volunteering in Jakarta last summer, she caught up with Moudy about all things LSE, volunteering and careers.

Welcome to episode 2 of our series with the Language Centre, where we speak to a student in the language they are learning 🌎 Malang is joined by Areen today to learn more about her Languages degree and her experience learning Spanish at LSE.

185 years ago, The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens was published, but what's the history of the shop itself? 🧐 Julia investigates the tale behind the little shop nestled between modern buildings on our campus...

Next week at the Research Showcase, we welcome Professor Sara Hobolt from the Department of Government to discuss her forthcoming book Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain (OUP, with James Tilley). 🗓️ Tuesday 3 March ⏰ 11AM 📍 Shaw Library, Old Building