LSE Methodology

Considering studying a PhD in Methodology? Ask us any questions below, and we'll answer!!👇

Looking forward to leading a workshop tomorrow on causal inference with experimental and observational data All the materials I'll be covering are available on Github: github.com/z-dickson/my.... Feedback welcome!

PhD study in LSE Methodology - Virtual Graduate Open Events 💡 🗓️ Tuesday 10 November 2026 ⏰ 11.30am to 12.30pm 📍 Online Sign up ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

Study your PhD at a world-leading, unique, and multidisciplinary department committed to quantitative, qualitative, and computational methods✍️ We run PhD programmes in: 👉 Demography (Social/Formal) 👉Social Research Methods 👉Computational Social Science ✅ Read more: www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

Join the LSE Department of Methodology and the LSE Centre for Women, Peace, and Security for a special screening of Traces: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, Solidarity and Justice in Ukraine 📽️ 📍 LSE Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre WC2A 2AE 📅 12 Nov 2026 🔗 www.ticketsource.com/firoz-lalji-...

🚨 Not long left to get your tickets for our next MY580 workshop with Dr Zach Dickson 👉️ Design-based causal inference in observational and experimental settings ⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm 📆 26 Oct ➡️ In-person at CON.1.01 and online via Zoom ‼️ www.eventbrite.com/e/design-bas...

🎓 Considering your next career change? All recent LSE alumni can take advantage of a range of services and resources from LSE Careers, including events, one-to-one appointments, our careers information website, and our vacancy board. Find out more on our website ➡️ info.lse.ac.uk/current-stud...

Join us for our next Seminar Series with Dr Guillermina Altomonte, where she will be speaking on "Chasing Independence: Growing Old in the Shadow of an American Ideal" 📆 27 November ⏰️ 2 - 3pm 📍 Connaught House, CON.1.01 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/2003608347...

How do governing parties in Ghana regulate informal miners, and why do responses vary? Dr Isaac H Ziaba argues that miners’ electoral value to dominant and rival parties, political entrepreneurs’ ties to Chinese miners, and Ghana’s indebtedness to Beijing, shape party responses 👇

We are a multidisciplinary international centre of excellence in social science methodology. Learn more about our research and our courses at www.lse.ac.uk/methodology ✅️

Term has officially started and is busy busy for our MSc and PhD students!! 🤝

The first two sessions of "Mind & Machines" have had a huge response so far! 🤩 The undergraduate student group meets every Monday, exploring how AI shapes freedom, judgement, and our capacity to life a self-authored life 📈 Express your interest to join👉️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A week ago today, so many of you turned up to our Student and Alumni Mixer 🥂 Thank you to everyone who came, it was lovely to see new and old faces for a wonderful night. See you next time🤩

Congratulations to Dr Chuyao Wang, our latest PhD student to successfully defend their PhD this afternoon, subject to minor corrections 👏 Chuyao is starting his next chapter as Assist Professor at the University of Macau 🥳

Read the latest from LSE Methodology Visiting Research Officer, Sophie Legros, on the World Values Survey ⤵️

Read the latest from LSE Methodology Visiting Research Officer, Sophie Legros, on the World Values Survey ⤵️

Don't forget to sign up for our next Seminar Series with Dr Korhan Koçak 👉 📆 16 October ⏰️ 2-3pm 📍 Connaught House, CON.1.01 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

📅 Political Methodology Seminar Series We meet fortnightly 12:00–13:00, starting Tuesday 13 October in MAR.1.09. 🎤 First up: Konstantin Bogatyrev (LSE) @bogatyrev.bsky.social on "Detecting AI-Generated Responses in Outsourced Survey Data Collection" Autumn term speakers from academia & industry👇

Our MY580 Methods Short Course schedule for Autumn Term is live💡 From causal inference, to machine learning, to data visualisation for social research, upskill your methods knowledge for free✅️ Find out more and sign up to the sessions here👉 www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

‼️ Applications close this weekend for our Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science role Make sure you've clicked submit on your application. We can't wait to welcome you ✅️ ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

🍁AUTUMN TERM EVENTS🍁 Our Autumn Term events schedule is here! Take a look at what we have in store, and get your free tickets here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/events

It’s been a few weeks now since I started my PhD at the @lsemethodology.bsky.social 💪

Thinking about volunteering this year? Come to the LSE Volunteer Fair on Tue 13 Oct, 5:30-7:30pm at LSE LIFE, Ground Floor, LSE Library. Meet charities and community organisations and find a role that suits you. Inclusive early entry 5:00-5:30pm. 👉 careers.lse.ac.uk/leap/event.h...

How reliable is AI-generated synthetic data?📈 New research by Dr Tom Robinson argues that such shared-completion batching can distort relationships among variables in the resulting synthetic data, using controlled tests on synthetic survey respondents Read👉️ arxiv.org/pdf/2609.32546

🥂 LSE Methodology Student and Alumni Mixer There’s still time for you to join us to catch up with fellow alumni, connect with the wider department, and help us welcome the latest students 📅 7 Oct ⏰ 6.00 to 8.00pm 🏫 Alumni Centre, LSE Campus 👉 events.blackthorn.io/J9RvXv6/5a3i...

🚨 Get your tickets for our next MY580 workshop with Dr Zach Dickson 👉️ Design-based causal inference in observational and experimental settings ⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm 📆 26 Oct ➡️ In-person at CON.1.01 and online via Zoom ‼️ www.eventbrite.com/e/design-bas...

Watch a recording of our latest methods #webinar on implementing generative artificial intelligence into #survey processes. Patrick Sturgis (@lsemethodology.bsky.social 🇬🇧) presented the results from two studies on the use of #AI for questionnaire pretesting and occupational coding. buff.ly/T1pMTsf

Living with long COVID when nobody believes you are ill 😷 Professor Flora Cornish and Brenda Sabaine Rodrigues will be speaking at the LSE Research Showcase series on their research on long COVID in Brazil 📆 Thursday 19 Nov ⏰️ 3pm - 3.30pm 📍 Shaw Library Sign up👉 www.lse.ac.uk/research/lse...

Join us our for next Seminar Series with Dr Korhan Koçak 📆 16 October ⏰️ 2-3pm 📍 Connaught House, CON.1.01 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

🗣️Calling all undergraduate students interested in exploring how AI shapes freedom, judgement, and our capacity to live a self-authored life Join a new close-knit reading group exploring these themes, meeting every Monday during Autumn Term👈️ Express your interest➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Launching our Autumn Term Seminar Series Schedule 🍂✅️ Find out more👉 www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/... And sign up to our mailing list to secure tickets first 👉 lse.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Our Seminar Series is back for 2026/27‼️ 💡 Sign up to hear Dr Elisa Wirsching speak on "embedding Regression without Focal Words: Interpreting Document-Level Effects with Sparse Autoencoders" 🗓️ Friday 2 October ⏰️ 2-3pm Sign up ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

What happens to procedural justice theory when police are experienced as a source of threat as well as protection?👮‍♀️ Monica Gerber, Matías Deneken, Jonathan Jackson & colleagues examine fear of the police, procedural justice and legitimacy in Chile & Brazil 👉️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🗓️ Calling Methodology alumni Come along to our Methodology Student and Alumni Mixer! Connect with fellow alumni, catch up with the department, and welcome our 2026/27 students 📅 7 Oct ⏰ 6.00 to 8.00pm 🏫 Alumni Centre Sign up👉️ events.blackthorn.io/J9RvXv6/5a3i...

Patrick Sturgis (@lsemethodology.bsky.social 🇬🇧) delivered a #survey methods #webinar on the use of generative AI last week. A recording of the event, which focused on using large language models (LLMs) for questionnaire pretesting and occupational coding tasks, is now available. buff.ly/iSHJRh3

🗣️Calling all undergraduate students interested in exploring how AI shapes freedom, judgement, and our capacity to live a self-authored life Join a new close-knit reading group exploring these themes, meeting every Monday during Autumn Term👈️ Express your interest➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Now you're here, let's get started 💡 #LSEMethodology 👉 youtu.be/AHUfGLfb1ZI?...

Very excited to announce a new Political Methodology Seminar Series co-hosted by the @lsegovernment.bsky.social, @lsemethodology.bsky.social and European Institute. This bi-weekly series is designed to support ECRs applying state-of-the-art methodological tools to political science research.

Yesterday we welcomed our five new PhD students to the department! 📚️ We're so excited for you all to embark on this journey⚡️

Welcome Week is well underway, and we've loved meeting all our new MSc and PhD students🎉 Bring on 2026/27💥

Our Seminar Series are back for 2026/27‼️ 💡 First up, Dr Elisa Wirsching on "embedding Regression without Focal Words: Interpreting Document-Level Effects with Sparse Autoencoders" 🗓️ Friday 2 October ⏰️ 2-3pm Sign up ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

🤩 Very grateful to all the professors, classmates and staff at @lsemethodology.bsky.social for making my time there such a rewarding experience.

🗣️"I chose to study at LSE because I’d heard it was one of the best places in the world to study social sciences" We're sharing our alumni stories every month, and next up is @aarcarons.bsky.social, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research Read more👉 www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

Less than a month to go! ⏰️ Could you be our next Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science?🫵 Apply now 👉 www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

How state-centric is conflict studies? In this new article in International Studies Perspectives 🎉, I systematically examine how 12 major conflict event datasets embed state-centrism through their inclusion criteria, classifications, and documentation. academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...

Not every call for #peace challenges the politics of violence; some reinforce it. Our new article starts here: ‘Colonial and Anti-Colonial Discourses of Peace in the Russo-Ukrainian War’, by me, @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social & @yuliaioffe.bsky.social in International Affairs (@iajournal.bsky.social)