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Happy Holidays from LSE Methodology to all of our students, alumni, staff, and friends who celebrate 🎄✨

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December 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Our brand new Methodology Newsletter is launching in 2026 📰

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December 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Congratulations to all our MSc students graduating yesterday, we're so proud of you 💫🎓

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December 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
2025 has been busy for LSE Methodology✨

Our faculty have been awarded various prizes for their work, European-scale research grants have been won, we've had national radio appearances, seen nearly 80 students graduate, and hosted hundreds of students on our methods courses📚

Bring on 2026👏
December 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🤖"Bots, amplification and system-wide effects"

A new article by @mtsvetkova.bsky.social, @lsedatascience.bsky.social Affiliate, has been published in the latest edition of the European Research Council (ERC) Magazine

Read it here 👉 erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Bots, amplification and system-wide effects
Milena Tsvetkova studies how humans and intelligent machines interact in digital spaces.
erc.europa.eu
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We are launching a brand new Methodology Newsletter in 2026 📰 ❗

Sign up now to read the latest news and events from the department 👉 eepurl.com/gbamkr
December 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
And we’ve made it to the end of Autumn Term!!! ❄️💫

Happy Holidays everyone, we hope you have a lovely break after all your hard work 🎄
December 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We loved seeing everyone at our End of Autumn Term Party last night 💫🎄

Enjoy a restful winter break everyone✨
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Read the latest from @aliyarao.bsky.social for @lseinequalities.bsky.social Blog ⤵️
How is unemployment different for married men vs women?

Do they face equal pressure – and receive equal time, space and emotional support – in the search for a new job? Or is it assumed that women have plenty to do at home?

Aliya Hamid Rao explores #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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How does unemployment affect gender inequality?
In the US, unemployed men feel more pressure than women to quickly find a job - but they also receive more time, space and emotional support in their job search
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Dr Seila Panizzolo recently visited the European University Institute to share her research and discuss her developing research agenda👩‍🏫

She said "the EUI was a step forward in developing my academic network, learning from senior scholars and sharing strategies and visions..."
December 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Autumn Term is nearly over 💔 we can't believe how quickly the year is going... can you?!
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
💰 How visible displays of wealth make people support higher taxes

Read more from Dr @mtsvetkova.bsky.social 's latest study 👉 theconversation.com/how-visible-...

and 👉 www.psypost.org/whom-you-obs...
How visible displays of wealth make people support higher taxes – new study
People tend to associate with others who are in a similar financial position, making them underestimate the true levels on inequality.
theconversation.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Reposted by LSE Methodology
Only 15 years in the making!
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Why do we cooperate with the police & criminal courts?👩‍⚖️

In a new 30-country study, Jon Jackson, Jouni Kuha, @benbradford.bsky.social & Mike Hough find that fair & respectful authority usually beats crime control & fear – but procedural justice power varies by country

👉
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Are we measuring the right things in the social sciences?"

At an LSE Open Research Panel this week @audreyalejandro.bsky.social said "so many of the tools we rely on to assess research quality are really just proxies, yet our methodological standards drop when we evaluate our own profession"
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
There's still time to catch Professor Sanyu A. Mojola at our final Seminar Series of Autumn Term💡

🌎Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol
🕙2.00pm - 3.00pm
📆 28 Nov

Secure your place➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
💡Seeing the rich makes people favour redistribution, but also increases political division - according to Dr @mtsvetkova.bsky.social

Read more ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/news/seeing-...
Research | Redistribution | Social networks
A new study finds that exposing people to the very rich boosts support for redistribution, yet also heightens frustration and political conflict.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
✍️ Don't forget to sign up for our Autumn Term Special My580 Methods Short Course 💡

🗣️ Integrating Generative AI in the Questionnaire Design Process, with Dr Caroline Roberts and Professor Patrick Sturgis

⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm
📆 3 Dec

Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/integratin...
Integrating Generative AI in the Questionnaire Design Process
Training for PhD and MSc students in the design of social research, quantitative and qualitative analysis.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We are a multi-disciplinary community of social scientists - developing and applying cutting-edge qualitative, quantitative and computational methods to address the world’s complex social challenges 🌎

Read more about what our researchers are up to ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sign up for this week's Seminar Series with @adeldaoud.bsky.social

💡 21 Nov, 2 - 3pm
🌎Planetary Causal Inference: combining computer vision and earth observation to analyse disparities in health and living conditions among neighbourhoods in Africa, 1990 to date

www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🗣️ We're hosting a one-off special My580 Short Course for Autumn Term 💡

Integrating Generative AI in the Questionnaire Design Process, with Dr Caroline Roberts and Professor Patrick Sturgis

⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm
📆 3 Dec, online and in person

Sign up to join👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/integratin...
Integrating Generative AI in the Questionnaire Design Process
Training for PhD and MSc students in the design of social research, quantitative and qualitative analysis.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Tomorrow, Dr Chana Teeger is giving a book talk on her ASA Human Rights Section Book Award winner, Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools👉
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
💡 Digital policing represents a second wave of depersonalisation… reducing the interpersonal cues that help people feel acknowledged, respected and cared for” – Tyler (CPP, 2025)🚓

New work from Professor Jon Jackson, tests whether this erosion of legitimacy is inevitable

➡️ doi.org/10.1007/s112...
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We are thrilled to have Professor Sanyu A. Mojola present our final Autumn Term Seminar Series on 28 November💡

🌎Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol
🕙2.00pm - 3.00pm

Secure your place➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM