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A study co-authored by LSE has found that vaccine-hesitant adults in the UK are far more likely to have their COVID-19 jabs if they are told that they can then travel abroad more freely.The research, published in Science Advances, reveals…

Chickenpox in childhood results in £24 million in lost income and productivity every year in the UK, although the true cost is likely to be higher, according to new LSE research.This research, presented at this year’s European Congress of…

Professor Marc David Baer is one of the six historians on this year’s prestigious Wolfson History Prize shortlist.The Wolfson History Prize, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, showcases the best accessible historical…

Playing location-based games, such as the popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go, may alleviate non-clinical forms of mild depression, a new study from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has found.In the new…

High-income countries, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, bear the overwhelming responsibility for global ecological breakdown and need to urgently scale down their use of natural resources by over 70 per cent to achieve a…

More than one in five top earning bankers has benefited from non-dom status, according to a new LSE and University of Warwick report. Non-doms also make up a sizeable share of top earners – those in the top 1%, earning over £125,000 – in…

Rising parental expectations and criticism are linked to an increase in perfectionism among university students, which can have damaging mental health consequences, according to new research from the LSE and York St John…

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has secured a £175 million Sustainable Private Placement for green and social projects at the School, including the development of a new building, 35 Lincoln’s Inn Fields (35…

The Inclusion Initiative (TII) at LSE has been awarded £2 million by the Economic and Social Research Council to study the link between diversity and productivity, in collaboration with researchers from Institute for Fiscal Studies,…

Investing in established community-based programmes, such as community workshops, to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) improves health and is good value for money, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine.The…