London School of Economics and Political Science

Sir Paul Marshall has announced a £50 million donation to LSE’s Marshall Institute, to kick-start a unique accelerator for social impact ventures. The accelerator is part of his long-term ambition to create a philanthropic cooperative…

LSE alumnus Firoz Lalji and his family have made an extraordinary commitment of $35m to LSE to create the Firoz Lalji Global Hub, which will enhance the School’s world-leading events and extended education programmes on campus, online and…

Pay has fallen behind economic growth in the UK over the past four decades, a new report launched today shows.The report “Have productivity and pay decoupled in the UK?” published by the London School of Economics’ Programme on Innovation…

In a first for UK higher education, the London School of Economics and Political Science has been independently verified as carbon neutral for the academic year 2020/21, for all its measured emissions.The School was verified by global…

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is partnering with the Laidlaw Foundation to annually offer 25 exceptional undergraduate students a place on the Laidlaw Scholars Leadership and Research Programme, designed to…

Local authorities in England that suffered the largest spending cuts under austerity also experienced the largest increases in opioid-related deaths and abuse, according to new research from the Department of Health Policy, published in…

Social scientists are making powerful and practical contributions to “levelling up” cities, regions or countries in the UK. This is the key message of a new report by the Academy of Social Sciences, which uses research centre LSE Cities…

More than a quarter of self-employed workers are struggling to meet basic expenses, as their incomes and profits remain below pre-pandemic levels. That is the central finding of new research from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)…

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters will receive greater welfare protection in UK law following an LSE report which demonstrates that there is strong scientific evidence that these animals have the capacity to experience pain, distress or…

The International Inequalities Institute (III) at LSE is launching the UK Satellite Office of the LIS Cross-National Data Centre in Luxembourg.This new cooperation aims to promote the use of the LIS Databases in the UK and elsewhere and…