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LSE Springboard welcomed its first cohort of Year 12 students to campus last week (Friday 21 April) for an introduction to life at LSE.Launched in January 2023, LSE Springboard is a major new initiative from LSE Widening Participation.…

LSE recently launched Thrive, a new 10-month access programme for Year 12 students of Black heritage living in or close to London. UK government figures show that Black 18-year-olds are the least likely to enter top universities, with…

Costed solutions to the situation facing mortgage prisoners have been put forward in a new report by LSE London.The report Releasing the mortgage prisoners: proposed solutions and illustrative costings is the third in the series, funded…

Professor Sir Tim Besley, School Professor of Economics and Political Science at LSE, has been awarded a prestigious BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management. He shares the award with Torsten Persson…

LSE academics Dr Kitty Stewart and Professor Tirthankar Roy have been elected Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.The Academy of Social Sciences is the national academy of academics, practitioners and learned societies in the social…

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the funding body for social science research in the UK, has awarded LSE an Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), worth £1.25 million for the next five years.LSE is one of 32 universities and…

LSE’s annual Sustainability report 2021/22, published today (13 March), highlights the School’s ongoing commitment to environmental sustainability and tackling the climate crisis.Driven by the School’s senior leadership team, the report…

After Jeremy Hunt’s Budget announcement of a 10-year programme to invest £2.5bn in quantum computing to keep the country at the forefront of a global industry, The Inclusion Initiative at LSE released a briefing which describes how firms…

Professor Anne West of the Department of Social Policy has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by The Leverhulme Trust.The fellowship will cover a two-year period and will begin in September 2023. Professor West will work on a new…

Baroness Minouche Shafik, School’s sixteenth Director (recently renamed as President and Vice Chancellor), has confirmed that she will be stepping down in summer 2023 to take up a new position as President of Columbia University. She will…