Internationally famous for its research-led approach to education, the LSE is an ideal context within which to study social psychology. We offer mainly post graduate programmes and also some undergraduate course options. We are renowned for the excellence of our teaching. And of course the wider facilities and services of the LSE offer a supportive and stimulating environment for learning.
In this section of the website we detail the programmes available including MSc, Phds and course level options. We also offer details on the practicalities of studying at the LSE such as how to apply, funding, cost of living and support for international students.
Based in the heart of London, we are ideally situated to be connected with our wider community. Being in the centre of London provides easy connectivity and socialising, whilst studying at the PBS offers a strong community feel.
Click the 'Life at WC2' tab for information for what is around WC2. Alumni and students' union.
"My year at the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science (PBS) rekindled my passion for social psychology, and the
opportunity for an open, critical and multidisciplinary approach to the subject to yield urgent insights for contemporary issues and challenges.
I use daily the vast knowledge and the unique perspective that I gained from the MSc in Social Psychology in my work for UK Government research into individuals, groups and societies in areas of conflict."
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington
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Below are some examples of what our PhD graduates are doing(alphabetical surname order):
Kavita Abraham, Director Research and Learning at BBC Media Action
Dr Eleni Andreouli, Open University
Dr Sharon Attia –Krieger: College of Management Academic Studies /Ruppin Academic Centre, Israel
Dr Sara Belton, Senior Project Manager, Ministry of Health with the Government of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Dr Rochelle Burgess, Lecturer, London Metropolitan University
Dr Flora Cornish, Associate Professor, Methodology Institute, LSE
Dr Parisa Dashtipour, Middlesex University
Dr Japinder Dhesi, Psychologist, UK Civil Service
Bankole Falade , Research Fellow, London School of Econmics and Political Science
Dr Vlad Glaveanu, Lecturer, University of Aalborg
Dr Ama de Graft Aikins, Professor, University of Accra, Ghana
Susan Howard, Counsellor
Dr Caroline Howarth, Associate Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics
M Gregor Jost , Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company
Dr Joelle Kivitz is a lecturer in Sociology of Health, School of Public Health, Nancy (University of Lorraine, France). She is also associate editor of the journal Santé Publique (Public Health), published by the French Society of Public Health.
Dr Shose Kessi, University of Capetown
Alexandra Kolka
Dr Isidora Kourti, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, Department of Management, Regent's University London
Dr Ingrid Le Duc, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Advisor for the Quality of Teaching
Miltos Liakopoulos
Dr Jenevieve Mannell, Teaching Fellow, SP, LSE
Dr Mercy Nhamo-Murire, Research Fellow, Grahamstown University, South Africa
Dr Claudia Mollidor, Researcher, Australia Catholic University
Rebecca Newton , Business Psychologist, Exec Coach, Speaker, Advisor - Leadership & Professional Development; Newton Taylor & LSE
Manuela Nocker, Senior Lecturer in Organisation and Sustainability, Essex Business School
Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Lecturer in Social Work and Social Care, University of Sussex
Carola Nuernberg
Dr Arabela Nuila, NGO Researcher, Norway
Dr Barbara Osborne, Housewife
Carlos Parales, Associate Professor
Dr Eri Park, Lecturer University College Roosevelt in the Netherlands
Dr Gemma Penn, Senior Policy Analyst, Whitehall, London
Dr Branwyn Polykett. Researcher. Cambridge University - Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Dr Jacqueline Priego, Research Officer, London School of Economics and Political Science
Dr Alicia Renedo, Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr. Johannes Christian Rieken, Research Officer/ Associate, London School of Economics - Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit
Dr Gordon Sammut, Lecturer, University of Malta
Dr Alain Samson, Behavioural Science Consultant
Dr Mohammad Sartawi, Assistant Professor at the Gulf University for Science and Technology
Raimund Schmolzevice, President at the Telekom Innovation Laboratories
Dr Asi Sharabi, ESRC Michael Young Prize 2007, Planner and Strategist, Poker, and currently founder and director of successful digital publishing company LostMy.Name
Dr Morten Skovdal, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
Sun Sun Lim, Assistant Dean (Research) & Associate Professor, National University of Singapore DE
Dr Cathy Vaughan, Lecturer in Gender and Health, Melbourne University
Dr Ben Voyer:, Associate Professor, ESCP Europe Business School
For information on the careers destinations of Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science (PBS) graduates. Click here
London WC2 is also the post-code of Covent Garden and Holborn. As one can read in a tourist leaflet "It contains two of the world's most famous open spaces in Leicester Square (hosting film premieres) and Trafalgar Square (home of Nelsons Column and scene of many a political rally). London WC2 is the heart of Theatre land, with the London Coliseum and the Royal Opera House and the world famous West End Theatres showing musicals or plays
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Students introduction to life in WC2
The LSE is in Central London, in the City of Westminster, hence its postcode WC2. LSE is 3 minutes walk from the river Thames, and within short walking distance from Museums, Covent Garden, Soho, Chinatown and many other exciting places. The area is crammed with lively pubs, clubs, restaurants, galleries, designer shops, and many interesting monuments. It is in a node of communications enabling easy and fast access to St. Pancras and Victoria train stations, and also to Heathrow airport (direct connection), etc.
While it is a temptation for studious students to have all these fabulous resources at hand, it seems that they cope with it quite well, and we agree with them the location of the School in one of the most desired areas of Central London participates in making studying at LSE a great lifetime experience which alumni fondly remember.
As LSE has grown over the last 100 years, it has gradually acquired many contiguous blocks of buildings so the streets between them have informally become part of the School's campus. Although this is still public space, there are no cars and almost all people in the streets are either LSE students or LSE faculty. LSE has pubs, restaurants, and even its own clinic in this growing urban campus.
But life in WC2 is before all about people. The PBS students form a jolly community which shows creative use of the WC2 resource, and of their insertion in the larger LSE student community. Over the years, the PBS staff has been continuously amazed at their capacity to prove that hard work and academic dedication can go on par with having a lot of fun.