Unfortunately the Department does not have enough space to guarantee all students on the programme a desk.
For students in their 1st year (Tracks 1 and 2) of the MRes/PhD programme, there is a study room, room 1.33, located on the 1st floor of the 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields building (32L), which provides a quiet study area for Economics postgraduate students.
There are three public computing rooms located in the 32L building. Room LG.01 has 18 PCs, room LG.05B has 38 PCs and room G.18 as 12 PCs. Each room is also equipped with a printer. Note, these rooms are for any LSE students to use, but may make for a quieter alternative to using a PC in the library or in one of the busier PC rooms in the main part of the campus situated around Houghton Street.
There is also a Postgraduate common room on the lower ground floor of the 32L building, room LG.05A with comfortable seating and a kitchen area.
Once you have completed the MRes and have been upgraded to the PhD, students can generally expect to have either a departmental desk space or a space in one or other of the research centres. Allocation of departmental space for the year will be made mid-way through the Michaelmas term once desk allocation within research centres is known. Priority for departmental desk spaces will normally be merit based according to performance in the MRes final examinations.
The following departmental rooms are presently allocated for use by designated research students. The majority of desks are equipped with a computer. Each room is equipped with a printer:
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32L.4.08, six spaces
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32L.4.11, six spaces
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32L.5.01, twenty-one spaces
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32L.5.02, twelve spaces
Allocation of space as it becomes available will be according to the following priorities:
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2nd year MRes
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3rd year PhD
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4th year PhD
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5th year PhD
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1st year MRes
Students will be asked to leave any space they occupy if there are higher priority individuals on the waiting list. Students at the end of their fifth year will always be asked to vacate space. Students occupying a departmental space, who are subsequently offered a space in one of the research centres, must take up the offer of the research centre space, thereby freeing up space for students on the waiting list.