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Future Proof | Sustainable responses to global challenges
Videos, articles, blogs and events exploring what a sustainable and resilient future looks like, and how the social sciences will help us build it.
How to make life on our planet more sustainable | LSE Future Proof
Professor Jonathan Pershing, Dr Ganga Shreedhar, Dr Shefali Khanna, Professor Sir Tim Besley, Professor David Luke, Professor Carmen Nuzzo
How Gulf cities could be rebuilt with people in mind | LSE Future Proof
Dr Alexandra Gomes
How Brexit remade Britain's political identities
24 March 2026 · Professor Sara B Hobolt
Who benefits from the privatisation of health and social care?
24 March 2026 · Dr Benjamin Goodair
The power and constraints on international law in a political world
24 March 2026 · Dr Theresa Squatrito
Why are we having fewer children? | Award-winning LSE iQ podcast
50 years ago we feared overpopulation, now governments are worried about falling birth rates. Global fertility rates are at historic lows but should we be concerned?
China's one-child policy created a generation that prefers smaller families
24 March 2026 · Dr Shuang Chen
Tackling school bullying: insights from Mexico
24 March 2026 · Dr Kevin Zapata-Celestino
Teaching about colonialism in the classroom
24 March 2026 · Professor Leigh Gardner, Professor Tirthankar Roy, Professor Mohamed Saleh
LSE Blogs
Featuring LSE researchers and academics, think-tank researchers, politicians and third sector experts across the world
Are jobs getting better? | Award-winning LSE iQ podcast
Rapid technological progress is boosting productivity, automating routine tasks, and creating new opportunities for creativity and more flexible ways of working. But is this really making jobs better?
Stem cells: the future of science explained
Professor Emily Jackson explores the ethical and legal questions that surround embryo models.
LSE iQ Podcast
The award-winning monthly social science podcast from LSE
LSE Research for the World magazine
Explore the latest LSE research articles, videos and podcasts in our online social science magazine
Will AI free us from work?
Will AI lead to mass unemployment—or free us from work altogether? In this special LSE iQ episode, Sophie Mallett speaks with Professor Judy Wajcman about what artificial intelligence really means for the future of work.
Five global challenges at LSE
LSE, a world-leading social sciences university, is uniquely placed to help society navigate five major challenges the world is facing
LSE alumna honoured as TIME Woman of the Year
LSE alumna Safeena Husain has been recognised for her work as founder of Mumbai non-profit Educate Girls.
LSE student named a TIME woman of the year
Mahnoor Omer achieved recognition for her activism around period products in Pakistan.
LSE Generate secures leading spot as the UK’s top university start-up hub in 2026 rankings
This year’s ranking covers 180 centres across 25 countries.
LSE top ten in social mobility list
The School has been ranked 10th in the 2025 English Social Mobility Index
Recent LSE graduate selected for prestigious fellowship
Sung Jae Harry Park was selected from a pool of over 5,800 candidates.
LSE’s widening participation Pathways programmes are “genuinely life-changing” say participants
Participants who took part in LSE’s Pathways to Law programme have described it as “an incredible experience” .
LSE named as top university in the UK
The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 has ranked LSE as the number one university in the country
Guardian University Guide 2026 ranks LSE top in London
LSE has been ranked as fourth overall in the UK.
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