Seminar Series

Autumn Term

Overseas Chinese Engagement in Brazil and Paraguay: Migrants’ Associations, Diaspora Agencies, and Extraterritorial Policies. Dr Douglas de Toledo Piza, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, Lafayette College.

Authoritarian Communication at Scale: What Text-as-Data Reveals about Russia. Dr Lanabi La Lova, LSE Fellow, Department of Methodology, LSE.

Upward network influence and social integration: Do student friendships stimulate interethnic parental ties? Dr Zsófia Boda, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Essex.

Planetary Causal Inference: combining computer vision and earth observation to analyze disparities in health and living conditions among neighbourhoods in Africa, 1990 to date. Professor Adel Daoud, Associate Professor in Computational Social Science, Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linkoping University.

Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol. Professor Sanyu A. Mojola, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University.

Autumn Term

Quantifying the effect of research policies governing scientific editors. Fengyuan 'Michael' Liu,Global PhD Fellow, Data Science and AI Lab, New York University, Abu Dhabi

The limits of explainability for reducing algorithmic discrimination. Dr Kate Vredenburgh, Assistant Professor, Department of Philsophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics

The Tools of Racial Disenfranchisement: Lessons from 135,457 Individual Voter Records. Dr Daniel de Kadt - Assistant Professor, Department of Methodology, London School of Economics

Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right: Evidence from England's National Health Service. Dr Zachary Dickson - LSE Fellow, Department of Methodology, London School of Economics

Winter Term

Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Texts as Treatments. Professor Kosuke Imai - Professor of Government and of Statistics, Harvard University.

Security from Below: A Hermeneutic-Contextualist Methodology for Studying Marginalised Security Actors. Dr Bohdana Kurylo, LSE Fellow.

Mediating Transnational Mining Disputes in Liberal Democracies. The Ghanaian Case. Dr Isaac Haruna Ziaba, LSE Fellow.

Comparing the Performance of Machine Learning Ensembles for Multilevel Regression and Poststratification Models.Dr Lucas Leemann- Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Zurich.

Just a Number?: Age Misstatement and the Old-Age Pension in Colonial Ireland. Dr J. Andy Harris, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, New York University, Abu Dhabi.

Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation. Dr Kim Pernell, Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas.

Autumn Term

Digi-queer Criminology and Addressing the Rise of Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate. Dr Justin Ellis - co-hosted with The Mannheim Centre, Department of Social Policy.

Are Campaign Promises Effective? Dr Michael Ganslmeier (Department of Methodology, London School of Economics).

Analysing Age, Period, and Cohort effects using Scenario Trajectory Analysis with applications to political interest and social trust.Professor Patrick Sturgis and Professor Jouni Kuha (Department of Methodology, London School of Economics).

What chance of change? Reflections from participatory research on poverty across recurrent crises by Ruth Patrick and Maddy Power. Professor Ruth Patrick (Social Policy, University of York).

Following the information footprint of firms. Dr Eddie Lee (Complexity Science Hub Vienna).Co-hosted with Data Science Institute, London School of Economics.

Why are things this way? Reflections on a coproduced artwork as research. Dr Eileen Alexander (Department of Methodology, London School of Economics).

Winter Term

Collecting public opinion in fragile and conflict states – the challenges and the rewards. Johnny Heald (CEO, ORB International).

Qualitative methods for studying social security benefits: methodological reflections on an ongoing project. Dr. Kate Summers (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Methodology).

Race, Class, and What Else? Policies and Politics in Four American Cities. Professor Jennifer Hochschild (Professor of Government & Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University).

Polarization over the Priority of Political Problems. Professor Benjamin Lauderdale, Professor of Political Science, University College London.

Temporalities and timelines in the aftermath of Grenfell.Professor Flora Cornish, Professor in Research Methodology, Department of Methodology.

Spring Term

Climate Change Migration: Lessons from a Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study of Hurricane Katrina. Professor Mary Waters, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.