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Departmental Seminar Series

A weekly seminar for the LSE community

The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science hosts a term-time seminar series, where we invite researchers to present their latest findings.

The series is particularly beneficial for LSE students and early career researchers as it presents the opportunity to discuss and debate new findings in social psychology and behavioural science in a small, open setting.

How to join a seminar

The PBS Departmental Seminar Series is open to all LSE staff and students.

Seminars normally take place on Wednesdays at 12-1pm during term time. This year the series will take place in a hybrid format - both in-person and online - unless specified.

All details, including speaker information, title and abstract, location and Zoom link will be sent via email each week from the PBS Events team pbs.events@lse.ac.uk. Please refer to this email for any changes to schedule and confirmation on the format. If you are a member of LSE staff or a student from outside the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, please email pbs.events@lse.ac.ukto join the mailing list.

2025/26 speakers

Winter Term

  • Wednesday 28 January 2026
    Dr Jens Koed Madsen
    , LSE
    Title: 'The importance of dependencies for polarisation and reasoning'

Autumn Term

  • Wednesday 8 October 2025
    Dr Sandra Obradović, LSE
    Title: 'First-time voter experiences as societal rites of passage: a qualitative study and field intervention'
  • Wednesday 15 October 2025
    Dr Pablo Navarrete-Hernández, University of Chile
    Title: 'Urban Behavioural Science: How the Built Environment Influences Emotion'
  • Wednesday 22 October 2025
    Dr Christa Sathish, University of Westminster
    Title: 'Let’s form a positive academia collective transformation: Re-imagining our academic values and interactions'
  • Tuesday 28 October 2025, 2-3pm (note day and time)
    Professor Michalis Drouvelis, University of Birmingham
    Title: 'Emotions and human cooperation'
  • Wednesday 12 November 2025
    Dr Mohsen Mosleh, University of Oxford
    Title: 'Divergent patterns of engagement with partisan and low-quality news across seven social media platforms'
  • Wednesday 19 November 2025
    Dr Amena Amer, UCL
    Title: '“The walls speak for themselves”: Exploring belonging, identity and safety among Muslim women in London universities'
  • Wednesday 26 November 2025
    Dr Jamie Cummings
    , University of Bern
    Title: 'Methodological and inferential issues with using large language models in social science'
  • Wednesday 3 December 2025
    Dr Mikey Biddlestone, University of Kent
    Title: 'What are conspiracy theories and what should we do about them?'

Past speakers