LSE’s Academic Code sets out what we are doing to deliver a consistent student experience across our School, and clarifies what you can expect from an LSE education.

The Academic Code brings together key principles that underpin students’ education into a School-wide policy. Developed in partnership with LSE Students’ Union, it sets the baseline to build on in four key areas: teaching standards, academic support, assessment and feedback, and student voice – areas that students have told us matter the most to them.

Read the Academic Code in full.

Anthropology courses are assessed by a combination of different assessment formats: traditional examinations, online exams, position pieces, assessment essays, research essays, an ethnographic essay, and a dissertation. Details of the assessment for each course are given on the LSE Calendar course guides. The dates for all summative assessments can be found on the individual Moodle course pages.  

If you do not submit an assessed coursework component of a course, you will receive a mark of 0 (Absent) or 0 (Incomplete) for the whole course on your transcript, depending on whether the course has a single or multiple assessed components. Assessed coursework is any summative assessment that receives a grade; therefore, it includes essays, position piece portfolios and dissertations. Unless all assessed work is completed and submitted you cannot complete and pass the course. You will not be able to graduate if you have any marks of 0 (Absent) or 0 (Incomplete) at the end of your degree programme.

If you receive an overall fail mark for a course after having attempted all the assessment components, you will be re-entered for any failed components. You have up to three attempts at first-year assessments, and up to two attempts at secondand third-year assessments. This does not always apply to finalists who, in some circumstances, are eligible to graduate with unredeemed fails

Further information about resits and deferred assessments can be found here.

Formative Assessment
These are assessments set within your class by the course convenor or class teacher. Formative marks do not count towards your final degree classification, but are a compulsory part of your learning and all students are expected to complete them. Completing formative assessments and receiving feedback is designed to prepare you for the summative assessments.

Summative Assessment
These are assessments that count towards your degree classification, and must be completed. Individual courses may be assessed by one piece of summative assessment, or by a combination of different types of assessment.

Examinations
The Course Guide in the LSE Calendar will tell you if your courses are assessed by exam and, if so, during which exam period the exam will take place.

Exams can take place either in the January exam period (7-16 January 2026) or in the Spring Term exam period (May/June). Deferred exams and resits also take place during the In-year Resit and Deferred Assessment Period (IRDAP) in August.

It is your responsibility to make sure you are available in London to sit any exams, and you must plan your travel arrangements accordingly.

E-exams
The Department of Anthropology allows the use of e-Exam software for all exams that take place in-person and under exam invigilated conditions. This means that instead of completing your answers on a paper script, you have the option to use your own personal laptop to type your answers and submit them electronically using Digiexam.

Digiexam is software which works by locking down your personal device to create a secure exam environment where you can write your answers. You will not be able to exit the software until the exam is submitted.

Please note that e-Exams differ from online exams: e-Exams are in-person assessments done on campus under exam conditions, online exams are taken at home.

To help students familiarise themselves with Digiexam, the Department will hold e-Exam practice sessions towards the end of Autumn and Winter terms.

Online Exam
An online exam, also known as a take-home exam, is an extended-time, open-note, open-book examination executed under conditions that you control. This combination of more time and greater control over external conditions is designed to enable students to relax, be comfortable, think clearly, consult their written resources, and produce well-considered, well-crafted answers to the set questions.

Take-home exams in the Department of Anthropology are usually of 8 hours’ duration.

Take-home exams papers have seven questions and students must answer two of them. The whole exam script should be 3000-4000 words.

Dissertations
All our BSc and BA programme are required to complete a 9,000 word dissertation, and MSc programmes are required to write a 10,000 word dissertation. 

The dissertation is an integral part of the your programme. It is an opportunity to study in depth a topic of special interest to you and to apply the knowledge and skills that you have gained during your programme. You will receive dedicated workshops during the academic year focused on your dissertation.

MSc Disseration Supervision
Dissertation supervision will only take place until the end of Spring Term, so you should plan your work accordingly. Disseration supervisors will be unavailable to review drafts or provide further office hours once Spring Term has ended.

You will also find information about your assessments and their deadlines on the individual course Moodle pages. 

Fit to sit policy
By attempting any type of assessment, including but not limited to sitting exams, submitting essays, coursework, class participation, group work, presentations, or dissertations, the School will consider you have declared yourself fit to do so. If you experienced disruption to your studies (including but not limited to illness, injury or personal difficulties) you must think carefully about whether you should attempt the assessment or whether you should consider requesting an extension or deferral. Requests for an extension or deferral must be made in advance of the assessment deadline.

The requirements of an assessment essay will vary depending on what course you are taking and your year of study. The word-length requirement for assessment essays increases with the level of the course. For Undergraduate students, in the first year, students are required to write two essays of up to 2,500 words for AN100. In the second year, students must write up to 3,000 words for all their anthropology assessment essays. In the third year, students will write two essays of up to 3,500 words if they are taking AN301; all other third-year assessment essays will be up to 3,000 words. MSc students must write 3,500 words for their anthropology assessment essays. Full details of the assessment requirements for each course can be found in the course guides in the LSE Calendar: www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/.

The bibliography is not included in the word limit, but foot/endnotes and appendices are included, even when they are used to reference.

Marks are deducted if an essay exceeds the allowable word limit. Essays over the specified upper word limit will receive a penalty of 5 marks. This will apply to all assessment essays.

Precise, accurate and consistent referencing is an essential part of good academic practice. Using and citing the work of others effectively will make your arguments more convincing; it demonstrates that you have read around your topic and are writing from a position of understanding. By contrast, failure to acknowledge your sources correctly could constitute plagiarism (see above), or academic malpractice.

All essays must include a bibliography which lists those works actually used for the essay (i.e. it should not just be copied out from the reading list). All essays should use standard-form citations in the text of your essay, following the model of the major anthropology journals such as JRAI.

Close reference to an author should be followed by citation of that author, e.g.: Leach (1954) claimed that Shan and Kachin identities were constructed in relation to, and by contrast with each other. Page numbers should also be used if the relevant information can be found on a particular page (or page-range).

Direct quotation from an author should always be followed by a citation which includes the page number, e.g., “It is then of great interest that Shans and Kachins alike express their ideas about the political order by making use of identical or closely related concepts” (Leach, 1954: 107).

In both these cases, the bibliography would include the reference:

Leach, Edmund (1954), Political Systems of Highland Burma: a Study of Kachin Social Structure. London, Athlone Press.

We recommend that page numbers are used when taking notes, since they provide you with an easy way to look back and find key sections of the books you have read, especially during revision.

As a student in the Department of Anthropology – or taking an Anthropology course – it is important that you understand how you can use generative AI in your assessments, so that you can do your best in your studies.

As a pedagogically diverse School with different disciplines, there is no one approach to the use of generative AI across LSE. Instead, the School has developed central guidance that allows different approaches to be taken by different academic departments and course convenors. You should familiarise yourself with the School's guidance, which is available here. Within the School's guidance, there are three positions to know about:

• Position 1: No authorised use of generative AI in assessment.
• Position 2: Limited authorised use of generative AI in assessment
• Position 3: Full authorised use of generative AI in assessment.

In Anthropology we follow

• Position 2: Limited authorised use of generative AI in assessment

Position 2

This means that generative AI tools can be used in specific ways for assessments in the Department of Anthropology.

The full Department of Anthropology Policy on Student Use of AI can be found below.  You should read it carefully to understand what uses of AI are and are not permitted in the Department. Failing to follow this policy may result in an allegation of academic misconduct.

This policy applies only to courses taken in the Department of Anthropology. If you are taking a course from outside the Department, you are responsible for checking and abiding by the relevant policy for that course. 

Department of Anthropology Policy on Student Use of AI

Artificial Intelligence tools, when guided by critical reflection and ethical engagement, can play a useful role in aspects of educational and scholarly practice. Yet, such tools can also be detrimental to learning outcomes and may degrade critical skills. The Department’s default position is that the use of AI by students is permitted for a limited range of specific purposes only, as detailed below. Exceptions to the default position may be made at the discretion of individual course convenors, in which case this will be clearly communicated via the course Moodle page. 

The writing process. Text produced by any Generative AI system (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, etc.) cannot be used in the writing of any summative or formative assessment. This includes using the output of AI prompts or searches directly, in edited or modified form, or citing or otherwise relying upon such output as a source for the purpose of supporting statements or arguments made in summative or formative work. The only acceptable use of AI in the writing process is for general advice about the essay as a form of expository writing and how to craft one well. For such acceptable uses, AI prompts should pertain to how to develop any essay in general, not an essay on a specific topic. Students should be aware that outputs to such prompts are likely to be quite generic.   

Students must not upload samples of their own writing to be improved or rewritten by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot. This includes using software to translate original essays from another language into English for submission. This restriction does not apply to tools whose functionality is restricted to making purely stylistic suggestions, such as Grammarly and the AI technology currently built into Microsoft Word.  For more specific guidance on which forms of editorial assistance are acceptable, please consult the LSE’s Statement on Editorial Help for Students’ Written Work.  

Submitting text for assessment purposes that has been produced in part or in whole by AI will be considered academic misconduct. If suspected, students may be called for a viva to explain their writing and research process. We may also use automated systems and other techniques to identify possible inappropriate use of AI tools. In cases of suspected misconduct or plagiarism, School regulations and rules will be applied. More information can be found in the LSE’s guidance on Assessment Discipline and Academic Misconduct. 

Images. The use of AI tools to generate images (e.g. photos or diagrams) for inclusion as illustrations in certain forms of coursework (e.g. position pieces) is permitted (where appropriate), but must be correctly cited. 

Learning support. The department permits the use of AI tools for certain tasks that support learning, much in the way that internet and database searches may be used. For example, AI tools may be used to explain terms, concepts or approaches; to help find research articles; to summarise trends in the literature; or to identify questions and avenues for further research. Students should also be aware that Generative AI tools are still highly unreliable, and frequently ‘hallucinate’ false or misleading information. This can include inventing sources that do not exist or attributing ideas to authors in incorrect ways. Students must therefore exercise caution when using any material generated in this way, and should be prepared to verify the accuracy of any outputs and apply good scholarly judgment. 

Students must not upload course materials (including readings, syllabi, lecture slides, lecture recordings, or video transcripts) to Generative AI tools. Doing so can violate copyright rules and intellectual property rights; such practices are also likely to undermine the development of students’ critical skills in reading and analysis.   

Classes and seminars. AI should not be used during classes or seminars, including for fact-checking or the auto-translation of spoken or written content, unless explicitly permitted by the instructor. Students are permitted to use AI tools to explore materials and test their understanding of ideas ahead of class discussions, but all contributions to discussions and presentations must be students’ own work, not AI-generated text that is read aloud. 

Research and Fieldwork. The use of AI in original anthropological research and primary data analysis is generally permitted, with the proviso that doing so can raise ethical and legal issues that should be considered carefully on a case-by-case basis. Examples of permitted use may include using generative AI to stimulate questions or possible lines of enquiry for ethnographic fieldwork; transcribing and analysing recorded interviews, including via text-to-speech or speech-to-text software; synthesising and summarising field notes; using AI-powered tools for literature mapping and discovery (e.g. Undermind or Elicit); or tools currently built into popular software packages such as NVivo or EndNote.  Researchers must take all necessary steps to protect the privacy and anonymity of research participants and must inform themselves of how any data they upload will be stored and/or used, e.g. for the purposes of training models. 

At present, we recommend the use of either Anthropic’s Claude for Education or Microsoft Copilot for all permitted purposes, as these tools do not retain submitted data to train models under the terms of LSE’s current licenses.  

A range of additional information and resources can be found on the LSE website. In particular, please refer to the Data Science Institute’s Guidance on the use of generative AI to support research; the Digital Skills Lab’s guidance on the use of Microsoft Copilot; the Eden Centre’s Artificial Intelligence, Education and Assessment page; and the Moodle self-study course Generative AI: Developing your AI Literacy. 

You are required to submit all your summative assessments, including essays, position pieces, and dissertation, online via Moodle.

Submission dates for all assessments are given in the Summative Assessment section of the Moodle page for each course.

When you submit your work your file must be named as follows:

Candidate Number - Course Code - Term - File Type

12345-AN100-AT.docx

54321-AN100-WT.pdf

For position pieces please name the file as follows:

12345-AN102-pp1.pdf

54321-AN102-pp2.docx

The file must be saved as a Microsoft Word or pdf document. Note that these are the only formats acceptable.

The LSE operates an anonymous marking policy. In order to comply with this policy it is imperative that you follow the correct labelling of your assessment essays. Use the Department’s assessment submission template as the front page of your essay. This can be found in the Assessment section of the Moodle page for each course. You must give your 5-digit candidate number (which can be found on Student LSE for You), the title and code of the course, the name of the class teacher, the essay question or title, the date, and the word count. You must not put your name or LSE ID number on an assessment essay.

Coversheet
The front page of your summative essay must be a completed Summative Assessment Coversheet, which can be found on the relevant course Moodle pages.

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Turnitin is a service that matches text from student work against a database of previous assessments, websites and published work. Turnitin is not able to detect plagiarism, as there are many legitimate reasons why text from an assessment may match other work, and Turnitin cannot identify the reason for the match. Nonetheless, by drawing the attention of students and teaching staff to matches, Turnitin can contribute to improving students' standard of academic writing.  

In the Department of Anthropology, we make the Turnitin reports available to students for all their formative work and summative assessments.  Reviewing the Turnitin report may help the student to check they have marked quotes accurately and provided citations.  The report can also indicate areas of an essay where there has been only minimal paraphrasing of a source text, and this might indicate the student has not been careful about using their own words to express ideas or make arguments. 

If a student submits well ahead of their deadline, they may use the Turnitin report to revise and improve their submission.  It remains a student's responsibility to submit by the deadline.  Reviewing a Turnitin report is not an excuse for late submission. 

Before using Turnitin, all students taking Anthropology courses must ensure they have read the Department's Turnitin Policy below. 

The Department of Anthropology Departmental Turnitin Statement and Student Agreement  

The following statement sets out how Turnitin is to be used within the Department of Anthropology and the terms by which students agree to use Turnitin. 

Students agree to ensure they have read and understood: 

• Sections 1-6 of the School's Policy on the Use of Turnitin
• the School’s Regulations on Assessment Offences
• and the Department of Anthropology local guidance relating to academic writing, including referencing, citation and paraphrasing, available in our UG and MSc student handbooks and The How to Write Like an Anthropologist section of the Department's webpages

The Department of Anthropology agrees to use Turnitin as a student academic writing development tool by providing students access to their Turnitin similarity report and similarity score (%) for all formative work and all summative coursework assessments at UG and MSc levels. 

The Department of Anthropology believes that good academic writing is a crucial skill that students need to develop during their studies.  There are no short cuts to achieving this, and students must take a comprehensive approach to improving their writing, including participating in departmental workshops and seminars on writing skills and effective note taking, learning from the guidance and feedback provided on formative and summative work, and reflecting on the academic writing and referencing styles and techniques that students encounter in their reading. 

The Department of Anthropology continues to believe that the above methods remain the most important means by which students will improve their academic writing. Nonetheless, the Department accepts that students learn in diverse ways and, for some students, Turnitin has the potential to act as an additional development tool by drawing their attention to places in their writing where there may be weaknesses in paraphrasing, the accurate marking of quotations and/or acknowledgement of sources.  Turnitin also offers students the potential to check and revise their work prior to final submission, which offers additional developmental benefits. 

Therefore, to ensure that none of our students is disadvantaged and to maximise the learning resources available to all our students, the Department of Anthropology has decided to give access to the Turnitin reports for all formative work and summative coursework assessments at undergraduate and MSc levels.  

Despite making Turnitin available to our students, the Department of Anthropology is aware of significant limitations in the accuracy and reliability of Turnitin’s text-matching functionality.  For example, Turnitin reports may identify matches even when quotations have been properly marked and correct citations provided. Conversely, Turnitin reports may fail to identify problematic areas either because the source text is not in Turnitin’s repository or because of technical limitations in the way Turnitin matches text.   

Given these limitations, students must never use Turnitin reports or similarity scores as the sole standard by which to judge whether their work meets the requirements for good academic practice. In addition, the Department of Anthropology expects students to make full use of the support and training provided by LSE LIFE to equip themselves with the knowledge necessary to understand and interpret their Turnitin reports properly. LSE LIFE provides a three-tier approach to training (Online/self-access materials, Workshops and One-to-one support). 

All Anthropology students making use of their Turnitin reports are expected at a minimum to have completed LSE LIFE’s Academic Integrity module. This module can be found in both LSE LIFE’s Prepare to learn at LSE (undergraduates) and Prepare to learn at LSE (postgraduates) Moodle courses.  

If students still have questions about how to interpret their Turnitin report or how they can improve their writing in response to their Turnitin report, they should contact lselife@lse.ac.uk for details on further training in the use of Turnitin.  

In addition to the core Turnitin support offered by LSE Life, the Department of Anthropology offers some supplementary advice on academic writing in Anthropology through our student handbooks, seminars, mentor meetings and Moodle pages. 

Students agree to use Turnitin on the basis prescribed by the Department in this statement. 

Students should be aware that where Turnitin is used within the Department, it is applied universally (i.e. to all submissions within a specific assessment or not at all - blanket use).  

Students need to be aware that academic judgement is the first and most important indicator of academic misconduct and that either a high or low percentage Turnitin similarity score (%) can be equally investigated. Therefore, there is no similarity score (%) threshold (whether low or high) within the Department that excludes them from an initial investigation. 

In the Department of Anthropology, students’ formative work is not added to the Turnitin repository, as students are allowed to draw freely on their own formative work in their summative assessments. The final versions of summative work submitted to the Department will be added to the Turnitin repository, in line with the terms of the Conditions of Registration: 

“Copies of all papers submitted to the software will be retained as source documents in the iParadigms reference database (held in the US) solely for the purpose of text matching against future submissions. Use of the Turnitin UK service shall be subject to such Terms and Conditions of Use as may be agreed between iParadigms and LSE from time to time and posted on the Turnitin UK website.” 

Queries about the Anthropology Department’s policies on Turnitin, academic misconduct or plagiarism should be addressed in the first instance to your departmental administrators, who can be contacted at anthro.admin@lse.ac.uk.  

Updated September 2024  

General grade criteria

The following scheme for grading of marks applies to summative assessments including: summative course work, research essays, take-home assessments and unseen exams. Attributes listed for each class are assumed to include the best attributes from the class below. Referencing for all work, with the exception of exams taken in an exam hall, must include page numbers.  

Anthropology undergraduate general grade criteria. 

Anthropology postgraduate general grade criteria.

Marked essays and feedback are normally returned via Moodle. For assessments submitted on courses taken in the Autumn Term and Winter Term, feedback will be given within five term weeks of the date of submission.

For dissertations, feedback will be given within four term weeks of the release of marks. For summer exams, feedback will be given within four weeks of the beginning of the following Autumn Term. The format of the feedback will vary from one teacher to another.

You MUST submit summative coursework by the relevant deadline(s).

If you fail to submit a piece of summative coursework, you will receive a mark of 0 (Incomplete) or 0 (Absent) for the whole course and this will appear on your transcript. You will not be able to graduate until you have made a serious attempt at all compulsory components of all your courses. This applies to all assessed coursework.

If you submit a piece of work after the deadline (or your extended deadline if applicable), you will be penalised five marks per day (or part thereof). This could eventually result in you being given a mark of 0 (Fail) for that component of the course, but you still need to make a serious attempt at the component in order to avoid being given a 0 (Incomplete) or 0 (Absent) for the entire course and prevented from graduating.

All this indicates the importance of completing and submitting essays and all assessed work on time. It may be better to hand in an essay which is not entirely satisfactory by the due date than to hand it in late.

The LSE sets strict deadlines for formally assessed summative coursework. We recognise, however, that students may, in the course of the year, face serious unforeseen difficulties that prevent them from meeting these deadlines. We hope that no such difficulties will arise during your studies at the LSE; but, if you cannot meet a deadline, you must follow the procedure described below.

Deferral policy
If, having been granted an extension you feel you require more time to submit the assessment, your extension request was not approved, or the assessment in question has a static deadline such as an exam or online assessment released at a specific time/date, you should consider requesting a deferral. You must complete the online deferral form and submit evidence no later than 24 hours before the submission deadline or starting time of an exam. For more information visit lse.ac.uk/deferral

Exceptional Circumstances
If, having submitted an assessment you feel your performance was impacted by circumstances beyond your control, you should submit an Exceptional Circumstances (EC) Form and corroborating evidence to the Student Services Centre by the stated deadline. Such circumstances could include (but are not limited to):

• failing to submit an assessment or sit an exam which you did not defer
• experiencing difficulties which could have affected your academic performance in an assessment
• adjustments such as CEAs, My Adjustments or deadline extensions that you feel were insufficient to compensate for the impact of your circumstances
• a late diagnosis of a condition meaning that you could not apply for adjustments until after you had completed some or all assessments.

Submitting an EC Form is the only way for you to alert the Exam Boards to the circumstances which may have affected your performance. For more information and deadlines visit lse.ac.uk/exceptionalcircumstances

Extensions are only available for summative coursework and are granted only in exceptional circumstances where the need for extra time is backed by supporting evidence or where flexibility on deadlines is recommended in a student’s My Adjustments. If you believe you have a valid reason for requesting extra time (e.g., illness, bereavement), you may seek a formal extension using the Department’s online extension request form, which can be found on every Anthropology Moodle course page in the Assessment Information section. This request must be submitted before the set deadline/submission date.

You will be asked to:

• explain the reasons why you cannot submit by the due date and time
• specify the period (with dates) for which work was interrupted
• Indicate what length of extension you are requesting
• attach supporting evidence (e.g., a medical certificate, death certificate) or confirm you have My Adjustments in place

If you cannot provide the evidence electronically and/or immediately (e.g., if you need to request a medical certificate from a doctor), an extension can normally be agreed on condition that evidence be submitted at a later date. Any evidence submitted at a later date should be emailed to anthro.admin@lse.ac.uk. In the title of your email please provide your LSE student ID and the relevant course code(s).

You should be aware that the Department may not be able to respond to extension enquiries immediately. In order to avoid undue anxiety, please aim to submit your extension request as soon as you realise you will not be able to submit by the deadline, and at least two working days before your deadline if possible.

Any extension granted will be confirmed in writing by email to you. Each case will be determined on its merits. The following is offered as a guide:

• Insufficient justification for missing a deadline will include minor sickness, problems with computers or printers, conflicting multiple coursework deadlines, having to attend a wedding, not being able to obtain a certain book in the library, etc.
• Sufficient justification should be accompanied by supporting documentation, most often a medical note from your doctor to verify an illness, or evidence that you have suffered an unforeseen major life event (accident, bereavement, etc.).

My Adjustments
My Adjustments (MAs) are LSE’s system of recording the adjustments and support which are deemed necessary to meet the needs of a disabled student. The package of support in a student’s My Adjustments may include a recommendation that departments are flexible on submission deadlines. If that is the case, students must still submit a formal extension request using the Department’s online extension request form, but they are not required to include any evidence.

All summative assessments that you submit to the School are subject to the School’s Regulations on Assessment Offences. You are expected to have read and understood these regulations before you submit your work to the School. If you are found to have committed an assessment offence, such as plagiarism (either deliberate or accidental including self-plagiarism), exam misconduct, collusion, contract cheating or using Artificial Intelligence software, you could be expelled from the School. For more information and support regarding the School’s expected standards of academic integrity visit lse.ac.uk/assessmentdiscipline

When you submit your summative assessments (assessments that count towards your mark in a course) to the School you are expected to have read and understood the following academic integrity statement:

By submitting work to the School you confirm you will abide by and uphold the School’s Code of Good Practice, Ethics Code and academic integrity as outlined in the School’s Regulations on Assessment Offences and Department guidance and you also confirm that:

• the work in this assessment is solely your own; and
• you have not conferred or colluded with anyone in producing this specific assessment*; and
• you understand the use of AI tools to help with any part of your assessment is strictly prohibited unless some use is permitted as defined by the Department responsible for the assessment (see Departmental guidance); and
• where necessary, you have clearly cited and referenced the work of others appropriately to make clear which parts are your own work; and
• your submission does not re-use substantial/verbatim materials you have previously submitted to the School or elsewhere. To note, in some cases expanding on earlier formative or summative work may be permitted as defined by the Department responsible for the assessment (see Departmental guidance); and
• you understand the School has the right to ask you questions about the originality of your work if deemed necessary.

*It is acceptable to consult with LSE LIFE for general study skills questions but not questions specific to the content of a particular assessment.

You can seek advice about the School’s rules regarding academic integrity from the Library (visit lse.ac.uk/library) and LSE LIFE (visit lse.ac.uk/lse-life) You should also ensure that you adhere to the School’s Research Ethics Policy and Procedures where appropriate when conducting research. Failure to obtain the necessary Ethics Approval for your research could result in your conduct being considered under the School’s Research Misconduct Procedure. For more information visit lse.ac.uk/ethics

Final results are available once the relevant School Board of Examiners has ratified them. Provisional results are available for students taking January exams and for 12 month master’s students.

Results are not released to students who owe debts to the School.

For more information on how and when results are released visit lse.ac.uk/results

If you need to take a deferred or resit assessment, more information about the resit period can be found at lse.ac.uk/re-entry

Classification schemes
Degrees are awarded according to the classification scheme. These schemes are applied by the Boards of Examiners when they meet to ratify your results. You can find the classification schemes at lse.ac.uk/calendar

Transcripts
Continuing students can request intermediate transcripts through the Student Services Centre immediately after ratified results have been published. Final transcripts are made available electronically through Parchment (formerly known as Digitary CORE) which allows them to be easily shared. For more information about final transcripts please visit lse.ac.uk/transcripts

Degree certificate
Depending on when you are awarded your degree, you may have the opportunity to collect your certificate at graduation. Any certificates that are not collected are posted to the permanent home address we have on record. For more information, please visit lse.ac.uk/degreecertificates