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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.
Wednesday 18 March 2026
Safeena Husain

Four LSE academics elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences

Professors Neil Cummins, Sumi Madhok, Almudena Sevilla and Martin Westlake are among 74 Fellows who have been elected to the Academy this spring.
Friday 6 March 2026
Professors Neil Cummins, Sumi Madhok, Almudena Sevilla and Martin Westlake

Wealthy countries once faced same levels of child stunting as today’s low- and middle-income countries

Research offers powerful evidence that child stunting can be eliminated globally.
Tuesday 24 February 2026
An outline of a child and a height chart

How the model of apprenticeship helped to reshape the English economy

For more than a century, apprenticeship in England has been in crisis. Yet it was not always so. Patrick Wallis’s new book explores how apprenticeship laid the foundations for the first Industrial Revolution.
Friday 28 November 2025
An illustration of men working a loom in pre-industrial revolution times.

New study challenges claim polygyny drives men to civil war

New data disputes the theory that polygyny excludes large numbers of men from the marriage market.
Thursday 9 October 2025
Three women on a beach

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Monday 21 October 2019
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