Student Voice and Community

Student Academic Representatives are a crucial part of LSE and LSE Students’ Union, and play an important role in the department. 

Each programme will elect a Student Academic Representative at the start of the academic year and this person will then go on to work with Catherine and their Programme Director to gather feedback from their peers and report back at a termly SSLC (Student Staff Liaison Committee) Meeting. SSLC meetings are a good opportunity to discuss how things are going with your cohort and Programme Director, so we encourage all students to come along! In this document, you’ll find guidance to help with navigating feedback channels and the SSLC process.

You can self-nominate as a Student Academic Representative in the first weeks of term. Students will receive more details by email in Week 1. Once you’re selected as a Student Academic Representative, you will attend a training session with the Students’ Union, to prepare you for the role. Whilst the role does have an associated workload, it is not onerous and won’t impact on your studies, and throughout the year, both the LSESU and department staff are here to support you with the role or any queries you may have. 

On Fridays during term time, all students in the department receive a weekly newsletter. The newsletter keeps you informed about department news, events, resources and upcoming opportunities.  

We love highlighting the wonderful things our students get involved in! Please send your news and events to Catherine and Nele (gender@lse.ac.uk) and we can share them in the newsletter and/or on our socials.

Enhance is a series of events we run exclusively for LSE Gender students and alumni. These sessions aim to enhance your education and build on our LSE Gender community,  through targeted professional development, academic support and cohort socials.  

You can find our current Enhance schedule here.  

Our MSc common room is on the 10th floor of Fawcett House and is a space for exclusive use by our Gender Studies MSc students to relax, read or meet up for group work. The common room is available from 8am-8pm.  

You are welcome to use the open space in the Gender Department on the 10th floor of Fawcett House for quiet study only. Additional space is also available on 11th floor of Pankhurst House. 

Spilling the Equali-TEA is a podcast created by Gender students that promises hot takes on gender politics, feminism and equality. Spill the tea, smash the patriarchy! 

You can follow the podcast on @equalitea.pod and find all episodes here. 

Each podcast episode gives the views of the individual speaker(s), and not the position of the Department of Gender Studies, nor of LSE.

This student-led initiative aims to create a supportive space for students to share their experiences and build solidarity between transnational feminist and social movements. FMAW is an opportunity for students to exchange knowledge and practices through collective learning, and to forge a transnational community that may extend beyond your time as an LSE student. FMAW was started by Gender Studies alum, Milena D’Atri, who continues to lead and support this initiative.

The Engenderings blog is run by PhD students based at the LSE Department of Gender Studies, supported by a wider editorial collective. Engenderings is a blog about the role of gender in cultural, social and political life. It brings together a broad range of perspectives to engage with ideas about gender as it operates in local and global culture and society. Engenderings are open to contributions from MSc students, and you can find details here.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, a group of students at the department collaboratively put together a playlist inspired by key readings assigned in their course by Prof Sumi Madhok. 

You can listen to 'Sumi's Key Readings' here.