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PolMeth Europe 2025 Conference

7 - 8 April 2025

The in-person conference took place over two days, from 7 - 8 April 2025. This year there were over 50 presentations focused on innovative research methods and their applications, making this year’s conference the largest PolMeth Europe yet.

Alongside these presentations, there were keynote talks from Drs Michelle Torres and Tara Slough, two leading women in political methodology, and Professor Kosuke Imai (Professor of Government and of Statistics at Harvard University).

PolMeth Europe was set up in 2021 to serve as the European meeting of the Society of Political Methodology, an exchange of knowledge and ideas.

Generative AI event — Generative AI in Research Workshop 7 June 2024This full day event showcased cutting edge research on, and using, generative AI in social science research from internationally-renowned scholars at LSE, Oxford, Princeton, Brigham Young, and Tübingen.The workshop spoke to a broad ongoing conversation about how generative AI tools will shape the conduct of social scientific research moving forward. Chaired by Dr Thomas Robinson and Dr Dan de Kadt, the workshop involved three research presentation sessions, where two invited speakers discussed their research, followed by audience questions and general discussion.Speakers included:Dr Melissa Sands (LSE)Elif Akata (Tübingen)Dr Christopher Summerfield (Oxford)Dr Friedrich Geiecke (LSE)Dr Lisa Argyle (BYU)Dr Blake Miller (LSE)Key notes from Prof Arthur Spirling (Princeton University) and introductory remarks from LSE President Prof Larry Kramer.

Watch our event recap video on our YouTube.

BPC - Blue font, light background - CHOSEN — Shedding Light on the UK General Election5 June 2024Prof Patrick Sturgis (Head of Department of Methodology, LSE), Prof Jane Green (President of British Polling Council), Simon Atkinson (Head of Ipsos Knowledge Centre) and other academics and pollsters joined together to discuss the factors shaping the General Election outcome.PART ONE: WHERE ARE WE NOW?Chaired by Sara Hobolt, LSECan we Trust the Polls?Will Jennings, Southampton/SkySampling for Election Polling:Joel Wiliams, VerianScotland:John Curtice, University of StrathclydeWhat do past trends tell us about the present? Holly Day, Ipsos & Beth Kühnel Mann, YouGovPART TWO: ROUNTABLE ON MRPChaired by Jane Green, BPC PresidentProjecting Seats – an MRP Roundtable:Damian Lyons-Lowe, Survation; Martin Baxter, Electoral Calculus; Callum Hunter, JL Partners; Patrick English, YouGovPART THREE: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?Chaired by Patrick Sturgis, LSEWhat about the Don’t Knows? Paula Surridge, University of BristolTactical Voting: Stephen Fisher, University of OxfordWhat Might Change? Luke Tryl, More in CommonElection Night and The Exit Poll:Jouni Kuha, LSE

BHM 2023 Audience — Blackness and the research gaze16 October 2023In this Black History Month 2023 event co-hosted by the LSE’s Department of Methodology and the Department of Social Policy’s Race Matters Initiative, speakers reflected on how they embed critical and transformative techniques in researching Black subjectivities. Discover how members of our distinguished panel evaluate the mental health consequences of the Windrush scandal on Caribbean and Black African people in the UK; address experiential and institutional dimensions of ‘race’, racism and anti-racism in Mexico; examine the role of Afro-Colombian activists in designing and implementing cultural policies; and use hip-hop aesthetics to explore the metaphysics of Blackness.Watch the recording of this event

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