LSE public event | Beliefism: how to stop hating the people we disagree with

Wednesday 11 June 2025 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Speaker: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS)
Chair: Professor Charles Stafford

Watch the event on YouTube. 

 

Documentary screening | Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Now & Then followed by Q&A with director Jyoti Nisha

13 May 2025

Speaker: Jyoti Nisha
Chair: Dr Sakshi Ghai (PBS)

A screening of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Now & Then, a powerful documentary that critically examines caste, exclusion, and marginalised representation through the lens of Bahujan feminist filmmaker Jyoti Nisha.

 

Event | In Conversation with Nicolai Tangen - Social Science and Successful Companies

2 April 2025

Speaker: Nicolai Tangen
Chair: Dr Tom Reader (PBS)

Hosted by PBS and the LSESU Nordic Society. 

Watch the event on YouTube. 

LSE public event | The Open Society as an enemy: populism, Popper and pessimism post-1989

2 December 2024

Speakers: Professor J. McKenzie Alexander, Dr Ilka Gleibs (PBS), Professor Alan Manning
Chair: Professor Dame Sarah Worthington

Watch the event on YouTube. 

 

Book launch | Why People Do What They Do, And How to Get Them to Change 

31 October 2024

Speakers: Professor Saadi Lalhou (PBS), Professor Helga Nowotny
Chair: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS)

Watch a recording of the event. 
Watch a video about 'Why People Do What They Do'

 

LSE public event | Wicked problems: how to engineer a better world

22 October 2024

Speaker: Dr Guru Madhavan
Chair: Dr Michael Muthukrishna (PBS)

Watch the event on YouTube. 

 

LSE public event | AI and the future of behavioural science

8 October 2024

Speakers: Alexandra Chesterfield, Elisabeth Costa, Professor Oliver Hauser, Dr Dario Krpan (PBS), Professor Susan Michie, Professor Robert West
Chair: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS)

Watch the event on YouTube. 

 

Event | Caregiver wellbeing and urban policy

18 July 2024
Hosted by LSE Cities

Speakers: Lucy Jones and Dr Kate Laffan (PBS)
Chair: Katie Beck

Watch the event on YouTube.

 

LSE Festival | Displays of Power Exhibition

10 to 15 June 2024

This year's festival exhibition featured displays by Dr Deema Awad on 'Making research less... WEIRD' and Professor Elizabeth Stokoe on 'The politics of conversation'. 

Learn more about the exhibition. 

 

AI UK Fringe Event | PBS Workshop: When you combine behavioural insights with AI – How can you make sure you are influencing ethically? 

26 March 2024

Workshop panel: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS), Annabel Gillard, Dr Stuart Mills

 

LSE Research Showcase | How conversational are conversational technologies? 

12 March 2024

Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Stokoe (PBS)

Watch the event on YouTube. 

 

Event | DSI Research Showcase 

12 December 2023
Hosted by LSE's Data Science Institute 

Speakers: Professor Ken Benoit, Dr Jon Cardoso-Silva, Dr Marcos Barreto, Dr Milena Tsvetkova, Dr Jens Koed Madsen (PBS), Zachary Dickson

Find out more about the Showcase. 

 

LSE Research Showcase | Using people’s subjective wellbeing to craft policy that matters

21 November 2023

Speaker: Dr Christian Krekel (PBS)

Watch the event on YouTube. 

 

LSE public event | AI disruption in the job market: navigating future skills and relevance

8 November 2023

Speakers: Dr Grace Lordan (TII & PBS), Lucy Bailey, Dr Michael Muthukrishna (PBS), Professor Leslie Willcocks
Chair: Dr Christine Chow

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE public event | How can you get happier?

7 November 2023

Speaker: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS)
Chair: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube 

 

Book launch | A Theory of Everyone: Who we are, how we got here, and where we're going 

28 September 2023

Speakers: Dr Michael Muthukrishna (PBS), Matthew Syed
Chair: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube 

 

Book launch | The Perfection Trap

20 June 2023

Speakers: Dr Thomas Curran (PBS), Natasha Devon
Chair: Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch (PBS)

Recording not available. 

 

LSE Festival | The Power of "Good Enough"

14 June 2023

Speakers: Dr Thomas Curran (PBS), Adrienne Herbert, Dr Rachel O'Neill
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube 

 

LSE Festival | Why is Change so Hard?

13 June 2023

Speakers: Stella Creasey, Professor Conor Gearty, Laura de Molière, Dr Jens Madsen (PBS)
Chair: Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube 

 

Event | Science Slam at LSE 

31 May 2023

At this event, PBS and LSE PhD students brought their research to life in bitesize talks. 

Watch the recordings

 

Event | Starting from the Bottom: Critical Perspectives on Mental Health and Social Justice

28 February 2023

Speakers: Dr Rochelle Burgess, Dr Maria Cecilia Dedios, Professor Maxine Molyneux, Federico Montes, Professor Patrick Vernon
Chair: Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch (PBS)

Recording not available. 

 

Event | Stereotypes, History and Social Psychology: Collective Reflections

16 November 2022

Speakers: Professor Koji Yamamoto 
Discussants: Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch (PBS), Professor Alex Gillespie (PBS)
Chair: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS)

Koji Yamamoto discussed the new volume of 'Stereotypes and Stereotyping in Early Modern England'. Recording not available. 

 

LSE iQ podcast | How can we survive the next mass extinction?

4 October 2022

Speakers: Dr Ganga Shreedhar (PBS), David Shukman

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player

 

Event | Behavioural Transformations in the 21st Century: Frontiers in Behavioural Public Policy

7 July 2022

Speakers from PBS: Dr Matteo Galizzi, Dr Kate Laffan, Dr Ganga Shreedhar

Hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment. Supported by the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. 

Recording not available. 

 

Event | SPSSI-EASP Small Group Meeting 2022: Society in the classroom: Integrating perspectives on how socioeconomic disparities unfold in educational settings

30 June - 2 July 2022

Co-organised by: Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (PBS) 
Keynote: Professor Hazel Rose Markus: Notes from the field: Experiments towards a psychology of society

Listen to a podcast recording of the keynote here.

 

Event | LSE Festival 2022

13-18 June 2022

How do we get to a post-COVID world? The LSE Festival explored the practical steps we could be taking to shape a better world. 

A full list of the events that took place and recordings can be found via the LSE Festival 2022 website.

 

LSE public event | Too much information

6 June 2022

Speakers: Professor Cass R. Sunstein, Professor Peter John
Chair: Professor Susana Mourato

Co-hosted by PBS and LSE's Department of Geography and Environment. 

Watch the event on YouTube 

 

LSE public event | Hidden Games: how game theory explains irrational behaviour

11 May 2022

Speakers: Dr Moshe Hoffman, Dr Erez Yoeli, Professor Nichola Raihani
Chair: Dr Michael Muthukrishna (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube 

 

LSE public event | Leveraging Moments of Change for Pro-Environmental Behavioural Transformation

9 February 2022

Speaker: Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh
Chair: Dr Ganga Shreedhar (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube 

LSE public event | Nudge: the final edition

7 December 2021

Speaker: Professor Richard H Thaler
Chair: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube 

 

Wider World Seminar Series | Panel Session on Behavioural Data Science

30 November 2021 

Speakers: Jeroen Nieboer, Ganna Pogrebna, Briana Brownell
Chair: Paul Adams

 

Event | BehaviouralHack 2021: #ItsNotOK: BehaviouralHack on Collaborative Solutions to Transform Social Norms around Intimate Partner Violence

17 November 2021

The BehaviouralHack 2021 brought together local citizens, academic experts and policy institutions to discuss how behavioural insights can help address the challenges of intimate partner violence in Lithuania.

Co-hosted by PBS and the Behavioural Lab LT.

 

Event | Science & You Conference 2021 

16-19 November 2021

"Science & You" is an international event of scientific and technical culture co-organised by Professor Martin Bauer (PBS).

Hosted by the University of Lorraine.

 

Workshop | Behaviour, Wellbeing and the Environment

4-5 November 2021

This two-day online workshop brought together experts in the fields of behavioural science, wellbeing and the environment to explore future research in these areas. 

Hosted by PBS and the Behavioural Science and Policy Group (University College Dublin)

Watch the conversations in full on YouTube

 

Event | Reconciliation Processes in Post-Conflict Societies: Colombia and beyond

5 October 2021

Speakers: Professor Lord Alderdice, Dr Fabio Idrobo, Professor Nicola Lacey, Federico Rodríguez and 
Chair: Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on Facebook

 

LSE public event | The Authority Gap

13 September 2021

Speaker: Mary Ann Sieghart
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)

Hosted by The Inclusion Initiative.

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE public event | Celebrating Pride: the behavioural science behind the inclusive social movement

9 September 2021

Speakers: Antonia Belcher, Pips Bunce, Belton Flournoy, Jane Hill, Arlene McDermott
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)

Hosted by The Inclusion Initiative.

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE iQ podcast | Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? 

6 July 2021

Speakers: Dr Ela Drazkiewicz-Grodzicka, Professor Bradley Franks (PBS), Dr Erica Lagalisse

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player

 

LSE public event | How Boards Work

30 June 2021

Speaker: Dr Dambisa Moyo
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)

Recording not available. 

 

LSE public event | Duck-Rabbit: What Drives Our Polarised Culture?

28 June 2021

Speakers: Professor Paul Dolan, Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Dr Lasana Harris, Professor Anil Seth, Dr Tiffany Watt Smith
Chair: Professor Simon Hix

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE public event | A Decade of Behavioural Science at LSE - Part 2

19 May 2021

Speaker: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS)
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE public event | The Technological Revolution in Financial Services

19 April 2021

Speakers: Ghela Boskovich, Michael R. King, Vineet Malhotra, Richard Nesbitt, Brenda Trenowden
Chair: Baroness Minouche Shafik 

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE public event | The Psychology of Intergroup Inequality

31 March 2021

Speaker: Professor Jim Sidanius
Chaired: Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

Book launch | Think Big 

25 March 2021

Speaker: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)
Chair: Professor Paul Dolan

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE Festival short film | What work disappeared? COVID-19 and labour market outcomes for under-25s

3 March 2021

With Dr Ganga Shreedar and Teresa Almeida

Watch the short film on YouTube

 

LSE Festival short film | Safety Culture: what can the post-COVID world learn from high-risk industries? 

2 March 2021

With Dr Tom Reader 

Watch the short film on YouTube

 

LSE Festival | How can policy makers use behavioural science? 

2 March 2021

Speakers: Teresa Almeida (PBS & TII), Professor Paul Dolan (PBS), Professor Julian Le Grand, Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)
Chair: Professor Tony Travers

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE Festival | We Are All in This Together: has COVID-19 taught us how to save the world?

1 March 2021 

Speakers: Sanchayan Banerjee, Professor Nick Chater, Dr Adam Oliver, Dr Ganga Shreedhar (PBS)
Chair: Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

Event | LSE Festival 2021 

1-6 March 2021

The LSE Festival 2021 explored the direction the world could and should be taking after the crisis. 

A full list of the events that took place and recordings can be found via the LSE Festival 2021 website.

 

LSE Festival | Let's Talk Careers in a Post-Covid World

16 February 2021

Speakers: Dorie Clark, Dowshan Humzah, Professor Connson Locke, Simon Ong, Helen Tupper
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII) 

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

Event | Experimental Insights from Behavioral Economics on Covid-19 

12 and 19 February 2021

A special online event focussing on research from behavioural economics related to COVID-19, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University.

Watch 12 February events on YouTube | Watch 19 February events on YouTube

 

LSE Research Short Film | Is Perfectionism an Illness?

22 January 2021

With Dr Thomas Curran (PBS)

Watch the short film on YouTube

 

LSE public event | A Decade of Behavioural Science at LSE

20 January 2021

Speaker: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS)
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)

Watch the event on YouTube

LSE public event | Why Aren't Policy-makers and the Public Demand That More Emphasis is Placed on Happiness?

9 December 2020

Speaker: Lord Gus O'Donnell
Chair: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE public event | Lives, Livelihoods and Lockdowns: debating COVID-19 policy trade-offs

2 December 2020

Speakers: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Professor Paul Dolan (PBS), Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor Carl Heneghan, Professor David Hunter
Chair: Professor Julia Black

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE public event | The Value of Inclusion for a Post-COVID-19 World

25 November 2020

Spekers: Ann Cairns, Ruth Cairnie, Wanda Hope, Lance Uggla, Nate Yohannes  
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII) 

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE public event | Origins of Human Cooperation

19 November 2020

Speaker: Professor Michael Tomasello
Chair: Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE public event | Couples That Work 

17 November 2020

Speaker: Dr Jennifer Petriglieri
Chair: Dr Ilka Gleibs (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE public event | Behavioural Science and a Post-Covid World

4 November 2020

Speakers: Professor Nick Chater, Professor Paul Dolan (PBS), Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII), Professor Tali Sharot, Rory Sutherland 
Chair: Professor Simon Hix 

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE public event | Re-thinking Human Behaviour: critical perspectives on the psychology of Covid-19

7 October 2020

Speakers: Dr Rochelle Burgess, Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins, Professor Helene Joffe, Professor Stephen Reicher
Chair: Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch (PBS) 

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE iQ podcast | Is perfect the enemy of the possible? 

6 October 2020

Speakers: Dr Thomas Curran (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player

 

LSE public event | Assessing the impact of COVID-19: from mortality to misery? 

21 May 2020

Speakers: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS),Dr Daisy Fancourt, Professor Richard Layard, Lord O'Donnell, Professor Carol Propper
Chair: Professor Julia Black

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE Public Event | Behavioural Science in the context of great uncertainty

13 May 2020

Speakers: Professor Nick Chater, Professor Paul Dolan (PBS), Professor Liam Delaney (PBS), Professor Ulrike Hahn, Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)
Chair: Professor Julia Black

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE Festival | Using Behavioural Insights for Inclusion in the City 

5 March 2020

Speakers: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII), Karina Robinson, Brenda Trenowden, Irshaad Ahmad, Richard Nesbitt, Teresa Parker
Chair: Minouche Shafik

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE Festival | Can Behavioural Insights Shape Public Policy-making all over the world?

4 March 2020

Speakers: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS), Dr Jet G. Sanders (PBS), Dr Barbara Fasolo, Dr Adam Oliver
Chair: Dr Matteo M Galizzi (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player 

 

LSE Festival | The Carbon Conscious Consumer: going beyond nudges with nudge plus

4 March 2020

Speakers: Professor Peter John, Professor Theresa M Marteau, Sanchayan Banerjee, Professor Gerry Stoker
Chair: Dr Ganga Shreedhar (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player

 

LSE iQ podcast | Is corruption inevitable? 

6 October 2020

Speakers: Dr Michael Muthukrishna (PBS), Sandra Sequeira, Jonathan Weigel

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player

 

LSE Festival | Writers Rebel

19 February 2020

Speakers: Chloe Aridjis, A.L. Kennedy, Daljit Nagra, Dr Ganga Shreedhar (PBS)
Chair: Dr Rebecca Elliott

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player

 

LSE Festival | How Change Happens

14 January 2020

Speaker: Professor Cass R. Sunstein
Chair: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube 

LSE iQ podcast | What's the secret to happiness?

12 November 2019

Speakers: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS), Professor Lord Richard Layard, Liz Zeidler

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player

 

Theatre | I am Echoborg

29 October 2019

'I am Echoborg' is an interactive theatre performance based on academic research by London School of Economics (LSE) psychologists Kevin Corti and Alex Gillespie, who developed the Echoborg concept in 2015. 

 

LSE public event | Messengers: who we listen to, who we don't, and why

1 October 2019

Speakers: Joseph Marks, Steve Martin
Chair: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player 

 

LSE Thinks | What are the consequences of expressing religious identity in the workplace?

9 August 2019

With Dr Ilka Gleibs (PBS)

Watch the LSE Thinks film

 

LSE iQ podcast | Is gender equality possible? 

18 June 2019

Speakers: Sarah-Banet-Weiser, Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII), Shani Orgad

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player

 

LSE public event | Social Butterflies: reclaiming the positive power of social networks

9 May 2019

Speakers: Michael Sanders, Susannah Hume
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)

Recording not available.  

 

LSE public event | Women in the City

8 March 2019

Speakers: Pavita Cooper, Bronwyn Curtis, Elisabeth Stheeman
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE iQ podcast | How does the modern world affect relationships? 

5 March 2019

Speakers: Dr Brett Heasman (PBS), Paula Keil, Brian D. Earp

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player

 

LSE Festival | New World Order 2035

2 March 2019

Speakers: Dr Liam Kofi Bright, Dr Rebecca Elliott, Dr Barbara Fasolo, Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Ilka Gleibs (PBS), Dr George Lawson
Chair: Dame Minouche Shafik

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

 

LSE Festival | Conspiracy Theory as Truth

2 March 2019

Speakers: Professor Bradley Franks (PBS), Dr Erica Lagalisse, Dr Matijs Pelkmans
Chair: Professor Martin Bauer (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player 

 

LSE public event | Why Minds Go Awry: Evolutionary Explanations for Mental Illness 

14 February 2019

Speaker: Randolph Nesse
Chair: Professor Bradley Franks (PBS)

Recording not available. 

 

Book launch | Happy Ever After 

24 January 2019 

Speakers: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS), Professor Tali Sharot 
Chair: Professor Julia Black

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube

Book launch | The Coddling of the American Mind

23 November 2018

Speaker: Professor Jonathan Haidt 
Chair: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS)

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player 

Book launch | Installation Theory: the societal construction and regulation of behaviour

18 October 2017

Speaker: Professor Saadi Lahlou (PBS)
Chair: Professor Dame Shirley Pearce

Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube