Past events and recordings
Below you will find details of past events hosted by the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, including recordings where these are available.
LSE public event | Why we're getting poorer
13 October 2025
Speaker: Dr Cahal Moran (PBS)
Chair: Dr Ganga Shreedhar
LSE Festival | Positive futures
21 June 2025
Speakers: Roger Highfield, Suhair Khan, Isabel Losada, Professor Michael Muthukrishna (PBS)
Chair: Professor Neil Lee
LSE Festival | Empowerment, safety and equity: children's visions of rights-respecting digital futures
21 June 2025
Speakers: Dr Sakshi Ghai (PBS), Adam Ingle, Michael Murray, Professor Dylan Yamada-Rice
LSE Festival | Putting wellbeing and mental health at the heart of progress
20 June 2025
Speakers: Professor Martin Knapp, Professor Lord Layard, Dr Laura Taylor
Chair: Dr Christian Krekel (PBS)
LSE public event | Beliefism: how to stop hating the people we disagree with
11 June 2025
Speaker: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS)
Chair: Professor Charles Stafford
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.
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
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)
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)
Event | Caregiver wellbeing and urban policy
18 July 2024
Hosted by LSE Cities
Speakers: Lucy Jones and Dr Kate Laffan (PBS)
Chair: Katie Beck
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)
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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
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LSE Research Showcase | Using people’s subjective wellbeing to craft policy that matters
21 November 2023
Speaker: Dr Christian Krekel (PBS)
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.
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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
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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.
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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 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.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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