The Philosophy of the Social Sciences MSc programme at the LSE was a great opportunity for me. I learned more in one year than in all of my previous years of school and university put together. The faculty are all experts in their fields and the lectures and seminars are very well structured. In addition, I received […]
David Sneyd has accepted a job working for the Pensions Investment Research Consultancy, which lobbies for proper corporate governance in companies as well as organising shareholder activism. He received the job mainly due to his MSc dissertation which was on shareholder activism and which acted as quite a nice segue into the sector.
I have joined Seachange Capital as a partner. Seachange is a New York based non-profit firm that aims to help outstanding non-profits, beginning in youth education and youth development, raise capital to support their growth, through donations from wealthy individuals, foundations, and other organizations. (see www.seachangecap.org/) I am very excited about the opportunity to work in the […]
I am currently working in equity research of HSBC CIBM (Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets). This is a global rotational program, so I have the opportunity to rotate in London, Hong Kong or New York. I think that the PPP program has significantly improved my analytical and critical thinking skills, which are essential to equity research. Meanwhile, […]
Murray Gregorson has accepted a job as a corporate strategy consultant at a boutique consultancy called Kaiser Associates. This is an American firm with a London office. He writes: ‘My LSE degree helped immensely in getting me the first interview, and my philosophical training helped me get through the interview process: they look for analytical ability, critical […]
Sze Ling Cheng is working as a teaching assistant in the Department of Government at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She will lead the tutorial classes for Fundamentals of Politics and Political Philosophy.
I have been working as a Researcher at the London-based think tank DEMOS for approximately two years now. I work on a variety of topics, including social housing, local government and drugs policy, but I mainly focus on extremism and counter terrorism. The Philosophy and Public Policy course, with its great breadth of topics, provided the perfect […]
I was offered a position as a research officer at the LSE’s BIOS centre for the study of bioscience, biomedicine, biotechnology and society. My position which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is part of a project that will map the socio-political implications of the ‘new brain sciences’. My dissertation, which tackled the […]
As an anthropologist, the MSc at the LSE proved to be both a serious challenge and a strong contribution to my academic formation. After completing the one-year Master´s programme I found myself able to apply some of the concepts of analytical philosophy. For example, I am currently working for an environmentalist NGO based in the Mexican Caribbean; […]
I have accepted a position as a full time Research Fellow at the Fundación Friedrich A. von Hayek in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Fundación Friedrich A. von Hayek is a non-profit organization established with the purpose of encouraging research, development of educational programs and diffusion of the essential principles of the free society, in the fields of […]
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