New LSE and New York University (NYU) research project
Wednesday 24 September 2025

Jonathan Birch (LSE Philosophy) and Sonali McDermid (Arts & Science NYU) will lead on the new research project Mapping Site-level Climate Hazards to Industrial Animal Agriculture.
LSE and New York University (NYU) will fund eight new collaborative research projects, each led by faculty from both institutions through the LSE-NYU Research Seed Fund. In this round, eight projects across the three research areas Data Science, AI, and Society; Political Science; and Sustainable Growth.
All awardees of the LSE-NYU Research Seed Fund