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Discover how LSE research is shaping the world, with examples of real-world impact on policy and more.

Using AI to improve public safety at public events

Tuesday 27 May 2025 · Tom Kirchmaier
AI and tech
A heatmap of a football stadium

Placing wellbeing at the centre of government decision-making

Tuesday 21 May 2024 · Dr Christian Krekel, Professor Lord Richard Layard, David Frayman, Sara MacLennan
Politics
Happiness with an arrow printed on a pavement

Using people’s feelings of happiness to make better policy decisions

Tuesday 21 November 2023 · Dr Christian Krekel
Economics
people dancing

Protecting the high seas

Tuesday 23 May 2023 · Dr Siva Thambisetty
Sustainability
A single fish in the sea

Are girls being designed out of public spaces?

Tuesday 15 November 2022 · Dr Julia King, Olivia Theocharides-Feldman
Society
A group of girls and young women taking part in the "Making space for girls" project

Music on trial: challenging the use of rap as evidence in criminal courts

Tuesday 15 November 2022 · Dr Abenaa Owusu-Bempah
Race equity
Microphones in a music recording studio

Tackling reckless lending and indebtedness in South Africa

Wednesday 21 September 2022 · Deborah James FBA
Economics
money lending signs in South Africa

Safeguarding play: children’s rights and the internet

Tuesday 12 July 2022 · Professor Sonia Livingstone, Dr Kruakae Pothong
Impact
children using a smartphone

Do tobacco warnings change behaviour?

Tuesday 12 July 2022 · Professor Amitav Chakravarti
Impact
Warnings on cigarette packets

Pursuing transitional justice in Uganda: the trial of Dominic Ongwen

Tuesday 12 July 2022 · Professor Tim Allen, Jackline Atingo
Impact
A striking landscape

Less choice is better: LSE research guides Swedish pension reform

Thursday 12 May 2022 · Professor Nicholas Barr
Impact
A pensioner sitting on a bench