Researcher Q&As
Short interviews with early career researchers at LSE
Read about the research taking place in different departments across the School, how the PhD candidates feel being a part of LSE, and their advice for prospective students.
Jose A Bolanos
Jose is a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Centre for Analysis of Risk & Regulation and studies how organisations tackle complex policy problems.
Tammy Campbell
A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow investigating inequalities faced by young children of special educational needs and disabilities (SENDs).
Anni Kajanus
A Leverhulme Early Career Fellow researching the dynamics of human cooperation, conflict and competition from a cognitive anthropological perspective.
Yufei Zhou
A PhD candidate investigating the changing human-dog ethics around Tibetan Mastiff breeding in China. Yufei won the PhD Academy prizein this year’s research competition.
Jordan Vieira
A PhD candidate investigating social change on the Isle of Dogs.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
A PhD researcher candidate investigating the lives of Indonesian nuns.
Nikita Simpson
A PhD student investigating mental distress from the perspective of the household.
Anjana Bala
An LSE Fellow epxloring experiences that psychiatry often labels as psychosis and schizophrenia.
Maria Ventura
A PhD student researching occupational choice and labour market outcomes.
Tim Dobermann
A PhD student researching climate change, energy and developing countries.
Azhar Hussain
A PhD student researching the impact of climate change and environmental externalities in developing countries.
Nilmini Herath
A PhD student studying social networks and ideological polarisation.
Alka Raman
A PhD candidate with the Department of Economic History, and winner of the 2019 LSE Festival poster prize for her work on the impact of Indian textiles on the early British cotton industry.
Felix S.F Schaff
A PhD candidate with the Department of Economic History researching historical wealth inequality in Europe
Dr Stefania Galli
A researcher in the Department of Economic History exploring the relationship between institutions and inequality.
Guillaume Yon
A PhD student in the Department of Economic History researching the so-called "Golden Age" of economic growth in France.
A PhD student in the Department of Economic History researching elite persistence in 19th century Europe.
Alanah Mortlock
A PhD candidate researching contemporary debates surrounding the concept of "transracialism".
Hasret Cetinkaya
A Postdoctoral researcher on rights-claiming and rights-making in the Kurdish led Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
Niharika Pandit
A Fellow examining coloniality, occupation and anticolonial feminist possibilities.
Do Young Oh
A PhD candidate studying the historical relationship between universities and the urbanisation process in East Asia, from colonial times to the current era.
Eduardo Ibarra-Olilvio
A PhD candidate investigating regional competitiveness, productivity and development in Mexico.
Martina Manara
A PhD candidate investigating property rights in Tanzania.
Jeanne Firth
A PhD candidate investigating food systems and the humanitarian aid work undertaken by celebrity chefs in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.
Sandro Provenzano
A PhD candidate investigating the impact of mineral mine openings on local economic development and urbanisation in Africa.
Pia Andres
A research student investigating international trade and competitiveness in clean and dirty technology.
Mook Bangalore
A PhD candidate investigating how people across the Global South respond to environmental changes.
Ana De Menezes
A PhD researcher investigating the increased risk of mosquito-borne diseases as temperatures rise.
Martin Munene
A PhD candidate researching transboundary climate risks.
McDonald Lewanika
Doctoral researcher focusing on the politics and development of the African state.
Fergus Green
PhD researcher looking into the repurcussions of policy change.
Sandra Obradovic
(Postdoctoral) LSE Fellow and Associate Researcher of the Electoral Psychology Observatory studying the nature of group identities and the impact this has on public opinion towards political change.
Ariel Perkins
PhD researcher looking into citizen militias in the US.
Julia Leschke
PhD researcher investigating populism in political texts.
Temi Ogunye
PhD researcher exploring the themes of injustice, activism, and resistance.
Diego Sazo
PhD researcher exploring collective violence in contemporary Latin America.
Stephanie Wanga
PhD student exploring the history of statehood in East Africa.
Nick Lewis
PhD student researching the effects of social media on political discussion.
Genevieve Jeffrey
A PhD candidate studying the impact of social policy on health outcomes across generations.
Camille Bou
A PhD candidate exploring how household context shapes the lives of young informal carers.
Shoshana Lauter
A PhD candidate researching trauma and mental healthcare.
Read the Q&A with Shoshana Lauter
Manna Mostaghim
A PhD candidate researching the relationship between fertility policies in the NHS and weight stigma in healthcare.
Read the Q&A with Manna Mostaghim.
Max Gallien
PhD student researching informal economies in the Middle East and North Africa.
Chiara Chiavaroli
PhD student researching the gendered dimensions of toxic contamination in coca farming and gold mining in Colombia.
Gijs Marijn van Selm
PhD student researching the localisation of humanitarian aid in complex emergencies.
Read the Q&A with Gijs Marijn van Selm
A PhD student in the Department of International History studying the material culture history of sappanwood.
A PhD student in the Department of International History studying the function of European art and design as instruments of coloniality.
Jemima Ackah-Arthur
PhD student researching the ways governments respond to armed groups.
Ida Danewid
PhD student researching global solidarity and colonial patterns.
Nicola Degli Esposti
Investigating the politics and political economy of the Kurdish national movement.
Carlotta Clivio
PhD student researching Chinese leadership’s involvement in global climate governance structures.
Alireza Shams Lahijani
PhD student investigating Iranian representations and conceptions of Europe.
Jacklyn Majnemer
PhD student investigating why states renege on commitments within institutionalised alliances
Sroyon Mukherjee
PhD candidate researching the legal cases involving environmental valuation.
Atta Addo
PhD candidate researching Information Technology in developing countries.
Esther Canonico
LSE Fellow researching the effectiveness of flexible working practices and work-life balance.
Anulekha Nandi
PhD student researching digital innovation processes for humanitarian action.
A PhD student in the Department of Management researching decision making in digital hyperchoice.
Franziska Eberle
Research officer studying combinatorial optimisation
Zoë Glatt
PhD candidate investigating professional YouTube content creators
Gianfranco Polizzi
PhD candidate investigating how digital literacy and civic, political engagement shape one another.
Rob Sharp
PhD researcher investigating the relationship between asylum seekers and the mainstream.
Rodrigo Munoz-Gonzalez
PhD candidate investigating why young people engage with nostalgic narratives of the past
Louise Marie Hurel S. Dias
PhD candidate investigating the nexus between security and technology
Joe-Ann Chavry
PhD candidate researching how black creole women in Mauritius constitute a sense-of-self
Joe Roussos
A PhD candidate researching how policymakers can make decisions in the face of highly uncertain science.
Celestin Okoroji
PhD candidate researching ideas about unemployed benefit claimants and effects on their self-esteem and wellbeing.
Laura Kudrna
Research officer investigating the relationship between money and happiness.
Maxi Heitmayer
PhD candidate investigating smartphone use and smartphone addiction.
Benno Guenther
PhD candidate investigating risk taking in high-stake contexts.
Daniele Pollicino
PhD candidate investigating sustainable food consumption.
Alexandra Kirienko
PhD candidate researching employee wellbeing and hybrid working
Atrina Oraee
PhD candidate researching decision-making and climate change
Anandita Sabherwal
PhD candidate researching collective action on climate change
Nils Mallock
PhD candidate researching participation in political protest
Heidi Zamzow
PhD student researching how we can apply behavioural insights to facilitate more sustainable diets.
Kate Laffan
PhD candidate studying the reciprocal relationship between human wellbeing and the natural environment.
Miranda Bevan
PhD candidate researching children’s experience of being detained in police custody after arrest.
Fiona Gogescu
PhD Candidate and ambassador for CIVICA investigating the links between education and meritocracy.
Haneen Naamneh
PhD candidate researching how the Palestinian community in Jerusalem experienced transformation following the Israeli occupation.
Kristina Kolbe
Researching contemporary forms of music production in Berlin.
Johannes Hollenhorst
Researching hydrogen and the transition to net zero.
Baljit Kaur
Researching young women music creatives and violence in East London.
Yajing Zhu
PhD candidate studying the effects of childhood socioeconomic circumstances on adults’ mental and physical health.
Marta Lorimer
PhD candidate with the European Institute studying identity in the far-right.
Toon Van Overbeke
PhD candidate with the European Institute studying approaches to automation in different political environments.
Julian Göpffarth
PhD candidate with the European Institute studying the role and drivers of intellectual support for far right populism in Germany.
Diane Bolet
PhD candidate with the European Institute explaining the rise of the radical right in Europe.
Virginia Crespi de Valldaura
PhD candidate with the European Institute researching the role of the French and Spanish Socialist parties in building the Single Market and Economic and Monetary Union in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Sarah Gerwens
PhD candidate with the European Institute exploring how people speak about race in a supposedly post-race society.
Greer Gosnell
Teaching Fellow in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
Michal Nachmany
Policy officer in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
Anomitro Chatterjee
Research officer in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
Gregor Singer
Research officer in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
Sara Mehryar
PhD student in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
Francisco de Melo Virissimo
Research Fellow investigating the interface between mathematics and earth science.
Megan Ryburn
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at LSE's Latin America and Caribbean Centre
Dr Manmit Bhambra
Research Officer at LSE's Religion and Global Society Research Unit