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Find out more about what our researchers are working on and how they are shaping the world. Browse research news, blogs and films, search our repository of publications, or find a social science expert in your area of interest.

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Blog highlight What can house prices tell us about the environmental costs of overhead power lines?
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Research news LSE recognised for entrepreneurship and public engagement
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LSE IQ podcast Is AI coming for our jobs?
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LSE expertise Understanding the UK economy

Explore our dedicated hub on the state of the UK economy and its future
Research for the World magazine
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Online article Rise of Egyptian cotton market tripled rural slave population between 1848-68
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Online article Policing in an age of uncertainty: New York and Chicago 1877-1923
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Online article What is life really like for a wellness entrepreneur?
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Research impact Reforming the law on storage time limits for frozen eggs

LSE research helped reduce emotional and financial costs for women
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Looking for an LSE expert? Search through our staff of world-renowned researchers
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LSE Research for the World strategy led by Pro Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor Susana Mourato
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Research and Innovation News, support and funding assistance
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Are you an aspiring researcher? Graduate programmes at LSE
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PhD Academy Dedicated space and services hub for doctoral candidates
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC)
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)
Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS)
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP)
Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
Centre for Macroeconomics
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS)
Centre for Women, Peace and Security
Data Science Institute
Financial Markets Group (FMG)
Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
International Growth Centre
International Inequalities Institute
LSE Cities
LSE Health
LSE IDEAS
Marshall Institute
Middle East Centre
Phelan United States Centre
Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre
Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)
What Works Centre for Local Economics Growth
Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)
Behavioural Lab for Teaching and Research (Management)
Behavioural Science Hub (PBS)
Contemporary Turkish Studies
Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Theory Forum
Centre for Public Authority and International Development
Conflict Research Programme
Democratic Audit UK
European Foreign Policy Unit
Electoral Psychology Observatory
Global Health Initiative
Hellenic Observatory
The Inclusion Initiative
International Trade Policy Unit
International Long-term Care Policy Network
Latin America and Caribbean Centre
Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy
Legal Biography Project
Legal and Political Theory Forum
Law and Economics Forum
LSE London
LSE Housing and Communities
LSE Human Rights
LSEE: Research on South Eastern Europe
LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub
Mannheim Centre for Criminology
NIHR Policy Research Unit in Adult Social Care
NIHR School for Social Care Research
POLIS: Journalism and Society
Population at LSE
Religion and Global Society
South Asia Centre (SAC)
Systemic Risk Centre
Urban Age
Centre for Vocational Education Research