Staff Research & Policy Seminar
The SPP's Research and Policy (RP) Seminar hosts external and internal speakers to present cutting edge academic and policy research to the SPP's faculty and other faculty from the LSE.
The RP Seminar's objectives are threefold: to discuss new and exciting academic research, to engage with the important policy issues of the day, and to build the LSE and SPP community.
The seminar is held every two weeks on Mondays in the Autumn and Winter term.
Sessions
Title: TBC
Monday 13 October 2025, 14.00-15.30
Prof Rahsaan Maxwell, Professor of Politics, New York University Department of Politics
Title: TBC
Monday 10 November 2025, 14.00-15.30
Prof Sandra Sequeira, Professor of Development Economics, LSE School of Public Policy
Title: TBC
Monday 9 February 2026, 14.00-15.30
Dr Sandra León, Institute of Public Goods and Policies, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Title: TBC
Monday 2 March 2026, 14.00-15.30
Professor Felipe Gonzalez, Professor of Economics, Kings College London
Title: TBC
16 March 2026, 14.00-15.30
Dr Scott Tyson Associate Professor, Department of Political Science University of Rochester
Title: When Do Firms Speak Up? Employee Ideology and the Politics of Corporate Speech
30 March 2026, 14.00-15.30
Dr Luis Cornago-Bonal, LSE Fellow in Political Science and Public Policy
Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Monday 14 October 2024, 12.30-14.00
Prof Luis Garicano, Professor of Public Policy, LSE School of Public Policy
Venue: MAR.1.10, Marshall Building
When Widows Win: Land Lotteries and Individual Prospects in Georgia
Monday 28 October, 12.30-14.00
Dr Alexandra Cirone, Assistant Professor, LSE School of Public Policy
Venue: CBG.2.05
Resource Windfalls, Public Expenditure and Local Economies
Monday 11 November 2024, 12.30-14.00
Dr Antonella Bancalari, Senior Research Economist, IFS
Venue: CBG.2.05
Democratising Political Parties: Experiences of Political Participation and Efficacy
Monday 25 November 2024, 12.30-14.00
Dr Mathias Poertner, Assistant Professor of Political Science, LSE Department of Government
Venue: MAR.2.06, Marshall Building
Title TBC
Monday 20 January 2025, 14.00-15.30
Prof Rachel Bernhard, Associate Professor of Quantitative Political Science Research Methods, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Venue: LSE Lecture Theatre, CBG
Fair transport policy: Deliberating car use in London
Monday 3 February 2025, 14.00-15.30
Dr Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities and Associate Professor (Education), LSE School of Public Policy
Venue: LSE Lecture Theatre, CBG
The Sisterhood Effect: Evidence on Girl Empowerment from Kenya
Monday 17 February 2025, 14.00 to 15.30
Dr Tinghua Yu, Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck Business School
Venue: KSW.2.12, 20 Kingsway
Faster, bigger, cheaper: how AI can improve UK price data
Monday 3 March 2025, 14.00-15.30
Prof Richard Davies, Professor in Practice, LSE School of Public Policy
Josh Hellings, Data Scientist, LSE School of Public Policy
Finn McEvoy, Data Scientist, LSE School of Public PolicyVenue: KSW.2.12, 20 Kingsway
Economic development in pixels: The limitations of nightlights and new spatially disaggregated measures of consumption and poverty
Monday 14 April 2025, 14.00-15.30
Professor John Huber, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Venue: LSE Lecture Theatre, CBG