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 Thursdays in the Autumn and Winter term.
Sessions
Political Prosecutions
Thursday 8 October, 3.30pm-5.00pmTom Clark, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
CBG.1.04, Centre Building
Does Information Make MPs More Responsive? Evidence from 14 Field Experiments
Thursday 15 October, 3.30pm-5.00pmDaniel Rubenson, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
MAR.2.09, Marshall Building
Thursday 29 October, 3.30pm-5.00pm
Raúl Sánchez De la Sierra, Associate Professor of Management, LSE
MAR.2.09, Marshall Building
Co-hosted with the Government Department’s Seminar Series in Public Policy and Administration Research (SSPPAR)
Thursday 12 November, 3.30pm-5.00pm
Anne Meng, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, University of Virginia
MAR.2.09, Marshall Building
Thursday 26 November, 3.30pm-5.00pm
Speaker TBC
MAR.2.09, Marshall Building
Thursday 10 December, 3.30pm-5.00pm
Irja Vormedal, Research Director for Global Environmental Governance and Research Professor, Fridtjof Nansen Institute
MAR.2.09, Marshall Building
Co-hosted with the Government Department’s Seminar Series in Public Policy and Administration Research (SSPPAR)
Thursday 14 January, 3.30pm-5.00pm
Barbara Petrongolo, Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
CKK.2.13,Cheng Kin Ku Building
Thursday 28 January, 3.30pm-5.00pm
Lauren Leek, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science, Universiteit Leiden
CKK.2.13,Cheng Kin Ku Building
Thursday 11 February, 3.30pm-5.00pm
Barbara Piotrowska, Lecturer in Public Policy, King's College London
CKK.2.13,Cheng Kin Ku Building
Thursday 25 February, 3.30pm-5.00pm
Dustin Tingley, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
CKK.2.13,Cheng Kin Ku Building
Co-hosted with the Government Department’s Seminar Series in Public Policy and Administration Research (SSPPAR)
Thursday 11 March, 3.30pm-5.00pm
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Associate Professor of Economics, King's College London
SAL.B.11, Sir Arthur Lewis Building
Thursday 25 March, 3.30pm-5.00pm
Chris Warshaw, Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
CKK.2.13,Cheng Kin Ku Building
Co-hosted with the Government Department’s Seminar Series in Public Policy and Administration Research (SSPPAR)
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