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LSE academics awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize 2026

Each of the prize winners receives £100,000 which can be used to advance their research.
Wednesday 21 October 2026
A collage of profile photographs showing Dr Jake Richards, Dr Roxana Willis, Dr Richard Martin, Professor Tengyao Wang

LSE celebrates topping out ceremony at the Firoz Lalji Global Hub

New building will create new spaces for research, teaching, collaboration and debate.
Thursday 15 October 2026
Topping Out Ceremony

Why group disparities persist: A new way to break down the causes

Ang Yu and Felix Elwert's groundbreaking methodology explains why group disparities persist.
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Students walking in Fall sunshine in front of Sacramento State University

Beyond average: A new approach to multicalibration brings group fairness to web scale

John Barlow and Daniel Titherington introduce MCGrad (MultiCalibration Gradient Boosting), a powerful machine learning algorithm developed by researchers at Meta and Professor Milan Vojnovic.
Monday 18 May 2026
MCGRAD blog graphic with lines of code and a woman reading her phone

On working as an LSE Research Assistant

MSc Data Science student Amara Otero Salgado shares her recent insights on working as a Research Assistant at LSE.
Thursday 30 April 2026
LSE Department of Statistics Student Amara Otero Salgado

Working with international trade data to establish robust evidence in turbulent times

Dr Francesca Torti outlines her work on producing international trade statistics in our crises-, protectionism- and sanction- defined era.
Tuesday 14 April 2026
Francesca Torti Trade in Turbulent Times Blog Graphic

A graduate’s experience of an LSE Department of Statistics research internship on financial statistics

Statistics graduate Evelyne Ong describes her 2025 LSE statistics student research internship.
Monday 9 February 2026
Evelyne Ong graphic

New research clarifies how machine learning can work successfully on complex graphs.

Giulia Livieri clarifies how machine learning can work successfully on complex graphs.
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Abstract illustration of a graph

Robust analysis of rating-scale data

Dr Max Welz on making statistical analyses robust against so-called ‘contamination’ from low-quality survey responses.
Wednesday 10 December 2025
Person completing a paper survey form

Introducing the Psychometrics Lab

Dr Yunxiao Chen and Professor Irini Moustaki introduce the work of the LSE Department of Statistics’ Psychometrics Lab.
Friday 21 November 2025
The Psychometrics Lab team standing in front of the globe on the LSE campus

Predicting Antarctic ice melt and its impact on rising global sea levels

Dr Ieva Kazlauskaite and Dr John Barlow introduce the 'IceDice' project, which aims to improve our forecasting of the behaviour the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the age of global warming.
Wednesday 1 October 2025
Antarctic ice sheet