MPhil/PhD Welcome Week Information
We look forward to getting to know you and supporting you in your endeavours
A warm welcome to all our MPhil/PhD offer holders! We look forward to you joining us here at LSE and in the Department of Statistics very soon so you can start your exciting journey and become #PartofLSE!
Welcome Week is from 21-25 September 2026!
Bookmark this page to get the latest information on times and locations for many of the Department's MPhil/PhD Welcome events. In addition to School-wide welcome activities, the Department has also scheduled programme-specific events during Welcome Week as well as before and after as well. All events will take place on campus unless otherwise noted.
Below you will find all our Welcome events you can attend as a MPhil/PhD student. Any questions, please email your PhD and Teaching Programmes Manager Jide Gbadamosi
Welcome events for MPhil/PhD students in the Department of Statistics!
This is an optional attendance activity. Drop off your belongings, meet your fellow PhD students and get settled before the day’s activities begin.
- Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026
- Time: 10am - 10.30am
- Location: Leverhulme Library, Columbia House
This is an optional attendance event. Come along to find out where you’ll be based and get set up at your allocated desk within the Department.
- Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026
- Time: 10.30am onwards
- Location: Various
Welcome from the Head of Department, Professor Milan Vojnovic. Receive programme information from Dr Chengchun Shi and an overview of the departmental procedures from your Programme Manager, Jide Gbadamosi.
- Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026
- Time: 11am - 12pm
- Location: Leverhulme Library, Columbia House
It is very important that you attend campus enrolment. This takes place in-person and is where we will check your official documents, including passport and visa. This is a compulsory event.
Once you have completed campus enrolment, you will be issued your LSE Card, giving you access to campus and on-campus teaching and services.
- Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026
- Time: 2pm - 4pm
- Location: PhD Academy, LRB 4.03 (Lionel Robbins Building, 4th Floor)
Visit the PhD Academy Website for more information on enrolment.
Welcome talk for our newly arrived research students. This will be a panel discussion chaired by the PhD Academy Director, Professor Bingchun Meng.
- Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026
- Time: 2pm - 3pm
- Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
This is an optional attendance event.
- Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026
- Time: 3pm - 4pm
- Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
This is an optional attendance event. Join fellow PhD students for a relaxed Sip & Paint session – a chance to get creative, socialise and get to know each other.
- Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026
- Time: 4.30pm - 6pm
- Location: Brush & Bubbles, 11 Goodwin's Court, Covent Garden
London, WC2N 4LL
An informal opportunity to drop in and speak with the PhD Programme Manager about any questions you have as you get started at LSE.
This is an optional attendance event.
- Date: Thursday 24 September 2026
- Time: 8.30am - 4.30pm
- Location: COL 6.14, Columbia House
This is a compulsory event.
- Date: Thursday 24 September 2026
- Time: 10.30am - 11am
- Location: Leverhulme Library, Columbia House
Meet Statistics Careers Consultant Daniel Gendle to see how to make the most of careers services: source information, book appointments and events, access exclusive resources, optimise your job search. Come with your most pressing questions too! This is an optional attendance event.
This event will be particularly useful if you: want to make the most of all careers services available to you and would like to get advice or to ask questions about careers.
Attending this event will enable you to: get an overview of all careers services, resources, and events dedicated to Statistics students and get answers to some of your career-related questions.
- Date: Thursday 24 September 2026
- Time: 11am - 11.30am
- Location: Leverhulme Library, Columbia House
This is an optional attendance event.
- Date: Thursday 24 September 2026
- Time: 11.30am - 12pm
- Location: Leverhulme Library, Columbia House
Games night for for all new students! That's BSc, MSc and PhD. This is an optional attendance event. A relaxed evening of games and socialising with fellow students and Department staff. Come along, have some fun and get to know others in the Department.
- Date: Thursday 24 September 2026
- Time: 4pm - 5.45pm
- Location: Centre Building Square
An informal opportunity to drop in and speak with the PhD Programme Manager about any questions you have as you get started at LSE.
This is an optional attendance event.
- Date: Friday 25 September 2026
- Time: 8.30am - 4.30pm
- Location: Online
This is an optional attendance event.
- Date: Friday 25 September 2026
- Time: 10am - 11am
- Location: Leverhulme Library, Columbia House
Meet our staff (including our Head of Department and Doctoral Programme Director) and other research students over lunch.
- Date: Friday 25 September 2026
- Time: 12pm - 2pm
- Location: Leverhulme Library, Columbia House
This is an optional attendance event.
Professor Zoltan Szabo is offering a (free!) Linux mini-course. The event will have a one hour talk, 10 mins break, 1h talk, 20 mins Q&A format and will cover the following:
Title: Getting Started with Linux
Abstract: The now 35-year-old Linux operating system designed from ground up to respect users' freedom provides an easy-to-use, off-the-shelf alternative to proprietary solutions (such as Windows and macOS) while also allowing a versatile, sustainable, secure, and privacy-respecting operation for instance on desktops PCs / laptops, in home automation, on mobiles, on paper-like tablets, or in the context of research computing on a cluster. The aim of this mini-course is to help you get started along this journey. After a short historical background, we will touch upon choosing among Linux variants (so-called distributions), hints on installation, applications for common tasks, and ricing.
You are welcome to join upon interest, note that sign up will be required. Details will be provided.
- Date: Friday 25 September 2026
- Time: 2pm - 4.30pm
- Location: Room 2.04, CKK Building
Welcome Bowling Night for all new BSc, MSc and PhD students. This is an optional attendance event. Join your fellow PhD students for an evening of bowling and a chance to socialise and get to know your new cohort outside of the Department.
- Date: Friday 25 September 2026
- Time: 6pm - 10pm
- Location: Bloomsbury Lanes, WC1H 9EU
All new Statistics students are invited to enjoy the private Kingpin Suite with unlimited bowling, table tennis, a pool table and arcade games.
Registration essential - the sign-up link will be circulated via email
Complete your Consent.Ed training! This is a compulsory event.
- Date: Wednesday 30 September 2026
- Time: 2.30pm - 4pm
- Location: SAL 1.05
Our Consent.Ed programme gives you the tools you need to become an active bystander and make positive decisions about your relationships.
It is expected that you and everyone in the LSE community takes part in Consent.Ed. Level 1 and Level 2 should be completed by all students.
You will need to:
- Complete Level 1: your online training - before you arrive on campus.
- Complete Level 2: an in-person workshop that every PhD student in the Department of Statistics must attend.
Level 2 sessions will form part of your departmental induction. This will be a 90-minute workshop attended alongside your department peers. In this session you will explore issues around sexual consent, providing an opportunity to discuss how we can look for one another and create a positive, respectful consent culture, where everyone feels safe on campus.
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