LSE Explore: Year 12

Applications for LSE Explore 2025 are now closed.

This year’s series will include subject taster events featuring our academics and current LSE students and an information session from our admissions team.

The subject taster events in 2024/25 featured six departments across LSE:

Management
Geography and Environment
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Government
International Relations
Psychological and Behavioural Science

LSE Explore will allow participants to find out more about studying in these departments at LSE and consolidate their understanding of the higher education application process and the specifics of making an application to LSE. Attendees will also hear from current LSE undergraduates with the chance to have their questions answered and they will learn about the graduate prospects of the respective subjects.

The list of departments featuring in LSE Explore for the 2025/26 academic year will be revealed shortly.

LSE Explore is a virtual event series delivered via Zoom. The events will take place across the last two weeks of May. Applicants can apply to attend one event or multiple events depending upon their interests.

This year, LSE Explore will be delivering subject taster events in partnership with six departments across LSE. Each session will have a department-specific introduction, insight from a student ambassador studying a subject in the department, and a taster lecture delivered by an academic teaching within the department.

The subject taster events for 2025/26 are currently in the planning phase. The subject taster events held in 2024/25 were:

Monday 19 May 2025 (5:30pm – 7:15pm) – Management – featuring a taster lecture from Dr Nayat Horozoglu on “Sustainable Operations”, and an alumni panel.

Tuesday 20 May 2025 (5:30pm – 7:00pm) – Geography and Environment – featuring a taster lecture from Dr Erica Pani on “Practicing Geography: Regional Advantage in Context”.

Wednesday 21 May 2025 (5:30pm – 7:00pm) – Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method – featuring a taster lecture from Dr Lewis Ross on “The Problem of Moral Luck”

Thursday 22 May 2025 (5:30pm – 7:00pm) - Government – featuring a taster lecture from Dr Ryan Jablonski on “Understanding Autocratic Governments”

Tuesday 27 May 2025 (5:30pm – 7:00pm) – International Relations – featuring a taster lecture from Professor Jens Meierhenrich (topic TBC)

Thursday 29 May 2025 (5:30pm – 7:00pm) – Psychological and Behavioural Sciences – featuring a taster lecture from Dr Sakshi Ghai on “The Science of Personality”

In addition, LSE Explore delivered two admissions sessions, which took place on Saturday 24 May from 11:00am – 12:00pm, and 12:30pm – 1:30pm.

LSE Explore events are free to attend.

Essential criteria

LSE Explore is open to Year 12 (or equivalent) students who meet the following criteria.

Applicants should:

Be currently in Year 12 (England and Wales), Year 13 (N. Ireland) or S5 (Scotland)
Have always attended a UK state-funded, non-fee-paying school/college/sixth form
Be considering making an application to undergraduate study at LSE
Be available for the duration of the event.
Have achieved at least grade 6 in GCSE English Language and Mathematics
Have achieved a strong set of GCSE grades overall, with the majority at grades 7, 8 and 9
Be on track to achieve at least the contextual offer grades for your chosen degree programme(s) at LSE. This includes studying any required A level subjects for your chosen degree programme. Full details of LSE’s undergraduate degree programmes are available on the programme webpages.

Applications to LSE Explore are now closed. This information will be updated for the 2025/26 applications in due course.

If you have any questions, please email Ard.Explore@lse.ac.uk and the LSE Explore team will reply as soon as possible.

All staff and students involved in the sessions receive appropriate training before the event. Staff or students working directly and regularly with young people receive specific training on working with children, in line with our Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy. They also undergo an appropriate level Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Please note that as a result of circumstances or events outside of our control (known as a Force Majeure event), which includes but is not limited to industrial action, official government advice, fire, flood or other environmental or physical damage to premises, we may need to cancel an event at short notice.

In the event of a cancellation, a change of venue or date, we will endeavour to notify attendees wherever possible through the contact details given at the time of booking. For the avoidance of doubt, the School will not be liable for any costs you may incur as a result of any cancellation, change of venue or date.