Master's Students Event Reports
Want to get published on an academic platform? Register your interest now if you'd like to write a report on one of our upcoming events for our USAPP blog!
We are offering current LSE Master’s students the opportunity to write reports summarising the events in our public lecture series, to be published on the Phelan US Centre's USAPP blog. Our USAPP blog received over 500,000 page views in 2025 and is a great way for your writing to reach a wide, international audience.
This initiative is designed to give Master’s students the chance to hone their blog-writing skills and to get their writing published on a reputable academic platform with a global readership.
Are you interested in writing an event report? Register your interest by filling out this quick form. We will approach successful applicants throughout the term as our event series progresses.
Please read the guidance below before applying so that you know what writing an event report entails.
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Event Report Guidance
- Length: Up to 600 words
- Content: If possible, do some research before the event so that you have some background on the speaker and the topic. Take notes during the event to help you write the report after it has finished. Finally, when you get to writing the report, summarise the event, including what the speaker talks about and what is discussed during the Q&A section.
- Deadline: The Monday following the event
- Edits: The USAPP blog team will read the report and make some small edits, when necessary, before publishing
- Please note: An event report is not an op-ed or commentary piece. It is a summary of the event. Any event reports that cover topics over than the event, or introduce the author’s own opinion regarding the issues addressed in the event, will not be published.
Read master's students event reports
- 1 March 2025: Christofer Adams (Department of Sociology) on 'Is there a new Washington Consensus?'
- 8 February 2025: Mustafa Shaukat (Department of Geography and Environment) on 'Leadership or Drift: What’s Next for US Foreign Policy?'
- 16 November 2024: Aidan Dennehy(Department of Social Policy) on 'The 2024 US election: turning point for America?'
- 26 October 2024: Ivey-Elise Ivey (Department of Social Policy) on 'What is AI doing to America’s democracy?'
- 27 July 2024: Alia Yusuf (School of Public Policy) on 'The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements & the Illusion of Public Input'
- 25 May 2024: Annabelle Flood: (Department of Government) on 'Is the Risk of Nuclear War Increasing?'
- 21 May 2024: Theodora Gaiganis (Department of International Development) on 'Made in China: When US-China interests converged to transform global trade'
- 12 March 2024: Uttishta Jagannathan(Department of Government) on ‘Déja vu all over again? Super Tuesday and the Race for the Presidency’
- 4 March 2024: Jorich Loubser(Department of International Development) on The Future of Capitalism in an Age of Insecurity Conference
- 9 November 2023:Grace Lundell(Department of International Relations) on 'Global governance in an era of anti-globalism'
- 9 November 2023: Josette Peacock(Department of Government) on 'Populism and Democratic Capitalism'
- 29 July 2023: Alia Yusuf (School of Public Policy) on 'The Birth Lottery of History'
- 17 June 2023: Jade Plancke (Department of International Relations) on 'Global Governance in an Age of Fracture'
- 15 April 2023: Hashim Ali (Department of Anthropology) on 'The Rise and Fall of the EAST'
- 8 April 2023: Grace Brownsberger (Department of Geography and Environment) on 'Monumental Denial: US Cultural Memory and White Innocence'
- 25 March 2023: Olivia Otts (Department of Media and Communications) on 'Waning Globalisation'
- 18 February 2023: Lorenzo Rezzonico (Department of International Relations) on 'Lessons from the Edge' with Marie Yovanovitch
- 3 December 2022: Cheyenne l'Auclair (Department of International Development) on 'Viral Justice'
- 19 November 2022: Alexandra Smith (Department of Government) on 'Sizing up the US Midterm Elections'
- 5 November 2022: Lucy O'Donoghue (Department of International Relations) on 'The Rise and Fall of the Neo-Liberal Order'
- 22 October 2022: Olivia Otts (Department of Media and Communications) on 'What is the Future of the U.S. Supreme Court?'