Gearty Grillings

Leading experts on the United States take stock of the Biden administration’s first year in office and the road ahead.

Wojciech Sadurski published Poland's Constitutional Breakdown, in which he described the legal and political events that led to the country's recent turn towards illiberalism and democratic backsliding.

Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economies in 2020?

In this episode, Nathalie Abbott speaks to Shani Orgad (Professor of Media and Communications at LSE) about representations of mothers, and what effects these have on all of us.

Impact investing, social entrepreneurship and philanthropy have gained significant momentum in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. But what does success really look like in these spheres?

Why do societies engage in the practice of punishment? What purpose does punishing serve? And does the punishment we find in modern societies do an effective job of meeting these aims?

Presented by enterprise specialist and serial entrepreneur Peter Harrington, this podcast series covers a range of key topics all designed to help research students move their careers forward.

This inter-disciplinary event brings together criminologists and political scientists from the Global South and North to answer what actually works to improve policing not only in the West but also in non-Western contexts.

The future prosperity and security of sub-Saharan Africa depends on building a new urban environment for the world’s most rapidly expanding population.

Historian Margaret MacMillan delivers the second Engelsberg Chair lecture of 2021/22 on alliances and war.