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Contributor(s): Dr Grace Lordan | Dr Grace Lordan's new book, Think Big, provides a practical framework to keep you moving in the right direction.

Find out more about Think Big: https://www.gracelordan.com/​

Praise for Think Big: "This is a rare self-help book that's actually informed by evidence. Drawing on her knowledge of behavioural economics and psychology, Grace Lordan shares a host of perceptive, practical tips for getting out of your own way and making progress toward your career goals." ― Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN and ORIGINALS, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

"A practical and accessible guide to using behavioural science in your career." ― Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women

"Insights from Behavioural Science are being used around the globe for a variety of purposes but never, until now for career building-something Grace Lordan does systematically, eloquently, and instructively in Think Big." ― Author of INFLUENCE AND PRE-SUASION

"In a refreshingly down to earth way, Grace shows how the insights from behavioural science can not only help you to build the career you want but also the career that will make you happy. This book will interest and entertain you whatever your stage of career." ― Professor Paul Dolan, London School of Economics, author of Happiness by Design and Happy Ever After

"On your journey to thinking big — about yourself and about the world — Grace Lordan is a wise and winning guide. She's written the ultimate primer on enlisting modest changes to achieve monumental goals." ― Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN, DRIVE, and TO SELL IS HUMAN

Contributor(s): Dr Thomas Curran | In a competitive culture that values work ethic and merit, is perfectionism a benign trait that helps us succeed or a pernicious illness we need to take more seriously?

Dr Tom Curran from LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science researches perfectionism, its damaging effects and why society is making it more prevalent.

Contributor(s): Dr Sam Friedman, Dr Aaron Reeves | For more than a century, Who’s Who has functioned as a bible of the British establishment – the most trusted catalogue of who is (and who is not) in the country’s true upper echelons.

Who’s Who allows elites to express their cultural preferences: their recreations and hobbies. By looking at 120 years of this data, Dr Sam Friedman (Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at LSE) and Dr Aaron Reeves (Visiting Senior Fellow in the International Inequalities Institute at LSE) examine how elites signal their superior social position via the consumption of culture.

From aristocratic pursuits like polo and dressage, to highbrow interests such as opera and fine arts, to the ordinariness of simply walking the dog, what does the historical timeline of these cultural preferences tell us about elites’ changing relationship to wider society?

The full paper, From Aristocratic to Ordinary: shifting modes of elite distinction (2020) can be read in the American Sociological Review: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122420912941

 

Find Dr Friedman and Dr Reeve’s article on this research in the LSE Research for the World online magazine.

Contributor(s): Tony Duffin, Daniel Brombacher, Siria Gastelum, María Alejander Vélez, Héctor Fabio Santos, Miguel Samper, Bo Mathiasen, John Collins | Who are the people most affected by the drugs trade? What are the challenges they face? This film explores the effects illicit economies have on drugs producers and consumers in Colombia, and how new alternative approaches are confronting the damaging legacy of the war on drugs.

An initiative of LSE’s International Drug Policy Unit (IDPU), the GIZ Global Partnership on Drugs Policies and Development (GPDPD) and the Global Initiative on Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC), the Drugs and Development Hub brings together actors from various fields to help shape new approaches to drugs and development.

In January 2020 we launched the Hub at an event in Colombia hosted by our international partners the Centre for the Study of Security and Drugs (CESED) at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota.

 

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Contributor(s): Minouche Shafik | Congratulations to the class of 2020! LSE Director Minouche Shafik shares her message to students graduating in this exceptional year.

Contributor(s): | Twenty years ago, the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery took place in Tokyo, Japan. This documentary commemorates the anniversary by acknowledging the Tribunal as a significant landmark and exploring its legacy.

 

The documentary is a reminder of the collective shame on the part of states that to this day have done little to deliver justice. But it is also a story of when women, confronted by the catastrophic failure on the part of states to secure a gender just peace, took action. It is a model of what is possible when international law is applied through a gender lens and the transformative potential of international law.

 

🔴 LSE Centre for Women, Peace & Security: https://www.lse.ac.uk/women-peace-security

Contributor(s): | Dr Thomas Gift, Visiting Fellow at the LSE US Centre, provides explanation and commentary on some the key questions about government in America: the separate branches of government, their responsibilities, and how they do (and don’t) work together.

This film is part of the series The US Elections: Explained, which is made in collaboration with the LSE’s US Centre.

Keywords: US Elections, government, branches, Congress, Executive, Supreme Court, history, politics, democracy, democrat, republican, explanation, commentary.

Contributor(s): | Dr Thomas Gift, Visiting Fellow at the LSE US Centre, provides explanation and commentary on some the key questions about government in America: the separate branches of government, their responsibilities, and how they do (and don’t) work together.

This film is part of the series The US Elections: Explained, which is made in collaboration with the LSE’s US Centre.

Keywords: US Elections, government, branches, Congress, Executive, Supreme Court, history, politics, democracy, democrat, republican, explanation, commentary.

Contributor(s): | The Inclusion Initiative is a new research centre that will leverage behavioural science insights to advance our understanding of the factors that enhance inclusion at work. Our first area of focus is the financial and professional services. Over the next three years we aim to build an open source research repository that houses rigorous and relevant research related to inclusion at work, in the financial and professional services and beyond.

The Inclusion Initiative (TII) will bring industry, academics and other stakeholders together regularly to exchange ideas, highlight new findings and build partnerships.

Contributor(s): | Melanie R. Brown, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, International Inequalities Institute, LSE provides explanation of commentary on some the key questions about race in America: its history, how it affects society today, and what needs to change.