Study at LSE

Drawing on ethnographic insights, Nikita Simpson explores how these new relations of stigma have emerged in the UK during the pandemic.

How could we create a world founded on an inclusive and intersectional concept of humanity and peaceful existence for all peoples?

What is the next big decision you need to make? COVID-19 has had a profound impact on many of our behaviours. What is the impact it has had on the decisions we have made – or perhaps not made?

What should a social contract for the 21st century look like?

Can the massive shift in the way we now relate to each other, and the rules we choose to live by, help us tackle other collective threats to humanity, like climate change?

Although the distinctive outcomes of COVID-19 in Southeast Asia are only now becoming clear, we expect that they can become the basis for innovative and impactful ideas that will matter for neighbouring regions and the world.

Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias will discuss their book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism.

Drawing on research from her latest book, Making Your Voice Heard, Connson Locke will look at how to develop your leadership presence and be more influential in the workplace.

The Annual British Journal of Sociology Lecture examines national welfare in the context of being an imperial polity organised around hierarchies – and intersections – of class and race, and consequences of this for social and political structures.

In the second of two episodes on the ‘localisation agenda’, this episode examines the barriers to the localisation of aid in South Sudan.