Knowledge Beyond Boundaries, LSE's annual interdisciplinary student research conference, took place as part of LSE Festival on Wednesday 17 June 2026, 10am - 6.30pm.
You can view the conference programme here.
Knowledge Beyond Boundaries showcased research from current LSE students, recent alumni, and students from our partner CIVICA universities across Europe. The conference drew upon this year’s Festival theme of how to save the planet. The day saw research shared from across the social sciences which explored the impact of a wide range of global existential threats and asked how we can tackle them both as individuals and collectively.
The biggest iteration of the conference yet, this year's event brought together more than 130 speakers from across the LSE student community, recent alumni and our CIVICA partner universities to share innovative research inspired by the Festival theme, How to Save the Planet.
We were honoured to welcome London's Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy, Mete Coban MBE, whose keynote speech opened the conference and encouraged attendees to think ambitiously about the role that research, collaboration and civic action can play in creating a more sustainable future.
The conference provides a space to experience a notable variety of student and alumni research, including panel discussions, a poster gallery, performances and creative show-and-tells. Together, the conference highlights the significance of interdisciplinary approaches in addressing complex, global issues.
This year's conference included a student publishing showcase where attendees could learn about publishing their research after the conference. To find out more, visit the Houghton Street Press webpage for the home of LSE's student journals, and follow Alexandria, a new platform for emerging and establishing researchers to share their writing, on Instagram and Linkedin. You can also register your interest in publishing with Alexandria here ahead of their official launch in October 2026.
The LSE100 team delvering opening remarks. From left to right: Dr Jillian Terry, Dr Danielle Cameron, Dr Chris Blut and Dr Carolina Are.
Mete Coban MBE, Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy, delivering the keynote speech.
Student presenting their work on one of twenty panels that took place throughout the conference.
Conference presenters and attendees connecting in the conference reception area.
Conference attendees signing in.
Student presenting their poster as part of one of two poster gallery sessions.
Knowledge Beyond Boundaries 2026 conference recordings
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Welcome and opening keynote
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1A: Governing the global: institutions, responsibility, and the limits of international law
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1B: Green promises, structural fiction: the politics of sustainability
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1C: Space, place and personhood
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1E: Power, coercion, and the contested foundations of global governance
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2A: Technology, access, and the struggle over knowledge
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2B: The uneven geographies of green governance and climate action
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2C: The structural production of vulnerability: health, care and violence
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2E: Voice, representation and futures of democratic participation
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3A: Impact Research Lab Showcase
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3B: Platform power, algorithmic control, and the struggle for democratic expression
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3C: Invisibility, inclusion and the politics of gender
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3D: Relationality and the planet
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3E: Labour and existential protections
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4A: AI, conflict and the fragmentation of global order
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4B: Growth, neoliberalism and green transition
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4D: Legitimacy, capture, and the politics of belonging
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4E: Beyond the map: mobility, displacement, and the politics of categorisation - Panel begins at 4 minutes and 55 seconds
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