This year’s conference draws on the 2024 Festival theme of power and politics: where does the power lie to face key global challenges? How can politics change the course of our future? We welcome student research from across the social sciences which considers how the power of individuals and collectives are shaping the world, and how global political shifts and transformations are shaping us.
This conference is the ideal forum for you to interrogate how we approach research questions, create and disseminate knowledge, and break down barriers between disciplines. The conference aims to provide a friendly, inclusive space for sharing student research from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with an emphasis on projects that cross disciplinary boundaries, challenge existing paradigms, and apply new approaches and methods to re-envision what social science research looks like.
At the conference, you can share work you’ve completed as part of your degree programme, try out new ideas in front of a diverse audience, or collaborate with other students to investigate a research question together. Here, research means any scholarly work – it may be informative, critical, or creative. Works in progress are very much encouraged – the conference will be an opportunity to gather useful feedback as you develop your project further.
You can submit on any social science topic, with preference given to submissions that link their research to this year’s theme: power and politics. Collaborative submissions are highly encouraged, especially those which bring together researchers with different disciplinary expertise.
All presentations will be organised into themed panels with a range of perspectives, approaches and ideas represented. These panels will include time for Q&A and discussion. Each panel will include a discussant (typically an LSE researcher with expertise relevant to the panel theme) who will provide feedback on presentations and facilitate discussion and dialogue between panellists and conference attendees.