At LSE, we believe that a thriving community depends not only on intellectual excellence but also on strong, respectful campus relations. This is to ensure that every member of LSE’s diverse community is supported and safe.
Our campus relations work focuses on building the confidence and capability to engage with difference, navigate disagreement, and cultivate meaningful connections. We focus on:
- Dialogue: activities that create and/or provide skills in fostering dialogue between different groups.
- Building social connections: initiatives that bring people together across group divides, focused on sociable and positive interactions.
- Classroom culture: exploring how we can ensure classrooms are spaces for open and respectful dialogue and debate.
- Increasing confidence and capability: increase the ability of LSE students and staff – importantly including leaders across LSE and LSE Students’ Union – to navigate tensions and support good campus relations.
- Trust building: interventions to ensure that a wide range of stakeholders have trust in LSE as an institution and in our leadership around campus relations issues.
This work is guided by our commitment to both freedom of speech and academic freedom under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act (2023), and our Public Sector Equality Duty to foster good relations between different groups.
Our Campus Relations Annual Report details the various campus-relations initiatives we have supported and collaborated on.
These include:
