Below are the latest news stories from the global academic engagement team. Click on a headline to read more.
Professor Emma McCoy, our Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) attended the Annual U7+ Presidential Summit at the University of Bocconi (April 11-12) and spent time with a group of double degree students who will be moving to London for their second year in 2024-25.
After attending online lectures and working with students from across the alliance, thirty teams worked on developing policy briefs to address real-life challenges. We interviewed two LSE students who were part of the three teams awarded the prestigious Boroli Prize in Milan.
March 2024: Come and listen to Dr Shubha Kamala Prasad from Hertie School
As a recipient of the CIVICA short faculty visit programme, Dr Shubha Kamala Prasad will be spending time with colleagues and students of the departement of International Relations. On 21st March, she will discuss her research on human rights violations and foreign policy behavior in her talk ‘Je n’accuse pas: Explaining India’s Reluctance to Support Targeted Resolutions in the UN Human Rights Council’. Sign up here.
Dr Adam Soliman shares his recent experience at Bocconi University. CIVICA's short visit programme aims to foster collaborative activities, to further existing links or to establish new ones.
Applications are now open for the 2024 "Global Public Policy" International Summer School, co-hosted by the LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy and the Fudan Institute for Global Public Policy. Students, young scholars and professionals are all welcome to join the summer school for an exciting journey of global public policy in Shanghai.
LSE students have an excellent record of applying to this fully funded 10 months master's degree programme in Global Affairs in Beijing so we will host an exclusive information session on campus on Thursday 15th February at 4.15pm. Sign up online to get all the details.
If you are interested in studying and pursuing a career in the field of data science, sign up for this joint webinar organised by LSE and some of our CIVICA partners.
November 2023: LSE sends student representatives to the CIVICA Student Association Forum in Poland
Students and early-stage researchers from across the CIVICA Alliance are taking part in the Student Association Forum hosted by SGH Warsaw School of Economics.
Professor JIN Li, President of Fudan University led a university delegation visiting our campus on 21 November 2023. The presidential delegation was received by our Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Planning & Resources), Professor Eric Neumayer and attended the LSE-Fudan Annual Conference on 'Public Policy Priorities and Challenges for China and the World'.
Professor Susana Mourato, LSE's Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research) led LSE's recent visit to Beijing and Shanghai. The delegation had fruitful discussions with colleagues from three partner institutions, including Peking University, Fudan University, and the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at Tsinghua University.
Professor Emma McCoy, our Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) signed a new undergraduate exchange agreement allowing students to spend a year of their studies overseas. This is part of LSE's wider commitment to grow the number of international opportunities available to its students. Information on exchange destinations for undergraduates can be found on the GO LSE webpage.
The closing conference for CIVICA Research took place on 12-13 October at Sciences Po in Paris.The event brought together faculty and researchers from the ten European universities of the alliance. Professor Susana Mourato, our Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research) and a group from LSE attended multiple events across both days.
Colleagues from the Department of Health Policy held a number of inductions during Welcome Week, including one for a group of Tsinghua students supported by the Shanghai Medical and Innovation Development Foundation (SMIDF).This particular group will be graduating with a dual degree in Health after obtaining their MSc in Management Science from the Institute for Hospital Management. Read this page for an overview of this Department's postgraduate programmes.
September 2023: Come and meet us on 22 September
Make the most of Welcome week and come and learn about all the CIVICA opportunities offered to you as students. GAE's Helen Rosemont will be under the marquee in front of the Centre Building (CBG) all morning. See you there!
September 2023: Visitors from the Antipodes enjoy a full day in London
While LSE’s spaces buzz with students and staff for Welcome Week, GAE's Rhys Bearder led two colleagues from the University of Sydney: Liz Kenna and Priscila Trevisan around campus. They had productive meetings and exchanged ideas with colleagues from various units, and enjoyed the vibrant atmosphere around Houghton Street and Clare market. GAE coordinated this visit and welcomes enquiries from around the globe. See how we can assist you on your next visit here.
GAE's team will be at the NAIP to discuss any subject related to our international activities with our partners, our partnerships, our work within alliances, our projects on mobility and the support we offer for new collaborations, as well as anything you would like to ask.
The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) hosted the annual CIVICA Presidents' Committee Meeting in Bucharest from July 4th to 5th 2023.
Today, CIVICA represents 72,000 students and 13,000 faculty members, making it a leading force in higher and postgraduate education dedicated to the social sciences. For detailed information on LSE's involvement in CIVICA check our webpage here.
Twenty-six professors and postdoctoral researchers have been selected to take part in the inaugural round of CIVICA Faculty Short Visits taking place from September 2023. The programme provides faculty and postdoctoral researchers across CIVICA with the opportunity to visit other member institutions.
The European Institute will be welcoming Prof. Elias Dinas from the European University Institute, while Dr Milli Lake and Prof. Mathijs Pelkmans will be visiting Hertie School and CEU.
80 bachelor students from Bocconi, CEU, IE University, SNSPA, Sciences Po, SGH, SSE and LSE were joined by 10 Ukrainian bachelor students (thanks to the CIVICA for Ukraine project) and spent the week exploring the existent (and the future) pathways to urban sustainability with experts in Paris.
For other student opportunities, check our CIVICA webpage here and for a student's perspective, watch Imogen's video.
Four of our students joined 200 other students from across Europe to attend the European Student Assembly, a rare opportunity to contribute directly to policy ideas.
For other student opportunities, check our CIVICA webpage here.
Held at the Institute for Digital Health at the University Teaching Hospital, participants discussed joint longer term projects between the LSE Global Surgery Policy Unit and key academic, clinical, and policy partners in Zambia.
For details on the global research fund, check our dedicated page here.
Prof. Emma McCoy, our Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) led our first official group visit to Peking University (PKU) since LSE's last official trip in November 2019.
Professor Paul Kelly, Dr Brendan Smith, Dr Neil McLean, and Dr Catherine Xiang also had fruitful discussions with colleagues from various departments including Statistics and Government.
Prof. Leigh Gardner, Prof. Johan Fourie, Prof. Eric Schneider, and Nick Fitzhenry spent time together to work on a grant proposal looking at data from South Africa. The records they hope to digitise will shed new light on how the simultaneous processes of industrialization and tightening racial discrimination impacted different segments of the South African population.
For details on the global research fund (GRF) they received, check our dedicated page here.
Dr Armine Ishkanian and researchers from Chile, Armenia, South Africa and Lebanon met face to face for the first time to map the outline of a co-authored article and to agree on other research dissemination and publication activities in the near future.
GAE's global research fund and the support from the International Inequalities Institute and the Eden centre's team were instrumental in facilitating this successfull workshop.
Check our website for the next round of applications in 2023-24.
Dr Elizabeth Storer, Dr Solomon Kamurari, and Dr Nixon Niyonzima met with local researchers to work on a joint funding application for a future project on ‘Inequality and Cancer Care’. The global research fund (GRF) was essential in taking this collaboration one step further.
If you are working on an international research project and need support, check our website and the staff newsletter for the next call for applications in 2023-24.