PhD Advisors at London School of Economics and Political Science 伦敦政治经济学院 UK
Quick answer: London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK has 575 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 20 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at London School of Economics and Political Science, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (20)
Professors at London School of Economics and Political Science with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Dr Jürgen Haacke
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
⭐ Dr Haacke has limited availability to supervise, but is happy to consider PhD applications in relation to: IR-topics with reference to the Southeast Asian region; Research projects on strategy and defence.
Southeast Asia, International security, Foreign policy
Dr Lewis Ross
Director of CPNSS/ Deputy Head of Department (Research)/ Associate Professor · London School of Economics
⭐ I'm happy to supervise PhD researchers / visitors in moral, legal and political philosophy, epistemology, and some topics in legal/criminological scholarship. (But, PhD admission decisions are ultimately made at Department level)
Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, Epistemology
Dr Mahvish Ahmad
Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics and Co-Convenor of LSE Human Rights · Department of Sociology
⭐ Mahvish welcomes applications from PhD students interested in topics that overlap with her areas of expertise, broadly speaking.
Policing, War and conflict, Political violence, Decolonisation, Violence, State, Militarism, Empire, War, Decolonial Theory
Giulia Torino
Assistant Professor of Urban Sociology · Department of Sociology
⭐ She welcomes PhD applicants interested in any of the topics above—especially projects involving ethnographic research and creative mixed methods (e.g. audio, visual, embodied, graphic), and relational and/or Southern epistemologies.
Urbanisation, Migration, Social justice, Ethnography, Urban inequality
Leonidas Cheliotis
Professor of Criminology and Social Policy · London School of Economics
⭐ Leonidas welcomes enquiries from potential PhD students to work on topics in his areas of interest.
Penal policy and practice; punishment and social control; race/gender, crime and criminal justice; transitional justice; comparative criminology; psychosocial criminology
Professor Suzanne Hall
Professor of Sociology · Department of Sociology
⭐ Suzi welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students in her area of research interests. Please note that she is not taking on new PhD students for the 2026-27 session.
Urbanisation, Migration, Ethnography, Race and ethnicity
Professor Timo Fleckenstein
Professor of Social Policy · London School of Economics
⭐ He is very much interested in enquiries from potential PhD students to work on topics in his areas of interest.
Labour markets, Policy-making, Comparative political economy, Comparative social policy, Family policy, Labour market policy, Skills policy, Policy-making process
Ursula Henz
Associate Professor in Social Research Methods · Department of Sociology
⭐ She is currently not accepting any new PhD students.
Demography, Inequality, Social care, Family, Life Course, Informal Caregiving
Angelos Dassios
Professor · Department of Statistics
⭐ He enjoys supervising PhD students and there is a large number of past and current ones and is always looking for creative and enthusiastic new ones.
Angelos’ research is on applications of probability and stochastic processes in finance and insurance. He particularly likes problems that are on the interface of these two fields. Some examples of his research are work on exotic look back options, point processes with a strong e…
Anna Getmansky
Associate Professor of International Relations · London School of Economics
⭐ Dr Getmansky welcomes applications from prospective PhD students in particular those interested in quantitative analysis of conflicts and their consequences.
Terrorism, Refugees, War and conflict. The main focus is understanding the sources, management, and consequences of intrastate and interstate conflicts, particularly the relationship between domestic political institutions and conflict.
Chetan Bhatt
Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory · Department of Sociology
⭐ Chetan welcomes new MPhil/PhD students in areas related to: the international far/authoritarian right; religious right movements; identity politics and identitarian theory (including queer theory, contemporary LGBTQ+ activism, and second generation decolonial theory); the social and cultural history…
modern social theory and modern philosophy, the international far- and authoritarian right, liberal elites and identitarianism, nationalism and racism, and the geopolitical sociology of South Asia and the Middle East. His current projects include: the Euro-American far-right, Wes…
Coretta Phillips
Professor of Criminology and Social Policy · London School of Economics
⭐ Coretta welcomes enquiries from potential PhD students to work on topics and methods in her areas of interest.
Race, ethnicity and criminal justice, minority perspectives, racism, racial discrimination.
George Kunnath
Associate Professor (Education) · Department of Anthropology
⭐ George welcomes enquiries from potential PhD students who are interested in pursuing research on topics related to his expertise.
Inequality, Peacebuilding, Social Theory, Qualitative Methodologies
Gisa Weszkalnys
Associate Professor · Department of Anthropology
⭐ I am keen to attract PhD students and postdoctoral mentees who want to develop ethnographically and theoretically compelling projects on energy-related issues, the regulatory, financial, and affective aspects of capitalism, state planning and urban development, and (post)plantation and extractive ec…
Anthropology of the economy, corporations, expertise; resource extraction; state (urban) planning; temporality, materiality, and affect; Europe, US, lusophone Africa
James Walters
Professor in Practice · London School of Economics
⭐ As a professor in practice Professor Walters is available as a co-supervisor for doctoral research.
Religion, Christianity, Geopolitics
Johann Koehler
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
⭐ I welcome applications from PhD candidates who would like to pursue a project using either quantitative or qualitative methods to study topics related to crime, justice, and social policy. Within that broad thematic focus, I’m on the lookout for projects that pose important and theoretically motivat…
Criminal justice, Criminal law, Criminology, Social policy, Public policy
Margot Salomon
Associate Professor of International Law · Department of Law
⭐ Margot welcomes PhD applicants working on human rights, global (sustainable) development, and globalisation and international law from post-colonial, radical, and plural epistemological perspectives. She welcomes applicants interested in critically engaged approaches to these subjects, including the…
Thematic interests include: Poverty, inequality and international law; militarism and militarisation; international law and dispossession; rights over natural resources and economic self-determination; commons, postgrowth, postdevelopment, and radical democracy; socio-economic an…
Professor Adam Oliver
Professor of Behavioural Public Policy · London School of Economics
⭐ Adam Oliver is open to supervising PhD students in the areas of behavioural economics, behavioural science, public policy, political theory and the history of economic thought.
Behavioural economics, Behavioural public policy
Professor Catherine Allerton
Professor · Department of Anthropology
⭐ I am keen to supervise PhD students interested in children and youth, kinship and gender, migration, (non)citizenship, place, and Southeast Asia.
Eastern Indonesia; East Malaysia; place and landscape; houses; kinship and marriage; childhood and youth; migration; temporalities.
Professor Katy Gardner
Professor · Department of Anthropology
⭐ Katy is seeking new PhD student with interests in anthropology and development, Bangladesh / South Asia, marriage, divorce and relationship counselling, extraction and precarity and transnational migration.
Bangladesh; globalisation, transnational migration and diaspora, anthropology and development; resource extraction and corporate social responsibility; divorce and couples counselling in South Asia and beyond.
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Adrien de Hauteclocque
Part-time Professor, invited Professor · LSE
EU competition and state aid law, competition policy in network industries, law & economics of energy regulation
Andreas Søjmark
Assistant Professor and MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk Management Programme Director · Department of Statistics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Diana Kirsch
Legal Advice Centre Director · LSE
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Dr Alexandra Cirone
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Political economy, quantitative methods, game theory, research design, democratic institutions, gender politics
Dr Ieva Kazlauskaitė
Assistant Professor and MSc Data Science Deputy Programme Director · Department of Statistics
Bayesian statistics, Machine learning, Data science, Computational methods
Dr Jon Lunn
Guest Teacher · London School of Economics
International development; Africa; Asia; Foreign policy; African History; African politics; Asian politics; UK foreign policy
Dr Joshua Loftus
Assistant Professor · Department of Statistics
Joshua's research interests involve improving practices in data science and machine learning to reduce the impact of bias, particularly biases associated with social harms and scientific reproducibility. This includes developing methods and software for statistical inference afte…
Dr Kostas Kalogeropoulos
Associate Professor and MSc Statistics Deputy Programme Director · Department of Statistics
Bayesian inference for latent dynamic systems, stochastic processes, sequential learning, structured dependence modelling, Bayesian inference for stochastic differential equations, Sequential Monte Carlo and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, Gaussian process models, epidemic mode…
Dr Liam Beiser-McGrath
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Climate change, Environment, Climate policy, Public opinion
Dr Linzhi H. Zhang
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
AI, Arts and culture, Asia, Capitalism, Social class, Social theory, Artistic labour, Marxism, feminism, work culture, China
Dr Madhuri Agarwal
Academic Visitor · London School of Economics
Applied economics, development economics, economics of education, inequality and growth, labour economics, econometrics, policy evaluation
Dr Mahvish Shami
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Development economics; International development; Political economy
Dr Manuela von Papen
Language Teacher - German · London School of Economics
Language Teaching at Universities
Dr Marcos Barreto
Associate Professor (Education) and Department Lead on AI in Education · Department of Statistics
AI, Big data, Data science
Dr Marie Milofsky
Assistant Professor/ Departmental Tutor · London School of Economics
Political philosophy, Philosophy, Economics
Dr Milena Tsvetkova
Associate Professor of Computational Social Science · London School of Economics
Computational social science; Online experiments; Network analysis; Agent based modeling; Cooperation; Collective behavior; Sociology; Social psychology; Human-computer interaction.
Dr Mona Azadkia
Assistant Professor and MSc Statistics Programme Director · Department of Statistics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Dr Myfanwy James
Assistant Professor in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies · London School of Economics
Humanitarianism, conflict, security, crisis, epidemics, migration, health, DRC
Dr Neil McLean
Director · London School of Economics
Communication, Language use, Identity, Intercultural communication, Sociolinguistics
Dr Ofelia Bonesini
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
Game theory, stochastic analysis, and their applications in finance
Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa
Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics · Department of Sociology
Decoloniality, Epistemic Blackness, Anticolonial Solidarity, Racism
Dr Patrick McGovern
Associate Professor (Reader) in Sociology · Department of Sociology
Sociology, Migration, Economic sociology
Dr Pavel Gapeev
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
optimal stopping problems, stochastic control problems, stochastic analysis, stochastic games, credit risk theory
Dr Rajesh Venugopal
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
development, ethnic conflict, liberal peace-building, nationalism, post-conflict reconstruction, state-business relations
Dr Raphael Cohen Susewind
Associate Professor (Education) in Qualitative Methods · Department of Anthropology
While Raphael’s current role is focused on teaching and educational leadership, his take on methodology is based in over a decade of mixed-method and ethnographic research experience. He studied religious politics, the political economy of corruption, masculine aspirations and ur…
Dr Robert Simon
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Measure Theory, Ergodic Theory, Functional Analysis, Stochastic Processes, Chaos Theory, Combinatorics, Algebraic Topology
Dr Roser Martinez-Sanchez
Coordinating Language Teacher - Spanish · London School of Economics
Discourse Analysis, Metalinguistics Awareness and Pragmatics, Pedagogical Grammar, Group Dynamics and Improvisation
Dr Sara Geneletti
Associate Professor · Department of Statistics
Causal inference, Bayesian statistics, evidence synthesis
Dr Sinja Graf
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
International relations theory; Colonialism; Political violence; Memory; International Theory; International Political Thought; International (Criminal) Law and Imperialism; Violence and Global Order; Colonial Reparations; Atrocity Memorialization
Dr Sohini Kar
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Economic anthropology, Anthropology of finance, Microfinance, Debt, Bottom of the pyramid, Social entrepreneurship, Gender, Ethnographic methods, South Asia, particularly urban India
Dr Sunil Kumar
Lecturer in Social Policy and Development · London School of Economics
Urbanisation; Housing; India; South Asia
Dr Suzanne Bloks
Guest Teacher · London School of Economics
Democratic theory, Constitutional theory, Formal political theory (game theory and social choice), Legal philosophy
Dr Tatiana Suárez-Rodríguez
Language Teacher - Spanish · London School of Economics
Post-Conflict Reintegration in Colombia
Dr Thomas Biegert
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Labour markets, Inequality, Welfare state
Dr Thomas Robinson
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
Machine learning, Elections, Econometrics, Political behaviour
Dr Tuğkan Batu
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
Algorithms and theory of computation: randomised computation, sublinear algorithms, property testing, and streaming algorithms
Dr Xinyang Yu
Research Officer · London School of Economics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ivan Deschenaux
Research Officer · LSE
Ivan is a social anthropologist with a strong interdisciplinary outlook. His research focuses on social norms, how they change over time, and what makes people follow or violate them. He also studies the micro-dynamics of social inequality, with a view to understanding how the la…
Janet Foster
Associate Professor in Sociology · Department of Sociology
Criminology, Policing
John Van Reenen
Ronald Coase Chair in Economics and School Professor · Department of Economics
Applied microeconomics with a focus on the causes and consequences of technological and managerial innovation especially with regards to the labour market.
Jonathan Birch
Professor of Philosophy and Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience · London School of Economics
Animal sentience and welfare; Philosophy of evolution and social behaviour; Philosophy of cognitive and biological sciences; Ethics of AI
Jonathan Leape
Associate Professor of Economics | IGC Executive Director (In Secondment) · Department of Economics
Public Economics, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Jonathan Parry
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Ethics, Moral theory, Political philosophy, Military
Jordan Claridge
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Economic history, Labour economics, Medieval economic History, Agriculture; Labour and Consumers, Markets and Institutions
Jozef Skokan
Professor · London School of Economics
Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Discrete Geometry, Extremal Set Theory
Judith Shapiro
Senior Lecturer in Practice · Department of Economics
Economics of Post-Transition and Transition (particularly Russian); Economics of Health and Population
Julia Black
Professor of Law and Regulation · LSE
Her primary research interest is the legitimacy and dynamics of regulatory systems, including transnational and non-state regulators. She has written extensively on regulatory issues in several areas and advised policymakers, consumer bodies, law reform bodies and regulators on i…
Junius Olivier
Assistant Professor of Economics (Education) | MSc Tutor · Department of Economics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Karen E Smith
Professor of International Relations · London School of Economics
International relations of the European Union, EU foreign policy, EU-UN relations, feminist foreign policy, gender and diplomacy, human rights and foreign policy, genocide.
Karsten Shaw
Guest Lecturer · London School of Economics
Survey methods, Statistics, Quantitative methods
Katarzyna Krajniewska
Undergraduate Tutor · London School of Economics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Kate Smith
Assistant Professor of Economics · Department of Economics
Public Finance, Industrial Organisation, Applied Microeconomics
Kate Vredenburgh
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Explanation and Explainable AI, Institutional transparency, The philosophy of work, Egalitarianism, Fair allocation
Katerina Papadaki
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
discrete optimisation (deterministic and stochastic), stochastic dynamic programming, approximate dynamic programming algorithms, power efficient routing and scheduling in mobile networks, drone path optimisation, patrolling games for network security
Kathryn Hochstetler
Professor of International Development · London School of Economics
Environment and development, Environmental movements, Global environmental negotiations, Development finance, South America, Emerging powers
Kent Deng
Professor of Economic History · London School of Economics
Professor Deng research interests and writing includes the rise of the literati in the economic life of pre-modern China; the maritime economic history of pre-modern China; the economic role of the Chinese peasantry. Other key topics in his work are the developmental deadlock of …
Kevin Sheedy
Assistant Professor of Economics · Department of Economics
Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Macroeconometrics
Kieran Oberman
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Political philosophy, Immigration, War and conflict, Refugees, Migration ethics, Just war theory, Distributive justice
Kristin Surak
Professor in Sociology · Department of Sociology
Migration, Political economy, Sociology, Japan, Wealth inequality
Laura Mann
Associate Professor in International Development · London School of Economics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Laurence O'Toole
Mathematics Study Adviser and Guest Teacher · London School of Economics
Mathematics, Operations Research
Leigh K. Jenco
Professor of Political Theory · London School of Economics
Chinese political thought (Ming, Qing and Republican periods); Comparative and postcolonial political theory; Global intellectual history; Taiwan studies; Discourses of empire in East Asia
Liam Kofi Bright
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Social Philosophy
Lord Stern
IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government, Chair of the Global School of Sustainability at LSE, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment · Department of Economics
Climate change, Economic growth, Public policy, Tax
Luay Hasan
Language Teacher - Arabic · London School of Economics
Teaching Arabic as a foreign language, Teaching Arabic for native speakers, English/Arabic translation, Arabic/English translation, Arabic literature and media
Lydia Assouad
Assistant Professor of International Development · London School of Economics
Political economy of development; inequality and taxation; state and nation-building; culture and institutions; Middle East
Magali Brenac
Coordinating Language Teacher - French · London School of Economics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Mai Taha
Assistant Professor in Human Rights · Department of Sociology
Human Rights, International Law, Marxism, Labour, Feminism, Colonialism
Maitreesh Ghatak
Professor of Economics · Department of Economics
Development Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Organisations
Malvika Godara
Research Officer · London School of Economics
Data science; Longitudinal data; Harmonisation; Reproducible workflows; Social determinants of wellbeing; mental and physical well-being across the life course; longitudinal cohort, RCT, experimental, and intensive longitudinal/EMA data
Manav Chaudhary
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
Asset Pricing, Macrofinance, Regulation
Marcia Schafgans
Associate Professor of Economics · Department of Economics
Theoretical and Applied Microeconometrics, Semiparametric and Nonparametric Estimation Techniques, Spatial Econometrics
Margarita Rois Quiroga
Coordinating Language Teacher - Spanish · London School of Economics
Second Language Acquisition, Analysis and Creation of Teaching and Learning Materials, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics
Mike Stack
Course Tutor (Gender and Culture) · Department of Sociology
Queer Theory and History, Gender Studies, Cultural Theory, Psychosocial Studies, Media Theory and History, Fandom and Participatory Culture
Miklós Rédei
Professor · London School of Economics
Philosophy of science, Philosophy and foundations of quantum physics, Foundations of probability theory, Bayesian learning
Milt Mavrakakis
Guest Lecturer · London School of Economics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Mobarak Hossain
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
Inequality, Social mobility
Mohan Bijapur
MSc Economics Programme Director · Department of Economics
Contract Theory, Monetary Economics, Uncertainty Shocks, Economics of Education
Monika Krause
Professor of Sociology · Department of Sociology
Human rights, Humanitarianism, Social theory, Culture, Knowledge, Expertise, International Political Sociology
Nadia Matringe
Assistant Professor of Accounting · London School of Economics
The epistemology and politics of accounting practices; Financial decision-making, governance, and management control in historical context; Speculation, risk, and uncertainty in early modern and modern commerce; Epistemic foundations of financial infrastructures; Co-evolution of …
Nadim Ben-Mohamed-Mahjoub
Language Teacher - Arabic · London School of Economics
Teaching Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Egyptian and Levantine variations, Language teaching and material design, Recording and editing audio material, Translating and Interpreting in English and Arabic, Media skills
Natasha Bershadski
Language Teacher - Russian · London School of Economics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Nathan Lane
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
Applied Economics, Economic Development, Political Economy, Machine Learning, Industrial Policy
Neil Olver
Associate Professor, Deputy Head (Research) · London School of Economics
Algorithms, with an emphasis on optimisation in networks, as well as links to game theory (especially traffic) and probability
Nicholas Pang
Assistant Professor of Sociology · Department of Sociology
Economic sociology, Political sociology, Economic history, Racial inequality, Migration
Nico Rosetti
Undergraduate Tutor · Department of Economics
Labour Economics, Industrial relations, Quantitative methods
Olga Makarova
Language Teacher - Russian · London School of Economics
Russian Language Teaching, Translation, Russian 19C Journalism
Olivier Accominotti
Professor · London School of Economics
My research interests are in the history of money and finance, especially the international propagation of financial crises, the determinants of global capital flows, the political economy of exchange rate policies and the effect of political institutions on countries’ access to …
Oriana Bandiera
Professor of Economics | Sir Anthony Atkinson Chair in Economics · Department of Economics
Development Economics, Organisational Economics
Pablo Sánchez-García
Language Teacher - Spanish · London School of Economics
Spanish Language Teaching, On-line Language Teaching, Teacher Training, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Management & Quality, Community Interpreting
Paola Romero
Guest Teacher · London School of Economics
Political philosophy, Immanuel Kant's moral and political thought, Karl Popper, Art and AI
Pasquale Schiraldi
Assistant Professor of Economics · Department of Economics
Industrial Organisation, Applied Micro Theory, Applied Econometrics
Patricia Gaudron
Language Teacher - French · London School of Economics
French language teaching
Patricia Morabo
Language Teacher - French · London School of Economics
French language teaching
Paula Onuchic
Assistant Professor of Economics · Department of Economics
Microeconomic Theory, Information Economics
Phil Chan
Guest Teacher · London School of Economics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Philipa Mladovsky
Associate Professor in Health and International Development · London School of Economics
Health systems, Health policy, Financial crises, Health financing
Pierre Dagonnot
Language Teacher - French · London School of Economics
French language teaching
Poorvi Kumar Iyer
Research Officer · London School of Economics
Social hierarchies, identity, and everyday behaviour; caste and gender in India; mixed-methods and experimental research design; cross-cultural approaches to studying social inequality.
Professor John Sidel
Sir Patrick Gillam Chair in International and Comparative Politics (Joint appointment with LSE IR) · Department of Government
Southeast Asia, especially the Philippines and Indonesia; Local politics; Islam in world politics; Reform advocacy campaigns and coalitions; Transportation/infrastructure politics
Professor Jonathan Jackson
Professor of Research Methodology · London School of Economics
Criminology, Survey methods, Psychology and law
Professor Julia Böttcher
Professor · London School of Economics
Extremal combinatorics, random discrete structures, Ramsey theory, regularity method, packing, pseudo-randomness
Professor Kate Meagher
Professor in Development Studies · London School of Economics
Sub-Saharan Africa; West Africa; social networks; enterprise clusters; informal economy; gig economy; informal institutions; hybrid governance; rural development; religion in Africa
Professor Ken Shadlen
Professor of Development Studies · Department of International Development
Latin America, World Trade Organization (WTO), debt and developing countries, industrial policy, intellectual property rights, international institutions, patents, pharmaceuticals, politics, trade and industrial strategy
Professor Kitty Stewart
Professor of Social Policy · London School of Economics
Poverty, Inequality, Quantitative methods
Professor Konrad Swanepoel
Professor · London School of Economics
Combinatorial and discrete geometry, convex geometry and the geometry of normed spaces, shortest geometric networks
Professor Kostas Kardaras
Professor and Deputy Head of Department (Research) · Department of Statistics
Stochastic Analysis, Financial Mathematics, arbitrage theory, pricing of financial and insurance contracts, financial equilibrium, stochastic optimal control, robust long-term investment, informational asymmetry, game theory, Monte-Carlo simulation, semimartingale theory, functio…
Professor Leigh Gardner
Professor in Economic History · London School of Economics
Africa, economic development, institutions, local government, monetary policy, public finance
Professor Lord Tony Giddens
Emeriti · London School of Economics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Professor Lucinda Platt, OBE
Professor of Social Policy and Sociology · London School of Economics
Migration, Poverty, Inequality, Social mobility, Disability, Gender, Identity, Race and ethnicity
Professor Luitgard Veraart
Professor · London School of Economics
Financial mathematics; statistics in finance; risk management in financial markets; systemic risk; networks; modelling of energy markets; optimal investment problems; stochastic volatility models
Professor Milli Lake
Professor of International Relations · London School of Economics
Civil war, Political violence, International security, State building, Rule of law, Governance, Sub-Saharan Africa
Professor Mohamed Saleh
Professor · London School of Economics
Historical Political Economy, Economic History of Identity, Middle East and North Africa
Professor Neil Cummins
Professor of Economic History · Department of Economic History
Economic history; Demography; Social mobility;
Professor Oliver Volckart
Professor of Economic History · London School of Economics
Late medieval and early modern economic history; the Holy Roman Empire; economic and specifically monetary politics.
Professor Olivier Gossner
Professor · London School of Economics
Game theory, economics of information, decision theory, repeated games
Professor Patrick Sturgis
Professor of Quantitative Social Science · London School of Economics
His substantive research interests include public opinion dynamics, political behaviour, how neighbourhood contexts influence individual attitudes and group norms, intergenerational social mobility and how this relates to geographical location, and public attitudes to science and…
Professor Patrick Wallis
Professor of Economic History · London School of Economics
early modern European economic and social history; human capital and training, especially apprenticeship; craft and skill; labour markets; guilds; urban history; health and medicine.
Professor Pauline Barrieu
Professor and Vice Chair of the Appointments Committee · Department of Statistics
Financial mathematics, Financial markets, Insurance, Risk management, Stochastic analysis
Professor Peter Trubowitz
Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre · London School of Economics
International security; US foreign policy; US-China relations; American politics and elections
Professor Piotr Fryzlewicz
Professor · Department of Statistics
Piotr Fryzlewicz's research interests lie in multiscale modelling and estimation, time series (especially nonstationary time series), change-point detection, high-dimensional statistical inference and dimension reduction, statistical learning, networks, functional programming in …
Professor Richard Bradley
Professor of Philosophy · London School of Economics
Decision Theory, Formal epistemology, Social choice, Scientific uncertainty, Conditionals
Professor Robert Falkner
Professor of International Relations · London School of Economics
Global Environmental Politics, International Climate Policy, International Political Economy, Multinational Corporations
Professor Robert Wade
Professor of Political Economy and Development · London School of Economics
International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organisation, Economic Growth, Globalisation, Inequality, International NGOs, International Environmental Politics
Professor Roman Frigg
Professor · London School of Economics
Modelling and representation; Scientific understanding; Environmental decision-making under uncertainty; Thermostatistical physics and reductionism; Probability; Chaos and randomness; Art and Science
Professor Sam Friedman
Professor of Sociology · Department of Sociology
Social class, Social mobility, Elites, Taste, Cultural Distinction
Professor Sara Horrell
Professor of Economic History · London School of Economics
Economic history, Labour markets, Women's history, Children
Professor Shirin Madon
Professor of Information Communication Technologies and Socioeconomic Development · London School of Economics
ICTs and socio-economic development, health information systems for improving primary healthcare, rural e-governance in India, telecentres & community development
Professor Sir Julian Le Grand
Professor of Social Policy · London School of Economics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Professor Stuart Gordon
Professor in Managing Humanitarianism | Programme Director, IDHE · London School of Economics
Humanitarian governance and the evolution of the system, risk in the humanitarian sector, counter terrorist legislation and its impact on humanitarian organisations, humanitarian-military interaction, international responses to health emergencies (especially Ebola), humanitarian …
Professor Tirthankar Roy
Professor in Economic History · London School of Economics
History and development of South Asia, global history, empires, environmental history
Professor Zoltán Szabó
Professor of Data Science and MSc Data Science Programme Director · Department of Statistics
statistical machine learning with focus on kernel methods, information theory (ITE), scalable computation, and their applications. These applications include safety-critical learning, style transfer, shape-constrained prediction, hypothesis testing, distribution regression, dicti…
Qin Fang
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
dynamic network analysis, functional data and time series analysis, and high-dimensional statistics
Qiwei Yao
Professor · Department of Statistics
Statistics, Time series, Machine learning, Network analysis, Econometrics
Rachel Ngai
Professor of Economics · Department of Economics
Economic Growth, Labour Market and Housing Market
Rebecca Elliott
Associate Professor · Department of Sociology
Climate change, Insurance, Governance, Risk management
Remco Heesen
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Philosophy of science, Philosophy of economics, Science communication, Game theory, Social structure of science, Rational choice theory, Formal epistemology, Social epistemology
Robin Archer
Associate Professor (Reader) in Political Sociology · Department of Sociology
Labour movements, Labour politics, Social movements
Robin Burgess
Professor of Economics | Director of IGC · Department of Economics
Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics, Labour Economics
Robtel Neajai Pailey
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
Political economy of development; Citizenship construction and practice; Migration; Conflict and post-war recovery; Governance; Race; Racism and racialisation processes; Qualitative methodologies
Rong Guo
Language Teacher - Mandarin · London School of Economics
Chinese, Language, Teaching
Ronny Razin
Professor of Economics | Head of Department · Department of Economics
Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy
Sally Stares
Associate Professor (Education) · London School of Economics
My primary substantive interest is in science, technology and society, and mostly relates to public perceptions of new technologies. I am an editorial board member for the journal Public Understanding of Science. Most recently I have been working on public perceptions of self-dri…
Sanne Stevens
Researcher · LSE
politics of data-driven automation; demystifying technologies; digital welfare state; organising; social justice; anti-racism; repression
Sara Salem
Associate Professor · Department of Sociology
Postcolonialism, Political theory, Racism, Social justice, Modern history
Shalini Grover
Associate Professor in Anthropology · LSE
Marriage; love; kinship; legal pluralisms; labour relations; globalized care; domestic service; British Empire
Shuang Chen
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
Education, Demography, Inequality, Quantitative methods, China
Sidra Kamran
Assistant Professor in Qualitative Methods · London School of Economics
Gender and sexuality, labor, social inequality, digital culture, South Asia
Silvana Tenreyro
Professor of Economics · Department of Economics
Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Economics, Growth
Simon Mathews
Coordinating Language Teacher - English for Academic Purposes · London School of Economics
Academic Writing; Discourse Analysis; Pronunciation; Materials Development; Course Design
Sir Christopher Pissarides
Regius Professor of Economics · Department of Economics
Macroeconomics of Labour Markets, Structural Change, Economic Growth, Technology and Jobs
Sir Tim Besley
School Professor of Economics and Political Science · Department of Economics
Development Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy
Sonia Exley
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
Education policy; Governance; Privatisation
Stephanie Levy
Professor in Practice · London School of Economics
Social protection, cash transfers and graduation models & their impact on the local economy; General equilibrium effects of safety nets; Rural development policies; Agricultural growth
Stephen Jenkins
Professor of Economic and Social Policy · London School of Economics
Econometrics, Income inequality, Poverty, Social mobility
Stephen Machin
Professor of Economics | Director of CEP · Department of Economics
Labour Economics, Industrial and Urban Economics, Economics of Education, Economics of Crime
Steve Pischke
Professor of Economics · Department of Economics
Labour Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics
Suki Ali
Professor (Education) in Sociology and Deputy Head of Department · London School of Economics
Postcolonialism, Feminist theory, Gender, Race and ethnicity
Taisuke Otsu
Professor of Econometrics · Department of Economics
Empirical Likelihood, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods, Microeconometrics
Tanya Matthan
Dr · LSE
Risk; Agrarian change; Environment; Financialization; Caste; South Asia
Tengyao Wang
Professor and MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics) Programme Director · Department of Statistics
Tengyao Wang is broadly interested in the area of high-dimensional statistics. His research focuses mainly on developing computationally efficient procedures for high-dimensional problems, while at the same time understanding the potential statistical limitations imposed by compu…
Thomas Sampson
Associate Professor of Economics · Department of Economics
International Trade, Brexit
Tim Allen
Professor in Development Anthropology · London School of Economics
international criminal justice, non-formal accountability mechanisms, forced migration, reintegration following displacements, war and conflict, aid programs, witchcraft and social healing, tropical diseases, HIV/AIDS and health programs. Complex emergencies; Neglected tropical d…
Tim Forsyth
Professor of Environment and Development | Head of Department · London School of Economics
South Asia, Southeast Asia, Climate change, Environmental policy, Social movements, Governance
Tim Newburn
Professor of Criminology and Social Policy · London School of Economics
Criminal justice, Policing, Riots
Timothy Hildebrandt
Associate Professor · London School of Economics
LGBT+, Activism, Civil society, NGOs, Authoritarianism, Altruism, China
Tine Hanrieder
Associate Professor in International Development · London School of Economics
International development, Social theory, Migration, Global health
Tiziana Leone
Professor in Health and International Development | Deputy Head of Department · London School of Economics
applied social statistics, demographic data, demography, LMICs, population health and conflict, population studies, reproductive health
Toby Dodge
Professor of International Relations · London School of Economics
Middle East, Iraq, state formation, international relations, regime change
Tom Raster
Assistant Professor · London School of Economics
Economic History, Economic Geography, Trade, Labour Economics
Tomila Lankina
Professor of International Relations · London School of Economics
Democratization, sub-national governance, authoritarian reproduction and resilience, Russia, Central Europe, India, legacies of colonialism.
Ulrich Sedelmeier
Professor in International Relations · London School of Economics
International relations; European Union; theories of international institutions; member state compliance with international institutions; domestic impact of international institutions; European Union enlargement and conditionality; international law; rule of law; COVID-19
Umair Ahsan
Coordinating Language Teacher - English for Academic Purposes · London School of Economics
Course Design, Academic Language, Communication Skills, Diplomatic Communication
Umut Cetin
Professor, MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk Management Deputy Programme Director and Deputy Head of Department (Teaching) · Department of Statistics
Umut’s research falls into the field of stochastic analysis, often with an applied emphasis on understanding the imperfections in financial markets. More recently his research has movedtowards equilibrium analysis in Market Microstructure Theory, especially in the presence of asy…
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