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The Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics is an academic centre for the study and research of social policy. It hosts and contributes to research centres including the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion and the Mannheim Centre for Criminology.
LSE IDEAS is a foreign policy think tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science.IDEAS was founded as a think tank for Diplomacy and Strategy in February 2008, succeeding the Cold War Studies Centre founded in 2004.
Catherine Hakim (born 30 May 1948) [1] (Arabic: كاترين حكيم) is a British sociologist who specialises in women's employment and women's issues. She is known for developing the preference theory, for her work on erotic capital and more recently for a sex-deficit theory. [2]
The rivalry between academic opinion at LSE and Cambridge goes back to the school's roots when LSE's Edwin Cannan (1861–1935), Professor of Economics, and Cambridge's Professor of Political Economy, Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), the leading economist of the day, argued about the bedrock matter of economics and whether the subject should be ...
The General Course at LSE (the London School of Economics and Political Science) has been in operation since 1910 and is a full 'Study Year Abroad'. [1] Today, the General Course offers a fully integrated year of undergraduate study to around 300 students of more than 40 nationalities drawn from over 130 universities. It is considered one of ...
The centre's work on wellbeing and mental health, including the LSE Depression Report, [24] led to the introduction of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, [25] [26] which is widely recognised as the most ambitious programme of talking therapies in the world, [27] treating 1 million people a year. [28]
Queen's College (1848) and Bedford College (1849) in London started to offer some education to women, and by 1862 Davies was establishing a committee to persuade the universities to allow women to sit for the recently established (1858) Cambridge Local Examinations, with partial success (1865). A year later she published The Higher Education of ...
Ileana Jiménez is a high school teacher in New York City who teaches courses on feminism, LGBT literature, Toni Morrison, and memoir writing. [5] She is nationally known for her book and speaking about inclusivity in high schools, her work to make schools safer spaces for LGBT students, and has won numerous awards for curriculum development. [ 5 ]