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The opportunities and risks afforded by digital and online technologies, particularly for children and young people Sonia Livingstone OBE FBA is a leading British scholar on the subjects of children, media and the Internet.
The Systemic Risk Centre (SRC) is a research centre in London, hosted at the London School of Economics [1] and dedicated to the study of systemic risk and the development of policies for addressing the effects of financial crises. The SRC is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and was founded in 2012. Its funding was ...
The IGC holds a number of events throughout the year with the purpose of discussing a wide range of economic growth-related issues, sharing the findings of its research, and stimulating policy debates within the IGC's four thematic focus areas: cities, energy, state effectiveness, and firms.
The research of the institute is characterised by its interdisciplinary nature and brings together international expertise on economics, finance, geography, the environment, international development and political economy, as the centre's academic staff comprise a broad range of disciplines, including physicists, climatologists, economists, statisticians, political scientists and various other ...
LSE Press was launched in 2018 [9] and publishes peer-reviewed open access research in the social sciences through books and journals (LSE Public Policy Review, [10] Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, [11] and Journal of Long-Term Care [12]). Student work is published through the Houghton Street Press imprint. The Library holds a ...
The Greater London Group was an influential research centre within LSE from the late 1950s on, before being subsumed into the LSE London research group. [165] In February 2015, Angelina Jolie and William Hague launched the UK's first academic Centre on Women, Peace and Security, based at the school. The centre aims to contribute to global women ...
LSE Cities is a research centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. [1]The purpose of the centre is to increase knowledge and understanding of how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focusing on how the physical form and design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment; [2] and educate and train new generations of researchers and ...
Overall, 50.9% of the 2020/21 research grant and contract income of the five institutions (50.0% if the LSE is included) came from clinical medicine research, and they accounted for 34.7% of all research grant and contract income of UK universities in 2020/21 (35.2% if the LSE is included). [40]