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For decades, social scientific study of religion has been dominated by the secularisation question: is religion growing or declining?

How might understanding this recent traumatic history help us understand the present, and future, of Russia and its political system?

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has been accompanied by atrocities against the civilian population.

How is AI changing the world? And how can we be prepared?

‘Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets’.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, inequality is on the rise, but so is grassroots activism.

Is the #MeToo movement about affecting change, or simply about visibility?

Lessons in how to improve social mobility: what we can do, how we can do it and why it’s not being done already.

Change is an inevitable part of our lives, especially in times of high uncertainty.

Citizenship is often seen as a great equaliser. Yet access to citizenship itself is not equally distributed, nor are the rights gained from citizenship equal for all.

We discuss the implications for thinking about how historical context and social change affects your life chances.

Martin Lewis, in conversation with Nicholas Barr, discusses his work to empower individuals to have more control of their finances, as well as his campaigning for policy changes to address everyday financial inequality.

This session looks closely at what it takes to be an effective negotiator and what that means for supporting people in organisations today to navigate ongoing complex change.

How do we escape this perfection trap and embrace the idea of “good enough”?

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, discusses his first book Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency with LSE's President and Vice Chancellor Minouche Shafik.

This talk will demonstrate how generative AI can be used to create engaging and personalised learning experiences for students in higher education.

African nations are among the most affected by the consequences of climate change. Policymakers are attempting to address this inequity through climate credit, debt exchanges, and the Loss and Damage Fund, which was established at COP27.

Whilst we celebrate the power of people to bring about change in society, we must also acknowledge what a tortuous and slow path meaningful change can take.

Tackling climate change requires significant and rapid economic and societal change.

Novel technologies enable or facilitate access to information, bringing change to the tasks people conduct or providing a new means to accomplish old tasks.

Are you ready to retire? What will your last job be? And when do you want to step back from full or part-time work to a portfolio or full retirement?

What actions can leaders take to support more autonomous working and the inclusion of all employees?

COVID-19, Brexit, inflation, the energy crisis, and geopolitical tensions have pitched the UK economy into turmoil. Coming after years of stagnation, many people in the UK - one of the world’s richest countries - feel (and are) poorer.

To discuss what this means for left politics, Adam Przeworski discusses the fate of the defining party family of twentieth-century representative democracy: social democratic parties.

To understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the way that it ended. In this public event Kris Manjapra considers the implications of his book Black Ghost of Empire for climate justice.