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This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘How can we tackle loneliness?’.

Many conversations about sustainability and climate-change focus on activities on land – the green part of our planet. This misses a vital part of the puzzle, the role that our oceans play.

This event discusses Richard Titmuss’s critique of the ‘welfare state’.

Contemporary politics reveal that the problems humanity is facing are not merely national or regional, but global, eroding and transcending the traditional notion of state sovereignty.

Economic ideas are "performative" - meaning that they do change the ways economies work - but not on their own.

Escalating asset price inflation in recent decades has helped to expose wealth inequality as a major dimension of socio-economic inequality across the world.

How should we make decisions with – or on behalf of – those with dementia?

The Lord Speaker will explain how the House of Lords enables policy-makers to look beyond the five-year electoral cycle, at a time when the UK faces multiple long-term challenges.

In his inaugural lecture, Eric Schneider explores how child malnutrition, measured through child growth, has changed over the past 150 years around the world.

Wendy Wolford draws on multi stakeholder archival materials and field research to discuss an ambitious project called ProSavana intended to transform agricultural production in northern Mozambique.

In conversation with Tanya Harmer, the interdisciplinary feminist collective, LASTESIS, will be reflecting on art, rights and resistance for the 21st century.

Speakers discuss how we can define and measure deprivation in the labour market, by applying a methodology widely used to measure multidimensional poverty to the labour market, using the UK as a case study.

Speakers discuss strategies you can put in place to make sure you hone the skills necessary to keep you relevant in the workplace in the future.

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science on the theme of health and wellbeing, Paul Dolan introduces his new podcast series, Get Happier.

Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, unveils her book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics.

Abraham Newman and Henry Farrell discuss their forthcoming book Underground Empire: how America weaponised the world economy.

Gwyn Bevan argues that the interaction of two ideas created an accidental logic in which financialised enterprises have exploited rules of the game to maximise profits.

How are we to heal divided communities, to respect difference, trade fairly, care for the displaced, respond to crises, or share the natural world?

Speakers discuss the role of black women in social, cultural and political movements historically and in our times.

Martin Daunton discusses his new book, The economic government of the world, 1933-2023.

This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘Can we change the world?’

Kehinde Andrews discusses his new book, The Psychosis of Whiteness.

Kristin Surak discusses her new book, The Golden Passport: global mobility for millionaires.

To celebrate Black History Month, join us for this conversation between LSE alumnus Arun Blair-Mangat and LSE President Eric Neumayer.

In discussion with Paul Nowak, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress.