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Fiona MetcalfeDirector of Communications
Fiona Metcalfe is the Director of Communications at LSE. She was appointed in 2019 following three years as Head of External Communications. Her role is to protect and promote the LSE brand and lead engaging and impactful communications locally, nationally and globally.
Prior to joining LSE, Fiona spent two years as Head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office global network of 200 communicators and before that spent eight years working in media, events and strategic communications at No 10 Downing Street.
LSE was founded in 1894 by four prominent Fabian Society members, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw, and Graham Wallas, and has grown to become one of the foremost social science universities in the world, ranked alongside Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Stanford.
They are a social science university based in central London with a global reach. LSE help students prepare for bright futures in world-changing roles. A rigorous social science education is designed to stretch students intellectually through more than 200 specialist undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, executive education, distance learning, and summer school.
The Latest from the London School of Economics
👏 @100xImpact Accelerator recently hosted the annual 100x Summit Day in the Great Hall of our Marshall Building!
The event celebrated the Accelerator’s 2024 cohort of social ventures with pitches from participant enterprises to almost 200 people.
Showcasing Impact Innovation at LSE: 100x Summit Day 2024
100x Impact Accelerator at LSE hosts the annual 100x Summit Day.
www.lse.ac.uk
🧠 Has today’s liberal society turned its back on the values #KarlPopper set out 80 years ago?
📖 In his new #book, J McKenzie Alexander @LSEPhilosophy asks whether the Open Society has become its own worst enemy.
#LSEResearchForTheWorld
Can the Open Society survive the information age? | LSE Research
In this age of unprecedented transparency, is our openness undermining rather than strengthening liberal societies? J McKenzie Alexander investigates.
www.lse.ac.uk
New episode of The Ballpark podcast: The West and the failure of democracy in the Middle East with Professor @fawazgerges of @LSEIRDept
Join us tonight for the last event in our #GlobalPolitics series – online or in person from 6.30-8pm 👇
#LSEEvents
Can't make the event? Read our @LSEEuroppblog article covering the important lessons from a year of elections by Professor Michael Cox from @lseideas 📖https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2024/12/11/the-lesson-from-the-year-of-elections-democracy-for-the-moment-remains-the-political-system-of-choice/
A 2021 study of EU golden visa programmes by LSE & @Harvard researchers found that the funds generated by these schemes represented only a “miniscule” proportion of foreign investment with “negligible” economic impact.
Full study:
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/golden-visas-are-leaden-answer-economic-needs-2024-12-10/
Golden visas are a leaden answer to economic needs
Hungary is digging for golden visas. Despite pressure from the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán re-launche...
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LSE's Tony Travers said the Euston project’s costs had become impossible to control since work started in 2017.
“It is extraordinary — and not in a good way — that the project could knock down people’s homes and undermine local businesses.”
Euston HS2 project costs rise to more than £7.5bn
Price of extending high-speed rail line into central London set out in confidential government documents
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🔑 How can #AI help unlock society's potential?
In last night's @LSEPublicPolicy event, @reidhoffman, Co-Founder of @LinkedIn, discussed the transformative potential of AI 👇
#LSEEvents
💥New! Invest 2035, the government’s proposed industrial strategy, states that planning reform is one of the fundamental shifts needed to help companies invest in the UK. @AadyaBahl of @CEP_LSE shows how planning reforms can unlock growth.
🧒 Childhood is imagined as a time free from thoughts about money.
Yet most 6-12 year olds in the UK are involved in spending decisions 💷
Heather Kappes @LSEManagement argues @LSEforBusiness that reframing spending to children could have its benefits.
How children feel about spending money
Refraining from some purchases in order to save for others is a cornerstone of financial wellbeing. However, childre...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Understand todayInfluence tomorrow
LSE has established a global network with a small number of high-quality universities across the world. There are multi-faceted institutional partnerships with Columbia University (New York), Sciences Po (Paris), Peking University (Beijing), the National University of Singapore, and – since May 2010 – the University of Cape Town.
LSE has developed global, multi-faceted partnerships with a number of prestigious universities. These peer institutions are located in key cities/locations around the world, and each partnership is different.
We also have a number of other collaborative activities at the departmental level and further.
Mission and vision
- Sustain excellence through an inclusive and diverse community
- Extend our impact and reach
- Ensure a sustainable future
Ranked in the top 1% of world universities
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Research centres
50%
of research given 4* rating
Since 1895 The London School of Economics has been pioneering social science research, challenging existing ways of thinking, and seeking to understand the causes of things in order to transform them. In October 2020 they celebrate our 125th anniversary.
It is their ambition to be the leading social science university with the greatest global impact. Led by Director, LSE alumna Minouche Shafik, their strategy LSE 2030 lays out the guiding principles that they believe will help them achieve their goals and shape the world’s future.
LSE academics conduct social science research that makes a lasting impact on society. This means LSE students are taught by academics that regularly advise international bodies and governments, and who are also vocal in the media on current news.
The LSE COVID-19 resource centre demonstrates how the social sciences can support government policy responses to COVID-19. The university has also just been involved in the launch of SHAPE – Social sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy.
The 2014 Research Excellence Framework, a national evaluation exercise, ranked LSE as a top university for research quality and impact. With over 50 academic departments and research centres, the school are continuously expanding their research horizon to reflect and aid the changing society around us.
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