‼️ Applications close this weekend for our Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science role
Make sure you've clicked submit on your application. We can't wait to welcome you ✅️

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Official account for the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science #partofLSE #LSE
‼️ Applications close this weekend for our Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science role
Make sure you've clicked submit on your application. We can't wait to welcome you ✅️
🍁AUTUMN TERM EVENTS🍁
Our Autumn Term events schedule is here! Take a look at what we have in store, and get your free tickets here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/events
It’s been a few weeks now since I started my PhD at the @lsemethodology.bsky.social 💪
Thinking about volunteering this year?
Come to the LSE Volunteer Fair on Tue 13 Oct, 5:30-7:30pm at LSE LIFE, Ground Floor, LSE Library.
Meet charities and community organisations and find a role that suits you. Inclusive early entry 5:00-5:30pm.
How reliable is AI-generated synthetic data?📈
New research by Dr Tom Robinson argues that such shared-completion batching can distort relationships among variables in the resulting synthetic data, using controlled tests on synthetic survey respondents
Read👉️ arxiv.org/pdf/2609.32546
🥂 LSE Methodology Student and Alumni Mixer
There’s still time for you to join us to catch up with fellow alumni, connect with the wider department, and help us welcome the latest students
📅 7 Oct
⏰ 6.00 to 8.00pm
🏫 Alumni Centre, LSE Campus
🚨 Get your tickets for our next MY580 workshop with Dr Zach Dickson
👉️ Design-based causal inference in observational and experimental settings
⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm
📆 26 Oct
➡️ In-person at CON.1.01 and online via Zoom
Watch a recording of our latest methods #webinar on implementing generative artificial intelligence into #survey processes.
Patrick Sturgis (@lsemethodology.bsky.social 🇬🇧) presented the results from two studies on the use of #AI for questionnaire pretesting and occupational coding.
Living with long COVID when nobody believes you are ill 😷
Professor Flora Cornish and Brenda Sabaine Rodrigues will be speaking at the LSE Research Showcase series on their research on long COVID in Brazil
📆 Thursday 19 Nov
⏰️ 3pm - 3.30pm
📍 Shaw Library
Sign up👉 www.lse.ac.uk/research/lse...
Join us our for next Seminar Series with Dr Korhan Koçak
📆 16 October
⏰️ 2-3pm
📍 Connaught House, CON.1.01
🗣️Calling all undergraduate students interested in exploring how AI shapes freedom, judgement, and our capacity to live a self-authored life
Join a new close-knit reading group exploring these themes, meeting every Monday during Autumn Term👈️
Express your interest➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Launching our Autumn Term Seminar Series Schedule 🍂✅️
Find out more👉 www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...
And sign up to our mailing list to secure tickets first 👉 lse.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
Our Seminar Series is back for 2026/27‼️
💡 Sign up to hear Dr Elisa Wirsching speak on "embedding Regression without Focal Words: Interpreting Document-Level Effects with Sparse Autoencoders"
🗓️ Friday 2 October
⏰️ 2-3pm
Sign up ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
What happens to procedural justice theory when police are experienced as a source of threat as well as protection?👮♀️
Monica Gerber, Matías Deneken, Jonathan Jackson & colleagues examine fear of the police, procedural justice and legitimacy in Chile & Brazil
🗓️ Calling Methodology alumni
Come along to our Methodology Student and Alumni Mixer! Connect with fellow alumni, catch up with the department, and welcome our 2026/27 students
📅 7 Oct
⏰ 6.00 to 8.00pm
🏫 Alumni Centre
Sign up👉️ events.blackthorn.io/J9RvXv6/5a3i...
🗣️Calling all undergraduate students interested in exploring how AI shapes freedom, judgement, and our capacity to live a self-authored life
Join a new close-knit reading group exploring these themes, meeting every Monday during Autumn Term👈️
Express your interest➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Very excited to announce a new Political Methodology Seminar Series co-hosted by the @lsegovernment.bsky.social, @lsemethodology.bsky.social and European Institute. This bi-weekly series is designed to support ECRs applying state-of-the-art methodological tools to political science research.
Yesterday we welcomed our five new PhD students to the department! 📚️ We're so excited for you all to embark on this journey⚡️