Read about the research taking place in different departments across the School, how the PhD candidates feel being a part of LSE, and their advice for prospective students.
Jose A Bolanos
Jose is a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Centre for Analysis of Risk & Regulation and studies how organisations tackle complex policy problems.
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Tammy Campbell
A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow investigating inequalities faced by young children of special educational needs and disabilities (SENDs).
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Anni Kajanus
A Leverhulme Early Career Fellow researching the dynamics of human cooperation, conflict and competition from a cognitive anthropological perspective.
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Azhar Hussain
A PhD student researching the impact of climate change and environmental externalities in developing countries.
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Hasret Cetinkaya
A Postdoctoral researcher on rights-claiming and rights-making in the Kurdish led Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
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Do Young Oh
A PhD candidate studying the historical relationship between universities and the urbanisation process in East Asia, from colonial times to the current era.
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Jeanne Firth
A PhD candidate investigating food systems and the humanitarian aid work undertaken by celebrity chefs in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.
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Sandro Provenzano
A PhD candidate investigating the impact of mineral mine openings on local economic development and urbanisation in Africa.
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Pia Andres
A research student investigating international trade and competitiveness in clean and dirty technology.
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Sandra Obradovic
(Postdoctoral) LSE Fellow and Associate Researcher of the Electoral Psychology Observatory studying the nature of group identities and the impact this has on public opinion towards political change.
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Shoshana Lauter
A PhD candidate researching trauma and mental healthcare.
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Gijs Marijn van Selm
PhD student researching the localisation of humanitarian aid in complex emergencies.
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Joe Roussos
A PhD candidate researching how policymakers can make decisions in the face of highly uncertain science.
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Kate Laffan
PhD candidate studying the reciprocal relationship between human wellbeing and the natural environment.
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Haneen Naamneh
PhD candidate researching how the Palestinian community in Jerusalem experienced transformation following the Israeli occupation.
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Yajing Zhu
PhD candidate studying the effects of childhood socioeconomic circumstances on adults’ mental and physical health.
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Julian Göpffarth
PhD candidate with the European Institute studying the role and drivers of intellectual support for far right populism in Germany.
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Diane Bolet
PhD candidate with the European Institute explaining the rise of the radical right in Europe.
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Virginia Crespi de Valldaura
PhD candidate with the European Institute researching the role of the French and Spanish Socialist parties in building the Single Market and Economic and Monetary Union in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Sarah Gerwens
PhD candidate with the European Institute exploring how people speak about race in a supposedly post-race society.
Read the Q&A with Sarah