After completing my MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, I worked for one year at an educational publishing company before returning to the LSE to pursue a PhD in Philosophy. The work I did during the MSc helped me to isolate the general structure of arguments and improved my attention to detail-both of which were useful skills in publishing.

Many of the questions I am interested in as a PhD student grew out of conversations I had with faculty and my classmates during the MSc. In fact, my PhD research on theories of exploitation is an expansion of my MSc dissertation, which itself was an expansion on an afternoon’s conversation about exploitation with a classmate during the MSc! My main research interests now lie at the intersection of Moral Philosophy and Philosophy of Economics and the courses I took in ‘Philosophy of Social Science’, ‘Philosophy of Economics’ and ‘Philosophy, Morals, and Politics’ have prepared me well for PhD study.

Of course, in addition to the academic aspect, my time at the LSE has been enhanced by its location in London, the cosmopolitanism of the student body and the many friends I made.