Virtual Graduate Open Events
This online event will enable prospective PhD students and offer holders to submit their own questions to our panel of current LSE PhD students. The event will take place online via Zoom.
Attendance is free of charge and does not form part of the School’s selection process.
To attend the event, you will need to register in advance by clicking on ‘How can I attend?’. After registering you will receive a confirmation email which will include a Zoom Webinar link. You will be able to access the event on the day via this link.
You may also be interested in attending other Virtual Graduate Open Events and accessing our on-demand content from academic departments.
All event times are UK local time.
Panelists
Joss Harrison
Joss is a first-year PhD student in the Department of International History, focusing on the development of US imperial ideas in the 19th century. He also completed his BSc and MSc at LSE, and was awarded a full departmental studentship to undertake his PhD.
Kristina Jenei
Kristina is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Health Policy, specialising in pharmaceutical policy and global health. A former Registered Nurse and first-generation university graduate, she brings professional experience from the WHO and in regulatory policy to her research.
Alex Birintzis
Alex is a second-year PhD Researcher in the Department of Media and Communications. Their project focuses on how Greek gender nonconforming, transgender and intersex people define and perform their Greekness and how they respond to ethnonationalist construction of Greek national identity in the public sphere. The project includes Greek migrants and the very idea of what constitutes home for those who reside or left Greece. Alex holds an MA in Human Rights from UCL and a BSc in Educational and Social Policy from the University of Macedonia, Greece. They are currently working as a Human Rights Research Assistant at Amnesty International.
Sayeh Yousefi
Sayeh is a final year PhD candidate in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. Her current research is on political persuasion and attitude change. She holds an MA in Political Science and has worked previously as a researcher in different industries.
Ritu Kochar
Ritu Kochar is an ESRC-funded PhD candidate at LSE’s Department of Social Policy. She works on caste inequalities in India and the UK, and her current project examines the transnational academic mobility of Dalit students from India to the UK, exploring how caste influences this mobility.
Shivani Rao
Shivani is a second year PhD candidate in Data, Networks and Society at LSE in the Department of Media and Communications and holds an MSc in Media and Communications (Research) from the LSE, and a Bachelor of Mass Media (Journalism) from Mumbai University. She has contributed to projects on AI in migration governance, children's rights in digital policies, online safety, media ownership, internet policy, digital human rights, smart cities and social media.
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