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Official account for the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science #partofLSE #LSE
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While the world burns, it was a momentary relief to teach fieldwork & the hidden curriculum of funding applications, ethics and fieldwork logistics to a superb group of students at @lsemethodology.bsky.social and from other unis. So many cool projects the kids are working on these days!

Not long left to sign up for our next Seminar Series❗ Dr Lucas Leeman will discuss "Comparing the Performance of Machine Learning Ensembles for Multilevel Regression and Poststratification Models" on Friday 7 March, from 2 - 3pm Join now➡️ buff.ly/HD9vAv6

We're hosting #PolMethEurope2025 📆 7 - 8 April 📍 The London School of Economics and Political Science campus This year's conference is the largest yet, with over 50 presentations focused on innovative research methods and their applications. Register to attend👉 buff.ly/43bLVa6

❗Our Collaborative Studentship with Music Mark closes on 25 March🎵 The LSE ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership is offering a Collaborative Studentship with LSE Methodology and Music Mark, starting September 2025 ✨ Find out more➡️ buff.ly/4jyLHPV

Sign up for our next Seminar Series 📣 Dr Lucas Leeman will discuss "Comparing the Performance of Machine Learning Ensembles for Multilevel Regression and Poststratification Models" on Friday 7 March, from 2 - 3pm Join now➡️buff.ly/3XA8SAf

Our amazing PSS team picked up several awards at yesterday's Values In Practise Awards🏅💅 Congratulations to Serena and Camilya who were Highly Commended in their Outstanding Collegiality and Research Support Advocate categories 🥳 And massive congrats to Crystal, Winner of Exceptional Team Member!👏

The UK is in the midst of a crisis in how the police respond to rape and sexual violence 🚨🚓 Read the latest @lseblogs.bsky.social post from LSE Methodology's @jacksojp.bsky.social @katrinhohl.bsky.social and @benbradford.bsky.social ⤵️

👨‍🏫 Understanding Research Integrity Our next MY580 Methods Short Course takes place on 12 March from 10am - 3pm, led by Dr Daniele Fanelli 💡 Sign up now ➡️ https://buff.ly/3ERTzfs

🔎 Fieldwork Prep and Logistics: Budgets, Ethics and Participant Recruitment... there's still time to sign-up for our MY580 Methods Short Course with @floriangkern.bsky.social 📆 4 March, 10.00am - 3.00pm Sign-up today ➡️

We're hosting #PolMethEurope2025 📆 7 - 8 April 📍 The London School of Economics and Political Science campus This year's conference is the largest yet, with over 50 presentations focused on innovative research methods and their applications. Register to attend👉 https://buff.ly/43bLVa6

💡@aliyarao.bsky.social's latest paper explores "how kin help with parental investments" She points to how kin (primarily grandparents, but also aunts and uncles) play an important role in allowing parents to provide a childhood best suited for a “successful” life 🚸 Read it now👉

I’ll spend a fun half-day on March 4 at @lsemethodology.bsky.social talking about field research prep, funding and logistics to PhD students and early career scholars. I was re-invited after last year’s session, so I presume it was helpful. Feel free to join!

What are the risks of extreme wealth? Join us on 6 March, 6.30pm for a panel discussion with Fernanda Balata, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social, @garyseconomics.bsky.social, @deschuttero.bsky.social and Tania Burchardt as they explore the viability of an extreme wealth line. Register here:

📣 Join Dr Lucas Leeman at our next Seminar Series, as he discusses "Comparing the Performance of Machine Learning Ensembles for Multilevel Regression and Poststratification Models" 📆 Friday 7 March, 2 - 3pm Sign up to join➡️ https://buff.ly/3XA8SAf

Last Monday, we had an amazing Chinese New Year celebration at LSE-thanks to the PhD Academy funding 🥤 ✨ 🎊 🐍 📸 Edited by PhD student Mac Wang

🎵 The Sound of Resilience LSE Methodology Fellow @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social‬ is chairing a private discussion for students with Antytila, the renowned Ukrainian band that turned their music into a voice of resistance 📆 Tuesday 25 Feb from 6.30pm Sign up here to join 👉

We made it to Reading Week! 🙌 Fancy taking a break? See if you can sign-up to any of our upcoming events➡️ https://buff.ly/4abbdX2

👉Call for papers! @audreyalejandro.bsky.social and @dandekadt.bsky.social are hosting a two-day "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" workshop this November Potential contributors should send a 250-word abstract by 26 March ➡️ buff.ly/3CCijaY @lsedatascience.bsky.social

🔎 Fieldwork Prep and Logistics: Budgets, Ethics and Participant Recruitment... want to learn more? Join @floriangkern.bsky.social for our MY580 Methods Short Course 📆 4 March, 10.00am - 3.00pm Sign-up today ➡️

LSE's cross-department Demography Seminar Series is returning this month with a presentation by Qi Cui (Department of Methodology) 📆 3.00 - 4.00 pm on Wed 26 Feb 👨‍🏫 In-person in CON 1.01 (Connaught House, 1st Floor) More info ➡️ https://buff.ly/42Wj4X6

👉 There's still time to sign up for our next Seminar Series, where Dr Isaac H. Ziaba will present "Mediating Transnational Mining Disputes in Liberal Democracies. The Ghanaian Case." 📆 21 February, 2-3pm Register to join➡️ https://buff.ly/4gEbJ1z

💡 PhD student @rokuppers.bsky.social's new paper uses latent class analysis to explore a new dimension of populist politics. He challenges common assumptions that populism can be understood as the result of more traditional, regressive identities. 👉 https://buff.ly/3X2nyaW

✨ Calling all prospective graduate students and offer holders✨ We are running a mini Virtual Graduate Open Events series from 17-21 February. Find out more👉

💡 "Methodologies of Informed Intuition: The Role of Informed Intuition and Intuitive Openness" @ellieknott.bsky.social‬ latest article was published today in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social Read it now👉

Join us on 26 February for another Methods Short Course ➡️ this time, it's "Casual Interference for Observational Data" with @zachdickson.bsky.social. This course will introduce students to the principles and methods of causal inference for observational data. Sign up➡️ https://buff.ly/4hXn7GZ

💡 Next up in our Seminar Series, Dr Isaac H. Ziaba will present "Mediating Transnational Mining Disputes in Liberal Democracies. The Ghanaian Case." 📆 21 February, 2-3pm Sign up to join now➡️

Want to know "How to Analyse Data from Population Registers and Other Administrative Sources"? Join Dr Ben Wilson at our Methods Short Course on 18 February, 10am - 4pm 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Sign up to attend ➡️

Yesterday, former Visiting Research Student Longxuan Zhao gifted @audreyalejandro.bsky.social a magnet copy of their 2023 paper on "Multi-Method Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis: A Methodological Framework" 📃 Read it here➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣Call for papers! Dr Daniel de Kadt and @audreyalejandro.bsky.social are hosting a two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/... @lsedatascience.bsky.social

It's #TimeToTalkDay 💭 Taking care of your mental health and talking about what you're going through is really important - today and every day. If you're on campus, check out the Student Wellbeing Centre to see what events they've got on today.

🚔 Rape survivors seek justice, but police investigations can either restore or damage their sense of agency & trust. ❗ A new study reveals the profound long-term effects of policing on victims' well-being. Full paper here➡️ https://buff.ly/413jxp2

Thanks for coming 👋

Next up in our Methods Short Courses 👉 "How to Analyse Data from Population Registers and Other Administrative Sources" with Dr Ben Wilson 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 📆 18 February, 10am - 4pm Sign up to attend ➡️ https://buff.ly/3Qp4IHr

If you're in London this Friday, come hear me speak at @lsemethodology.bsky.social. Details below 👇

Check out the latest from Dr Audrey Alejandro ⤵️

📚 Next up in our Seminar Series, @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social will be speaking on "Security from Below: A Hermeneutic-Contextualist Methodology for Studying Marginalised Security Actors" 📆 7 February, 2-3pm Sign up for tickets now ➡️ https://buff.ly/4jow1yG

The fourth anniversary edition of #Researchfortheworld is out now 📰 See what you've missed ➡️

Our next Methods Short Course on "Applied Language Models for Social Science Research" is led by @zachdickson.bsky.social 💡 📆 12 February 🕐 10am - 3pm This course will introduce students to the use of language models for social science research. Sign up now 👉 https://buff.ly/3Cs4BHE

Looking foward to teaching an all-day workshop on using LLMs for social science research on Feb. 12! If you're interested in learning how to apply LLMs in your research, please consider joining! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/applied-la...

❗🎓Opportunity: Collaborative Studentship with the Latimer Community Art Therapy 🎨 The LSE @ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership is pleased to offer a second Collaborative Studentship with LSE Methodology and LCAT, starting Sept 2025 🖌️ Find out more➡️ https://buff.ly/4axe4tL

Don't forget to sign up to our Seminar Series on 7 February, exploring "Security from Below: A Hermeneutic-Contextualist Methodology for Studying Marginalised Security Actors" with the Department of Methodology's @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social 💡 ⤵️ https://buff.ly/4jow1yG

❗🎓Opportunity: Collaborative Studentship with Music Mark 🎵 The LSE ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership is pleased to offer a fully funded Collaborative Studentship with LSE Methodology and Music Mark, starting in September 2025 ✨🎺 Find out more➡️

📚 Next up in our Seminar Series, @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social will be speaking on "Security from Below: A Hermeneutic-Contextualist Methodology for Studying Marginalised Security Actors" 📆 7 February, 2-3pm Sign up for tickets now ➡️ https://buff.ly/4jow1yG

On Friday we welcomed back our MSc students for Winter Term with a department pizza party 🍕 We've got a good feeling about this term 🧣

Dr Chana Teeger's (@cteeger.bsky.social) research into how history lessons are teaching young South Africans to ignore racial inequality in the present has been shared by Business Day 📚 @lseinequalities.bsky.social 💡

World Café: The Future for AI 🖱️ @mtsvetkova.bsky.social is speaking on 6 Feb at A World Café open to all LSE staff and students - which offers an engaging environment for sharing and learning, fostering collaborations, and expanding your network. Sign up to attend👉 https://buff.ly/4autW0f