At the bottom of this page you will find past events, including links to recordings where these are available. You can also access recordings of past LSE events via LSE Player and on the LSE YouTube channel.
Monday 2 December 2024, 6.30-8pm
Hosted by LSE Press and Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Speakers: Professor J. McKenzie Alexander, Dr Ilka Gleibs (PBS), Professor Alan Manning
Chair: Professor Dame Sarah Worthington
Expanding on Karl Popper’s thinking nearly 80 years since the original publication of his spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society, J. McKenzie Alexander’s new book, The Open Society As An Enemy, argues that a new defence is urgently needed now, in the decades since the end of the Cold War.
More about the event and how to attend.
Behavioural Science and the Wider World Seminar Series
Tuesdays, 3-4pm
Online
Some events in this series will be for LSE staff and students only
This weekly seminar series, hosted by the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE, brings together a network of researchers, industry and policy leaders, students and alumni to discuss emerging, global themes in behavioural science both in the world today and emerging topics for the future.
Explore the latest events and join the mailing list.
Departmental Seminar Series
For the LSE community
Wednesdays, 12-1pm
Hybrid (unless stated otherwise)
Our department hosts a term-time seminar series, inviting researchers to present their latest findings.
This seminar series is open to LSE staff and students. Current students and staff in PBS will receive an email each week with details of speakers. If you have any questions please contact pbs.events@lse.ac.uk.
See our upcoming events.
Please visit the individual websites for information, dates and sign-up information.
The Inclusion Initiative (TII)
TII hosts a series of major public events, and small round table panels to look at behavioural science, risk and inclusion in organisations.
See all current events from TII here.
London Public Understanding of Science Seminar Series
These seminars take place at LSE on the last Wednesday of each month during term time, at 4-6pm.
Find out more and join the mailing list for future events on the London Public Understanding of Science website.
Podcast | Breaking Beliefism with Professor Paul Dolan
In Breaking Beliefism, Paul Dolan and guests chat about different perspectives on important issues. Topics include why two parent households are the route out of poverty, who's the best tennis player of all time, and why gambling is good for us.
Listen to Breaking Beliefism (also available on all major platforms)
Podcast | Get Happier with Professor Paul Dolan
In this series, Paul Dolan seeks to explain what the science of happiness tells us about how to be happy.
Listen to the Get Happier podcast.
Podcast | Work Force with Dr Grace Lordan
Work Force, hosted by Grace Lordan, unravels the behavioural science behind things that happen in the workplace that impact your success and wellbeing, blending academic evidence with real life experiences.
Listen to the Work Force podcast.
Podcast | Duck-Rabbit: Taking Sides with Professor Paul Dolan
Professor Paul Dolan takes us on a journey through our polarised culture in a series of discussions covering topics from ageing, happiness, freedom of speech, gender and more.
Listen to the Duck-Rabbit podcast
Below you will find details of past events, including recordings where these are available.
8 October 2024
Speakers: Alexandra Chesterfield, Elisabeth Costa, Professor Oliver Hauser, Dr Dario Krpan (PBS), Professor Susan Michie, Professor Robert West
Chair: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS)
Watch the event on YouTube.
LSE Festival | Displays of Power Exhibition
10 to 15 June 2024
This year's festival exhibition featured displays by Dr Deema Awad on 'Making research less... WEIRD' and Professor Elizabeth Stokoe on 'The politics of conversation'.
Learn more about the exhibition.
AI UK Fringe Event | PBS Workshop: When you combine behavioural insights with AI – How can you make sure you are influencing ethically?
26 March 2024
Workshop panel: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS), Annabel Gillard, Dr Stuart Mills
12 December 2023
Hosted by LSE's Data Science Institute
Speakers: Professor Ken Benoit, Dr Jon Cardoso-Silva, Dr Marcos Barreto, Dr Milena Tsvetkova, Dr Jens Koed Madsen (PBS), Zachary Dickson
Find out more about the Showcase.
20 June 2023
Speakers: Dr Thomas Curran (PBS), Natasha Devon
Chair: Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch (PBS)
Recording not available.
31 May 2023
At this event, PBS and LSE PhD students brought their research to life in bitesize talks.
Watch the recordings
28 February 2023
Speakers: Dr Rochelle Burgess, Dr Maria Cecilia Dedios, Professor Maxine Molyneux, Federico Montes, Professor Patrick Vernon
Chair: Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch (PBS)
Recording not available.
Event | Stereotypes, History and Social Psychology: Collective Reflections
16 November 2022
Speakers: Professor Koji Yamamoto
Discussants: Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch (PBS), Professor Alex Gillespie (PBS)
Chair: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS)
Koji Yamamoto discussed the new volume of 'Stereotypes and Stereotyping in Early Modern England'. Recording not available.
7 July 2022
Speakers from PBS: Dr Matteo Galizzi, Dr Kate Laffan, Dr Ganga Shreedhar
Hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment. Supported by the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science.
Recording not available.
30 June - 2 July 2022
Co-organised by: Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (PBS)
Keynote: Professor Hazel Rose Markus: Notes from the field: Experiments towards a psychology of society
Listen to a podcast recording of the keynote here.
13-18 June 2022
How do we get to a post-COVID world? The LSE Festival explored the practical steps we could be taking to shape a better world.
A full list of the events that took place and recordings can be found via the LSE Festival 2022 website.
6 June 2022
Speakers: Professor Cass R. Sunstein, Professor Peter John
Chair: Professor Susana Mourato
Co-hosted by PBS and LSE's Department of Geography and Environment.
Watch the event on YouTube
30 November 2021
Speakers: Jeroen Nieboer, Ganna Pogrebna, Briana Brownell
Chair: Paul Adams
Event | BehaviouralHack 2021: #ItsNotOK: BehaviouralHack on Collaborative Solutions to Transform Social Norms around Intimate Partner Violence
17 November 2021
The BehaviouralHack 2021 brought together local citizens, academic experts and policy institutions to discuss how behavioural insights can help address the challenges of intimate partner violence in Lithuania.
Co-hosted by PBS and the Behavioural Lab LT.
16-19 November 2021
"Science & You" is an international event of scientific and technical culture co-organised by Professor Martin Bauer (PBS).
Hosted by the University of Lorraine.
Workshop | Behaviour, Wellbeing and the Environment
4-5 November 2021
This two-day online workshop brought together experts in the fields of behavioural science, wellbeing and the environment to explore future research in these areas.
Hosted by PBS and the Behavioural Science and Policy Group (University College Dublin)
Watch the conversations in full on YouTube
30 June 2021
Speaker: Dr Dambisa Moyo
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)
Recording not available.
LSE Festival short film | What work disappeared? COVID-19 and labour market outcomes for under-25s
3 March 2021
With Dr Ganga Shreedar and Teresa Almeida
Watch the short film on YouTube
LSE Festival short film | Safety Culture: what can the post-COVID world learn from high-risk industries?
2 March 2021
With Dr Tom Reader
Watch the short film on YouTube
1-6 March 2021
The LSE Festival 2021 explored the direction the world could and should be taking after the crisis.
A full list of the events that took place and recordings can be found via the LSE Festival 2021 website.
LSE public event | Assessing the impact of COVID-19: from mortality to misery?
21 May 2020
Speakers: Professor Paul Dolan (PBS),Dr Daisy Fancourt, Professor Richard Layard, Lord O'Donnell, Professor Carol Propper
Chair: Professor Julia Black
Listen to the podcast on LSE Player | Watch the event on YouTube
4 March 2020
Speakers: Professor Liam Delaney (PBS), Dr Jet G. Sanders (PBS), Dr Barbara Fasolo, Dr Adam Oliver
Chair: Dr Matteo M Galizzi (PBS)
Listen to the podcast on LSE Player
4 March 2020
Speakers: Professor Peter John, Professor Theresa M Marteau, Sanchayan Banerjee, Professor Gerry Stoker
Chair: Dr Ganga Shreedhar (PBS)
Listen to the podcast on LSE Player
29 October 2019
'I am Echoborg' is an interactive theatre performance based on academic research by London School of Economics (LSE) psychologists Kevin Corti and Alex Gillespie, who developed the Echoborg concept in 2015.
LSE Thinks | What are the consequences of expressing religious identity in the workplace?
9 August 2019
With Dr Ilka Gleibs (PBS)
Watch the LSE Thinks film
9 May 2019
Speakers: Michael Sanders, Susannah Hume
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan (PBS & TII)
Recording not available.
14 February 2019
Speaker: Randolph Nesse
Chair: Professor Bradley Franks (PBS)
Recording not available.
if you have any questions about the events on this page, please contact pbs.events@lse.ac.uk