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💭 Who gets remembered in the history of international thought, and who gets erased?
MSc students reflect on Patricia Owens’ Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men and the key themes from her Cutting-Edge Issues lecture.
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#Gender
🎉 We’re delighted to celebrate the appointment of Professor Tiziana Leone as the new Director of @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social.
👏 A huge congratulations from everyone at LSE International Development. We wish Tiziana every success in this exciting new role!
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🌍 Are we living in an “age of security”?
MSc students Khushi Gupta & Saleeta Akbar reflect on Prof Ruben Andersson’s lecture on his new book Age of Security, part of our Cutting-Edge Issues in Development series.
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#security
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The vital importance of sex-disaggregated data - a plea.
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Professor Jean-Paul Faguet features in a Deutsche Welle report on Pakistan’s economic future.
The video explores whether the creation of new provinces could help boost economic development in Pakistan.
Watch the report and find out more 👇
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How can we put human rights at the heart of post-crisis development? 🌍
Yesterday at LSE, researchers and practitioners came together to explore this question.
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Following on from our conversation on putting human rights at the heart of post-crisis development…
MSc student Trisha Purnaiya shares her reflections on the discussion and what a human rights approach can bring to sustainable recovery
Read the blog👇
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Localisation has three parts: delivery, money and decision-making.
Drawing on Educate Girls’ experience, ID alumna Martina Baltazar asks what happens when delivery is local, but the definition of success may remain elsewhere.
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#Localisation
What’s it really like to spend nine months working inside the UK Parliament?
EPID alum Bahrathi Keeping reflects on her LSE Parliamentary Internship, working as a Policy Assistant to Dr Ellie Chowns MP.
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#LSEParlimentaryInternship
🌍What happens if the world exceeds 1.5°C?
Ahead of @turkiyecop31, ID alum Katia Konopelko explores UNEP’s Limiting Overshoot report, the realities of climate action and possible pathways towards returning below 1.5°C.
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#COP31 #UNEP
Only 17% of SDG targets were on track in 2024.
In a new blog, Lennart Fleck asks why development remains so focused on technical solutions while continuing to sideline politics.
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#SDGs #InternationalDevelopment
What role should law play in shaping the future of health data in Africa?
MSc student Emy Eapen reflects on Professor Sharifah Sekalala's lecture for our Cutting-Edge Issues in Development Thinking and Practice series.
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#HealthData
Patrick Mcveigh, co-winner of the 2026 LSE Africa Dissertation Prize sponsored by @AfricaAtLSE, reflects on how a fascination with carbon markets, land rights and REDD+ in East Africa shaped both his award-winning dissertation and his career with the UN. shorturl.at/hxUZY
LSE alum Sophie Freeland-Haynes manages the UK's £4bn trade relationship with Indonesia. She believes the value of Development Studies lies in learning to question assumptions, interrogate evidence and challenge conventional wisdom.
@UKinIndonesia
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Prof. @N_Kabeer (Professorial Fellow, BIGD) has won the 2026 @ACLS Open Access Book Prize in Political Science for "Renegotiating Patriarchy," a look into how ordinary women drove Bangladesh's social progress.
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@LSEPress @LSE_ID
Professor Stuart Gordon explores why data literacy belongs in qualitative humanitarian education in this new LSE HE Blog post.
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Why should students on a qualitative humanitarian programme learn data analysis? For LSE Stuart Gordon the answer isn't employability. It's about seeing how the evidence is made, whose experiences the numbers hide & critical scrutiny of quantitative claims blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat…
ALT Tight crop of the IPC projection maps for June 2026 to January 2027 covering 56 of Sudan’s 195 localities and IDP settlements, showing part of Sudan
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Why should students on a qualitative humanitarian programme learn data analysis? For LSE Stuart Gordon the answer isn't employability. It's about seeing how the evidence is made, whose experiences the numbers hide & critical scrutiny of quantitative claims blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat…
ALT Tight crop of the IPC projection maps for June 2026 to January 2027 covering 56 of Sudan’s 195 localities and IDP settlements, showing part of Sudan
From the Norwegian monarchy to the leadership of Scottish Labour, 2 alumni of LSE ID have recently assumed roles with huge influence over national public life. King Haakon VIII of Norway & @michaeljmarra, are both graduates of LSE's MSc Development Studies shorturl.at/PavzP
🌟 New 🌟
After an unconventional journey from dentistry to global health advocacy, MSc Health & International Development alum Abhijit Dhillon reflects on how studying development changed the questions she asks about power, policy, and health systems. shorturl.at/aaR04
New on the ID Blog: Can low- and middle-income countries cut carbon intensity as effectively as richer economies?
Research by Dr Meghna Chotaliya (@MeghnaChot) suggests they can. The real gap isn't ability, it's access to cleaner fuels.
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