Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

📣 Delighted to welcome Sneha Krishnan (University of Oxford) to the Human Geography Seminar Series today! This seminar is open to all. 🔴 https://zurl.co/VALr

New episode | Displacement Urbanism podcast 🎙️ Dr Romola Sanyal & Dr Deen Sharp talk about how cities & conflicts continuously reshape each other. They talk about the technologies & materials of urban conflict and the consequences for urban displacement. https://zurl.co/znNa

The ways British governments have handled the accommodation of asylum refugees is expensive and has left voters feeling resentful and refugees feeling trapped, while enriching a few lucky landlords. Tom Scott-Smith argues instead that what refugees need instead of expensive, restrictive accommodation is the resources and autonomy to handle their own shelter. https://zurl.co/FtWE

📣 We're hiring! Come and join the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. We're looking for an LSE-Newcleo Fellow in Energy Economics and Policy. ⌛ 18 December 2024 (23.59 UK time). 🔴 https://zurl.co/xgx8

💡 Spotlighting research by Vernon Henderson and Jacques-François Thisse 'Urban and spatial economics after 50 years' 🔴 https://zurl.co/wOud

Are you working to build a fairer world?🌍 Applications are now open for the 2025-26 Cohort of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) programme, an innovative fully-funded #fellowship based at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The programme brings together mid-career #policymakers, #activists, #researchers, #artists, and #practitioners from all around the world to explore and challenge #inequality. Applications are open until 10 January 2025. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eu-p5mfj

Catch up on our event with Tom Scott Smith, Myfanwy James and Nick Henderson 🏠 Tom draws on his new book to explore how humanitarians, architects, and governments provide shelter for refugees. 🎧 Podcast: https://zurl.co/V6Mk 📺 Video: https://zurl.co/3M8V

🗳 'What can the US’ recent #electoral history tell us about #DonaldTrump’s victory in the 2024 election?' ✍ Writing for #USAPP, Michael Storper (Department of Geography and Environment, LSE) shows how Trump’s election victory is the latest example of the paranoid style in US politics. 🔗https://wp.me/p3I2YF-ex3

👏 Congratulations to LSE Policy Fellow Dr Timo Leiter from Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment, who has been awarded the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council Celebrating Impact Prize 2024 in the Outstanding Early Career Impact category! Timo was awarded for his project Better prepared: new global targets strengthen climate adaptation and resilience. Timo’s ESRC-funded doctoral studies examined whether and how countries are tracking the implementation of their national adaptation plans and explored the potential and shortcomings of global indicators. Based on his research, Timo was invited by the UNFCCC secretariat to co-facilitate the workshop series that developed the first set of global adaptation targets that was adopted at COP28. Timo also co-designed the first comprehensive global assessment of adaptation: UN Environment Programme’s Adaptation Gap Report, of which he is a lead author. He currently serves as the co-lead of an expert group for the development of global adaptation indicators. 📖 Read more about Timo’s policy impact: https://ow.ly/fqwv50UbUYX

What can the US’ recent electoral history tell us about Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election? Michael Storper writes that every US election since 1968 has turned on a combination of the incumbent’s popularity and the Republican and Democratic parties’ narrative of, and campaigning on, a values-culture-identity proposition. LSE United States Centre https://zurl.co/y9Jk