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Akdağ, Muhammed (2024) Social determinants of international competitive advantage: the case of Turkish contractors. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Warner, Neil (2024) Towards ‘no alternative’: the rejection of proposals for the socialisation of investment in the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden, 1972-1991. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hilhorst, Sacha (2024) Afterlives of legitimacy: a political ethnography of two post-industrial towns in England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Al Sudairy, Jawaher (2023) Tracing Makkah’s urban redevelopment: how the convergence of spiritual aspirations and state capitalism shapes urban production in the King Abdulaziz Al Saud Road. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Born, Anthony Miro (2023) Placing meritocracy: urban marginality and the ideal of social mobility. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

White, Tim (2023) Capital’s commune: the rise of co-living in the financialised city. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lally, Amraj (2023) Producing 'South Asian MSM'. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Harris, Gabrielle Jane (2023) Negotiating complex senses of self: a study of girlhood and privilege through the lens of fashion. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Taylor, Emma (2022) 'No fear': the micro-practices of elite formation at an independent boys' school in England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mallett, Victoria (2022) Politics, process, and professionals: a comparative study of municipal election reform in the United States 2014-2017. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Littlejohn, Naomi Maya (2022) A-level engagement and achievement in inner London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

John-Baptiste, Belinda (2022) “Some dark people are really rude”: an investigation of deviance, deviation and disadvantage in two London primary schools. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

McCurdy, Martha (2022) "There is a border in the system": exploring borders, death & classification in the UK. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schwoerer, Lili (2022) Between marketisation, regulation and resistance: feminist and gender knowledge production in English universities. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Partyga, Dominika (2022) Society as an experiment? Reading Nietzsche on the margins of social theory. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Andrawos, Nader (2021) Righting dissent: intellectual critique and human rights in Egypt. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lieutaud, Marion (2021) Paths of inequality: migration, inter-relationships and the gender division of labour. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Amini, Babak (2021) “Council democratic” movements in the First World War era: a comparative-historical study of the German and Italian cases. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fercovic-Cerda, Malik (2021) Between success and dislocation: the experience of long-range upward mobility in contemporary Chile. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Vogkli, Maria-Christina (2021) Care in limbo: an urban ethnography of homelesnessness and care work in Athens. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tsang, Ling Tung (2021) Identity and sport in contemporary China: collectivism vs. individualization. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yan, Ka Ho (2021) Ask not where heroes come from: class, culture and public housing estates in neoliberal Hong Kong. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Monteath, Timothy (2021) The information infrastructure of land registration in England: a sociology of real estate at the intersection of elites, markets and statistics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ergün, Mutlu (2021) Dominance & resistance: narratives & re-imaginations of racialisation, empowerment & humanness in Germany. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hayes, Niamh (2021) "Fed up of seeing this": reading mobile phone videos of racialised police encounters. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Thornbury, Paul Charles (2020) Military culture and security: boundaries and identity in the UK private military security field. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Li, Gordon C. (2020) Distinction in China - the rise of taste in cultural consumption. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Baliga, Anitra (2020) The construction of Mumbai’s land market. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wang, Yan (2020) Social policy, state legitimacy and strategic actors: governmentality and counter-conduct in authoritarian regime. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

De Santis, Davide (2020) On stochastic differential games with impulse controls and applications. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kramer, Maria (2019) Making “healthy” families: the biomedicalization of kin marriage in contemporary Turkey. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

A, Rong (2019) Managing the dream of a green China: Chinese ENGOs’ daily practices and controversies. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gokmenoglu, Birgan (2019) Temporality and social movements: a political ethnography of activism in contemporary Turkey (2016-2018). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

De Coss Corzo, Julio Alejandro (2019) Waterworks: labour, infrastructure and the making of urban water in Mexico City. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Naamneh, Haneen (2019) A city yet to come a story of Arab Jerusalem 1948–1967. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

McArthur, Daniel (2019) Individual advantage, economic context, and stigmatising stereotypes about the poor and welfare recipients. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kolbe, Kristina (2019) Performing interculture: inequality, diversity and difference in contemporary music production in Berlin. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Osborne-Carey, Cassian (2018) Sharing the digital public sphere? Facebook and the politics of immigration. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Traill, Helen (2018) Community as idea and community practices: tensions and consequences for urban communal growing in Glasgow. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Javed, Umair (2018) Profit, piety, and patronage: bazaar traders and politics in urban Pakistan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Upton-Hansen, Christopher (2018) The financialization of art: a sociological encounter. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

James, Daniel (2018) Sobre héroes y tumbas: the park and political logics of memory in Argentina. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mulcahy, Rian (2017) Facets of value: an investigation into the formation of worth in the diamond market. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pertwee, Ed (2017) Green Crescent, Crimson Cross: the transatlantic 'Counterjihad' and the new political theology. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Concha, Paz (2017) The curation of the street food scene in London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hecht, Katharina Maria (2017) A sociological analysis of top incomes and wealth: a study of how individuals at the top of the income and wealth distributions perceive economic inequality. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Burrett, Robin (2017) Contesting the ideal learner: an ethnography of teachers work in a Community School. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sloane, Mona (2017) Producing space investigating spatial design practices in a market moment. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Munawar, Nabila Fatima (2017) Believing and belonging: the everyday lives of Muslim youth in Canada. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Javidan, Pantea (2017) American legal discourse on child trafficking: the re/production of inequalities and persistence of child criminalization. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Matczak, Anna (2017) Understandings of punishment and justice in the narratives of lay Polish people. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nogueira, Mara (2017) Who has the right to remain in place? Informality, citizenship and belonging in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Finlay-Smits, Susanna (2016) Life as engineerable material: an ethnographic study of synthetic biology. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lewin, Siân (2016) Regulated organizations: responding to and managing regulatory change. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cullen, Michelle (2016) Cities on the path to 'smart': information technology provider interactions with urban governance through smart city projects in Dubuque, Iowa and Portland, Oregon. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rode, Philipp (2016) The integrated ideal in urban governance: compact city strategies and the case of integrating urban planning, city design and transport policy in London and Berlin. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Message, Reuben (2016) 'To assist, and control, and improve, the operations of nature': fish culture, reproductive technology and social order in Victorian Britain. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Loeschner, Isabell (2016) Understanding peripheral work connectivity – power and contested spaces in digital workplaces. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rota, Andrea (2016) Hacking the web 2.0: user agency and the role of hackers as computational mediators. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Seymour, Richard (2016) Cold War anticommunism and the defence of white supremacy in the southern United States. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Safira van der Graaf, Judy (2015) The role of non-state actors in transnational risk regulation: a case study of how the credit rating industry performs regulation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mager, Alexander (2015) Advers(ary) effects? Investigating the purportedly disabling character of conspiracy theory via analysis of the communicative construction of resistance discourses in online anti-New World Order conspiracy theory discussion forums. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mena, Olivia (2015) Nomos: a comparative political sociology of contemporary national border barriers. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bezirgan, Bengi (2015) Reframing the Armenian question in Turkey: news discourse and narratives of the past and present. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sveinsson, Kjartan Páll (2015) Swimming against the tide: trajectories and experiences of migration amongst Nigerian doctors in England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Barboza Muniz, Bruno (2015) An affective and embodied push to Bourdieu’s dispositional model: Funk’s cultural practices in Rio de Janeiro. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Monson, Tamlyn (2015) Citizenship, 'xenophobia' and collective mobilization in a South African settlement: the politics of exclusion at the threshold of the state. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Church, David (2015) Strategic spatial planning – a case study from the Greater South East of England. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Quinlan, Tara Lai (2015) Blurred boundaries: how neoliberalisation has shaped policy development of post-9/11 counterterrorism policing in London and New York City. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hamilton, R. Alexander (2015) Governing through risk: synthetic biology and the risk management process. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Roulstone, Claire (2015) Inside the social world of a witness care unit: role-conflict and organisational ideology in a service. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Muscat, Michaela (2015) Banking on the divine: everyday Islamic banking practices in Malaysia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fuentes, Kristina (2015) Mobilizing for social democracy in the 'Land of Opportunity': social movement framing and the limits of the 'American Dream' in postwar United States. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tocchetti, Sara (2014) How did DNA become hackable and biology personal? Tracing the self-fashioning of the DIYbio network. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schroeder, Torsten (2014) Translating the concept of sustainability into architectural design practices: London’s City Hall as an exemplar. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Massalha, Manal (2014) In suspension: the denial of the rights of the city for Palestinians in Israel and its effects on their socio-economic, cultural and political formation: the case of Umm Al-Fahem. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Robinson, Katherine (2014) An everyday public? Placing public libraries in London and Berlin. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Shirai, Hiromasa (2014) The evolving vision of the Olympic legacy: the development of the mixed-use Olympic parks of Sydney and London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dean, Corinna (2014) Establishing the Tate Modern Cultural Quarter: social and cultural regeneration through art and architecture. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dunlap, Richard Stockton (2014) Reassessing Ronchamp: the historical context, architectural discourse and design development of Le Corbusier's Chapel Notre Dame-du-Haut. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Keddie, Jamie (2014) Negotiating urban change in gentrifying London: experiences of long-term residents and early gentrifiers in Bermondsey. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Arriagada, Arturo (2014) Cultural mediators and the everyday making of ‘digital capital’ in contemporary Chile. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Manning, Peter (2014) Justice, reconciliation and memorial politics in Cambodia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dawes, Antonia (2014) Naples in the time of the spider: talk and transcultural meaning-making in Neapolitan markets. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ozoliņa-Fitzgerald, Liene (2014) The ethics of the willing: an ethnography of Post-Soviet Neo-Liberalism. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lingayah, Sanjiv (2013) Between the lines: contours of nation, multiculture and race equality in policy discourse in the New Labour period. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lee, Kee (2013) Practicing globalization: mediation of the creative in South Korean advertising. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gassner, Gunter (2013) Unfinished and unfinishable: London’s skylines. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Beitler, Daiana (2013) An ethnography of the one laptop per child (OLPC) programme in Uruguay. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Novis, Roberta (2013) Hard times: exploring the complex structures and activities of Brazilian prison gangs. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kaasa, Adam (2013) Writing, drawing, building: the architecture of Mexico City, 1938-1964. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rashid, Naaz (2013) Veiled threats: producing the Muslim woman in public and policy discourse in the UK. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Donnellan, Caroline (2013) Establishing Tate Modern: vision and patronage. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hawkins, Gwyneth Mae (2013) Language and the social: investigations towards a new sociology of language. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Torre, Andreea Raluca (2013) Migrant lives. A comparative study of work, family and belonging among low-wage Romanian migrant workers in Rome and London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Timms, Jill (2012) Where responsibility lies: corporate social responsibility and campaigns for the rights of workers in a global economy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dinardi, Maria Cecilia (2012) Unsettling the culture panacea: the politics of cultural planning, national heritage and urban regeneration in Buenos Aires. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Abdullah, Hannah (2012) New German painting: painting, nostalgia & cultural identity in post-unification Germany. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bratu, Roxana (2012) Actors, practices and networks of corruption: the case of Romania's accession to European Union funding. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Trevino-Rangel, Javier (2012) Policing the past: transitional justice and the special prosecutor’s office in Mexico, 2000-2006. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Burrell, Jennifer (2012) Producing the internet and development: an ethnography of internet café use in Accra, Ghana. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fitzgerald, Des (2012) Tracing autism: ambiguity and difference in a neuroscientific research practice. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

James, Malcolm (2012) Upcoming movements: young people, multiculture, marginality and politics in outer East London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kohonen, Matti (2012) Actor-network theory as an approach to social enterprise and social value: a case study of Ghanaian social enterprises. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hanspal, Vrajesh (2012) Markets and mediators: politics and primary art markets in Montréal. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Javid, Hassan (2012) Class, power, and patronage: the landed elite and politics in Pakistani Punjab. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Uncu, Baran Alp (2012) Within borders, beyond borders: the Bergama movement at the junction of local, national and transnational practices. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gooch, Rebecca L. (2012) Television production, regulation and enforcement reasons for broadcasters’ non-compliance and a weakened state of regulatory affairs. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

El-Khairy, Omar A. (2012) American statecraft for a global digital age: warfare, diplomacy and culture in a segregated world. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Trikha, Sara (2012) Policing minority ethnic communities: a case study in London’s ‘Little India’. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ross, Sandy (2011) Everyday economics: ideas new and old from lay theories of economic life. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Colbran, Marianne (2011) Watching the cops: a case study of production processes on television police drama "The Bill". PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cockerton, Caitlin (2011) Going synthetic: how scientists and engineers imagine and build a new biology. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Redclift, Victoria (2011) Histories of displacement and the creation of political space: "statelessness" and citizenship in Bangladesh. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Torres Vitolas, Carlos Alberto (2011) Social capital in poor communities: a case study from rural northern Peru. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

MacArtney, John I. (2011) Healing ourselves: ethical subjectivity in the stories of complementary self-help users with cancer. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kim, Helen (2011) Desis doing it like this: diaspora and the spaces of the London urban Asian music scene. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gounev, Philip Martinov (2011) Backdoor traders: illicit entrepreneurs and legitimate markets. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

McClean, Tom (2011) Shackling Leviathan: a comparative historical study of institutions and the adoption of freedom of information. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kufner, Juergen (2011) Tall building policy making and implementation in central London: visual impacts on regionally protected views from 2000 to 2008. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kroll, Christian (2011) Towards a sociology of happiness: examining social capital and subjective well-being across subgroups of society. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bramwell, Richard (2011) The aesthetics and ethics of London based rap: a sociology of UK hip-hop and grime. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Amorese, Valentina (2010) From public understanding of GMOs to scientists’ understanding of public opinion: a case study of the listening capacity of scientists in the UK and Italy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dunn, Peter (2010) Abuse around difference: a sociological exploration of gay men’s experiences of 'hate crime' and policy responses to it. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fernández Arrigiota, Melissa (2010) Constructing 'the other', practicing resistance: public housing and community politics in Puerto Rico. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Litz, Stefan A (2010) Images of the transnational corporation: Sensemaking by German managers. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Szanto, Attila (2010) Narrating the urban in contemporary Budapest. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Evanoff, Elia (2010) Online hafu Japanese communities: The uses of social networking services and their impact on identity formation. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kaftantzi, Lamprini V (2010) Regenerative medicine translation: The UK bioentrepreneur experience. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Alvarez-Galvan, Jose-Luis (2010) Service work and subcontracting in the new economy: Call centres in Mexico City. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kabatoff, Mathew (2010) Subject to predicate risk, governance and the event of terrorism within post-9/11 U.S. border security. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hall, Suzanne (2010) A mile of mixed blessings: an ethnography of boundaries and belonging on a South London street. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Adamson, Goran (2010) The spectre of Austria---reappraising the rise of the Freedom Party from 1986 to 2000. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Allsopp, Marian (2009) Invisible wounds: a genealogy of emotional abuse and other psychic harms. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pellandini-Simanyi, Lena (2009) Changing ethics of consumption in Hungary. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Reubi, David (2009) Ethics governance, modernity and human beings' capacity to reflect and decide---a genealogy of medical research ethics in the UK and Singapore. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Parham, Susan (2009) Exploring London's food quarters: Urban design and social process in three food-centred spaces. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Trehan, Nidhi (2009) Human rights entrepreneurship in post-socialist Hungary: From the "Gypsy problem" to "Romani rights". PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ariztia Larrain, Tomas (2009) Moving home: The everyday making of the Chilean middle class. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Csedo, Krisztina (2009) New Eurostars? The labour market incorporation of East European professionals in London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Munnoz-Rojas Oscarsson, Olivia (2009) Wartime destruction and post-war urban reconstruction: Case studies of Barcelona, Bilbao and Madrid in the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Harris, Charlotte (2008) The investigation of murder in France and England: a comparative account. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bernasconi, Oriana (2008) Doing the self: Selfhood and morality in the biographical narratives of three generations of Chilean families. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kim, Young Jeong (2008) Imagining 'home': Korean migrant women's identities in the UK. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Boyd-Caine, Tessa (2008) In the public interest? The role of executive discretion in the release of restricted patients. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Charrington, Harry (2008) Makings of a surrounding world: The public spaces of the Aalto atelier. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mohamed, Fauzia Mtei (2008) Money matters? Micro-credit and poverty reduction among poor women in Tanzania. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ortega-Alcazar, Iliana (2007) Brick by brick: An ethnography of self-help housing, family practices and everyday life in a consolidated popular settlement of Mexico City. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Delkhasteh, Mahmood (2007) Islamic discourses of power and freedom in the Iranian Revolution, 1979-81. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Neitzert, Eva (2007) Making power, doing politics: The film industry and economic development in Aotearoa/New Zealand. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ottaway, Jim (2006) The UK National Lottery and charitable gambling. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wahlberg, Ayo (2006) Modernisation and its side effects: an inquiry into the revival and renaissance of herbal medicine in Vietnam and Britain. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Vrecko, Scott (2006) Governing desire in the biomolecular era: Addiction science and the making of neurochemical subjects. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Elgenius, Gabriella (2005) Expressions of nationhood: national symbols and ceremonies in contemporary Europe. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Myers, Carrie Anne (2004) A qualitative analysis of the social regulation of violence in a Cornish school 1999-2003. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Beauregard, Alexandra (2004) Interference between work and home: an empirical study of the antecedents, outcomes, and coping strategies amongst public sector employees. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Holland, Maximillian P. (2004) Social bonding and nurture kinship: compatibility between cultural and biological approaches. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Christopher, David Paul (2003) Mean fields: New Age Travellers, the English countryside and Thatcherism. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Georgiou, Myria (2001) Negotiated uses, contested meanings, changing identities: Greek Cypriot media consumption and ethnic identity formations in North London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Armbruster, Thomas Friedrich (1999) The German corporation: An open or closed society? An application of Popperian ideas to organizational analysis. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Domingues, Jose Mauricio C.S (1994) Sociological theory and the problem of collective subjectivity, with special reference to Marx, Parsons, Habermas and Giddens. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ventura de Morais, Josimar Jorge (1992) New unionism' and union politics in Pernambuco (Brazil) in the 1980s. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mészáros, George (1991) The Catholic Church and trade unions in Brazil: a case study of the relationship between the Dioceses of Sao Paulo and Santo Andre and the metalworkers of greater Sao Paulo, 1970 - 1986. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sheptycki, James (1991) Investigation of policing policy in relation to 'domestic violence' in London in the 1980s. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Palmer, Kent (1982) The structure of theoretical systems in relation to emergence. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Al-Umran, Hala Ahmed (1981) The experimental use of television in a developing country: widening social recruitment into the nursing profession in Bahrain. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Peri, Yoram (1980) Some aspects of the relationship between the military and polity in Israel 1947 - 1977. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Young, T. (1980) The eugenics movement and the eugenic idea in Britain 1900-1914: a historical study. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

MacGregor, David Edward Stephen (1978) Studies in the concept of ideology: from the Hegelian dialectic to western Marxism. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ettorre, Elizabeth Mary (1978) The sociology of lesbianism: female 'deviance' and female sexuality. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kline, Stephen (1977) Audio and visual characteristics of television news broadcasting: their effects on opinion change. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cohen, Stanley (1969) Hooligans, vandals and the community: a study of social reaction to juvenile delinquency. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Warburton, T.R. (1966) A comparative study of minority religious groups: with special reference to holiness and related movements in Britain in the last 90 years. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cohen, Percy Saul (1962) Leadership and politics amongst Israeli Yemenis. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pons, Valdo Gustave (1955) The social structure of a Hertfordshire parish: a study in rural community. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hughes, Violet Louisa (1934) A social survey of the East Kent coalfield. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Tier 4 /Student Route Visa students

If you are sponsored by the School for a Tier 4/Student Route visa to study in the UK, you need to make sure you understand the conditions of your visa and are not in breach of them. You will find guidance and updates on rule changes on the Student Advice and Engagement Team webpage .

The PhD Log should be used to record meetings with your supervisor throughout your time at the School. Please note that using the PhD Log is a formal School requirement and a vital part of our processes to ensure we are meeting our legal responsibilities to the UKVI.

The PhD log is used to record attendance and engagement and it is the system we would refer to should we receive queries about attendance and engagement from UKVI. It is therefore vital that you update your PhD Log with your supervisor meeting on a regular basis. 

Regulations

There are a number of regulations governing your study at the School. It is your responsibility to ensure you have read and understood all regulations relevant to registration on your degree programme. You can seek advice on the regulations from any member of the PhD Academy team.

See the School's policies and procedures  for further details.

If you are taking any courses throughout your programme, you can choose them using LSE for You (LFY), LSE's web-based self-service student administration system.

Full information on course selection, including the deadline and how to make your selections can be found here .

If you are attending a course and not taking the assessment for it please submit an enquiry   before the examinations take place.

The PhD Academy also runs a number of events and courses  specifically aimed at research students. 

Research ethics

Researchers have responsibilities; to society, to funders, to their institution, and to those taking part in their research. For any research involving human participants, or data relating to identifiable human subjects, researchers are required to complete a research ethics review, and should begin by reading the LSE Research Ethics Policy  [PDF].

The LSE Research Ethics Policy aims to: 

• promote a culture within the School whereby researchers conscientiously reflect on the ethical implications of their research
• encourage researchers to properly consider such discipline-specific frameworks, statutory requirements and best practice guidelines as may be relevant to their research

Researchers need to consider a number of issues, such as the potential effects of the research they conduct – on participants, on those who may be indirectly affected by the outcomes of that research, and on those conducting the research. Researchers must also ensure they comply with any relevant statutory requirements – such as the UK Data Protection Act, the Mental Capacity Act. 

If you have any queries concerning the Ethics Policy contact Lyn Grove, [email protected] .

Progress monitoring

The PhD Log should be used to record meetings with your supervisor throughout your time at the School. You will also be able to find your submission deadline and other information on the Log and can use it to post work for comment. You should discuss with your supervisor how you will use the Log.

At the end of each academic year, your academic progress will be reviewed by your department and a decision made as to whether it is sufficient so that you can be re-registered for the following academic year.

You should check your departmental PhD Student Handbook for further information on how progress review will be conducted. Please refer to the Regulations for Research Degrees  which sets out School-wide requirements for progress review.

If you are initially registered on an MPhil/PhD programme, you will need to be upgraded to PhD status at the end of the first or second year. You will find further information on School-wide upgrade requirements in the Regulations for Research Degrees .

Check your departmental PhD Student Handbook for further details. For MRes/PhD programmes, upgrade to PhD status will have been part of your progression from the MRes programme and registration onto the PhD programme.

Changes to your enrolment

At certain times you may need to apply for a change to your student enrolment, for example to go on fieldwork or if you need to interrupt your studies. You will need to complete the relevant form to request such a change which you will find listed on A-Z of guidance documents .

All forms should be submitted well in advance of the start date of the proposed change in student enrolment.  

You can speak to a member of the PhD Academy team about any questions you may have before submitting your request. Please book an appointment with a member of the Research Degrees Management team to discuss any queries you have. 

COVID-19 financial support

In 2020 the School put in a place a scheme to offer financial support to students who were registered on their MRes/MPhil/PhD programme in the 2019/20 academic year and whose research plans had been significantly disrupted by the pandemic. The scheme is now broadened to include students who started their registration in August/September 2020 (on either an MPhil or an MRes or on an ESRC funded MSc) and to students who have already received a COVID extension under the original scheme.

The way the scheme will work depends on a number of different factors, which are explained in detail  here .  Please read this document carefully to determine which version of the scheme you are eligible to apply for.

Please ensure that you apply 6 months before your funding end date, or 6 months before your submission end date, which ever is the earlier date. 

Any student will still be able to request a standard interruption or extension using the standard forms that can be found in the A-Z of guidance .

Fieldwork and Study Elsewhere

All students who wish to undertake a period of fieldwork or a period of study elsewhere must complete a fieldwork/study elsewhere application form and submit this, fully completed, to the PhD Academy at least one month prior to the start of the fieldwork or study elsewhere period. Those intending to undertake fieldwork/data collection in London still need to read the fieldwork form.

Please refer to our  COVID 19 FAQs  for updated information on fieldwork and study elsewhere, including links to the relevant forms.

Interrupting your studies

If at any point during your studies, you require an interruption to your studies, you should complete the  interruption to studies form which can be found in the A-Z of Guidance documents. Prior to submitting your form, you are strongly encouraged to speak with a member of the PhD Academy team who will be able to discuss what happens with your visa (if applicable), funding (if applicable) and submission deadline.

You can speak to a member of the PhD Academy team about any questions you may have before submitting your request. Please  book an appointment  with a member of the Research Degrees Management team to discuss any queries you have. 

Parental Leave

The LSE Parental Leave policy for Research Degrees Students is available under the A-Z of Guidance documents and outlines what the leave policy is and what students need to do to apply for parent leave.

As each individuals case is unique, speak to a member of the PhD Academy team who will be able to discuss your options and  what happens with your visa (if you need one), funding and submission deadline. Please  book an appointment  with a member of the Research Degrees Management team to discuss any queries you have. 

iThenticate: using text-matching software

The School makes text-matching software (iThenticate) available to its research students who might wish to use it to check their written work. Some departments also require students to use it, for example, as a part of the upgrade process.

If you are a research student and wish to use the software, please submit an enquiry   and we will set up an account for you.

You should check with your department (in the PhD Student Handbook) whether use of iThenticate is required as a part of your programme. If it is, an account should have been set up for you.

A copy of the Quick Start User Guide for iThenticate is provided here for your information: Quick Start User Guide [PDF].

You will also find further instructions on how to use the software on the iThenticate website. Fuller guidance is provided in the User Guides 

Should you have any questions about using the software or reading a report produced by it, please contact a member of the PhD Academy team.

Final year and MPhil/PhD examinations

As you enter the final year of your programme you will need to begin thinking about the preparation for submitting your thesis and your viva examination. 

Examination entry

As you enter your final year you should discuss the exam entry process with your supervisor you should start completing the Examination Entry form  with your supervisor.

Your supervisor is responsible for nominating your examiners although it is likely that they will discuss possible nominations with you to ensure they are the most appropriate choice.  Completed entry forms should be returned to the PhD Academy at least two months in advance of submitting your thesis: this is to allow sufficient time for your examiners to be formally appointed and to avoid potential delays to the examination (see below). If you are unable to meet this deadline, please seek advice from a member of the PhD Academy team. 

Once we have received your completed examination entry form, the examiner nominations are sent to the relevant subject panel for approval. We will then formally invite the examiners to act.

Until the examiners have confirmed with the PhD Academy that they can act, they are not appointed as your examiners. Therefore, we cannot send your thesis to them until that time and no arrangements for the viva examination should be agreed.  

In cases where an examiner nomination is not approved or an examiner is no longer able to act, supervisors will need to nominate a new examiner using the replacement examiner nomination form .

If you require additional arrangements for your viva , you should note this on your Exam Entry Form and a member of the PhD Academy team will contact you about this. If you already have an Inclusion/Adjustment Plan, it is recommended that you make contact with the Disability and Wellbeing Service 6 months prior to your submission date to discuss what arrangements you need for the viva. An updated copy of the Inclusion/Adjustment Plan should be provided to the PhD Academy.  You are encouraged to speak with a member of the PhD Academy team about your additional viva arrangements. 

You can speak to a member of the PhD Academy team about any questions you may have before submitting your request. Please  book an appointment  with a member of the Research Degrees Management team to discuss any queries you have.

If you wish to apply for the Graduate Route post study visa, you should note this on your Exam Entry Form . You are advised to speak with the Student Advice and Engagement Team  about the visa process. After receiving advice from the Student Advice and Engagement Team, please contact the PhD Academy to discuss the examination process and the visa scheme.

Thesis submission

For the foreseeable future, thesis submission will be electronic only.The easiest way to submit the electronic version - in PDF format-of your thesis to the PhD Academy by emailing  [email protected]  . 

You should refer to the Formatting and binding your thesis document to ensure your thesis is formatted in line with the School’s requirements. The front pages of your thesis should contain certain information and you should refer to the Template for the front pages of your document for further guidance.  

You must submit your thesis by the deadline. If you are unsure what your deadline is, please submit an enquiry .

Theses that are submitted late cannot be accepted without an approved extension from the Research Degrees Subcommittee Chair. You should ensure you allow time for the final editing, printing and binding of your thesis within your deadline. 

Once we have received your thesis, and assuming your examiners have been formally appointed, we will then post your thesis to them for examination and confirm with you once we have done so. Examiners are not permitted to accept a thesis, in any format, from any source other than from the PhD Academy.  

Editorial help with your thesis

You might wish to seek help from a third party in editing your thesis before you submit it for examination. You will need to read the School’s Statement on Editorial Help  [PDF], provide a copy of it to any third party you use and declare what help you have received from a third party in the front pages of your thesis (see template for front pages of your thesis  [PDF]). 

Viva (oral) examination

From the start of the 2021/2022 academic session (from October onwards) regulations have been amended following consultation to allow departments the flexibility to undertake vivas either on campus or remotely, using approved video conferencing facilities.  

Departments have been asked to ensure that all parties have been consulted, have approved the online arrangement, and that they have adequate technical facilities. They have also been asked to ensure that support is available to you during the viva, in case you encounter any issues (e.g. your supervisor/s or DPD should be reachable during and after the viva). 

 You should not be involved in making any arrangements for your viva examination. Find further information about the viva and other examination arrangements in the  Guidelines for MPhil/PhD examinations [PDF].

The PhD Academy runs sessions on preparing for your viva and you are strongly encouraged to attend one of these sessions. Please check our webpages on a regular basis to see when the next session will be scheduled. 

Confirmation of your examination outcome

After your examination, the PhD Academy will email you to confirm the examiners' decision and give full details of what you will then be required to do. We ask examiners to confirm their decision to us within two weeks of your viva and we will normally email you confirmation of the examination outcome within two weeks of receiving the examiners’ decision.  You can find the possible outcomes from the examination in the Regulations for Research Degrees .. We cannot confirm an examiners decision with you until we have received the relevant information from both of your examiners.

Examination re-entry procedures

If your examiners decide that you require a further period (of between 7 and 12 months) in which to revise and resubmit your thesis, you will need to re-enter for the examination.

When the PhD Academy confirms the outcome of your original examination, we will also confirm the date by which you will need to submit your revised thesis. One month in advance of that deadline you should complete the Examination re-entry form  [DOC] and submit it to the PhD Academy. You will also need to pay the £200 re-entry fee using eshop at the same time: LSE eShop . You should follow the same formatting guidelines as provided above.

If you have any questions about this process, please  submit an enquiry  to our office.   You are welcome to contact the PhD Academy to discuss the outcome of your viva examination at any stage and we will share with you the information we have at that time.

Providing a final copy of your thesis

When you have successfully completed your MPhil or PhD (i.e. once you have completed your viva examination and any revisions your examiners have required you to make in your thesis) and in accordance with the School’s  Regulations for Research Degrees (paragraph 53.3), we will ask you to provide a final electronic copy of your thesis for deposit in LSE Theses Online  (LSETO). Read further information on LSETO [PDF] and guidance on submitting .

Please note that this is a requirement of the degree and we cannot make an award to you until we have received a final copy of your thesis.

The School encourages all PhD graduates to make their research widely available in line with its own Open Access Policy and that of the UKRI.

The School’s policy limits the delay that publishers may wish to impose between online publication and availability via a repository in accordance with the UKRI commitment that “the outputs of publicly funded research [is] to be freely available” The maximum acceptable embargo periods vary according to discipline; for the social sciences it is 12 months. Since LSETO has been operating (2011-12) the experience of our PhD graduates has been that depositing their work in it has had a positive rather than detrimental effect on publishing from their thesis.

It is, however, recognised that graduates may need to apply for an embargo. Under regulation 55, a 24-month embargo can be applied on grounds of publication, commercial exploitation and protection of participants. Please note that 24 months is the maximum amount that can be applied for.

Please ensure you have read the relevant regulation (paragraph 55,  Regulations for Research Degrees .) and/or seek advice from a member of the PhD Academy Team before you apply for an embargo.  

Your request will be considered for approval by the Research Degrees Subcommittee. If granted, you will still be required to provide an electronic copy of your final thesis. Your thesis title and abstract will still appear in LSETO, but the full text of it will not be accessible until the end of the agreed period of restricted access. If you also require the abstract/citation of your thesis to be embargoed, you should state this clearly in your request.

You will have the opportunity to apply for an embargo as part of the final thesis submission process and further information will be provided at that point.

Transcripts, proof of examination outcome and degree certificates

Requesting transcripts.

If you would like confirmation of any taught modules that you undertook as part of your MPhil/PhD studies, please submit an enquiry . Please ensure that you include your full name, date of birth and student number (if known) as well as details of the courses undertaken.

Proof of examination outcome  

Once your examiners have confirmed their decision with the PhD Academy, the PhD Academy will process the final outcome with 1-2 weeks of receiving the decision.  In order to be awarded, you will need to submit a final e-thesis to the Library. Once you have submitted a final copy of your thesis in accordance with the School’s requirements, we will be in a position to award you a degree.

If you require a letter confirming your award, please submit an enquiry . Please note that we can only confirm that a degree has been awarded once your final e-thesis has been received by the Library.

Degree certificates and replacements

Once you have been awarded, your degree certificate will be produced within 2 months of your award date. Degree certificate will be sent to your permanent  home address as per our records at the time of awarding. Please ensure you update check and update your permanent home address on LfY prior to your award date. Please note we cannot provide you with your degree certificate until you have provided a final copy of your thesis.

The School only issues one certificate to each student but in exceptional circumstances, you can make an application for a replacement. Applications can be made in the event of loss, damage or non-receipt of the original certificate. Please note that you must wait a minimum of 8 weeks from the date of issue of your original degree certificate before making an application for a replacement. This is to allow for a full search to be undertaken of the recorded delivery tracking system used for posting degree certificates.

To make an application for a replacement MPhil or PhD LSE degree certificate, please submit an enquiry.

If your degree certificate was issued by the University of London and not the LSE (your certificate will have the University of London on it) you will need to request a replacement from them. To make an application for a replacement, please contact  [email protected] . 

Degree verification

Third-parties (e.g. employers or other educational institutions) who wish to verify the details of an individual’s LSE degree award should do so online via Higher Education Degree Datacheck (HEDD) . Further information on the process can be found here.

Graduation ceremonies

The School’s graduation ceremonies take place in July and December each year. In order to attend the July ceremony you will need to have been awarded your degree by 30 April and to attend the December ceremony you will need to have been awarded your degree by 30 September.

To be awarded your MPhil or PhD degree you must have completed the following: 

• the viva examination
• all revisions to your thesis required by your examiners following your viva examination
• received confirmation that your examiners are now satisfied that therequired revisions have been made
• submitted the final copy of your thesis to LSEthesesonline in accordance with the School’s requirements

These steps will need to have been completed by the deadlines above in order for you to be able to attend the relevant graduation ceremony. If you have further questions about how an award is made please contact us via this enquiry form.  

See further information about the graduation ceremonies .

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MPhil/PhD Economic History

Introduction, preliminary readings.

The MPhil/PhD is an advanced research degree. You'll begin on the MPhil, and will need to meet certain requirements to be upgraded to PhD status. The main objective of this programme is the elaboration of a substantial piece of work that is worthy of publication and which makes an original contribution to the field of economic history.

The department is home to by far the largest group of researchers in economic history in the UK and one of the largest in the world. This is a pluralistic department which encourages different approaches to the discipline: quantitative economic history; global history; history of economic thought; historical demography; historical economic geography; international economic history; business history; financial and monetary history; and social history. We also offer a wide chronological and geographical coverage of economic history, with specialists in almost every continent and any historical period from the medieval age onwards. For this reason, the department is able to supervise a wide range of topics, in line with the research interests of the teaching staff.

We particularly value a comparative outlook on research, and the fruits of our research have been used by international agencies, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, government departments and local communities. Our faculty have included among their research commitments the editorship of The Economic History Review , The European Review of Economic History and Economic History of Developing Regions .

All our students are expected to gain a broad knowledge of the subject from graduate level coursework in the first year which complements the deeper knowledge gained from intense thesis research. In addition, many of our research students take the opportunity to gain valuable teaching experience on undergraduate courses.

• Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J. (2012), Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. London: Profile.
• Allen, R.C. (2009), The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Austin, Gareth M. Markets, Slaves and States in West African History, c.1450 to the present. (Cambridge: CUP 2013)
• Austin, Gareth M. & Kaoru Sugihara (eds.) Labour-intensive industrialisation in Global History. (London: Routledge 2013).
• Baten, Joerg (2016), A History of the Global Economy. Cambridge.
• Broadberry, S. and O’Rourke, K. (eds.) (2010), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Clark, G. (2007), A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Crafts, N.F.R. and Fearon, P. (2013), The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Darwin, J. (2007), After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000. London: Allen Lane.
• Engerman, Stanley L. & Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: endowments and institutions. (Cambridge: CUP/NBER 2012).
• Findlay, R. and O’Rourke, K. (2009), Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium , (Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Floud, Roderick, Fogel, Robert, Harris, Bernard, and Hong, Sok Chul (2011), The Changing Body: health, nutrition, and human development in the western world since 1700. Cambridge.
• Greif, A. (2006) Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Hatcher, J. and Bailey, M (2001), Modelling the Middle Ages: The History and Theory of England’s Economic Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Herschman, Albert O. (2013), The Passions and the Interests: political arguments for capitalism before its triumph. Princeton.
• King, Mervyn (2016), The End of Alchemy: money, banking and the future. Little, Brown.
• Livi-Bacci, Massimo (2012), A Concise History of World Population. Wiley Blackwell.
• Mackenzie, D (2006), An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
• Morgan, Mary S. (2012), The World in the Model: How Economists Work and Think. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• North, D.C., Wallis, J.J. and Weingast, B. (2009), Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press.
• Parthasarathi, P. (2011), Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Divergence, 1600-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Piketty, T. (2014) Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard: Harvard University Press.
• Pomeranz, K. (2000), The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Reinhart, C.M. and Rogoff, K.S. (2009), This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Rosenthal, J-L and Wong, R. Bin (2011), Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe. Harvard University Press.
• Roy, T. (2012), India in the World Economy: From Antiquity to the Present (New Approaches to Asian History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Von Glahn, Richard (2016), The Economic History of China from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Yun-Casalilla, B. and O’Brien, P. (2011), The Rise of Fiscal States: A Global History, 1500-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Entry requirements

Merit in LSE’s MSc Economic History (Research) with a minimum of 65 per cent overall, and at least 75 per cent in the dissertation component. Direct entry for applicants with an equivalent score in economic history or a similar field (economics, history, and so on) will also be considered, but we expect you to have a completed a dissertation worth at least 20 per cent of the final grade.

Please select your country from the dropdown list below to find out the entry requirements that apply to you.

English language requirements

The English language requirement for this programme is Research . Read more about our English language requirements .

Competition for places at LSE is strong. So, even if you meet the minimum entry requirements, this does not guarantee you an offer of a place.

However, please don’t feel deterred from applying – we want to hear from all suitably qualified students. Think carefully about how you can put together the strongest possible application to help you stand out from other students.

Programme content

During the programme, we expect participation in departmental workshops and other seminars held within the University of London and, later, at conferences and seminars at other universities. In addition to progressing with your research, you'll also be expected to take the listed training and transferable skills courses.

Where appropriate, you'll take a pre-sessional statistics course.

You won't retake Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Economic History if you've already taken it as part of the master's degree.

Supervisors may require you to take other relevant, unexamined, economic history courses, methodological courses provided by the Department of Methodology or the Institute of Historical Research or skills training courses as required for your thesis topic.

Please note: starting from 2025/26, EH401 will transition from a half-unit to a full-unit course. This change is already reflected below and will soon be updated in the School’s programme regulations, where the courses listed below are linked.

Approaches to Economic and Social History

Historical analysis of economic change, quantitative analysis in economic history i, thesis workshop in economic history, programme regulations at lse.

For the latest list of courses, please go to the relevant School Calendar page .

A few important points you’ll need to know:

We may need to change, suspend or withdraw a course or programme of study, or change the fees due to unforeseen circumstances. We’ll always notify you as early as possible and recommend alternatives where we can.

The School is not liable for changes to published information or for changing, suspending or withdrawing a course or programme of study due to events outside our control (including a lack of demand, industrial action, fire, flooding or other damage to premises).

Places are limited on some courses and/or subject to specific entry requirements so we cannot therefore guarantee you a place.

Changes to programmes and courses may be made after you’ve accepted your offer of a place – normally due to global developments in the discipline or student feedback. We may also make changes to course content, teaching formats or assessment methods but these are always made to improve the learning experience.

For full details about the availability or content of courses and programmes, please take a look at the School’s  Calendar , or contact the relevant academic department.

Some major changes to programmes/courses are posted on our  updated graduate course and programme information page .

Why study with us

Discover more about our students and department.

Meet the department

LSE is home to one of the largest specialist economic history departments in the world, with 25 permanent teaching staff, as well as visiting academics and researchers.

We use social science concepts and theories as a starting point to study the evolution of real economies in their social, political and cultural contexts.

Collectively, our academics have a huge breadth and depth of knowledge, ranging from the Medieval period to the current day, and covering every world economy, from the Americas to Asia, Africa and Europe.

The department’s research interests range from social well-being to technology and finance, and from the history of economic ideas to global trade patterns. Our research has informed decision-making in numerous government departments, NGOs, and international bodies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Drawing on their research strengths, our academics hold editorial and board membership roles on many world-renowned journals (such as Cliometrica and the Economic History Review) and regularly share their insights in the national and international media.

Currently, the department offers three undergraduate degree programmes and a range of postgraduate degrees and research opportunities. Many of our graduates secure high-profile teaching and research roles in the UK and internationally.

Learn more about our programmes and research .

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Your application, when to apply.

We welcome applications for research programmes that complement the academic interests of our staff at LSE. For this reason, we recommend that you take a look at our  staff research interests  before applying.

We carefully consider each application and take into account all the information included on your form, such as your:

• academic achievement (including existing and pending qualifications)
• statement of academic purpose
• outline research proposal
• sample of written work.

See further information on supporting documents .

You may need to provide evidence of your English language proficiency. See our English language requirements .

Please note that students may apply to study part-time after successful completion of first year.

The application deadline for this programme is 25 April 2025 .

However, if you’d like to be considered for any funding opportunities, you must submit your application (and all supporting documents) by the funding deadline.

See the fees and funding section below for more details.

Fees and funding

The table of fees shows the latest tuition fees for all programmes.

You're charged a fee for your programme. Your tuition fee covers registration and examination fees payable to the School, lectures, classes and individual supervision, lectures given at other colleges under intercollegiate arrangements and, under current arrangements, membership of the Students' Union. It doesn't cover living costs or travel or fieldwork.

Home student fee (2025/26)

The fee is likely to rise over the full duration of the programme. The School charges home research students in line with fee levels recommended by the Research Councils.

Learn more about fee status classification .

Overseas student fee (2025/26)

The fee is likely to rise over the full duration of the programme in line with the assumed percentage increase in pay costs (ie, four per cent each year).

At LSE, your tuition fees, and eligibility for any financial support, will depend on whether you’re classified as a home or overseas student (known as your fee status). We assess your fee status based on guidelines provided by the Department for Education.

Further information about fee status classification .

Scholarships, bursaries and loans

Scholarships, studentships and other funding

We recognise that the  cost of living in London  may be higher than in your home town/city or country and we provide generous scholarships to help both home and overseas students.

For this programme, students can apply for  LSE PhD Studentships , and  Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding . To be considered, you’ll need to submit your application (and any supporting documents) before the funding deadline.

Funding deadlines

First round of LSE PhD Studentships and ESRC funding: 15 January 2025 . Second round of LSE PhD Studentships: 25 April 2025 .

In addition to our needs-based awards, we offer scholarships for students from specific regions of the world and awards for certain subjects .

External funding

Additional funding opportunities may be available through other organisations or governments. We strongly recommend you investigate these options as well.

Further information

Learn more about fees and funding , including external funding opportunities.

Learning and assessment

How you learn, how you're assessed, supervision.

You'll be assigned a lead supervisor (and a second supervisor/adviser) who is a specialist in your chosen research field, though not necessarily in your topic. Lead supervisors guide you through your studies.

Progression and assessment

You'll need to meet certain criteria to progress to PhD registration.

Please refer to the PhD Handbook  (pp. 13-16) for full details of progression requirements.

Your final award will be determined by the completion of an original research thesis and a viva oral examination.

More about progression requirements

Graduate destinations

Career support.

Graduates of the programme have gone into a wide variety of careers, including university teaching and research posts, as well as jobs at international economic agencies such as the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.

Further information on graduate destinations for this programme

Top 5 sectors our students work in:

From CV workshops through to careers fairs, LSE offers lots of information and support to help you make that all-important step from education into work.

Many of the UK’s top employers give careers presentations at the School during the year and there are numerous workshops covering topics such as job hunting, managing interviews, writing a cover letter and using LinkedIn.

See LSE Careers for further details.

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