A report on the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, in which I critique the overwhelming offering of technological solutions to Anthropocenic problems in the Biennale, but also focusing on some more he...

This article examines how institutional design shapes patterns of self-exclusion in upscaled mini-publics, focusing on the European Citizens’ Panels (ECPs) of the Conference on the Future of Europe (2...

As climate anxiety grows among students, connecting with nature and building supportive communities nurture resilience, purpose and well-being, say Mireia Bes and Vivienne Kuh

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Like most complex concepts, there is no one single definition of “transdisciplinary research”. But, Helen Buckley Woods writes, all definitions share three common elements: partnerships, values and…

A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

ChatGPT isn’t consciousbut how we speak to AI shapes our habits. Moritz Sahlender argues that treating AI with courtesy helps preserve humanity in our interactions.

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) aim to improve conditions for walking, wheeling and cycling by restricting motor vehicle movements on residential st…

Former news reporter and founder of Africa’s first fact-checking organisation Peter Cunliffe-Jones argues that since concern about ‘information disorder’ soared in 2016, we have laboured under flawed ...

The global diffusion of participatory budgeting (PB) has attracted scholarly attention, particularly regarding how PB is institutionalised across different contexts. This article argues that instituti...

WPCC invites submissions for its next special issue, which explores communication as a force of change. We are looking to shape the field and bring new knowledge with the most …

This article develops the concept of displaced placemaking as a theoretical and methodological framework for examining how individuals experiencing forced migration engage with environments through ar...

Digital platforms are more than devices, algorithms and websites. They organise societies through the leadership of platform capitalists and their allies in political institutions. We know that this l...

Review of Stephanie Wakefield, Miami in the Anthropocene: Rising Seas and Urban Resilience (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025).

Pitch your book to publishers with an irresistible proposal. Here are all the elements you’ll need

The University Reimagined series offers a home for fresh ideas about higher education and innovative solutions to the challenges it faces, both within the UK and internationally.

Disabled people cycle, although data indicates to a lesser extent than non-disabled people. And whilst the research ecosystem around cycling more broadly is burgeoning, research specifically upon disa...

Want to know what everyone else has been reading on this year? This review counts down the ten most read posts on the LSE Impact Blog in 2024. Still want more blogposts? You can find all our annual…

Have we ever been social? New materialism and economics. This call starts with a polemic: that, despite their talk about a common human-nonhuman sociality, the majority of new materialisms have e...

Contrary to its intended goals of reducing subscription costs and improving access to scientific literature in India, Muthu Madhan argues the much-hyped One Nation One Subscription policy risks sig…