LSE Geography & Environment

01/09/2026

We're delighted to share that Claire Mercer has become an Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR).

A leading journal in urban studies since 1977, IJURR has pioneered critical thinking on urban and regional issues worldwide.

Congratulations, Claire! 👏

https://zurl.co/2raPv

Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard University, USA Hillary Angelo, University of California, USA Nausheen Anwar, Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan Tom Goodfellow, University of Sheffield, UK Emma Jackson, Goldsmiths University of London, UK Zhigang Li, Wuhan University, China Barbara Lipietz, Univ...

28/08/2026

👏 Congratulations to Morgan Carmellini on completing the PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies! 😊

Morgan was supervised by Prof Gareth Jones and Dr Janet Foster.

27/08/2026

🎙️In the latest episode of Displacement Urbanism, Romola Sanyal talks to Camila Cociña (Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development. IIED) about the relationship between climate change and evictions and how each is exacerbating the other.

https://zurl.co/E6PYW

Displacement Urbanism · Episode

26/08/2026

👏 Congratulations to Álvaro Carbonell Rodríguez on completing the PhD in Environmental Economics! 😊

Álvaro's thesis is titled 'Essays in Environmental Policy Assessments through Macroeconomic Modelling Enhancements'.

19/08/2026

Are you a new student joining the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE this September?!

Check out our Welcome site for all the info on where to be and when!

We can't wait to welcome you 😊

https://zurl.co/BKgA9

13/08/2026

Congratulations to Jessie Speer on the publication of her new book, Bulldozed: Homeless Encampments and the Politics of Demolition, with Columbia University Press.

Drawing on more than a decade of research, Bulldozed examines the demolition of homeless encampments in the United States, exploring the forces driving this “bulldozer approach” and the resistance movements challenging displacement and dispossession.

Find out more about the book and Jessie’s research 👇

California sits at the epicenter of the US housing catastrophe. Across the state, unhoused people have banded together to build shantytowns and encampments, ... | CUP

12/08/2026

We're delighted to share that MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation alum Indigo Jones has published her Master's dissertation! 👏

Congratulations, Indigo, on this impressive achievement and on sharing your research with the wider academic community.

Read the paper: https://zurl.co/5kW4K

10/08/2026

Spotlight on… Zheng Wang⭐

We speak to Zheng Wang, our new Associate Professor in Urban Planning, about growing up between Austria and China during a period of extraordinary urban change, the questions that continue to drive his research, and why wandering cities with an ice cream in hand is one of his favourite pastimes.

🔴 https://zurl.co/Qhwhs

05/08/2026

Congratulations to PhD candidate in Environmental Policy and Development, Nikolaus Hastreiter, on winning the 2026 PRI Best Ph.D Student Paper Award for his paper, "Can Investor Coalitions Drive Corporate Climate Action?"! 🎉

🔴 Read Nikolaus's winning paper https://zurl.co/4UY7O
🔴 Learn more about the awards https://zurl.co/47l2o

04/08/2026

How much of science's credibility problem comes not from outright fraud, but from the incentives built into the research system itself?

A thought-provoking review in LSE Review of Books explores 'The Credibility Crisis in Science' by Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer, which examines how publication pressures can distort scientific knowledge. Rather than focusing solely on high-profile cases of data fabrication, the book shines a light on the more subtle practices that can influence research design, analysis and reporting.

Luciano Magaldi Sardella finds the book an indispensable examination of the institutionally-driven pressures of modern research and a clear-eyed analysis of the possibilities of, and challenges to, reform.

📖 Read the review 👇

The Credibility Crisis in Science by Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer explores how researcher incentives and publication bias distort scientific knowledge