Institute of Public Affairs

Contributor(s): Babken Babajanian, Antonella Bancalari, Adrian Brown, Carolina Castillo, Madeleine D’Arcy Professor Conor Gearty, Dr Lloyd Gruber, Pamina Karl, Mark Wilkinson | Learn more about the MPA Capstone project at LSE’s Institute of Public Affairs, a key opportunity to apply the skills and expertise you learn on the degree in a real-world scenario.

Contributor(s): LSE MPA alumni | LSE MPA alumni share their thoughts on the best features of the MPA programme and how it helped their career aspirations.

Contributor(s): MPA Alumni | Listen to our MPA alumni briefly describe their careers.

Contributor(s): Hannah Kramer, Sebastian Gallego Jimenez, Hind Metwalli, Dinker Bhardwaj, Sinae Sung, Dr Lloyd Gruber, Dr Babken Babajanian, Upaasna Kaul, Jeegar Kakkad, Mollie Foust and Madeleine Lee | The LSE Master of Public Administration video shows MPA students, faculty and alumni sharing their experiences of the outstanding interdisciplinary two-year Master of Public Administration degree. Students are taught and equipped with high-level policy analysis skills which are applicable in both the public and private sector in any part of the world.

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Julia Black, Rastus Chow, Bo Chapman, Catarina Heeckt, Arthur Mitski, Dr Jill Stuart, Dr Clara Fischer, Dr Ligia Madeira, Anthony Cilluffo, Katherine Robinson | LSE Research Festival 2015 consisted of a series of events designed to celebrate public engagement with social science research. Our thanks go out to everyone who made the 2015 edition of the festival bigger than ever before. This short film provides visitors with an overview of the festival's events.

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Oriana Bandiera, Dr Daniel Sturm, Dr Joachim Wehner, Professor Simon Hix, Professor Patrick Dunleavy and LSE EMPA students | The LSE Executive Master of Public Administration videos (original and extended versions) use EMPA students, faculty and senior programme staff to give an insight into this highly innovative policy training programme for working professionals. The LSE Executive MPA develops high-level policy analysis skills through world-class education that are applicable in both the public and private sector in any part of the world.

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Oriana Bandiera, Dr Daniel Sturm, Dr Joachim Wehner, Professor Simon Hix, Professor Patrick Dunleavy and LSE EMPA students | The LSE Executive Master of Public Administration videos (original and extended versions) use EMPA students, faculty and senior programme staff to give an insight into this highly innovative policy training programme for working professionals. The LSE Executive MPA develops high-level policy analysis skills through world-class education that are applicable in both the public and private sector in any part of the world.

Contributor(s): Dr Purna Sen, Dr Joyce Banda | The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) at LSE started a new research project called Above the Parapet – Women in Public Life, which seeks to explore the journeys taken by high profile women who shape public life. The project aims to explore the stories of women in senior public life to capture their journeys, the obstacles they have overcome, and the people and dynamics that have enabled them to progress

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Dr Purna Sen, Dr Alasdair Cochrane, Peter Tatchell, Martin Lewis, Mayuri Pandya, John Stafford, Bernard Keenan, Bridget Minamore | Scotland has had its say, now it is the turn of the whole UK. The LSE has already begun. On 26 June 2014, the School's new Saw Swee Hock Student Centre hosted a very special celebration of democracy: ConstitutionUK's Constitutional Carnival. Filmed live at the carnival, participants and speakers discuss what they would include in a written UK constitution. Credits: Endurance Steel Orchestra.

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Diego Soto-Miranda | Professor Conor Gearty interviews London barrister and LSE graduate Diego Soto-Miranda about his background and what a UK Constitution would mean to him.

Contributor(s): Professor Eileen Barker, Dr Matthew Engelke, Revd Dr James Walters, and Professor Conor Gearty | Forget traditional lecture halls and think, instead, an intellectual form of a flash mob. That’s the concept of guerrilla lectures, the first of which happened on 24 October in the crypt of Westminster Cathedral. Keen to experience a unique, engaging, thought-provoking evening, queues of undergraduates, postgraduates and non-academic LSE staff began forming an hour in advance without knowing where they were going or the subject of the lecture. The event, which was eventually revealed to be a discussion about “Hell” led to, as Professor Gearty later attested, “an interplay of background, personality and intellect” with those in attendance forced to wrestle “with questions personal and philosophical thrown up by others”.