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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-10-01

  What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize?

Contributor(s): Professor Esther Duflo, Elizabeth Lewis Channon, Khari Motayne, Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides | While there are always rumours about who might win a Nobel Prize every year, there is no short list for the globally revered academic... 		  Professor Esther Duflo, Elizabeth Lewis Channon, Khari Motayne, Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides author
2024-09-03

  How can we solve the gender pay gap?

Contributor(s): Nina Rousille, Camille Landais, Jane Garvey | This episode of LSE iQ explores whether gender pay gap reporting, pay transparency and tackling gender norms can reduce the gender pay gap. On average across the globe, for every pound earne... 		  Nina Rousille, Camille Landais, Jane Garvey author
2024-05-21

  Will the US remain the world’s superpower?

Contributor(s): Elizabeth Ingleson, John Van Reenen, Ashley Tellis | A shining city on a hill. America the beautiful. The United States has long been mythologised as the land of dreams and opportunity. And since the fall of the Soviet Union in the earl... 		  Elizabeth Ingleson, John Van Reenen, Ashley Tellis author
2024-04-09

  China, war and the civilizational state

Contributor(s): Professor Christopher Coker | For the late Professor Christopher Coker the answer lay in the rise of a new political entity, the civilizational state. In an episode of LSE iQ which explored China’s position in the world in the coming ce... 		  Professor Christopher Coker author
2024-03-05

  Are we on the verge of a weight-loss revolution?

Contributor(s): Sarah Appleton, Nikki Sullivan, Paul Frijters, Helen | Joanna Bale talks to Helen, who found Ozempic ‘life-changing’, Clinical Psychologist Sarah Appleton, and LSE’s Nikki Sullivan & Paul Frijters. 		  Sarah Appleton, Nikki Sullivan, Paul Frijters, Helen author
2024-02-06

  Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class? | Extra iQ

Contributor(s): Professor Sam Friedman | More than one in four people in the UK, from solidly middle-class backgrounds, mistakenly think of themselves as working-class. Why is this? In this episode of Extra iQ, a shorter style of the LSE iQ podcast, Su... 		  Professor Sam Friedman author
2023-12-12

  How can we tackle loneliness?

Contributor(s): Heather Kappes, David McDaid, Molly Taylor | According to the Office for National Statistics, 7.1 per cent of adults in Great Britain - nearly 4 million people - say they 'often or always' feel lonely. Look around you when you’re in a c... 		  Heather Kappes, David McDaid, Molly Taylor author
2023-11-07

  Can we change the world ?

Contributor(s): Faiza Shaheen, Duncan Green, Dr Jens Madsen | Experts will discuss how change isn't as straightforward as we'd like it to be – How it can be all in the timing and that, at times, you just need to wait for the right moment to make change... 		  Faiza Shaheen, Duncan Green, Dr Jens Madsen author
2023-10-03

  What’s it like to be criminalised for being gay?

Contributor(s): Ryan Centner, James, Jamal | Homosexuality is illegal in just over a third of countries across the globe. Some nations, like Barbados, have recently repealed anti-gay laws, but others, like Uganda, have just introduced the death penal... 		  Ryan Centner, James, Jamal author
2023-09-07

  Is AI coming for our Jobs?

Contributor(s): Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides, Professor Charlie Beckett, Dr Giulia Gentile | We’ll hear about the introduction of Artificial Intelligence in the courtroom, and what might happen if robots take over the roles of judges. Experts w... 		  Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides, Professor Charlie Beckett, Dr Giulia Gentile author