We are incredibly proud and delighted to be named winners of the LSESU Departmental Excellence Award for the second year in a row! The awards ceremony was streamed live on YouTube. Congratulations also to Dr Jason Wong for […]
Congratulations to Julia Corwin, Steve Gibbons, Simona Iammarino, Mara Nogueira-Teixeira, Hyun Bang Shin, Olmo Silva, Thomas Smith and Meredith Whitten for winning LSE Excellence in Education Awards for outstanding teaching! Many congratulations to my outstanding […]
Several UPD cluster members were nominated for the 2018 LSE Student Union Teaching Excellence competition. The competition is based on student nominations, and the Student Union administers the selection process. Congratulations to Meredith Whitten who was […]
LSE’s Marshall Institute awarded a research grant to UPD Research Student Jeanne Firth. The Marshall Institute aims to increase the impact and effectiveness of private action for public benefit through research, teaching and convening. Grants are given […]
As part of this year’s annual American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) convening, UPD Research Student Yimin Zhao won third place (tie) in the China Geography Specialty Group’s student paper competition and received a travel stipend […]
UPD cluster Research Student Mara Nogueira-Teixeira recently won the ‘Best Paper at the PhD Level’ in the Latin America Specialty Group’s competition at the AAG annual meeting in Boston, April 2017. Mara’s paper is entitled: ‘Conserving […]
UPD Cluster members strive to produce high quality teaching. Towards the end of the 2015-16 academic year, several cluster members were nominated for the 2016 LSE Student Union Teaching Excellence competition. The competition is based […]
Dr. Nancy Holman of LSE Geography and Environment UPD Research Cluster has won the Learning, Teaching and Innovation IGNITE grant for Online Blended Learning. Six projects were awarded funding based on their innovation, scalability and alignment to […]