This photo was taken in Dec 2019 at the graduation ceremony of the Master in Finance on the Holborn campus and features the emblematic LSE Pinguin mascot, which unfortunately disappeared...
Firoz Lalji scholarship awardees from the Department of International Development (Class of 2017) at the Scholars' Meeting in the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre on 3 November 2016.
Submitted by: Devika Hovell Date: July 2020 Location: At home in Australia
This photo was taken by my husband after we relocated to Australia and will always remind me of the challenge of writing during Covid. Due to home-schooling and nurseries being closed from time to time, pushing ahead with writing projects was often done in the company of children...who were not always entirely respectful of the tools of the research trade!
Academic knowledge is perhaps the least of all the things I learnt in my year at LSE. This is not to say that I didnt learn an incredible amount in the classroom, but to say that I also learnt so much beyond. I remember thinking when I first arrived that everyone around had an edge over me, some students were from Ivy League schools, they were better equipped, brighter; someone in my class even worked for Obama! My first day at LSE I literally googled in the simplest words possible - how to write an essay. I wasnt sure if I knew the right way to cite, or the right way to structure my paper. LSE showed me that you can truly achieve anything you set your mind to. Its a school that teaches you how nothing succeeds like excess; how to work hard, but also how to work smart. I was one of four people in my course, the MSc in Strategic Communications, to graduate with a distinction. Here is me just before the ceremony with my best friend Sanjana just outside Peacock Theatre, in December 2018. So proud of being an LSE alum!
New Year's eve. 2009. 4 friends chilling out at Nurthemberland Hall before going to see the Fireworks. Kasturi Ghatak from India- M.Sc. Biomedicine, bioscience and Society. Esha Sraboni from Bangladesh- M.Sc. Social Policy. Rajiv Ahmed from Bangladesh, M.Sc. Social Policy. Taslim Hussain Ahmed from Bangladesh. M.Sc. Developmental Studies.
Submitted by: Beatriz Tiago Fernandes Marques Da Silva Date: March 2021 Location: At home in London
Grimshaw [LSE's oldest student society, supported by the International Relations Department but open to students of any subject with an interest in international affairs] held an online event on the Western Sahara conflict on the 5th of March with three speakers. The event was very popular and an opportunity to continue to host insightful conversations within our community at LSE despite the pandemic.
Submitted by: Beatriz Tiago Fernandes Marques Da Silva Date: 31 March 2021 Location: LSE Library
Despite the academic year having been incredibly difficult for our student newspaper The Beaver, the features team still met every week to share our ideas for articles and enjoy some time venting about how busy our week had been so far. Our last meeting felt bittersweet as some of our friends in the team were graduating soon without us having properly hang out in person all together. I still could not be prouder of our team effort. We made memories over Zoom that won't be easily forgotten.
Freshers Grand Ball October 1980 - main act was the unknown band U2 in the Quadrangle! We didn't know who they were and weren't impressed so we wandered off to see another band or most likely to the bar.
Submitted by: Grammateia Kotsialou Date: May 2020 Location: Gunnersbury Park, London
The lockdown period awakened a creative part of me, a passion for photography. During a lockdown 'exercise' walk with my husband, I saw this spot and tried to capture as much as possible of this beauty.