The current Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science was formally started in LSE in 2016 and a lot of our current students are on programmes that have been created during the last decade. But clearly there is a far longer history of psychology and behavioural science, dating back to the foundation of the university. The Institute of Social Psychology and incarnatio...

I am coming towards the end of my role as Head of Department at LSE. It has been my primary professional identity for six years at this stage. I will be handing over in August. I was head during covid, industrial unrest, the development of scaled LLM use etc,. But also at a time when psychology and behavioural science was growing quite a lot within LSE. We have hired a lot of...