About

LSE Press

The London School of Economics and Political Science was founded with the purpose of understanding the causes of things and for the betterment of society. Today, LSE is a world-leading social science research institution with global impact, where scholarly values are upheld and societal issues are publicly debated from a diversity of viewpoints. Open Access publishing – making important scholarly work accessible to everyone – therefore accords with LSE’s role as the global convenor of influential debates on these critical issues.

Launched in May 2018, LSE Press supports the promotion of high-quality social science research and enables wide public access through the use of open, digital publication methods. We publish books and journals and encourage and facilitate innovative and experimental publications.

LSE Press works with authors to develop and launch publications that reflect the LSE founding purpose and mission.  

Guiding principles:

• Promote high-quality social science research
• Encourage and facilitate innovative and experimental publications
• Enable free, global access through an Open Access model

Get in touch about your next book, journal or to send us a full proposal: LSE.Publishing@lse.ac.uk

The LSE Research Committee has overall responsibility for the LSE Press. Publication proposals will be reviewed by members of the Editorial Board and external peer reviewers. All proposals are subject to rigorous, subject specific peer-review prior to publication.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at LSE Press

We know that the publishing industry and higher education have much work to do to create genuine diversity, equity and inclusion. The LSE Press team and our editorial board are committed to advancing equity, diversity and inclusion across all of our publications.

LSE Press is a signatory to EvenUP, a new framework that seeks to align and amplify EDI initiatives from UK and Irish university presses. As part of our involvement, we’ll be regularly surveying our authors and editors to monitor the progress of our efforts.

Professional memberships

LSE Press is a member of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and the Open Institutional Publishing Association.

Editorial Board

The LSE Press editorial board meets five times in each academic year and will ensure that the quality of scholarly work published by the Press meets the high standards of LSE and is aligned with the intellectual strategy of the Press.

	Professor Dame Sarah Worthington (LSE Press Chair of Editorial Board) Professor of Law, Law School, LSE Sarah Worthington returned to the LSE in 2022 as a professor of law. This followed 11 years in Cambridge as the Downing Professor of the Laws of England, a Fellow of Trinity College and Director of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, a centre she established jointly on her arrival in Cambridge. She has combined research and teaching with a keen interest in governance and strategy generally, spending five years as a Pro-Director at the LSE (2005-2010). She was Treasurer of the British Academy from 2015-20 and President of the Society of Legal Scholars in 2007-2008. She is a Barrister and Bencher of Middle Temple and an Academic Member of South Square Chambers, Gray’s Inn. She was made QC(Hon) in 2010 and awarded a DBE for services to private law in 2020.
	Niamh Tumelty (LSE Library Director: ex officio) Director of LSE Library and Managing Director of LSE Press Niamh Tumelty is Director of LSE Library, which includes the role of Managing Director of LSE Press. Her approach centres around the design of policy and services based on deep understanding of the needs of differing disciplines, and she has a particular interest in what open social science would look like if designed from this perspective. Prior to joining LSE, Niamh was Head of Open Research Services (Associate Director) at Cambridge University Libraries and a Fellow of Newnham College.
	Dr Frédéric Basso Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
	Dr Simon Bastow Associate Professorial Lecturer, School of Public Policy, LSE
	Professor Martin Lodge Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Department of Government, LSE
	Dr Dylan Mulvin Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE
	Dr Ronald C. Po Associate Professor, Department of International History, LSE
	Dr Lewis Ross Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
	Dr Dorottya Sallai Assistant Professorial Lecturer, Department of Management, LSE
	Dr Margot Salomon Associate Professor of Law, Law School, LSE
	Dr Nick Sage Associate Professor of Law, Law School, LSE
	Dr Thomas Sampson Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, LSE Dr Jessie Speer Assistant Professor in Human Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

Houghton St Press

Student work is published through our Houghton St Press imprint, both as part of taught programmes and as discrete student-led publication enterprises. Queries regarding Houghton Street Press can be shared with l.lambe@lse.ac.uk