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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:
Get in touch to have an initial conversation 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.
Student work is published through our Houghton St Press imprint, both as part of taught programmes and as discrete student-led publication enterprises.
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.
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 Patrick Dunleavy (LSE Press Editor in Chief, Chair)Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Department of Government, LSE Patrick Dunleavy studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating in 1973. He moved to Nuffield College, Oxford to work on his D.Phil (published as The Politics of Mass Housing in Britain, 1945-75) until 1978. He became a Junior Research Fellow at Nuffield in 1976. He moved briefly to the Open University as Lecturer in Urban Studies (1978-9) before joining LSE as a Lecturer. He was promoted successively to Reader in 1986 and Professor in 1989. Subsequently he founded LSE Public Policy Group in 1992. He became a (founding) member of the Academy of the Social Sciences in 1999. |
| Beth Clark (LSE Library Director: ex officio)Acting Co-Director of LSE Library and Associate Director: Digital Scholarship and Innovation, LSE Library Beth Clark is Acting Co-Director of LSE Library and Associate Director of the Digital Scholarship and Innovation Group. Beth also leads the development of the LSE Press and the student imprint – the Houghton St Press. |
Dr Mahvish AhmadAssistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics, Department of Sociology, LSE | |
Dr Frédéric BassoAssistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE | |
Dr Simon BastowAssociate Professorial Lecturer, School of Public Policy, LSE | |
Professor Steven CaseyProfessor, Department of International History, LSE | |
Dr Joan Costa-FontAssociate Professor (Reader) in Health Economics, Department of Health Policy, LSE | |
Dr Michael Diamond-HunterLSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy Logic and Scientific Method, LSE | |
Professor Martin LodgeProfessor of Political Science and Public Policy, Department of Government, LSE | |
Dr Dylan MulvinAssistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE | |
Dr Dorottya SallaiAssistant Professorial Lecturer, Department of Management, LSE | |
Dr Margot SalomonAssociate Professor of Law, Law School, LSE | |
Dr Kristin SurakAssistant Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology | |
Dr Johanna ThomaAssociate Professor, Department of Philosophy Logic and Scientific Method, LSE | |
Student work is published through our Houghton St Press imprint, both as part of taught programmes and as discrete student-led publication enterprises.