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Unit 14: Research Activities

The LSE has been recognised as a Doctoral Training Centre (DTC). As well as research training in the Notes
Department, the Methodology Institute provides a range of specialised courses in quantitative and
qualitative research methods and statistics.

Research Centres and Groups Sponsored by LSE

The following are the key research centres and groups sponsored by LSE:

Research centres

y Asia Research Centre
y Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)
y Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP)
y Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
y Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS)
y Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS)
y Centre for the Study of Human Rights
y Financial Markets Group (FMG)
y The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI)
y IDEAS: International Affairs, Diplomacy and Strategy
y International Growth Centre (IGC)
y LSE Cities
y LSE Health and Social Care
y Middle East Centre
y Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC)
y Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
(STICERD)

Other major research groups

y Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
y Business History Unit
y Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies
y Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)
y Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE)
y Complexity Research Programme
y Crisis States Research Centre
y LSE Health (LSEH) – part of LSE Health and Social Care
y Hellenic Observatory
y LSE London
y LSE Public Policy Group (PPG)
y Mannheim Centre for Criminology

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