Class of 2020/21 Social & Public Communication
Dr Bankole Falade, Dunhuang with Prof Bradley Franks Class 2007/08 2017 Class of 2019/20 Class of 2006/07 Parts of Class 2016/17
Louise Millar Martin W Bauer SPC Core Team Will Stubbs Also involved: Sandra Jovchelovitch Bradley Franks Alex Gillespie Helen Green (LSE@life) Adrian Bangerter (Neuchatel) Glenn O’Neil (Geneva) Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington
The LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science Founded in 1895 [e.g George Bernard SHAW Library, 6 th floor of Old Building, Concent Hall] by a group of Fabian Socialists ‘to make the world a better place on the basis of empirical research’ Its ‘socialist flavour’ is long evaporated; now politically diverse, but committed to impact in the world. Social science faculty only, unique in the world; we are not a Business School Social science departments / research centres + School of Public Policy + Institutes (e.g. Inequalities) 1995
Department of Social Psychology (1964) one of the first departments at LSE The 1st Social Psychology Dept in Europe Professor Hilde Himmelweit A Pioneer of Political Psychology HH with Eileen Barker 1970 HH & faculty
2016: Psychological and Behavioural Science A new BSc Psychological and Behavioural Science Expanding the Department from 10+ to 25+ staff: 6 MSc programmes A dynamic and innovative environment Award-winning LSE Student Centre Royal Society of London: ‘Attitudes to Science and its Measurement’ Workshop on novel approaches to ‘text analysis’
MSc Social & Public Communication Our Ethos C is foundational to social life and to social sciences C is ubiquitous and basic like ‘breathing’, but we need to relearn to improve it C is complicated: to really understand C, you need to grasp several concepts [the five language games] The Course consists of Four Papers [each at 25% of final mark] 1. PB404 Social Psychology of Communication (25%] 2. Methods training (25%) PB411 + MY454 [qualitative methods] MY465 [quantitative methods] 3. Two options-electives (25%) [programme recommendations] suite 1: – strongly recommended health communication [helping], corporate communication [reputation]; dialogue and negotiation [mediation] suite 2: – recommended political psychology, social representations, social identity and group dynamics, others from PBS 4. Dissertation [25%; an empirical study, January to August]
Our witness for this: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) 7/14/2020
We have a Textbook of the course! 2011 2017
2014 https://www.visualrhetoric.co.uk/ 2021 Data Hackathon Wellcome Global Monitor 2018 144 countries database on Vaccination hesitancy & trust in science Sign-up for it, if you like ……
Martin W BAUER Professor of Social Psychology and Research Methodology Teaching Director MSc Social & Public Communication PB404 Social Psychology of Communication PB422 Health Communication Director of PhD Programme Research: • Health and Science Communication • Public understanding & attitudes to science • Trust in scientists; Science & Society Relations • Resistance and technological change • Text analysis methods
2007 2012 2000 2019 2013 2015
Jenn nnifer S SHEEHY-SKE SKEFFING NGTON Assistant Professor of Social Psychology Teaching • PB404 Social Psychology of Communication • PB428 Political Psychology Research: • Psychological impact of socioeconomic conditions • Perceptions of economic inequality • Foundations of sociopolitical attitudes • Ideology & political rhetoric • Hierarchy, resistance, and social change
COVID-19 Plans for the 2020/21 Academic Session Halls of residence will be open and welcome for all All programmes will continue to maximise students’ • • new students for Welcome (21 st September 2020) ability to work together, both online and on If your enrolment is delayed by travel restrictions or campus , and contribute safely to your learning • problems obtaining your visa, support will be community. A mix of interactive activities between available for you from your academic departments classes will give you the opportunity to connect with and from central support services until you are able our world-leading faculty, share ideas with fellow to join us later in Michaelmas Term. students and engage with LSE’s rich education and New students will be able to register for the research culture. • academic year online , which will be followed with Face coverings whilst indoors on campus in shared • an on-campus enrolment event when you arrive in areas and in communal spaces in residences will be London. mandatory. We will have enhanced cleaning and Small in-person classes, seminars, tutorial hygiene practices, recalibrating space, floor markings to • groups, as well as Harvard style teaching sessions, ensure social distancing, controlled access to campus will run on campus where possible , all in socially buildings. distanced environments. These activities, as well as Disability and Wellbeing Services, Careers, Student • other student support, will also be accessible to Advice and LSE LIFE will continue to be available to students unable to access campus if there is a delay guide you through the next academic year and beyond to you joining us in London. through excellent online and in-person services where Lectures will be delivered online for Michaelmas possible. • Term 2020 . All lectures will be recorded and made You can find news and plans for the next academic year • available for you to access off-campus. here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Graduate/News
How to resist the virus? OR How to design a ‘viral message’ nobody can resist? [but that would be the end of us all] 7/14/2020 16
So What? 7/14/2020 17
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