POLIS: Thinking Like a Social Scientist: a Lecture by Professor Robin Mansell January 21, 2009

In this lunchtime series lectures, a selection of LSE’s academics from across the spectrum of the social sciences explain the latest thinking on how social scientists work to address the critical problems of the day. They survey the leading ideas and contributions made by their discipline, explain the types of problems that are addressed and the tools that are used, and explore the kinds of solutions proposed.

Robin Mansell is professor of new media and the internet and head of the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.

Official Website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/events/2008/20081203t1511z001.htm