LSE GROUPS (Group Research Opportunity Undergraduate Projects)

24 June 2013 – 5 July 2013

Weeks 9 and 10 Summer Term

lse.ac.uk/tlc/groups

What does it involve?

• Two-week, full-time, student-led original group research project on COMMUNITY (tbc)

• Mixed disciplines and years• Groups of 5-6 to 1 research supervisor

– Study room– Fixed sessions– Ends with a Research Conference on final

day (5 July)

What’s in it for you?

• Developing an ORIGINAL research project• Enhancing your research skills and critical

thinking• Group working, negotiation, communication

skills • Best group-authored conference presentation

and conference paper put forward for journal publication

• Have some fun

Feedback from 2011/2012 participants• ‘An incredible two weeks exceeding my initial

expectations.’• ‘I got an insight into qualitative and

quantitative research methods and worked with a group of students from various backgrounds.’

• ‘[It increased] my ability to explain complicated concepts and theories.’

LSE GROUPS 2011 projects

• How effective has community participation been in enabling sustainable development around Dalston?

• The sustainability of communities: reconception and measurement (BEST CONFERENCE PAPER WINNER)

• Environmental sustainability in public transport

• A wedding for the future: How sustainable was the Royal Wedding?

• To what extent is excess rail commuting socially unsustainable?

• Determinants of successful implementation of environmental policies across London universities (BEST CONFERENCE PRESENTATION WINNER)

LSE GROUPS 2012 Projects• Political Participation of ethnic minorities in Tower Hamlets• To what extent does content diversity of student newspapers

reflect student diversity? (BEST CONFERENCE PRESENTATION WINNER)

• Do people’s income and ethnicity affect the notion of Britishness they adhere to? The Case of the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in London

• With an undergraduate student population spanning over one hundred countries, what is the lived experience of diversity at the LSE?

• The Diversity of LSE Students' Consumer Behaviour and its Potential Explanations (BEST CONFERENCE PAPER WINNER)

If you could do a research project on COMMUNITY focused on London/LSE what question would you ask?

How to apply• Submit application form by 1 March 2013 • ONLY 75 places

– random selection• You must COMMIT to the full two weeks, full

time, 9.00am-5.00pm, Monday to Friday • Successful applications notified by 22 March • Application form ONLINE at

lse.ac.uk/tlc/groups

LSE GROUPS 2011 best conference paper and best conference presentation accepted for British Conference of Undergraduate Research!LSE GROUPS 2012 best conference presentation accepted for BCUR 2013.

• I learned a lot about how to think about research topics, specifically in terms of why it would be interesting and how it is different from other previously published topics.

• How to tactfully work in groups, a process by which concepts and questions become fully formed.

• Research involves not only conducting my own experiments and research methods, but doing an extensive amount of background research based on the field's literature.

LSE GROUPS 2011 and 2012

Comments from attendees at BCUR 2012• "The audience expressed great interest in the

topic as well as the way it was presented." (Tam Trinh)

• "We felt a bit original as most of the people there were on their own, presenting their dissertations … It was a great experience, and it really widened our knowledge about undergraduate research in the UK." (Stavros Stavrikkos)

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