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==== Research centres ====
The school houses a number of centres including the [[Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion]], the [[Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy]], the Centre for Macroeconomics, the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE Health and Social Care, the Financial Markets Group (founded by former [[Bank of England]] governor [[Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury|Sir Mervyn King]]), the [[Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment]] (chaired by [[Nicholas Stern|Lord Stern]]), [[LSE Cities]], the UK [[Department for International Development]] funded [[International Growth Centre]] and one of the six the UK government-backed 'What Works Centres' – the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth.  The [[Greater London Group]] was an influential research centre within LSE from the late 1950s on, before being subsumed into the [[LSE London]] research group.<ref>{{cite book | editor-last=Kochan | editor-first=Ben | date=2008 | title=London government 50 years of debate: The contribution of LSE's Greater London Group | publisher=London School of Economics | first=George | last=Jones | chapter=The Greater London Group after 50 years | pages=15–22 | chapter-url=http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/63374/1/Kockan_London_Government_50_Years_of_Debate.pdf | access-date=26 January 2019 | archive-date=1 November 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101134603/http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/63374/1/Kockan_London_Government_50_Years_of_Debate.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> In February 2015, [[Angelina Jolie]] and [[William Hague]] launched the UK's first academic Centre on Women, Peace and Security, based at the school. The centre aims to contribute to global women's rights issues, including violence against women and women's engagement in politics, through academic research, a post-graduate teaching program, public engagement, and collaboration with international organisations.<ref name="Guardian02-15">{{cite news |last1=Topping |first1=Alexandra |last2=Borger |first2=Julian |date=10 February 2015 |title=Angelina Jolie opens UK centre to fight warzone violence against women |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/10/angelina-jolie-opens-london-centre-to-combat-warzone-violence-against-women |url-status=live |access-date=10 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210170316/http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/10/angelina-jolie-opens-london-centre-to-combat-warzone-violence-against-women |archive-date=10 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite web |date=10 February 2015 |title=New Centre for Women, Peace and Security launched at LSE by William Hague and Angelina Jolie Pitt |url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2015/02/WPSCentre.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210190842/http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2015/02/WPSCentre.aspx |archive-date=10 February 2015 |access-date=10 February 2015 |publisher=London School of Economics}}</ref> Furthermore, in May 2016 it was announced that Jolie-Pitt and Hague would join [[Jane Connors]] and Madeleine Rees as visiting professors in practice from September 2016.<ref>{{cite web |date=23 May 2016 |title=LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security appoints New Visiting Professors in Practice |url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2016/05/WPS-Visiting-Professors-in-Practice.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524104047/http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2016/05/WPS-Visiting-Professors-in-Practice.aspx |archive-date=24 May 2016 |access-date=21 August 2017 |website=London School of Economics}}</ref>