2025-03-18
1 小时 28 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Good evening everyone.
It's a great pleasure for me to welcome you to this event and to welcome our online audience,
which I understand is a substantial amount.
I'm Julian Legras, I'm Professor from the Marshall Institute and I'm chairing this event.
This event is part of our inaugural lecture series, the LSE's inaugural lecture series of our professors.
There's a special moment in the school because it's a special moment for an academic's career,
it's a special moment for the school as a whole.
It's academics who have just been promoted or academics who have recently joined the school.
So I'm very glad you're able to join us as we celebrate one of the successes of our community,
Professor Jonathan Roberts.
Jonathan is a late-comer to academia,
which makes it all the more remarkable when you see what he has achieved as an academic.
After getting a classics degree at Cambridge, that's a small university and north of London.
You've probably heard of it somewhere.
He worked for several years in the third sector for charities dealing with children for disabilities.
He then did a PhD at the University at the Department of Social Policy at the LSE,
where he did sufficiently well to achieve the Richard Titmuss Prize,
which was quite which is the prize given out for the best dissertation in the department in that year and a remarkable piece of work it was too.