Christian is Co-Director of the MSc in Behavioural Science and responsible for the academic leadership and management of this programme. He is also Co-Lead of its Wellbeing Specialism, a unique Master’s specialisation that offers students a rigorous training in the science of wellbeing and its application to policy. He teaches PB405 “Foundations in Behavioural Science”, LSE’s core behavioural science course.
In PB441 “Wellbeing for Policy”, Christian teaches students how to use wellbeing data for policy appraisal and evaluation. The assessment is a field simulation, in which students are given a real policy problem from UK Government and then work together as teams and present their solutions to actual policy-makers. Recent partners included the Department for Transport (DfT); the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC); and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). The course is accompanied by guest lectures featuring practitioners from across all sectors (governments, businesses, and NGOs).
Christian also teaches in LSE’s School of Public Policy, as supervisor of Capstone Projects in the MSc in Public Administration and as leader of Policy-in-Practice Workshops in the Executive MSc in Public Policy. He has taught executive students in the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science for many years, as well as in other courses in LSE’s executive education portfolio (EE917 “Creating High-Performing and Inclusive Organisations”).
In LSE’s Summer School, Christian teaches IR224 “Happiness and Policy”, the first comprehensive Summer School course on the science of wellbeing and its application to policy for advanced Bachelor’s and Master’s students. He also organises the LSE Wellbeing Seminar, the longest-running seminar dedicated to research in the economics of wellbeing worldwide.
As a member of the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science’s Teaching Committee and LSE’s Academic Board and Graduate Studies Sub-Committee, Christian is actively shaping the development and delivery of teaching and its quality assurance in the department and the wider LSE. For his teaching, he has received several of LSE’s Excellence in Education Awards as well as Student Union Teaching Awards.
Christian’s current PhD students at LSE are Sharon Raj, Hannah Chappell (part-time, Behavioural Insights Team), and Pinar Jenkins (part-time, Revolut). He also co-supervises Andreea Stoica at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). His former PhD students are Dr Nils Mallock (placed at King’s College London) and Dr Luc Schneider (placed at LSE).