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Contributor(s): | Think of London housing and you probably imagine a terrace of Victorian houses with neat gardens. But most of the city's new homes are flats in blocks and towers, often at very high densities. In this film, residents of several high-density developments show us what they like and don't like about their homes. The film is part of a three-year research and knowledge-exchange programme exploring residents' experience of high-density living.

Contributor(s): Michael Bruter, Sarah Harrison | A bite size introduction to the concept of electoral ergonomics, which Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison have crafted to understand the interface between the psychology of voters and the organisation of elections, focusing on all the apparently anodyne aspects of electoral arrangement that may in fact trigger different emotions, memories, or reactions on the part of voters.

Contributor(s): Atte Jääskeläinen | National news agencies in Europe are facing significant challenges due to a series of financial, political and cultural crises operating on national, transnational, and global scales. Yet these crises also present important opportunities for innovation and diversification in the context of a rapidly evolving news environment.

Contributor(s): Professor Eileen Barker | What is a cult? Are all cults dangerous? Do they use brainwashing?

Contributor(s): Jo Cantley | Healthy Minds is a unique curriculum that redefines personal, social and health education in secondary schools. It aims to develop emotional resilience and self-efficacy in students. The London School of Economic and the charity Bounce Forward have collaborated to pilot the curriculum in 32 Secondary schools. This short film looks at the results.

Contributor(s): Lin Yang | GDP is a statistic that has dominated international goal-setting standards for growth for decades. But in an era when GDP growth statistics are telling a different story from the lived experiences of so many in society, is it time to end its supremacy and establish a measure that better reflects and serves the values of society?

Contributor(s): Victoria Adewole, Lucy Bryant, Nisan Albayrak, Ganga Shreedhar | Find out about the LSE Festival research competition 2019 with our introductory video, filmed at the 2018 competition exhibition and prize-giving.

LSE Festival research competition 2019: Call for submissions from LSE students and staff. Submit your poster, photograph, short film or written pitch to the LSE Festival research competition by Monday 21 January 2019 to get the chance to showcase your project and win £250! Visit http://www.lse.ac.uk/Research/lse-festival-research-competition for full details. This year’s theme is New World (Dis)Orders. To help you with your submission, take a look at our toolkit and previous winners. All submissions will feature on an online gallery while an exhibition of shortlisted entries and a prize-giving will take place at the LSE Festival 25 February-2 March 2019. #LSEFestival

Contributor(s): Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, Andy Done-Johnson, Ben Bradley, Martin Rigley, Jim Burley | This film is part of the research project: 'Debating Brexit impacts at local level: a mixed methods comparative study'. Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit, LSE. For more information visit us at: lse.ac.uk/ccs/brexit

Contributor(s): Dr Michael Muthukrishna | Dr Michael Muthukrishna shines an evolutionary light on the problem of corruption revealing that rather than a breakdown in cooperation, corruption *is* cooperation. One scale of cooperation, typically the one that’s smaller and easier to sustain, undermines another. The mechanisms that sustain these scales of cooperation are well understood within evolutionary biology and cultural evolution giving us new tools in the battle against corruption. Drawing on recent work, he reveals that transparency is not enough in the places with the highest corruption, and can even make the problem worse. He explains how competition between societies and between different ways of doing things - cultural-groups selection - has been responsible for the suppression of cooperation over history.

Contributor(s): Dr. Sara Evans-Lacko | Dr. Sara Evans-Lacko from the LSE Personal Social Services Research Unit discusses depression in the workplace and why managers should support people with depression. Read the full manuscript here:

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/6/e021795