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Contributor(s): | Apps such as Uber and Just Eat have radically changed the economic landscape, but how has platform technology impacted workers?

Researcher Dalia Gebrial has been exploring what life is like for those who make their living via apps. Her work focuses on race and gender in the platform economy and examines the technologies which make exploitation possible.

🔴 Find out more about this research in #LSEResearchForTheWorld.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/race-equity/race-and-the-platform-economy

Contributor(s): | In Camberwell, south London, LSE’s Configuring Light team have been working on the Brandon Estate to develop a new pilot lighting scheme to demonstrate the potential of lighting on London’s estates. 

Configuring Light research group generates collaborations between social researchers and lighting professionals to help us understand the role lighting plays in our everyday life. Specialising in urban public spaces, our aim is to build better social knowledge and better research methodologies for lighting design and urban planning.

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Contributor(s): | By examining the history of the application of forensic techniques to humanitarian issues, can we now argue that the dead have human rights?

LSE’s Dr Claire Moon has been exploring this history, as well as examining the challenges and innovations in the forensics field in contemporary Mexico. Her research project, Human Rights Human Remains: Forensic Humanitarianism and the Politics of the Grave, promises to confront the human rights paradigm by including the dead in the category of who counts as ‘human’.

Find out more about the project: https://humanrightshumanremains.com

Contributor(s): | What are proxies and how do they influence our lives? This film — inspired by case studies in Dr Dylan Mulvin’s new book from Proxies The Cultural Work of Standing In — explores the power of proxies and how they shape our lives. "Underneath the world we know, there is a hidden landscape of carefully constructed stand-ins, models, prototypes. This ferociously original book maps that region and opens up new ways to explain how our technological infrastructures become what they are.” — Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Stanford University; author of The Democratic Surround 🔴 Read more about this research in #LSEResearchForTheWorld: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/resear...

Contributor(s): Rachel Ngai | Why have wages for low-skilled workers stagnated even in industries that have experienced years of economic growth?

Rachel Ngai has been investigating why these workers have not seen the wage increases that trickle-down economics suggests they should have.

🔴 Find Dr Rachel Ngai’s article on this research in the LSE Research for the World online magazine: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/why-low-skilled-worker-wages-have-stagnated-even-while-the-economy-has-thrived

Contributor(s): Dr Spike Gibbs | How fair was life in medieval England? Was this time beset by power struggles, corruption and lawlessness? If not, how did a system of order prevail? LSE’s Dr Spike Gibbs has been looking at historical records of manorial courts to see how power was distributed in local communities throughout England. Through individual stories of crime and punishment, Dr Gibbs’ research provides an answer.

 

🔴 Find Dr Spike Gibbs’ article on this research in the LSE Research for the World online magazine: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/lords-of-the-manor-feudal-law-and-its-impact-on-rural-village-life

Contributor(s): Dr Sandra Obradović | Why are we so hostile towards anyone with a different opinion? Dr Sandra Obradović explains why we feel the way we do and what that’s got to do with election hostility.

With populism on the rise and political debate polarised, it’s never been more important to understand the psychology of voters.

🔴 Find Dr Sandra Obradović’s article on this research in the LSE Research for the World online magazine: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/politics/differences-in-opinion-growing-hostilities-and-politics-as-usual

Contributor(s): | Do you feel like you’re on a treadmill and happiness is always just around the corner? Are you disappointed that the things you buy don’t bring you lasting happiness? Professor Paul Dolan, from LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, explains why this happens and what to do to improve the way you feel. 

 

This film is based in part, on Paul’s books Happy Ever After: A radical New Approach to Living Well and Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life. 

 

🔴 Find out more about Paul’s research: https://pauldolan.co.uk/

🔴 Listen to Paul's brand new podcast, Duck-Rabbit: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0zUaiarx2SxILYha3gAtGE

Acast: https://play.acast.com/s/duck-rabbit/duck-rabbit

Contributor(s): | The history of planning and housing in the United States and its violence towards communities of colour has played out in so many ways. From red-lining to restrictive covenants and from segregated public housing to deliberately segregated city plans, the Federal Government, financial institutions and planners have all promoted and facilitated a system that has ripped apart cities and communities across America.

 

Drawing on her work as a planning and housing specialist and her role with the Detroit land bank, Dekonti Mends Cole talks about the aftermath of the last financial crisis and its uneven geographic and human impacts on the city. She reminds us that “Housing is civil rights work” showing how profoundly disinvestment in communities of colour grew into pernicious, intergenerational financial inequality with White households having amassed ten times more wealth than their Black counterparts.