The second annual LSE interdisciplinary student research conference took place on Thursday 16 June, 10am-7pm (BST) during LSE Festival. The programme (PDF) is available here.
Video recordings of the presentations and a poster gallery will be uplaoded in due course.
This year’s conference drew on the 2022 LSE Festival theme: how do we get to a post-COVID world? The conference showcased social science research from LSE students and recent alumni and considered how we make the big ideas of life after the pandemic a reality, and explored the practical steps we might take to get there.
The conference is a space to interrogate how we approach research questions, create and disseminate knowledge, and break down barriers between different social science disciplines. It is a friendly and inclusive space to hear LSE students and recent alumni share research from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with an emphasis on projects that cross disciplinary boundaries, challenge existing paradigms, and apply new approaches and methods to re-envision what social science research looks like.
View the programme (PDF) now
The full draft programme is listed below.
In-person registration - 9.30-10am
First Floor, Marshall Building (MAR)
Welcome and opening keynote panel - 10-11am
Room: MAR 1.10
- Dr Mark E. Allinson - Director of Student Experience, LSE
- Dr Chris Blunt - Assistant Professorial Lecturer and Co-Director of LSE100, LSE
- Dr Jillian Terry - Assistant Professorial Lecturer and Co-Director of LSE100, LSE.
a) Poster flash talks: aspects of social science
Room: MAR 2.04
- Stumbles towards endemicity: exploring the impact of gender gaps in transitionstowards endemicity in the UK, South Korea and Malaysia - Hyo Ju Lee and Anis Farid
- Collaborating on an incomplete history of research ethics - Ismael Kherroub i Garcí
- Tracking the spread of COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter - Marya Shariq and Grace Oswald
- Retaining a post-COVID health force - Marlize Van Sittert
- Digitalisation – blessing or curse for fieldwork? - Swaantje Marten
- Can a plant-based default reduce the consumption of dairy milk in cafeterias? A field experiment - Giovanni Fabris
- Who am I? The single woman solo dweller’s experience of general self-conceptduring the pandemic - Rani Chatrath.
b) AI, surveillance and data
Room: MAR 2.08
- How might a different social order be built in post-COVID-19 less reliant on data? - Kedi Zhou
- In the era of mass supervision: stigma, dispossession, and resistance - Kendra Mills
- A TFL without delays? Making the impossible, possible in a post-COVID world - Derek Qu
- How to remove bias and political polarisation under AI surveillance capitalism in social media - Wilburt Wang, Angelina Pang, Will Nutbrown and Lucheng Xie
- Artificial intelligence in facial recognition – problems and proposals - Iyad Mohamed.
c) Information, influence and political discourse
Room: MAR 2.10
- Against epistemic trespassing - Roan Chavez
- What the pandemic revealed about news reporting & disinformation? A case for empathy-building journalism - Nabeel Khan
- The political costs of failing to deliver – productivity and right-wing voting - Avram Liebenau
- Judicial transparency and open justice: opportunities and challenges - Pablo Hilaire Chaneton
- Say ‘watt’? Challenging the discursive hegemony of British energy transition narratives - Antonia Tjin-Lei Syn.
d) Film screening: Visual International Politics
Room: MAR 1.10
Lunch buffet available outside MAR 1.10.
a) The future of work
Room: 2.04
- Exploring the impact of remote working on organizational culture during COVID-19: a qualitative study of the ‘Intercontinental Hotel Group’ (IHG) in Singapore - Havishyan Thakral
- Exploring remote working experiences among working parents in post-COVID-19 Britain - Chen-Ta Sung
- Effect of stringent COVID regulations on female labor share - Anushka Srivastava
- What works when you work from home – lessons from the pandemic - Alexandra Kirienko
- Why do migrant workers in Singapore experience health disparities during COVID-19? - Nicholas Nghai.
b) Social transformation, welfare and change
Room: 2.08
- The Brave New World – Gaia cleavage - Matteo Pavesi
- Social protection and investments in welfare for a post-COVID world - Bhuvan Majmudar
- A constitutional framework for the post-COVID world - Travis Bean
- 100 seconds to midnight - Soffia Baragar
- Just one name - Nancy Nai-Huei Lu.
c) Education and inclusion
Room: 2.10
- “They don’t have to say it for me to know”: exploring post COVID-19 parental love in Indian families - Devyani Mahajan
- Reconciling the colonial past and present to build a de-colonial future at LSE - Zoya Zia
- Peer support and mental health done the right way - Sia Sha and Oli Chaplin
- Understanding student experiences off-campus in a post-pandemic world – an LSE Change Makers research project - Needa Khan
- Foreigners and us’: Meaning-making of COVID-19 prevention among Chinese international students - Yiwen Wu.
Break - 2.45-3pm
Afternoon keynote - 3-4pm
Room: MAR 1.10
- How to Solve Wicked Problems - Dr Paul Hanstedt, Director of the Houston H. Harte Center for Teaching & Learning Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA, USA).
Break - 4-4.15pm
a) Illness, wellbeing and experience
Room: MAR 2.04
- Transformative choices and illness - Iwan Raats
- Facing the final death: epidemics and religious change in the Deacon archives - Edvald Johnsen
- Isolation is the new reality - Maria Golub
- AccessArt - Devon Ostrom
- Bodies in difference: policy, programs and people in the UAE’s disability landscape - Hafsa Ahmed.
b) Health, policy and recovery
Room: MAR 2.08
- Medicaid eligibility & mortality: evidence from the Affordable Care Act - Wilson King
- The light of the dawn: how vaccination is navigating the recovery of economy in the pandemic period - Jiewei Li
- A state-centric governance perspective of policy responses to COVID-19 in the Caribbean - Jochelle Greaves Siew
- Implications of anti-ICT controversies for science communication: a case of the UK’s biggest anti-Covidpass campaign - Zichen Hu.
c) Power and position in international contexts
Room: MAR 2.10
- A ‘mission civilisatrice’ for the 21st century: history, demography and ‘obscurantism’ in French presidential discourse on sub-Saharan Africa - Joss Harrison
- China and the United States since 1949 - Rosalie Röchert
- How child disempowerment precipitates gendered oppression - Henry J. Lowe
- A comparative discourse analysis for the use of fear in French and American rightwing populist discourses - Josephine Aulnois
- Dis/locating empire: the hidden curriculum and imperial logics of transnational migration - Avani Ashtekar.
Come along to the first floor of the Marshall Building to browse the poster gallery and a closing reception.
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