Our theme in 2022 was Resilience and London’s “new normal”.
How can a city, an industry, or a community be resilient?
After times of crisis, what stays stable, and what changes?
Resilience means different things in various disciplines, and academic research has investigated the idea of resilience at every scale: nations and ecosystems can be resilient, but so can societies and individuals. Is resilience an essential quality during taxing times? Or is ‘resilience’ a misleading term? Do calls for resilience ask (or expect) even more from the people (and things) under most pressure?
GROUPS 2022 ran between Monday 6 and Friday 17 June. The winning groups in our three award categories were:
Best paper
Group 6
Nuzhat Choudhury, Sachin Tissera, Wange Li, Aalyan Malik, Mastura Omar, Magnus Yeung, Shimin Zhang and Shiqi Lu
#ShutdownLockdown: Compliance or Non-Compliance? A mixed/multi-method analysis of decreasing tendencies to comply with lockdown restrictions in the UK
Best presentation
Group 11
Jai Patel, Alicja Ulejczyk, Julia Treuer, Jiayuan Wu, Adam Munandar, Elisa Crescenzo and Shaurya Chandravanshi
The Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on diversity in friendship groups: negative effects of COVID restrictions on LSE students
Popular prize (student vote)
Group 8
Jingtong Lu, Theerisara Silaphatkul, Amneet Nandra, Helene Sentuc, Anzhen Gu, Sylvia Naneva and Hei Tong Tang
How do traits of introversion or extroversion influence the adaptation of LSE students to online learning?
You can download copies of all the groups' research papers below.