RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
RESEARCH
Our researchers have continued to generate knowledge in response to COVID-19. Whether addressing the challenges of COVID-19 or maintaining our vital work in other areas, our research and knowledge exchange activities continue to focus on impact to create fairer, healthier, more prosperous and sustainable societies.
Our new Strategy targets research of demonstrably high quality and with significant impact to address global challenges relevant to our three chosen themes – namely, equity and improvements in health and wellbeing, sustainability of communities and the environment, and inclusive socio-economic development and enriching lives through culture. The University’s ambition to make a better world through research and our combined strengths underpinning our new thematic priorities is exemplified in this sample of projects developed this year. Our research tradition of work on enabling citizen action, whether it be through supporting social enterprise, understanding community action or applying participatory research methods, is a distinctive feature of some of the examples here, that shows how impact can be generated through participation and process as well as final outcomes.
From March 2021, Dr Sally Priest, Head of the Flood Hazard Research Centre is leading the SOLARIS project. This hypothesises that social and spatial inequalities exist and threaten the implementation of climate change adaptation policies and the equitable involvement of affected citizens and seeks remedies that grow from community involvement. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), it is due to be completed in 2024. Dr Loraine Leeson of the Department of Visual Arts is co-investigator for the ambitious Spaces of Hope project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), which intends to document the history of community-led planning in the UK as a means of better understanding how communities can shape their own future.
Meanwhile, Dr Tanya O’Garra from the Business School began contributing to the Sustaining and Strengthening City Climate Action in the COVID-19 Crisis for a Green and Climate-resilient Recovery (ClimateCitiesRecovery) project. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, this aims to deepen theoretical understandings of city climate action during crises, and of the conditions that sustain and strengthen them.
Online abuse is known to affect people’s mental health, and it’s no different for journalists. Reporters use social media to gather and tell their stories, but frequently receive vitriolic online attacks just for doing their jobs. To help them cope with this, Dr Maja Šimunjak in the Department of Media secured AHRC funding for ‘#BeObjective #BeKind #Be... Journalists’ Emotional Labour in the Era of Social Media’. This intends to develop guidelines for emotional education, which will prepare journalists for exposure to often vicious criticism and abuse on social media.
Professor Dave Lewis in the School of Law extended his work on whistleblowing – the tough, necessary business of speaking out against wrongdoing within one’s own organisation. He has begun a collaborative project with colleagues at Aarhus University, funded by the Norwegian Research Council, entitled ‘Workers’ Voice and the Right to Manage: the Case of Whistleblowing in a Comparative Context’.
Our interdisciplinary research as part of the LSE-led Gender, Justice and Security Hub has continued in the face of significant challenges, including a slight reduction in budget due to government cuts to Official Development Assistance (ODA) which funds the Hub’s work through its Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). As a result, the project has had to be rescoped, but will continue its work to advance gender justice and inclusive security in conflict-affected societies. We are enormously proud of the work undertaken by our researchers in this project to date.
During the year programmes of research to shape a better world through technology continued to be extended in new directions. Professor Richard Bayford of the Department of Natural Sciences undertook joint work with colleagues at University College London (UCL) to create technology for oral cancer screening, while Professor Rena Papadopoulos of the Department of Mental Health and Social Work used EU funding to support her contribution to ‘Preparing Health and Social Care Workers to Work with Socially Assistive Artificially Intelligent Robots in Health and Social Care Environments’.
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