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Browse all the entries to the LSE Festival research competition 2018 from our students and staff.

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Sleepless in Bali

Sleepless in Bali

Alina EpeykinaDepartment of International Relations
The Forgotten Five Billion: Improving Surgical Services in Low and Middle-Income Countries

The Forgotten Five Billion: Improving Surgical Services in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Victoria AdewoleDepartment of Health Policy
Brexit Behaviourally: What Behavioural Lessons Can Be Learned From The 2016 EU Referendum?

Brexit Behaviourally: What Behavioural Lessons Can Be Learned From The 2016 EU Referendum?

Tessa FrasDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Promoting Long Term Saving in a Poor Household can Lead to Greater Social Mobility

Promoting Long Term Saving in a Poor Household can Lead to Greater Social Mobility

Carlos Mesa BaronDepartment of Economic History
The Tomb in the Sky

The Tomb in the Sky

Sara RoebuckEuropean Institute
"They Know Everything": the Role of Community Health Workers in Abortion Access

"They Know Everything": the Role of Community Health Workers in Abortion Access

Rishita NandagiriDepartment of Social Policy
"Does Capitalism Cause Addiction? Empirical Analysis of Alexander's Dislocation Theory of Addiction "

"Does Capitalism Cause Addiction? Empirical Analysis of Alexander's Dislocation Theory of Addiction "

Lucy BryantDepartment of Social Policy
How to Survive a Genocide: Lessons From the Guatemalan Civil War

How to Survive a Genocide: Lessons From the Guatemalan Civil War

Diego Alburez-GutierrezDepartment of Social Policy
Let it Out

Let it Out

Priyanka RoychoudhuryDepartment of Economics
Egyptian Copts Religious Freedom Violations Under the Rhetoric of "National Unity"

Egyptian Copts Religious Freedom Violations Under the Rhetoric of "National Unity"

Dina MoussaDepartment of Social Policy
What Are we Going to Do?

What Are we Going to Do?

Paulius YaminDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science
The #MeToo Movement's Naissance

The #MeToo Movement's Naissance

Martina CalleriEuropean Institute
Acting Tough on Sleeping Rough: How the Welfare State has Failed its Homeless

Acting Tough on Sleeping Rough: How the Welfare State has Failed its Homeless

Muhammad Azar s/o Haj MohamedDepartment of Social Policy
What Lies Beneath? Shortcomings of the Children's Rights Discourse in Confronting Child Labour in Bangladesh and India

What Lies Beneath? Shortcomings of the Children's Rights Discourse in Confronting Child Labour in Bangladesh and India

Tania HardcastleDepartment of Law
The Dark Side of a Successful Developmental State: Prosperity and Poverty in Singapore

The Dark Side of a Successful Developmental State: Prosperity and Poverty in Singapore

Yunqian Agnes ChewDepartment of International Development
Local Actors in Global Arenas: Discursive Strategies Against Transnational Feminism

Local Actors in Global Arenas: Discursive Strategies Against Transnational Feminism

Lay Sheng YapDepartment of Government
So You Want to Change the World?

So You Want to Change the World?

Paulius YaminDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Survival Through an "Age of Conflict": Marking the Trajectory of a Spanish, Ismaili Family During and After La Guerra Civil Española

Survival Through an "Age of Conflict": Marking the Trajectory of a Spanish, Ismaili Family During and After La Guerra Civil Española

Noreen SajwaniDepartment of Health Policy
Perpetual Idleness

Perpetual Idleness

Dora HegedusEuropean Institute
Bounded Rationality in Rules of Price Adjustment and the Phillips Curve

Bounded Rationality in Rules of Price Adjustment and the Phillips Curve

Sitong DingDepartment of Economics
Complaints as Opportunities: What Can the National Health Service Learn from Negative Employee Feedback?

Complaints as Opportunities: What Can the National Health Service Learn from Negative Employee Feedback?

Sai KalvapalleDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Learning To Include Yourself As A Person With A Disability

Learning To Include Yourself As A Person With A Disability

Simon HayhoeCentre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS)
Working and Managing Care: Exploring The Experiences Of Working Carers Managing Direct Payments On Behalf Of An Older Person

Working and Managing Care: Exploring The Experiences Of Working Carers Managing Direct Payments On Behalf Of An Older Person

Vanessa DaveyDepartment of Social Policy
Delivering the Five Giants: Beveridge, Climate Change And The Adaption Of The Political

Delivering the Five Giants: Beveridge, Climate Change And The Adaption Of The Political

Theo GregoryDepartment of Government
Can the Social Contract Justify Secession? A Case Study of the Catalan Demand for Independence

Can the Social Contract Justify Secession? A Case Study of the Catalan Demand for Independence

Eponine Howarth, Chloe Lui, Facundo Rodriguez, Ludovico Picciotto, Rory GillisDepartment of Government
Happy 40th Birthday?

Happy 40th Birthday?

Muhammad Azhar S/O Haj MohamedDepartment of Social Policy
Are Initial Allocation Rules Important for Public Service Delivery and the Allocation of Talent Within Bureaucracies

Are Initial Allocation Rules Important for Public Service Delivery and the Allocation of Talent Within Bureaucracies

Shan Aman-RanaDepartment of Economics
A Balancing Act

A Balancing Act

Jordana RamalhoDepartment of Geography and Environment
Guarding the Ruins of Detroit

Guarding the Ruins of Detroit

Jonathan MijsInternational Inequalities Institute
Precarious Livelihoods in Eastern India's Coal Tracts

Precarious Livelihoods in Eastern India's Coal Tracts

Itay NoyDepartment of Anthropology
Globalization; a Meme Travels Around the World to Be Worn By an Illiterate Salesman at the Sunday Bazaar in Lahore

Globalization; a Meme Travels Around the World to Be Worn By an Illiterate Salesman at the Sunday Bazaar in Lahore

Zahra RaoDepartment of Anthropology
The Dirty Work of "Clean Eating": is the "Nutritionista" Tying Feminism to the Kitchen Sink?

The Dirty Work of "Clean Eating": is the "Nutritionista" Tying Feminism to the Kitchen Sink?

James DeeleyDepartment of Sociology
The Elephant in the Room: Why "When The Buying Stops, The Killing Can Too" Is Still Relevant To Ivory Consumption

The Elephant in the Room: Why "When The Buying Stops, The Killing Can Too" Is Still Relevant To Ivory Consumption

Peishan Yu, Austin Gaghadar, Chris Dann, Ian Hsieh, Manuela Kiehl, Joon BangDepartment of Economic History
"It Was Not Syria But The War That Gave Us Women Rights!" How Forced Displacement Can Be A Catalyst for Women's Empowerment of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

"It Was Not Syria But The War That Gave Us Women Rights!" How Forced Displacement Can Be A Catalyst for Women's Empowerment of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

Aurelia StreitDepartment of International Development
Closing the Gap in Access to Free 'Universal' Early Education: What Types of Provision Can Help Low-Income Families Participate?

Closing the Gap in Access to Free 'Universal' Early Education: What Types of Provision Can Help Low-Income Families Participate?

Tammy Campbell, Ludovica Gambrao, Kitty StewartCentre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)
The Vaults

The Vaults

Girard BucelloEuropean Institute
The Hazy Shade of Palm Oil

The Hazy Shade of Palm Oil

Thomas SmithDepartment of Geography and Environment
Does Reducing Working Hours Increase Wages and Accelerate Labour Productivity?

Does Reducing Working Hours Increase Wages and Accelerate Labour Productivity?

Owen LowryDepartment of Economic History
A New China-Themed India, But Not For Muslim Farmers

A New China-Themed India, But Not For Muslim Farmers

Chiara ArnavasDepartment of Anthropology
Urban Monolith

Urban Monolith

Amy CrinnionDepartment of International Development
The Problem of Health: Evaluating the Legacy of Western Biomedicine on Kenyan Health

The Problem of Health: Evaluating the Legacy of Western Biomedicine on Kenyan Health

Emily Anne WolffDepartment of Government
Resolve, Tenacity, and Relief: Abortion Narratives from a Rural Primary Health Centre in India

Resolve, Tenacity, and Relief: Abortion Narratives from a Rural Primary Health Centre in India

Rishita NandagiriDepartment of Social Policy
Seeing Red, But Acting Green?

Seeing Red, But Acting Green?

Ganga Shreedhar Department of Geography and Environment
China's Two Faced Rhetoric: Mobilising Citizens and Calming Foreigners?

China's Two Faced Rhetoric: Mobilising Citizens and Calming Foreigners?

Hannah Bailey Department of Government
Not My Pipe

Not My Pipe

Julia KingLSE Cities
Nurturing Inequality: How Early Primary School Streaming Creates Difference Via Teachers' Perceptions

Nurturing Inequality: How Early Primary School Streaming Creates Difference Via Teachers' Perceptions

Tammy CampbellCentre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)
What Makes a Good Life?

What Makes a Good Life?

Ian CampbellDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Towards the Vision of the African Union: a Critical Evaluation of the AU Agenda from the Perspective of Anyiam-Osigwe's Group Mind Principle

Towards the Vision of the African Union: a Critical Evaluation of the AU Agenda from the Perspective of Anyiam-Osigwe's Group Mind Principle

Tetsekela Anyiam-OsigweDepartment of Government
99 Luxury Apartments For The 1%

99 Luxury Apartments For The 1%

Ellie SuhDepartment of Social Policy
Gambian 'Vous'

Gambian 'Vous'

Sylvia ChantDepartment of Geography and Environment
Born to Fail? How Influential Was Class in the Examination System in Scotland in the 1970s?

Born to Fail? How Influential Was Class in the Examination System in Scotland in the 1970s?

Ieuan BennettDepartment of Economic History
Socially Situated Empathy: Muslim Minority Emotions for the Holocaust in Germany

Socially Situated Empathy: Muslim Minority Emotions for the Holocaust in Germany

Esra OzyurekEuropean Institute
Can Big Data Heal Ailing Health Systems? Not Without a New Social Perspective

Can Big Data Heal Ailing Health Systems? Not Without a New Social Perspective

Evan GalbraithDepartment of Social Policy
Could an Obstacle Course Help Us Make Access to Healthcare Fairer?

Could an Obstacle Course Help Us Make Access to Healthcare Fairer?

Laura SochasDepartment of Social Policy
Guarding the Monkey King

Guarding the Monkey King

Jiazhi FengjiangDepartment of Anthropology
The Doorman

The Doorman

Xiao Dong LiuDepartment of Economics
Coloured Girls

Coloured Girls

Farhia AbukarLSE Faith Centre
"Something is Rotten in the State of [Power-Sharing]": Why We Celebrate the Failures Of Peacebuilding in Burundi and South Sudan

"Something is Rotten in the State of [Power-Sharing]": Why We Celebrate the Failures Of Peacebuilding in Burundi and South Sudan

Stephen ReimerDepartment of Government
"He [Grandfather] Could Have Been Killed By An Indian… Kinda Ruffles My Feathers a Lil Bit": British-Born Pakistanis' and British-Born Indians' Social Representations of Their Polyphasic Inter and Intra Group Relations in a Focus Group Setting

"He [Grandfather] Could Have Been Killed By An Indian… Kinda Ruffles My Feathers a Lil Bit": British-Born Pakistanis' and British-Born Indians' Social Representations of Their Polyphasic Inter and Intra Group Relations in a Focus Group Setting

Syeda Shahzada Naqvi Zahra ShahDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Through the Dark - Solitude and Solidarity

Through the Dark - Solitude and Solidarity

Joseph LauEuropean Institute
When The Clock Strikes Sunset: The Politics of Time in the Late Ottoman Empire

When The Clock Strikes Sunset: The Politics of Time in the Late Ottoman Empire

Yasemin AkcagunerDepartment of International History
Defending Basic Income: Less Jobs, More Work, and An Assiduous Work Ethic

Defending Basic Income: Less Jobs, More Work, and An Assiduous Work Ethic

Robin JolissaintDepartment of Sociology
Iron Fist - the Fragrance of Dust

Iron Fist - the Fragrance of Dust

Charlotte GauteurEuropean Institute
Shame

Shame

Alejandro NewsomeEuropean Institute
Is the European Union a Prominent Actor in Resolving Displacement Crises in Aspiring Member States? A Case Study: the Republic of Georgia

Is the European Union a Prominent Actor in Resolving Displacement Crises in Aspiring Member States? A Case Study: the Republic of Georgia

Helen BecknerEuropean Institute
Value of Treatment for Brain Disorders: Time Matters

Value of Treatment for Brain Disorders: Time Matters

Michela Tinelli, Martin Knapp, Giovanni EspositoPersonal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU)
Operating Efficiently: Fixing the Market for Surgical Equipment in Low and Middle Income Countries

Operating Efficiently: Fixing the Market for Surgical Equipment in Low and Middle Income Countries

Victoria AdewoleDepartment of Health Policy
Development is in Your Hands

Development is in Your Hands

Yasuka TateishiDepartment of International Development
Insights from Syllabi: LSE International Relations Gender Project

Insights from Syllabi: LSE International Relations Gender Project

Gokhan Ciflikli, Kiran Phull, Gustav MeibauerInternational Relations
Homeless and Cash-free: How Will Transitioning to A Cashless Economy Affect Britain's Homeless?

Homeless and Cash-free: How Will Transitioning to A Cashless Economy Affect Britain's Homeless?

Eimear SparksDepartment of Sociology
Is London Really Open? Perceptions From Young People Living in Stigmatised Neighbourhoods

Is London Really Open? Perceptions From Young People Living in Stigmatised Neighbourhoods

Mario Washington-IhiemeDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Deserting the Uzbek City

Deserting the Uzbek City

Francois GruberEuropean Institute
Boy Riding a Mule in the Mountains of Azerbaijan

Boy Riding a Mule in the Mountains of Azerbaijan

Martin JehliEuropean Institute
Returns to Education: a Household Welfare Approach

Returns to Education: a Household Welfare Approach

Quan XueDepartment of Economics
Unwelcome Home: Managing Migration and Constructing Citizenship

Unwelcome Home: Managing Migration and Constructing Citizenship

Mujina KaindamaDepartment of Law
It's Not Me It's You

It's Not Me It's You

Laura KudrnaDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science
The Immigrant Who Voted to Close the Borders: the "Inner Outside" Position of Eurosceptic South Asians in Brexit Britain

The Immigrant Who Voted to Close the Borders: the "Inner Outside" Position of Eurosceptic South Asians in Brexit Britain

Anirbaan BanerjeeDepartment of Sociology
Understanding Collective (In)action: Bringing Agency into the Study of Refugee Community Organisations

Understanding Collective (In)action: Bringing Agency into the Study of Refugee Community Organisations

Aishwarrya BalajiDepartment of Social Policy
Identifying the Impact of Collective Action on US Federal Nuclear Energy Policy Between 1975 and 1990

Identifying the Impact of Collective Action on US Federal Nuclear Energy Policy Between 1975 and 1990

James Sanders, Chris Dann, Rafae Qazi, Jintao Zhu, Irene Kyoung, David ZhuDepartment of Government
Love Thy Neighbour? A Study on the Impact of Mosques on Housing Prices in London

Love Thy Neighbour? A Study on the Impact of Mosques on Housing Prices in London

Radiya JamariDepartment of Geography and Environment
The Fundamental Solution for Maximizing Children's Online Opportunities and Minimizing their Online Risks: Critical Media Literacy

The Fundamental Solution for Maximizing Children's Online Opportunities and Minimizing their Online Risks: Critical Media Literacy

DaYoung YooDepartment of Media and Communications
Estimating True Income for Mongolia and Infer Policy Implications

Estimating True Income for Mongolia and Infer Policy Implications

Venu Gopal MothkoorInstitute of Public Affairs
Bottom Dollar

Bottom Dollar

Frederic BassoDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Will Forensic Accounting Improve the Quality of Financial Statements, Enhance Corporate Governance and Ensure Organisational Cost Effectiveness?

Will Forensic Accounting Improve the Quality of Financial Statements, Enhance Corporate Governance and Ensure Organisational Cost Effectiveness?

Rusha NandyDepartment of Accounting
'Place Image' Emergency Care: the Power Of Logical De-Biasing and Food Culture Commonalities to Restore Post-Terror Image of a Place

'Place Image' Emergency Care: the Power Of Logical De-Biasing and Food Culture Commonalities to Restore Post-Terror Image of a Place

Rika SakaiDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Who Helps in Global Disasters? It's Not Being Neighbours, it's Feeling Neighbourly

Who Helps in Global Disasters? It's Not Being Neighbours, it's Feeling Neighbourly

Nihan AlbayrakDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science
To Coup or Not to Coup: How the Zimbabwean Coup Exhibited a New Postcolonial Militarised Masculinity and Complicated the Understanding of Conflict

To Coup or Not to Coup: How the Zimbabwean Coup Exhibited a New Postcolonial Militarised Masculinity and Complicated the Understanding of Conflict

Rutendo ChabikwaDepartment for Gender Studies
The Founding Father on the Wall

The Founding Father on the Wall

Sergen BahceciDepartment of Anthropology
Don't Talk to Strangers? Maybe Mom Was Wrong: a Longitudinal Investigation on Social Capital and Community Driven Development in East Africa

Don't Talk to Strangers? Maybe Mom Was Wrong: a Longitudinal Investigation on Social Capital and Community Driven Development in East Africa

Daniela Baeza BreinbauerLSE Enterprise
A Question of Method (and the Researcher's Role in it)

A Question of Method (and the Researcher's Role in it)

Niamh HayesDepartment of Sociology
Bodies of Affect in Landscapes of Despair

Bodies of Affect in Landscapes of Despair

Paroj BanerjeeDepartment of Geography and Environment
Caught Between the National and the Transnational: EU Claimants at the Frontline Of Welfare Policy

Caught Between the National and the Transnational: EU Claimants at the Frontline Of Welfare Policy

Nora RatzmannDepartment of Social Policy
Risky Talk? Assessing the Effect of Macroeconomic Announcements on Stock Markets

Risky Talk? Assessing the Effect of Macroeconomic Announcements on Stock Markets

Vincent CarseDepartment of Economics