This year's series of short films featuring LSE research explore the challenges that we face across the world and the practical steps we can take to tackle them.
Festival Shorts are available to watch now via YouTube and the Festival Hub.
Programme
How can we support climate resilient farming in developing countries?
Research by International Growth Centre, featured report by Nick Wilkinson.
How should we manage inter-systemic risk? Lessons from COVID-19 and climate change
Professor Veerle Heyvaert, LSE Law
How do we support cities to handle complex global emergencies like COVID-19?
Dr Philipp Rode, LSE Cities
How can we tackle digital inequalities?
Professor Ellen Helsper, Department of Media and Communications
How can we improve our mental health, and the economy?
Professor Martin Knapp, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC)
How do we improve the benefits system in the UK?
Dr Kate Summers, Department of Methodology
How do we break the class ceiling?
Professor Sam Friedman, Department of Sociology
How do we overcome vaccine fears and tackle structural inequalities?
Elizabeth Storer, Dr Iliana Sarafian and Constanza Torre, Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa
How do we solve our constitutional crisis?
Professor Conor Gearty, LSE Law
How can we help entrepreneurs succeed?
Dr Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, Department of Finance
More about Festival Shorts
Festival Shorts are part of the LSE Festival: How Do We Get to a Post-COVID World? running from Monday 13 to Saturday 18 June 2022, with a series of events exploring the practical steps we could be taking to shape a better world. The full programme is available here.
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