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00:04:23

What is GDP and why is it bad for us?

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2018/12/14

Contributor(s): Lin Yang | GDP is a statistic that has dominated international goal-setting standards for growth for decades. But in an era when GDP growth statistics are telling a different story from the lived experiences of so many in society, is it time to end its supremacy and establish a measure that better reflects and serves the values of society?

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00:06:32

Promoting Healthy Minds in Schools

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2018/12/14

Contributor(s): Jo Cantley | Healthy Minds is a unique curriculum that redefines personal, social and health education in secondary schools. It aims to develop emotional resilience and self-efficacy in students. The London School of Economic and the charity Bounce Forward have collaborated to pilot the curriculum in 32 Secondary schools. This short film looks at the results.

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00:01:12

Introduction to the LSE Festival research competition...

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2018/10/04

Contributor(s): Victoria Adewole, Lucy Bryant, Nisan Albayrak, Ganga Shreedhar | Find out about the LSE Festival research competition 2019 with our introductory video, filmed at the 2018 competition exhibition and prize-giving. LSE Festival research competition 2019: Call for submissions from LSE students and staff. Submit your poster, photograph, short film or written pitch to the LSE Festival research competition by Monday 21 January 2019 to get the chance to showcase your project and win £250

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00:09:08

Debating Brexit impacts at local level: Mansfield...

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2018/09/19

Contributor(s): Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, Andy Done-Johnson, Ben Bradley, Martin Rigley, Jim Burley | This film is part of the research project: 'Debating Brexit impacts at local level: a mixed methods comparative study'. Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit, LSE. For more information visit us at: lse.ac.uk/ccs/brexit

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00:03:29

On Workplace Depression

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2018/07/26

Contributor(s): Dr. Sara Evans-Lacko | Dr. Sara Evans-Lacko from the LSE Personal Social Services Research Unit discusses depression in the workplace and why managers should support people with depression. Read the full manuscript here: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/6/e021795

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00:04:54

On The Causes of Corruption

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2018/07/26

Contributor(s): Dr Michael Muthukrishna | Dr Michael Muthukrishna shines an evolutionary light on the problem of corruption revealing that rather than a breakdown in cooperation, corruption *is* cooperation. One scale of cooperation, typically the one that’s smaller and easier to sustain, undermines another. The mechanisms that sustain these scales of cooperation are well understood within evolutionary biology and cultural evolution giving us new tools in the battle against corruption. Drawing on

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00:03:10

What is self-construal & how does it affect social...

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2018/07/26

Contributor(s): Professor Benjamin G. Voyer | What is self-construal and how does it affect everyday social interactions? In this video, Prof Voyer introduces the psychological concept of self-construal, and his research on the topic. Self-construal, which refers to the representation that individuals have of their self, others, and the interconnections between the two, guide many of our everyday behaviours, from interactions with our friends and colleagues at work, to how we react to situations

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00:08:10

The Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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2018/07/26

Contributor(s): Professor Andrew Murray | HAL 9000 will soon no longer be science fiction: sentient machines will quickly be with us. As “smart agents” make decisions for human actors a number of important legal issues will emerge. In this short film, LSE Professor Andrew Murray looks at how AI will fundamentally alter our understanding of what the law is and what it can achieve. These themes will be the focus of Professor Murray’s forthcoming book - The Objective Self: Identity and Law in the

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00:06:59

Is capitalism eliminating social inequalities?

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2018/01/17

Contributor(s): Dr Alpa Shah | Proponents of economic growth claim that it will trickle down to everyone, will be good for all. But is this the case? Drawing on her co-authored book, ‘Ground Down by Growth’, LSE’s Dr Alpa Shah looks at how capitalism is entrenching social inequalities in India through inherited inequalities of power; seasonal casual labour migration; and the conjugated oppression of class, tribe, caste and gender. Focusing on India’s Dalits and Adivasis – its low castes and tribes,

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00:05:35

LSE's Nava Ashraf on Altruistic Capital

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2017/09/22

Contributor(s): Professor Nava Ashraf | LSE's Professor Nava Ashraf looks at how organisations and employees can make work more satisfying through the development of altruistic behaviour. To understand altruistic behaviour, she argues, we must understand the process through which altruism develops and is shaped by a person's choices and his or her environment. To do this, Professor Ashraf introduces the concept of altruistic capital, which grows with effort devoted to altruistic acts and facilitates

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00:06:14

Is news reporting fair and objective?

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2017/06/22

Contributor(s): Professor Charlie Beckett | Journalists usually try to be observers, but recently something has changed. We now increasingly see journalists living the story rather than just telling it. In this film LSE’s Professor Charlie Beckett looks at how news reporting is changing. The film draws upon the findings of Rescue or report? The ethical and editorial dilemmas of crisis journalism, written by the journalist Petra Olsson under the supervision of Charlie Beckett.

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00:05:17

LSE’s Brett Heasman on improving public understanding...

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2017/04/11

Contributor(s): Brett Heasman | The word “autism” encompasses both diversity and complexity. Autistic people* have unique ways of experiencing the world and perceiving others, are diverse in their abilities and behaviours, and are often represented from the “outside” by books, films, the media and science. It can be hard for society to understand their specific and complex needs, which can negatively impact their quality of life, relationships, support networks and job prospects. As part of his

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00:10:51

How does austerity affect society and the environment?

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2017/03/02

Contributor(s): Professor Laura Bear | Anthropologist Professor Laura Bear examines the effects of austerity, looking specifically at the Hooghly river in India.

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00:04:42

LSE’s Paula Kiel on the digital afterlife

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2017/02/17

Contributor(s): Paula Kiel | For the past two decades, as in so many other fields of our social lives, digital media has permeated the field of death, dying and bereavement. Some of these online practices are arguable challenging certain aspects of the social construction of death during modernity. In her research, Paula Kiel explores the practices of preparing one’s online presence after death. This exploratory research looks to characterise services offering users to plan for their digital

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00:05:02

Dr Julia Morley on how we measure success in the...

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2016/08/26

Contributor(s): Dr Julia Morley | Julia Morley's research investigates the way we measure success in the social sector. Why has social impact become an increasingly prevalent measure of success? How can we be sure it is conceptually justified and correctly applied by social sector organisations? And how might the use of social impact measurement affect staff? In this film, Dr Morley examines the rise of social impact reporting and argues that a group of individuals working in social investment –

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00:04:14

What going on holiday says about us

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2016/08/15

Contributor(s): Dr Paul Stock | Dr Paul Stock from the International History department looks at how the Grand Tour of the 17th, 18th and 19th century has helped define holidaymaking today. He contends that the history of going on holiday reveals important things about us, not least the UK’s complicated relationship with Europe.

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00:09:40

A twenty-first century metropolitan green belt

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2016/07/31

Contributor(s): Dr Alan Mace, Fanny Blanc, Barney Stringer, Catriona Riddell, Jonathan Seager, Richard Blyth | Housing should be strategically built on the Metropolitan Green Belt to halt its piecemeal development and alleviate development pressure on the Wider South East, while protecting environmentally important areas, says a new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to the report, A 21st Century Metropolitan Green Belt, current planning regulations allow for

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00:06:58

How new London villages can help solve the housing...

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2016/07/23

Contributor(s): Kathleen Scanlon | New research published by LSE and the Berkeley Group explores how urban villages could help address the capital's housing crisis. The report, called 'New London Villages', identifies six characteristics of a real urban village. These include being a place that is unique, mixed, locally driven and designed for social interaction. The authors then tested Kidbrooke Village in the Royal Borough of Greenwich against them and made a series of recommendations for all new

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00:10:53

Tackling Lighting Inequalities – by Configuring...

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2016/05/12

Contributor(s): Mona Sloane, Joanne Entwistle, Don Slater | Light is fundamental to social life. Light, by the same token, can play a key role in reproducing urban inequalities. This film follows the Configuring Light Roundtables project which sets out to explore light as critical urban material and map out how social research and cross-disciplinary collaboration can help make our cities better and more equitable – by day and night.

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00:03:57

Innovation in the Collective Brain

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2016/02/29

Contributor(s): Dr Michael Muthukrishna | In this film Dr Michael Muthukrishna explains the main ideas in his research paper ‘Innovation in the Collective Brain’. He argues that innovation is not the work of geniuses, but rather the product of our combined social knowledge. In short, if you want to be an innovator, it’s better to be social than smart.

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