Past Grantees and Fellows

We study whether and how companies use a sanctioned form of public communication—quarterly earnings calls—to communicate strategic information with their competitors to coordinate strategic actions and lower competition, thus circumventing antitrust laws. This work will inform policy regarding firm communication and market competition.

This project aims to understand how mindfulness practitioners incorporate mindfulness practice in their daily activities with and without technology, using semi-structured interviews and design workshops. Insights generated from the study will inform the design of mindfulness tools that scaffold novice practitioners' mindfulness journey, adapt and personalize their practice for their mental wellbeing needs.

My project aims to explore agrifood system transitions through enhanced circularity in Kenya. I will synthesize available datasets to examine how, under different policy scenarios and engagement activities, the agrifood system transition can allow us to achieve synergistic outcomes in human and environmental wellbeing.

This research aims to investigate how to ensure just transition of socio-environmental systems to achieve food security and rangeland sustainability in the drylands. It focuses on the Kenyan drylands that support hundreds of thousands of pastoralists whose livelihoods are directly tied to the land.

Using a mixed methods approach, this project systematically examines the landscape of fertility and family leave policies among the largest corporations in the US by surveying Fortune 500 Companies. Investigating the supply side of ART will provide insights on reproductive healthcare access amid rising demand.

The aim of this project is to understand the convergence of digital and neuro-technology in chronic pain amidst the opioid crisis. It compares pain technologies combining neuro-technological interventions with data-driven techniques. The project will analyse their promise as "post-opioid" technologies as well as associated risks.

Through semi-structured interviews, this project aims to understand the facilitators and barriers to the implementation of a food pantry-based Produce Prescription program in New York City from stakeholders’ perspectives. The findings will inform the design and implementation of community-clinic-partnered health interventions.

The proposed work will contribute to the development of a validated outdoor playspace audit tool. Through this initial mixed-methods testing and preliminary validation of a draft tool at 6-8 pilot sites the work will support the final refinement, testing, and publication of this valuable research and design tool.

This study examines the how the community built environment impacts the development and well-being of youth in 2 US cities, and their experience of their community as youth-friendly.  Potential inequities in the provision of environmental resources which support positive youth development will also be examined.

The Civic Playground Project seeks to empower individuals of different backgrounds, languages, and abilities through shared modes of making and collaborative play. The project is anchored in the development and deployment of inclusive frameworks that foster engagement between communities and their built environments.

How do adult residents’ experiences of intergenerational social mobility differ between upgraded and non-upgraded slums in Global South cities? Using semi-structured interviews, I will explore how physical transformations in upgraded and non-upgraded slums in Bogota and Nairobi relate to their residents’ social mobility experiences.

This research project combines agent-based modeling and scenario planning to engage stakeholders in examining reinvestment choices along a spectrum of building reuse to demolition, taking into account larger non-profit and public entities that play an outsized role related to innovation along this spectrum.

In what context is discrimination most severe? Using an experimental approach that updates treatment assignment rules as information is learned, this study will discover the contexts in which human decision-makers make especially discriminatory pairwise choices.