Congratulations to Cheng-Kai (Kai) Hsu, a PhD candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning! He has been honored with two prestigious fellowship awards this summer: the IRLE (Institute of Research on Labor and Employment) Dissertation Fellowship and the Roselyn Lindheim Award in Environmental Design and Public Health.
The IRLE Dissertation Fellowship recognizes Kai's dedicated research into occupational road safety among precarious workers within Taiwan's on-demand food-delivery sector in the emerging gig/on-demand economy.
Concurrently, the Roselyn Lindheim Award will support Kai's interdisciplinary investigation into the impact of urban heat on increasing road traffic injury risks in Taiwan and Latin America. This recognition and the accompanying support will significantly strengthen Kai's dissertation research as he enters his last year of the PhD program.