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Students are taught and equipped with high-level policy analysis skills which are applicable in both the public and private sector in any part of the world.</description><itunes:summary>Contributor(s): Hannah Kramer, Sebastian Gallego Jimenez, Hind Metwalli, Dinker Bhardwaj, Sinae Sung, Dr Lloyd Gruber, Dr Babken Babajanian, Upaasna Kaul, Jeegar Kakkad, Mollie Foust and Madeleine Lee | The LSE Master of Public Administration video shows MPA students, faculty and alumni sharing their experiences of the outstanding interdisciplinary two-year Master of Public Administration degree. Students are taught and equipped with high-level policy analysis skills which are applicable in both the public and private sector in any part of the world.</itunes:summary><pubDate>Wed, 6 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><itunes:order>4</itunes:order></item><item xmlns:Atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:itunesu="http://www.itunesu.com/feed" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><title>LSE Research Festival 2015 [Video]</title><itunes:author>Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Julia Black, Rastus Chow, Bo Chapman, Catarina Heeckt, Arthur Mitski, Dr Jill Stuart, Dr Clara Fischer, Dr Ligia Madeira, Anthony Cilluffo, Katherine Robinson</itunes:author><link>http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/ipa/player.aspx?id=3221</link><itunes:duration>00:04:00</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://media.rawvoice.com/lse_ipa/richmedia.lse.ac.uk/ipa/20150813_researchFestival.mp4" length="34938172" type="video/mp4"/><guid isPermaLink="false">PD5824</guid><description>Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Julia Black, Rastus Chow, Bo Chapman, Catarina Heeckt, Arthur Mitski, Dr Jill Stuart, Dr Clara Fischer, Dr Ligia Madeira, Anthony Cilluffo, Katherine Robinson | LSE Research Festival 2015 consisted of a series of events designed to celebrate public engagement with social science research. 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The LSE Executive MPA develops high-level policy analysis skills through world-class education that are applicable in both the public and private sector in any part of the world.</description><itunes:summary>Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Oriana Bandiera, Dr Daniel Sturm, Dr Joachim Wehner, Professor Simon Hix, Professor Patrick Dunleavy and LSE EMPA students | The LSE Executive Master of Public Administration videos (original and extended versions) use EMPA students, faculty and senior programme staff to give an insight into this highly innovative policy training programme for working professionals.  The LSE Executive MPA develops high-level policy analysis skills through world-class education that are applicable in both the public and private sector in any part of the world.</itunes:summary><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><itunes:order>7</itunes:order></item><item xmlns:Atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:itunesu="http://www.itunesu.com/feed" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><title>Above the Parapet Women in Public Life – The project [Video]</title><itunes:author>Dr Purna Sen, Dr Joyce Banda</itunes:author><link>http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/ipa/player.aspx?id=2723</link><itunes:duration>00:04:13</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://media.rawvoice.com/lse_ipa/richmedia.lse.ac.uk/ipa/20141124_aboveParapetPromo.mp4" length="35487486" type="video/mp4"/><guid isPermaLink="false">PD5091</guid><description>Contributor(s): Dr Purna Sen, Dr Joyce Banda | The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) at LSE started a new research project called Above the Parapet – Women in Public Life, which seeks to explore the journeys taken by high profile women who shape public life. 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The project aims to explore the stories of women in senior public life to capture their journeys, the obstacles they have overcome, and the people and dynamics that have enabled them to progress</itunes:summary><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><itunes:order>8</itunes:order></item><item xmlns:Atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:itunesu="http://www.itunesu.com/feed" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><title>Constitutional Carnival [Video]</title><itunes:author>Professor Conor Gearty, Dr Purna Sen, Dr Alasdair Cochrane, Peter Tatchell, Martin Lewis, Mayuri Pandya, John Stafford, Bernard Keenan, Bridget Minamore</itunes:author><link>http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/ipa/player.aspx?id=2584</link><itunes:duration>00:04:29</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://media.rawvoice.com/lse_ipa/richmedia.lse.ac.uk/ipa/20140923_constitutionalCarnival.mp4" length="38265995" type="video/mp4"/><guid isPermaLink="false">PD4870</guid><description>Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Dr Purna Sen, Dr Alasdair Cochrane, Peter Tatchell, Martin Lewis, Mayuri Pandya, John Stafford, Bernard Keenan, Bridget Minamore | Scotland has had its say, now it is the turn of the whole UK. The LSE has already begun. On 26 June 2014, the School's new Saw Swee Hock Student Centre hosted a very special celebration of democracy: ConstitutionUK's Constitutional Carnival. Filmed live at the carnival, participants and speakers discuss what they would include in a written UK constitution. Credits: Endurance Steel Orchestra.</description><itunes:summary>Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Dr Purna Sen, Dr Alasdair Cochrane, Peter Tatchell, Martin Lewis, Mayuri Pandya, John Stafford, Bernard Keenan, Bridget Minamore | Scotland has had its say, now it is the turn of the whole UK. The LSE has already begun. On 26 June 2014, the School's new Saw Swee Hock Student Centre hosted a very special celebration of democracy: ConstitutionUK's Constitutional Carnival. Filmed live at the carnival, participants and speakers discuss what they would include in a written UK constitution. Credits: Endurance Steel Orchestra.</itunes:summary><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><itunes:order>9</itunes:order></item><item xmlns:Atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:itunesu="http://www.itunesu.com/feed" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><title>The merits or otherwise of a new UK Constitution [Video]</title><itunes:author>Professor Conor Gearty, Diego Soto-Miranda</itunes:author><link>http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/ipa/player.aspx?id=2328</link><itunes:duration>00:06:17</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://media.rawvoice.com/lse_ipa/richmedia.lse.ac.uk/ipa/20140310_theMeritsOrOtherwiseOfANewUKConstitution.mp4" length="54012865" type="video/mp4"/><guid isPermaLink="false">PD4399</guid><description>Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Diego Soto-Miranda | Professor Conor Gearty interviews London barrister and LSE graduate Diego Soto-Miranda about his background and what a UK Constitution would mean to him.</description><itunes:summary>Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Diego Soto-Miranda | Professor Conor Gearty interviews London barrister and LSE graduate Diego Soto-Miranda about his background and what a UK Constitution would mean to him.</itunes:summary><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><itunes:order>10</itunes:order></item><item xmlns:Atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:itunesu="http://www.itunesu.com/feed" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><title>LSE Guerrilla Lectures – What the Hell?! [Video]</title><itunes:author>Professor Eileen Barker, Dr Matthew Engelke, Revd Dr James Walters, and Professor Conor Gearty</itunes:author><link>http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/ipa/player.aspx?id=2126</link><itunes:duration>00:02:53</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://media.rawvoice.com/lse_ipa/richmedia.lse.ac.uk/ipa/20131125_hell.mp4" length="24402231" type="video/mp4"/><guid isPermaLink="false">PD4113</guid><description>Contributor(s): Professor Eileen Barker, Dr Matthew Engelke, Revd Dr James Walters, and Professor Conor Gearty | Forget traditional lecture halls and think, instead, an intellectual form of a flash mob. That’s the concept of guerrilla lectures, the first of which happened on 24 October in the crypt of Westminster Cathedral. Keen to experience a unique, engaging, thought-provoking evening, queues of undergraduates, postgraduates and non-academic LSE staff began forming an hour in advance without knowing where they were going or the subject of the lecture. The event, which was eventually revealed to be a discussion about “Hell” led to, as Professor Gearty later attested, “an interplay of background, personality and intellect” with those in attendance forced to wrestle “with questions personal and philosophical thrown up by others”.</description><itunes:summary>Contributor(s): Professor Eileen Barker, Dr Matthew Engelke, Revd Dr James Walters, and Professor Conor Gearty | Forget traditional lecture halls and think, instead, an intellectual form of a flash mob. That’s the concept of guerrilla lectures, the first of which happened on 24 October in the crypt of Westminster Cathedral. Keen to experience a unique, engaging, thought-provoking evening, queues of undergraduates, postgraduates and non-academic LSE staff began forming an hour in advance without knowing where they were going or the subject of the lecture. The event, which was eventually revealed to be a discussion about “Hell” led to, as Professor Gearty later attested, “an interplay of background, personality and intellect” with those in attendance forced to wrestle “with questions personal and philosophical thrown up by others”.</itunes:summary><pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><itunes:order>11</itunes:order></item><item xmlns:Atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:itunesu="http://www.itunesu.com/feed" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><title>Crowdsourcing a New UK Constitution [Video]</title><itunes:author>David Blunkett MP, Richard Gordon QC, Carol Harlow, Dr Lea Ypi</itunes:author><link>http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/ipa/player.aspx?id=2036</link><itunes:duration>01:34:38</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://media.rawvoice.com/lse_publiclecturesandevents/richmedia.lse.ac.uk/publiclecturesandevents/20131008_1830_crowdsourcingNewConstitution.mp4" length="443373839" type="video/mp4"/><guid isPermaLink="false">PD3986</guid><description>Speaker(s): David Blunkett MP, Richard Gordon QC, Carol Harlow, Dr Lea Ypi | The UK has no constitution written down in one document. Instead it has laws, conventions, practices, activities scattered all over the place that constitutional lawyers gather together and describe as the UK constitution. In a unique project, LSE's Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) and Department of Law are coming together with the LSE Public Policy Group and LSE Democratic Audit to pioneer the crowdsourcing of a new UK constitution to ask members of the public to participate in, advise on and eventually to draft a new UK constitution. Join an expert panel to have your say on what should be included and to create this important new document. David Blunkett is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, having represented Sheffield Brightside from 1987 to 2010. Richard Gordon is a barrister at Brick Court Chambers and is widely recognised as one of the leading silks in Constitutional Law, Administrative and Public Law, and Human Rights/Civil Liberties. Increasingly, he is recommended in judicial review for EU and Competition Law cases. Carol Harlow is emeritus professor of law at LSE. She is Queens Counsel (honoris causa) (1996); Fellow and Council Member of the British Academy (1999, 2004); Fellow of the London School of Economics (2005); Emeritus Member of Society of Legal Scholars (2005). She was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship in 2002. Dr Lea Ypi is a Lecturer in Political Theory in the Government Department, London School of Economics, and Adjunct Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.</description><itunes:summary>Speaker(s): David Blunkett MP, Richard Gordon QC, Carol Harlow, Dr Lea Ypi | The UK has no constitution written down in one document. Instead it has laws, conventions, practices, activities scattered all over the place that constitutional lawyers gather together and describe as the UK constitution. In a unique project, LSE's Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) and Department of Law are coming together with the LSE Public Policy Group and LSE Democratic Audit to pioneer the crowdsourcing of a new UK constitution to ask members of the public to participate in, advise on and eventually to draft a new UK constitution. Join an expert panel to have your say on what should be included and to create this important new document. David Blunkett is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, having represented Sheffield Brightside from 1987 to 2010. Richard Gordon is a barrister at Brick Court Chambers and is widely recognised as one of the leading silks in Constitutional Law, Administrative and Public Law, and Human Rights/Civil Liberties. Increasingly, he is recommended in judicial review for EU and Competition Law cases. Carol Harlow is emeritus professor of law at LSE. She is Queens Counsel (honoris causa) (1996); Fellow and Council Member of the British Academy (1999, 2004); Fellow of the London School of Economics (2005); Emeritus Member of Society of Legal Scholars (2005). She was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship in 2002. Dr Lea Ypi is a Lecturer in Political Theory in the Government Department, London School of Economics, and Adjunct Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.</itunes:summary><pubDate>Tue, 8 Oct 2013 18:30:00 GMT</pubDate><itunes:order>12</itunes:order></item><item xmlns:Atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:itunesu="http://www.itunesu.com/feed" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><title>ConstitutionUK: Crowdsourcing the UK's constitution [Video]</title><itunes:author>Professor Conor Gearty</itunes:author><link>http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/ipa/player.aspx?id=2020</link><itunes:duration>00:01:57</itunes:duration><enclosure url="http://media.rawvoice.com/lse_law/richmedia.lse.ac.uk/law/20130920_constitutionUK_CrowdsourcingTheUKsConstitution.mp4" length="15536282" type="video/mp4"/><guid isPermaLink="false">PD3951</guid><description>Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty | The UK has no constitution written down in one document. Instead, it has laws, conventions, practices, and activities scattered all over the place that constitutional lawyers gather together and describe as the UK constitution. In a unique project, LSE's IPA and Department of Law are coming together with the LSE Public Policy Group and Democratic Audit to pioneer the crowdsourcing of a new UK constitution, asking members of the public to participate in, advise on, and eventually to draft a new UK constitution.</description><itunes:summary>Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty | The UK has no constitution written down in one document. Instead, it has laws, conventions, practices, and activities scattered all over the place that constitutional lawyers gather together and describe as the UK constitution. In a unique project, LSE's IPA and Department of Law are coming together with the LSE Public Policy Group and Democratic Audit to pioneer the crowdsourcing of a new UK constitution, asking members of the public to participate in, advise on, and eventually to draft a new UK constitution.</itunes:summary><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><itunes:order>13</itunes:order></item></channel></rss>
