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22 October 2009 |
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• Sonia wins Swedish media and communication prize
A senior LSE academic has been awarded a prestigious Swedish prize which
recognises outstanding contributions in media and communication research.
Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology and Head of the Department
of Media and Communications is the first researcher outside Sweden to be
awarded the Wahlgren Foundation Prize, which was created in 1991.
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• Open
Access Week winners announced
Open Access Week aims to broaden awareness and understanding of open
access to research. The Library is celebrating this international week by
making a number of awards to LSE staff who already make their work open
access through LSE Research Online.
Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro has won the individual award for most downloaded
item in LSE Research Online with 3,475 downloads of her 2002
paper A psychological contract perspective on organizational citizenship
behavior.
The individual award for the most open access full text papers in LSE
Research Online goes to Sonia Livingstone, with an impressive 104 papers.
Media and Communications wins the departmental award for the most open
access full texts in LSE Research Online per member of academic staff.
For details of all the winners and runners up and for more information
about open access and LSE Research Online, click
here.
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• TRIUM
ranked second in the world by the Financial Times
The TRIUM Executive MBA programme has climbed to second in the world
according to the Financial Times EMBA rankings.
TRIUM also places first in the world for the aims achieved by its alumni
- the second year it has topped this category - and is second world-wide for
the salaries earned by its alumni.
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 Notices
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• Annual
Fund grant applications
The LSE Annual Fund raises vital unrestricted funds providing support for
scholarships, student services, academic research and facilities at the
School. Because of the generosity of alumni, staff, parents, Governors, and
friends, we have had our most successful year to date raising over £750,000.
If you have a project that you would like to receive funding for, apply
to the Annual Fund Allocations Advisory Committee. Grants are usually
between £5,000 to £50,000, but we have funded projects that do not fall
within this range. Projects which received funding last year include:
- Flexible hardship funding for students in need
- Scholar at Risk Fellow programme
- Facilities and activities for the Students’ Union
- Ralph Miliband Lecture Series
- Teaching Innovation Awards to reward pioneering academics
- Chair in African Development
To see whether your project is eligible for funding and for instructions
and guidance notes, click
here. Applications for funding this year are to be emailed to
c.e.walsh@lse.ac.uk by
Friday 6 November. Paper applications will not be accepted.
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• Join the LSE choir or orchestra
There is still time to join the LSE choir or orchestra and get involved
in the public concerts at the end of the Michaelmas and Lent terms.
The choir is open to all students, staff and alumni. Singers are asked to
attend rehearsals on Tuesday evenings at 6-7.30pm, and have some ability to
read music.
The orchestra is also open to all students, staff and alumni. Orchestra
members are asked to attend rehearsals on Monday nights at 6.45pm.
Both rehearsals take place in the Shaw Library, Old Building. For more
information about the Michaelmas public concert, click
here.
If you are interested in joining either the choir or orchestra, email
su.soc.music@lse.ac.uk
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• UoL event
All staff are invited to join the University of London’s Foundation
Day ceremony next month, where LSE’s Professor Mary Morgan, from
Economic History, will announce an honorary degree for a Nobel
prize-winning economist.
She will give a speech marking the achievements of Professor Robert Fogel
who is one of five eminent people receiving honorary degrees at the event,
which commemorates the University’s foundation in 1836.
The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the UoL, will be there for the ceremony
at Senate House at 7pm on Wednesday 25 November, which is followed by a
reception for all the guests.
If you would like to apply for a ticket, please email
pressoffice@lse.ac.uk by
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 Research
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• London
surviving recession but long term growth to be more modest than London
Plan predicts
London has come through the first two years of the current crisis with less
damage to its economy than other more industrial regions, finds a new LSE
London report.
But, the report argues, long-term growth is likely to be much more modest
than predicted in the London Plan, with net job gains expected to average
20,000 rather than the 35,000 suggested by the Mayor.
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• 'Socially
networked' small businesses could compete on global stage
A new generation of web environments could revolutionise the way small and
medium-sized businesses work together online and help them compete with
larger companies, according to researchers working on a European Commission
funded project led by LSE.
The OPAALS project is working on the science, social science and
technology that underpin 'Digital Business Ecoystems' - virtual business
communities connected by an open and low cost peer-to-peer infrastructure.
Participants share computing resources such as processing, storage and
bandwidth to 'become the network' and so are not dependent on intermediary
hosts or servers.
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• Job
opportunities, health services and education – the top three reasons to
live in Istanbul
Job opportunities, health services and schools are the top three reasons
given by residents of Istanbul when asked why they liked living in the city.
And although over 50 per cent of residents walk as their primary means of
transport, still traffic congestion remains their number one concern.
These are among the findings of a new city survey commissioned by Ipsos
MORI and carried out by Urban Age, a joint initiative of LSE and Deutsche
Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society.
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• Research
opportunities
Candidates interested in applying for any of the opportunities below should
contact Michael Oliver in the
Research and Project Development Division at
m.oliver@lse.ac.uk or call ext 7962.
The Research and Project Development Division maintains a regularly
updated list of
research funding opportunities for academic colleagues on their website.
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• RPDD
Research e-Briefing
Click
here to read the Summer edition of the RPDD newsletter. To sign up
for research news, recent research funding opportunities, research awards
that are about to start, and examples of research outcomes, click
here. The next issue is out
at the end of October 2009.
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 Events
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• LSE public lectures and events
Newly announced events include lectures by:
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Andrew Ross Sorkin award-winning chief mergers and acquisitions
reporter for The New York Times on 5 November
- Former Spanish prime minister
Jose Maria Aznar who will speak on The Reform of the International
Financial System
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John Cassidy who will lecture on 23 November on How Markets Fail:
the problem of rational irrationality
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Professor Slavoj Zizek whose lecture is entitled First as Tragedy,
Then as Farce: the double death of neoliberalism and the idea of
communism
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• The GM Nation? Public debate: what was it all about?
Tuesday 27 October at 1-2.30pm in the CARR seminar room G305
CARR is pleased to announce their first seminar of the Michaelmas term.
The seminar will be given by Professor Tom Horlick-Jones from Cardiff
University, who will revisit the experience of the British
government-sponsored process of public debate concerning the possible
cultivation of genetically-modified crops, which took place in 2002-03.
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• On
Liberty - a celebration and an exploration of aspects of the life,
career and thought of J S Mill
Saturday 14 November at 9.30am-4pm
The Archives Division are jointly hosting this one day seminar, along
with the Liberal Democrat History Group and the British Liberal Political
Studies Group, to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of On
Liberty, John Stuart Mill’s most important and enduring work.
Further details of the programme can be found
here.
To book a place, contact the Archives Division in the Library on ext 7223 or
email document@lse.ac.uk
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• INFORM
Seminar XLIII - New Movements within the Islamic Tradition
Saturday 21 November at 9.30am-5.30pm in the
Hong Kong Theatre, East Building
To view a provisional programme for this seminar, click
here. If you would
like to register, post a cheque to Inform, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE,
by Saturday 7 November. Tickets cost £38
(£18 students/unwaged) and include a buffet lunch, coffee and
tea. Tickets booked after this date will cost £48 each (£28
students/unwaged). For more information, email
Inform@lse.ac.uk or call ext 7654.
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• The Silverstone panel on digital natives: a lost tribe?
POLIS in partnership with Ofcom present this event on Tuesday 24
November at 6.30-8pm in the New Academic Building. Speakers include
Charlie Beckett (pictured) and Professor Sonia Livingstone. For more information,
click
here.
RSVP to polis@lse.ac.uk
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Second Interview
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• with..... Nick Byrne
Nick Byrne is director of the LSE
Language Centre, acting UK director
of the Confucius Institute for
Business, London and head of the
Academic and Professional
Development Division at LSE - a human
triptych...
If you were stuck in a lift
with someone, who would you want it
to be?
Marlene Dietrich circa 1963 - it
would be like having a private
cabaret - and Ludwig Wittgenstein with
a copy of his Tractatus - mind you,
conversation might be a bit limited.
What would you save from a
fire?
My cat. My Thierry Mugler jacket
from 1984. And hopefully my dignity
in a hastily grabbed pair of
Y-fronts. I'm assuming it's a fire
at night…but why?
Do you have a party trick? If
so, what is it?
Leaving without being seen.
What would you do if you were
LSE director for a day?
Buy up any half-decent building
in the area and pull down Clare
Market towers. Then on the next
day...
What was your best subject at
school?
German
What are you most afraid of?
Pain. Death. Darkness - is that
enough Nordic gloom for you?
And we hear you have won an
award?
Yes, the Chartered Institute of
Linguists has awarded me the
prestigious Threlford Memorial Cup
prize for my work in higher
education, in fostering the study of
languages and promoting the work of
language centres. It is really great
to receive this award now,
especially as the Language Centre is
celebrating its ten year anniversary
this year.
Many congratulations Nick!
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 Training
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• Academic,
personal and professional development courses for LSE staff
Courses on offer next week include:
- Tuesday 27 October
Word 2003: essential formatting skills
Moodle basics training
- Wednesday 28 October
Word 2003: format your PhD thesis
Moodle quiz training
Meditation
Teaching with Moodle
- Thursday 29 October
Staff IT training workshop
Introduction to e-journals and e-sources
For a full listing of what is available and further details, including
booking information please see
www.lse.ac.uk/training
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 Media
bites
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• Bloomberg
(22 October)
China, India forge alternative to UN climate-protection treaty
'When India and China take the lead, the rest usually follow.'
Comment by Dr Michael Mason, director of the conservation program at
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at LSE.
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• Taipei Times (20 October)
Some trust in financial institutions is needed, but not too much
'Public trust in financial institutions, and in the authorities that are
supposed to regulate them, was an early casualty of the financial
crisis. That is hardly surprising, as previously revered firms revealed
that they did not fully understand the very instruments they dealt in or
the risks they assumed.'
Article by Howard Davies, Director of LSE
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• Evening
Standard (15 October)
Service cuts and higher charges are shape of things to come
'Tube, bus and tram users expect the Mayor to spare them big fare rises
when the economy is in the doldrums and the retail prices index is
negative. If prices are falling, why shouldn't fares?'
Article by Tony Travers, director of LSE London
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