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29 October 2009 |
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• New
LSE website coming this term
Grey no more! A new website which is recognisably LSE and easier to use
will arrive on your screens before Christmas. School pages include a new
intranet - called staff and students - which will separate internal from
external content, plus a new search facility. The main School pages, the
Library website, and a number of academic department and research centres
will spearhead the change, with the rest of the website following.
On logging on every day, internal audiences will be guided to the staff
and students home page; external audiences to the main home page. Both home
pages will be accessible by all.
The new site has been developed with web editors and contributors across
the School, following a major review earlier this year by outside
consultants. The site has been considerably simplified and extensively
tested with different groups of users, from prospective students to LSE
academics and administrative staff.
Presentations of the new LSE website will take place on Wednesday 25
November in the New Theatre, East Building, from 1-2pm and then repeating at
3-4pm. All welcome to either presentation - just turn up.
Editors and contributors: Subject to successful testing within Web
Services, you will be able to view a penultimate draft of the new LSE
website between 2 and 6 November. This will allow you to see how your pages
will look from 27 November. It will then be possible for you to make final
(but minor) changes between 16 and 26 November. Please also note that there is a
presentation for corporate contributors between 2-3pm on Wednesday 25
November. The corporate web editor and intranet editor will soon contact
corporate contributors about this.
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LSE announces Advisory Board for its MSc in Real Estate Economics and
Finance
LSE has announced the creation of its first Advisory Board focused on a
specific academic area - Real Estate. Francis Salway, chief executive of
Land Securities, will chair the board, which will help forge sustainable
links between LSE's academic output and the real estate industry.
The board will support LSE's MSc in Real Estate Economics and Finance
(REEF). It will review and advise on the course objectives with the aim of
ensuring that its teaching is as relevant as possible to what is going on in
the real estate industry.
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• P
D Leake Lecture - Professor Michael Power
This year's P D Leake Lecture was given by Professor Michael Power of
LSE's Department of Accounting, on Thursday 15 October. Professor Power
spoke on 'Fair value: the influence of financial economics on accounting'.
To watch a webcast of the lecture, click
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 Notices
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• Staff
Consultative Council elections..... have your say
Following the call for nominations,
there have been three names submitted for the two vacancies in the
constituency covering support staff in administrative divisions and ODAR
(finance and facilities, the Library, IT Services and support staff in
academic departments have their own seats on the Council).
The nominations are:
- Chris Connelley, head of the Staff Development Unit
- Kate Hillier, departmental manager in the Teaching and Learning
Centre
- Debra Ogden, executive assistant to the Deans
Staff in these areas are invited to vote for their preferred candidate.
Voting closes at 5.30pm on Thursday 5 November. Details on how to vote can
be found
here.
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• Director’s
Christmas party for children of staff
This year, the Director's Christmas party for children of staff will be
held on Saturday 5 December from 2-5pm in the SCR and SDR, 5th floor, Old
Building.
Members of staff who would like their children to attend, please
fill out the form
here before Thursday 26 November.
The information requested on the form is designed to help the Events team
when purchasing presents for the children. Parents who reply after the RSVP
date will be expected to provide gifts for their own children.
Please note that the age range is from three to nine years inclusive, and
that the invitation is restricted to children of staff, not grandchildren
and other relatives due to a restriction on numbers.
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• Vacancy
advertising deadlines
The Recruitment team has now confirmed the advertising deadlines for any
posts that are advertised over the Christmas or Easter period.
The deadlines have been formulated taking into consideration the
generally lower response rates to adverts placed in the weeks commencing
14 and 21 December.
The team advise that, wherever possible, departments avoid advertising
during these two weeks, as well as during the School's Christmas closure
dates. However, if this is essential, these deadlines must be adhered to.
The deadlines do not take into account any publication-specific
deadlines, which will also need to be considered over this period. Further
advice on any such publications can be provided by the Recruitment team if
required.
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• LSE
welcomes....
Don Taylor joins the School as assistant director of planning and
development, with specific responsibility for the new Students’ Centre
development.
Don is a project management professional with extensive experience across
a wide variety of project types, including management of project teams in
some remote places ranging from the deserts of the Middle East to
Antarctica.
Prior to joining LSE, Don was deputy director of estates and head of
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 Research
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• Serious
consequences for patients if sperm donors abruptly withdraw consent
Patients can face serious consequences if sperm donors in the UK change
their mind about their sperm being used in fertility treatment, a study has
found.
If a donor abruptly withdraws his consent it can mean embryos created
from his sperm and a patient's eggs are destroyed. It can also mean a woman
who has used a donor to have a child will be unable to have more children
who are full biological siblings to the first child.
The authors, Peter Sozou
from LSE, Sally Sheldon from the University of Kent, and Geraldine
Hartshorne from the University of Warwick, consider what steps can be taken
to reduce the chance of these serious consequences occurring.
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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.
ESRC Third Sector Placement Fellowship Call
Deadline: 10 November
An opportunity for social science researchers to spend time within a third
sector organisation to undertake practice-relevant research and work with
the host organisation on specific projects.
ESRC Large Grants Open Competition 2009-10 - including highlight for
the area of security, conflict and justice
Deadline: 10 November
To provide for experienced researchers requiring longer term or extended
support for research groups, inter-institutional research networks,
linked-project programmes, medium-to-large surveys etc. Funding from £1.5m
to £5m available.
ESRC Placement Fellowship in the Department for Culture, Media and
Sport
Deadline: 11 November
Measuring Cultural Value: the scheme encourages researchers to spend time
within a partner organisation to undertake policy, relevant research and to
develop the research skills of partner employees.
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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• National
stress awareness day - Wednesday 4 November
The LSE Health and Safety team have linked up with the SDU to mark
National Stress Awareness Day for the first time here at the School.
Leading the events will be a lunchtime talk by Professor Derek Mowbray,
from Organisational Health Psychologists and one of the leading experts in
the field. The talk, entitled 'Monday Groaning: the thought of all that
stress' will take place in room NAB107 from 1-2pm.
The School will also be promoting a new agreement reached with LA
Fitness, offering staff and students a heavily discounted gym membership
rate of £35.95 a month. To find out more, visit the bright red street stalls
for more information and joining details, including advice on how to use
Learn For You funds in support of these costs.
Also available on 4 November, will be de-stressing chair massage sessions
with School regular, Dina Mistry. Booking is essential, so contact Sara
Talbi at s.talbi@lse.ac.uk to secure
a slot.
A new series of Alexander Technique classes will also be starting on 4
November from 2-3pm, continuing on 10, 17 and 24 November at 12-1pm. The
Alexander Technique is a method which helps you discover a new balance in
the body, by releasing unnecessary tension and helping regain a natural
tendency towards balance and harmony.
To book your space on these classes, again email Sara Talbi at
s.talbi@lse.ac.uk
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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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Professor Joel Waldfogel, who will deliver a lecture on
Scroogenomics: why you shouldn't buy presents for Christmas
Don't forget about
LSE Arts'
exciting programme of arts lectures, screenings and exhibitions along with
the popular Thursday lunchtime music concerts.
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• Business
History Unit seminars
On Monday 2 November, Martin van der Weyer from The Spectator
will discuss Fraud and the City: Gerard Bevan and the collapse of the
City Equitable Fire Insurance Co.
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Daniel Beckley, LSE security
Daniel is a popular member of the
LSE security team. Health and
fitness are always on his mind,
he likes to talk things over
with his wife and children, and
informs us that he wears men's quality underwear
and hard-wearing suits!
What is the best part of your
job at LSE?
The best part of my job at LSE is
giving simple directions to
students on campus.
What three items would you take
to a desert island with you?
I would take a radio, a watch and
my ruck sack.
What was your best subject at
School?
My best subjects were art and
government.
What are you most afraid of?
I'm afraid of big guns and
mosquitoes. But what I'm most
afraid of is Prince Charles
becoming king!
What would we be most surprised
to learn about you?
I always gain much attention for
wearing USA size 17 shoes, which
cost around £150.
Where is your favourite place
on the LSE campus?
My favourite place is the Shaw
Library.
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 Training
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• Academic,
personal and professional development courses for staff
Courses on offer next week include:
- Monday 2 November
An introduction to learning technologies: how they can benefit your
courses
Moodle basics training
- Tuesday 3 November
HTML: creating basic pages
Writing for the media course - a five week course
- Wednesday 4 November
Endnote manage your references
RDP 1: getting grant funding: the funders' perspective
- Thursday 5 November
Moodle next steps training
Outlook 2003: calendar and tasks
- Friday 6 November
Keeping up to date: tools and tips for your research
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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• Times (29 October)
Eating less meat to reduce emissions and water use
Letter from Lord Nicholas Stern, chairman of the Grantham Research
Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.
'Sir, in these crucial weeks before the UN climate change conference in
Copenhagen in December, it is good that you have devoted so much
coverage in recent days to considering how agreement could be reached
and some of the ways in which climate change policy could reduce
emissions. However, I did not, as your front- page headline (Oct 27)
suggested, tell people to “give up meat to save the planet”. Nor did I,
as your leading article (Oct 28) asserted, make a “demand for
behavioural change”.'
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• Financial
Times (28 October)
How the Tories can curb public sector strikes
Tim Leunig, reader in economic history at LSE, suggests how a
Conservative government could best manage the threat of strikes from
public sector workers.
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• Guardian
(27 October)
Assessing private treatment centres
Letter from Professor Julian Le Grand, responding to an article by Polly
Toynbee attacking the independent sector treatment centre programme, to
which Professor Le Grand was a government adviser.
'The ISTC programme, far from being a "debacle", has actually been
rather successful. ISTCs have higher levels of patient satisfaction than
the NHS as a whole; and their outcomes for the same kinds of patients
are at least as good, if not better.'
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