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19 November 2009 |
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• Royal
recognition for Health and Social Care at LSE
LSE has been awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further
Education for the work of LSE Health and Social Care, an innovative
international research centre whose work has influenced government policy in
the UK and beyond.
It is the second time LSE has won this prestigious prize which recognises
outstanding achievement in UK universities and colleges. The School's Centre
for Economic Performance was honoured in 2002.
LSE Health and Social Care won the prize for 'applying research to the
advancement of global health and social care policy'. The citation says that
its work is 'widely seen as unique in its continuing ability to bridge the
gap between research and policy. It is widely and frequently referenced by
policy makers and has contributed to raising the quality of evidence-based
policy making within government.'
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• Matthew's
divine intervention rewarded
Dr Matthew Engelke, a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at
LSE, has won the 2009 Victor Turner Prize for his ethnography, A Problem
of Presence: beyond scripture in an African church.
A Problem of Presence is a historical ethnography of the Friday
Masowe apostolics of Zimbabwe. Members of this Christian movement do not
read the Bible, and instead embrace a live and direct faith in which God's
presence is immediate and not mediated by a church, written text, or any
other material thing. Exploring wider issues of textual authority and
material culture, Dr Engelke examines how the Friday Masowe construct a
relationship with the divine.
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• Are your artistic talents being neglected?
LSE Arts have two opportunities through which to channel your
creativity.
The LSE Photo Prize Exhibition 2010 is now accepting submissions. This
annual photography
competition is judged by a panel of arts professionals and LSE staff and is
a great opportunity for budding photographers. As well
as being professionally printed and mounted, the successful entries will be
exhibited in LSE’s Atrium Gallery during March - April 2010. The theme of
the 2010 exhibition is ‘risk’. If this has sparked your imagination, you can
find out more about submitting your photographs
here. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Friday 15 January 2010.
Another outlet for your creative talent is LSE Perspectives, the online
photography gallery open to staff and students.
Up to 12 images are selected every month by the LSE Arts team and exhibited
online at www.lse.ac.uk/arts as well
as on Moodle. All previous monthly collections are also available to view
online.
The team are currently looking for photos to include in upcoming editions. These could be pictures taken from
your travels or any artistic scenes. You
can see the collections and find out how to submit your photos
here.
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• LSE Catering - helping you to consider the environment
LSE has introduced smart mugs, with the aim of reducing the amount of
disposable cups purchased and used in the School.
You can buy your branded smart mug for £3.90 from the following
catering outlets: LSE Garrick; the 4th Floor Café Bar; Café 54; Mezzanine Café,
Café Pepe and the SDR Café Bar.
Once you have your mug, take it along to a selected outlet, order your
hot drink and it will be poured directly into your mug. It's as simple as
that!
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• Changing lights on campus
Lighting across campus is being upgraded to energy-saving LED bulbs. 240
LED lights have been installed in the Old Building, the Garrick and the
Library; they use 14 per cent of the energy of the old bulbs. This saves the
School 55,500 kilowatts and 28 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
The carbon reduction manager and the maintenance team have also converted
100 light fittings on campus to high efficiency tubes saving another 17,400
kilowatts and 9.3 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
These changes are making a big difference to energy consumption around
the School. For more information, contact the Sustainability Team at
f.conteh@lse.ac.uk or visit
www.lse.ac.uk/sustainablelse
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• Elections
to the SCC
Chris Connelley, head of the Staff Development Unit, and Debra Ogden,
executive assistant to the Deans, have been elected as the representatives
of the 'other administrative divisions including ODAR' constituency on the
Staff Consultative Council (SCC).
Peter Cirenza, of the Economic History Department, is the new
representative for the GTA/hourly paid teaching staff and Sarah Harrison,
Government Department, is the new research staff representative.
The next meeting of the SCC is on Thursday 10 December. For more
information, click
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 Notices
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• Staff
portrait dates
Nigel Stead, School photographer, will be holding a staff portrait
photo session on Thursday 3 December. The session will
be held in room A22 from 11am-1pm and 2-4pm.
New staff (or old staff who need to update their existing pictures) can
turn up at any time in the given time slots and there is no need to book.
All pictures are in colour and in a digital format and will be supplied to each
department/centre on a CD. Hard copy prints will not be provided. Pictures
will be sent after post production, which can take up to two weeks after the
shoot.
The cost is £15 per head charged to the department/centre and staff are
asked to bring their budget codes with them on the day. For more information, contact Nigel Stead at
n.stead@lse.ac.uk
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• Christmas posting dates
- UK
Second class - Friday 18 December
First class - Monday 21 December
Recorded Signed For has the same last posting
dates as the 1st or 2nd class service that the customer has chosen to apply
it to
- UK Special Delivery
Wednesday 23 December
- Overseas
European Union - Monday 14 December
Rest Of Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, Japan - Thursday 10
December
All other places - Tuesday 8 December
International Signed For has the same last posting dates as the
destination address
- DHL
Rest of World -
Monday 21 December
Europe/USA (major cities only) -
Wednesday 23 December
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• Nominations for honorary doctorates
The School is seeking nominations for honorary doctorates. Honorary doctorates
are conferred on persons who have made an
outstanding contribution to the increased understanding, or appreciation
of the 'causes of things' and their practical application in the social
sciences or related fields. LSE awards up to four honorary doctorates
annually.
Suggestions will be treated in confidence, and individuals should not be
told at this stage that they may be under consideration. All nominations
should be sent by Monday 7 December.
For more information, click
here.
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• Vice-chair
of appointments committee
Applications are invited from members of the professorial staff to fill
the vacancy of Vice-Chair of Appointments Committee (VCAC) to succeed
Professor George Philip who completes his three year term in office on 31
July 2010.
The role of the VCAC is to act as the independent guardian of academic
standards and quality on behalf of the Appointments Committee. The VCAC will
champion, develop and oversee implementation of strategy, policies and
procedures for academic and research staff, with respect to recruitment,
retention, and career development, working closely with the Director, Pro
Director (Planning and Resources) and Human Resources.
Click
here for further details or contact Sally Welch at
sally.welch@lse.ac.uk.
The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Friday 11 December. |
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 Research
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• Ethics and the importance of dialogue
Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral
judgments objective? Why be moral?
In this short film, Dr Alex Voorhoeve, a senior lecturer in the
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, explains why he
engaged 11 leading philosophers and scientists in conversation in order
to elicit answers to these questions.
Dr Voorhoeve argues for the importance of the dialogue form for
philosophical enquiry, and describes some of the advantages that written
dialogues have over ordinary, monologic texts.
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• Researchers
seek to measure the public impact of the social sciences
A team of researchers has been funded by the Higher Education Funding
Council for England to undertake the most thorough analysis yet of how
academic research in the social sciences achieves public policy impacts,
contributes to economic prosperity and informs public understanding of
policy issues and economic and social changes.
The programme of work will be led by experts at LSE and involve teams
from Imperial College London and the University of Leeds. The seven
component projects (totalling £2.9 million over three years) will
investigate overall patterns of influence in UK and European governance, and
look at specific impacts in health policy-making, economic decision-making,
responses to climate change and public management.
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• Research
opportunities
Candidates interested in applying for any research opportunities 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 October 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 November 2009.
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 Events
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• LSE public lectures examine climate change
With the Copenhagen climate change talks just around the corner, LSE is
hosting three public lectures on the subject.
On Thursday 19 November, Ed Miliband, secretary of state for energy and
climate change, will discuss
The Road to Copenhagen: a global deal on climate change.
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern will then ask
Deciding our Future in Copenhagen: will the world rise to the challenge of
climate change? at a lecture on Tuesday 1 December. This event is free
and open to all however a ticket is required. One ticket per person can be
requested from 10am on Monday 23 November.
On Wednesday 2 December, Chinese ambassador Madam Fu Ying will share
China's perspectives on climate change in a lecture entitled
How China Tackles Climate Change in its Wider Development Agenda.
Tickets for this event can be requested from 10am on Wednesday 25 November.
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• Other upcoming public lectures and events include....
How Markets Fail: the problem of rational irrationality
Monday 23 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: John Cassidy
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: the double death of neoliberalism and the
idea of communism
Wednesday 25 November at 1pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Slavoj Zizek
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• Chiarascuro Quartet featuring Alina Ibragimova, violin
Thursday 26 November, 1.05-2pm, Shaw Library, Old Building
Haydn Quartet in D Major, Op.20/4
Haydn Quartet in G Major, Op.77/1
Led by the world famous violinist Alina Ibragimova, the quartet was
formed in 2005, has held the Aldeburgh residency, and performs on original
instruments. They will make their first CD this month.
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• New movements within the Islamic tradition - INFORM seminar
Saturday 21 November, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
A provisional programme for this seminar can be found
here.
Tickets (including buffet lunch, coffee and tea) cost £38. For more
information, email Inform@lse.ac.uk or
call 020 7955 7654.
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• The Great British Refurb Workshop: 40 per cent energy reduction in
homes and communities by 2020 - can we do it?
Tuesday 8 December, 9am-4.30pm, Michio Morishima Conference Room,
Lionel Robbins Building
This LSE Housing and Communities workshop will bring together leading
government representatives, German experts, funding bodies and active
practitioners.
The event costs £75 with reductions for second and subsequent delegates
from the same organisation. Reductions are available for those unable to pay
the full registration fee.
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Professor Nicola Lacey
Nicola Lacey has worked at LSE
since 1998 as professor of criminal
law and legal theory. Her husband,
David Soskice, is a political
scientist who divides his
professional life between Oxford and
Duke Universities. They live in
Hampstead, in a multi-storey,
multi-generational household which
includes Nicola's mother, her niece
and her partner, and two
exceptionally spoilt cats.
Her recent research projects have
included a biography, a book on the
comparative political economy of
punishment; and a book which
combines novels and legal sources in
an analysis of changing ideas of
female criminality in the 18th and
19th Centuries.
What would we be most
surprised to learn about you?
That would be telling.... but why
not? My research has included quite
a bit of work on feminist theory,
and I certainly think of myself as a
feminist. Yet my surname is that of
my ex-husband. (A feminist publisher
friend of mine who is in the same
position always justifies this by
saying that her husband oppressed
her much less than her father!)
Happily, my ex is still a good
friend and doesn’t seem to mind that
I appropriated the name…
What advice would you give new
students coming to LSE?
Throw yourself into everything
which LSE and London have to offer.
In case that sounds like a recipe
for indulgence, here's the bad news:
getting the most out of your time
here means being very well
organised, and in particular having
a clear timetable for your work, so
that you can really relax and
explore the School and city the rest
of the time. Making time for
friendships and intellectual
relationships should also be a
priority, I think: several of the
friends I made as a student in
London and then Oxford 30 years ago
are among the most important people
in my life.
Can you play a musical
instrument? If not, what would you
like to be able to play?
My answer here will reveal that
the advice I have just given is -
like much good advice - on a
strictly 'do as I say, not as I do',
basis. Until my second year at
university, I played the flute and
the piano. But I lacked the
discipline to keep this up once my
academic work (not to mention my
social life) became demanding.
Where in the world have you
always wanted to go but never quite
made it…..yet?
Embarrassingly, I have to admit
that the spirit of adventure lies on
me very lightly... David and I do a
huge amount of travelling, both for
professional purposes and because of
his job in the United States; I also
have a stepmother in Australia, whom
I try to visit reasonably regularly.
The friends with whom we share a
holiday house once remarked that we
were the only people they knew who
went on holiday to get into a
routine. But I would very much like
to see three places which have
eluded me so far: the pyramids; the
Pantheon, and Pompeii.
Who is your LSE hero?
I don't propose to answer this,
though I'm happy to offer a feminist
interpretation of the question if
you give me more than 60 seconds....
What is the last film you saw
at the cinema?
Another blush-worthy confession:
I go to the cinema quite rarely. The
last film I saw at a cinema was Almovadar's Volver, I think. I do of
course watch DVD's and movies on
aircraft quite often (Revolutionary
Road and Monsters, Inc, the latter
with a discerning four year old critic,
were the latest in each of these
categories). But when I get
organised to do something cultural
in London, it would be more likely
to be a play, concert or opera.
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 Training
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• Academic,
personal and professional development courses for staff
Courses on offer next week include:
- Monday 23 November
Excel 2003: advanced functions
Introduction to Twitter and micro-blogging
Endnote manage your references
- Wednesday 25 November
FrontPage 2003: managing your website
Meditation
Moodle basics training
For a full listing of what is available and further details, including
booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training |
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 Media
bites
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• Independent
(19 November)
Europe is in love with symbols, but the reality is much more dull
Damian Chalmers, head of the European Institute at LSE, discusses the
role of president of the European Council , of which he says: 'While
it's a great title, it's not so great a job'. He also discusses the role
of the high representative, a role he describes as: 'A rubbish title,
but potentially a great job'.
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• Financial
Times (18 November)
Crown dethroned in Whitehall
George Jones, emeritus professor of government at LSE, asked 'Is this an
underhand way of further undermining the royal prerogative?' after the
new Constitutional Reform Bill only mentions 'the civil service of the
State'.
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• Channel
4 (16 November)
Dispatches
Charlie Beckett, director of POLIS at LSE, appeared on the programme
discussing Britain's Israel lobby.
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