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10 December 2009 |
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 News
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• LSE Photo Prize 2010
As we approach the festive season, the deadline for submissions to the
LSE Photo Prize 2010 looms ever closer. If you want your photos to be
considered, you must send them to the LSE Arts by 5pm on 15 January.
The theme of the competition is ‘risk’, and it is open to all staff and
students. Selected entries will be professionally printed, mounted and
exhibited in the Atrium Gallery, Old Building during March - April 2010.
As well as the selected photos, prizes will be awarded for the best
photos at a reception in the Atrium Gallery once the exhibition is
installed. Last year’s exhibition attracted some excellent entries and the
exhibition and reception were well attended by staff and students, as well
as members of the public. Don’t miss this great opportunity to show off your
artistic talents.
For more information on how to submit your photos, click
here.
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• Risk&Regulation
magazine
CARR’s Winter 09 edition of Risk&Regulation has been published. This
issue of the magazine explores the inherent complexity of modern risks and
institutional responses to them.
Bringing together CARR’s multidisciplinary expertise, articles from both
CARR and guest researchers explore the ways in which risks are standardised,
communicated and institutionalised by drawing on cases from a wide variety
of domains: including the 2012 Olympics; aviation; food standardisation;
health services and DNA databases.
Articles include:
A PDF of the latest issue is available
here.
One of the articles in this edition of the magazine will get even more
exposure when author
David Demortain, ESRC research officer at CARR, gives a speech
on ‘Standardising the government of risk: the role of science’ at the Annual
Conference of the Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société, in Paris
on 10-11 December.
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• Award winner
Nick Byrne, director of the Language Centre, has received an award from
Hanban, the executive body of the Chinese
Language Council International. The award is in recognition of Nick's
individual contribution to the Confucius Institute project.
Many congratulations Nick.
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• Conclusions from EU
Kids Online
On Thursday 10 December, Sonia Livingstone will deliver the main
address to a conference entitled ‘Preventing Crime and Victimisation
among Children and Young People: current and future challenges - school,
cyberspace and recruitment to criminal groups’, organised by the Swedish
Presidency of the EU. Her lecture is on ‘Balancing risks and
opportunities for children on the internet - conclusions from EU Kids
Online.’
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• France, Britain, German unification and
European construction
On Monday 7 December, Professor Michael Cox, professor of
international relations at LSE, spoke at the book launch of
Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War and German Unification by
Frédéric Bozo, professor in contemporary history and international
relations at the University of Paris III.
The discussion was entitled 'France, Britain, German unification and
European construction: twenty years after the fall of the wall' and was
hosted by Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, the Ambassador of France to the United
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 Notices
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• Season's greetings
As Michaelmas term is ending this Friday, Staff News will be
breaking for the holidays. The next edition will be on Thursday
14 January and articles for this should be emailed to Nicole at
n.gallivan@lse.ac.uk by
Tuesday
12 January.
We hope you have enjoyed Staff News this term. Have a very Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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• LSE
Calendar 2010
The new LSE desk Calendar for 2010 has now been printed and is being
delivered to all departments within the School. The new calendar features a
range of nature photos, like the one pictured, by Nigel Stead School
photographer.
If you haven't received a calendar yet, please come up to the press
office and collect one. Please note that we only have a limited number
available, so get yours while stocks last.
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• Send
an LSE e-card this Christmas
Why not save resources this Christmas by sending e-cards? A specially
designed electronic card, together with the LSE logo and the words Season’s
Greetings, is now available for all staff to email out. There is also room
to add your own message below the e-card. Please contact Liz Trumble at
designunit@lse.ac.uk for a copy to
forward.
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• LSE talent classical concert
The LSE talent classical concert for students and staff takes place
on Thursday 11 March as part of the lunchtime music series.
This is a popular and well attended annual event. Auditions will take
place in January, so if you play or sing to a high standard, or know someone
who does and would like to perform as a soloist or in a group, please email
n.rogers@lse.ac.uk or
conferences@lse.ac.uk as soon as
possible.
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• See the new online recruitment system
HR would like to invite you to come and see the School’s new online
recruitment system ‘live’, meet WCN the supplier, and ask any questions.
The events will take place at 12.30pm on the following dates:
- Wednesday 13 January
- Tuesday 19 January
- Wednesday 27 January
These events are open to all staff, particularly those with an interest
in recruiting. If you would like to come contact Sarah Pedder at
s.pedder@lse.ac.uk and she will
confirm the venue.
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• Planning
and Corporate Policy Division customer survey 2009-10
The
Planning and Corporate Policy Division is conducting a survey to help
them gauge the effectiveness of their services, and also their visibility
within the School. Please take a few minutes to give them your feedback and
be in with the chance of winning £50 of Amazon vouchers.
The survey will run until Friday 18 December and can be found
here. |
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 Research
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• Parents are not welcome as Facebook friends, finds LSE study
Young people don't want to be friends with their parents on Facebook,
preferring to keep their social and family lives separate, research by
academics at LSE has found.
The potential embarrassment caused by parents seeing something on the
social networking site that their offspring would prefer to keep hidden was
among the reasons given by students interviewed for the study . Interviewees
also highlighted a worry that their privacy would be invaded by well-meaning
mothers wanting to check on their child's well-being.
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• Discussion papers from CARR
CARR has published a discussion paper by Dr Will Jennings from the
University of Manchester and Dr Martin Lodge, research theme director at
CARR, exploring the management of security risks in the case of two sporting
mega-events. The paper, entitled ‘Tools of Security Risk Management for the
London 2012 Olympic Games and FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany,’ can be
downloaded
here.
CARR has also published a discussion paper by Dr Erika Mansnerus, British
Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, examining
modelled encounters with public health risks. The paper, entitled ‘Modelled
Encounters with Public Health Risks: how do we predict the
‘unpredictable’?,’ can be downloaded
here.
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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 November 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 December 2009.
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 Events
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• Lent term Events leaflet
The 2010 Lent term Events leaflet will soon be available. Sign up
to the
events email subscription service to find out as soon as the programme
is announced, or follow us on
Twitter for up-to-the-minute information.
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• LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival
Thursday 11 - Saturday 13 February 2010
LSE's second Literary Festival, with the theme 'Off the Edge', aims to
push the boundaries of social science, with a programme of events
exploring what can be learnt in the borderlands between disciplines.
Speakers including AS Byatt, Dan Cruickshank, Giles Foden, Mark Lawson,
Ben Okri, Susie Orbach, Lionel Shriver and Colin Thubron. All events
free and open to all, full programme details online soon at
www.lse.ac.uk/spaceforthought.
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• LSE Carol Service
Thursday 10 December, Shaw Library, 5.30pm
Followed by mulled wine and mince pies. Free and open to all to attend.
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Tony Simpson, Post Room
Shy, retiring and unassuming...
three words you would never
associate with Tony Simpson! Tony
has been at the School for 15 years
and considers himself to have one of
the best jobs in the world - he gets
to see the whole campus and not just
some bits of it, as other people do.
If you were marooned on a
desert island, which LSE
division/department/student society
would you take with you?
It would have to be the people
from the Post Room. They are a very
eclectic mix and you would never get
bored.
With which famous person would
you like to have dinner and why?
The usual bunch of musicians
would be my list of choice. Jimi
Hendrix, John Lennon, Roy Buchanan.
Anyone that can get inspiration from
ordinary mundane situations and then
turn it into beautiful music. How do
they do it…?
Have you ever been attacked by
an animal?
Several, a dog, a cat and most
memorably a grass snake hanging on
my finger as a child.
Which poster(s) graced your
bedroom wall in bygone years?
None, they wouldn't let us put
posters onto the padded walls...
What do you do to make LSE fun
and interesting?
Talk, talk, talk…try to get
everyone involved in everything that
is going on.
What was the first record you
ever bought/track you ever
downloaded?
Dave and Ansell Collins, Double
Barrel. My dad brought it for me
from a stall in Brick Lane. |
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 Media
bites
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• THE
(10 December)
The interview X factor: the elusive 'potential' that dictates success
The admissions process seeks applicants with indefinable qualities,
deemed able to develop critical, questioning minds, writes Mary Evans,
visiting professor in sociology and gender at the Gender Institute, LSE.
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• BBC
World Service (9 December)
Newshour
Professor Christopher Hughes, professor of international relations at
LSE, was interviewed about the trial of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
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• Guardian – Comment is free (6 December)
The internet's dirty carbon secret
'A demand for data from the likes of Google and Facebook about their
emissions and energy consumption is long overdue.'
Article by Sandy Ross, doctoral researcher in the Department of
Sociology at LSE.
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