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4 February 2010 |
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 News
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• LSE staff play to be performed by students
After falling into student drama almost by accident, one LSE staff member
has now gone a step further - writing a
play for the LSE Drama Society to perform.
Steve Bond, who works in Learning Technology, became involved in the
Drama Society when he auditioned for a play, without realising that it was a
student society. He has been acting with the society since, performing in LSE’s
first musical for 20 years ‘Into the Woods’ among other productions.
The play, which is called The Abduction of Elizabeth Hanning, is
inspired by a true story that he discovered on an engraving in the British
Museum. Hanning disappears on her way home to her mother’s and when she
returns, questions arise as to whether she was really abducted. Steve is working with Maths undergraduate Sarah Haq and first year Government
undergraduate Rui Jin, to produce the play.
'I love doing drama with the students. Whether it's directing them,
acting with them or running one of the weekly actors' workshops. I love the
enthusiasm and tenacity with which they approach drama, and the prolific
nature of their output, with five or six productions every year to get involved
in.'
The Abduction of Elizabeth Hanning is on 8 and 9 February at 7.30pm in
the Old Theatre. Tickets are £4 and will be on sale from a stall in Houghton
Street next week, or can be bought on the door.
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• Cutting
costs without cutting corners
Margaret Newson knows more than most people about how to spot a bargain.
And best of all she's willing to share her knowledge with the rest of LSE.
But one of the things that Margaret, purchasing manager at LSE, will tell
you is that cheapest isn't necessarily best when it comes to buying
equipment or services for LSE. Her guidelines for responsible buying are set
out in the new purchasing guide, which has been developed to assist LSE
staff in their responsibilities in spending the School’s money wisely and in
accordance with the School’s Financial Regulations 2009. In particular, the
guide has an environmental checklist that will ensure LSE moves towards a
more sustainable purchasing policy.
Margaret said: ‘We have produced this simple guide to help LSE staff get
the best out of their budgets. A copy of the guide has now been requested by
at least 80 other universities in the UK and also by universities in the
West Indies and South Africa.’
The purchasing guide is now available online
here. For any other purchasing related queries, contact the
purchasing team.
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• LSE signs up for universities' global green charter
LSE has joined other leading universities at the World Economic Forum in
Davos in signing a charter which commits the School to adopting sustainable
policies.
LSE has joined Cambridge, Harvard, and other leading institutions in the
'Global University Leaders Forum' in backing the Sustainable Campus Charter,
which calls on universities to ensure that their operations, research, and
teaching are sustainable. Sustainable policies may include reducing energy
consumption and waste or ensuring that new buildings have a minimal negative
impact on the local environment.
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• Shaping
sociology
A paper written by LSE professors Peter Miller and Nik Rose has been chosen
to feature in a special issue of the British Journal of Sociology (BJS)
to mark the journal’s 60th anniversary.
The paper, entitled Political Power Beyond the State, was originally
published in the BJS in 1992 and is one of only two papers from the
1990s to be featured in the issue.
All the articles included in the special issue have been chosen by the
editors because, in their view, they have had a significant and enduring
impact on sociology. To read the anniversary issue, click
here.
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• News
from CARR
Matthias Benzer joins CARR as Peacock Fellow. Matthias previously worked
at the University of Manchester, and his research interests are sociological
theory, sociological methodology, socio-scientific approaches to suffering
and death, quality and quantity of life debates, and risk in healthcare
regulation.
He is working on a project that aims for a sociological analysis of the
approaches of UK health regulatory organisations to defining, assessing, and
managing risks to quality of life.
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• Goodbye from LSE
Colleagues who were at the School in the 1980’s and 1990’s will be
sad to learn that Neil Plevy has died after a short illness, aged 51.
Neil joined the School in 1984 in the Estates Division, working for the
then bursar, the late Victor McNaught Davies. He transferred to the
Secretariat where he was part of the group which worked under the leadership
of IG Patel, to obtain the freehold of the Old Building, an initiative which
began the School’s programme of buying all the freeholds of its buildings.
Neil left LSE in 1994 to work at Emmanuel College Cambridge as an
assistant bursar and then joined his alma mater Peterhouse where in recent
years he became development director.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday 1 May at 2.30pm in Little St
Mary's (which is next to Peterhouse, Cambridge, CB2 1RD). Friends of Neil's
from LSE are welcome to attend.
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 Notices
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• Online recruitment system - roll out phase
The Human Resources Division would like to thank all departments that
took part in the pilot phase of the online recruitment system.
Following the pilot, the new system will be rolled out to the School on
Monday 8 February for all academic support vacancies and in July 2010 for
all academic and research vacancies.
To log in to the system, visit the
Online Recruitment Project page. Please note that you should use your
existing LSE username and password to log in.
If you have any problems getting access, contact the Recruitment Team on
020 7955 6217. If you have any feedback or questions, please contact Sofia
Avgerinou at s.avgerinou@lse.ac.uk,
Sarah Pedder at s.pedder@lse.ac.uk,
or Krushna Vekariya at
k.vekariya@lse.ac.uk
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• Staff
portrait dates
Nigel Stead, School photographer, will be holding a staff portrait
photo session on Monday 15 February. 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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• Library book sale
Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 February, 10am-4pm,
R301 (third floor of the Library)
With books on sale at only £1 each, the annual Library book sale is a
great opportunity to grab yourself a bargain and enhance your book
collection.
Plus you will also be helping the Library to clear its storage of
excess gifts and outdated editions of textbooks that have been removed from
the collection.
Make sure you don’t forget to bring a big bag!
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• Languages for holidays
If you are going abroad this year, why not take one of the LSE Language
Centre's lunchtime and early evening taster courses.
From as little as £5 per class, these courses aim to develop an
ability to use language effectively for everyday holiday situations.
Each course will focus on the following:
- exchanging personal information
- booking tickets for a journey with a travel agency
- booking a room in a hotel
- ordering in a restaurant
- booking tickets (e.g. in a theatre)
- going shopping
- communicating with local people
For more information, visit
www2.lse.ac.uk/language/LanguagesforHolidays.aspx
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• IT
Services User Survey 2010 closes on Sunday at midnight - tell us what
you think
Complete the IT Services annual user survey for a chance to win an Apple
iPod Touch.
The survey takes about ten minutes to complete, and as a further
incentive, everyone who submits a completed survey will be entered into a
prize draw to win a iPod Touch. Don’t miss out on your chance to shape the
way your IT services are provided at LSE.
The survey can be found at
www.survey.lse.ac.uk/its2010staff and ends on Sunday 7 February at
midnight.
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• HKPASS love valentine - love Haiti
Brighten up this year’s Valentine’s Day with goodies sold during the
LSESU Hong Kong Public Affairs and Social Service (HKPASS) Society
fundraising week for the British Red Cross.
From Monday 8 - Friday 12 February, HKPASS will be on Houghton Street
from 11am-3pm selling the perfect gifts for your loved ones, including
chocolate gift sets and personalised handmade bracelets. For more
information or to
pre-order your bracelets, visit
www.lsehkpass.com |
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 Research
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• Discussion paper from CARR
CARR has published a new discussion paper. The paper is by Julien Etienne,
ESRC postdoctoral fellow at CARR, and is entitled The Impact of
Regulatory Policy on Individual Behaviour: a goal framing theory approach.
The paper identifies the main variables and mechanisms through which
regulatory policy may influence individual choices.
To download the paper, click
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 January 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 February 2010.
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 Events
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• Don't miss out.... tickets still available
Tickets are still available for the LSE Space for Thought Literary
Festival 2010 which takes place on Thursday 11 - Saturday 13 February.
Speakers include Mark Lawson, Susie Orbach, Giles Foden, Lionel Shriver,
AS Byatt, Ben Okri, and Colin Thubron.
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• Other upcoming events include....
From Double-Consciousness to Public Diplomacy: the changing value of
African-American culture
On: Monday 8 February at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Paul Gilroy
Sustainable Housing: how can we save 80 per cent of our energy use in
existing homes?
On: Tuesday 9 February at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor Anne Power
A Broken Middle East: a wasted decade of war on terror
On: Wednesday 10 February at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Fawaz A Gerges
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• Podcasts of public lectures and events
Speaking with the Speaker
Monday 25 January, 6.30pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: John Bercow and Tony Travers
Click here to listen
Not By Reason Alone
Tuesday 26 January, 4pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Dr Montek Ahluwalia, Mukesh Ambani, Shobhana
Bhartia, Professor Lord Desai, Shekhar Gupta, Ed Luce,
Lord Patten, Nand Kishore Singh, and Professor Lord Stern
Click here to listen
Electoral Reform in the Wake of the Economic Crisis
Thursday 28 January, 6.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Dr Vincent Cable MP
Click here to listen
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• LSESU Atheist and Humanist Society lecture
LSE philosophy lecturer Alex Voorhoeve will be giving a talk entitled
'Godless Morality in the Enlightenment' on Thursday 4 February at 6.30pm
in room NAB2.06.
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• CARR public seminar
Tuesday 9 February, 1-2.30pm, room G305
Professor Erik Millstone, University of Sussex, will be giving a public
seminar at the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR),
entitled Risk Assessment Policy - A Critical Innovation for both
Scientific and Democratic Legitimacy.
For more information, click
here.
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• Why Obama is right on the banks
Tuesday 9 February, 1-2pm, room M101
Speaker: Will Hutton
Will Hutton is chief executive of the Work Foundation. Prior to this, he
spent four years as editor-in-chief of The Observer and continues to
write a weekly column for the paper. He is also a governor of LSE and a
senior visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance.
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• Short films by Andrew Jackson
Wednesday 10 February, 6.30-8pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Screening: Fire (24 min, 2009) and No Work/No Cake (21 min, 2009)
In addition to his highly accomplished photography, Andrew Jackson has
recently begun to produce short lyrical films which, much like his
photography, attempt to explore different aspects of contemporary
Britain’s identity through the lives and experiences of particular
individuals.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on
a first come, first served basis. For more information, email
arts@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955
6043.
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• Conceptualising global democracy
Thursday 11 February, 1-2pm, room NAB114
Speakers: Professor Jan Aart Scholte and Eva Erman
What does it meant to speak of ‘global democracy’? In this seminar Eva
Erman and Jan Aart Scholte present for debate the propositions about
conceptualising global democracy that have emerged from an interregional,
intercultural, interdisciplinary, ideologically plural and action-oriented
project on the subject.
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• Music@LSE - Badke String Quartet
Thursday 11 February, 1.05-2pm, Shaw Library, Old Building
Winners of the first prize and audience prize at the Melbourne
International Chamber Music Competition in 2007, the Badke has received
widespread acclaim for its energetic and vibrant performances.
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• Authority, enjoyment and the
spirits of capitalism
Friday 12 February, 6.30-8pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Yannis Stavrakakis
This lecture, hosted by the Institute of Social Psychology and
Psychoanalysis@LSE, will question how order is sustained in capitalist
societies? A psychoanalytically-inspired approach highlights the mutual
engagement between authority, fantasy and enjoyment in securing the ethical
hegemony of the ‘spirits of capitalism’.
Yannis Stavrakakis is associate professor of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a
first come, first served basis. For more information, email
l.m.duffy@lse.ac.uk or call 020
7955 7700.
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• Anniversary: an act of memory
Saturday 13 February, 1-2pm, New Academic Building
On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted
and proclaimed The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The assembly
called on member states to publicise the text causing it to be
displayed, disseminated, read and expounded principally in schools and
other educational institutions.
This event is one of a sequence, by artist Monica Ross, which continues
the dialogue around the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, celebrating
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 60
Second Interview
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with..... Rev David Peebles
David is the full-time Anglican
chaplain at LSE. He has lived in
Bristol, Bath, Yorkshire and Crewe
and before coming to LSE was
chaplain at QMC and parish priest of
Bethnal Green. He loves reading and
going to the cinema and theatre. He
supports Middlesbrough FC and is
interested in religion and popular
culture and interfaith dialogue and
relations.
What is the best part of your
job at LSE?
Not knowing what will happen
next.
What did you want to be when
you grew up?
A time lord.
What would we be most
surprised to learn about you?
Reggie Kray (as in the gangster)
asked me to marry him (as the
officiating priest!)
What is your favourite
biscuit?
I don't eat them.
What, or who, makes you laugh?
The Bishops of the Church of
England.
What would you do if you were
LSE director for a day?
Set up a theology department.
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 Training
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• Academic,
personal and professional development courses for staff
Courses on offer next week include:
- Monday 8 February
Outlook 2003: clearing your inbox
Going beyond Google: advanced use of the internet
Meditation
- Tuesday 9 February
Excel 2003: advanced formatting and printing
Macro-Structure of the Thesis (PhD only)
- Wednesday 10 February
Research Project Management: a full day course
Facebook - myths and facts
- Thursday 11 February
PowerPoint 2003: images, tables and charts
Moodle Basics Training
Macro-Structure of the Thesis (PhD only)
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 Media
bites
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• The Times (2 February)
'Intolerable' two-year misery for Tube users
London’s transport network will suffer regular paralysis over the next
two years under plans to shut down the Underground’s busiest line for
engineering work in the evenings and on most weekends.
Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at LSE, told The
Times that TfL might not be able to guarantee the work even if it
took over. 'The Government is cutting capital expenditure, there’s
always a chance that the Treasury could squeeze TfL after the general
election.'
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• Guardian
(1 February)
Greece's economic problems and euro threats are exaggerated
Professor Theodore Pelagidis, Hellenic Observatory senior research
fellow at LSE, and Philip Arestis,
University of Cambridge, write to the Guardian about Greece's
economy.
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• BBC
Radio 4 (29 January)
The world
tonight
Professor Kevin Featherstone, professor of contemporary Greek studies at
LSE, was interviewed on the Greek economy and Greece’s economic crisis
and how the crisis in Greece affects the Euro zone.
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