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20 May 2010 |
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• LSE forges its first full African partnership
The University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics and
Political Science have become official institutional partners – sealing
LSE’s first formal alliance with an African university.
The partnership is likely to lead to student exchanges, visiting
fellowships for academics, research collaborations and training programmes.
A summer school in Africa and joint lectures using the internet to link
audiences in London and Cape Town are further possibilities.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed at a ceremony in South Africa by
Dr Max Price, vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT) and
Professor Sarah Worthington, LSE’s pro-director for research and external
relations.
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• LSE academic awarded Bernard Crick Prize for best essay
Professor Francesca Klug, professorial research fellow at Global
Governance, has been awarded the Political Quarterly Bernard Crick Prize
for best essay.
The award is for her essay 'Solidity or Wind?' What's on the Menu in the
Bill of Rights Debate? which was published in Political Quarterly
in Autumn 2009. The essay analyses the factors behind the current debate on
a British bill of rights and responsibilities. The title is drawn from
George Orwell's 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language.
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• Professor John Griffith (1918-2010)
It is with great sadness that we announce that John Griffith, one of
the leading public law scholars of the twentieth century, has died. John
did so much to advance the discipline, not only with his pioneering
books on administrative law, parliament and the judiciary but also
through his editorship of Public Law from its founding in 1956 to 1981.
John maintained a lifelong association with LSE: he arrived as an
undergraduate in 1937 and, but for the war years and a short period at
Aberystwyth, taught at the School from 1948 until his retirement in 1984. He
was a charismatic teacher, a scholar of radical and independent opinions, a
loyal and supportive colleague, and through his teaching and writing he
influenced many generations of students.
For a full obituary, see the
Department of Law
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• Professor
Alexander 'Sandy' Shafto Douglas
(1921-2010)
We are also sad to announce that Professor Sandy Douglas CBE, who
founded the Information Systems and Innovation Group at LSE, died
peacefully, aged 88 on 29 April. Professor Douglas is credited with
creating the first ever graphics based computer game 'OXO', a version of
Noughts and Crosses, in 1952.
A celebration of his life will be held on Thursday 27 May at 2pm. All
enquires to Hinton Park Woodland Burial Ground, 01425 278910.
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 Notices
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• Your chance to contribute to the 2010-15 Strategic Plan
The Planning Unit are currently working with colleagues across the School
on the Strategic Plan 2010-15.
The Strategic Plan is a statement of the School’s purposes, aspirations
and intended actions over a five year period and is designed to guide every
member of the LSE community. Given the extensive consultation and revamp
undertaken for the current version of the Strategic Plan (2009-14), it is a
working assumption that the 2010-15 Strategic Plan will be an update of that
plan rather than a fundamental change of direction.
However, we welcome your feedback and comments on the current Plan which
will play a role in the formulation of the new 2010-15 Plan, submitted to
Council for approval in September. All responses will be considered.
To access the current Strategic Plan, click
here. Please send feedback and comments by close of business Friday 28
May to Gary Barclay, Planning Unit, QH400 by internal mail or via email to
g.j.barclay@lse.ac.uk
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• The International Handbook of Gender
and Poverty: concepts, research, policy
A major new book edited by Sylvia Chant, professor of development
geography at LSE, is published this month. The International Handbook of Gender and
Poverty: concepts, research, policy comprises 104 chapters from 125
authors worldwide.
The book examines gender and poverty. Both women’s and men’s experiences
of gendered poverty are examined with respect to a vast spectrum of
intersecting issues, including local to global economic transformations,
family, age, ‘race’, migration, assets, paid and unpaid work, health,
sexuality, human rights, and conflict and violence.
The Geography and Environment Department and Gender Institute are jointly
sponsoring a major LSE public event around the volume on 11 March 2011.
Details of which will be online nearer the time.
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• Academics
abroad: Professor Martha Mundy
The academic and methodological implications of a book co-authored by
Professor Martha Mundy, Department of Anthropology, and Richard Saumarez Smith, the American University of Beirut, were examined earlier
this month at a seminar sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study at Harvard University.
The book,
Governing Property, Making the Modern State: law, administration and
production in Ottoman Syria provides, for the first time, a detailed and
archive-based account of the way in which the Ottoman government attempted
to provide individual title to the lands famed by certain villages in what
is now the northern district of Trans-Jordan.
The seminar, 'Towards a New Agenda for Multi-disciplinary Research on
Modern Middle Eastern History', was held on Friday 14 May and led by Roger
Owen, AJ Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History at Harvard University,
and Beshara Doumani, professor of history at the University of California,
Berkeley.
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 Research
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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 April 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 May 2010.
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• Latest
opportunities from LSE
Enterprise
LSE Enterprise offers you the opportunity to undertake private teaching
and consultancy work under the LSE brand. We help with bidding, contracts
and other project administration, enabling you to focus on the work itself.
To see the latest opportunities click
here.
If you would like us to look out for consulting opportunities in your
field, email your CV and summary of interests to Rebecca Limer at
r.limer@lse.ac.uk
Email Marie Rowland-Kidman at
m.rowland-kidman@lse.ac.uk to be added to our Executive Education
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 Events
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• New
event announced:
The Career-family Conundrum
On: Thursday 27 May at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old
Building
Speaker: Professor Claudia Goldin
Other events:
How Much Does Good Management Matter? Evidence from India
On: Thursday 20 May at 6.30pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Professor John Roberts
The Realities and Relevance of Japan’s Great Recession
On: Monday 24 May at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Dr Adam S Posen
Please note this event has been rescheduled
A Manifesto for Giant Funds: resolving the dysfunctionality of finance
On: Tuesday 25 May at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Dr Paul Woolley
The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: human security and the new rules of war
and peace
On: Wednesday 26 May at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Lieutenant Colonel Shannon D Beebe, Professor Mary Kaldor,
Clare Short, Rory Stewart MP
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• Podcasts of public lectures and events
Economics and Politics post-Lisbon
Tuesday 11 May, 6.30-8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Baroness Catherine Ashton
Click here to listen
Atheists on Religion
Wednesday 12 May, 6.30-8pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Professor Tim Crane, Professor AC Grayling
Click here to listen
LSE Director's Dialogue
Thursday 14 May, 5-6pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre,
New Academic Building
Speakers: Howard Davies, Paul Volcker
Click here to listen
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• LSE
PhD Poster Exhibition
Wednesday 26 May, 3-8pm
lower ground floor, New Academic Building
Some of the exciting and innovative research being undertaken by LSE
research students will be showcased on Wednesday 26 May at the LSE PhD
Poster Exhibition: relating research to reality.
A poster preview will be at 1.30pm before the event officially opens at
3pm with tea and coffee. A keynote panel on Making Research Relevant,
chaired by Bob Ward, policy and communications director of the Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment will be held at
3.30pm before the exhibition walkthrough at 5pm.
The event will be followed by a wine reception and the award of Poster
Prizes by the LSE’s Pro-Directors from 6.30pm. For more information, email
Max Hanska-Ahy at m.t.hanska-ahy@lse.ac.uk
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• Cognitive Science and the Mereological Fallacy
Monday 7 June, 3.30-5pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Dr Peter HackerThe lecture will outline one of the themes
of 'Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience' - namely the fallacy of
ascribing to parts of an organism properties that can be attributed only to
an animal as a whole. This provides the backdrop against which other
conceptual confusions in cognitive neuroscience are exposed.
This lecture forms part of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural & Social
Science 20th Anniversary Celebrations and is the second in the public
lecture series under the general theme of Philosophy in Psychology.
Other lectures include:
• Evolutionary Psychology in the Round
Monday 24 May, 3.30-5pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Robin Dunbar
• Problems in the Logic of Personality Studies
Monday 21 June, 3.30-5pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: James Lamiell
All lectures will be followed by a reception. Space is limited so please
RSVP, specifying which lectures you wish to attend, as soon as possible to:
Philcent@lse.ac.uk
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Becky Matthams
I’ve worked at LSE since 2003,
first in the Financial Support
Office, then in the European
Institute and now in the Department
of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific
Method. I like arts, bands, books,
camping, cinema, comedy, cooking,
countryside, crafts, culture,
dancing, digital photography,
eating, friends, holidays, lounging
on sofas, riding my bike fast down
hills and running but not
exclusively... I also like
alphabetised lists....
What is the longest committee
meeting you have ever attended?
As long as there are biscuits, I
tend not to notice.
Name three things you cannot
do without.
My bike (Mike), Cava and Lidl
pizza (they’re delicious - try
them).
If you had a time machine,
where and when would you go?
It would be nice to be able to
visit my Nana again.
What is your favourite film
and why?
I have two. In polite company
it’s Amelie (beautiful, heartfelt
and quirky), in reality it’s
Vertical Limit (action, a baddie and
a rescue. What’s not to love!?)
How do you find time to make
the most of being at LSE?
It’s hard to make the most of it,
but I like that there’s generally
something happening most of the
time, whenever you turn a corner on
campus.
Can you dance?
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 Training
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• Academic, personal and professional development courses for staff
Courses on offer next week include:
- Monday 24 May 2010
Introduction to Twitter and microblogging
- Tuesday 25 May 2010
Keeping up to date: tools and tips for your research
- Wednesday 26 May 2010
Going beyond Google: advanced use of the internet
Excel 2003: Pivot Tables
Language Centre SHOW & SHARE Workshop
- Friday 28 May 2010
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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• Voice
of America News (19 May)
Currency Crisis Wider and Deeper Than Euro-Zone
The Euro had been a success story but in recent months things began to
unravel, and it all started in Greece. The immediate reason was simple
and some two decades in the making, says economist Spyros Economides of
the London School of Economics...
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• Financial
Times (17 May)
Rethink the state's economic role
Professor Robert H Wade responds to a letter by Bruce Goodwin about the
appropriate role of government in the directly productive parts of the
economy.
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• Sunday
Times (16 May)
Empty the dishwasher, darling, but not while I can see
An academic study has found that husbands' help with housework and
domestic activity generally almost halves the risk of divorce. The
study, led by Wendy Sigle-Rushton, followed 3,540 married couples who
had their first baby in 1970 and interviewed them again when their
children turned five, 10 and 16, by which time 20 per cent of them had
divorced.
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