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27 May 2010 |
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• LSE focuses new centre on collaboration with the people and
institutions of the Middle East
LSE has announced the launch of the Middle East Centre - a
multidisciplinary research centre focusing on modern Middle Eastern
cultures, societies, economies and international relations.
The new Centre, which has received £9.2 million in initial support from
the UAE's Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy and The Aman Trust, will
collaborate with Middle Eastern universities, scholars, civil society,
policy makers, and speak to a global audience about the region's strengths
and challenges. It will be directed by Professor Fawaz A Gerges.
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• Roof gardens on Twitter
LSE's roof garden project is now on Twitter and is tweeting under the
title LSEGardens. This is an important, and fun, part of LSE's
environmental work and is succeeding through the enthusiasm of staff across the School.
Pictures of the Shaw Library roof garden are already up as well as those
of young
visitors to the Design Unit roof garden. Those wishing to share news of
their gardens please send pictures and news to Claire Sanders at
c.e.sanders@lse.ac.uk. We will
use Twitter to share garden developments over the summer months, from
growing traumas and pigeon wars to glorious harvest (we hope).
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• Learning
at Work Day
The sun shone, the crowds turned out in historically large numbers
and by most accounts, Learning at Work Day 2010 must count as one of our
best ever.
The combination of service awards, street fayre and - for the first time
- a live fashion show curated by colleagues from our new black, Asian and
minority ethnic staff group, Embrace, seemed to bring a smile to everyone's
face, and deep joy along Houghton Street.
This year’s judging team -
global coach Sarah Boas, Language Centre director Nick Byrne, director of
administration Adrian Hall and creativity expert Alastair Creamer - stressed
the difficulty they had coming to a final decision because of the
universally high standards, but named the Finance Division and Residential
Services as joint winners of the best dressed stall for 2010.
There were also special commendations for the Sustainability Team and the
FSO charity cake stall, and a prestigious Gold award to LSE Catering, for
their outstanding efforts over all three LSE street fayres.
So, well done everyone who exhibited, and supported this headline event.
We hope to do it all again, even better, in 2011.
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• Service
Excellence Awards
Congratulations to everyone who was awarded a Service Excellence
Award 2010.
Adrian Hall, who hosted the awards ceremony on Thursday 20 May with Jean
Skyes, said: 'Service excellence is critical to the School's success in the
market place and the work being carried out in all service units is a
testament to the energy and commitment of staff.'
The names of the winners can be found below:
Individuals
Janith Ameratunga, Michelle Batten,
Maria Bell,
Marcia Bolton, Joseph Borg, Matthew Brack,
Dom Burchnall, Athina Chatzigavriil,
Chris Connelley, John Curtis,
Samantha Da Costa, Heather Dawson, Ali Dezyanian,
Juan Duplessis,
Jacqueline Everid, Vic Finnigan,
Adam Gale, Nicole Gallivan,
Sejal Harsiyani,
Imran Iqbal, Martin Johnson, Vladimir Konrad, Mandy Li,
Simon Machell, Amy Mamawag,,
Duncan McLachlan, Liz McNaughton, Richard Meheux,
David Morris, Felix Nelson,
Benjamin Nevius, Linda Newman,
Kuldip Purewal, Sue Plater, Damian
Roberts, Fani Sarridou, Manuel
Serrano, Norbert Severin, Graham
Shillabeer, Tony Simpson, Gus Stewart,
Helen Thompson, Paul Thornbury, Ibolya Trebert, Paul Trivett,
Jolanta Tukaj, Arthur Wadsworth,
Peter White, Tom Williams,
Carly Wilkinson,
Nicola Wright, Sue Wood,
Martin Woolhead
Nominations for team awards
4th Floor Café, 4th Floor Restaurant, CLT, Garrick Team, Interlibrary
loans Team Library, IT Admin Support Team, Telecoms Team, Timetables Team
Service Excellence Group: Customer Feedback Case Studies
Beni Ahjem,
Elizabeth Aitken, Charlotte Armah, Jeni Brown,
Helen Cocker, George Desmond,
Paul Franklin,
Val Hawkins, John Heyworth, Ken Kinsella, Jane Secker,
Stuart Sharkey,
Maggie Spratt,
Liz Thomas,
Margaret Vanstone,
Ashley Wang
Bill Black Award
Sarah Bailey
To find out more, see the
Service Excellence webpage.
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• LSE appoints new solicitors
The School is pleased to announce that Pinsent Masons LLP has been
appointed to act as the School’s main legal service provider for a
period of 4 years from 1 May 2010.
A Review Committee, which was chaired by The Secretary and Director of
Administration, Mr Adrian Hall, invited presentations from four companies,
which had been short-listed from a total of thirty-five applications. Each
application was scored according to set criteria. Pinsent Masons presented
the Committee with a particularly strong bid, which included reduced rates
and other free perks for the next four years. It was also able to
demonstrate a wide breadth of expertise and experience in the HE sector and
its previous work for LSE.
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• Last
chance to contribute to the 2010-15 Strategic Plan
A reminder to all that Friday 28 May is the deadline for feedback on
the Strategic Plan 2009-14. Feedback
and comments on the current Plan which will play a role in the
formulation of the new 2010-15 Plan, will be submitted to Council for approval
in September. All responses will be considered. Please send feedback 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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 Notices
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• Meeting with senior staff
Adrian Hall's termly meeting with senior staff will take place on
Wednesday 2 June at 10.30am in the Vera Anstey Room.
Topics on the agenda for this meeting are:
- Data quality
- The service excellence group and customer feedback
- A briefing for managers from HR on the new 'fit notes'
If any of you have particular questions or points that you would like
Adrian to address, please contact Alison Johns at
a.johns@lse.ac.uk.
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• Submit your research to LSE Research Online
LSE Research Online is LSE's institutional repository. It contains
citations to and full text versions of all sorts of research created by
members of the School, primarily journal articles, book sections, working
papers and conference papers.
Submitting your research to LSE Research Online has a number of benefits.
First, it increases the dissemination and therefore the impact of your
research - the service receives around 40,000 hits a month. Second, your
research outputs placed in LSE Research Online can be used to create
publications lists in your Experts profile, further showcasing your
research. Third, full text papers placed in LSE Research Online are made
available to anyone who wishes to read them - meaning that your research can
benefit not just those at LSE or in UKHE, but researchers and students all
over the world. Finally, LSE Research Online acts as a show-case for the
world class research produced by members of the School - but we rely on
academics to help us demonstrate this by submitting their research to us.
For more, see http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/
To submit research, update the research we currently hold, or for further
information about the service, please email us at
Lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk.
We are particularly keen to receive full text versions of your research - we
ask for the 'author final' version of papers, ie. the final, post-refereeing
version of articles and book chapters you submit to your publisher(s). If
you wish to do this, papers can be emailed through to us as attachments.
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• Lottery of Birth art auction
LSE Arts would like to thank everyone who came along to the launch of the
Lottery of Birth Art Exhibition on Wednesday, 28 April and for making it
such a huge success. A podcast of the event is now online
here, and the art will be exhibited in the LSE Atrium Gallery, Old
Building, until Friday 28 May (10am-8pm).
Most of the works of art on display are for sale and being auctioned
online for the United Youth Development Organization (UYDO). The auction
closes on Sunday 30 May. To view the artworks on offer and find out how you
can bid, please click here. Funds
raised from the sales will go to UYDO, a youth-led, grass roots,
not-for-profit organisation, which provides small loans, training and
support to young entrepreneurs in the developing world.
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• The
World Cup at LSE
LSE will be screening a number of World Cup matches live in the
Peacock Theatre. These screenings are open to staff (subject to prior agreement from
line manager) and students. LSE ID to be shown on entry.
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Friday 11 June
Opening Ceremony followed by
3pm, South Africa v Mexico
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Tuesday 15 June
3pm, Ivory Coast v Portugal
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Thursday 17 June
12.30pm, Argentina v Korea Republic
3pm, Greece v Nigeria
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Friday 18 June
12.30pm Germany v Serbia
3pm, Slovenia v USA
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Tuesday 22 June
3pm, France v South Africa
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Wednesday 23 June
3pm, Slovenia v England
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Thursday 24 June
3pm, Slovakia v Italy
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Friday 25 June
3pm, Portugal v Brazil
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Tuesday 29 June
3pm, Knockout Round
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Friday 2 July
3pm, Quarter Final
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• Academics abroad
David Demortain, ESRC research officer at CARR, presented a paper on
'The Genericness of Risk: exploring the trans-domain applications of
risk assessment' at an international workshop on Paradigms of Risk
Assessment and Uncertainty in Policy Research on 14-15 May in
California.
Bridget Hutter, CARR director, is an official invitee of the Shanghai
Forum 2010, which will be held at Fudan University on 29-31 May. She will
give a presentation on 'Regulatory Governance: prospects in a changing
world'.
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 Research
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• Discussion paper from CARR
CARR has published a discussion paper by Chris Lawless, ESRC postdoctoral
fellow at CARR, entitled 'A Curious Reconstruction? The Shaping of
“Marketized” Forensic Science'.
The paper addresses the effects of broader political and economic trends on
the development of forensic science and its use in criminal investigations.
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 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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• Forthcoming LSE events include
Inhumane, illegal and insane: a medieval siege on Gaza in 2010
On: Tuesday 1 June at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: John Ging
Climate Change: the city solution
On: Tuesday 1 June at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Ritt Bjerregaard
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• Podcasts of public lectures and events
Financial Crises and Crisis Economic: past, present and future
Speaker: Professor Nouriel Roubini on Tuesday 18 May
Click here to listen
We Don't Know How to Solve Global Poverty and That's a Good Thing
Speaker: Professor William Easterly on Wednesday 19 May
Click here to listen
HIV/AIDS and Disability: new research findings from Kenya
Speaker: Dr Sam Tororei on Thursday 20 May
Click here to listen
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• Working Across Boundaries: analyzing risk and regulation
Registration is now open for CARR’s conference entitled ‘Working
Across Boundaries: analyzing risk and regulation’ taking place on Friday
25 June at Whitehall.
Leading commentators from academia and practice will contribute to panels
and debate the developments and challenges in the field of risk and
regulation. Confirmed participants include Professor Lord Anthony Giddens,
Dame Deirdre Hutton, Dr Hugo Banziger, Professor John Braithwaite, Will
Hutton, Professor Nick Pidgeon, Sir Bill Callaghan and Dr Alan Gillespie.
For more information and to book your place, visit
www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CARR/Default.htm
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Liz Chapman
I started at LSE as director of
Library Services on 18 January this
year and am really pleased to be
here. At my leaving party at UCL, I
was described by a colleague as
being very friendly but a bit scary.
As a child I used to lend my
books to my brother and stamp the
return date in them for him so I'm
definitely in the right job but
never guessed how many dramatic
changes there would be in my work.
When I was at Library School and my
husband to be was doing his
Sociology PhD at LSE, I was not
allowed into the Library. We have
two grown up children, one an artist
currently doing an MFA in New
York who once travelled to Australia
for the weekend and the other
re-thinking their ertswhile life as
a lawyer in the Gherkin.
What is the longest committee
meeting you have ever attended?
When I first started work as the
Economics and Statistics Librarian
in Oxford in the late 1980s I had to
attend a termly committee meeting
called the Bodleian Social Science
Book Selection Committee. A long
list of books in the social sciences
would be read through title by title
by the chair of the committee. He
was a politics academic so every
time we came to a politics book he
would say 'I should say Yes'. The
librarians amongst us would make a
few comments as would the assembled
academics. In the end we would agree
to purchase most of the books
between us. It might not have been
the longest committee but it
certainly felt like it and I hope
it's dead. To be fair, as a Proctor
in Oxford I had the right to attend
any committee meeting and made full
use of that privilege. I loved being
a delegate of OUP and don't think
they'd had a librarian do that
before. I also really enjoyed being
on the Pitt Rivers Museum Committee,
the Buildings Committee and the
Botanical Gardens Committee had the
biggest teapot I have ever seen.
Very Alice in Wonderland.
What book are you currently
reading?
I am reading Peter Carey's
Parrot and Olivier in America on
my Sony ebookreader which I was
given for Christmas. I am enjoying the
book and the experience and have set
the text large enough so if I am
reading at night I don't need to put
on my specs. I like Peter Carey a
lot but like Vikram Seth even more
and was really pleased to be able to
see him at LSE last term. I could
have listened to him all evening. I
have Dante's Divine Comedy on my
iPhone for dipping into.
Is there anything you cannot
do and would like to learn?
So much to do so little time. It
would be good to learn yet another
language well though am currently
learning LSEse and that's taking
enough of my time.
What is your favourite holiday
destination?
I like cities, sun and sea and
there isn't anywhere in the world I
would not like to visit at least
once so maybe I haven't found my
favourite yet. Recently I have been
to India and Iceland and enjoyed
both very much. And they did say in
Iceland in January that they
expected another volcanic eruption
soon…. We have lately been reliving
our student days as travel reps and
visiting Greek islands. We have a
particular fondness for Florence. I
like to be somewhere where I can
swim.
If you were to rewrite the
School's motto, what would it be?
I'm not sure I'm qualified to
re-write LSE's motto though I am
sure any modern version would have
something about questioning received
wisdom in it. I think Virginia Woolf
unwittingly wrote a good
introduction for the LSE Library in
her Three Guineas:
'…..you have a library and a good
one. A working library, a living
library; a library where nothing is
chained down and nothing is locked
up…..'
What three items would you
take to a desert island with you?
I would take a very sharp ceramic
bladed knife from Japan and a big
box of art materials. I think lots
of paper would be good to work on
and also to write my message for
putting in a bottle. Can I have some
coated paper that would bring me
close to photography which I really
enjoy? I have some paper at home you
can put objects on and then leave
them in the sunshine to record. It
only needs plain water to develop
the printing but I expect salt water
would make an interesting image. |
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 Training
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• Academic, personal and professional development courses for staff
Courses on offer next week include:
- Tuesday 1 June
Moodle Basics Training
- Thursday 3 June
Using a range of digital media for teaching
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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• Financial Times (24 May)
Bonuses may be the back door to a widening pay gap
Amid news that two-thirds of senior UK civil servants received a performance
bonus last year, Professor David Marsden, an employment specialist at
LSE, points out that if you deny a subordinate a
bonus, you create a headache for yourself in motivating that employee for
the next year.
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• Observer (23 May)
After the flood: European cities on the edge of a debt crisis
Andres Rodriguez-Pose, a professor of economic geography at LSE, is quoted in an article about places like Venice being
forced to sell off their heritage to balance the books.
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• Observer (23 May)
Savage cuts will cause another recession, economists fear
Julian Le Grand, professor of social policy at LSE, has said the UK is in danger of pushing itself into recession.
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