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18 November 2010 |
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• Leontief
Prize jointly awarded to LSE's Lord Stern
Professor Lord Stern has been announced as joint winner of an annual prize
awarded for ground-breaking work in economics.
Tufts University's Global Development and Environment Institute announced
that it will award its 2011 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of
Economic Thought to both Harvard University's Martin Weitzman and Lord
Stern, who is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Chair of the Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.
The award recognises the critical role played by both in analysing the
economic dimensions of climate change. Lord Stern is the third LSE academic
to win this award, after Amartya Sen (2000) and Robert Wade (2008).
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• LSE shortlisted for Sustainability Awards 2010
LSE has been shortlisted for the Sustainability Awards 2010 under the
category Sustainable Client/Developer of the Year.
The Sustainability Awards celebrate, recognise, and reward outstanding
achievement in sustainability in the built environment and are a key
benchmark for achieving best practice in the sector. The 2010 awards include
new categories relating to green practice in construction and architecture.
As a major land owner and property developer in Central London, LSE is
shortlisted under the Sustainable Client/Developer 2010 category. The School is up
against stiff competition in this category, standing against Berkeley Group
Holdings, Crest Nicholson, Land Securities, Lend Lease and the Olympic
Delivery Authority.
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• Get your sQuid card
The introduction of the new sQuid cards to members of staff has now begun.
The first cards were issued on Tuesday 16 November, and will continue to
be available for collection
from room SHF.Q01, every weekday until Friday 26 November.
Staff members are currently being sent an email with a timeslot during
this period, in which they can collect their new card. Those who cannot
attend during their timeslot can come along at any time between 10am and 4pm
for these two weeks. If possible, try to avoid lunchtime as it may get quite
busy, and please bring your old card with you. SHF.Q01 is located
in the basement of 9-10 Sheffield Street, which is close to the Parish Hall.
The sQuid cards, which have already been issued to students, offer a new
and innovative way to pay for food, drink and other items across campus.
Topping up credit is a simple process which can be done online by visiting
squidcard.com/lse.
If you have any questions about the sQuid card, please visit
sQuid on your LSE Card.
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• Young
Russian academics at LSE
Thanks to the generosity of a private donor, Frederik Paulsen, LSE is
bringing young historians from the Russian regions to the School for one,
two, and three month fellowships over the next five years.
The fellows will work on the period 1700-1917, on topics relating to
Imperial Russia's relationships with the outside world, broadly conceived,
that is, not just military and diplomatic affairs but also intellectual,
economic and social contacts.
The first fellow to arrive at LSE for a two month fellowship is Dr
Stanislav Malkin, from the Samara State Academy of the Social Science and
Humanities. Dr Malkin has worked on the British military presence in the
Scottish Highlands in 1715-1745, and is looking comparatively at the
relationships between the centre and the periphery within eighteenth-century
empires.
The Paulsen Fellows will be based in LSE IDEAS. Professors Janet Hartley
and Dominic Lieven, both from the International History Department,
will
head the programme.
For more information about the programme, visit the
LSE IDEAS website.
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• BIONET project establishes SEPRE: the standing platform on
Sino-European research ethics in biomedicine
On Tuesday 2 November in Beijing, a delegation from the BIONET project, met
with Chinese life scientists, bioethicists, and representatives of the
Chinese Ministry of Health, to establish SEPRE: the standing platform on
Sino-European research ethics in biomedicine.
The BIONET project is a 21 partner, three year project, on the
governance of biomedical research in China, led by Professor Nikolas Rose
(pictured) from BIOS at LSE.
As China seeks to become a major player in the global bioeconomy, it is
increasingly recognised that robust science requires robust governance,
oversight, and regulation. SEPRE will build on BIONET's intensive research
and discussion, take forward its recommendations, provide advice to
institutions and individuals, and engage in capacity building at all levels.
For more information, visit
www.bionet-china.org/.
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• EMBRACE
steering group announced
The following members have been selected on to the EMBRACE steering
group, following elections which took place in the Summer. EMBRACE is the
School’s black and ethnic minority group.
Chair: Daniel Beckley (pictured)
Vice chair: Clive Mendes
Secretary: Antonia Buamah
Treasurer: Isi Dossouhon
Communications officer: Michelle Ward
Events officer: Gizelle Regis
Fundraising officer: Anne Okello
The group is now working on an official launch event, which will take
place in the Lent term, and establishing its website.
A meeting is scheduled for Thursday 20 January at 6pm. All staff members
are invited to attend and find out more about EMBRACE. In the meantime, you
can contact the group at
embrace@lse.ac.uk.
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• LSE Photo Prize 2011 - call for submissions
LSE ARTS is pleased to announce the launch of the LSE Photo Prize
Exhibition 2011. This year’s photo prize takes on the theme of 'crossing
borders'.
The LSE Photo Prize Exhibition is an annual competition run by LSE Arts
which is open to all staff and students and showcases a wide range of
photography.
Photos are selected by a judging panel of art professionals and LSE
staff. The exhibition will be printed and displayed in the Atrium Gallery,
Old Building, between 28 February and 31 March 2011. This exhibition is
supported by the LSE Annual Fund.
Entrants can each submit up to three photographs which should reflect the
theme. Each photograph must be 300dpi, no smaller than 2MB, and a JPEG file.
The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Wednesday 12 January 2011.
For more information and to enter, please download an application form at
www.lse.ac.uk/arts.
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• Academics abroad
On Tuesday 2 November Professor Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor of
Sociology at LSE, gave a presentation to the Beijing Forum on the promises,
perils and problems of personalised medicine, and also gave a talk to LSE
alumni, whilst visiting Beijing, China.
Professor Jude Howell, director of LSE's Centre for Civil Society, gave an
address on the effects of counter-terrorism policy post-9/11 on civil
societies, at the annual Amnesty International Denmark conference in
Copenhagen on Saturday 30 October.
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 Notices
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• Meeting with senior staff
Adrian Hall's (pictured) termly meeting with senior staff will take place
on Wednesday 24 November at 10.30am in the Vera Anstey Room, Old Building.
Topics on the agenda for this meeting are as follows:
- Service quality
- What do we think that the Comprehensive Spending Review
means for the LSE's managers?
- Report from the Human Resources Division
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• LSE
partnership PhD mobility bursaries
Deadline: 30 November 2010
Applications are invited from LSE PhD students for Mobility Bursaries to
visit one of the School’s institutional partners in order to work informally
with an advisor on their PhD thesis research and/or on related publications
and presentations, and to introduce them to the academic culture,
professional contacts and employment opportunities of another
country/region.
For 2010-11, six bursaries remain to support LSE students to visit one of
the following institutions: the National University of Singapore, Sciences
Po, Peking University or the University of Cape Town. For each institution,
up to two flat rate bursaries of £2,500 are available.
LSE PhD students who have already been upgraded to full doctoral student
status are eligible to apply. Each visit should be a minimum of two months
and a maximum of three months in duration.
Full details about the Mobility Bursaries, including application
procedures, can be found
here. All further enquiries should be emailed to
academic_partnerships@lse.ac.uk.
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• Blind
cleaning and servicing
Blind cleaning and servicing will take place in 20 Kingsway from Monday
22 November until Friday 26 November.
During this time, blinds will be taken down, taken away, and returned
once cleaning and servicing is finished. To limit any inconvenience, most of
the work will take place between 8am and 9.30am each day.
For more information, contact Richard Allen at
r.allen1@lse.ac.uk on ext
6544.
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• Get cheap tickets to the ATP Tennis finals
Viagogo are offering LSE staff and students the chance to get cheap tickets
to the Barclays ATP World Tour Tennis Finals, which start on Sunday.
From Federer to Nadal, Djokovic to Murray, the world’s best compete in a
unique round-robin format, taking place at the O2 arena next week.
For a limited time only, you can get tickets for the group stages of the
competition for only £10.
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 Research
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• Overuse
of the internet is very high among UK children says new study
Excessive use of the internet is very high among children in the UK with one
in five admitting they have gone without food or sleep to stay online.
A study of online habits from LSE also shows that more than half of young
people confess they spend less time than they should on family, friends or
schoolwork because of the internet.
In all categories, the survey found 43 per cent of British children
agreed they used the internet too much. For Europe as a whole, the figure
was just 30 per cent. Use of social network sites (such as Facebook and
Twitter) is also high for young people in this country - 65 per cent of 9-16
year olds have their own profile on one or more sites compared to 57 per
cent across Europe.
However the report from the EU Kids Online team, based at LSE, also found
that children in the UK are among the most web-savvy, with a good
understanding of how to negotiate risky activity on the online and to
protect themselves. As a result, the project now classifies the UK as a
high-use but low-risk country (where it had previously been ranked high in
both categories).
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• Government
shouldn't 'over react' to financial crisis
Politicians and policy makers should avoid over-reacting to the current
financial crisis and instead focus on preventing the next one according to a
new book by LSE London, London Coping With Austerity: a review of
housing, planning and public policy issues in 2010.
Mark Boleat, deputy chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee of the
City of London Corporation warns that, in order to retain London's status as
one of the world's pre-eminent financial centres, the government must avoid
introducing a tougher regulatory regime than exists in the rest of the
world.
He explains: 'The more onerous regulation is, and the higher the capital
requirements, the less competitive financial services will be, the less they
are able to lend, and the higher the cost of their financial product.'
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• Energy risk management for UK business
An LSE Enterprise paper written by Dr Samuel Fankhauser, of the
Grantham Research Institute, demonstrates that energy risks for business
are set to increase.
Sponsored by npower, the paper provides a guide to current energy risks
and forecasts how they will grow in the future. It shows that combining
energy management and procurement processes can help control risk exposure
and points out that energy suppliers can usefully act as consultants to help
organisations manage energy risks.
'The risks faced by UK business related to energy will continue to grow.
Energy price volatility and increases, reputation and price risks from
carbon regulation, and increasing regulatory and technological complexity
all combine to ensure energy will continue to pose a significant risk for UK
businesses moving forward,' says Dr Fankhauser.
For more information or to download the paper, visit
LSE Enterprise.
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• Research opportunities
Candidates interested in applying for any research opportunities should
contact Michael Oliver in the
Research Division at
m.oliver@lse.ac.uk or call ext 7962.
The Research Division maintains a regularly updated list of
research funding opportunities for academic colleagues on their website.
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• Research e-Briefing
Click
here
to read the October edition of the Research Division 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 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 or visit
http://twitter.com/lseenterprise.
If you would like us to look out for consulting opportunities in your
field, email your CV and summary of interests to
lseenterprise.consulting@lse.ac.uk
Email exec.ed@lse.ac.uk to be
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 Events
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• EU as a Global Player: reality or illusion?
On: Tuesday 23 November at 6.45-8pm. The venue will be
confirmed to ticketholders
Speaker: Dr Danilo Türk (pictured)
Dr Danilo Türk is president of the Republic of Slovenia.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. One
ticket per person can be requested. LSE students and staff are able to
collect one ticket from the New Academic Building SU shop, located on the
Kingsway side of the building.
For more information, visit the
event web page.
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• New event announced....
What Has the Financial Crisis Taught Europe?
On: Monday 22 November at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East
Building
Speaker: Simeon Djankov (pictured), a Bulgarian economist who is
currently serving as deputy prime minister and minister of finance in
Bulgaria.
• Other upcoming events include....
Balkans 2020: the ministerial debate
On: Thursday 18 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Vuk Jeremić, minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of
Serbia, and Nickolay Mladenov, minister of foreign affairs of the
Republic of Bulgaria.
How to Avoid Financial Crises in the Future
On: Monday 22 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Costas Markides, Robert P Bauman Chair of
Strategic Leadership at the London Business School.
Revisiting the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain: the Parekh report 10 years on
On: Tuesday 23 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh, emeritus fellow of political
theory at the University of Hull.
The Third World's War
On: Wednesday 24 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Niall Ferguson, Philippe Roman Chair in History
and International Affairs at LSE.
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• Believing Cassandra: how to be an optimist in a pessimist's
world
Tuesday 23 November, 6.30-8pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Alan AtKisson, president and CEO of The AtKisson Group
In this LSE Sustainability in Practice lecture, Alan will discuss the pioneers who created the ideas,
techniques and practices of sustainable living - the people who prove
Cassandra's warnings wrong, by believing in them, and taking strategic
action.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a
first come, first served basis. For more information, visit the
event web page.
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• The New Conservatism
A one day conference - Friday 26 November, Michio Morishima
Conference Room, LSE
The Conservatives are now back in power and newly reinvigorated. But
what do they stand for?
Some argue that they are really still wedded to Thatcherism, while
others see prime minister David Cameron as a new Disraeli. Still others
see his stance as modelled on Tony Blair and New Labour.
What exactly is this new conservatism? What is its relationship to the
conservative tradition? And how are its ideas related to those of other
political traditions? Is it really possible to be a liberal conservative
or a Red Tory?
Speakers at the conference will include:
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Paul Kelly, LSE
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Robin Archer, LSE
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Andrew Gamble, Cambridge
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Sarah Childs, Bristol
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Tim Bale, Sussex
The conference is open to all staff and research students but places are
limited. To register your interest, email
sociology.events@lse.ac.uk.
The conference will be followed by a public debate from 6.30-8pm in the
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.
The debate, Are the New Conservatives Conservative?, will include
speakers Roger Scruton, Oxford, and Daniel Finkelstein, The Times.
The evening event is also free and open to all.
For more information on either of these events, visit the
Sociology
website.
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• Knowledge transfer panel discussion
Wednesday 1 December, 12-1.30pm, NAB.2.14
With the academic year in full gear, the Teaching and Learning Centre
(TLC) is starting up its second year of knowledge transfer training
activities.
This policy panel discussion will consist of a mixture of structured
advice about presenting academic research in language of advocacy, and about
how to go about lobbying Parliament with personal anecdote about how
academics might approach a parallel career in policy-making.
The three panellists are LSE professor Nick Barr, Stephen Webster from
the National Centre for Social Research, and Jen Goldstein, parliamentary
lobbying advisor.
To book your place at this event, visit
http://tlcevents.lse.ac.uk/. Staff
can bring lunch with them if they wish.
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• Podcasts of public lectures and events
Greece is Changing
Speaker: George Papaconstantinou
Recorded: Monday 8 November, approx 78 minutes
Click here to listen
Employees First, Customers Second: turning conventional management upside
down
Speaker: Vineet Nayar
Recorded: Tuesday 9 November, approx 66 minutes
Click here to listen
Dignified Foreign Policy
Speaker: Alexander Stubb
Recorded: Thursday 11 November, approx 55 minutes
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 60
Second Interview
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• with.....
Nabila Ramdani
I'm a PhD candidate in LSE's
International History Department,
but I also work as a journalist and
commentator, specialising in
Anglo-French relations, the Arab
World and Islam. I write for a wide
variety of publications including
The Guardian and The New
Statesman, and participate in
current affairs broadcasts on
channels like the BBC and Al Jazeera.
I’m a winner of the inaugural
European Muslim Women of Influence (EMWI)
Award 2010. I live between London
and my home city of Paris - I am
well on the way towards winning the
inaugural Muslim Award for Endurance
Eurostar Travel.
Tell us about the EMWI
ceremony in Madrid on 30 October -
did you encounter many other
interesting people there, presenting
their success stories?
There was a very interesting
woman who told us about her
rags-to-riches story: how she
started life as a dedicated
socialist from the traditional
working class city of Liverpool and
is now travelling the world with her
controversial multi-millionaire
husband, also a former leftist. The
trouble was that Cherie Blair is a
Roman Catholic and so ineligible for
a Muslim award.
Who has inspired you most
within your chosen field of
expertise?
I was also a nominee for the EU
Journalist Award – Together Against
Discrimination 2010, and I take much
inspiration from Rosa Parks, the
American woman who refused to give
up her seat on a bus to a white man
in 1950s Alabama. The US Congress
dubbed her ‘mother of the freedom
movement’ as racial segregation
gradually became a thing of the
past.
Rosa spent a number of years in
Detroit, where I was a lecturer at
the University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor, so I feel a personal bond
with her (as I do when I can’t get a
seat on the 24 bus to LSE from my
London flat).
What has been your finest
hour, so far?
Beating the MP Jacques Myard, the
architect of France’s burqa ban, in
the Qatar Foundation Doha Debate
last October. The multicultural
studio audience rejected his motion
that France was right to impose the
ban by 78 per cent to 22 per cent in
one of the highest rejections in the
history of the Debates. More than
350 million people in 200 countries
were watching.
As a child, what did you want
to be when you grew up?
‘We are all in the gutter, but
some of us are looking at the
stars,’ was how Oscar Wilde put it.
I’ve never wanted to be anyone in
particular, just to keep looking
upwards.
What is your ambition/goal in
life?
To produce the ultimate
journalistic scoop... Something like
Tony Blair and partner George W.
Bush to appear on Strictly Come
Dancing. Cherie converts to Islam in
protest.
What would we be most
surprised to learn about you?
I followed Portsmouth Football
Club to their FA Cup final victory
in 2008. The club’s historic
antecedents, including links with
giants like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
fascinated me. I also liked the
French players Lassana Diarra,
Sylvain Distin, and Nadir Belhadj.
If you want to know more about
Nabila's work as a journalist
and academic, visit
http://nabilaramdani.com/.
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 Training
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• Training
for staff and research students at LSE
Staff courses scheduled for next week include:
- Developing your web presence
- IT training office hours
- Recruitment and selection
- Writing for the media
- One-to-one voice coaching
- Get started with EndNote
For a full schedule and further details, including booking information,
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 Media
bites
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• Times Higher Education (18 November 2010)
Just War on Terror? A Christian and Muslim Response
'Conor Gearty enjoys a balanced analysis of the 'War on Terror' from
both sides of the fence' - Book review by Conor Gearty, professor of
human rights law, LSE.
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• BBC
Radio 4 (17 November 2010)
The world at one
Dr Tim Leunig, reader in economic history at LSE, discussed whether
there will be an economic boost from the Royal wedding.
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• CNN
(16 November 2010)
Social media buzz about royal engagement
Charlie Beckett, director of POLIS at LSE, examines the use of social
media in the buzz around Prince William's engagement announcement.
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