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 News
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• Suggestions welcome in the search for a new Director
All members of the School are invited to make suggestions about
individuals to be considered for the post of Director of the School.
The Directorship Selection Committee (DSC) has responsibility for
managing the process of selection, assisted by executive search agency
Perrett Laver.
Members of the DSC will be happy to be approached with suggestions. The
membership is shown below:
- Peter Sutherland, the Chair of the Court of Governors, ex officio
- Anne Lapping, Vice Chair of the Court of Governors, ex officio
- Lord Grabiner of Aldwych, independent Governor, nominated by the
Court
- Johannes Huth, independent Governor, nominated by the Court
- Professor George Gaskell, Pro Director, nominated by the Academic
Board
- Professor Paul Kelly, academic Governor, nominated by the Academic
Board
- Professor Chrisanthi Avgerou, member of the Academic Board,
nominated by the Academic Board
- Professor Leonardo Felli, member of the Academic Board, nominated by
the Academic Board
- General Secretary of the LSE Students’ Union
The criteria for Directorship selection can be found
here.
Suggestions may also be sent directly to the following dedicated email
address at Perrett Laver,
LSE@perrettlaver.com or if preferred to the LSE email
pcpd.dir.recruitment@lse.ac.uk.
It would be most helpful to receive any suggestions by 20 July 2011.
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• LSE100 teacher shortlisted in national essay competition
Maria do Mar Pereira (pictured), a teaching fellow with LSE100 and Gender
Institute alumna, has been shortlisted by the Feminist and Women's Studies
Association (FWSA) in its annual essay competition. The competition awards
essay work which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist
theory and practice.
‘I was absolutely delighted to receive the news that I had been
shortlisted for this award. The FWSA has over the years played a leading and
profoundly inspiring role in promoting research and education in women's and
gender studies in the UK, and so it is an enormous pleasure and an even
greater honour to have my work recognised in this way by the association’,
said Maria do Mar.
‘It feels even more special because it comes on my very last year of
being a student at the Gender Institute. I am very relieved to have now
finished my PhD thesis, but the experience of studying in the GI was a
life-changing one, and so it is great to be able to have this award as a
souvenir of all the incredible experiences I had here and the amazing people
I met along the way. I want to thank them all for their support.'
Jeanne Firth, another Gender Institute alumna (MSc gender, development
and globalisation 2010), also had an essay shortlisted. For more
information, see
FWSA Essay Competition Results.
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• LSE academic awarded Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship
Dr Margot E Salomon (pictured), senior lecturer in the Department of
Law and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, is the recipient of a
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship from the European University Institute
(EUI).
The fellowship provides a framework for established academics with an
international reputation to pursue their research at the EUI. Dr Salomon
will be resident at the EUI's Law Department from April-July 2012 while on
sabbatical from LSE, undertaking a research project on ‘Locating the Distant
Other in Contemporary International Law’.
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• BJS
editor in chief receives service award
Richard Wright, editor in chief of LSE’s British Journal of Sociology
(BJS) has been awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service at
the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Each year, the award recognises and honours outstanding academic,
humanitarian or professional service on the campus and/or beyond the
boundaries of the university.
For more than 50 years, the BJS has represented the mainstream of
sociological thinking and research, publishing sociological scholarship of
the highest quality on all aspects of the discipline, by academics from all
over the world. Richard Wright is the first editor in chief who has not been
a member of staff at LSE and who is American.
For more information, see
British Journal of Sociology.
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 Notices
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• Mail
services suspended in Canada
Industrial action by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has been
affecting various parts of Canada since early June. It has not been resolved
and Canada Post has decided to cease all operations across the country with
immediate effect.
This affects all mail services within the country. Mail posted on Friday
10 June and since then may not have been delivered and will be held in
Canada awaiting a change to the situation. This also means that mail handled
by Canada Post bound for the UK will not be despatched at present.
Mail not yet despatched to Canada will be held until such time as Canada
Post start to accept mail into the country and can deliver mail again. Royal
Mail will cease accepting mail for Canada from today (Thursday 16 June).
LSE staff are advised to use courier companies until this action has been
resolved. If you have any queries, contact the Post Room on ext 7989 or
6564.
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• How well did you sleep last night?
Sleep is as important to our health as eating, drinking and breathing. Poor sleep can increase the risks of having poor health. A recent report
produced by the Mental Health Foundation found that poor sleep can
significantly increase the risk of depression, anxiety and other mental
health problems.
Dr Dan Robotham, senior researcher with the Mental Health Foundation and
author of the recent report Sleep Matters, will be giving a
lunchtime talk on the impact of sleep on mental health and how to
achieve better quality sleep.
The talk is open to all students and staff and will take place on
Thursday 23 June from 12-1pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building. To book your place, visit the
Training and
Development Portal, and email
health.and.safety@lse.ac.uk
for more information.
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• Work
related deaf awareness course
All LSE staff are invited to attend the work related deaf awareness
course taking place on Monday 27 June at 2-5pm in U210, Tower One.
The course aims to raise awareness and understanding of how deafness and
attitudes affect deaf people with regards to communication and access to
information in the workplace.
Participants will understand the different types of deafness and how it
will influence their mode of communication, plus learn useful tips to enable
them to support deaf and hard of hearing individuals with appropriate
information, communication, technology and human resources in their
workplace.
Places are limited so entry will be on a first come, first served basis.
For more information, email Sebastiaan Eldritch-Böersen at
s.r.eldritch-boersen@lse.ac.uk.
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• Wireless Internet at LSE: important update for all users
IT Services has made improvements to the wireless internet service and
this may mean that you need to change the way you connect to it using your
laptop, mobile device or phone.
If you use this service it is important that you configure your device by
Thursday 30 June. It is easy to do by following the step-by-step
online guide.
More information about the upgrade can also be found at
ITSNews@LSE.
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• Africa Initiative update meeting
Professor Thandika Mkandawire, chair in African development, will be
hosting a briefing for LSE academics with research interests relating to
Africa on Tuesday 12 July at 2-3pm in the Graham Wallas Room, Old
Building.
The aim is to give staff the opportunity to provide feedback on the
Africa at LSE blog as well as to receive an update on various action points
raised at the May meeting.
Tea and coffee will be provided. If you would like to attend, email
Hilary Weale, external relations executive, at
h.weale@lse.ac.uk.
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• The
five-a-side football challenge
On Tuesday 7 June, the ODAR five-a-side football team played a team from
LSE Careers in an exciting match that ended 10-7 to ODAR.
The ODAR team will be playing the Finance Division next week and the EROB
Group the week after. If your department is interested in getting involved,
contact Bo Ruan at b.ruan@lse.ac.uk or
on ext 5340. If there is a sufficient number of departments interested, ODAR
will organise a league/tournament.
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• Blind
cleaning and servicing
Blind cleaning and servicing will take place in the Old Building from
Monday 20 June until Saturday 25 June.
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 4pm and 11pm each day.
For more information, contact Richard Allen at
r.allen1@lse.ac.uk or on ext 6544.
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• Room
to rent in Stepney Green
A double bedroom, on the top floor of a house, is available to rent.
Sharing with another female LSE staff member, the house is less than five
minutes' walk to Stepney Green underground station. Rent: £100 per week,
inclusive of bills.
For more information, email
j.zhang25@lse.ac.uk.
• Flat
to rent in Palmers Green A recently refurbished one bedroom
flat with a balcony in Palmers Green is available for rent immediately.
The flat is in a modern building on the top floor and has a lot of
storage space, with built in wardrobes and a loft. The flat has its own
parking space and is very close to Broomfield park and local amenities.
Palmers Green overground station is five minutes away. The flat is fully
furnished with neutral IKEA furniture and has recently been re-carpeted and
painted.
Rent: £950 per month + bills + council tax, and would suit a young professional couple. To view pictures, click
here. For more information, contact Maja on 07947 704021 to arrange
a viewing (references and bank statements from tenants will be requested). |
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 Research
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• The
potential storms of cloud computing
The gap in expectations and perception of risk between senior business and
IT executives is likely to be a major challenge to the expansion of cloud
computing, according to a new report from LSE.
As cloud computing becomes an increasingly important element of the IT
function of most organisations, leading academics from The Outsourcing Unit
at LSE undertook research to review the key features of cloud computing and
its likely near-term and longer-term development trends. The research was
undertaken from late 2010 into 2011 and included a survey of more than 1,035
business and IT executives.
The Unit has now released the second part of the report, which looks at the
challenges cloud computing presents for businesses and service providers.
These challenges include data security, compliance with regulation, the lack
of strong service level agreements, and the potential for businesses to be
locked in with service providers.
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• LSE
paper accepted by leading healthcare improvement journal
A paper by Dr Tom Reader (pictured) of LSE’s Institute of Social Psychology
has been accepted for publication by the healthcare journal BMJ: Quality
and Safety.
The paper, Team Situation Awareness and The Anticipation of Patient
Progress During ICU Rounds, investigates the extent to which critical
care teams develop a shared awareness for the severity of patient illnesses.
Using handheld computers, doctors and nurses recorded their expectations for
patient progression after the clinical decision-making process. Such
anticipations influence clinical behaviours (e.g. monitoring routines), and
a shared awareness of patient conditions is crucial for avoiding medical
error.
Whilst clinical team members did frequently form shared anticipations, for
some patients expectations were qualitatively different (e.g. that a patient
would rapidly deteriorate/improve in condition). Furthermore, greater
involvement by trainee doctors in patient decision-making resulted in them
forming similar anticipations to consultants (who were most accurate in
predicting patient outcomes). This demonstrates the importance of team-based
decision-making in acute medical environments.
For more information, email Dr Reader at
t.w.reader@lse.ac.uk.
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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
May 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 June 2011.
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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
added to our Executive Education database. |
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 Events
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• New events announced....
Injunctions Are A Necessary Evil: privacy, free speech and a feral press
On: Tuesday 28 June at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Max Mosley (pictured), former president of Formula One,
David Price QC, founder of London media law firm David Price Solicitors
and Advocatesis, and Hugh Tomlinson QC of Matrix Chambers.
This event is free and open to all, but a ticket is required. One ticket
per person can be requested on Tuesday 21 June.
I'm Feeling Lucky: the confessions of Google employee number 59
On: Wednesday 20 July at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Douglas Edwards, Google's first director of consumer
marketing and brand management from 1999 to 2005.
Monetary Policy and Banking Fragility
On: Wednesday 27 July at 6.30pm. Venue will be confirmed to
ticketholders.
Speaker: Professor David Miles, member of the Monetary Policy
Committee at the Bank of England and visiting professor at Imperial College.
This event is free and open to all, but a ticket is required. One ticket
per person can be requested on Tuesday 19 July.
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• Other events include....
The Filter Bubble: what the internet is hiding from you
On: Monday 20 June at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Eli Pariser, president of MoveOn.org.
Too Many People in Britain? Immigration and the Housing Problem
On: Tuesday 21 June at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Stephen Nickell, warden of Nuffield College,
Oxford and a member of the Budget Responsibility Committee at the Office for
Budget Responsibility.
Global Imbalances and Social Challenges
On: Wednesday 22 June at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Jean-Michel Severino, general inspector of finances, French
Ministry of Finance, and Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief
economics commentator at the Financial Times.
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• Mind
the Gap: getting research into policy and practice
Wednesday 22 June, 3.30-5pm, room H103, Connaught House
Speaker: Philip Davies (pictured), executive director of
Oxford Evidentia
It is almost thirty years since the American social scientist Carol Weiss
noted that social science findings and evaluation evidence 'were not having
visible impacts on policy decisions'. Weiss went on to suggest that 'this is
not the same as saying that research findings have little influence on
policy', but that the influence that they do have is more subtle and
indirect.
This seminar will consider the various ways in which research gets into
policy and practice, as well as the barriers to the successful transfer of
research evidence. It will argue that there are some structural reasons why
there is a gap between the research and policy making communities, but that
this gap can be filled if the subtle and indirect methods of knowledge
translation and knowledge transfer are understood and respected.
This event is free and open to all, but registration is required. To
register, email pssru@lse.ac.uk.
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• Podcasts of public lectures and events
Living in the Endless City
Speakers: Dr Joan Clos, Dr Gareth Jones, Professor
Caglar Keyder, Professor Saskia Sassen, and Professor
Richard Sennett
Recorded: Monday 6 June, approx 110 minutes
Click here to listen
Preventing Financial Meltdowns
Speaker: Tim Harford
Recorded: Tuesday 7 June, approx 86 minutes
Click here to listen
A Fair Trial for the Human Rights Act
Speaker: Sadiq Khan MP
Recorded: Thursday 9 June, approx 77 minutes
Click here to listen |
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Gemma Williams
I have recently started working as
a research assistant in LSE
Health on a project researching
health financing systems in
India and West Africa. I have
spent the last two years working
as an economist in the Rwandan
Ministry of Health as part of
the Overseas Development
Institute fellowship scheme.
Prior to this, I worked for the
NHS, an NGO in Ahmedabad, India
and completed an MSc in
international development
economics at the Universiteit
van Amsterdam.
If you were offered the trip of
a lifetime, where would you go
and why?
New Zealand this September to
watch the Rugby World Cup.
What is your opinion of social
networking sites?
I’m a fan of Facebook as it is an
easy way to keep in contact with
friends from across the world,
although I could do without
being updated on what a lovely
sandwich someone had for lunch.
The super injunction situation has
shown the potential that Twitter
has to give people a voice over
those in power. In the future
this will hopefully be used for
something more useful than
outing celebrity cheaters.
Name three things you cannot do
without.
1. Cheese
2. Crunchy nut cornflakes
3. News
Who was your hero when you were
growing up?
Growing up
I admired President Clinton but looking back at
‘Monicagate’ and his lack of
action on the Rwandan genocide,
I can see he is a rather flawed
hero. Maybe I’ll just stick to a
fictional character as they
cannot disappoint: Mary Poppins
due to her general
unflappability and rather useful
bag.
What is your favourite TV
Programme?
I’m currently enjoying Dexter,
a drama about a ‘good’
serial-killer in Miami. Although
it sounds like a strange concept
it is well written and full of
suspense and you quickly begin
rooting for the anti-hero.
Do you have or have you ever
had any pets?
Growing up I had a tabby cat
called Jess who live to the
grand old age of 20. In Rwanda
we had two kittens that sadly
died when they were quite young.
One got bitten by a viper and
the inept local vet informed us
the other had died due to
‘giving up on life’.
Have you ever broken a bone?
I broke my collar bone playing
leap-frog at school. It was
entirely the other person’s
fault as they stood up mid-leap.
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 Training
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• Training
for staff at LSE
Staff courses scheduled for next week include:
- One-to-one IT training
- Outlook 2010: outlook for business
- Moodle basics training
- Introduction to Twitter
- Introduction to blogging
For a full schedule and further details, including booking information,
please see www.lse.ac.uk/training. |
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 Media
bites
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• BBC
Radio 4 (16 June 2011)
Today: flexible working 'very helpful' in recession
'When there is a recession, unfortunately both employers and employees
have to lower their aspirations, their demands.'
Professor Christopher Pissarides, Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at
LSE, discussed the best way to bolster the job market.
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• CNN (10 June 2011)
Renewed focus on Syria, Libya, Yemen
Professor Fawaz Gerges, director of LSE's Middle East Centre, explains
the implications of renewed fighting in Syria, Libya, and Yemen.
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