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Istanbul, Singapore and London beckon for applicants to new master's
degree in global management at LSE Competition is now open for places
on an executive programme which will take participants to London, Istanbul
and Singapore to understand the crucial issues in global management.
LSE announced that its Global Master's in Management Programme will start
in September 2012, with just 35 places available for the degree's first
intake.
Aimed at professionals who want to study while continuing in their jobs,
the programme will consist of seven classroom sessions of one or two weeks,
spread across 17 months.
Two of the modules will be abroad, one in Singapore and one in Istanbul.
These sessions have been planned to give an even richer insight into the
particular issues shaping professional life in those parts of the world.
However all the programme's core teaching and content are provided by LSE.
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Asia Research Centre to lead research on sustainable urbanisation in
China LSE’s Asia Research Centre is a lead member of the winning
consortium for a €3.4million EU project entitled 'Sustainable Urbanisation
in China: historical and comparative perspectives, mega-trends towards
2050'.
The four year project is the centrepiece of the EU-China Research
Collaboration Programme. The other EU members of the consortium are:
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
- The University of Birmingham
- Istituto di Studi per l'integrazione dei Sistemi (ISIS), Rome
- Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
The collaborating institutions from China include East China Normal
University in Shanghai, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Renmin
University of China.
The project is divided into four modules:
1. Institutional foundations and policies for urbanisation
2. Urbanisation - territorial expansion and accommodating larger population
3. Environment and health infrastructure and services
4. Urban development, traditions and modern lifestyles in cities
The second and fourth modules of the project are based at LSE's Asia
Research Centre and are directed by professors Athar Hussain and Stephan
Feuchtwang. The project includes in-depth case studies of four Chinese
cities: Shanghai, Chongqing, Kunming and Huangshan city.
More information about the project can be
found here.
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A celebration of 25 years of partnership LSE pro-director
Professor Janet Hartley hosted a dinner for the Singapore Institute of
Management (SIM) on Friday 21 October, to thank them for their work in
supporting so many University of London international students over the last
25 years.
The dinner was attended by the chairman of the Governing Council of SIM, Adjunct Professor Lee Kwok Cheong,
and senior managers including Sylvia Yeo who
has been responsible for the programmes at SIM for 20 years. LSE's Dr Ray
Richardson, Dr Keith Sharp and Rosie Gosling were also in attendance.
At the event, Professor Hartley presented SIM with a scroll. The
calligraphy was created by LSE and International Programmes alumnus Dr Chew Seen Meng and means, ‘Working
Together, Cultivating Talents Around the World'.
The following day Professor Hartley met students who had been awarded prizes by the University,
including 116 students
who had received first class honours. Five students from SIM are now
studying for their master's at LSE, including two who received scholarships.
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NetworkED: technology in education The Centre for Learning
Technlogy (CLT) hosted the first seminar in the new series, 'NetworkED:
technology in education'.
The series, supported by the Annual Fund, introduces leading
professionals in the field of education and technology. The inaugural talk,
entitled 'Supporting Undergraduates of the Future: developing a new
curriculum for information literacy', was presented by LSE's Dr Jane Secker
and Dr Emma Coonan and Dr Helen Webster, both from the University of
Cambridge Library.
CLT successfully used a new range of lightweight technologies to allow a
global audience to participate, alongside the face to face audience. The
event was streamed live on the internet, which allowed questions to be taken
from those watching online using Twitter, as well as from the floor. The
event was also recorded and is now available online.
The next seminar will be held on Wednesday 25 January and will be given
by Professor John Naughton, Observer columnist and professor of
public understanding of technology at the Open University. He will speak on
his new book From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg - what you really need to know
about the internet.
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Academic abroad
On Friday 28 October, Professor Danny Quah (pictured) of the Department of
Economics gave a lecture, entitled 'China and the Global Public Good',
jointly to the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Peking
University, and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
The talk described how the shifting global economy was generating tensions
in international relations across the major economic powers in the world; it
sketched a framework to seek more globalised consensus forming, moving away
from purely nationalistic motivation.
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 Notices
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Act of Remembrance - Friday 11 November Remembrance Day is our
chance to remember all those who have lost their lives in any conflict,
anywhere in the world. The main act of remembrance falls at 11am every 11 November to commemorate the
cessation of the First World War, and those who died in that war and all
wars since.
The School and the Students' Union will be holding a Remembrance Day
vigil starting at 10.50am in the Shaw Library, sixth floor of the Old
Building, on Friday 11 November.
LSE pro-director Professor Janet Hartley, Chaplain Reverend Dr James Walters, and
SU general secretary Alex Peters-Day will all say a few words, after which
there will be a two minute silence at 11am, the same time that others will
fall silent across the country.
Please come along to remember all those who have died and continue to die
in war.
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Meat Free Monday LSE Catering, working with the Students' Union
and the Vegetarian Society, is supporting the International Meat Free Monday
Campaign on the following dates:
- Monday 14 November
- Monday 5 December
The campaign highlights the importance of making more environmentally and
socially conscious food choices. Just one small change can have a positive
impact on the planet. You’ll also be giving your health a boost; and with
the added benefit that vegetables cost less than meat, it’s good for your
pocket too.
Customers of the Staff Dining Room and Fourth Floor Restaurant will be
encouraged to do their bit for the planet by having a meat free day. As an
alternative the dishes on offer will include seasonal vegetables,
sustainably sourced fish, limited dairy and egg-based dishes.
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Does dad matter?
The first webinar for managers, entitled 'Does dad matter?', will be held
at 10am on Wednesday 16 November.
This webinar will look at the business case for the 21st century dad and
how you can engage fathers and maximise their contribution and career at
work.
The webinar will be presented by Liz Morris of Working Families and Dr
Alexandra Beauregard of LSE's Department of Management.
To register, visit
www1.gotomeeting.com/register/814938217.
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LSE Chill - call for performers
There is still one slot left for LSE Chill at the end of this month.
LSE Chill is an open mic night for staff and students. Anyone with a
talent for music can perform. The next LSE Chill will be on Friday 25
November at 5.30pm in the Fourth Floor Café Bar.
If you are interested in performing, email
arts@lse.ac.uk with your name and
details of your act. For more information, visit
www.lse.ac.uk/arts.
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The winners are in - LSE’s ID sQuid payment card Anyone using
their LSE card as a method of payment can take advantage of the special
offers available in LSE Catering outlets. In addition, any users spending
£30 or more on their card each month will be entered into a prize draw, with
five winners getting £10 added to their loyalty purse.
The winners of the October prize draw were:
- Xiudi Xing
- Stefan Hadjidetschev
- Nicholas Ludlow
- Takahiro Yamamoto
- Martin Williams
Current sQuid special offers include:
The Garrick
Early bird from (8-10am): any hot drink only 95p.
Lunchtime special (available downstairs between midday and 2.30pm): daily
special hot dish of the day with any two vegetables or bowl of salad for
£4.70, plus add soup or dessert for only £1.
Fourth Floor Restaurant
Any hot drink only 50p: any day, any time.
Café 54
A regular coffee or tea and a cookie: only £2.
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LSE Perspectives - call for submissions LSE Perspectives is an
online gallery featuring photographs taken by LSE staff and students. Each
month a new gallery is published, featuring 12 images submitted by members
of the School.
LSE Arts is looking for submissions for next month’s gallery. If you have
taken any artistic images on your travels, from your home town or even just
here in London why not submit them to LSE perspectives so that they can be
shared with the LSE community.
For more information and to submit your images, visit
LSE Perspectives Submissions. Previous galleries can be
found here.
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Let's Get Quizzical
Let’s Get Quizzical is the weekly charity pub quiz being held on Monday
nights at 8.30pm in LSE's George IV pub.
The quiz is an international affair covering a range of subjects
in a fun atmosphere with the chance to win some great prizes.
There is a minimum donation of £1 per person to raise money for the local homeless project,
The Robes. If you
would like to reserve a table for your team, email
m.m.moore@lse.ac.uk.
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in pictures
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This week's picture features an English Heritage blue plaque which
honours Richard Titmuss (1907-73), who founded the academic discipline
of Social Administration (now Social Policy) at LSE. The plaque was
unveiled on 26 October by his daughter, Anne Oakley, seen here with
Howard Glennerster, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at LSE.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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Economically troubled countries more likely to be led by those with
economics training, according to new research The finance ministers of
economically troubled nations such as Greece and Portugal are more likely to
be highly educated in economics than their peers in other countries,
including the UK, according to new research which was presented at the 2011 Dahrendorf Symposium in Berlin on Wednesday 9 November.
The research by Dr Joachim Wehner of LSE and Professor Mark Hallerberg of
the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin looked at the education of the
political leadership of 27 European countries and 11
non-European OECD countries since 1973.
They found that while 69 per cent of Greek and 55 per cent of Portuguese
finance ministers have had a PhD in economics, this was not true of a single
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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New life-saving app How often has a pleasurable day at a major
event ended with frustration because roads are blocked and Tube stations are
impossibly crowded? One of the benefits of a new app being tested at the
Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London on Saturday 12 November could make
your return journey less stressful.
The new iPhone app, however, has been designed with more serious intent
in mind, to save lives following a major disaster. Since the researchers
cannot set up a disaster to test the app, its first major trial will be at
the Lord Mayor's Show in London.
The app has been developed by experts at the University of Passau in
Germany and LSE. The app will show the density of a crowd, but give no
information about individuals. In fact the researchers have gone to great
lengths to anonymise all data. The data will help organisers to advise and
guide app users on congested routes and suggest alternative routes when
travelling to and from an event. If there is an emergency during the event,
app users will again receive relevant advice and information.
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 Events
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New events announced....
Social Business: to solve society's most pressing problems
On: Thursday 24 November from 5-6.15pm in the Old Theatre, Old
Building
Speaker: Professor Muhammad Yunus (pictured), founder and former
managing director of Grameen Bank and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
This event is free and open to LSE staff and students only but a ticket is
required. One ticket can be requested via the online ticket request form
which will be live on this
web listing from 10am on Tuesday 15 November.
A Lecture by Jonas Gahr Støre
On: Wednesday 30 November at 4pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Jonas Gahr Støre (pictured), Norwegian minister of foreign
affairs.
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Other events include....
Savage Messiah: transmissions from a discarded future
On: Monday 14 November at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Laura Oldfield Ford, artist, writer and zine maker.
The Deaths of Others
On: Wednesday 16 November at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: John Tirman, executive director of MIT's Center for
International Studies.
Dreaming Transnational Law
On: Thursday 17 November at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Professor Ralf Michaels, professor of law at Duke Law.
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State Violence and the Responsibility to Protect: the role of the
international community On: Tuesday 15 November from 6.30-8pm
in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speakers: Dr Chaloka Beyani,
senior lecturer in law at LSE,
Ignacio Llanos,
counsellor of the Embassy of Chile in the UK,
and Professor Sir Adam Roberts (pictured),
president of The British Academy.
The UN has a responsibility to protect populations from genocide and
crimes against humanity, but to what effect? This panel discussion will
consider how recent events, such as those in Libya, challenge the
international concept of 'responsibility to protect'.
For more information, visit the
Centre for
the Study of Human Rights event listing.
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Leading Colombia Towards Prosperity for All On: Tuesday 22
November from 12-1pm. The venue will be confirmed to ticket holders
Speaker: Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (pictured)
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón is president of the Republic of Colombia.
This event is free and open to all but a ticket is required. LSE staff
can request one ticket via the online ticket request form which will be live
on this
web listing from 10am on Monday 14 November.
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International Economic Policy Co-operation: why the G20 is failing to
live up to expectations
On: Monday 14 November at 5.30pm in room G.04, Clement House
This seminar will be given by Stewart Fleming (pictured), research visitor
in the Business History Unit at LSE. For more information,
click here.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
The Role of a Foreign Bank in China
Speaker: Sir Thomas Harris
Recorded: Monday 31 October, approx 79 minutes
Click here to listen
The Better Angels of our Nature: the decline of violence in world history
and its causes
Speaker: Professor Steven Pinker
Recorded: Monday 31 October, approx 65 minutes
Click here to listen
Decarbonising Britain
Speaker: Dr David Kennedy
Recorded: Tuesday 1 November, approx 88 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with..... Dr Ilina Singh
I grew up in Vienna, Austria and
attended high school and university
in America. After a brief flirtation
with a PhD programme in English
literature, I decided to pursue
psychology, and ended up with a
doctorate in human development and
psychology from Harvard.
We moved to London in 1999, just
as I was finishing my doctoral
thesis. I was also pregnant with our
first child, and babies took
precedence for the first five years
after we moved. I don't recommend
moving to a new country, looking for
a job, and having a baby all at
once! After spending several years
as an affiliated lecturer at The
University of Cambridge, I was very
happy to receive a full-time post at
LSE in 2006.
You are currently developing a
UK-wide survey to assess the use of
neuroenhancement by university
students. What does this entail and
what do you hope will be the
outcome?
I became frustrated with media
reports about the increasing use of
cognitive enhancers among UK young
people, and with calls for
regulation of 'smart drugs' in the
UK. We have no systematic evidence
of such use on a national level, let
alone of increasing use. We also
don't have an understanding of young
people's attitudes around cognitive
enhancement, nor their practices,
nor their sources for cognitive
enhancers (e.g. prescriptions,
friends, the internet, and so
forth). Calls for regulation of
smart drugs, or 'dope testing' of
students before exams, are therefore
premature, and I think such calls
extend a worrying trend of
regulating drugs without attending
to evidence.
A national survey is ambitious,
but even a small, well designed
survey will set a foundation for
further research. I was really
pleased to receive a STICERD grant
to develop this work. I am now also
working with the UK Independent
Scientific Committee on Drugs to
develop the survey, and with LSE and
EU colleagues to develop an FP7
proposal on cognitive enhancement.
What is your earliest
childhood memory?
My childhood home was on the edge
of the Vienna woods. I spent hours
roaming around in that vast,
beautiful forest searching the
autumn foliage for Steinpilze
(lovely edible mushrooms) that my
mother would cook for dinner.
Name three things you cannot
do without.
1. My family
2. Time and space to think, read and
write (note conflict with no.1)
3. A set of sharpened pencils (with
a rubber on the end)
What is your favourite film
and why?
In recent memory, Vicky
Cristina Barcelona. I'm not
normally a Woody Allen fan but this
film was hilarious, beautifully
shot, honest, poignant, nostalgic
and mad. Plus Barcelona is one of my
favourite cities, with a great
football team.
Who would be your ideal
travelling companion on a round the
world trip?
I feel pressure here to choose
someone unusual, or famous, or very
clever. But it's a long time to
spend with any one person; and
famous, clever people aren't known
for their companionability.
I'd probably do the European part
of the trip on my own, ask my
husband to come along for Asia,
Australia and New Zealand, and then
organise for our children to meet us
in California for the final segment.
Where is the best place for
lunch in the WC2 area?
I wish someone would open the
'best place for lunch in the WC2
area.' A cheap, decent, quick lunch
can be had at Sushi Hiroba on
Kingsway near the Holborn tube
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 Training
and jobs
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Jobs at LSE Below are some of the vacancies currently being
advertised to internal candidates only, as well as those being advertised
externally.
- Assistant space planning manager, Estates Division
- Events and reunions manager, ODAR: alumni relations
- Foundation partnerships manager, ODAR: major gift fundraising
- LSE fellow in risk and regulation, Centre for Analysis of
Risk and Regulation
- Lecturer in economics, Economics
- Lecturer in environment, Geography and Environment
- Lectureship in finance, Finance
- Principal research fellow, Centre for Economic Performance
- Research assistant - social psychology, Social Psychology
- Research fellow, LSE Cities
- Research officer, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
- Tenure-track lecturer in political theory, Government
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
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people
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The School welcomes Saffron Fidgett (pictured) who has joined the
Department of Management as TRIUM career development manager.
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