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16 February 2012 |
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Ethics Code consultation: message
from the Director
When the LSE Council published Lord Woolf’s Inquiry into LSE’s links to
Libya in November, I made a personal commitment that we would both learn the
lessons of the report and implement Lord Woolf’s recommendations this
academic year. Ethical issues lie at the very heart of Lord Woolf's Inquiry
and his first recommendation was for the School to establish an "embedded
code dealing with ethics and reputational risk which applies across the
institution". To this end, Council has established an Ethics Code
Consultation Group, which will work this term to produce the School's first
overarching Ethics Code. The group met for the first time on 3 February and
have elected Dr Daleep Mukarji (lay governor and former director of
Christian Aid) as their chair. I am deeply grateful to Dr Mukarji for taking
on this role and to all the consultation group for their thoughtful and
diligent work to date.
Key to the success of the code is consultation - and this week marks the
start of that process, which will run until 5pm on Friday
13 April. We will only be able to establish a meaningful, workable code
if it is drafted with input from the numerous and diverse constituencies
that make up our School community. With this in mind, I hope that as many of
you as possible take this opportunity to contribute to the drafting of the
code.
There are two main ways to contribute. Members of the consultation group
will attend a number of meetings during February and March to ask for
comments on what an LSE Ethics Code should look like. This will include a
dedicated ‘town hall’ meeting in the Shaw Library at 5pm on
Thursday 23 February 2012, open to all members of the School community.
The group also invites individual written submissions by email to
ethics@lse.ac.uk. Read the full letter
from Director Judith Rees
here. An
ethics webpage has also been set up to provide further information on
the consultation process and timetable.
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LSE Languages Day 2012
The second LSE Languages Day, co-hosted by the LSE Students' Union and
LSE Language Centre, will take place on Tuesday 21 February, International
Mother Language Day.
International Mother Language Day was created by UNESCO, the United
Nations Education
Science and Cultural Organisation, to promote linguistic and
cultural diversity and multilingualism. Over 20 universities across the
country will be celebrating languages in Higher Education with a range of
serious and fun events. In Houghton Street there will be a variety of
lunchtime activities, and later on in the student bars you can try foreign
language karaoke, a language pub quiz and a world music disco.
The LSE Language Centre will be hosting a panel discussion on
Multilingualism with Professor Anne Pauwels from SOAS and Dr Dina
Mehmedbegović, lecturer in the Faculty of Policy and Society at the
Institute of Education, whose latest book on bilingual London
children is a fascinating study. This event takes place from 5.15-6.15pm in
LG.01, New Academic Building.
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Equality and Diversity in Lent Term 2012
There is an exciting range of events promoting equality and diversity in
the School this term, including films, social events, master-classes for
managers, workshops for students and much more.
This is the first of a series that celebrates diversity at LSE and
demonstrates its commitment to the Equality Act 2010. Come along to find out
more and get involved. Download the
Equality and Diversity Lent Term flyer for details of the events.
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Security in Transition launches new website
The LSE Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit has launched
its brand new website for Security in Transition (SIT), a five-year
European Research Council funded
research programme led by Professor Mary Kaldor (pictured), exploring
the gap between outmoded state responses and contemporary security risks
such as terrorism, the financial crisis and environmental degradation.
See:
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 Notices
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LSE Teaching Day 2012 - call for contributions
The call for contributions to the fourth LSE Teaching Day (LSE TD-2012)
is open until Friday 17 February.
We invite LSE staff to submit proposals for presentations, workshops,
demonstrations, panel discussions or case studies for LSE Teaching Day that
will be held at LSE on Tuesday 22 May.
Topics for submission may include:
- challenges and innovations in teaching
- supporting student learning
- feedback and assessment
- research led teaching
- technologies in teaching and learning
Proposals should be submitted using the
online submission form.
All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee, chaired by
Professor Janet Hartley, pro-director for teaching and learning.
If you have any questions, email
Teaching.Day@lse.ac.uk or email
a.chatzigavriil@lse.ac.uk
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Could you be a warden?
Deadline for applications: Thursday 1 March
The School is looking to appoint four wardens from 1 September 2012 for
London residences: High Holborn and Grosvenor House; Passfield Hall;
Rosebery Hall; and Northumberland House.
LSE halls are fantastic places to live and work. Located in and around
central London, they play a crucial role in delivering the 'student
experience'. Wardens have a key function in the halls, being responsible for the
good order of the LSE residence community, the social well-being of resident
students and the maintenance of an acceptable standard of conduct within the
residence. In this role, the wardens are supported by teams of sub-wardens,
recruited from the LSE post-graduate student body.
For full role responsibilities, eligibility criteria, description of each
hall, please see
http://www.lse.ac.uk/jobsatlse
For an informal discussion about each of the posts, please contact
Rachael Elliott, head of residential life on 020 7106 1153 or by email at
r.elliott@lse.ac.uk. Applications
must be received by 11.59pm on Thursday 1 March. Interviews will be held in
the week beginning 12 March.
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LSE Annual Fund call for funding applications
The Annual Fund supports projects that would otherwise not be possible
and is inviting applications for funding from across the School. Visit
apply for funding,
where you will find details
on applying, including guidelines, contact details and the link to the
online application form.
Please submit your application by Wednesday 9 May at 5.30pm - late
submissions will not be accepted.
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LSE Perspectives - call for submissions
LSE Perspectives features photographs taken by LSE students and staff and
is published every month. Every new gallery publishes 12 images submitted
by members of the LSE community. We are looking for submissions for next
month’s gallery.
If you have taken any artistic images - such as this picture taken in
Essaouira, Morocco, by Othmane Mechatte - 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 click
here. Every month the Arts team
selects 12 images and publishes them online. Previous galleries can be found
here.
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Partnership PhD Mobility Bursaries 2012-13
Deadline: Tuesday 22 May
Aiding LSE PhD students to conduct research at: Columbia University, New
York; the National University of Singapore (NUS); Peking University
(Beijing); Sciences Po (Paris); or
the University of Cape Town.
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 2012-13, up to ten bursaries are on offer to visit one of the above
five partner institutions. For any one partner institution, up to two
flat rate bursaries of £2,500 are available.
Students registered for PhD studies at any LSE department and 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.
The deadline for submitting complete applications including references
is: midday on Tuesday 22 May 2012. Full details about the Partnership Mobility Bursaries, including
application procedures, can be found
here. Any further enquiries should be
directed to
academic_partnerships@lse.ac.uk
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More for less - take advantage of special offers for LSE staff
LSE Department of Social Policy graduate Dessislava Baker is offering
LSE staff and students a 20 per cent discount off the Zaggora HotPant
range when
purchased online.
Just type in the code LSELOVE when you make your purchases online to get
the 20 per cent discount at
http://zaggora.com/
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features.....
Joy Gerrard's sculpture Elenchus/Aporia in the central atrium of the LSE
New Academic Building
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Events
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Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution: what we risk and how
we should cast the economics and ethics
On: Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 February, 6.30-8pm, Old
Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Lord Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics
and Government, and chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate
Change and the Environment at LSE.
Five years on from the Stern Review there have been important changes in
the world which are likely to have a profound impact on our response to the
two defining challenges of the century: overcoming poverty and managing
climate change. Lord Stern will discuss how we can bring economics and
political economy to the analysis of our response to these challenges in the
context of a special but difficult decade in the global economy.
These three events are free and open to all with no ticket required.
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Other upcoming events include....
On Friendship
On: Tuesday 21 February at 6.30-8pm in the New Theatre, East
Building
Speaker: Dr Mark Vernon.
Fantasy versus Reality
LSE Literary Festival and First Story prize-giving event
On: Thursday 23 February, 6pm,
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Caroline Bird, William Fiennes, Meg Rosoff, Philip Womack
Tickets now available online.
Science and the Media
Hire Intelligence LSE Literary Festival event
Date: Wednesday 29 February, 5.15-6.45pm in the Sheikh Zayed
Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Jim al-Khalili, Professor Pedro Ferreira,
Professor Elaine Fox
Tickets now available online.
The Fight for Free Speech: 40 years on
Index on Censorship 40th Anniversary LSE Literary Festival event
On: Thursday 1 March, 7-8.30pm
in the Sheikh Zayed
Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Pavel Litvinov, Michael Scammell
Tickets now available online.
A Moment of Mishearing
LSE Literary Festival event
On: Friday 2 March at 6-8.30pm (including interval with
complimentary drinks) in the
Speakers: Amit Chaudhuri, Ian Jack
Tickets now available online.
Under the Cranes: literature, film and the city
LSE Cities Literary Festival film screening and discussion
Date: Saturday 3 March at 5-6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed
Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Michael Rosen, Emma-Louise Williams
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Financial Crisis and Responding to "Socially Useless Banking":
challenges for the 21st century and lessons from the past
On: Monday 20 February at 5.30pm in CLM 1.03, Clement House
Speaker: Sarah Wilson, University of
York
This Business History Unit seminar is free and open to all with no ticket
required.
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Designing a Comprehensive Peace Process in Afghanistan
On: Monday 20 February at 6.30 - 8pm in NAB 2.04, New Academic
Building
Speakers: Rina Amiri, senior advisor on Afghanistan for the Office of
the Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the US Government,
Andy Carl, co-founder and executive director of Conciliation
Resources, Horia Mosadiq Afghan human rights
activist, journalist and researcher for Amnesty International, and
Dr Lisa Schirch, director of 3P Human Security and professor of
peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University.
As pressure mounts for a negotiated settlement to the ongoing conflict in
Afghanistan, the panellists will discuss what a viable process would include
and how it might proceed, exploring ways to engage civil society to advance
a more inclusive peace process, and drawing on experiences in other
countries.
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European Community of Democracies - towards a new foundation of
Europe
On: Monday 20 February from 6.30-8pm in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB
Speaker: Ulrich Beck, professor of sociology at the University of
Munich and British Journal of Sociology LSE Centennial Professor.
German euro-nationalism is not inevitable. Europe's crisis is an
opportunity to enlarge democracy.
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Barcelona Project: leading the way out of crisis? On:
Wednesday 22 February at 3-7.30pm in COW1.11, Cowdray House and the
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
This
conference will include two workshops and a public lecture, which will
take place
from 6-7.30pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building.
The key speakers are Antoni Vives, Barcelona’s deputy mayor for urban habitat, and Vicente Guallart, its chief architect,
who will speak on Barcelona’s urban regeneration
programme.
The debates will be chaired by Professor Ian Gordon, LSE London and
the Spatial Economics Research Centre, Professor Ricky Burdett, director
of LSE Cities and Urban Age, and Professor Paul Preston, chairman of the
LSE Catalan Observatory.
All events, hosted by the Catalan Observatory and LSE Enterprise,
are free and open to the public. For more info,
catalan.observatory@lse.ac.uk.
Visit
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseeinspain
for other events like this.
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Run While Others Walk: an LSE Student Community event Taking place on
Sunday 4
March, the LSE Student Community Festival is a one day student-run festival
bringing together students, staff and alumni to celebrate the diversity of
the School.
The Festival will incorporate a range of activities over the course of
the day. The main event will be a run/walk around Lincoln's Inn Fields to
raise money for LSE student support, including scholarships, hardship funds,
and the LSE African Initiative. Students choosing to participate will be
paired up with alumni with similar interests - a great opportunity to meet
new people and hear about life after LSE. The event will raise money for LSE
student support (including scholarships and hardship funds) and the LSE
African Initiative.
Open to all, participants must register and pay a £5 registration fee in
order to be entered into the raffles or participate in the run/walk. For more information or to get involved, visit
Facebook, see
http://www.run-or-walk.org or
email
runningwhileotherswalk@gmail.com.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation
Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett
Recorded: Monday 06 February 2012, approx 90 minutes
Crises and Revolutions: The Reshaping of International Development
Speaker: Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Recorded: Tuesday 07 February 2012, approx 85 minutes
OECD Labour Markets in the Great Recession
Speaker: Professor Christopher Pissarides
Recorded: Thursday 09 February 2012, approx 74 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with..... Banu Burns
I work part-time in Academic
Partnerships as the LSE-PKU Summer
School administrator. My job
responsibilities include dealing
with enquiries from interested
students, assisting with marketing
activities, processing applications
and payments, setting up the
administrative systems etc.
That aside, I am also a PhD
student in the European Institute.
My research focuses on the causal
mechanisms behind the emergence of
the EU Minority Protection
Conditionality in the context of
enlargement. This is my third year
and, hopefully, I am nearing the
end of the programme. As you can
imagine, it is a very stressful period
of my life.
Tell us a little about this
year's LSE-PKU Summer School.
The LSE-PKU Summer School is a
two week international programme
which has been running since 2004.
It is co-organised by two leading
academic institutions, LSE and
Peking University. The programme
focuses on China and Asia and offers
students the opportunity to choose
from a number of undergraduate level
courses.
For August 2012, we have courses
in some new areas like anthropology,
social policy and economic history,
as well as those from last year in
economics, management, international
relations, media etc. We've also got
more courses led by some great
Peking University academics, such as
Dr Rui Wang's 'Demystifying China:
understanding business and marketing
strategies in China'.
Participants have the opportunity
to enjoy an international academic
environment in one of the greatest
settings in the world, Beijing city.
Last year we had a total of 346
participants from 49 countries and
their feedback on the programme was
very positive. From my point of
view, it has been very rewarding to
hear past participants' high
opinions.
What three items would you
rush to save from a fire?
My children, my books and my
computer. Most precious trio in
life.
What type of food do you enjoy
most?
Greek and Turkish food in general
and meze food in particular. I not
only like tasting but also cooking.
I sometimes bring in my Greek or
Turkih experiments to share with my
colleagues in the office.
Is there anything you cannot
do and would like to learn?
Drawing, I am terrible at it.
Which is your favourite place
on the LSE campus?
I might sound like a sad case but
the Jean Monnet room in Cowdray
House; it has become my second home
in the last three years.
Additionally, it has a great vista of
activity on Portugal Street.
What would your friends say is
your greatest quality?
It depends who you are asking! I
suppose most would say that
multitasking is one of my greatest
assets, but if you ask my colleagues
in Academic Partnerships, then I
think they might also add my baking
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 Training
and jobs
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Research staff: perfect your one page pitch!
This half-day workshop on Tuesday 28 February from 9.30am-1.30pm (including
a working lunch) will take you through the paces of pitching your work for
radio and print.
Radio producer Dinah Lammiman and the Guardian's Comment is Free
editor will explain what they require from a one page pitch, and advise on
exploiting topical links, foregrounding story and hooking reader interest.
There'll also be the opportunity to try some valuable pitching exercises.
Find out more and book at
Perfecting your one page pitch.
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Training for staff
Courses scheduled for next week include:
- Mindfulness and Stress Workshop, 21 February at 1pm
- Creating Accessible PDF Documents, 23 February at 11am
- Performance Development Review: making it happen and doing it well.
24 February at 10am
- PhD Thesis Surgery, 24 February at 11am
- Excel 2010: pivot tables, 27 February at 3pm
- Using Freedom of Information Requests for Research, 28 February at
12 noon.
For a full listing of what is available and further details, including
booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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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.
- Project manager, LSE Enterprise, for more on this position (not
advertised through Jobs at LSE), click
here
- Accounts manager RCSD, Finance Division
- Administrative assistant, Research Division
- Administrator within LSE Communications, External Relations
- Assessment regulations manager, Academic Registrar's Division
- Assistant projects manager, Estates: projects and operations
- Careers consultant (experienced), LSE Careers Service
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Careers consultant (trainee), LSE Careers Service
- Communications manager, LSE Cities
- Contract accounts manager (research), Research
Division
- Development communications manager, ODAR:
communications
- Help desk technician, furniture request
co-ordinator, Estates Division
- India blog/portal editor, Communications
- LSE fellow (one year post), Philosophy
- LSE fellow (two year post), Philosophy
- LSE fellow in European politics, Government
- Lecturer in anthropology, Anthropology
- Lecturer in early modern international history,
International History
- Library assistant, Library: user services
- MSc administrator, Finance
- Postgraduate programme administrator, Management:
MESG
- Professor in international history, International
History
- Professor of management, Management: MESG
- Purchasing assistant, Finance Division
- Research degrees officer, Academic Registrar's
Division: student administration
- Research economist, Spatial Economics Research
Centre
- Research executive, ODAR: research and academic
liaison
- Research officer, LSE Health and Social Care
- Research officers (two posts), LSE
Health and Social Care
- Senior registry assistant (registration and
examinations), Academic Registrar's Division
- Undergraduate programme administrator, Government
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
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