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10 May 2012 |
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LSE student wins Future Business Leader of
the Year Award Vyacheslav Polonski (pictured), a BSc Management
student and LSE Stelios scholar, has won the Future Business Leader of the
Year Award at the national
TARGETjobs
Undergraduate of the Year 2012 Awards event, which took place on Friday
13 April.
The award was sponsored by Mars and, through a series of online tests,
application forms, interviews and assessment exercises, Vyacheslav emerged
as the national winner, beating over 300 other entrants. His prize is a
summer placement with Mars and a trip to Brazil to visit Mars' Cocoa
Research Centre. He received the award from Amanda Davies, HR director of
Mars Chocolate, and the Rt Hon Michael Portillo, in recognition of his
leadership qualities and track record of personal and professional
achievements.
Vyacheslav said: ‘I am absolutely honoured and excited. This award is a
great privilege. It will encourage me to broaden my horizons, to make a
lasting, positive impact. I am ecstatic that I am going to Brazil
and that I will be carrying out my placement with Mars. I would like to thank both Mars and TARGETjobs for this prestigious award and hope I will live up to the
expectations that it will bring.’
Including Vyacheslav, LSE had six finalists in the 12 awards presented on
the day, which is a great result for the School.
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Research article is most cited in Academy of Management journal
A research article, jointly authored by Dr Susan Scott (pictured), senior
lecturer in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, has been named
the most cited article from the Academy of Management Annals.
A copy of the article, Sociomateriality: challenging the separation of technology,
work and organisation (2008), can be
downloaded here.
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 Notices
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New Students’ Centre construction phase meeting
Capital Development and Geoffrey Osborne invite LSE staff and
students to a New Students’ Centre construction phase meeting on
Thursday 10 May from 1-2pm or 5-6pm in room KSW 1.01, 20 Kingsway.
The meeting will include:
- A look at what has been completed
- Problems and solutions:
- Dust control
- Noise control
- Traffic control
- Update on considerate construction initiatives
- Communication
- Ongoing project time scales
Please RSVP to Phoebe Dunster at
p.j.dunster@lse.ac.uk or on ext
1158.
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iThenticate training for doctoral programme directors and supervisors
iThenticate
training for doctoral programme directors and supervisors will be held on
Wednesday 16 May from 2.30-4pm and Tuesday 12 June from 1-2.30pm.
The School is piloting the use of text-matching software (iThenticate) to test all theses submitted for examination between January and
September 2013. The software will also be available for any research student
to use during the formative stages of their PhD e.g. to submit draft
chapters to it.
As a doctoral programme director or supervisor, it is likely that you will
be involved in reading a report produced by the software on a student's
thesis. The primary purpose of the event is to show the kind of outputs and
reports that iThenticate produces, help you read and understand these, and
give guidance to your PhD students on the basis of the report.
For more information and to book your place,
click here.
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Adult Learners' Week
On Wednesday 16 May from 2-3pm, the Portrait Room in the Old
Building will host a special showcase of staff learning opportunities at
LSE.
Perhaps you’ve been thinking about how to upgrade your research skills,
or questioning how social media can help you in the workplace. Find out what
training HR offer staff and managers on their open programme. You might want
to brush up on your Excel skills, learn how to prevent RSI, or obtain advice on
getting your first journal article published.
As part of Adult Learners' Week (12-18 May) training providers from
across the School will be on hand with information, demonstrations, games,
giveaways and more.
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New retirement planning guidelines available
The HR division has developed new retirement guidelines to assist staff
who might be considering retiring in full or in part from the School, or
those planning to work beyond their normal pension age.
This is in response to departments requesting
guidance following the abolition of the default retirement age in October
2011.
HR is also launching a new 'Career and Financial Planning' workshop for
all staff, with the first session on Wednesday 18 July. This
workshop is open to staff of all ages who might be looking to plan for the
future, not just those who may retire from the School soon.
For more information on the options available and the formal process to
follow,
click here.
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Are you studying or sitting exams? Remember to take a break to boost
your energy and feed your brain LSE Catering can provide you with
healthy and nutritious food choices.
The Fourth Floor Restaurant is open from 9am Monday to Friday for cooked
breakfasts, cereals, fresh fruit salad, yoghurts and more - call in before
your exam and feed your brain for a better performance.
Lunch is available between 11.30am and 2.30pm. With a range of hot and cold
options, including international dishes, made to order stir fry, pasta,
noodles, a great salad bar and more.
Evening meals are available from 4pm and again offer a great selection of
hot home cooked dishes and salads. Sandwiches, snacks, fruit and drinks are
available throughout the day.
Alternatively, why not take time to relax and unwind in the Fourth Floor
Café Bar? Open until 8pm Monday to Friday, it’s the perfect place to chill
out with friends and enjoy a glass of wine or a cappuccino.
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LSE Perspectives: call for submissions LSE Perspectives
features photographs taken by LSE students and staff, with 12 new images
published every month, and LSE Arts is currently 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 for 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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Senior Common Room Annual Dinner
Tickets are now available for the Senior Common Room Annual Dinner on
Thursday 24 May, to which all staff are invited.
The guest of honour and speaker is Heather Rabbatts CBE. For more
information and the booking form, visit
Annual Dinner 2012.
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Apartment available to rent A large, one bedroom apartment is
available
for short or long term rental from the beginning of June.
The apartment is over 900 square feet with a mezzanine study/guest
bedroom and is situated close to LSE (Rosebery Avenue). It also has an
on-site gym, concierge and beautifully maintained residents-only gardens.
There is a reduced rate for LSE staff. For more information,
click here or contact Lu
Shannon at l.shannon@lse.ac.uk. |
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features LSE in pictures' most popular campus shot
- the spectacular spiral staircase in the atrium of the LSE Library.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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Investment in broadband infrastructure key for robust British economy
and future competitiveness
LSE Enterprise's latest report, Costs and Benefits of Superfast Broadband
in the UK commissioned by Convergys, was undertaken by Paolo Dini and
Claire Milne of LSE’s Department of Media and Communications with Robert
Milne of Antelope Consulting.
The paper identifies the economic and societal benefits of broadband
investment, and shows that smart technology solutions will play a major role
in enhancing the value of superfast broadband.
‘Our new paper shows that there is much the UK can gain from deploying fast
broadband, but there is much still to be done to make it a reality,’ says Dr
Paolo Dini. ‘Investment is clearly one challenge that needs to be overcome,
but so too is encouraging further use of broadband and take-up among
customers. The study argues that smart solutions will help provide the
insights that operators need to improve service offerings that drive greater
use, not to mention the commensurate cost increases and efficiencies that
are also generated.’
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 Events
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Don't miss the host of high profile
speakers coming up at LSE Over the next three weeks, LSE will welcome
a number of high profile speakers as part of the LSE events programme.
On Tuesday 22 May, US trade representative Ron Kirk (pictured) will give
a lecture on ‘Advancing Global Trade and Employment Together: shared
opportunities and responsibilities for the United States and the European
Union’.
On Wednesday 23 May, Professor Michael Sandel will be delivering a
lecture in the impressive surroundings of St Paul’s Cathedral on ‘What Money
Can't Buy - the moral limit of markets’.
On Tuesday 29 May, Nobel Prize winner Professor Paul Krugman will deliver
a lecture on his new book, End This Depression Now!.
And then on Friday 1
June, an 'in conversation' event with another Nobel Prize winning economist,
Professor Daniel Kahneman (pictured), is scheduled.
All events are free to attend; ticket information can be found on the
LSE events
website.
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LSE Arts presents London International Documentary Festival 2012
Two documentary film premieres will be screened at LSE on Thursday 24 and
Monday 28 May, followed by panel discussions.
Shadows of Liberty
On: Thursday 24 May from 7-9pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Jean-Phillipe Tremblay's 'Shadows of Liberty' is a documentary feature-film
examining the media crisis in the United States.
Back to Earth (Retour sur Terre)
On: Monday 28 May from 7-9pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Oil is our daily energy staple. Or is it a drug our society has been
flying high on for over a century? And isn't it time we started getting
ready to detox?
Tickets will be available online from 10pm on Tuesday 15 May until at
least 12noon on Wednesday 16 May.
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Other events include....
The Future of the Left: the case of the United States
On: Monday 14 May at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Eli Zaretsky, professor of history at the New
School for Social Research and author of Why America Needs a Left.
Mobile for Development Meets Human-Centred Design
On: Tuesday 15 May at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
AND
Mobile for Development - Global Justice
On: Wednesday 16 May at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Joshua Cohen, Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of
Ethics in Society and professor of political science, philosophy and law at
Stanford.
'The Muck of the Past': revolution, social transformation and the Maoists in
India
On: Thursday 17 May at 6pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Dr Alpa Shah, teacher of anthropology at Goldsmiths,
University of London.
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Inform seminar - Prophecy in the New Millennium: when prophecies persist
On: Saturday 12 May from 9.30am-5pm in the Wolfson Theatre,
New Academic Building
Speakers from a variety of different perspectives (academics, writers and
former members) will discuss prophecy in different religious groups, popular
culture and scientific and secular contexts.
Speakers will include:
- Dr Simon Dein, UCL and University of Durham
- Sheila Tremlett, former member of the Worldwide Church of God
- Professor Gordon Melton, Baylor University and founder and
director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion.
Tickets (which include a buffet lunch, coffee and tea) are still
available and cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged). You can pay online via
PayPal
or post a booking form
and cheque payable to 'Inform'.
For more information, contact Sibyl Macfarlane at
Inform@lse.ac.uk
or on 020 7955 7654, or
click here.
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What's Political about Risk? New Challenges in the Study of Risk
On: Tuesday 15 May from 1-2.30pm in KSW 3.01, 20 Kingsway
Professor Olivier Borraz (pictured), CNRS research professor at the
Center for the Sociology of Organizations at Sciences Po, Paris, will
deliver the next Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) public
seminar.
For more information,
click here.
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Olympics and the City: Barcelona 1992 - London 2012 On:
Tuesday 15 May from 2.30-5.30pm in the Alumni Theatre, New Academic
Building.
Speakers will include:
- Vicente Guallart, Barcelona's chief architect
- Professor Ricky Burdett, director of LSE Cities and Urban Age
- Antoni Vives, Barcelona's deputy mayor for urban habitat
- Emeritus Professor Andy Thornley, LSE Urban Planning
The conference will be chaired by Tony Travers, director of LSE London.
The conference will include two sessions, and is free and open to all.
For more information, email
catalan.observatory@lse.ac.uk or
click here.
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Debate on European Identity On: Wednesday 16 May from
5.45-8pm at the Houses of Parliament
This debate will discuss some of the key findings of a large scale
project on European identity conducted by Dr Michael Bruter and Sarah
Harrison of LSE and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
The debate will be chaired by Peter Riddell, Institute for Government,
with Lord Brittan, former EU commissioner, Lord Dubs, House of Lords, and
Chris Bryant, former minister for Europe, as speakers.
Some seats have been set aside for LSE academics, so anyone interested in
attending should contact Michael Bruter at
m.bruter@lse.ac.uk as soon as
possible to confirm their interest.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Future of the Union: Northern Ireland
Speaker: Martin McGuinness MP MLA
Recorded: Monday 30 April, approx 39 minutes
Click here to listen
Breakout Nations: in search of the next economic miracle
Speaker: Ruchir Sharma
Recorded: Monday 30 April, approx 83 minutes
Click here to listen
After the Arab Spring: power shift in the Middle East?
Speakers: Dr Amnon Aran, Roger Cohen, and Professor Anoush
Ehteshami
Recorded: Tuesday 1 May, approx 87 minutes
Click here to listen |
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 60
second interview
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with..... Hilary Weale
I’ve been external relations
executive at LSE for nearly two
years. I moved from Oxford (my
hometown) and I can’t emphasise
enough how much I love living and
working in London. Both work and
‘play’ have so much to offer.
In a former life I was a sports
journalist, and then press officer
at Bath Rugby, but I studied music
at university, so I’ve not taken the
most obvious career path, let’s say.
That said, my father worked for
Oxford and my sister is in
university admin as well, so perhaps
landing up in the business was
inevitable.
For anybody who may not have
had direct experience of Linking Up,
is there anything you would like to
mention about the scheme, its range,
successes or future?
The scheme is intended to help
those academics who are travelling
abroad and willing to engage with
non-academic audiences to do so. We
offer to cover certain costs, such
as travel or accommodation,
depending on the activity. The
alumni are often our first port of
call: they love it when academics
visit their country and have the
time to see them, either informally
or through a formal talk or event,
and those who spare the time to meet
them usually enjoy it too!
We’ve also fostered relationships
with organisations such as the World
Economic Forum, OECD and Hay
Festivals, which provides further
scope for LSE and its research to
reach the wider world. Please see
the
website for more information, or
email me. It’s a good scheme but
I rely on advance intelligence of
academics’ trips abroad, so do
please keep me informed. Even if you
can’t add anything on to your
schedule, it’s very handy to hear of
your travel, for future planning and
ideas.
As editor of the LSE Experts
webpages, do you have any
information, advice or, indeed,
pleas to pass on?
Now that the system has been
upgraded, I hope we can forge ahead
with a big overhaul both of the
appearance and functions of the
LSE Experts Directory, a project which has
been on the back-burner for some
time. Meanwhile, though, the
directory is only as good as the
information I’m given, so I would
remind academics to let me know of
any updates or changes that are
needed.
What are your
hobbies/interests outside LSE?
Choral singing - I was a
chorister at Salisbury Cathedral
from the age of nine to 13, and a
choral scholar at Cambridge.
Sport - now that I don’t work in the
business, I can relax and enjoy it.
I love watching rugby and cricket
especially and I play tennis up in
Regent’s Park (weather permitting);
I’m not particularly good but it’s
very sociable. I’m also keen on the
theatre, cinema, pubs, reading, the
environment, European languages… an
eclectic mix.
Where did you go on your last
holiday and what were the pros and
cons?
New York for six days over
Easter, with three friends. It was
fantastic, and completely lived up
to its billing.
Pros - there are so many, but they
include the architecture, museums,
buzz, company, food, and weather
(gloriously spring-like).
Cons - the kamikaze-style taxi
driver who took us to JFK airport
(amazing we made it) and was then
bolshie about his tip; in fact, the
tipping thing generally; the queue
at immigration; public lavatories
(not enough, and not well kept).
What book are you currently
reading and which have you enjoyed
most in the past?
I’ve just finished Vile Bodies
by Evelyn Waugh. I couldn’t possibly pick
one book that I enjoyed above all
others, but recently I was bowled
over by Catch-22. Saki
(H.H. Munro) is utterly brilliant,
and the Molesworth and Jeeves and
Wooster books are guaranteed to make
me laugh out loud.
Who would be your top five
dinner party guests?
If not five close friends, then
Boris Johnson; Giles Coren; Phil
Tufnell; the Duke of Edinburgh; Dan Martin
(friend and extreme athlete, just
embarking on the Global Triathlon -
check out his
website to see how amazing he
is!). Dinner with that lot would be
riotous. |
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 Training
and jobs
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Training for staff
Courses scheduled for next week include:
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.
- Accounts assistant, Finance Division
- Assistant management accountant, Finance Division
- Course tutor, Statistics
- Day security officer (two posts), Estates: security and
porters
- Deputy head of alumni relations (maternity cover), ODAR:
alumni relations
- LSE fellow in economics, Economics
- LSE fellow in government (two posts), Government
- LSE fellow in statistics, Statistics
- LSE fellow in urban and development geography, Geography and
Environment
- LSE100 class teacher (GTA), LSE100 The LSE Course
- LSE100 teaching fellow, LSE100 The LSE Course
- Lecturer in social psychology/organisational psychology,
Social Psychology
- MSc management and exchanges programme manager, Management
- Night security officer, Estates: security and porters
- Pensions manager, HR Services
- Project accounting officer, Finance Division
- Research officer, PSSRU
- Research officer (GIS/data analysis), LSE Cities
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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 LSE
people
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Genein Cox-De Sousa (pictured), project support assistant in the
ITS programme office, will be doing the Race for Life on Sunday 17 June to
raise funds for Cancer Research UK. The day will be significant for Genein as it will be a year since she underwent a bone marrow transplant to
eradicate a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma cancer.
Genein said: 'Cancer, for many, is something you never imagine would
happen to you. That was me. Now I have experienced how the “other half”
lives. My journey has showcased that cancer is no respecter of persons. I’ve
shared waiting rooms and clinic halls with young, old, black, white,
straight and gay alike, all wanting the same thing, a chance at life.'
We are privileged in the UK to get free, world class, medical treatment.
Organisations such as Cancer Research depend on the generosity of many to
support their efforts to help more people beat cancer.
'Unfortunately, today
many people still succumb to the disease. I consider myself one of the lucky
ones - I survived,' added Genein.
To read more about Genein's story and to sponsor her, visit
www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/geneincox-de-sousa. |
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