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LSE Blogging Service: expert help on offer for novice bloggers
The communications team at LSE is launching a blogging service to offer help
and advice for those looking to start or improve a blog.
It will offer expert practical help on every aspect of blogging - from how
to write and edit crisply to ways of building a following and from
integrating multimedia content to analysing a blog’s audience.
The service will draw on the skills of communications staff in blogging,
design, press office and web services but will, on occasion, involve
seasoned bloggers from other parts of LSE who can share their advice and
experience. It will incorporate the services currently run through LSE Blogs
by web services and will involve the Centre for Learning Technology,
building on the courses it currently offers.
There are already several successful and high-quality blogs at LSE and the
aim of the service is to help everyone involved in the field to quickly
become confident at blogging to a similar standard.
If you would like to find out more, email Jo Bale in the press office
j.m.bale@lse.ac.uk or
pressoffice@lse.ac.uk.
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LSE’s oldest double degree programme marks a milestone It has
been ten years since the graduation of the first cohort of
LSE/USC MSc/MA in Global Media and Communications students. To mark this
milestone, LSE’s Department of Media and Communications and the
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern
California (USC) hosted a conference, formal dinner and ball at USC from 17 to
20 May.
LSE pro-director Professor Stuart Corbidge and incoming Director
Professor Craig Calhoun were keynote speakers alongside USC provost
Elizabeth Garrett.
The double degree is LSE’s largest degree programme and enables students
to study for one year at LSE in its Media and Communications Department and
one year at the Annenberg School for Communication, USC, a top US
communication school with close links to the Los Angeles media industry.
Both Annenberg Schools (East and West) are premier institutions for graduate
education in communication in the USA.
Programme director Professor Terhi Rantanen, who has directed the
programme since it was founded in 2000, said: 'When we founded the joint
programme in Global Media and Communications with the Annenberg School for
Communication at USC it was a pioneering double programme, not only for LSE
but, as far as we know, any other university worldwide. Our graduates are now
successfully making their mark, which does not surprise us at all: we always
knew that we could attract not only the brightest but also the most open-minded
students. It is a great pleasure to be marking the tenth anniversary of our
first graduation and we look forward to celebrating many more.'
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MIT Press includes LSE academic in top '50 Influential Journal Articles'
list
As part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, MIT Press has
selected an article by
Dr Robert Falkner (pictured), senior lecturer in international relations
at LSE, as one of the 50 most influential articles published by
their Journals division.
The 50 articles were chosen from a wide range of disciplines, including
economics, international affairs, history, science and technology.
Dr Falkner's article,
Private Environmental Governance and
International Relations: exploring the links (3:2, 2003),
is the only article chosen from Global Environmental Politics and
remains one of the journal’s most cited articles.
For more information, visit
www.mitpressjournals.org/page/50articles.
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Article by LSE academic downloaded over 15,000 times during 2011
An article by Professor Sonia Livingstone (pictured), professor of social
psychology and head of LSE's Department of Media and Communications, has
been named the most downloaded article in 2011 by the New Media and
Society Journal.
The article,
Taking Risky Opportunities in Youthful Content Creation: teenagers'
use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression
(2008), was downloaded a staggering
15,409 times, which may make it the most downloaded single
journal article of any of the SAGE Publications media journals.
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LSE Research Staff Association launches The newly formed LSE
Research Staff Association held its first meeting on Wednesday 9 May. The
association represents around 200 research staff members, ranging from
research assistants up to professorial research fellows.
The association has three key purposes:
1. To provide a means by which research staff can discuss a range of
issues and communicate their views back to the School
2. To enable the School to communicate more effectively with its research
staff about policy developments and improve awareness of the significant
range of career and professional development courses on offer to staff
3. To create a greater sense of community amongst research staff members in
the School.
Kath Scanlon, research fellow in LSE London and head of the association,
said: 'Research staff work in a variety of disciplines but have to deal with
many of the same issues, especially around funding and job security. And
research can be a rather solitary activity, so we want to provide
opportunities for researchers to network across the school.'
For more information, email Kath at
k.j.scanlon@lse.ac.uk.
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LSE announces four new halls of residence wardens Professor
Chandran Kukathas, Dr Mathijs Pelkmans, Dr Julie McCandless and Dr Richard
Perkins have been announced as new halls of residence wardens, starting from
1 September.
Professor Kukathas, chair in political theory in the Department of
Government, will be based at High Holborn and Grosvenor House. Dr Pelkmans,
senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, will work at
Northumberland House. Dr Julie McCandless, lecturer in law in the Department
of Law, will be based at Rosebery Hall, while Dr Richard Perkins, reader in
environmental geography in the Department of Geography and Environment, will
look after Passfield Hall.
Rachael Elliott, head of residential life, said: ‘A thank you to
Professor Paul Kelly and Dr Matthew Hall for their diligence in executing
their warden roles with aplomb over their terms of office’.
Dr Alex Voorhoeve will be leaving the front line of student support for a
year, before returning to join the newcomers.
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LSE Enterprise’s joint venture partner, Duke Corporate Education, ranked
number one... again
LSE Enterprise’s joint venture partner, Duke Corporate Education, has been
ranked number one for the tenth consecutive time in this year's Financial
Times ranking of customised executive education programmes.
The supplement says: 'Duke CE’s core strength lies in its preparation,
programme design, and the teaching methods and materials of its programmes.
The school has topped the ranking for these three criteria for the past six
years.'
Duke CE's London-based operation and LSE Enterprise specialise in delivering
highly customised education programmes to corporations across the world.
Simon Flemington, CEO of LSE Enterprise, says: 'Duke CE's practitioner
experience and its innovative learning methods combine very well with LSE's
rigorous focus on social science disciplines. Together, the two
organisations deliver senior management programmes that promote strategic
change around the world.'
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Academic abroad
On Wednesday 9 May, Professor Mary Kaldor (pictured) gave the
'Distinguished Women in International Affairs' lecture at George
Washington University (GWU), in memory of her co-author Lieutenant
Colonel Shannon Beebe, who was killed in an air crash last summer.
The lecture brought together members of the military and others who work
in the defence sector, as well as peace advocates, environmental
campaigners, faculty and students from GWU and LSE alumni.
In her lecture 'Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace',
Professor Kaldor spoke about the need for a shift from a twentieth century
security paradigm based on the concept of national security - defending
borders from foreign enemies - to a concept of human security more
appropriate to the twenty-first century.
She argued that the use of twentieth century techniques in twenty-first
century situations often makes things worse, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, and
put forward proposals for transforming security capabilities. The lecture
was based on the book written with Shannon Beebe,
The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: human security and the new rules of war
and peace.
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Meet LSE’s Olympic team Since the last edition of Staff News,
another staff member has got in touch to tell us how he is getting
involved in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games:
- Dr Erik Baurdoux, lecturer in statistics, has accepted a role
as a ceremonies volunteer performer in the Opening Ceremony.
If you are also involved in the Games, let us know what you are doing by
emailing pressoffice@lse.ac.uk.
For more information on the Games, visit
www.london2012.com/. |
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 Notices
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Fair Trade food sale
IT Services' green team is organising a Fair Trade food sale in aid of
Cancer Research on Monday 21 May in room s100b, St Clement’s
Building, from 12-2pm.
The food on sale will include cakes and some savoury items, so if you are
looking for something different to go with your lunch or just like a bit of
cake, come on over.
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LSE Teaching Day 2012 Did you miss the registration or are you
unable to attend? Participate before and during the event online.
Live presentations
CLT will live stream the main presentation for the benefit of those staff
who are unable to attend some or all of this year's programme of events.
In addition, we will try some experimental streaming from the parallel
sessions taking place on the day using iPhones, iPods, and iPads.
To watch any of the session sessions visit
http://bit.ly/JEwW8H on Tuesday 22 May shortly before 9.45am. You
will find all the necessary information on this page.
LSE Teaching Day (conference backchannel)
We will be using Twitter as the communication backchannel before and
during the day. If you are tweeting about LSE Teaching Day, please include
the hashtag #lsetd12.
If you are blogging about LSE Teaching Day, saving bookmarks to Delicious,
adding photos to Flickr etc, then please use the tag lsetd12.
If you have any queries, email
Teaching.Day@lse.ac.uk.
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Doing good does you good
The theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week (21-27 May) is 'doing
good does you good'.
Research by the Mental Health Foundation, who sponsor Mental Health
Awareness Week, has found that helping others can reduce stress, improve
emotional well-being and benefit physical health. 'Doing good' doesn’t have to
involve grand gestures or cost money, instead it could be:
On Tuesday 22 May to help promote the week and mental health
awareness, members of LSE's mental health mutual support group, counselling
service and volunteer centre will have a stall on Houghton Street from
12.30-2pm and will be giving information on mental health, support available
at the School, and volunteering opportunities.
Visit the stall to pledge your little act of kindness. Whether you are a
giver or recipient, share your experiences on
The Mental
Health Foundation facebook page.
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National Vegetarian Week (21-25 May) National Vegetarian Week
is the UK’s annual awareness campaign promoting inspirational
vegetarian food and the benefits of a meat-free lifestyle.
LSE Catering will be actively promoting this campaign in all its outlets.
We’re not going completely meat-free, but will be offering an increased
choice of healthy, well balanced, vegetarian options, which will not only
benefit your health but also the environment and animal welfare.
In addition, the Fourth Floor Restaurant will be promoting a Feel Good
Food Day on Wednesday 23 May. We aim to offer a selection of dishes
using less meat, dairy and egg-based produce whilst promoting healthier
ingredients, seasonal vegetables and sustainable sourced fish.
Come along and join us for a wonderful range of nutritious, healthy food
choices.
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Flying Start induction networking lunch Flying Start Inductions
take place every month as a way of welcoming new employees to LSE and
introducing them to the School’s campus and day-to-day life.
As part of the induction, we organise a networking buffet lunch, in which
current staff, from different departments, are invited to share
their experience of working at LSE with their new colleagues. This is an
informal occasion for new starters to get to know people from around the
School.
We are currently looking for volunteers to add to our panel of possible
attendees. If you would like to be invited to one of these networking
lunches, email hr.learning@lse.ac.uk.
For each induction we will invite a group of around eight current staff
members from our mailing list.
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Equality and Diversity summer term events
As the exam season is in full swing and end-of-year change is in the air, we’re
running a host of workshops and events to help you sail through - from
building resilience, to developing good sleep patterns and balancing work
and caring responsibilities.
Download the
Equality and Diversity summer term flyer to find out more about the
events and get involved.
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Skip fit lessons
Security officer and former boxer Daniel Beckley (pictured) is running skip
fit lessons for all staff and students at LSE.
Build up your fitness, burn calories and increase your stamina, all within
an hour.
Lessons will take place from 1-2pm at the Badminton Court, Old Building, on
Tuesday 22 May, Tuesday 29 May, Tuesday 12 June, Tuesday 19 June, Tuesday 3
July, Tuesday 10 July, Tuesday 24 July and Tuesday 31 July.
Just turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons
are free to attend. More sessions will take place throughout the Summer and
during Michaelmas term.
For more information, email Daniel at
d.beckley@lse.ac.uk.
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LSESU Sportsday Join in the fun on Saturday 9 June from
11am-7pm at the LSE Sportsground, Berrylands, KT3 5HB.
Enter a five a side football team and/or dodgeball team. Your team can
consist of your work colleagues, friends or a mixture of both.
It costs just £10 a team to enter. Visit the the ARC, the office next to
Alpha Books above the Quad, and sign up.
For more information, visit
lsesu.com/ents/event/1398.
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More for less - take advantage of special offers for LSE staff
Willow Hairdressers (9-15 Leather Lane,
London, EC1N 7ST) is offering the first 50 LSE staff members and/or
their family, a special three visit package normally worth over £230,
for just £44.99.
Visit One: hair cut visit
- Deep conditioning and cleansing treatment
- Scalp massage
- Designer hair cut and blow dry
Visit Two: colour visit
- Full colour consultation
- One of the following colour services:
1. Half head of highlights/lowlights
2. Full head permanent colour
3. Full head glossing (for non colour clients)
- Followed by a shampoo and blow dry
Visit Three: luxurious hair visit
- Reconstructive conditioning hair treatment
- Scalp massage
- Blow dry to match evening out or event
The three visits can be completed in any order over the next four
months. To purchase a voucher, call John and his team on 020 7092
9188 (9am-6pm) or email
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture of LSE graduates celebrates the multicultural
diversity of the School. There are many similar images of students in
the
Image Bank - suggested keywords
for finding them more quickly are 'multicultural', 'cosmopolitan' and
'diverse'. For more information or for help finding images, email Lynne
Wilson at l.wilson@lse.ac.uk who
is available on Wednesdays in the
Photography Unit.
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 Events
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Upcoming events include....
'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 (pictured), teacher of anthropology at
Goldsmiths, University of London
How Can European Migration Policies Promote Development?
On: Wednesday 23 May at 1pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Tobias Billström (pictured), Swedish minister for migration
and asylum policy, and Peter Sutherland, chairman of the LSE Court of
Governors and United Nations special representative for migration.
End This Depression Now!
On: Tuesday 29 May at 6.30pm in the Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street
Speaker: Professor Paul Krugman, professor of economics and
international affairs at Princeton University.
LSE staff and students can request one ticket via the online ticket request
form after 10pm on Thursday 17 May.
Promoting Global Trade: the role of export credit agencies
On: Tuesday 29 May at 6pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speakers: Pedro Carriço, head
of the international relations and country risk department at Seguradora
Brasileira de Crédito à Exportação,
Jon Coleman,
chairman of the British Exporters Association,
Dr Hans-Joachim Henckel,
head of division at the German Federal Ministry of Economics and
Technology, Peter Luketa,
global head of export finance at HSBC Bank plc, Geetha
Muralidhar,
executive director of Export Credit Guarantees Corporation of India LTD,
Professor Danny Quah,
professor of economics at LSE, and Lars H Thunell,
executive vice president and CEO of International Finance Corporation.
LSE staff and students can request one ticket via the online ticket
request form after 10pm Tuesday 22 May.
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Evaluating the Impact of Climate Change Research On: Monday
21 May from 2-8.30pm at LSE.
This free, half day conference is hosted by the LSE’s Public Policy
Group/Impact of Social Sciences project and Imperial College London.
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues affecting global
governments. The complex interplay of scientific research, business
interests, and strongly held public opinion creates difficulties in building
consensus around policy and industry change.
This conference seeks to look at how academic research in the climate
change and energy areas has impacted on government and policymaking and
business and industry practice.
The event is free to attend but registration is essential. Email
Impactofsocialsciences@lse.ac.uk to reserve your place. For more
information and to view the full schedule,
click here.
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Envisioning Real Utopias: alternatives within and beyond On:
Tuesday 22 May from 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Erik Olin Wright, Vilas Distinguished Professor of
Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and president of the
American Sociological Association.
Wright argues that we can be simultaneously utopian and practical by
pursuing projects for social transformation within capitalism that point us
in an emancipatory direction beyond capitalism.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a
first come, first served basis.
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Book launch - Simulating Nature
On: Wednesday 23 May from 4.30-6pm in the Senior Dining Room, Old
Building
The Centre for the Analysis of Time Series will be hosting a reception and
book launch of Professor Arthur Petersen’s
Simulating Nature: a philosophical study of computer-simulation
uncertainties and their role in climate science and policy advice
(second edition).
Professor Petersen is Munich Re Programme Visiting Professor (CCCEP-CATS) at
LSE.
The reception is open to all. If you would like to attend, email Lyn Grove
at l.grove@lse.ac.uk.
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LSESU Visual Arts Society Annual Art Exhibition On until
Friday 25 May, Atrium Gallery, Old Building
The current exhibition showcases the LSESU Visual Arts Society’s Annual
Art Exhibition.
For the first time, the Atrium Gallery displays the work of many talented
students studying at the School. The exhibition features a range of
sketches, drawings, paintings and sculptures, video installations and
photography. Many of the artworks have been created by students during the
popular weekly workshops organised by the society, as well as in their spare
time.
The exhibition is a great way to examine the artistic vein of the student
body as well as explore the many cultural activities present once classes
end. For more information
click here.
This exhibition is free and open to all, with no ticket required.
Visitors are welcome Monday-Friday between 10am and 8pm (excluding bank
holidays or unless otherwise stated).
For more information, contact LSE Arts at
arts@lse.ac.uk or on 020 7107 5342.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
The Eurozone's Awkward Threesome: fiscal stance, macroeconomic stability
and growth
Speaker: Professor Leszek Balcerowicz
Recorded: Tuesday 8 May, approx 74 minutes
Click here to listen
Dial M for Murdoch
Speakers: Martin Hickman and Tom Watson MP
Recorded: Wednesday 9 May, approx 73 minutes
Click here to listen
Rebel Cities: the urbanization of class struggle
Speaker: Professor David Harvey
Recorded: Thursday 10 May, approx 99 minutes
Click here to listen
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 60
second interview
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with..... Chris Gosling, HR director
I have been in HR and related
areas all my career. I began working
for the nuclear industry and then
moved via the Science Museum (a
wonderful place to work), to the HE
sector - London Business School,
Imperial College and now LSE. It
has been a huge privilege to work
for such prestigious organisations
and be part of their success.
Appreciating that you have not
been long at LSE, what have you
found, so far, to be the most
interesting differences between this
and your previous job?
LSE is much more 'democratic'
than Imperial and more driven by
consensus. Things can take longer as
a result but the debate can be very
stimulating.
With which famous person would
you like to have dinner and why?
I’d love to be a guest of Dorothy
Parker at her famous dinner table at
the Algonquin Hotel in 1920s New
York, just to see if she really was
that amusing. I might even be able
to borrow some of her unpublished
'put downs' for subsequent use!
Where in the world have you
always wanted to go but never quite
made it.... yet?
Antarctica. I love cold places
and penguins.
What book are you currently
reading and which have you enjoyed
most in the past?
Currently I’m reading Free
Lunch. It’s a cleverly written
and most amusing introduction to
economics. I studied the subject at
school ages ago and thought, as I
work at LSE, that I’d better get up
to speed. In the past it would have
to be anything by George Eliot, if I
wanted my assumptions about life
challenged, or Dorothy Sayers if I
didn’t.
What is your favourite
work-time snack?
They do a dangerously delicious
pain au raisin at Café 54, which is
temptingly close to where I work in
Sardinia House.
If you had a time machine,
where and to what era would you go?
Maybe one of those geological
time periods where everything was
different and there were no people
around.
Are you left or right handed -
or, indeed, ambidextrous?
Right handed. |
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 Training
and jobs
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Training for staff Courses scheduled for next week include:
- Copyright, the Internet and Teaching Online
- Mindfulness and Stress Workshop
- Outlook 2010: clearing your inbox
- Mental Health First Aid
- Introduction to Blogging
For a full listing of what is available and further details, including
booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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Staff courses from HR Organisational and Lifelong Learning
- Introduction to Working in Higher Education
Monday 21 May, 10am-1pm
- Managing Change
Wednesday 23 May, 10am-4.30pm
- Equality and Diversity for Non-Managers
Tuesday 29 May, 9.45am-1pm
- Writing Skills
Wednesday 13 June, 10am-5pm
- Performance and Development Review for Managers
Thursday 14 June, 10am-1pm
- Leadership
Friday 15 June, 10am-5pm
- Equality Act 2010: information session for managers
Wednesday 20 June, 12.30pm-2pm
To book a place and for more information on the courses, visit the
online training booking
system. For any other information, email
Hr.Learning@lse.ac.uk.
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Balancing Work and Being the Carer of an Adult: a workshop for staff
who are carers of an ill, elderly or disabled family member, friend or
partner On: Tuesday 22 May from 12.30-2pm
One in seven of the workforce is caring for someone who is ill, frail or
has a disability. Caring for adults is different from childcare, it can
happen without warning, and the need for care may be time limited or
long-term. Caring for adults may also be at a distance, that is, caring for
a person who lives in another part of the city, region, country or even the
world. The carer may not recognise themselves as a carer.
As part of LSE's ongoing commitment to help staff balance family
life with work, we are pleased to announce an event for employees who are
caring for adults. This event will be delivered by Liz Morris from Working
Families and is also open to partners of staff working at LSE.
To book a place, visit
lse.ac.uk/training. For more information, email
hr.learning@lse.ac.uk.
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Information skills training at LSE Library Are you juggling
work and study? The Library
Information Skills Programme has workshops to help with the different
stages of producing your assignment. From identifying and finding
information, to evaluating your sources and referencing them easily, using
bibliographic software.
To see a list of all the courses available,
click here.
'Workshop in Information Literacy' will begin on Thursday 24 May
from 10am-12pm. This six week programme for researchers takes a practical
approach, to develop research skills and introduce essential
sources and tools when undertaking research.
For more information and to book your place,
click here.
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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
- Course tutor, Statistics
- Events executive, Conference and Events
- LSE fellow in economics, Economics
- LSE fellow in statistics, Statistics
- LSE fellows in international history, International History
- LSE fellowships in management, Management
- LSE fellowships in management (EROB), Management
- Project accounting officer, Finance Division
- Research officer (GIS/Data Analysis), LSE Cities
- Residential life officer, RCSD Office
- Senior lecturer in health policy, Social Policy
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
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