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14 June 2012 |
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Judith Rees becomes first female president of Royal Geographical
Society Professor Judith Rees CBE (pictured) has been elected president of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), the first woman
in the Society’s history
to
take on this role.
At the Society’s Annual General Meeting on Monday 11 June, Professor Rees
was elected unopposed to the position for its three year term. She takes
over as the Society’s figurehead and chair of its elected trustees from
Michael Palin CBE.
A distinguished academic geographer by background, Professor Rees is
currently Director of LSE. She also acts as director for both its ESRC
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (hosted jointly with the
University of Leeds) and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change
and the Environment.
Commenting on her appointment, Professor Rees said: 'To be asked to take
over the presidency of such an internationally acclaimed and respected
body is an enormous honour and I am only too aware of the distinguished
figures whose boots I will have to try and fill.'
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Introducing LSE's new School secretary
Susan Scholefield (pictured) replaced Adrian Hall as School secretary at the
beginning of this week, following an intensive handover period that started
on 26 April.
She has taken on the reconfigured role of School secretary which, in
addition to the line management of the Planning, HR and Business Continuity
functions, will play a major role supporting the Director and Council on
governance, legal compliance and ethics issues as well as contributing to
the strategic direction of the School.
'I am delighted to be at LSE and have already had the pleasure of meeting a
number of you,' she said. 'I look forward to meeting colleagues around the
School in the future and to working with you as we address the many
interesting challenges ahead.'
After taking a double first at Somerville College, Oxford, and an early
academic career at the University of California at Berkeley, Susan joined
the Civil Service and rapidly rose to a senior rank. Roles in the Balkans
Secretariat, Northern Ireland Office and a post in the Cabinet Office as
head of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat were followed by a series of top
level positions in the Communities Department and MOD, culminating in her
most recent role as director general, Human Resources and Corporate
Services. In 1999 she was awarded a CMG in the New Year's Honours for her
work on Bosnia.
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Goodbye from LSE
The School is sad to announce the death of former staff member Brian
Hindley, who died at the end of May.
Brian spent almost all his academic career at LSE: he was
a reader in trade policy in the Department of Economics from 1967 to
1998 and also taught in the Department of International Relations between
2000 and 2007.
He was considered the UK’s foremost academic expert on the economics of
commercial policy and worked on many areas including voluntary export
restraints, trade in services and industrial policy.
A full obituary can be found on the
Financial Times website.
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 Notices
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LSE Perspectives: call for submissions LSE Perspectives
features photographs taken by LSE staff and students, 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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LSE ID sQuid payment card prize draw Any LSE Catering customer
using their card as a method of payment and spending £30 or more a month
will be entered into a prize draw, with five winners each month getting £10
added to their loyalty purse.
The winners of the prize draw for May were:
- Lloyd Gruber
- Silvia Milano
- Da Jin
- Gavin Eves
- Ulf Axelson
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African Students’ Panel - sharing ideas… connecting the dots
LSE's 'African Presence at LSE' invites staff to its
African Students' Panel end of year conversation on Tuesday 19 June at 6pm in room NAB LG.03.
Join students from Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and
Cameroon as they discuss their experiences at LSE and their thoughts on
African development and the future.
The event will be followed at 9pm by an end of year celebration at High Holborn
House. For more information, visit
Facebook or
watch the YouTube video.
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More for less - take advantage of special offers for LSE staff
I Need Pampering is offering LSE staff and their family members an
amazing 80 per cent off hair and beauty treatments at two
London salons.
Millionhairs in Southgate, London
Extensive pamper pack, usually priced at £380, is available to LSE staff for
just £57. Simply enter MIL80 at the checkout.
Corinne & Co at the InterContinental Hotel on Park lane, London
Hair and beauty experience, usually priced at £400, is available to LSE
staff for just £55. Simply enter COR80 at the checkout.
If you know of any deals that you think may be of interest to Staff
News readers, email Margaret Newson, purchasing manager, at
m.newson@lse.ac.uk. |
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features the suspended three-dimensional sculpture
by Michael Kidner RA (1917-2009) in the Centre for Philosophy of Natural
and Social Science in LSE's Lakatos Building. Michael Kidner, whose work
was informed by mathematics and chaos theory, was a pioneer of the Op
Art movement.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Events
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Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz to deliver two public lectures at LSE
Professor Joseph Stiglitz (pictured), former chief economist at the World
Bank and university professor of the Columbia Business School, will deliver
two public lectures at LSE later this month.
On Thursday 28 June, Professor Stiglitz will deliver
The Amartya Sen Lecture, where he will be in discussion with Professor
Amartya Sen. The following evening (Friday 29 June), Professor Stiglitz will
then discuss his new book
The Price of Inequality.
Both events are free and open to all, but tickets are required. For more
information, visit the web listings above.
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New events....
The Rule of Law
On: Tuesday 19 June from 10.15-11.30am. The venue will be
announced to ticketholders.
Speakers: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (pictured) and others to be
confirmed.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD)
and member of parliament of Kawhmu constituency in Myanmar. She was
awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1991.
This event is open to LSE staff and students only. Tickets are available
to request online after 10pm on Thursday 14 June.
The Price of Inequality
On: Friday 29 June at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist at the
World Bank and university professor of the Columbia Business School.
This event is free and open to all, but a ticket is required. One ticket
can be requested via the online ticket request form after 10pm on Thursday
21 June.
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Other upcoming LSE events include....
A Capitalism for the People
On: Thursday 21 June at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Luigi Zingales, Robert C McCormack Professor
of Entrepreneurship and Finance, and the David G Booth Faculty Fellow at
the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.
Berlin 1961: Kennedy Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth
On: Tuesday 26 June at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Frederick Kempe, president and CEO of the Atlantic Council.
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Transnational Labour Movements and Revolution Across Asia, the
Americas, and the Middle East On: Thursday 21 June in room
1.04, Connaught House
This workshop focuses attention on the significance of transnational
labour movements for revolutionary struggles in the late 19th and early-mid
20th centuries in countries as diverse as Cuba, Egypt, India, Indonesia,
Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam.
Programme:
- 11am - Evan M Daniel, City University of New York
In the Belly of the Monster: Cuban cigar makers in New York City,
1860s-1895
- 12.15pm - Lunch break
- 1pm - Malini Cadambi Daniel, New School for Social Research
Bharat and Internationalism: race, labour and contested identities in
California’s heartland, 1900-1924
- 2.15pm - John Sidel, LSE
From Shanghai to Singapore, Sydney, and Surabaya: networks of
solidarity in support of revolution in Southeast Asia
- 3.30pm - John Chalcraft, LSE
Migration, Border-Crossing and Labour Protest in Egypt and the
Arabian Peninsula in the 1950s and 1960s
The workshop is free and open to all. For more information, email
Professor John Sidel at j.t.sidel@lse.ac.uk.
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 60
second interview
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with..... Huma Yusuf
I'm the editor of the new India at LSE blog, which aims to showcase all the India-related research, events and activities underway at the School.
In my spare time, I continue to work as a journalist and policy analyst with a focus on South Asia, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan. I have come to LSE from the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, where I researched a forthcoming book on the impact of independent media on Pakistani politics and society.
What, principally, do you hope to achieve with the new India at LSE blog and what kind of input from those who use it do you expect?
LSE has a long history of
engagement with India. The India at
LSE blog aims to document and foster
that engagement through online
debate and community building. The
goal is to spark a discussion
between academics, students, alumni,
policymakers, journalists and others
on the excellent India-related work
being produced at LSE. Dr Amartya
Sen has described Indians as
'argumentative'; this blog offers
members of the LSE community with an
interest in India the chance to prove him
right.
What is the first news story
you remember catching your
attention?
In 1988, Pakistani military
dictator Ziaul Haq died in a
mysterious plane crash. I was seven
years old, and picked up a newspaper
for the first time in my life.
Where in the world have you
always wanted to go but never quite
made it.... yet?
Chile. Ten years ago, I edited a
Let's Go Travel Guide on
Chile, and have been desperate to
see Tierra del Fuego ever since.
What is your favourite
dessert?
Gulab jaman, a too-sweet South
Asian dessert of deep-fried
milk-and-flour balls flavoured with
rose water and cardamom.
What is the best advice you
have ever been given?
Never walk into an interview
without knowing more about the
person you're talking to than they
know about you.
If you could change one thing
in history, what would it be?
I'd go back to 1949 and trash the
Objectives Resolution, which shifted
Pakistan's constitution from a
secular to an Islamic model. |
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 Training
and jobs
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Training for staff
Courses scheduled for next week include:
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Developing Your Web Presence
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Balancing Work and Being the Carer of an Adult
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Equality Act 2010: information session for managers
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Manager as Coach
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Managing Yourself
For a full listing of what is available and further details, including
booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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Getting to Grips with Office 2010 and Windows 7
Make the move to Office 2010 and Windows 7 painless by attending one of
the ‘Getting
to Grips’ courses offered by the IT Training Team.
Throughout this two hour course, you will become familiar with the Office
2010 ribbon layout, understand how to find old commands in Office 2010,
customise your menu and toolbars to save you time, and understand the search
and settings options within Windows 7.
Alternatively, if your team or department would like to discuss specific
training requirements or request one-to-one coaching, contact the team on
it.training@lse.ac.uk.
For other courses like this, visit the
Training and Development
System.
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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.
- Admissions administrator (maternity cover), Academic
Registrar's Division
- Counsellor (students and staff), Teaching and Learning Centre
- Course tutor in mathematics, Mathematics
- Departmental manager (maternity cover), Statistics
- Head of collection services group, Library: collections
services
- International student immigration adviser, Academic
Registrar's Division
- LSE fellow in anthropology, Anthropology
- LSE fellow in global politics, Government
- LSE fellow in international political economy, International
Relations
- LSE fellow in international strategy and diplomacy,
International Relations
- LSE fellow in media and communications, Media and
Communications
- LSE fellow in public policy and administration, Government
- Lectureships in economic history, Economic History
- Part-time language teacher (Italian), Language Centre
- Polis manager, Media and Communications
- Professor/reader in accounting, Accounting
- Professor/reader in accounting and financial management,
Accounting
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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