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26 July 2012 |
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Lord Stern elected president of the British Academy
The British
Academy has announced that its next president from July 2013 will be
Nicholas Stern (pictured), I.G. Patel Professor of Economics and Government
and chair of a number of research centres at LSE.
Welcoming the news, LSE Director Professor Judith Rees CBE, said: ‘I am
extremely happy that the UK’s premier institution for the humanities and
social sciences has elected Nicholas Stern to lead it.
'It is a great privilege for LSE to have the president of the British
Academy among its staff. I am personally very pleased about Nick’s election,
and I am sure he will bring not only his tremendous intellect to the role
but also his vast experience, sheer common sense and good humour.
'The humanities and social sciences, as well as higher education in general,
face some very important challenges and I am sure that we will be in a
better position to meet them with Nick leading the British Academy in the UK
and abroad.’
The British Academy has also announced that it has elected LSE's Professor
Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, as one of its
38 new Fellows. British Academy Fellowships are awarded to highly
distinguished academics who are recognised for outstanding research in their
field.
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Economic History and the LSE-PKU Summer School
The Department of Economic History will be offering a course at the LSE-PKU
Summer School in Beijing this year. The course is the first that the
Department has organised for the LSE-PKU programme and, hopefully, it will
become a regular feature of the Summer School.
This year, the course will be taught jointly by Dr Kent Deng and Professor
Colin Lewis. Entitled ‘Global Divergence: growth in Europe, Latin America
and East Asia compared’, the course deals with the development trajectories
of the three regions from a comparative and global perspective.
It aims to explain why some economies industrialised before others; how the
mechanisms of economic transformation changed over time; why some societies
experienced an early and rapid transition from extensive to intensive
growth, while others did not; why the political economy of development in
some regions was associated with increased political opening, and in others
with authoritarian political arrangements; and why development was
accompanied by rapid welfare gains and increasing social equality in some
countries, while poverty and social disparities tended to accompany growth
in others.
For more information about the course,
click here.
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LSE academic appointed to the World Economic Forum
Dr Martina Viarengo
(pictured), research associate in the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE
and assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Graduate
Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva, has been
appointed as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on
Women's Empowerment. The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils are
intellectual networks which convene leading thinkers from business,
government, academia and civil society to address key global issues. The 80
Councils capture knowledge on critical issues and help integrate it into
global decision-making. The Global Agenda Council on Women's Empowerment
seeks to serve as a central source of scientific evidence for closing gender
gaps. Its mission is to gather the fragmented information on successful
practices, programmes and policies, stimulate and support new research, and
consolidate these learnings.
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Academic abroad
Professor Bridget Hutter (pictured), professor of risk regulation and
head of the Department of Sociology at LSE, is giving the main address
on ‘The Governance Challenges, The Role of the State and the Limits’ at
the Australia and New Zealand School of Government Annual Conference
2012, on 'Future Proofing the State: risk, responses and resilience' at
the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
taking place on 24-26 July.
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A big thank you from Adrian Hall Adrian Hall (pictured), former
secretary and director of administration, has asked us to pass on his thanks
for all the kind wishes he received on his retirement earlier this month.
Adrian had a long and distinguished career with the School and made a
huge contribution to LSE over many years. His role was reconfigured on his
retirement, with Susan Scholefield joining LSE as School secretary and
Simeon Underwood, now academic registrar and director of academic services,
taking on most of Adrian’s operational work. |
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 Notices
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Deadline for Michaelmas term Events Leaflet
approaching If you are organising an event and
want it listed in the Michaelmas term Events Leaflet please send the
following details to Danny O'Connor at
d.o'connor@lse.ac.uk by Friday 3 August.
If possible please follow the format below:
- Date, time (from and to): for example. 'Thursday 18 October,
6.30-8pm'
- Venue: e.g. 'Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building'
- Banner: e.g. 'Department of Law public lecture'
- Title of Event: e.g. 'Theories of Justice'
- Speaker's title and name: e.g. 'SPEAKER: Professor Ann Onymous'
- Chair's title and name (if applicable): e.g. 'CHAIR: Dr John Smith'
- Short blurb about the event (25-30 words)
- Short biography on speaker (not chair) (15 words)
- Email and phone contact details if not being handled by Conferences
as part of the Public Lecture Programme.
- A high resolution image of the speaker if possible. (Please note
that we often have a large number of events for Michaelmas term and will
not be able to include all the images submitted.)
The Press and Information Office needs this information even if you have
sent a Public Lecture form to Conferences and Events. If you have any
questions, contact Danny or email
pressoffice@lse.ac.uk.
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Which books inspired you into academia? The LSE Review of Books
publishes accounts from academics on the books that inspired them to go into
their field, and they are now looking for more submissions from LSE staff.
The academic inspiration accounts feature academics from around the
world, and each one is a revealing look at the books that inspired them as
children, students, and throughout their careers. The accounts aim to
showcase the more personal side of academia and learning that is not often
shared.
Some of the most popular pieces have been from
Professor Conor Gearty, professor of human rights law at LSE, on how
Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics had such a dramatic
impact on him that he tried to dump law and read politics; from professor of
African American studies at Princeton
Imani Perry, on how Shakespeare drove her interest in inequality; and
from the late
Elinor Ostrom, on some of the most important books from her early
career.
The team are seeking contributions from academic staff in all departments
across the School, and invite all those interested to email
Amy Mollett, managing editor, at
Lsereviewofbooks@lse.ac.uk.
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Chair of Court and Council The School’s Chair and Vice Chair
Selection Committee has begun the search for a successor to Peter Sutherland
whose second and final term of office as Chair of Court and Council will end
in 2013. The Chair is the senior lay governor of the School charged with
leading the governance of the School by the LSE Council.
Working with the committee will be GatenbySanderson, a leading provider
of executive recruitment services. Their experience in recruiting to high
profile roles will be put to use in widening the search for candidates and
managing an advertising process. An advertisement is expected to appear in
early September 2012.
Suggestions of suitable names from all members of the School are invited.
They should be sent to Jayne Rose, head of governance at
j.rose2@lse.ac.uk by 17 September.
For more information,
click here.
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LSE Annual Fund update
The LSE Annual Fund supports a large variety of projects and initiatives
that make a real impact at the School. For the next academic year, the
Annual Fund Allocations Advisory Group will meet in September 2012 to review
the allocations process and as a result, there will be no early Michaelmas
applications round in September.
We will update the School community with any new guidelines as soon as
the outcome of the review has been agreed. For more information or if you
have any enquiries, email
annualfund@lse.ac.uk.
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LSE Perspectives July's LSE Perspectives gallery is now online.
You can view the gallery
online here.
The gallery features 12 striking images submitted by LSE staff and
students. Each image reflects a unique perspective on a particular scene.
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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Short term let in East Dulwich
One bedroom, raised ground floor flat overlooking a large park. Available
from 30 July to 28 August and possibly an extra two weeks in September.
40 minute journey to LSE door-to-door. Furnished with all bills included.
Reasonable rate. For more information and photos, email David Grover at
d.grover@lse.ac.uk.
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features Ghana’s president John Atta Mills who
passed away on Tuesday. He was an alumnus of LSE having completed an LLM
at the School in 1968. In 2009, Professor Mills returned to the Law
Department meeting staff and students, where he accepted a gift of an
LSE baseball cap and a t-shirt.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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Police to use LSE crowd control app A new smartphone app
designed to share real time information with the police and people in the
City of London will be free for download in the Apple App Store before the
Olympic Games begins, with an Android version to follow.
The City of London Police app has been researched by LSE and developed
jointly with the force.
The new app is multi-functional and likely to attract considerable
interest from people in the ‘Square Mile’ of the City, which is the
financial heart of London with 9,000 residents and a weekday commuting
population of more than 300,000 individuals. The City is also a regular
venue for high profile national events attracting large volumes of visitors.
The app, available soon, offers a host of general day-to-day useful
features about the City of London Police. There is an additional key feature
that will help the City of London Police to assess and monitor crowd
density, but it only works when people who have installed the app agree to
share their location data.
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LSE Research Online most downloaded The top five downloaded
items from LSE Research Online in June 2012 were:
- Dodgson, JS and Spackman, M and Pearman, A and Phillips, LD (2009)
Multi-criteria analysis: a
manual. Department for Communities and Local Government: London.
ISBN 9781409810230 (1860 downloads)
- Anheier, Helmut K. (2000)
Managing non-profit organisations: towards a new approach. Civil
Society Working Paper series, 1. Centre for Civil Society, London School
of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 0753013436 (1209
downloads)
- Bowling, Ben and Phillips, Coretta (2003)
Policing ethnic minority
communities. In: Newburn, Tim, (ed.) Handbook of policing. Willan
Publishing, Devon, UK, pp. 528-555. ISBN 9781843920199 (977 downloads)
- Livingstone, Sonia (2003)
Children's use of the internet: reflections on the emerging research
agenda. New media & society, 5 (2). pp. 147-166. ISSN 1461-7315 (960
downloads)
Total downloads for all items in June 2012: 96,988 |
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 Events
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Upcoming LSE events include....
From the Ruins of Empire: the revolt against the West and the remaking of
Asia
Date: Monday 30 July at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Pankaj Mishra (pictured), author.
Policies for Inclusive and Balanced Growth
On: Tuesday 11 September at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Heiner Flassbeck, director of the division on globalisation
and development strategies at UNCTAD.
Emerging Economies Riding the Storm: Chile and the rest of the region
On: Wednesday 12 September at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre,
Clement House
Speaker: Felipe Larraín (pictured), Chilean minister of finance.
Kandak: fighting with Afghans
On: Wednesday 12 September at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Patrick Hennessey, former soldier and now a barrister.
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New Exhibition - Exiled to Nowhere: Burma's
Rohingya On until Friday 24 August in the Atrium
Gallery, Old Building
This photographic exhibition by Greg Constantine exposes the struggles of
one of Asia's most oppressed minority groups, the Rohingya.
It exposes the struggles the Rohingya face in Bangladesh as refugees, but
more importantly it aims to open a window into the neglect and abuse the
Rohingya endure inside their homeland, Myanmar (Burma).
The exhibition is timed to coincide with the release of a photography
book of the same theme and will be utilised by several international
humanitarian and human rights organisations as a platform to discuss
Burma-related issues and statelessness.
The exhibition is free and open to all, with no ticket required. Visitors
are welcome Monday-Friday between 10am and 8pm (unless otherwise stated).
For more information, contact LSE Arts at
arts@lse.ac.uk. |
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 60
second interview
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with..... Dr Edgar Whitley
I am a reader in information
systems in the Department of
Management. I was the research
co-ordinator for the influential LSE
Identity Project report on the UK’s
proposals to introduce biometric
identity cards; proposals that were
scrapped following the 2010 General
Election. More recently, my
expertise in national identity
policies has resulted in me advising
a number of national governments and
UN bodies on identity policy issues.
What made you decide to become
a volunteer at the 2012 Olympics and
what role have you been allocated?
Friends who had been volunteers
for the Commonwealth Games in
Manchester said how enjoyable the
experience had been, so when the
opportunity to volunteer at the
Olympics arose, I sent off my
application and was lucky enough to
be selected. I am particularly
looking forward to working with
people from very different
backgrounds.
To enter the Olympic and
Paralympic venues people will have
to pass through airport-style
security. My role as a venue entry
team member for both games will be
to help ensure that this process is
as straightforward as possible and
involves managing the entry lines
rather than doing the security
checks themselves.
I’ll be based just outside the
Olympic Park and Wembley Stadium and
will be one of the first people that
spectators meet as they come to
watch the events. My uniform
prepares me for most eventualities
including a hat (for the sun) and an
umbrella (in case it rains)!
One of the perks of my role is
that I was invited to attend the
final rehearsal of Friday's Opening
Ceremony. I shall save the surprise but I can
say it was AWESOME.
Quick tip for anyone planning
to attend Olympic or Paralympic
events:
Please make sure that you have
allowed plenty of time to reach the
venue and pass through the security.
As venue entry team members we will
try to make the entry process as
painless as possible but we can't
prioritise people just because the
event that they've got tickets for
is about to start (or because
they're from LSE).
If you could change two things
about LSE what would they be and
why?
Make sure that all newcomers to
LSE visit the wonderful Sir John
Soane's Museum on Lincoln's Inn
Fields shortly after they join the
School. In my case, it took me
nearly a quarter century(!) to
actually do this.
Fix the various 'security
theatre' features in the New
Academic Building. For example, the
NAB is set up so that it is easier
to use the lifts than it is to use
the staircases (you need to press
the unlock button to enter the
stairwell, climb the stairs, then
swipe your library card to enter
another floor) which is not great
for the environment.
Where did you go on your last
holiday and what were the pros and
cons?
I spent five weeks in China over
the Christmas period. This was my
second trip to China and we visited
Shanghai, Hong Kong, Chengdu, Xi’an
and Beijing. Whilst there I also
gave presentations to LSE alumni
groups in Shanghai, Hong Kong and
Beijing.
China is such an exciting place
to visit at the moment, with a real
buzz in the cities and some
wonderful countryside. We became
particular fans of Chinese
traditional gardens and loved the
many gardens in Suzhou. I can’t wait
to go back.
Who is your favourite author?
Following our China trip, I
re-read Jung Chang’s Wild Swans as
quite a lot of the story is based in Chengdu.
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 Training
and jobs
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Training for staff Courses scheduled for next week include:
- Developing your Web Presence
- Facebook: myths and facts
- Moving to Moodle 2
- Collaborative Writing with Wikis and Google Docs
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.
- Course tutor in statistics, Statistics
- Dahrendorf post-doctoral research officer, Grantham Research
Institute
- Executive assistant to Professor Lord Nicholas Stern (maternity
cover), Grantham Research Institute
- JAVA analyst/programmer, IT Services
- LSE fellow, Finance
- LSE fellow (qualitative methodology), Methodology Institute
- LSE fellows, Economic History
- LSE teaching fellow, Social Psychology
- Lecturer in management, Management
- MPA programme manager, Economics
- MSc management and exchanges programme administrator,
Management
- Research assistant, Asia Centre
- TRIUM programme manager, TRIUM
- Teaching support services manager (maternity cover), Library:
academic services
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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