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23 August 2012 |
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LSE joins SoundCloud More than 1,000 recordings from LSE's
prestigious public lectures programme and other LSE podcasts are now
available to download from SoundCloud, the world’s leading social sound
platform.
The podcasts of LSE public lectures include speakers from around the
globe with talks by academics such as Professor Paul Krugman and Professor
Amartya Sen, as well as politicians such as prime minister David Cameron and
former US president Bill Clinton. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates,
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook also feature.
LSE on SoundCloud will also host the School’s Causes and Things
podcast, a new podcast series which offers a lively introduction to some of
the ideas being explored by researchers at LSE, and the LSE Review of
Books podcast, which aims to give listeners the opportunity to hear
prolific authors and academics discuss the ideas behind their latest books.
This content, which is also available on the LSE
video and audio pages
and iTunes U, can be enjoyed by anyone via the SoundCloud website or the
SoundCloud apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. LSE on SoundCloud, which has
already gained over 20,000 followers while the service was in beta,
will bring this content to an even wider audience and will give users the
opportunity to share, embed and comment on the podcasts.
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LSE busies itself in Beijing with graduation ceremony, 2012 China
Conference and Summer School More than 250 new LSE graduates collected
their degrees at a ceremony in China held alongside the annual LSE China
Conference.
The 2012 conference, entitled ‘Society and Markets: managing the benefits
of economic growth’, was attended by more than 300 LSE friends and alumni
from China and around the Asia region.
Jin Liqun Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the China Investment
Corporation (CIC), gave a speech about China’s current economic growth and
challenges, as well as the work of sovereign wealth funds in managing their
assets. Mr Liqun’s speech was followed by an all-LSE panel of academics,
Professor Stuart Corbridge (International Development), Professor Colin
Lewis and Dr Kent Deng (Economic History). The panel discussed
development lessons from the past for future sustainable and equitable
economic growth.
The final panel of the evening was chaired by LSE economist Professor
Danny Quah. Senior vice president of Singapore’s Government Investment
Corporation (GIC), Goh Chye-Boon, and Peking University’s eminent
sociologist, Professor Ma Rong, discussed managing and sharing the benefits
of economic growth.
The annual China Conference was preceded by LSE’s third overseas
graduation ceremony in China, presided over by Professor Stuart Corbridge,
and attended by another seven LSE faculty members.
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What does it mean to be 'British Asian'? The term ‘British
Asian’ fails to recognise the diversity of British-born, second-generation
Asians, according to policymakers and researchers who took part in a
roundtable discussion at LSE on cohesion, integration and social mobility
among these communities.
A pilot study presented at the roundtable suggests that even Hindu
Bengalis and Muslim Bengalis who live side by side in the East London
Borough of Tower Hamlets have different experiences. This is in spite of the
fact that the two communities come from the same ethnic group, speak the
same language, migrated at approximately the same time, have the same
socio-economic origins, emigrated from the same region - Sylhet in
Bangladesh - and settled in the same places.
According to the study by Dr Indraneel Sircar, visiting fellow at LSE,
and Dr Jyoti Saraswati, a lecturer at New York University in London, Hindu
Bengalis from Tower Hamlets show relatively high levels of social mobility
when compared to the findings of research on other Asian communities in East
London.
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 Notices
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School access arrangements for Bank Holiday Monday On Monday 27
August the Library will be open for users with valid cards from 10am to
9pm. Please note, however, there will be no staffed services.
LSE staff and postgraduate students will be able to access School
buildings on the main campus site from 9am until 5pm. A valid LSE ID/campus
card is required to gain access.
Staff working in Aldwych House should check with building security staff
before making arrangements to access their office.
Emergencies will be dealt with by a team of LSE security staff on duty at
the Old Building reception desk. They can also be contacted (in an
emergency) by telephone on 020 7955 6555. A 24 hour security presence will
be maintained throughout the Bank Holiday.
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Earn a 10 per cent loyalty reward on
everything you spend in LSE Catering outlets
From September, using sQuid on your LSE card to make fast and easy cashless
payments in catering outlets across campus will be even better value.
A value of 10 per cent of your spend will be added to your Loyalty Purse
weekly each Monday morning, for the previous Monday to Sunday period.
Visit squidcard.com/lse for
more information. Register it, load it, use it.
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LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2013
Next year will see LSE’s fifth Literary Festival, from 27
February to 2 March, exploring the theme ‘Branching Out’.
As in past years, we are very keen to work with departments in putting
together the Festival programme in order to make it as relevant as possible
to LSE. If you have an ideas for an event as part of the Festival, or would
like any further information, contact Louise Gaskell at
l.gaskell@lse.ac.uk. We ask
for event proposals to be submitted by Friday 7 September, after
which time the Literary Festival group will meet to finalise the Festival
programme.
Proposals should include an explanation of the idea for the event and how it
fits with the theme, ideas for speakers (including likelihood of securing
them), and cost implications. A financial commitment from the department is
not obligatory, but some time commitment in helping to put together the
event is usually required.
For more information, visit
www.lse.ac.uk/spaceforthought.
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Engaging in private work while at LSE Undertaking private work
in your field of expertise enables you to boost your income, experience and
reputation, and see your ideas put into practice by organisations around the
world.
LSE Enterprise is holding an introductory talk at 2pm on Friday 14
September for anyone interested in undertaking consultancy or commercial
research, or teaching on customised executive education programmes while
working at LSE. The talk will cover what types of project might best
complement your academic work, the services we offer and how to get started.
LSE Enterprise is the School's commercial branch, connecting LSE
academics with external organisations requiring consultancy, commercial
research or executive education courses. For more information about the
talk,
click here.
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More for less - take advantage of special offers for LSE staff
This week's offer is for Mexican street-food restaurant Poncho no.8, rated
the 'best burrito in London' by the Evening Standard.
LSE staff can get 10 per cent off their orders
at
Poncho no.8's restaurants in Spitalfields and St Paul's
(you just need to show your LSE ID card). You can also order your
burritos, nachos or tacos online. For more information or to place your
order, visit www.poncho8.com.
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 two members of the 'Class of 2012' holding
up oversized LSE letters for the camera.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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New study identifies the professions which have made Britain hugely
unequal
Just 20 professions have been responsible for more than two-thirds of the
growth in wage inequality among men in recent decades, a new study has shown.
Chief executives of large organisations benefited most, seeing their pay
rise fourfold - faster than in any other occupation in Britain. Salaries in
other already highly-paid jobs, including finance and medicine, also
increased more sharply.
The analysis, Occupations and British Wage Inequality, 1970s-2000s,
split the British workforce into 366 occupations and examined their pay
levels between 1975 and 2008. It is published in the current edition of the
European Sociological Review.
Author Dr Mark Williams of LSE analysed the three ways in which
occupations can affect wage inequality. Using a weighting system, he found
that steeper wage rises in certain professions was the biggest driver, ahead
of changes in the relative size of certain professions and increasingly
unequal pay levels within professions.
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The SWIFT Institute calls for proposals
The SWIFT Institute is pleased to issue calls for proposals for five
research grants. The five calls cover a wide range of topics relevant to
today's financial services industry:
- Increasing and changing collateral requirements due to new rules and
regulations
- Network liquidity effects in the global interbank market
- The need for more development in a common financial language
- Trade finance and the regulatory requirements arising from Basel II
and III
- The unit cost of financial services: why is it increasing?
The deadline for submissions for each of these calls is Monday 24
September. For more information,
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 Events
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Upcoming LSE events include....
Only White Men: serial killing in European cinema
On: Wednesday 3 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old
Building
Speaker: Professor Richard Dyer, professor in the Film Studies
Department at King’s College London.
Black Consciousness, Black Theology, Student Activism and the Shaping of the
New South Africa
On: Tuesday 9 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: The Revd Canon Professor Nyameko Barney Pityana (pictured),
rector of the College of the Transfiguration in Grahamstown, South Africa
This event is free and open to all, but a ticket is required. LSE staff can
request one ticket via the online ticket request form after 10pm on
Wednesday 3 October.
Adapt: problem-solving in a complex world
On: Monday 15 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Tim Harford (pictured), author, senior columnist at the
Financial Times, presenter of Radio 4's More or Less, and a
visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.
When China Rules the World Revisited
On: Thursday 18 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Martin Jacques, author, visiting professor at Tsinghua
University, and a non-resident fellow at the Transatlantic Academy,
Washington DC. |
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 60
second interview
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with..... Sooraya Mohabeer
I was born and raised in London and
have just finished being a Games
Maker volunteer at the London 2012
Olympic Games. I'm a sport
enthusiast and won a gold medal in
gymnastics at the age of 15.
How long ago did you volunteer
to assist at the 2012 Olympics and
what made you do this?
You could say my interest started
aged 12 during the 1992 Barcelona
Games when I declared to my mum that
I would attend the Games in 2012. I
registered my interest to volunteer
for London 2012 whilst watching the
opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008
Games on TV. As soon as the BBC
commentator mentioned there was an
opportunity to volunteer and get
involved, I did not hesitate to
sign up and support my hometown.
What has been your role, what
has this entailed and would you do
it all again?
I was actually lucky enough to
get two roles, a dancer in the
Opening Ceremony and an National
Olympic Committee (NOC) assistant
but was not permitted to do both. I
chose the latter as for me the
athletes were at the heart of the
games.
I was based in the Athletes'
Village in Stratford assisting Team
Qatar and then Timor Leste for five
weeks. This involved anything from
checking the athletes and delegation
into their rooms, driving them to
their training venues and
registering them for competition.
There were some amazing perks of
course: I was lucky to be given
tickets for 100m, 200m and 4x100m
finals and being in the Village
meant, on a daily basis, I would see
elite athletes such as Usain Bolt,
Yohan Blake, Michael Phelps and
Oscar Pistorius.
I had the most challenging,
rewarding and memorable experience
surrounded by the most inspirational
people so yes, I would definitely do
it all again. I am seriously
considering Rio 2016.
Which has been the most
interesting LSE public lecture with
which you have been involved?
There are so many to choose from
but the Burning Issue and Big
Questions lectures were interesting
because they were filmed
television standard and I enjoyed
the complex level of organisation
between the School, production and
lighting companies.
One of the most memorable
lectures was when Chilean president
Sebastián Piñera came to speak in
2010, three days after the 33
trapped miners had been rescued. I
remember he received rapturous
applause on entrance to the theatre:
the atmosphere was electric.
As a child, what did you want
to be when you grew up?
I don't remember wanting to be
anything specific but I used to
collect Quest, a 1980s weekly
collection encyclopaedia, and the
Space section fascinated me the most
so I would say an astronaut.
What sort of music do you
enjoy?
I love music, it's my oxygen. I
listen mainly to RnB and soul, 90s
RnB being my absolute favourite. I
also love jazz, Latin jazz, soulful
house, hip-hop and Mauritian sega.
As long as it's got a good beat and
amazing vocals I'll be listening to
it.
If you were offered the trip
of a lifetime, where would you go
and why?
That's easy, if I had $200,000
I'd head over to Spaceport America
in New Mexico and board a Virgin
Galactic Spaceship for a journey of
a lifetime into space. Why? Because
I am always striving to
reach the stars! |
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 Training
and jobs
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Mental health first-aid course
There are still places available on the mental health first-aid course
running on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 September.
The course is open to all staff and is aimed at anyone with an interest in
mental health issues. The course will give participants the knowledge and
confidence to recognise signs of mental health problems, encourage someone
to seek the right help, and to reduce the stigma around mental illness.
The course will help staff support colleagues, students, family or friends
experiencing mental health difficulties. Places can be booked via the
online training system.
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Introductory health and safety course
This course, on Tuesday 11 September from 10am-1pm, is for newly
appointed health and safety coordinators, coordinators who have not attended
a course in the last two years, and line managers.
It will cover the School’s policies and arrangements for complying with
health and safety legislation, including developing local policy statements,
fire safety, accident investigation and undertaking safety inspections.
Places can be booked via the
online
training 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.
- Dahrendorf postdoctoral research officer, Grantham Research
Institute
- Departmental website manager, Government
- Digital library assistant, Library: research and innovation
- International student immigration adviser, Academic
Registrar's Division
- JAVA analyst/programmer, IT Services
- Knowledge exchange project coordinator, PSSRU
- LSE postdoctoral fellowship in political science (two posts),
Government
- LSE fellow in international development - managing
humanitarianism (part-time), International Development
- Lecturer in international political economy, International
Relations
- Lecturer in political science (three posts), Government
- Professor of international relations, International Relations
- Reader in international relations, International Relations
- Research officer, European Institute
- Research officer (Arab spring and the GCC), Government
- Research officer (global power and the Gulf), Government
- Senior lecturer in international political economy,
International Relations
- Undergraduate administrator, Statistics
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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Receptionist
Stacey Kurn (pictured) will be taking part in the 26 mile
London Bikeathon on Sunday 16 September, to raise money for
Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research.
Stacey is riding for her friend who lost both his brother and father to this
terrible disease. Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research is the only UK charity
solely dedicated to researching blood cancers, including leukaemia, lymphoma
and myeloma.
To sponsor Stacey, visit her
fundraising page.
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On Sunday 9 September, Professor Anne Power (pictured), professor
of social policy and head of LSE Housing and Communities, will be doing
a solo sponsored swim and row around the biggest island in Ullswater
Lake, to help raise funds for a new biomass heating system at
Trafford Hall, home of the
National Communities Resource Centre.
The National Communities Resource Centre is a registered charity offering
training and support to those living and working in low-income areas across
the UK. The charity has already secured funds for 800 metres of essential
piping and ground work for the new heating system but still needs to fund
the last 200.
Ullswater Lake is England’s coldest lake and Professor Power will be rowing
out and back in a 100-year-old wooden boat. The challenge will involve
1,000 strokes and 2,000 pulls on the oars. To sponsor Professor Power, visit
her fundraising page.
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