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6 September 2012 |
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Reading the Riots study shortlisted
for THE 'Research Project of the Year' award
An innovative LSE research project, which attempted to understand the
roots of and responses to the 2011 riots, has been shortlisted for the
Times Higher Education (THE) ‘Research Project of the Year’
award.
Reading the Riots, a joint project between LSE and The
Guardian, sought to show how large-scale, rigorous social research could
be launched, undertaken and reported in a timescale that would parallel the
fast-moving political and public debates about the disturbances.
The project was announced in September 2011, one month after the
outbreak of trouble in Tottenham, north London, and aimed to better
understand why riots then spread to other parts of the capital and cities
across England.
Professor Tim Newburn, head of the Department of Social Policy at LSE,
gave the academic direction to the project.
He said: ‘Reading the Riots sought both to
understand the nature of the riots and to use its findings to participate in
public and political conversations about the appropriate policy response to
the worst disorder in a generation. If it was in any way successful, we hope
it may also offer some insight into new ways of conducting social research
in the public interest.’
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LSE academic appointed to help transform London’s West End
Professor Henry Overman (pictured), professor of economic geography in the
Department of Geography and Environment at LSE and director of the Spatial
Economics Research Centre, has been appointed as one of the commissioners of
the newly-formed West End Commission (WEC), set up to establish a blueprint
for the future success of London’s busiest area.
Created in January 2012 by Westminster City Council’s cabinet, the WEC
aims to guide the future success of the West End and consider the challenges
it faces. It will look into issues including transport, infrastructure, city
management, safety and the promotion of business and visitor needs. It will
also look at lessons from other cities both in the UK and abroad.
Professor Overman joins a team of 12 experts from business,
entertainment, transport and academia. The commission is headed by
Manchester City Council chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein.
For more information,
click here or visit
www.westendcommission.com.
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LSE publishes its Student Charter LSE has published
its first Student Charter. The Charter was written by
LSE students and staff with the intention of helping students and applicants
understand the vision and ethos of LSE. It aims to set out the School’s core
principles and provide a guide to services, structures and expectations.
Christine Child, head of the Student Services Centre, said: ‘The Student
Charter gives a succinct message about the uniqueness of the LSE community,
and how students can make the most of their time at the School and continue
to benefit from their connection with us after graduation.’
The School will review the Charter regularly to make sure that it
continues to reflect LSE’s intentions and expectations. To view the Student
Charter,
click here.
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Cutting costs without cutting corners Margaret Newson, LSE
purchasing manager, knows more than most people about how to spot a bargain,
and best of all she's willing to share her knowledge with the rest of the
School. One of the things that Margaret will tell you is that cheapest isn't
necessarily best when it comes to buying equipment or services for LSE.
The Introduction to Purchasing Guide has been updated in
accordance with the School’s Financial Regulations 2012 to assist staff
in their responsibilities in spending the School’s money wisely. The guide
also has an environmental checklist that will ensure LSE moves towards a
more sustainable purchasing policy.
Margaret said: ‘We have produced this simple guide to help staff get the
best out of their budgets. There are six of us in the purchasing section and
we are always willing to steer people through the regulations and to get
value for money for the School.'
The purchasing guide is available
online here. For any other purchasing related queries, contact the
purchasing team at
purchasing@lse.ac.uk.
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Observatory on Borderless Higher Education
LSE has recently subscribed to the
Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE).
The Observatory’s primary purpose is to provide strategic research, data,
and information for institutional/organisational leaders and policy-makers
to make informed decisions relevant to their current and future
transnational higher education initiatives.
Staff and students may now access its reports, which provide in-depth
analysis of the latest developments, trends, and challenges in transnational
and borderless higher education. Recent examples analyse developments in
overseas campuses, and the impact of massive open online courses (MOOCs).
If you wish to access the OBHE and its reports, contact Barbara Gilbert
at b.gilbert1@lse.ac.uk or call
ext 5273.
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Professor Sudipto Bhattacharya (1951-2012) It is with great
sadness that the School announces the untimely death of Professor Sudipto
Bhattacharya (pictured).
Professor
Bhattacharya had been a professor of finance at LSE since 1995
and played an instrumental role in transforming the School’s finance group
from a handful of academics into a large and vibrant modern Finance
Department, with a faculty of over 30. His work was concerned with the
role of information in financial markets, where he wrote seminal papers on
signalling and delegated portfolio management. Most recently, he was working
on a number of projects relating to financial crises and contagion in
financial markets, aimed at improving our understanding of the risks facing
the financial system and how to manage them. A full obituary can be
found here.
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Academics abroad
From 22-28 August,
Dr Jean-Paul Faguet, reader in the political economy of development,
visited Santa Cruz and La Paz, Bolivia where he gave a series of public lectures and
seminars on his new book, entitled Decentralisation and Popular
Democracy: governance from below in Bolivia, and other related
research.
Dr Miklos Redei, lecturer in philosophy, delivered a series of
five lectures in the Graduate School of Information Science of Nagoya
University in Japan, between 20 and 31 August. The lectures were on the topic of
foundations of algebraic quantum field theory and non-classical probability
theory, and included Dr Redei's recent work on causal features of
algebraic quantum field theory.
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 Notices
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LSE Perspectives September'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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Free toner cartridges
LSE Residential Services have four spare toner cartridges which they are
giving away to a good home.
The cartridges are
HP Colour LaserJet print cartridges which can be used in HP Laserjet
series 2550 printers. The model numbers are Q3971, Q3972A, and Q3973A (two
available). The cartridges cost about £45 new.
If you would like the cartridges, contact Kornelia Deppe at
k.deppe@lse.ac.uk or on ext 1255.
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Skip fit lessons
Security officer and former boxer Daniel Beckley 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.
The next lessons will take place from 1-2pm at the Badminton Court, Old Building, on
Tuesday 11 September, Tuesday 25 September, Tuesday 2
October, Tuesday 16 October and Tuesday 23 October.
Just turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons
are free. More sessions will take place during Michaelmas term.
For more information, email Daniel at
d.beckley@lse.ac.uk.
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More for less - take advantage of special offers for LSE staff
Zaggora is a new sports brand focused on offering high impact,
technology-enhanced clothing and LSE staff can now get 20 per cent off their
order when purchasing from Zaggora.
How to redeem:
Visit www.zaggora.com and click ‘Buy
Now’. On the next page, select your Zaggora product and size. Click ‘Add to
Cart’ and on the next page, there will be a grey box on the right hand side
where you enter the code 'LSERocks'. Click ‘GO’ and then ‘Proceed to
Checkout’ once the code has been applied.
For more information or if you have any problems, email Rosie Beare
at rosie@zaggora.com.
If you know of any deals that you think may be of interest to Staff
News readers, please contact Margaret Newson, purchasing manager at
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features the Houghton Street sign on the outside of
Columbia House.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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Low-cost information campaign promotes positive attitudes to university
A ‘light-touch’ information campaign about the value and affordability of
going to university can have a big positive effect on the attitudes of
pre-GCSE school students towards staying in education.
That is the central finding of new research by Professor Sandra McNally and
colleagues at LSE's Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), which has
surveyed more than 12,000 students aged 14 and 15 in 54 London
secondary schools.
The survey reveals substantial gaps in school students’ knowledge of basic facts about the costs and benefits of staying in education. What’s
more, the trebling of university fees announced in late 2010 - and negative
media coverage around that time about the potential impact - significantly
increased students’ perceptions that going to university is ‘too expensive’.
According to the research, students’ perceptions of the affordability of
higher education have widened between different socio-economic groups. For
example, the view that going to university is ‘too expensive’ is
considerably higher in comprehensive schools and among children eligible for
free school meals. Students at independent schools are much less likely to
feel financially constrained than students at comprehensive schools.
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LSE Research Online most downloaded
The top five downloaded
items from LSE Research Online in July were:
- Costa-i-Font, Joan and Cowell, Frank (2012)
Social identity and
redistributive preferences: a survey. Public Economics Programme
discussion papers, PEP 15. The Suntory and Toyota International
Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of
Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
- Irigoin, Maria Alejandra and Grafe, Regina (2012)
Bounded Leviathan: or why
North and Weingast are only right on the right half. Economic
history working papers, 164/12. The London School of Economics and
Political Science, London, UK.
- Costa-i-Font, Joan and Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina and Jiménez-Rubio,
Dolores (2012) Do income
gradients in unhealthy behaviours explain patterns of health
inequalities? LSE Health working paper series in health policy and
economics , 29/2012. LSE Health and Social Care, London School of
Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
- Crossley, Thomas F. and Emmerson, Carl and Leicester, Andrew (2012)
Policy interventions designed
to increase household savings rates should be based on high quality
evidence of saving behaviour. British Politics and Policy at LSE (24
Feb 2012) Blog Entry.
- Fernández, José-Luis and Snell, Tom (2012)
Survey of fair access to care
services: (FACS) assessment criteria among local authorities in England.
Discussion paper, 2825. PSSRU, London School of Economics and Political
Science, London, UK.
Total downloads for all items in July: 104,130 |
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 Events
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Upcoming LSE events include....
A Universe from Nothing
On: Monday 24 September from 6.30-8pm in U8, Tower One
Speaker: Professor Lawrence M Krauss (pictured), renowned cosmologist
and science populariser, foundation professor in the School of Earth and
Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State
University.
Cities: places to live, places to work
On: Monday 24 September from 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre,
New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Paul Collier, professor of economics and director
of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, and
Professor Tony Venables, professor of economics at the University of
Oxford
This event is free and open to all but a ticket is required. Tickets can be
requested via the online ticket request form after 10pm on Monday 17
September.
Policy Challenges for Growth in Africa and South Asia
On: Tuesday 25 September from 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre,
New Academic Building
Speakers: Omotunde E.G. Johnson, IGC Sierra Leone country director,
Ijaz Nabi, IGC Pakistan country director and professor of economics
and dean at the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Lahore
University of Management Sciences, and Dr Abdul Hafiz Shaikh,
Pakistan’s minister for finance, revenue, economic affairs, statistics and
planning and development.
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 60
second interview
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with..... Hughie Teape
I work in the Fees Office and I’m
blessed to work alongside people I
really like. I’ve been at
LSE longer than I can remember but
it’s the people that keep me here
(they keep rejecting my resignation
letters!). No, they really are a
great bunch and we socialise
together so that’s always a good
sign.
I used to be an athlete and was
lucky enough to reach the 1992
Barcelona Olympic final in the 110m
hurdles. I now coach club athletes
which l really enjoy. It’s always
nice to be able to give something
back.
I coach at Brunel University and
one of the coaches there had the
honour of carrying the 2012 Olympic
torch. He brought it down one day
and was was kind enough to let me
have a picture taken with it. As
much as l would like to say l
actually carried the torch, sadly l
can’t.
We understand that you have
recently been giving inspirational
talks to primary school children.
Can you tell us more?
Following one of my sons handing
in homework relating to the
Olympics, word got round the staff
room of his school that I am a
former Olympian. I was then asked to
speak to the whole school about my
Olympic experience. The talk was
very well received and, as a result
l was asked to do more at other
schools and they got better each
time.
In addition to talking about my
Olympic experience, I teach them
about how to achieve success in
school, sport or life in general, by
using some core success principles l
used as an athlete which are the
three Ds: Dedication, Determination,
and Discipline.
There is a lot of interaction
with the kids to ensure I am able to
hold their attention. For example I
get them to do the Usain Bolt
'arrow' and they love it. Following
the success of these talks, I also
presented a similar talk to a
company in July at Canary Wharf. I wrote them a personalised
success poem which went down really
well.
I’m very grateful to LSE for
granting me the days off through its
Volunteering 4 All scheme for some
of my talks. I’m also grateful to my
manager, Glenn Ruane, for allowing
our team to start giving talks two
years ago to students, detailing our
services to them. I could not have
given these recent presentations
without so much support.
One of the schools I presented
to raised over £1,500 for a
children’s cancer charity as a
'thank you' to me. I was very
touched by this and felt proud that
I had contributed to something so
positive.
If you could change one thing
about LSE, what would it be?
Have a campus where everything is
in one place including
accommodation.
In a film of your life, who
would you like to play you?
Tyrese Gibson. Although he’s not
as good looking as l am, he comes a
close second l think! He was in
Transformers.
What is the most dangerous
thing you have ever done?
Trying to teach my brother how to
drive. He spent more time avoiding
the pavement than staying on the
road. Stevie Wonder could have done
a better job! (By the way, he won’t
be reading this so it’s OK for me to
say this. My brother, l mean NOT Stevie Wonder!)
Marmite - love it or hate it?
Absolutely love it. Love that
saltiness.
What three items would you
take to a desert island with you?
1. Matches
2. Fishing rod
3. Crate of beer |
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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.
- Learning technologist, Centre for Learning Technology
- Learning technologist (media specialist), Centre for Learning
Technology
- Chair/reader of economics, Economics
- Dahrendorf post-doctoral research officer, Grantham Research
Institute
- LSE (post-doctoral) fellowship in political science (two
posts), Government
- LSE (post-doctoral) fellowship in European political economy,
European Institute
- LSE Hellenic Observatory and Neapolis University post-doctoral
fellowship, Hellenic Observatory
- Lecturer in international political economy, International
Relations
- Lecturer in political science (three posts), Government
- MSc - MPhil/PhD administrator, Sociology
- Managing editor (British politics and policy), Government
- Media relations officer, Grantham Research Institute
- Professor of international relations, International Relations
- Reader in international relations, International Relations
- Research assistant (climate for culture), Grantham Research
Institute
- Senior lecturer in international political economy,
International Relations
- Stewardship and communications officer, ODAR: communications
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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