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1 November 2012 |
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Hurricane Sandy
LSE extends sympathy to all those staff and students who may themselves, or
whose friends or relatives, have been affected by the extreme weather
conditions in the eastern USA.
Line managers with any queries about the impact on their staff should
contact their
HR Partner for advice.
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Ethics Code and Declarations of Interest:
message from the School Secretary I am
sending an email to all staff and governors asking you to complete a
survey to confirm that you have read the School’s new Ethics Code and to
capture any interests that you may have that should be declared.
This is an extremely important exercise. It is one of the key means by
which we can ensure we gain a better picture of the many interests in play
at LSE and are well placed to defend our policy of engagement. The aim is
not to inhibit academic freedom, but to ensure that we can take an informed
view of the risks to which the School may be exposed.
With this in mind, please ensure that you complete the survey by Monday
12 November. If you have any queries about the survey, contact Siobhán
O’Shea in the Governance Team on 0207 955 7975 or email
ethics@lse.ac.uk.
Thank you in advance for your support and cooperation.
Susan Scholefield CMG (pictured above)
School Secretary
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Towers One and Two new joint reception opening On Monday 5
November, the new Tower One and Tower Two joint reception and entrance will
open. All access to Towers One and Two will be via the new reception
from this date onwards.
The new reception, which has taken six months to complete and cost
approximately £1.5 million, provides a modern entrance with a new café,
meeting rooms, and advertising and display facilities for both students and
the departments that occupy the buildings. Bold colours and materials make
the entrance an inviting space, while the floor-to-ceiling windows maximise
the natural light within the reception area.
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LSE reaches finals of environmental awards
LSE has been announced as a finalist in the
Green Gown Awards 2012,
the most prestigious recognition of environmental achievement in the higher
and further education sector.
The School’s entry is the Sustainable Projects Fund, a fund for student and
staff-led projects to enhance environmental sustainability on campus,
financed by a 10p ‘tax’ on bottled water sold at LSE catering outlets and
funds raised through the annual ReLove events.
To date, the fund has supported a team of students to install a green roof
on the Plaza Café outside the Library, and another team to build a beehive
on the roof of Connaught House, which is soon to harvest its first honey.
The Sustainable Projects Fund is not just for students. All LSE staff are
encouraged to apply, so get your green thinking caps on. The 2012-13 fund
will be launched in the next few weeks; details on how to enter will be
announced soon.
The winners of the 2012 Green Gown Awards will be announced at a
ceremony on Monday 5 November at the University of Birmingham. For more
information on
LSE’s award entry,
click here.
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LSE launches new student blog
The Student Recruitment Office has launched a new student blog,
Students@LSE, where
current students can write about their life at LSE.
The blog features undergraduate, postgraduate, and general course
students as well as guest bloggers.
If you would be interested in writing a one-off guest blog, email Sarah
Alexandra George at s.a.george@lse.ac.uk.
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Academic abroad
On Monday 29 October Dr Jean-Paul Faguet (pictured), reader in the political
economy of development, spoke on his new book
Decentralization and Popular Democracy: governance from below in Bolivia,
at the
Centre for Latin American
Studies
at the University of California, Berkeley.
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 Notices
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Deadline for Lent term Events Leaflet approaching If you
are organising an event and want it listed in the Lent term Events
Leaflet please send the following details to Danny O'Connor at
d.o'connor@lse.ac.uk by Friday
2 November.
If possible please follow the format below:
- Date, time (from and to): for example 'Thursday 17 January,
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 Lent term and will
not be able to include all the images submitted.)
The Press and Information Office need 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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Promotion and review of academic staff A reminder that the
second deadline for heads of department and self-sponsored promotion
candidates to submit documentation to Human Resources for consideration by
the Promotions Committee is Tuesday 6 November.
Please note that all material should be submitted electronically.
If no electronic version exists, then three hard copies of that piece of
work should be delivered to the Human Resources Reception, second floor of
Sardinia House, for distribution to the various reviewers assigned by the
Promotions Committee.
A summary of submissions due can be found in
Annex C2 of the Review and Promotion Guidelines for Academic Staff
2012-13.
Below are links to the template forms; these are due, where relevant, by
Tuesday 6 November:
All template forms and guidance on the 'Promotion and Review' process
can be found on the
Human Resources website. If you have any queries, email
HR.ReviewandPromotion@lse.ac.uk
or call ext 6217.
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REF town hall meeting Are you confused about what is meant by
impact for REF 2014? Do you have a question about how many outputs you
should be submitting to the REF?
The School's two REF coordinators, professors Nick Barr and Barry Buzan,
will be holding another of their 'town hall meetings' on Thursday 15
November from 11am-1pm in room KSW 1.04, where they will be happy to
answer your questions.
Please note that this is for non-professorial academic and research
staff. There is no need to book, just turn up.
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Nominations invited for Queen's Honours Nominations are invited
for the award of a Queen’s Honour (which include MBE, OBE, CBE).
Do you know someone working at LSE who has:
- made a real impact on the School
- gained the respect of their peers
- changed things for the better at the School
- demonstrated innovation
- brought distinction to British life and enhanced its reputation
through their work at the School?
A full explanation can be
found here but please bear in mind that awards
channelled through the School should be for services to higher education,
with particular reference to the School.
The deadline for nominations is Friday 30 November. If you have
any queries, contact Joan Poole at
j.a.poole@lse.ac.uk or ext 7825.
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More for less - take advantage of special offers for LSE staff
This week’s offer is from LEDwear who is offering discounts on the
following two products:
LED road gilet (pictured)
Features:
- Bi-directional LEDwear technology
- Multi-function flash
- Shower-proof
- Breathable
- Soft comfortable construction
- Takes three AA batteries
- Battery life approximately 100 hours' use on flash mode
The current selling price is £25 + postage but LEDwear is offering the gilets to LSE staff for £20 delivered free to the School.
LED rucksack cover
It offers:
- High-visibility yellow fabric
- Retro-reflective banding down both sides
- Seven red LEDs add further visibility
- Three different light settings
- Elasticated straps with heavy duty press studs
- Elasticated rim for further security
- Fits rucksacks between 10 and 30 litres
- Two AA batteries (not included) provide 100 hours of light
- 100,000-hour life of LEDs
The current selling price is £30 + postage but LEDwear is offering the
covers to LSE staff for £25 delivered free to the School.
For more information or to order your LEDwear product(s), email Ian Harvey
at i.harvey@lse.ac.uk. Ten orders of
each product must be placed in order to obtain the discount.
If you know of any deals that you think may be of interest to Staff
News readers, email Margaret Newson, purchasing manager, at
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture captures the moment when SDR manager, Joseph Borg,
who is Maltese, got the chance to meet the prime minister of Malta,
Lawrence Gonzi, following his lecture at the School on Friday 26
October.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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American voters value honesty over strength in future president
Americans look for honesty over strength when voting for a president,
according to new research from LSE.
A unique electoral psychology research initiative, led by Dr Michael
Bruter and Dr Sarah Harrison, reveals that 32 per cent of American voters
rank honesty as the most important quality they would like to see in a
future president. The next most highly ranked quality was ‘intelligence’,
which was selected by 31 per cent of voters. ‘Common sense’ and ‘experience’
were chosen by nine per cent and ‘strength’ by just seven per cent.
Two thousand Americans were surveyed last week (20-24 October) as part of
the initiative. They will be re-interviewed just after the election in an
attempt to understand what goes on in the mind of voters and the importance
of their personality, memory and emotions in their vote.
The survey results revealed that 29 per cent of respondents reported that
they had previously changed their mind about who to vote for on the day of a
presidential election. Previous research by the initiative suggests that
20-30 per cent of voters will change their minds or finalise their decision
about who to vote for between now and the time they vote.
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Promoting inclusive practice in mathematics and statistics
Meena Kotecha (pictured), a teacher in the departments of Management and
Statistics at LSE, has published an article which describes a teaching
approach which she designed, the student-centred teaching approach, which
maximises student participation and enhances students’ learning experiences
in undergraduate mathematics and statistics courses.
The article, Promoting Inclusive Practice in Mathematics and
Statistics, was published in the National Association of Disability
Practitioners’ Journal of Inclusive Practice in Further and Higher
Education.
In the article, Meena aims to address issues arising from neurodiversity
identified with students’ specific learning differences that are possibly
manifestations of their negative attitudes towards mathematics and
statistics. These differences influence the student’s abilities to learn in
normal learning environments by conventional methods, and may be either
because of previous unpleasant experiences of engaging with the subjects or
other contributory factors such as specific learning differences. Further,
based on Meena’s experience described in the article, it is proposed that
students who identify with Asperger Syndrome may benefit from her approach.
The article reports on how positively Meena’s approach has contributed
towards improving students’ perceptions of mathematics and statistics. A
copy of the article can be found at
meenakotecha.wordpress.com/papers-and-articles-in-publications.
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Research e-Briefing
Click here
to read the October edition of the Research Division
newsletter.
To sign up for research news, recent funding opportunities, research awards
that are about to start, and examples of research outcomes,
click here.
The next issue is out at the end of November 2012.
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 Events
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New LSE events....
An afternoon with Martti Ahtisaari
On: Monday 26 November at 2pm in the Shaw Library, Old Building
Speaker: Martti Ahtisaari (pictured), former president of
Finland, Nobel peace prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and
mediator.
LSE students are able to collect one ticket per person from the New
Academic Building SU shop, located on the Kingsway side of the building,
from 10am on Wednesday 21 November.
Visualising Political Struggle in the Middle East
On: Thursday 13 December at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old
Building
Speaker: Lina Khatib (pictured), co-founding head of the Program
on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University’s Centre on
Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
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Other forthcoming events include....
How Long Does 'Post-War' Last? Feminist Warnings
On: Monday 5 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Cynthia Enloe, research professor of international
development and of women’s studies at Clark University, Massachusetts.
Salafi Islam, Online Ethics and the Future of the Egyptian Revolution
On: Thursday 8 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Charles Hirschkind, associate professor of
anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Business History Unit seminar
On: Monday 5 November at 5.30pm in room 2.06, Clement House
At this event, organised by LSE's Business History Unit, Neil Forbes,
director of research at Coventry University, will discuss ‘Multinational Enterprise and the
International Crisis: the Rio Tinto Company, strategic dilemmas and the
coming of the second world war’.
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The Stateless Citizen: irregular migration and cosmopolitan
citizenship On: Tuesday 6 November at 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh
Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Andreas Kalyvas (pictured), associate
professor of politics at the New School for Social Research, New York.
Discussant: Dr
Ayça Çubukçu, lecturer in human rights in LSE's Department of
Sociology and Centre for the Study of Human Rights.
The increase of irregular migration over the last two decades has led to
new forms of political contestation that directly question the juridical
framework of the nation state and its institution of citizenship. Rebellions
in detention camps, hunger strikes, sits-ins and occupations,
demonstrations, riots and clashes with law enforcement, have given rise to a
new political phenomenon: the irregular migrant in action, in active civic
participation, associated with others, acting in concert, politicised, and
confrontational.
This event will explore this politicisation of irregular migrants and
discuss the rise of the stateless citizen as the paradigmatic form of
cosmopolitan citizenship.
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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Birkbeck Department of Politics 40th anniversary events
From: Monday 5 - Thursday 15 November
The Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London, is marking
its 40th anniversary with a series
of public lectures and seminars.
Events include:
- The Coalition at Mid-Term
- The Second time as Tragedy: austerity under Thatcher and the
Coalition
- Defending Politics
- Bloomsbury Debates on Humanitarianism: profits, politics and power
- Paul Hirst Memorial Lecture with Professor Richard Sennett
For more information and to register,
click here.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Participatory Democracy in America's Long New Left
Speaker: Professor Linda Gordon
Recorded: Monday 22 October, approx 100 minutes
Click here to listen
The Global Drug Wars
Speakers: Professor David Courtwright, Nigel Inkster, Dr
William B McAllister, and Dr Ethan Nadelmann
Recorded: Tuesday 23 October, approx 85 minutes
Click here to listen
The Arab Uprisings
Speaker: Jeremy Bowen
Recorded: Thursday 25 October, approx 85 minutes
Click here to listen
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 60
second interview
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with..... Ömer Çavusoglu (pictured in his costume and make-up for the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics)
I have been working at LSE Cities
for about four years, and blissfully
have had the confusing roles of doing
research, helping organise a
conference, putting together a book,
and now coordinating a couple of
projects.
I grew up in Istanbul, spent a
semester in Denmark, and finally
landed in London five years ago,
where I dedicated all my life to
LSE. I'm a sociologist with a
master’s degree in the Cities
Programme. I read, think, talk about
and travel to cities, but one day I
would like to see myself in the
cinema industry; I got a word from
Danny Boyle during our rehearsals
for the London 2012 Olympics opening
ceremony. Oh, and I write a lot.
Which is your favourite place
on the LSE campus?
My favourite place on campus is,
at the moment, a construction site!
St Philips was the building where I
spent long days and nights at the
Cities Programme’s studio course in
my first year in London, as part of
my master’s education.
Unfortunately, I cannot enter my
favourite place at the moment, but
look forward to the new Students’
Centre; in the meanwhile you can
either find me at Lincoln’s Inn
Fields’ tennis courts or reminiscing
about the old days of St Philips at the
George IV, my other favourite spots.
What three items would you
take to a desert island with you?
My tennis gear, a good tennis
partner, and the return ticket.
Where did you go on your last
holiday and what were the pros and
cons?
If I discount my latest trip back
home, the last proper holiday was a
five-day trip to the French and the
Spanish Basque regions, by way of
Biarritz, Elciego and Bilbao.
The pros were squeezing sea and
mountain air in such short distance,
tasting great wine and being spoiled
in five-star accommodation, courtesy
of having kept good ties with an old
friend who works in the corporate
world. The only con was that I now
know what I cannot afford with this
life, but I know I am happy either
way.
What are the best and worst
presents you have ever received?
The best present was a basil
plant a friend gave me on a
birthday. It was unique because
that it was the first time someone
gave me something to take care of in
such a way as a present. I looked after it
well, only to learn, a few
years later, that my sister had
drowned it and secretly replaced it
with another one upon my return from
an exchange study. I think the
latter could also qualify as the
worst present, albeit with the best
of intentions.
If you weren’t at LSE, at what
other institution would you like to
work?
I left LSE in the summer of 2011
for a long-ish holiday back home and
started trying new ventures in
London upon my return. After a few
months of professional flirting, I
found myself back at LSE. Sometimes
I start to believe that this
question will no longer apply to me,
in a good way.
Can you cook? What is your
signature dish in the kitchen?
I don’t cook a lot but when I
do I put a lot of effort into it.
My signature dish for special
occasions is Hünkar Beğendi, which
is often translated into English as
'Sultan’s Delight', although a strict
academic translation would be 'The
Sovereign Liked It', but I guess you
can’t disassociate it from its
cultural context.
It is grilled aubergines mashed
and turned into a creamy mix, similar to mixing it with bechamel sauce, usually topped with
grilled minced meat or chicken,
pepper and/or other herbs. Turkish
cuisine has got many specialties
with meaningful names, and this one
is certainly a classic. |
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 Training
and jobs
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Training for staff
Courses scheduled for next week include:
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Excel 2010: logical and look-up functions
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PowerPoint 2010: images and media
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Word 2010: guide to formatting an academic paper
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Balancing Work and Being the Carer of an Adult
For full listings 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.
- Assistant director of capital development, Estates Division
- Dahrendorf post-doctoral research officer, Grantham Research
Institute
- Executive LLM programme administrator, Law
- Executive MSc programme manager, European Institute
- Fundraising research officer, ODAR: research and academic
liaison
- Open rank academic positions, All departments
- LSE fellows, LSE100
- Class teacher (GTA), LSE100
- Lecturer in accounting, Accounting
- Lecturer in development studies (economics), International
Development
- Lecturer in early modern international history, International
History
- Lecturers in sociology, Sociology
- Lectureship in commercial law, Law
- Lectureship in criminology, Law
- Lectureship in finance, Finance
- Lectureship in tax law, Law
- MPA administrator and office coordinator, Institute of Public
Affairs
- Post-doctoral research officer (philosophy), CPNSS
- Professor of sociology, Sociology
- Project archivist, Library: archives services
- Summer School programme coordinator, Summer School and
Executive Programmes
- Venue coordinator, Conference and Events
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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