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8 November 2012 |
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LSE academic joins Airports Commission
The Department of Transport has announced that Professor Ricky Burdett
(pictured), professor of urban studies at LSE and director of LSE Cities and
the Urban Age programme, will sit on the new Airports Commission.
The Commission, first announced in September 2012, is chaired by former
LSE director Sir Howard Davies. It has been tasked with identifying and
recommending to the government options for maintaining the UK’s status as
an international hub for aviation.
The Commission will examine the scale and timing of any requirement for
additional capacity to maintain the UK’s position as Europe’s most important
aviation hub, and will identify and evaluate how any need for additional
capacity should be met in the short, medium and long term.
The Commission’s interim report will be published in 2013, with a final
report to follow in 2015. For more information,
click here.
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LSE academic appointed Inner Temple Academic Fellow
Dr Jo Braithwaite (pictured), lecturer in law at LSE, is one of four legal
academics to have been appointed Academic Fellows of the
Honourable Society of the Inner
Temple.
The Inner Temple Academic Fellows Scheme aims to recognise the outstanding
contribution of legal teaching and research of early to mid-career
academics. It also aims to support their research and to build a stronger
relationship between the Bar and legal academia.
Dr Braithwaite is joined by Eddie Bruce-Jones (Birkbeck, University of
London), Per Laleng (University of Kent), and Dr Paul Wragg (University of
Leeds), who will each take up this prestigious three year role.
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Early Years Centre update
From Thursday 1 November, the responsibility of Director and Council for
the Nursery was transferred from Andrew Farrell, Director of Finance and
Facilities, to Susan Scholefield, School Secretary
(pictured at the Nursery with LSE Director Professor Craig Calhoun).
Nursery manager Mamselle Jackson will report to Chris Gosling, HR
Director.
'I am delighted to take on responsibility for the Nursery,' said Susan Scholefield. 'As a young academic I was able to take advantage of a
university nursery and I know how important such services can be for
staff and students, particularly women. When I visited the Nursery I was impressed by the commitment of the staff and,
of course, very much enjoyed the company of the children. I look forward
to working with Mamselle Jackson and her team on how we best support our
young families at the School.'
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LSE student wins excellence award at the Global Thinkers Forum 2012
Nabila Ramdani (pictured), a PhD candidate in LSE’s Department of
International History, has been awarded the 2012
Global Thinkers Forum (GTF) Award for Excellence in Innovation for her
outstanding work in journalism.
The award was presented at a ceremony during the GTF Women Leaders in the
Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which took place in Amman, Jordan, from
6-8 October under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of
Jordan. The event celebrated MENA’s leading female thinkers and innovators.
Others honoured included Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah; HRH
Princess Rym Ali of Jordan; Dalia Mogahed, executive director of the Gallup
Centre for Muslim Studies; and Zaha Hadid, architect.
Nabila has also been nominated for the ‘Best Arab journalist in the West’
award at the Arabs Group Achievement Awards 2012. The competition is still
open and the winners will be decided by the public. The closing date for
voting is Thursday 15 November. If you would like to vote for Nabila,
click here and follow the instructions.
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Academics abroad
On Friday 2 November, Professor Sonia Livingstone, professor of
social psychology at LSE and leader of the EU Kids Online project, gave
the main speech at the 'Digital Youth Symposium: new strategy needed to
support better internet for kids' which took place at Trinity College,
Dublin.
On Thursday 25 October, Dr Roger Levy, visiting senior fellow in the
Department of Management, addressed the Boston Alumni and Friends of LSE
discussion group on the topic of 'Independence for Scotland: the end of the
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 Notices
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Ethics Code and Declarations of Interest:
message from the School Secretary
Last week I sent 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.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the hundreds of you who
have already responded, and to remind those of you that have not yet done
so, to ensure that you complete the survey by Monday 12 November.
If for any reason you have not received my email, or do not have an LSE
email address and require a hard copy form, contact Siobhán O’Shea in the
Governance Team on 0207 955 7975 or email
ethics@lse.ac.uk.
Susan Scholefield CMG (pictured above)
School Secretary
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Breakfast on the Fourth Floor, Old Building, 9-11am Start your
day with one of the breakfast specials - delicious, fresh and excellent
value for money:
- Traditional English breakfast - any five hot items for £2.60
Made daily using the freshest ingredients and only free range eggs.
- Health bar combo - only £2.25
A lighter, healthier option. Choose from a selection of cereals,
yoghurts and fresh fruit salad.
Other tasty alternatives include croissants and Danish pastries, porridge
and hot toast. And why not wash it all down with a cup of our Fairtrade tea
or coffee?
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Feel Good Food Day - good for you, good for the planet LSE
Catering will once again be promoting a Feel Good Food Day on Wednesday
14 November in the Fourth Floor Restaurant.
The main focus of a Feel Good Food Day is to demonstrate that limiting
meat in our diet and using healthier ingredients, seasonal vegetables, fish
from sustainable stocks and higher animal welfare produce can benefit your
health, the environment and animal welfare.
Our world cuisine options will offer reduced meat and increased
vegetarian alternatives. Come along and enjoy the ‘feel good’ experience.
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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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Why not take a foreign language course at LSE?
If you haven't registered yet for a foreign language course, don't
worry, there's still time. Registration is open until Friday 16
November.
The Language Centre has a range of extra-curricular courses including
the
Certificate Course programme, which offers Arabic, Catalan, French,
German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
You may even be entitled to a free language course under the
LSE
Language Policy.
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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 30 November 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 with finding
work.
LSE Enterprise is LSE’s commercial branch, connecting LSE academics with
external organisations requiring consultancy, commercial research or
executive education courses.
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LSE Perspectives November's LSE Perspectives gallery is
now online. You can view the gallery
online here.
The gallery features 12 striking images submitted by LSE students and
staff. Each image reflects a unique perspective on a particular scene.
If you have taken any artistic images on your travels, in 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 photographs, visit
LSE Perspectives Submissions. Previous galleries can be
found here.
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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 13 November, Tuesday 27 November and Tuesday 4
December.
Just turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons
are free. More sessions will take place during Lent term.
For more information, email Daniel at
d.beckley@lse.ac.uk.
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LSE Treatment Clinic The LSE Treatment Clinic, which welcomes
LSE staff and students, is now accessible on the first floor of Tower One
(follow the signs to Tower Two).
The clinic offers professional treatments at reduced rates for members of
LSE, including acupuncture, osteopathy and sports massage.
The practitioners are:
- Hanya Chlala
Acupuncture available in a dual bed setting on Wednesdays and Fridays
- Laura Dent
Sports massage available on Mondays
- Tim Hanwell
Osteopathy available on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Appointments are available Monday-Friday from 9am-6pm and can be booked
online at
www.lsetreatmentclinic.co.uk. All consultations are strictly
confidential and sessions will last between 30-60 minutes depending upon the
treatment.
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Charity Christmas card shop open
The Card Aid charity Christmas card shop is now open in St Clement Danes
church, opposite LSE's Clements Inn entrance.
Card Aid shops are run by the Charities Advisory Trust and sell a range of
seasonal cards in aid of a variety of local, national, and international
charities. All profits go to charity. Last year Card Aid raised over
£525,000 and this year they would like to do even better.
The shop is open
Monday to Friday
from 10am-4pm.
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features the LSE Towers Reception in the newly
refurbished entrance to Towers One and Two, which opened to staff and
students on Monday 5 November.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Events
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Can we learn from History? On: Monday 10 December at
6.30pm in Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Andrew Marr (pictured)
Andrew Marr is a journalist, broadcaster and author. He hosts the
Sunday morning BBC One programme The Andrew Marr Show as well as
BBC Radio 4's Start the Week every Monday. He wrote and presented
his own History of Modern Britain and The Making of Modern
Britain for BBC Two, which were hugely popular and won prestigious
awards from the Royal Television Society, the Broadcasting Press Guild
and BAFTA. His most recent show, History of the World, is being
broadcast on BBC One.
LSE students and staff 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 Tuesday 4 December. These tickets are available on a first
come, first served basis.
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Other forthcoming events include....
The Landgrabbers: the new fight over who owns the earth
On: Monday 12 November at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speakers: Fred Pearce,
environment, science, and development writer,
Professor Anthony Hall,
professor of social policy at LSE, and
Dr Charles Palmer, lecturer in environment and development at LSE.
Decentralisation and Popular Democracy: governance from below in Bolivia
On: Wednesday 14 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Dr Jean-Paul Faguet, reader in the political economy of
development at LSE.
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
On: Thursday 15 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Laurence Rees, writer and documentary maker.
How Protest Movements Change America
On: Wednesday 21 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Frances Fox Piven (pictured), distinguished
professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Centre, The
City University of New York.
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Blind Watchmen: the value of strategic ignorance at the FDA
On: Tuesday 13 November from 1-2pm in room
KSW 3.01, 20 Kingsway
Speaker: Dr Linsey McGoey (pictured), University of Essex
In 2012, the New York Times reported that the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) had conducted an extensive surveillance operation of
scientists working at the FDA, drawing up what the Times called an
'enemies list' of its own staff in order to suppress criticism of the
agency's drug review processes.
At first glance, the FDA's surveillance techniques are a clear reflection of
Weber's definition of bureaucratic rationality as 'the exercise of control
on the basis of knowledge.' But a closer examination of recent FDA
controversies reveals a more complex picture.
At this event, Dr McGoey will draw on interviews with FDA staff and suggest
that FDA officials deliberately harnessed their own ignorance in order to
review drugs swiftly in the face of industry and public concerns over the
sluggish pace of drug approvals.
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Innovation and Beyond in Healthcare On: Tuesday 13 November
from 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Alex Gorsky (pictured),
chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson
Innovation to develop better and more effective treatments has been the
lifeblood of health care. Incentives for innovation in product development
have been critical to the progress that’s been made over the past 50 years.
But product innovation is part of a continuum of innovation in health
that starts with preventing disease in the first place, moves to treatment
innovation, and includes broader solutions and approaches that will expand
value to the entire health care system.
This event is free and open to all but a ticket is required. Tickets can
be requested NOW via the
online ticket request form.
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The Future of Academic Impact On:
Tuesday 4 December at Beveridge Hall, Senate House, London
LSE’s Impact of Social Sciences project team is hosting this free,
full-day conference. The event is to mark the end of the three-year Impact
of Social Sciences project, based at LSE and funded by HEFCE.
Working with colleagues at Imperial College London and the University of
Leeds, we have looked at the nature and measurement of impact of academic
research in the social sciences on government and policymaking, business and
industry, and civil society.
The conference will draw the research project to a close, discuss the
results and outcomes of the project and seek to look forward to how impact
research and measurement might develop over the next ten year period looking
beyond REF2014.
For more information on how to register and the full schedule,
click here or email Sierra Williams at
s.williams4@lse.ac.uk.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
America Votes
Speakers: Professor Craig Calhoun, Professor Michael Cox,
Dr Pippa Malmgren, and Professor Sir Robert Worcester
Recorded: Monday 29 October, approx 88 minutes
Click here to listen
Strengthening Competitiveness and Growth in Europe
Speaker: Dr Philipp Rosler
Recorded: Tuesday 30 October, approx 50 minutes
Click here to listen
Restless Empire: China and the world since 1750
Speaker: Professor Arne Westad
Recorded: Thursday 1 November, approx 83 minutes
Click here to listen
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 60
second interview
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with..... Mark Seager
I joined LSE in 2005 in the
Graduate Admissions Office, where I
have remained for the last seven
years, and am now a graduate
admissions assistant. This basically
means handling anything to do with
current and future applicants to
LSE’s master’s programmes, from
answering questions on how to apply,
to checking undergraduate
transcripts, to making sure the
applicants have met their offer
conditions.
Outside LSE, I lead London’s
most awesome quiz squad, convening
in Camden most weekends for winnings
and the host’s frankly unbroadcastable
jokes. Ventures
beyond our regular venue led to us
almost qualifying for the current
series of Only Connect
earlier this year. We got to the
final qualifying round.
What is the best part of your
job at LSE and also the part you
enjoy least?
The best part is being able to
help so many people achieve what is
for them often a lifelong dream,
simply by making sure something they
sent has been received. The people I
work with are amazing too.
The worst part is when applicants
don’t meet their offer conditions
and the selectors rescind the offer.
You end up feeling for them but
there’s not much we can do in that
situation.
What are your hobbies?
Besides the regular
aforementioned quizness and doing
self-portrait photos in places with
‘no photography’ rules, I’ve become
an unlikely baker who forces his
creations on housemates and
colleagues. They take so much
persuasion.
We’re also fond of the scaled up
games run by groups like
Hide&Seek and
Splash and Ripple, whose show
Incitement turned the South Bank
and surrounding area into a
dystopian future police state back
in September. It was one of my
proudest moments to face down 'The
Authority' in a one-on-one
interrogation and not crack.
If you were stuck in a lift
with someone, who would you want it
to be?
I was actually stuck in a Tower
Two lift earlier this year, so from
a purely pragmatic perspective, an
experienced lift engineer would be
most appreciated.
Which is your favourite place
on the LSE campus?
The terrace on the top floor of
the New Academic Building. Great for
when you need a photo of yourself
looking all serious and businesslike
against a background of the city
skyline.
What was the first record you
ever bought/track you ever
downloaded?
It was a bizarre nosebleed techno
cover of the Cranberries’ Zombie,
as performed by persons unknown who
called themselves 'A.D.A.M
Featuring Amy'.
Little information has ever been
unearthed about the people
responsible, presumably in fear of
irate Cranberries fans. I think I
like it for its unashamed
annoy-the-purists attitude, the kind
of thing for which I’ve always had
some affection.
What is the funniest thing
that has ever happened to you?
About a year ago, I answered a
call on Twitter to help make a pilot
radio item with the comedian
Danny Robins and the former MP
Lembit Öpik: a game called 'Like It
or Lembit' where all the questions
were about Mr Öpik and I could
answer myself (like it) or ask for
help (Lembit). Danny called my
knowledge (three 'like its' and two
'Lembits') 'stalkerish'.
There’s absolutely no truth in
the rumour that we ended the feature
with an a cappella version of
I Like To Move It with the
last two words replaced with 'Lembit'.
None at all. |
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 Training
and jobs
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Training for staff
Courses scheduled for next week include:
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Overcoming Procrastination
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Developing Your Web Presence
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Literature Searching and Finding Journal Articles
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English Through Film
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Safe Posture and Avoiding RSI
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Research Division Funding Focus: open calls for research project grants
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PowerPoint 2010: images and media
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Writing for Blogs
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Word 2010: creating illustrated posters
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Introduction to Financial, Market and Company Data
For full listings and further details, including booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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Staff courses from HR Organisational and Lifelong Learning
- Getting the Most from Your Meetings
Tuesday 20 November, 10am-5pm
- Ensuring Quality in All You Do
Thursday 22 November, 10am-5pm
- Balancing Work and Being Mum
Thursday 22 November, 12.30pm-2pm
- Writing for Effective Communication
Tuesday 27 November, 10am-4.30pm
- Equality and Diversity for Managers
Thursday 29 November, 9.45am-1pm
- Planning a Positive Retirement
Friday 30 November, 9.30am-4.30pm
- Balancing Work and Being the Carer of an Adult
Friday 30 November, 3.30pm-5pm
- Creativity and Problem Solving
Tuesday 4 December, 10am-5pm
- Recruitment and Selection
Thursday 6 December, 9.30am-5pm
Please note that this course has been designed for those who will be
short-listing and sitting on an interview panel.
To book a place and to see further details on the courses, visit the
online training booking
system. For more information, email
Hr.Learning@lse.ac.uk.
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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
- Contracts manager, Finance 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
- HR administrator, Human Resources
- HR adviser (career development and reward team), HR Services
- IT service desk analyst, IT Services
- Open rank academic positions, All departments
- LSE fellows, LSE100 The LSE Course
- LSE100 class teacher (GTA), LSE100 The LSE Course
- Lecturer in accounting, Accounting
- Lecturer in development studies (economics), International
Development
- Lecturer in early modern international history, International
History
- Lecturer/senior lecturer in political science, Government
- 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
- MSc administrator, Finance
- Post-doctoral research officer (philosophy), CPNSS
- Professor of sociology, Sociology
- Student services adviser, Academic Registrar's Division
- TRIUM executive director, Management
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
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