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Prime minister and London mayor announce £50 million for Tech City at LSE
conference The prime minister David Cameron and mayor of London Boris
Johnson have announced a £50 million government investment in East London’s
Tech City at the LSE-backed Urban Age Electric City conference.
It was the 11th annual Urban Age conference, organised by LSE Cities
and the Alfred Herrhausen Society, the International Forum of Deutsche Bank,
with support from the mayor of London.
Introduced by LSE Director Professor Craig Calhoun, the prime minister
recognised the economic importance of hi-tech industries and particularly
the growing technology sector in East London, often referred to as the
Silicon Roundabout. He said the £50 million investment will help transform
the Old Street roundabout into 'Europe’s largest indoor civic space',
dedicated to entrepreneurs and start-up companies. The development will
include a 400 seat auditorium, classrooms, and workshops with the latest 3D
printing technology.
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LSE Professor’s book named as History Book of The Year A book
written by Paul Preston (pictured), Príncipe de Asturias Professor of Contemporary
Spanish Studies and director of the LSE’s Cañada Blanch Centre, has been
selected as The Sunday Times History Book of The Year.
The book,
The Spanish Holocaust: inquisition and extermination in twentieth century
Spain (Harper Press, 2012), was also one of six books shortlisted
for the
Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.
On making the award, The Sunday Times said: ‘Reviewers often like
to describe books as “important”, usually when they are not important at
all. But Preston’s staggeringly detailed, powerful and affecting chronicle
of the savagery unleashed during the Spanish civil war genuinely deserves
the label’.
Professor Preston said: ‘A decade of gruelling and emotionally draining
work went into a book which I felt had to be written. Spain is still deeply
divided by the memory of the Civil War and the repression that followed it.
There has been no Truth and Reconcilation Commission as there has been in
South Africa, Chile or Argentina. The book was meant in some small way to
fill that gap and it seems to have been received in that spirit in Spain.’
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LSE student named 'Best Arab journalist in the West’ Nabila
Ramdani (pictured), a PhD candidate in LSE’s Department of International
History, won the 2012 'Best Arab journalist in the West' award at
The
Arabs Group Achievements Awards on Saturday 1 December.
The Arabs Group is the largest organisation for Arabs in the UK. The aim
of the event is to award people of Arabic origin who have excelled in their
field or career in the West, contributed to their community or achieved
something in the country they live in.
Nabila said: 'This is a huge honour, especially as so many people around
the Arab world voted for me. Staff and students at LSE have assisted me in
my journalism and I can't thank them enough too.'
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LSE to feature on University Challenge Christmas Special
Three LSE graduates will join Lord
Meghnad Desai (pictured), professor emeritus of economics, on LSE's team
for the University Challenge Christmas Special.
Loyd Grossman (MSc history 1977), Tim Lott (BSc government 1986), Jackie
Ballard (BSc econ 1974), and Lord Desai will take on New College, Oxford in
the first round of this year's seasonal competition.
The programme will be broadcast on BBC Two on Wednesday 19 December at
7.30pm. For more information, visit
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pknhr.
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Academic abroad
Dr Jean-Paul Faguet (pictured), reader in the political economy of
development, gave two lectures at the beginning of December on
his book, Decentralization and Popular Democracy: governance from
below in Bolivia.
The first was
a joint event for the
Harvard Kennedy School and Centre for International Development
on Wednesday 5 December. This was followed by another joint event
between
Columbia University’s Institute of Latin American Studies, SIPA, and the
Committee for Global Thought on Thursday 6 December.
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 Notices
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Send an LSE e-card this Christmas Why not save resources this
Christmas by sending e-cards? A specially designed electronic card, together
with the LSE logo and the words 'Season’s Greetings from LSE', is now
available for all staff to email out.
There is also room to add your own message below the e-card. Please
contact Liz Trumble at
designunit@lse.ac.uk for a copy to forward.
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LSE 2013-14 Calendars now available
The School’s two-year leave planner/calendar is now available to
order.
It comes in two parts: Jan-Jun and Jul-Dec, and is double sided. Side one
is for 2013 and side two for 2014. At the end of 2013, you simply turn it
over to display 2014.
Planner/calendar features:
- it is laminated so you can use highlighters on it so that text can
be later erased if need be
- School closure dates indicated
- comes in A5, A4 or A3 sizes, for either team use or individual use
- each of the two parts is either A5, A4 or A3 depending on size
ordered
- term periods shaded so you can immediately differentiate between
term time and non-term time
- term dates stated (2012-13 and 2013-14 on the 2013 planner, and
2013-14 and 2014-15 on the 2014 planner)
Please
click here to view it.
To place your order,
click here and then scroll down to 'Year Planners 2013-14' and follow
the instructions provided. Remember that each of the two parts for each
planner/calendar would be sized A5, A4 or A3 respectively.
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Exhibit your research in visual form The LSE Research Festival
is seeking submissions in four categories - posters, films, photographs and
apps – for its exhibition on 1 March 2013.
Open to research students, research staff and academic staff across the
School, it’s a chance to have your work exhibited during LSE’s Space for
Thought Literary Festival and to win prizes.
Submissions close on 18 January 2013. Find out more and submit
online at
LSE Research Festival.
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LSE Perspectives: call for submissions LSE Perspectives
features photographs taken by LSE students and staff, with 12 new images
published every month, and LSE Arts is currently looking for submissions for
next month’s gallery.
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 images, visit
LSE Perspectives Submissions. Previous galleries can be
found here.
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More for less - take advantage of special offers for LSE staff
Corinne and Co Salon, located in the InterContinental Hotel on Park
Lane, is offering LSE staff the opportunity to buy 'Hair and Beauty
Experiences' for just £49.99 rather than £195.
To take advantage of this discount, visit the
website and enter the discount code COR80 at the checkout.
Alternatively call 020 8958 8370 or email
marc@ineedpampering.com,
quoting the offer and discount code.
Plus as an added Christmas treat, if you purchase two packs for your
family or friends, you will get a third pack for yourself absolutely free.
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 LSE Director, Professor Craig Calhoun,
dressed as Father Christmas at the Director's Christmas Party for the
Children of Staff which took place on Saturday 8 December.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Events
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Lent term public events programme announced
LSE's public events programme for the Lent term has been announced.
Speakers next term include Swedish finance minister Anders Borg; Chrystia
Freeland, editor of Thomson Reuters Digital; Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, president
of the Law Society; and academic, award-winning writer and broadcaster Dr
Ben Goldacre.
Details of all lectures, debates, discussions, concerts and exhibitions
are available at
lse.ac.uk/events. A PDF of the
events leaflet is available for
download here.
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Forthcoming LSE events include....
The Economic Future of British Cities: what should urban policy do?
On: Thursday 17 January from 6.30-8pm in the Hong Kong Theatre,
Clement House
Speaker: Professor Henry G Overman,
professor of economic geography at LSE and director of the Spatial
Economics Research Centre.
Respondents: Alexandra Jones,
chief executive of the Centre for Cities, and Adam Marshall,
director of policy and
external affairs at the British Chambers of Commerce.
In Conversation with Lucy Scott-Moncrieff
On: Tuesday 22 January from 6.30-8pm in the New Theatre, East
Building
Speaker: Lucy Scott-Moncrieff,
president of the Law Society and managing partner of Scott-Moncrieff and
Associates LLP.
Democracy and Emotion
On: Tuesday 29 January from 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Professor James Jasper (pictured),
professor of sociology at The Graduate Centre, City University of New
York.
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New Exhibition - 70th Anniversary of the Beveridge Report
On until Friday 18 January in the Atrium Gallery, Old Building
The report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Social Insurance and
Allied Services (Cmd 6404), commonly known as the Beveridge Report, was
published in December 1942.
To mark the 70th anniversary, an exhibition of documents relating to the
report including photographs, radio scripts, speech notes, newspaper
articles and what Beveridge himself described as the 'first draft of the
report,' will be on display.
Beveridge was director of LSE from 1919-37. His papers are held in the
Archives Division of the Library.
This exhibition is open to all with no ticket required. Visitors are
welcome during weekdays (Monday - Friday) between 10am and 8pm
(excluding when the School is closed at Christmas or unless otherwise
stated on the web listing).
For more information,
click here, email arts@lse.ac.uk
or phone on 020 7107 5342.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Antifragile: how to live in a world we don't understand
Speaker: Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Recorded: Wednesday 5 December, approx 89 minutes
Click here to listen
How Can We Improve UK Drug and Alcohol Policy?
Speaker: Professor David Nutt
Recorded: Wednesday 5 December, approx 88 minutes
Click here to listen
Putting Rights Back Together Again
Speaker:
Salil Shetty
Recorded:
Thursday 6 December, approx 81 minutes
Click here to listen
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 60
second interview
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with..... Sasha Leigh
I am one of two new research
development managers based in the
Research Division and I’ve only been
at LSE since July this year (…I
figure I can play the ‘I’m new’ card
for at least another few months!)
I am a natural scientist by
training, spending my formative
years stuck in a Scottish lab
looking down a microscope at marine
mud, and subsequently moved to work
at the Natural Environment Research
Council where I remained for nearly
seven years. My love of the natural
environment extends to every part of
my life and I can variably be found
climbing up and down big bits of
rock, trekking and mountaineering in
far-flung (preferably snowy)
wildernesses. If I need a quick
outdoor fix you will find me
running, anywhere and everywhere.
I am somewhat ashamedly addicted
to social media, although only
recently discovered Twitter becoming
an avid twitterer (/tweeter/twit?)
of information and views on
environmental and social research,
funding policy, mental health and
general amusements (I’m a big fan of
@TheOnion for those long commutes).
The Research Division has
recently undergone a restructure.
What new services are you offering
to the School?
We have a number of new team
members and some new roles, all
focusing on being able to support
LSE academics better with all
aspects of research funding, from
project idea stage, through
applications and management of the
awards. We’re also starting to offer
more bespoke training sessions for
researchers, so keep an eye on the
Training Portal and if you have any
special requests, do let us know.
Each member of my team now has a
cluster of academic units for which
they are the main contact so we can
work much more closely with the LSE
community. I could write an essay on
all the new things we are offering.
But this isn’t really the forum.
Watch the website and Research
Division e-briefings for more info
and come and speak to any of us at
any time with questions, or just to
meet us and hear more.
What would you do if you were
LSE Director for a day?
I’d panic, and question my
perception of reality.
Then I’d pull myself together,
realise it’s a theoretical question
in the Staff News interview,
and say I’d give everyone the day
off to do a sponsored event of their
choice in aid of The Samaritans.
What is the most dangerous
thing you have ever done?
Fallen in love.
Do you have, or have you ever
had, any pets?
I’d love to have a cat but my
lifestyle wouldn’t be fair on it.
Even as a child we didn’t really
have any animals. However, I recall
my younger sister wanting a pet so
badly that she adopted a woodlouse
and named him Jim (as a nod to her
hero Jim Robinson from Neighbours).
He was well looked-after, lived
in a shoebox and fed on grass until
sadly, after a short, but well-lived
life, he passed away. Following a
solemn burial in a matchbox, a
second pet woodlouse soon took his
place - named, imaginatively, Jim
Two.
I have a feeling Jim Three and
Four subsequently featured…. And
that is all genuinely true!
If you could give your younger
self some advice, what would it be?
Be more open, have more fun, and
don't worry so much!
Oh and get rid of those
stone-washed jeans and denim jacket,
they do not look cool.
In a film of your life, who
would you like to play you?
In my dreams it would be Natalie
Portman, in reality, probably Lisa
from The Simpsons. |
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 Training
and jobs
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English classes for LSE staff HR is giving LSE staff the
opportunity to attend English support classes, to be delivered by the
Language Centre, starting in January 2013.
These classes are for members of staff who have learnt English as a
foreign language and want to improve their ability to communicate more
effectively in work-related and social contexts. The classes will cover a
range of topics, situations and vocabulary, and provide the opportunity to
practice and improve spoken and/or written English in a supportive
atmosphere.
All applicants will be assessed before joining the programme to determine
the most appropriate class schedule and level. Staff who are unable to
attend the course due to shift patterns will be offered one-to-one advice
and assistance on how to improve their English through self-study.
For more information, contact Suzanne Christopher on ext 4699 or email
s.p.christopher@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.
- Centre manager, Centre for Macroeconomics
- External relations executive, External Relations Division
- Head of applications, IT Services
- Head of customer service, IT Services
- Head of infrastructure, IT Services
- LSE fellow in management (organisational behaviour),
Management: EROB Group
- Lecturer in management (MESG), Management: MESG
- Lecturer in philosophy, Philosophy
- Lecturer in social policy and development, Social Policy
- Lecturer in statistics, Statistics
- Lectureship/senior lectureship in insolvency, Law
- Lectureships/senior lectureships in property and trusts, Law
- Post-doctoral research assistant (climate risks, insurance and
adaptation), Grantham Research Institute
- Post-doctoral research assistant (growth and development),
Grantham Research Institute
- Post-doctoral research assistant (political economy of
climate-resilient development), Grantham Research Institute
- Post-doctoral research officer, International Development
- Reader in statistics, Statistics
- Reader, senior lecturer, or lecturer in international development
(MPA), International Development
- Research officer, Sociology
- Senior lecturer/lecturer in qualitative research methodology,
Methodology
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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