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7 February 2013 |
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Queen awards Regius Professorship in Economics to LSE The
government has announced that LSE will be one of 12 universities to have the
prestigious title of Regius Professor bestowed upon it by The Queen to mark
the Diamond Jubilee, with the creation of a new Regius Professor in
Economics.
A Regius Professorship is a rare privilege, with only two created in the
past century; it is regarded as a reflection of the exceptionally high
quality of teaching and research at an institution. All entries were
assessed by a panel of experts on the merits of their application alone, but
more weight was given to two primary criteria: the excellence of the
institution’s work in the proposed discipline and the recognition the
discipline has gained, nationally and internationally, regardless of how
long it has been studied.
Professor Michele Piccione, head of the Department of Economics,
said the award was 'a great honour that recognises the outstanding
contribution that LSE economics has made to the development of the
discipline'.
For more information, see the
Cabinet Office’s press release.
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Get to know LSE's Director
In a new short film, Professor Craig Calhoun (pictured) talks about his academic
career and intellectual development.
Find out what drew him to anthropology and about his love of film.
To watch the film,
click here.
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LSE student nominated for NUS/Student Hubs award Master’s
student Bianca Nobilo (pictured) has been shortlisted for an
NUS/Student Hubs volunteering award. Bianca was nominated for her work
educating young people about the risk of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome and the
importance of keeping a healthy heart while at school and university. She
has founded a charity, Student Heart Health, after several people close to
her were affected by heart conditions. The aim of the charity is to promote
cardiovascular health in the UK student population and provide heart
screenings capable of detecting fatal abnormalities to students free of
charge. Bianca said: ‘The NUS nomination is an unbelievably kind gesture.
It has given Student Heart Health the opportunity to reach more young people
and it’s much deserved recognition of all the hours Student Heart Health’s
volunteers and trustees have spent working on a cause we care all about. I
can’t wait to meet the four other nominees who are involved with initiatives
like Childline. It’s going to be a brilliant event.' The winner will be
announced on Wednesday 13 February by Nick Hurd MP, minister for civil
society, at a ceremony at the House of Commons to celebrate Student
Volunteering Week.
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LSE Staff Survey update The School is awaiting reports from our
external provider, ORC International, on the results of the Staff Survey conducted
during Michaelmas term.
Early indications suggest that you are proud of the reputation of the
School and proud to work here. A high percentage of you also feel that you
are treated with fairness, dignity and respect in the School.
There are however indications of where more work needs to be done and we
are motivated to ensure that action planning is transparent and visible in
all areas of the School.
There are still areas in the School who do not have a
Staff Survey Contact. Please contact Eleni Michael at
e.michael@lse.ac.uk or on 020 7852
3672 if you are interested in helping your area during the action planning
stage.
For updates and more information, visit
lse.ac.uk/HRstaffSurvey.
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Launch of The British-German Dialogue series The first event of
the new high-level discussion forum,
The British-German Dialogue, run by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth
Office and LSE, took place on Thursday 31 January.
The British-German Dialogue is run by LSE Enterprise and brings together
experts and young talents from within and beyond the political landscapes of
both countries.
Chairman Professor Maurice Fraser discussed current trends as well as
potential scenarios for the outcome of the German Federal Elections 2013,
with invited speakers Professor Karl-Rudolf Korte, director of the NRW
School of Governance, and Quentin Peel, Financial Times chief
correspondent in Berlin.
About 50 opinion formers and decision makers from both countries
participated in what was a colourful morning with regard to potential
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 Notices
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Terms and conditions of employment Salaried members of
staff employed directly by the School have one of four sets of terms and
conditions according to their role.
After consultation with recognised trade unions, Human Resources has
updated the School's Terms and Conditions of Employment booklets
following both legislative and School procedural changes. These are now live
and staff can
access them here.
These terms and conditions of employment supersede any terms and
conditions booklets previously issued to staff. Any further updates will be
communicated.
If you have any questions, contact your
HR Partner.
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Introducing LSE's new external
relations executive
Noita Sadler (pictured) joined the School
on Friday 1 February as the new external relations executive in
the External Relations Division (ERD).
Noita's portfolio will be flexible but she will assume responsibility for
the Linking Up programme under which ERD enables and funds academics to
undertake external relations work with alumni and others on their travels.
Noita is a graduate of Leeds University and UCL and has a background in
media, parliamentary and public policy work including at Maitland Political
and the Social Market Foundation.
Noita can be contacted
by email at n.j.sadler@lse.ac.uk
or on ext 5428.
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Fourth Floor Restaurant - Feel Good Food Days As part of Go
Green Week, LSE Catering will be holding a Feel Good Food Day on Tuesday
12 and Thursday 14 February in the Fourth Floor Restaurant, and
on Wednesday 13 February in the Staff Dining Room.
As well as raising awareness and promoting the sustainable aspects of the
food we serve, we aim 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.
Also during lunchtime on Monday 11 February, Marisa Mendes, volunteer
coordinator with Love Food Hate Waste Campaign, will be on hand to raise
awareness of the need to reduce food waste and encourage participation. Food
waste is not only damaging to your pocket, it also has serious environmental
consequences.
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Partnership PhD Mobility Bursaries 2013-14 Applications are
invited from LSE PhD students for mobility bursaries to visit one of the
School's institutional partners (Columbia
University, New York; the National University of Singapore (NUS); Peking
University, Beijing; Sciences Po, Paris; or the University of Cape Town)
in order to work informally with an advisor on their PhD thesis, research
and/or on related publications and presentations, and to introduce them to
the academic culture, professional contacts and employment opportunities of
another country/region.
For 2013-14, up to ten bursaries are on offer to visit one of the above
listed five partner institutions. For any one partner institution, up to two
flat rate bursaries of £2,500 are available.
Students registered for PhD studies at any LSE department and who have
already been upgraded to full doctoral student status are eligible to apply.
Each visit should be a minimum of two months and a maximum of three months
in duration.
The deadline for submitting completed applications including references
is midday on Tuesday 14 May. Full details about the
Partnership Mobility Bursaries, including application procedures, can be
found here. Any further enquiries should be emailed to
academic_partnerships@lse.ac.uk.
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LSE Perspectives February'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, 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. Submissions are always
welcomed for
future galleries.
For information on how 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 19 February, Tuesday 26 February, Tuesday 12 March,
Tuesday 19 March, Tuesday 2 April, Tuesday 9 April,
Tuesday 23 April, and Tuesday 30 April.
Just turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons
are free.
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
Karine Jackson Hair
and Beauty Salon is offering LSE staff another chance to get pampered,
having extended its promotion and lowering the price to £43.
You will receive the following over four separate visits:
Visit one:
Cut and blow dry with personal style and colour consultation, shampoo and
conditioning.
Visit two:
Partial foils (10 foils) with in-depth colour consultation, shampoo,
conditioning and blow dry.
Visit three:
Follow up cut and blow dry with hair and colour consultation, shampoo and
conditioning.
Visit four:
Personal consultation and power facial including exclusive signature head
and scalp massage OR consultation on massage therapy and power back massage.
This package is normally valued at over £200 but you can receive
everything for just £43. This promotion is valid to new clients only or
those who haven't visited the salon in the past 12 months. If you are an
existing customer, you are welcome to purchase certificates as gifts for
family and friends instead.
To purchase your certificate or for more information, contact Natalie on
0845 686 0185 or 07875 315 744.
If you know of any deals that you think may be of interest to Staff
News readers, please contact 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 a student working on her laptop in the busy
central atrium of the New Academic Building.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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Video-sharing sites top the ranking of risky online platforms for
children Video-sharing sites like YouTube are considered by children
to be more risky than any other online platform, with pornography and
violent content topping the list of their concerns about use of the web.
These are among the findings of a report launched on Safer Internet Day
2013 (Tuesday 5 February) by the EU Kids Online project, led in the UK by
LSE.
Nearly 10,000 children between 9-16 years old from 25 European countries
were surveyed for the report, and were asked ‘What things on the internet
would bother people about your age?’. The report presents, for the first
time, a detailed analysis of how children view the risks associated to the
online world ‘in their own words’.
Professor Sonia Livingstone, LSE, who is responsible for the survey,
explains: ‘The EU Kids Online survey found that 55 per cent of 9-16 year
olds think that there are things online that bother children their age. This
new report now goes to the heart of what concerns children - and the results
give reason to reflect on policy and educational priorities. It is vital for
us to address children’s concerns about violent, aggressive or gory content
on the internet, among the many other things that bother them.’
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 Events
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LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival: Branching Out
Tickets are now available for
2013 LSE Literary Festival. Highlights include:
The Forum: the challenge of ageing
On: Tuesday 26 February at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Sarah Harper, professor of gerontology at the
University of Oxford and director of the Oxford Institute of Population
Ageing, P D James, president of the Society of Authors, Baroness
Helena Kennedy, lawyer, and Professor Hans Rosling (pictured),
medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker.
Women Writing History
On: Wednesday 27 February at 1pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speakers: Molly Crabapple, New York artist, Professor Mary Evans,
LSE Centennial Professor, Vicky Featherstone, artistic director of
the National Theatre of Scotland, and Kate Mosse, author.
A Life in Politics: leading London from the left
On: Thursday 28 February at 1.15pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Ken Livingstone (pictured), former mayor of London.
Rethinking Risk: when biology meets finance
On: Thursday 28 February at 5.15pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speakers: John Coates, senior research fellow in neuroscience and
finance at the University of Cambridge, Dylan Evans, founder of
Projection Point, and Paul Ormerod, economist, author and
entrepreneur.
Austerity on Trial
On: Friday 1 March at 6pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speakers: Hugh Tomlinson QC, barrister and founding member of Matrix
Chambers, Karon Monaghan QC, barrister, Martin Howe QC,
barrister, Tim Frost, non-executive director of Cairn Capital Group
Limited, Will Hutton, principal of Hertford College, University of
Oxford, Andrew Lilico, chairman of Europe Economics, Ruth Porter,
communications director at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Magdalena
Sepulveda, United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and
human rights, and Polly Toynbee (pictured), British journalist and
writer.
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Other forthcoming LSE events include....
Putinism: the ideology
On: Tuesday 12 February at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre,
New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Anne Applebaum, LSE Philippe Roman Chair in
History and International Affairs.
EU on a Cross-Road and the Future of our European Project: a view from
central Europe
On: Wednesday 13 February at 5pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Miroslav Lajčák (pictured), deputy prime minister and
minister of foreign and European affairs of the Slovak Republic.
Transformation is Possible: moving feminist economics into policies and
institutions
On: Thursday 14 February at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Dr Caren Grown, senior gender advisor in the Bureau of
Policy, Planning and Learning.
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Modern Disinhibitions: a history of technological risk
On: Tuesday 12 February from 1-2.30pm in room KSW 3.01, 20
Kingsway
Speaker: D r Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (pictured),
historian of science, technology and the environment at Imperial College.
Nineteenth-century technological modernisation did not occur in a fog of
unconsciousness or a modernist frenzy. The men who accomplished and lived
through the industrial revolution were clearly 'conscious' of the gigantic
uncertainty produced by their technological choices, and they knowingly
chose to go ahead regardless. So not only have we never been modern (Bruno
Latour), but we have also always known this.
From the perspective of historical writing, the post-modern narrative of
'reflexive modernisation' (Ulrich Beck) thus has the disadvantage of writing
off the past experience of our technoscientific situation. By obliterating
the reflexivity of past societies, that narrative depoliticises the long
history of environmental destruction and, conversely, by concentrating on
our own reflexivity, it tends to naturalise our ecological concern.
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Working With the Past: panel discussion and archives exhibition
On: Tuesday 12 March in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building.
Discussion from 5-7pm, followed by drinks reception and archives exhibition.
Panellists: Professor Barbara Bush, Dr Kate Murphy and
Professor Sally Alexander.
What’s the experience and significance of ‘working with the past’? What
do women’s archives offer? And what do researchers discover in the process?
To celebrate Women’s History Month and the arrival of the Women’s Library
at the School, LSE Equality and Diversity, Gender Institute and LSE Archives
have organised a panel discussion and archives exhibition on ‘Working with
the past’.
This event is open to all LSE staff and students but places are limited.
To reserve your ticket,
click here.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Democracy and Emotion
Speaker: Professor James Jasper
Recorded: Tuesday 29 January, approx. 91 minutes
Click here to listen
African Security and External Interference: exploring the role of a
newcomer, China
Speakers: Dr Bonnie Ayodele and Professor Zhongying Pang
Recorded: Tuesday 29 January, approx. 87 minutes
Click here to listen
Investing in Prosperity - Launch of the LSE Growth Commission Report
Speakers: Tim Besley, Francesco Caselli, Richard Lambert,
Rachel Lomax, Nicholas Stern, and John van Reenen
Recorded: Thursday 31 January, approx. 87 minutes
Click here to listen
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 60
second interview
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with..... Dr Debin Ma
I am a senior lecturer in the
Department of Economic History. I
teach and research on topics broadly
related to the comparative
development of developing countries
with a particular focus on China and
East Asia. My interest also extends
to political, legal and
institutional history and
quantitative measurements of
historical living standards in
comparative perspective.
Prior to joining LSE, I have
lived, studied and worked in China,
US and Japan.
If you could teach a new
subject at LSE what would it be and
why?
I could perhaps try political
philosophy. Politics is everywhere
in our life and it should be a lot
of fun to teach as you can combine
theory and history.
Which is your favourite place
on the LSE campus?
I would say the Waterstone's
Economists' Bookshop.
Is there anything you cannot
do and would like to learn?
If I had all the time in the
world, I would always love to learn
new languages and communicate with
people in those languages.
Where is your best-loved venue
to dine out and which dish do you
enjoy there?
I love to go to a Chinese
restaurant called 'Leong’s Legend'
in Chinatown. Both the name and
internal decoration of the
restaurant take the cue from a
famous historical legend in China.
It has a nice, cosy and casual
atmosphere. My favourite dish is
steam dumpling.
If you had a time machine,
where and to what era would you go?
This is a tricky question for
me. As an historian, I would
like to visit many different places
in the past. But as someone who
studies living standards in the
past, I would also worry about
getting stuck there in that era.
If I do need to name a place, I
would not mind walking through the
ancient Silk Road. At least I am on
the go all the time.
Are you a lark or an owl?
I am definitely an owl. |
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 Training
and jobs
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Training and development opportunities for staff
Courses scheduled for next week include:
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Introduction to Social Science and Government Data
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Outlook 2010: outlook for business
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Mindfulness and Stress Workshop
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Planning a Positive Retirement
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Introductory Course for Health and Safety Coordinators and Line Managers
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Teachers’ Show and Tell
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Equality and Diversity for Non Managers
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Facebook and LinkedIn: using social networking with students
These are just some of the events running next week. To receive a monthly
list of all events, subscribe to the Staff training and development email by
clicking here. To find out more about training and development across
the School and for links to booking pages, see
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.
- Academic support librarian, Library: academic services
- Centre manager, Systemic Risk Centre
- Chair in English law, Law
- Events and teaching coordinator, Government
- Postdoctoral fellows (up to five positions), Anthropology
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading.
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Inform - director of charity
£40,000-55,000 per annum
Inform is a registered charity based at LSE, which collects, evaluates and
disseminates information about minority religions which is as reliable and
objective as possible.
The director is responsible to Inform’s board of governors for ensuring that
these aims are achieved. The job requires ‘vision’ in the sense of setting
the directions in which research needs to be steered in order to investigate
the constantly changing landscape of minority religions and the reactions to
them.
The director also needs to be a ‘self-starter’ and ‘doer’ who not only
initiates new areas of research but also sees them through to completion,
including the dissemination of findings for the benefit of stakeholders and
the public.
Further particulars and the application form can be downloaded from
www.inform.ac. The application and/or any
questions should be emailed to
informdirector@yahoo.co.uk.
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