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30 May 2013 |
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Staff Survey update Progress on analysing and acting on the
results of the LSE Staff Survey has continued apace following communication
of these results before Easter.
All members of staff should, by now, have had the opportunity to see the
results of the Staff Survey for their area, and to feed into the action
plans. These are due to be finalised at the end of May. Departmental and
divisional heads have certainly been active. Over two-thirds have started
the process of putting initial plans in place, with the remaining third in
the drafting stage. Each plan is being developed with HR to help ensure that
major issues are being addressed.
Once the individual plans are in place, the School will develop a
School-wide plan which will be shared with the School community in the
Michaelmas term and feed into the Strategic Review.
At the School level, HR has already begun work on addressing some of the
concerns around bullying or harassment. Courses on 'Fair treatment and
respect at work' for managers have been piloted with favourable feedback and
HR is now considering making these more widely available.
Going forward HR will also be organising a series of focus groups to
explore further the survey findings around stress to help identify suitable
action.
The high response rate, of just under 70 per cent, has ensured that the
findings are of real value to the School.
LSE Director Professor Craig Calhoun said: 'I would like to repeat my
thanks to all those who took part in this survey and to extend my thanks to
the heads of departments and divisions for their active role in turning the
survey findings into actions that will benefit the whole School. We will be
feeding back progress in due course.'
For more information, click
here.
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Euro Crisis in the Press - new LSE blog
A new LSE blog has been launched entitled
Euro Crisis in the Press. The blog, which is already attracting a wide readership, explores the
politics of public discourse surrounding the current crisis in Europe,
and is linked to an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the way
the crisis is reported in the European press.
The project is affiliated with LSE IDEAS and the Department of Media and
Communications. The blog is curated by an editorial team from across LSE,
and welcomes contributions from within the School and beyond.
If you would like to become a contributor, email
LSEEurocrisisBlog@gmail.com.
You can also follow the project on Twitter
@LSEEurocrisis and
Facebook.
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LSE Library launches Emily Wilding Davison online exhibition A
unique collection of materials documenting the life and death of Emily
Wilding Davison (pictured) has been launched online by the LSE Library.
The online exhibition commemorates the centenary of Davison’s protest at
the Epsom Derby
and explores Emily’s role as a leader in the Suffragette movement,
whilst opening up the collection to the wider public.
The exhibition has been curated by Elizabeth Chapman, director of LSE
Library Services, and Professor June Purvis, emeritus professor of women's
and gender history at the University of Portsmouth.
To view the exhibition,
click here.
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LSE academic co-organises IZA/World Bank/OECD conference Stephen Jenkins
(pictured), professor of economic and social policy, Department of
Social Policy and CASE, was one of the co-organisers of an IZA/World
Bank/OECD 'Conference on Safety Nets and Benefit Dependence: evidence and
policy implications' held at the OECD, Paris, 21-22 May.
Forty-five academics and policy-makers from around the world gathered to
discuss recent trends in safety-net benefit receipt, flows into and off
benefit, and how these relate to macro-economic factors such as the current
recession and reforms to tax-benefit systems. The main objective of the
conference was to discuss research findings with a focus on social and
labour-market policy challenges and solutions.
More about the conference, including the programme, is available
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 Notices
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Review of LSE website We are currently undertaking a Web Review
as part of the School-wide Strategic Review. The aim is to significantly
improve the LSE website for all users, from the thousands of prospective
students who log on each year, to current students and staff to alumni.
We want views from across the School. Anyone interested in being part of
a focus group or just feeding in their views should email Hayley Reed at
h.reed@lse.ac.uk.
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Computer tip of the week Using the Show Desktop button in
Windows 7 and 8
The Desktop (what you see when your computer turns on) is great for
storing shortcuts. If you want to use one of those shortcuts after you’ve
opened several files, you don’t have to minimise each open window
individually. Use the Show Desktop button instead.
In Windows 7, and in Office on Windows 8, too, the Show Desktop
button
looks like a chrome bar located in the bottom right corner, next to the
time. When you rest your mouse pointer on this button, the desktop is
previewed and the name of the button (Show Desktop) appears, but
these disappear again as soon as you move the mouse. Click the Show
Desktop button to go to the desktop.
If you have a question, check out our
online guides and FAQs, attend our weekly
Software Surgeries or a
one-to-one IT Training session. Alternatively, contact
IT.Training@lse.ac.uk to book a
consultation with a training specialist.
Subscribe to the
IT Training mailing list to stay informed of upcoming courses and
workshops. A huge range of additional computer training resources, including
our
'Tip of the Week' archive, is available from the
IT Training website.
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Fourth Floor Restaurant - Feel Good Food Days LSE Catering will
be holding Feel Good Food Days on Tuesday 4 June and Thursday 6
June in the Fourth Floor Restaurant, Old Building.
As well as raising awareness and promoting the sustainable aspects of the
food served, LSE Catering aims to demonstrate that limiting meat in your 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.
World cuisine options will offer reduced meat and increased vegetarian
alternatives. Come along and enjoy the ‘feel good’ experience.
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Vice-chair of LSE Court and Council The School is seeking a
vice-chair of its Court and Council. Anne Lapping has served in the role
with distinction since 2007 and will be stepping down as vice-chair in July
2014.
For more information,
click here. Suggestions of those who might be suitable, or expressions
of interest, should be sent in confidence to the School Secretary at
s.m.scholefield@lse.ac.uk by
Friday 14 June.
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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 4 June, Tuesday 11 June,
Tuesday 25 June,
Tuesday 2 July,
Tuesday 16 July and
Tuesday 23 July.
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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Staff summer deal at LSESU Gym
LSE staff can get an extra two months free if they sign up to the LSESU
Gym for three months or longer before the end of June.
Featuring a full selection of cardiovascular and resistance machines with
an extended free weight area, the LSESU Gym is a well equipped and fully
staffed facility located on the first floor at the rear of the East
Building.
Take advantage of the convenient campus location and the fact that the
gym will be quiet during the summer. All valid memberships will be accepted
in the brand new state of the art facility opening in the Saw Swee Hock
Student Centre in January 2014.
For more information, visit
www.lsesu.com/activities/facilities, email
n.turner@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955
6002.
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Win two return tickets on the Eurostar
Louise Laker (pictured), sustainability assistant, will attempt to cycle from
London to Paris in 24 hours this July to raise money for Scope.
As part
of her fundraising, she is raffling two return tickets on the Eurostar for the charity.
Raffle tickets are £5 for two, £10 for five, or £20 for 10. Eurostar tickets
are valid for two people to travel to Paris, Disneyland, Brussels,
Calais or Lille.
See
www.justgiving.com/Louise-Laker to enter the prize draw.
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More for less - LSE offer for GAIL’s Kitchen GAIL's Kitchen is
running a buy one, get one free offer for LSE staff and students. Just show
your LSE ID card and when you purchase one drink, the second one will be
free.
GAIL's Kitchen makes dishes inspired by bread and the bread oven, and
utilises all the great ingredients and suppliers used every day at GAIL's
Artisan Bakery. For more on GAIL's Kitchen, see
www.gailskitchen.co.uk.
If you know of any deals that you think may be of interest to Staff News
readers, email Margaret Newson, LSE purchasing manager at
m.newson@lse.ac.uk.
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One to two bedroom flat to rent in Clerkenwell A one to two bedroom modern, spacious, second floor apartment in a smart
block with lift and secure entry system, is available to rent for initial
period of six months, starting from late June or early July 2013.
Ideal for
single or couple occupants as well as two sharers (can be configured as two
bedrooms). £1,900 pcm (service charge and water bill inclusive) for LSE
staff members or students, furnished or unfurnished.
Located in the heart of Clerkenwell and close to all local amenities the
flat is a 15-20 minutes walk to LSE or a short bus ride on the 243. The
nearest tube station, Farringdon, is less than five minutes walk away.
For more information and viewing, email
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of
Google, at the book launch of The New Digital Age which he
co-authored with Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas on Thursday 23 May.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Events
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Forthcoming LSE events include....
Green Philosophy
On: Wednesday 5 June at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speakers: Dr Rupert Read, chair of the Green House thinktank,
East of England Green Party co-ordinator and a reader in Philosophy at
UEA, and Professor Roger Scruton, a philosopher, writer and
consultant.
Representing Europeans: a pragmatic approach
On: Thursday 6 June at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Richard Rose, one of the world's leading political
scientists.
Can Europe Lead in a Post-western World?
On: Tuesday 11 June at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speakers: Dr Jaimini Bhagwati, high commissioner of India to the UK,
Professsor Mary Kaldor, director of the Civil Society and Human
Security Research Unit at LSE, Mark Leonard, co-founder and director
of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
Superdiversity and the Unequal City
On: Wednesday 19 June at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Claire Alexander, professor of sociology at the
University of Manchester, Dr Rob Berkeley, director of Runnymede, the
UK’s leading independent race equality think tank.
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Business History Unit seminar On: Monday 3 June at
5.30pm in room 1.04, Tower Two
At this event, organised by LSE's Business History Unit, Lisa Jack of the
University of Portsmouth will speak on 'The Concept of "Future Making" in
Business History Case Studies: the Australian blue book'.
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Things to Do with Words: illustrations from Italian fascism
(1919-1922) and Georgia lynchings (1875-1930) On: Monday 3 June
from 6.30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Roberto Franzosi (pictured),
professor of sociology and linguistics at Emory University.
This talk will illustrate the power of Quantitative Narrative Analysis, a
quantitative social science approach to texts developed by the speaker using
data collected from newspapers on the rise of Italian fascism and lynchings
in the American 'Deep South'. It will show how narrative data lend
themselves to cutting-edge tools of data visualisation and analysis as
dynamic network graphs and maps in Google Earth and other GIS software, and
how QNA data provide the basis for fascinating digital humanities projects.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a
first come, first served basis. For more information, email
sociology.events@lse.ac.uk
or call 020 7955 6828.
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LSESU Visual Arts Society Exhibition - extended
The LSESU Visual Arts Society’s annual year-end exhibition of student
work is on display in the Atrium Gallery, Old Building until Friday
14 June.
Its closing date has been extended, so be sure to take a break and stop by to see the artistic talents of LSE’s students.
For more information,
click here.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Banker to the Poor: Lifting Millions Out of Poverty through Social
Business
Speaker: Professor Muhammad Yunus
Recorded: Monday 20 May, approx. 97 minutes
Progressive Capitalism
Speaker: Lord Sainsbury
Recorded: Monday 20 May, approx. 86 minutes
The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and
Business
Speakers: Jared Cohen, Eric Schmidt
Recorded: Thursday 23 May, approx. 83 minutes
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Models Behaving Badly: why confusing illusion with reality can lead to
disasters, on Wall Street and in life
On: Wednesday 10 July at 6pm at the Institute of Physics, 76
Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT.
Speaker: Professor Emanuel Derman (pictured), head of risk at Prisma Capital
Partners and a professor at Columbia University.
In this lecture, organised by the Institute of Physics, Professor
Emanuel Derman will be talking about his experiences in both the
financial and physics worlds while exploring the collision between human
needs and desires, mathematical modelling and economics that have
featured so dramatically in the recent financial crisis.
The talk is free to attend but places are limited, so register your
attendance at the earliest possible opportunity. To register, visit
http://publiclectures2013.iop.org. For more information, email
publiclectures@iop.org.
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 60
second interview
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with..... Stevie Wise
I’ve worked in the Student
Services Centre (SSC) for a year.
I’m responsible for the delivery of
various Orientation Week related
projects and for coordinating the
Student Mentoring Scheme.
I am a terrible cook, have a
habit of dating men with strange job
titles (magician, Lee Evans tribute
act, that sort of thing) and I have
terrible taste in music, which is
best illustrated by the anonymous
valentine who sent me an autographed
photo of One Direction in the post.
You may recognise me from my
infamously loud laugh, which can be
heard in all corners of the LSE
campus, causing especially high
levels of noise pollution in the SSC.
It’s a little-known fact that I
actually fake it in the hope that,
one day, I might be given my own
office.
What advice would you give to
this year’s class of graduating
students?
My advice would be to avoid
feeling downhearted if the difficult
jobs market puts a delay on your
plans for a while. Be bold when
applying for jobs and if you have to
do something less-than-ideal for a
while, at least try to have fun
while you’re doing it.
When I graduated I spent three
months working part time as an IT
projects assistant. Having very
little technical ability beyond the
basics, I was often referred to as
‘Jen’ (from the IT Crowd) and
forced to update spread sheets
and/or be laughed at all day.
I combated the dreadful,
immobilising boredom by implementing
‘ice cream o’clock’ and insisting on
being the one to do the ice cream
run at 3pm each day. This secured my
place as everyone’s favourite
colleague and provided an escape
from the ritual humiliation for at
least ten minutes a day!
If you were in charge of
throwing a fancy dress party for the
whole of LSE, what theme would you
choose and why?
I love fancy dress parties, so
this is a tough one. I would
probably go for a Doctor Who
theme just so I could fulfil my
dream of attempting a ‘Face of Boe’
costume.
If this wasn’t popular, I’d make
everyone dress as their favourite
ginger while praying that the
Director’s favourite ginger is Axl
Rose. Or me.
What is the first news story
you remember catching your
attention?
For some reason, a lot of my
early media-related memories seem to
revolve around Tony Blair. My family
aren’t hugely political but the 1997
election was really important to my
parents and I remember a lot of
gleeful rejoicing on the news of a
Labour landslide.
Sadly this memory is counteracted
somewhat by my later outrage when
hearing news of a war in Iraq. I
didn’t really understand what was
happening at the time but I felt
inherently uncomfortable with the
idea and I think these experiences
really sparked my interest in
politics.
What is your favourite food?
I will eat pretty much anything
that I haven’t cooked myself. Just
last week I thought it would be a
wonderful idea to have a few friends
round for dinner. My simple sausage
pasta dish was so terrible that it
had to be rescued by one of my
guests.
Top tip: if a tomato-based dish
tastes (quite frankly) absolutely
awful, just chuck in a bit of HP
sauce and some Bisto. Worked a
treat.
Do you believe in the
supernatural?
Not in the slightest, though my
mum will swear blind that she once
saw the ghost of an old man doff his
cap to her in the cellar of the
large Victorian pub she used to run.
I imagine she’d had one too many
vodkas!
What is the first track you
ever downloaded?
I’m really pleased that you’ve
taken a modern approach to the age
old 'what’s the first record you
bought' so I don’t have to admit to
anyone what that was.
I can’t remember exactly when I
first ventured into the world of
digital downloads but I imagine it
was at university when I worked as a
DJ in the Students’ Union nightclub.
The club night was called ‘The Big
Cheese’ so it could have been
anything from Bonnie Tyler to the
Vengaboys and back. If I were a 17
year old now (which I basically am)
it would definitely have been
something by One Direction. |
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 Training
and jobs
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Training and development opportunities for staff
Courses scheduled for next week include:
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.
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Learning technologist (media specialist), Centre for Learning
Technology
- Assistant space planning manager, Estates: planning
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MSc and external relations assistant, European Institute
- Post-doctoral fellowship in political science, Geography and Environment
- Post-doctoral research assistant (empirical analysis of climate
change policies), Grantham Research Institute
- Research officer (ESRC), Grantham Research Institute
- Web, events and communications assistant, International
Development
- Lectureship in labour law, Law
- Library assistant (learning support), Library: academic
services
- Library assistant (research support), Library: academic
services
- Marketing and recruitment manager, Summer School and
Executive Programmes
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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 LSE
people
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Many congratulations to Richard Collings and Trudy Gamblin
who welcomed a baby boy on Thursday 23 May.
Richard and Trudy, who both work in the LSE Library, have named their son
Albie (pictured). Both mum and baby are doing well.
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Ralph Land (pictured), who graduated from LSE in 1950, has been named
the 'Hero of Fulham and Hammersmith for 2013' at a
special reception on Wednesday 15 May.
Ralph may be 84 years old but this has not stopped him from raising
£450,000 in the past few years through tireless fundraising for the
pancreatic cancer lab at Hammersmith Hospital.
Ralph began his efforts after the disease claimed his wife, Jacqueline,
in 2010. Among his sponsored exploits have been a 12,000ft skydive,
alongside his identical twin brother Frank, who is emeritus professor of
information systems at LSE, on their shared birthday two years ago. |
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