Residences summer holiday opening

LSE staff are entitled to a 10 per cent discount on great value bed and breakfast accommodation over the summer holiday period.

Government promotion of positive parenting is potentially damaging....

and parents should, instead, be left to trust their own instincts, according to new LSE research.

Terri Callanan

Terri, an events executive at LSE, has recently started rock climbing and has become known for her brightly coloured trousers since starting at the School.

Ollie Cook, an LSE Sports Ambassador, was one of the eight man team who won a thrilling race at the World Cup this weekend for Great Britain.

The boat, crewed by Oliver Cook at bow, alongside Daniel Ritchie, Tom Ransley, James Foad, Mohamed Sbihi, William Satch, Pete Reed, Andy Triggs-Hodge and cox Phelan Hill, fought off a challenge from Poland to narrowly win by 0.43secs. The race was held at Eton Dorney on Sunday 23 June.

Ollie Cook, who completed his undergraduate degree in International Relations and History in 2012, is also an LSE Sports Ambassador.

The LSE Sports Ambassador Scheme recognises and rewards exceptional sporting talent amongst the School's students. It supports and develops students who are elite athletes in any recognised sport to pursue their chosen sporting career.

Outlining his rowing accomplishments when becoming a Student Ambassador for Sport, Ollie said: 'I am currently in the senior rowing squad for Great Britain. Last year, while I was in my final year as an undergraduate student, I competed for Great Britain at the World U23 Rowing Championships, coming fifth, and later at the senior European Championships (competing against Olympic crews) also coming in fifth. As captain of the University of London Boat Club (ULBC) last year, we won the Henley Royal Regatta, Men’s Head of the River, and I won the national U23 trials. I am now part of the 16 man senior GB rowing squad.'

Work quicker by keeping your hands on the keyboard

The mouse is a useful device for selecting items on the screen. However, at times, keyboard shortcuts can be faster. The following shortcuts can be used with a table of data.

• To move one screen to the right or left: Alt + Page Up or Page Down
• To move one cell to the right or left: Tab or Shift + Tab
• To select a row: Ctrl + Shift + Right arrow
• To select a column: Ctrl + Shift + Down Arrow
• To select an entire table: Ctrl + A
• To go to bottom right hand corner of a table: Ctrl + End
• To move between worksheets: (to move right) Ctrl + Page Down, (to move left ) Ctrl + Page Up

If you have a specific question about how to do something in Windows or Microsoft Office software, look for an answer in our online guides and FAQs, attend a Software Surgery, enrol for a one-to-one IT Training session or consider the other computer training resources available on the IT Training website.

Saw Swee Hock Student Centre update

The Estates Division is pleased to report that works on the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre are progressing well. The project is due for completion in October 2013 and occupants will be moving in during November and December.

For more information, take a look at the latest Newsletter.
 

Flush to the future

A new arrival is causing a stir in the Old Building. Head of Maintenance, Paul Franklin, has installed a new loo in OLD.B15.

This isn’t your bog standard toilet; it’s a revolutionary loo that only uses one and a half litres of water to flush (as opposed to the conventional nine litres). Propel Air: ‘the toilet reinvented,’ also boasts hygiene benefits as it only flushes when the lid is down.

The Estates Division needs your feedback in order to expand LSE’s toilet revolution. So gents, please take the time to visit the loo in OLD.B15 and send your feedback to estates.follow-up-jobs@lse.ac.uk.

The water saving loo is all part of the challenge to reduce the School’s water consumption, as part of LSE’s Environmental Policy.
 

LSE Residences offer great value bed and breakfast accommodation over the summer holiday period in fabulous central London locations at unbelievably low prices.

Check out the new website at www.lsevacations.co.uk/lse and tell your friends.

If you are a member of a union and/or a professional association (such as UCU, IFL, CIMA) then you may be entitled to claim tax relief on your subscription fees. You may also be able to claim for specialist clothing, books and housing.

A 20 per cent taxpayer can backdate a claim for the past four years and will normally receive a refund between £140-£250. In addition, your tax free allowance will be increased to incorporate your expenses, resulting in future savings. Forty per cent taxpayers and those paying high fees may receive significantly more.

Tax refunds can be claimed by applying to HMRC directly. See more on tax refunds here.

LSE Perspectives is a monthly online gallery that features photographs taken by LSE students and staff, and LSE Arts is looking for submissions for upcoming galleries.

So 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.

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 2 July, Tuesday 16 July, Tuesday 23 July, Tuesday 6 August, Tuesday 13 August, Tuesday 27 August, Tuesday 3 September and Tuesday 17 September.

Just turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons are free.

There will be more lessons scheduled for Michaelmas term. For more information, email Daniel at d.beckley@lse.ac.uk.
 

One bedroom holiday cottage in Spain available to rent

Set in the middle of an Andalusian fruit farm, just a short distance from the Costa del Sol, this recently built holiday home has fabulous views over the neighbouring countryside.

The cottage has one bedroom plus a bed sofa, and one bathroom, so sleeps four-five people. Very close to the bustling town of Coín with shops and restaurants only a kilometre away. The pool is yours whenever you want it, and it’s perfect for young children.

For more information and photos, click here or email Rachel at r.yarham@lse.ac.uk.

This week's picture features the carved, painted and gilded coat of arms of LSE which can be found in the entrance hall of Old Building. The beaver was adopted as the official mascot of the school in February 1922, the same year the motto ‘rerum cognoscere causas’ was chosen, a line taken from Virgil’s Georgics meaning ‘to know the causes of things’.
For more images like this, visit the Photography Unit.

Government advice to parents to 'be nice' to their children by using positive reinforcement instead of punishment is potentially damaging and parents should, instead, be left to trust their own instincts, according to new research from LSE.

In a paper published in the journal Ethics and Education, Helen Reece, an expert in family law, argues that ‘positive parenting’ is arduous, if not impossible, and therefore damaging because it sets parents up to fail and also destroys the spontaneity of the parent-child relationship.

Emerging global powers are turning their attention to Africa, forging new trade deals and investing heavily in the continent in the wake of a resources boom and a widening consumer class.

The revival of Africa’s fortunes is outlined in a new report issued by LSE, which is critical of the recent G8 Summit’s failure to acknowledge the shift in global power relations.

The LSE IDEAS report describes Africa’s growing importance in the global supply chain, with the continent now home to seven of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world.

John F Kennedy's Quest For Peace

On: Monday 15 July from 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Jeffrey D Sachs (pictured), world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, best-selling author, and columnist.

The start of John F Kennedy’s presidency was marked by blunders and near disasters, from the Bay of Pigs invasion to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Crisis was a turning point - Kennedy retreated from the nuclear precipice with renewed confidence, and with the determination to chart and achieve a pathway to peace.

On: Wednesday 10 July from 6.30-8pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Khalid Malik (pictured), director of the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The LSE Global South Unit is delighted to host Khalid Malik. As the lead author of the 2013 UNDP Human Development Report, Mr Malik will share the important findings of the report and highlight the unprecedented speed and scale of the rise of the Global South.

Podcasts of public lectures and events

From Response to Resilience: the role of the engineer in disaster risk reduction
Speaker: Jo da Silva
Recorded: Tuesday 4 June, approx. 92 minutes
Click here to listen

The Future of Asian Financial Markets in a Changing World
Speaker: Zhu Min
Recorded: Tuesday 18 June, approx. 83 minutes
Click here to listen

When the Money Runs Out: the end of western affluence
Speaker: Stephen King
Recorded: Wednesday 19 June, approx. 83 minutes
Click here to listen

Training and development opportunities for staff

Courses scheduled for next week include:

• First Aid at Work

• Video Conferencing for Teaching and Meetings

• Developing Emotional Resilience in the Workplace

• Safety in Fieldwork Planning and Safety Management Awareness Training

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.
 

Below are some of the vacancies currently being advertised to internal candidates only, as well as those being advertised externally.

• Executive assistant to Director of Library Services, Library: resources and innovation
• Facilities management team secretary and PA to FM Director, Estates: facilities and projects
• Financial administrator, Estates Division
• LSE fellow in finance, Finance
• LSE fellow in human rights, Sociology
• LSE fellow in sociology, Sociology
• MSc programmes manager (maternity cover), Economics
• Marie Curie research officer (doctoral scholarship), PSSRU
• Postdoctoral research assistant (REDD+), Grantham Research Institute
• Project manager (research data management), Information Management and Technology
• Research officer (CELSIUS project), Centre for Analysis of Time Series
• Support and communications assistant, PSSRU

Nicole wants to hear from you!

Do you have some news, an achievement, or an aspect of LSE life that you would like to share? If so, then I would love to hear from you, contact me at n.gallivan@lse.ac.uk or on ext 7582.

The next edition of Staff News is on Thursday 4 July. Articles for this should be emailed to me by Tuesday 2 July. Staff News is emailed every Thursday during term time and fortnightly during the holidays.