New 'What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth' announced

B-MEntoring

The School has recently joined B-MEntoring, a cross-institutional London-wide mentoring scheme in which LSE academic and research staff can participate as mentors or mentees.

Peter Carrol

Peter, Communications Officer in LSE's Library, usually heads straight for the fridge when he gets home, gets something to eat and then starts watching Channel 4 News.

Dr Amy Gutmann (pictured), President of the University of Pennsylvania, was made an Honorary Fellow of LSE today.

Honorary Fellowships are awarded by LSE each year to people who have attained distinction in the arts, science, or public life, or who have rendered outstanding services to the School or its concerns.

Following the publication of the School-wide results of the Staff Survey in May, the School will be making available all departmental/divisional results on Monday 29 July. The material can be accessed on the LSE Staff Survey web pages. In order to preserve confidentiality, reports were not produced for groups of fewer than 10 respondents. The aim is to ensure that the results of the Survey, which had a response rate of nearly 70 per cent, are shared as transparently as possible across the School.

LSE is also determined that the Survey findings be acted upon and is firmly embarked on the action planning stage of the Review. Heads of Department and Service Leaders are now working on their action plans at a local level. The School-wide plan is to be published in the Michaelmas term.

Local action plans already submitted show innovative and strategic approaches. For example, LSE IDEAS found that many staff at the Centre had a strong sense of identity, but wanted a better shared sense of direction to be communicated at all levels. To set this in motion the director of the Centre has held a discussion about the shared vision for the Centre with colleagues. Elsewhere in the School, PCPD is setting up a “buddy” system so that colleagues can share specialist knowledge and, therefore, delegate at busy periods. And in the Department of Media and Communications, colleagues are using departmental meetings to provide better feedback from School committees and initiatives.

At the School level, HR has already begun work on addressing some of the concerns around bullying or harassment and analysed the pilot courses on “Fair Treatment and Respect at Work” run for managers and staff earlier in the year. The feedback from these courses was positive and more are being run on the following dates:

Working With Others: fair treatment and respect for non-managers
Wednesday 25 September
Friday 25 October
Working With Others: fair treatment and respect for managers
Thursday 26 September
Thursday 31 October

Staff at all levels are encouraged to attend one of these courses.

In addition some colleagues on the LSE Leadership Development Programme are working on themes to emerge from the Staff Survey in their action learning sets. One set is looking at how to improve communication between academic and academic support staff, another learning set is looking at how to break down silos across the School.

LSE, the Centre for Cities and Arup have been chosen to take forward a new independent research centre, the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth.

The Centre, which is funded by the ESRC, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and the Department for Communities and Local Government, aims to significantly improve the use of evidence in the design and delivery of policies for local economic growth and employment. It will be led by LSE and will be directed by Professor Henry Overman, the current director of the Spatial Economics Research Centre at LSE.

Seventy year 12 state school students from non-privileged backgrounds will attend a specialised law programme at LSE next year under phase III of the Pathways to Law programme.

LSE is one of 12 universities across the country selected to deliver the Sutton Trust’s flagship legal access programme for the next four years and only one of two based in London.

Pathways to Law aims to inspire and support bright state school students aged 17 and 18 who come from non- privileged backgrounds, who are interested in pursuing a career in law. LSE’s tailored programme will not only give students a taste of the academic teaching they would receive as undergraduate law students at the School, but will provide practical support for those wanting a career in law as well as visits to key legal institutions.

Dr Jonathan Leape (pictured) has been appointed as Executive Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC). He will start his new position on 1 September. Dr Ibrahim Stevens has also been appointed as Country Programme Director and will start on 1 August.

The IGC, which is based at LSE in partnership with the University of Oxford, provides independent and demand-led growth policy advice directly to governments based on rigorous analysis and frontier research. It is funded by the UK’s Department for International Development.

Commenting on his appointment, Dr Leape said: “I am absolutely delighted. This is a tremendous opportunity and I welcome the challenge of leading the Centre through its next phase, working with our international partners to achieve the sustained economic growth that is vital to lifting millions of people out of poverty.”

Middle East Centre Director change

Professor Fawaz Gerges (pictured) will step down as Director of the Middle East Centre (MEC) on 31 August 2013. He will return full-time to the Department of International Relations to concentrate on teaching and research.

Professor Gerges writes: "It has been a great pleasure directing the Centre in the three years since its foundation and I am proud of its growth and achievements in this time. The Centre has already acquired a reputation for research excellence and independence. We have a first-rate group of scholars from the region and elsewhere affiliated with the Centre, and their research will make a critical difference in the field of Middle East studies. Our public events series has contributed to broadening the debate at LSE and in the wider community. The Centre has provided significant financial support to postgraduate students as well as intellectual training and mentoring. Equally important, the Centre has established an organisational and intellectual umbrella that integrates academics who research the Middle East at LSE. I will continue to be engaged with the work of the MEC and to help promote its further growth and development."

The School is sad to announce the death of Professor Terence Morris (pictured), a leading pioneer of sociological criminology in Britain and the first Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at LSE.

Professor Morris had been at LSE as an undergraduate and graduate student, and had been supervised by Hermann Mannheim as one of his last graduate students. Subsequently, he taught in LSE's Department of Sociology from 1955-95.

Professor Morris was a leading pioneer of sociological criminology in Britain, and published many seminal scholarly books and papers that will continue to influence future generations as a lasting legacy. He was a ‘public criminologist’ long before the concept was coined, and was a gifted and inspiring teacher.

In ‘An Appreciation’, Professor Robert Reiner, Emeritus Professor of Criminology at LSE, says: “I remember him myself as a student on his Deviance course during my MSc in Sociology year here at LSE in 1968. He was the model of a social science intellectual as I had imagined one to be: witty, sophisticated, liberal, a mine of information who seemed to have read everything, with a sharp incisive analytic insight. The impact of Professor Morris’ work will live on.”

Democracy and human rights in the UK is the focus of a new blog, launched this week by Democratic Audit, based at LSE.

The blog is the first of several new initiatives from Democratic Audit following its transfer from University of Liverpool earlier this year. One of Britain’s leading NGOs tracking the health of democracy, human rights and freedoms in an evidence-based way, Democratic Audit is hosted within LSE's Department of Government and co-directed by Dr Jonathan Hopkins and Professor Patrick Dunleavy.

Democraticaudit.com, which already receives over 700 visitors per day, will pay particular attention to issues around elections, political parties, Parliament, government, human rights, civil liberties and freedoms.

Professor Patrick Dunleavy, said: "The quality of democratic institutions and the vitality of democratic processes can never be taken for granted. We are interested in the widest range of evidence-based contributions, including the political theory of democratic reform and improvement for mature liberal democracies, and comparisons of UK with other countries on democratic quality."

First ever LSE-UCT July School begins

The first ever LSE-UCT July School got underway on Monday 1 July as around 100 participants from 30 countries converged on the University of Cape Town’s campus near Table Mountain.

The diverse group included not only students from LSE, UCT and other top universities, but also a wide range of professionals including elected officials, foreign diplomats, humanitarian workers and development bankers.

The LSE-UCT July School is the first such collaboration between leading institutions in Europe and Africa and builds on the continuing success of the LSE-PKU Summer School in Beijing, now in its tenth year.

Feedback from the inaugural class has been overwhelmingly positive so far with several students commenting on the academic rigour of the programme. Tizina Ramagaga, a student on Dr Elliot Green’s ‘Poverty: what causes it and what it causes’ module, commented: "the course is so intense, I’ve learnt a lot in just a few days." More
 

LSE Enterprise’s first cohort of 52 students from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México was welcomed to LSE at a reception with LSE Director Professor Craig Calhoun (pictured).

The students are undertaking a three-week customised programme in international political economy, with a mixture of specialist lectures, private seminars and corporate visits.

The Women’s Library @ LSE

LSE Library is pleased to announce that, following relocation, The Women’s Library @ LSE collections will be available again this summer.

The Women’s Library @ LSE archive and museum collections will be accessible from August 2013, and books, periodicals, pamphlets and other printed materials will be available from September 2013.

Elizabeth Chapman, Director of LSE Library Services, said: "We are delighted to provide access to The Women’s Library @ LSE collections. Combining this fine and inspirational collection of women’s history with the largest social science library in Europe will provide our visitors with a superb resource that will greatly enhance their study experience."

The Women's Library @ LSE service will operate from LSE Library's existing Archives Reading Room until the completion of the new reading room and exhibition space in 2014.

For more information on The Women’s Library @ LSE, visit lse.ac.uk/library/womenslibraryatLSE.
 

LSE has a long history of influencing political thought and policy. British Government @ LSE has embarked on a project to showcase the numerous scholars, from Beatrice and Sidney Webb to Richard Layard, who have had an important impact on the state and society.

In an article for the British Politics and Policy blog Professor Tony Travers, Director of LSE London and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Government, provides an overview of the project’s purpose and progress:

"In a world where the word ‘academic’ is used to mean ‘scholarly’ and, by other people, ‘not directly useful’, it is important to show how the activities undertaken in universities are relevant to those who pay the taxes that underpin (at least part of) the cost of higher education. LSE’s ‘Influential Academics’ project is intended to show how a number of the School’s personalities have contributed directly to political thought and policy. This project, an element in the HEIF-funded BG@LSE engagement process, now includes interviews (mostly with LSE people) about the activities of past and contemporary academics who have been involved with political thought, government and policy-making in Britain.

"The work completed so far provides only a modest snapshot of what has been achieved by LSE academics since the end of the 19th century: many key figures from the past have not yet been covered, while contemporary figures have (for obvious reasons) been more easily included. Additional interviews will be added in future."

Dr Ben Groom (pictured), Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE, and Professor Mark Freeman of the University of Loughborough, in collaboration with HM Treasury and the Grantham Research Institute, organised a workshop entitled “Social Discounting in the UK” on Monday 17 June, bringing together a range of academic opinion to provide an up to date overview of the recent growing literature on social discounting.

The consultation formed a part of the Treasury’s preparation to refresh the technical guidance known as the Green Book. The aim of the Green Book is to ensure that public funds are spent on activities that provide the greatest benefits to society, and that they are spent in the most efficient way.

Dr Groom said: “In the last decade, and in particular post-Stern Review, the economic literature on social discounting and inter-generational equity has exploded. The workshop provided an important opportunity for those in charge of the current review of Treasury guidelines on cost-benefit analysis to engage with academics at the forefront of this literature, several of whom work at LSE.”

Naomi Hicks (pictured), Public Communications Manager for the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE, is one of nine Sustainability Champions to be named as a finalist in the EAUC Green Gown Awards 2013.

The Green Gown Awards recognise the exceptional sustainability initiatives being undertaken by universities, colleges and the learning and skills sectors across the UK. With sustainable development moving up the global agenda, the Awards are now established as the most prestigious recognition of sustainability excellence within the tertiary education sector, as well as the environmental sector.

The newly introduced “Sustainability Champion” category recognises people at any level who have worked hard at implementing a sustainability project/initiative (or several) and whose involvement has made a positive impact on their peers, their institution, their students, their local community or their local workforce.

Naomi’s enthusiasm, energy, imagination and initiative has led the Grantham Research Institute into new territory, with pilots of gold standard offsetting and experiential events at the Science Museum. She has gone above and beyond the remit of her role and as co-leader of the Grantham Green Impact team. Naomi has found creative ways to change people’s behaviour, and has supported the team to jump from Silver to the top scoring Platinum Green Impact team in just one year.

LSE environmental management re-certification

LSE’s environmental management system has been recommended for ISO 14001 re-certification. This recognises the School’s strong systems to continually improve its environmental performance.

The external auditor, Dr Margaret Rooney, was particularly impressed with how LSE combines its formal sustainability reporting with a strong collegiate ethos, where students and staff from across the School collaborate on projects to enhance the School’s environmental impact.

Allan Blair, Director of Facilities, said: "We’re delighted that we have been recommended for this achievement, and I’d like to thank the teams across the School who contribute to making this a success on a daily basis."
 

It's 80 years since LSE first opened its doors to colleagues fleeing persecution by the Nazis, and the School continues to offer support to academic refugees from around the world.

As well as its hosting programme for those facing immediate risk, the Scholars At Risk scheme, together with the LSE Language Centre, offers a unique English language and research support course for academic refugees, Reconnect with Research. The organisers are now inviting applications for the October course.

In a guest post on NYU’s Scholars at Risk Network blog, Chris New (pictured above) of the Language Centre, who designed and teaches the course, reflected on what student participation and engagement mean in the context of Reconnect with Research. (The blog was first posted on the LSE Teaching and Learning Centre blog.)

Latefa Guemar, Visiting Fellow in the Gender Institute and former Reconnect with Research course participant, has been talking about her experiences as a refugee scholar and the support that LSE has offered.

Making a success of an ageing population

Maggie Ellis (pictured), Senior Research Fellow at LSE, was invited as a keynote speaker to discuss “How to Get Off the Roundabout: making a success of an ageing population!” at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Spain at the beginning of July.

This was a follow up to the April conference at LSE when the European Knowledge Tree Group (EKTG) dealing with technology for older and disabled people also addressed this topic.

Maggie said: "Sadly it is rare for technology users and their families to meet designers and industry that make the technology, even more rarely senior managers and budget holders to be in the same room. Hence although officials in Brussels have supported the development of these technologies, little has come to fruition and to market. I highlighted the emergence of the larger percentage of the population who are ageing and will be dependent on the rest of society for long-term care and conditions.

"Without appropriate use of technologies we will not cope with these demands. Soon real schemes for implementing good practice will take place in Europe and we expect LSE and others involved in the EKTG will be part of this work."
 

LSE Research Online has announced that all publications will now have their Altmetric score made public.

Altmetrics - or alternative metrics - is a system that tracks and scores the impact scholarly articles have on social media, traditional media and in online reference-management systems.

The relationship between altmetrics and the measure of research impact is of increasing interest to the bibliometric community, and has been explored in a recent Spanish study due to be published later this year. To find out how items are rated, visit the 'How we measure attention' of the Altmetric website.

LSE has recently joined B-MEntoring, a cross-institutional London-wide mentoring scheme aimed at career advancement of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) academic and research staff, in partnership with UCL, King’s College London, Imperial College, Brunel University, Institute of Education and Queen Mary, University of London.

Academic and research staff can participate in the scheme as mentors or mentees. Mentors can be from any ethnic background and should be at Senior Lecturer, Reader or Professor level. Mentees should self-identify as BME and can be from post-doctorate to lecturer level.

For more information, see the B-MEntoring webpages, or contact Ferhat Nazir-Bhatti, Equality and Diversity Manager, at f.nazir-bhatti@lse.ac.uk or on 020 7955 6171 if you have any queries.

Computer tip of the week

Working with shapes in PowerPoint

Shapes can add impact to your presentations. These tips will show you how to save time when adding and working with shapes.

• To get a perfect square/circle/cross etc, hold down shift as you draw the shape
• To duplicate a shape, click on it then hold down Ctrl and drag the shape. Or click on the shape and press Ctrl + D
• To change a shape’s colour, right click on the shape and choose Format Shape ¦ Fill ¦Solid Fill ¦ Color. Select a colour from the list.
• To group shapes so they move or can be formatted as one, hold down the Shift Key and click on each shape required. Then Right Click on one of the selected shapes and select Group ¦ Group. With the group selected, you can also change the whole group’s format in one go.

Nominations are invited for the award of a Queen’s Honour (which include MBE, OBE, CBE etc). Do you know someone who has given outstanding service to the School (either as a member of staff or in a voluntary capacity) who in your opinion has:

• made a real impact on the School/our students
• gained the respect of their peers
• changed things for the better at the School
• demonstrated innovation or
• brought distinction to British life and enhanced its reputation through their work at the School?

A full explanation is given here but please bear in mind that awards channelled through the School should be for services to higher education, with particular reference to the School.

LSE Zumba - party your way into shape

The Latin-music inspired workout has come to LSE. Dance away the worries of the week, and get fit in the process.

No experience necessary, just show up in comfortable clothes and bring a bottle of water. Sessions are open to all and cost just £3, with the option for a season pass offering you a discount on multiple classes.

Sessions are taking place from 5-6pm in the Old Gym, basement of the Old Building, on Friday 19 July, Tuesday 23 July, and Friday 26 July. More sessions will be scheduled throughout August and September.

For more information, email Susan at s.marmito@lse.ac.uk.
 

Ma 'Jon Hair and Oro Gold salons are offering LSE staff 80 per cent off its pamper package. The visits listed below can be completed in any order over the next four months. The four visits are normally worth over £300 but LSE staff will pay only £55 for all four visits.

The salons are located at:

• Ma’ Jon Salon, 24 Museum Street, London, W1CA 1JT
• Oro Gold Salon, 67 Neal Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9PJ

Experience One: hair cut visit at Ma 'Jon

• Deep conditioning and cleansing treatment
• Scalp massage
• Designer hair cut and blow dry

Experience Two: colour visit at Ma 'Jon

• Full colour consultation
• T-section of highlights (14 foils)
• Followed by a shampoo and blow dry

Experience Three: facial visit at Oro Gold

• Skin analysis including product prescription
• Anti aging Oro Gold facial
• Décolleté massage

Experience Four: body works visit at Oro Gold

• Choose between - Oro Gold specialist skin treatment OR Oro Gold non-surgical face lift

Properties to rent

House to rent in Beckenham Hill
A semi-detached, three bedroom house with garden is available to rent in Beckenham Hill. The house is just a two minute walk from Beckenham Hill train station, which takes you to Blackfriars in 25 minutes, and also opposite a very good Catholic primary school.

For more information and to arrange a visit, email Jon Deer in the Research Division at j.deer@lse.ac.uk.

One bedroom apartment to rent in Mecklenburgh Square, London
This furnished one-bedroom, lower ground floor apartment is located in the middle of Mecklenburgh Square. The flat has a small courtyard to the rear but there is also a communal garden, barbecue facilities and a tennis court on site.

The apartment will be available from September 2013 at £380 per week, plus bills (gas, electricity, water, council tax). The tenant must be a non-smoker and pets are not allowed.

For more information and to arrange a viewing, email john@jkampfner.net or lucy.ash.05@bbc.co.uk.

This week's picture features LSE students enjoying the sun in John Watkins Plaza. The view through the open windows of St Clement's shows the living Sedum roof on top of the Plaza Café.

For more images like this, visit the Photography Unit.

Complaints about nuisance calls tripled in two years

Nuisance calls in the UK have been growing at an alarming rate and the regulations designed to protect consumers from them are failing to halt the rise, according to a new report from LSE.

The report, part of the LSE Media Policy Project, examined official complaints mechanisms and public surveys about nuisance calls. It found that while the costs to offending companies for making such calls is dropping, the negative impact on society, the economy and individuals is increasing.

Comparing regulator data, the report shows that complaints to both Ofcom and the Telephone Preference Service more than tripled between April 2011 and April 2013. While some forms of “cold” or unsolicited calls are legal, the data also indicates that illegal forms of nuisance communication, such as excessive automated calls or unsolicited text messages make up a significant part of the problem.

Claire Milne, Visiting Senior Fellow in the LSE Department of Media and Communications, and the report’s author, said: “The elderly and disabled may suffer more than the average person because they are more likely to be at home and may have difficulty reaching the phone or be susceptible to those calls that are forms of fraud.” More
 

"Only general prosperity can produce widespread consent for emissions reductions, and only affordable energy for all can deliver prosperity."

How to square this circle is the vital topic of a new paper published on Thursday 11 July. THE VITAL SPARK: innovating clean and affordable energy for all was coordinated by LSE and is co-authored by 20 leading experts in energy and climate change issues from England, Japan, Brazil, Sweden, Canada, Germany and the USA, all members of the Hartwell group.

It is now known that Kyoto Protocol-type policy had no noticeable effect on reducing humanity's carbon footprint. Despite this failure, the report argues, we can still hope for a transition towards a high energy, low-carbon economy in which clean, safe and affordable energy is available to all.

Statins - the popular class of cholesterol-lowering drugs used widely to prevent recurrent heart disease and a first event - appear to cause few side effects, according to new research conducted by Huseyin Naci from LSE Health, Jasper Brugts from Erasmus Medical Center and Professor Tony Ades from the University of Bristol.

In their paper, published in Circulation: cardiovascular quality and outcomes, Naci and colleagues conducted the largest meta-analysis on statin side effects to date, reviewing data from 135 previous drug studies to evaluate the safety of the seven statins on the market. They concluded that "as a class, adverse events associated with statin therapy are not common".

Long-established social housing tenants living in some of the wealthiest areas of inner London fear the city’s escalating house prices could push them out of the areas they have lived in for generations.

The gentrification of their boroughs, rising living costs and changing communities are troubling low-income residents, according to an LSE report.

The report, commissioned by Octavia Housing, documents how social housing tenants feel about living in Westminster, and Kensington and Chelsea.

The changing face of their neighbourhoods is fuelling their fears about the impact of welfare reforms, public spending cuts and job losses.

The increasing uptake of anti-depressants across Europe in recent decades has coincided with a gradual decline in suicide rates over the same period, according to a new report published in PLoS.

Between 1995 and 2009, the use of antidepressants across Europe increased by almost 20 per cent per year on average, with a corresponding 0.8 per cent annual reduction in the suicide rate.

Researchers, including David McDaid from LSE, say that data collected from 29 European countries over three decades provides “strong evidence” that anti-depressants are playing a key role in treatment strategies for depression.

The most downloaded items on LSE Research Online in June 2013 were as follows:

1. Prins, Gwyn et al (2010) The Hartwell Paper: a new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009. Institute for Science, Innovation & Society, University of Oxford; LSE Mackinder Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. (1853 downloads).

2. Anheier, Helmut K. (2000) Managing non-profit organisations: towards a new approach. Civil Society Working Paper series, 1. Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 0753013436 (1004 downloads).

3. Cho, Seo-Young, Dreher, Axel and Neumayer, Eric (2013) Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking? World development, 41 . pp. 67-82. ISSN 0305-750X (894 downloads).

4. Livingstone, Sonia (2008) Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression. New media & society, 10 (3). pp. 393-411. ISSN 1461-4448 (816 downloads).

5. Bowling, Ben and Phillips, Coretta (2003) Policing ethnic minority communities. In: Newburn, Tim, (ed.) Handbook of policing. Willan Publishing, Devon, UK, pp. 528-555. ISBN 9781843920199 (593 downloads).

Forthcoming LSE events include....

Turnaround: third world lessons for first world growth
On: Thursday 5 September at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Peter Blair Henry (pictured), dean of New York University’s Stern School of Business and former professor of international economics at Stanford University.

The Last Vote: the threats to western democracy
On: Monday 9 September at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Philip Coggan, Buttonwood columnist for the Economist.

Podcasts of public lectures and events

Secrets of Silicon Valley
Speaker: Deborah Perry Piscione
Recorded: Monday 8 July, approx. 87 minutes
Click here to listen

China's War with Japan
Speaker: Professor Rana Mitter
Recorded: Wednesday 10 July, approx. 89 minutes
Click here to listen

Gridlock: why global cooperation is failing when we need it most
Speakers: Thomas Hale, Professor David Held, and Kevin Young
Recorded: Thursday 11 July, approx. 91 minutes
Click here to listen

Minute taking

Monday 22 July from 10am-4.30pm

This course is suitable for all staff who would like to develop a good understanding of the purpose of meetings. It also enables delegates to take effective minutes that are appropriate to the situation, form an accurate record of the meeting, and are concise, clear and easy to read.

By the end of the course you will:

• Be able to identify the role and responsibilities of the minute taker
• Produce structured agendas
• Be selective in recording information
• Have the confidence to ask for clarity, if necessary
• Lay out information in a style suited to the chair and the meeting
• Produce an accurate set of minutes
• Carry out all administration related to the minute taking cycle in an effective and timely manner

To book your place on this course, click here.
 

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

• Administration and Communications Officer, Anthropology
• Assistant to POLIS Think-tank Director, Media and Communications
• Business Analyst, ODAR: operations
• Centre Manager, Systemic Risk Centre
• Department PA and Projects Assistant, Management
• Departmental Manager, Social Policy
• Deputy Security Team Leader, Estates: security and porters
• Executive MSc Programmes Administrator, Social Policy
• Executive MSc Programmes Officer, Social Policy
• Executive Programme Convener, LSE IDEAS
• Graduate Administrator, Geography and Environment
• Head of Student Services, Academic Registrar's Division
• Hellenic Observatory Administrator, European Institute
• LSE Fellow (health economics), Social Policy
• LSE Fellow (health policy), Social Policy
• LSE Fellow in Human Rights, Sociology
• LSE Fellow in Media and Communications, Media and Communications
• Postdoctoral Research Assistant (REDD+), Grantham Research Institute
• Receptionist, Estates: security and porters
• Student Recruitment Coordinator, ARD: student recruitment
• Undergraduate Programme Administrator, Management

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 1 August. Articles for this should be emailed to me by Tuesday 30 July. Staff News is emailed every Thursday during term time and fortnightly during the holidays.