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LSE academics elected as Fellows of the British Academy
In recognition of their outstanding scholarship, two professors from LSE
have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy, the UK's national body
for the humanities and social sciences.
Each year at its Annual General Meeting, the British Academy elects into its
Fellowship UK-based scholars who are highly distinguished academics and who
are recognised for their outstanding research and work across the humanities
and social sciences.
This year LSE's David Soskice, School Professor of Political
Science and Economics, and Michael Bridge, Cassel Professor of
Commercial Law, were among 42 scholars elected.
Commenting on the announcement, Professor Soskice of the Department of
Government said: “I feel very honoured to be elected to the British Academy
and I see this as reflecting the exciting study of comparative political
economy at LSE.”
Professor Bridge, Department of Law, added: “It is a great honour to be
elected to the Academy, where the LSE Law Department has long played and
continues to play a prominent part.”
Professor Mary Morgan, Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics in
the Department of Economic History, was also elected as a Vice President at
the Academy and will begin her tenure from 2014.
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Dorothee Wierling becomes Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor 2013-14
The German Historical Institute London, the International History Department
of LSE, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Düsseldorf have awarded the Gerda
Henkel Visiting Professorship for the research sphere "Germany in Europe
1890-2000".
From Tuesday 1 October Professor Dr Dorothee Wierling (pictured), Deputy
Director of the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg, will spend a
year in the role teaching at LSE and researching at the German Historical
Institute London.
Her Inaugural Lecture, to be given on Tuesday 22 October, is entitled
“Local Agents - Global Players. Hamburg Coffee Merchants in the 20th
Century”.
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LSE to lead global debate on emerging nations
LSE will lead a global debate in early 2014 about the role of emerging
nations on the world stage.
This is part of a new strategic partnership the School has forged with the
development bank for Latin America, Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF).
CAF-funded research led by Dr Chris Alden from LSE’s Department of
International Relations into the growing importance of China, India, Latin
America and Africa on a global scale will form the basis of an international
conference hosted by LSE next year.
The funding will also support a three-month postdoctoral fellowship within
LSE’s Department of International Relations, as well as a postgraduate
scholarship for students from CAF’s 18 member states.
The partnership between the two institutions was agreed earlier this year
during a meeting between CAF CEO and executive president, Enrique García and
LSE Director Craig Calhoun.
Professor Calhoun said LSE was looking forward to working with CAF in
academic and research activities that had a positive impact on national and
international public policies, with the goal of promoting sustainable and
inclusive development.
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LSE academic gives evidence to Political and Constitutional Reform
Committee Professor Patrick Dunleavy (pictured), Professor of
Political Science and Public Policy and Co-Director of Democratic Audit at
LSE, has given evidence to Parliament’s Political and Constitutional Reform
Committee.
The Committee’s report, Revisiting Rebuilding the House: the impact of
the Wright reforms, was published on Thursday 18 July. It aims to
evaluate the impact of the Wright Report of 2009 and gathers together
the written and oral evidence given to the Committee, including that of
Professor Dunleavy.
The full written evidence submitted by Professor Dunleavy can be
read here.
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Knowledge Exchange and Impact: beyond the REF Did you know that
LSE encourages - and funds - knowledge exchange and impact work well beyond
the Research Excellence Framework (REF)?
The REF itself is vital and work is now in hand on Impact Case Studies
for REF2014. We are using this to build an institutional memory also for
REF2020 and beyond, with an Impact Database and an Impact Case Study
website.
But for LSE, engagement (knowledge exchange, impact - the jargon doesn’t
matter) goes well beyond HEFCE’s requirements for the REF. The School
already has a range of services to help academics make their work available
to wider society. In recent years these services have been augmented with
the help of the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF). Under the current
fifth round of HEIF (2011-15), LSE has received £7 million for this purpose.
£3 million of this has been put into a Bid Fund which has already funded 18
large projects. Some funds remain: look out for a further call for bids next
term.
Also, a working group of the Strategic Review has been thinking how to
improve the services available to academics who want to step up their
knowledge exchange work. The Knowledge Exchange and Impact Working Group has
spent the last year considering options in knowledge exchange, impact
evaluation and public engagement. The Group reviewed current knowledge
exchange and impact activities and the services and resources LSE now
provides to support them, and has recommended to the School ways to improve
support.
For more information on this or anything else mentioned above, contact Dr
Tina Basi, Knowledge Exchange Manager, at
t.basi@lse.ac.uk or on ext 1172.
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Message of thanks
Message from Michael Story (pictured), postgraduate student in the
Department of Social Policy.
"I am a just-finishing masters student at LSE and throughout the year
I have been having treatment for cancer. The Disability and Well-Being
Office and all the academic staff could not have been more helpful:
they've moved deadlines, provided material when I missed classes, even
helped me catch up during the vacation after I missed part of Lent term.
"I'm really proud to be part of a university which is so flexible and
welcoming; studying here has been a very positive part of life during a
challenging time."
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 Notices
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Computer tip of the week Keeping headings visible in Excel
files
As Excel data tables grow, scrolling makes column and row headings
disappear. Keep them visible by ‘freezing panes’.
1. Ensure that the row(s) you want to ‘freeze’ is visible at the top of
the screen.
2. Select the row immediately below the one(s) you want to be frozen. (To
freeze columns, select the column to the right of the one(s) to be frozen.
Or to freeze both, select a single cell: select B4 to freeze column A and
rows one to three.)
3. On the View tab, in the Window group click the Freeze
Panes icon.
4. Click Freeze Panes. (A black line appears under and/or to the left
of the ‘frozen’ rows/columns.)
Test this by scrolling through your table. Note: the rows/columns frozen
will be those visible at the top/left of the screen at that time, not
necessarily the top row of the table.
To remove this feature, click again on the Freeze Panes arrow and
select Unfreeze Panes.
If you have a question, look 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.
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Call for conference papers - Culture and Social Change: the role of
aesthetics
This conference, organised by the Department of Sociology, will take
place at LSE from 16-17 December 2013, and the Department is calling
for papers.
The deadline for abstract submissions is Tuesday 15 October. For
more information,
click here. Abstracts should be sent to Dr Cristiana Olcese at
c.olcese@lse.ac.uk.
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Urban Vignettes: call for contributions Following a successful
first season in 2012, Urban
Vignettes, a collaborative visual-blog initiated by a small team of LSE
postgraduate students has launched its second season.
The blog, supported by Urban@LSE Student-led Initiative Fund, offers a
platform for people worldwide to share, showcase, and reflect upon their
experiences and engagements with their cities.
The blog is inviting contributions to five concurrent themes from July to
December 2013. The themes are:
Contributions of at least one visual and a 300-500 word blog post can be
emailed to
submit@urbanvignettes.com. Accepted contributions will be published on a
bi-weekly basis.
For more information, see
call
for contributions.
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LSE Zumba - party your way into shape
LSE Zumba will be running for a few more sessions. The next scheduled
sessions are Friday 2 August and Tuesday 6 August, from 5-6pm
in the Old Gym, basement of the Old Building.
No experience necessary, just wear comfortable clothes and bring a bottle of
water.
Sessions are open to all and cost just £3.
For more information, email Susan at
s.marmito@lse.ac.uk.
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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 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.
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
Staff and students can now get a special discount for Alexander Technique
lessons taking place at the Bloomsbury Centre, just a five minute walk from
LSE.
If you spend a lot of time sitting or standing, reading or using a
computer then how you use yourself in these and many other daily activities
can have a profound effect on how well you function.
Lessons can relieve back pain, RSI, help improve posture, lessen
depression and anxiety and make you sound better. Improvements in these
areas lead to a better general appearance and enhance your confidence
generally.
Lessons cost £35 (when 10 lessons are pre-booked) for LSE staff/students
(normal lesson fee £45), or you can take part in a four week, small group,
evening course starting on Tuesday 3 September costing £70 for LSE
staff/students (normal price £80).
There are also one-off workshops available on Tuesday 6 and Tuesday 27
August from 6.45-9.15pm. The cost for these is £50, and this will include a
lesson at a future date with Alun Thomas.
For more information, contact Alun Thomas on 07817 091385 or email
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features graduands in the Peacock Theatre looking
through the commemorative brochure at the start of their graduation
ceremony on Friday 19 July.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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Conservatives would gain most from changing the voting system for
European Elections The Conservatives could beat UKIP and be
neck-and-neck with Labour in next year’s European elections if the voting
system were changed from “closed-list” to “open-list”, according to new
research from LSE.
A YouGov poll, commissioned by LSE and the Electoral Reform Society,
showed that if the elections were held today under the existing “closed-list
system” Labour would win 30 per cent, UKIP 25 per cent, Conservatives 23 per
cent, Greens 12 per cent, and Liberal Democrats 10 per cent.
However, one group of respondents was asked to vote under an “open-list”
system, in which respondents could vote for individual candidates rather
than lists of candidates presented by parties. Under this alternative
system, Labour received 31 per cent (1 percentage point better),
Conservatives 28 per cent (+5), UKIP 19 per cent (-6), Lib Dems 12 per cent
(+2), and Greens 10 per cent (-2).
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Schizophrenia is costing Japanese economy £15 billion a year
Schizophrenia is costing the Japanese economy more than £15 billion a year
in health care, unemployment and suicides, according to new research
published this month.
Researchers from Tokyo and LSE say Japan’s ageing population and the high
cost of treating schizophrenia patients is imposing “a tremendous societal
burden” on the world’s third-largest economy.
As an illness, schizophrenia is often overshadowed by depression and
anxiety-related disorders, which are far more prevalent in Japan but
actually have lower direct costs, according to a new paper recently
published in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment.
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Parental responses to children's online risks differ across Europe
New research on children’s online risk and parenting practices across Europe
reveals that a potentially negative pattern is developing in some countries
that either limits children’s engagement or does not prevent risk of harm.
The report, published on Monday 22 July by EU Kids Online at LSE,
explores how parental responses to children's online use differs according
to country and how this translates to children's online safety.
Researchers found that European countries divide into four main groups,
based on children’s risk profiles: supported risky explorers; semi-supported
risky gamers; protected by restrictions; and unprotected networkers.
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Research Committee Seed Fund Deadline: 27 September 2013
The Research Committee Seed Fund (RCSF) will shortly be replaced by the
Research Infrastructure and Investment Funds.
In the meantime, staff are still welcome to apply to the RCSF for funding
up to £25,000. Staff are strongly encouraged to contact Daniel Fisher in the
Research Division, at d.fisher@lse.ac.uk
or on ext 3727 if they are interested in the scheme.
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Research e-Briefing
Click here
to read the Summer edition of the Research Division
newsletter.
To sign up for research news, recent funding opportunities, research awards
that are about to start, and examples of research outcomes,
click here.
The next issue is out at the end of October 2013.
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 Events
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Autumn events programme
The 2013 autumn events programme will be announced in September but
for a sneak peek of the programme throughout the summer, follow
LSE Events on Twitter -
twitter.com/LSEpublicevents.
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Forthcoming LSE events include....
Winds of Change in the World Economy: rethinking development strategies
On: Thursday 12 September at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Richard Kozul-Wight (pictured), senior UN economist heading
the unit on economic integration and cooperation among developing countries
in UNCTAD
Discussant: Professor Robert Wade, professor of political economy and
development in the Department of International Development at LSE.
Eyes Wide Open: how to make smart decisions in a confusing world
On: Wednesday 9 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Noreena Hertz (pictured), author and academic. |
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 60
second interview
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with..... Sam Johnson
I am a graduate intern in the
External Relations Division, where I
split my time between the Summer
Schools in Cape Town and Beijing,
run by Academic Partnerships, and
the Press Office. I started in this
role in January but I’m no stranger
to LSE as I did my BA in History
here from 2009 to 2012. I guess I
just can’t stay away.
I’m originally from Gateshead
which is just next to Newcastle in
the North East and I lived there all
my life before moving to London four
years ago.
What have you found to be the
benefits of the graduate intern
scheme and have you developed any
new skills or abilities as a result?
The whole job has really been a
learning experience for me from day
one. I’ve learned a fair few
specific skills since I’ve been here
but the main benefit has been
gaining real-life working
experience.
Do you believe this experience
has added to your employability and
what are your plans for the future?
The experience has certainly made
me more employable. It is incredibly
difficult for graduates to get a
paying job straight out of
university, almost everyone I know
from my students days is either
doing further study or working for
free to try and gain experience. I
think this programme is an excellent
opportunity for LSE graduates and
I’m very grateful it exists.
As for future plans, I’m not
entirely sure at the moment. I might
just keep turning up here every day.
What is your favourite sport?
Being from the North East it
couldn’t be anything other than
football. Although there have been a
lot of times following Newcastle
when I really wished I didn’t care
at all.
If you could have one super
power what would it be?
I’d quite like to be able to stop
time like in the old kids TV show
Bernard’s Watch. I like to think
I’d use it to be more productive but
I’d probably just have long lie-ins
every day.
What three items would you
take to a desert island with you?
I think being stuck alone on a
desert island would be a bit of a
nightmare, I’d probably start to go
mad pretty quickly. With that in
mind I’d take an iPod for company,
alcohol to make the time pass
quicker, and some flares to flag
down any ships that passed by.
Where did you go on your last
holiday and what were the pros and
cons?
I went on a boat down the
Croatian coast with some friends
after graduating last year. The
weather and the food were brilliant,
the only real downside was that it
took me a couple of days to get my
sea legs and I don’t think anyone
enjoyed the sight of that. The
LSE Graduate Internship scheme
provides departments with access to
graduates from an accessible high
quality talent pool, without many of
the complications associated with
external recruitment. These
internships provide recent LSE
graduates with full-time paid
internship contracts in research
institutes, service divisions and
academic departments for a period of
nine months with potential for
extension.
To organise an LSE Graduate
Internship all you need to do is
follow the information on
hiring an LSE Graduate Intern
and complete the
Internship request form. |
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 Training
and jobs
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Software surgery
Tuesdays from 1-2pm in the Library Training Room, LRB.R08, lower ground
floor
Software surgeries are available on a limited basis this summer to
provide both staff and students with the opportunity to seek training on
Microsoft Office and Library Technologies.
You can drop in on the day or book in advance via the
Training and Development System. A member of the training team will be
on hand to help you learn what you need to solve your particular problem.
Bring your queries about:
- Microsoft Office
Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word
- Library Technologies
EndNote, e-journals and online data sources
You are advised to have a copy of your work on your H: Space and/or
memory stick when you attend a session.
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Mental Health First-aid
It is likely that all of us will experience mental health difficulties
or know someone who does at sometime in our lives. The Mental Health
First-aid course aims to give participants the knowledge and confidence to
recognise signs of mental health problems, encourage someone to seek the
right help, and to reduce the stigma around mental illness.
The course is a two day externally accredited course and is being held
on Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 August. Places can be booked via
the
Training and Development System.
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Could you save someone’s life? LSE now has six
defibrillator units which can deliver a shock to someone who collapses when
their heart goes into ventricular fibrillation. The defibrillators are
located in the busiest buildings on campus (see the
first-aid webpage for more information).
We are holding training sessions on how to administer CPR and use the
defibrillator, taking place on Tuesday 3 September from 10am-1pm and
from 2-5pm. The sessions are open to all staff and students. You don’t need
to be a first-aider to book a place, just visit the
Training and Development
System.
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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.
- Digital Library Developer, Library: resources and innovation
- Events Coordinator, LSE IDEAS
- Executive MSc Programmes Administrator, Social Policy
- Executive MSc Programmes Officer, Social Policy
- Executive Programme Convener, LSE IDEAS
- Graduate Administrator, Geography and Environment
- JIB Approved Shift Electrician, Estates Division
- LSE Fellow, Management
- LSE Fellow (health economics), Social Policy
- LSE Fellow in Political Sociology, Sociology
- Lectureships in Management, Management: EROB Group
- MSc Electives Portfolio Administrator, Management
- MSc Programmes Manager, Management
- National Bank of Greece Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship,
Hellenic Observatory
- Research Officer (part time), Statistics
- Rich Media Assistant, Communications
- Support Specialist (Service Departments Support Team),
Information Management and Technology
- Tutor for International Programmes, Economics
- Warden (Butlers Wharf Residence), Residential and Catering
Services Division
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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