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5 June 2014 |
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Landmark UK constitution crowdsourcing carnival at LSE
Peter Tatchell, the human rights activist, and Martin Lewis, the
campaigning consumer journalist, will be amongst speakers at a landmark
crowdsourcing carnival to engage the public in drafting a new UK
constitution to be held at LSE on Thursday 26 June. The carnival is the
culmination of Constitution UK, an innovative project at the School that
invites members of the public to participate in, offer advice on and
eventually to draft a new UK constitution.
Professor Conor Gearty, Director of LSE's Institute of Public Affairs,
explains "The UK has no written constitution which is problematic as well as
peculiar. The country reels from crisis to crisis. Failing banks, economic
collapse, controversial wars, MPs’ expenses scandals and there is no clear
idea of what the country stands for, what principles and values matter to
it, and therefore how best to tackle the various problems that it confronts.
The status quo is no longer an option.
As we approach the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, surely we can do better
than a bunch of medieval barons in Runnymede in June 1215?”
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Library’s Financial Times subscription being used by 4,000
students and staff
The Library’s FT.com subscription, launched in January 2014, now has 4,000
active students and staff users at LSE. The Library’s subscription allows
all LSE students and staff unlimited access to
FT.com by using their LSE email
address.Martin Reid, Head of Academic Services at the Library, said: "We
have been very pleased with the response to the Library’s FT.com
subscription. We will continue to consult with students to bring them
services and subscriptions that are relevant and valuable to their studies
at LSE."
The Library’s Academic Support Librarians are available to offer training
and advice to help students make the most of FT.com in their studies.
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Academics abroad
Professor Lilie Chouliaraki
Professor Lilie Chouliaraki, Department of Media and Communications
was the recipient of the Journalism Studies Outstanding Article of the
Year award at the International Communications Association conference in
Seattle last month.
In April, she gave a lecture on her book The Ironic Spectator.
Solidarity in the Age of Post-humanitarianism at the Centre for
Human Rights, University of Chicago. She also gave the opening keynote
in the 'Sustainability and the celebrity-business-development nexus'
international conference organised by the Copenhagen Business School and
Roskilde University, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Professor Jonathan Rosenhead
Jonathan Rosenhead, Emeritus Professor of Operational Research in the
Department of Management, delivered the Harold Larnder Memorial Lecture
of the Canadian Operational Research Society at the Society’s annual
conference in Ottawa on Tuesday 27 May. The Harold Larnder Prize “is
awarded annually to an individual who has achieved international
distinction in operational research”. The title of Professor Rosenhead’s
lecture was 'Can operational research help in a crisis?'
Earlier in the month Professor Rosenhead also spent a week as advisor to
the Minister of Planning in the Venezuelan Government, an annual
engagement since 2000. While in Caracas he gave a course of lectures at
the Escuela Venezolana de Planificación, on 'Problem structuring methods
for public decision making.'
Dr Chaloka Beyani
Dr Chaloka Beyani, Law Department, addressed members of the United
Nations Security Council in New York on Friday 30 May on the challenges
of internal displacement, protection of civilians, and threats to
international peace and security in his capacity as UN Special
Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. He also
completed an official mission to Azerbaijan 18 - 24 May where he
explored durable solutions to protracted displacement lasting more than
20 years.
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Celebrate with retiring colleagues at the Strawberry Tea
This year's Senior Common Room (SCR) Strawberry Tea will be held on
Wednesday 18 June at 4-6pm in the SCR.
The Strawberry Tea is an opportunity for SCR members to invite their LSE
friends and colleagues, past and present, to join them and relax at the
traditional occasion for saying farewell to members of the SCR who are
leaving the School to begin their retirement.
Any member of staff may attend the Strawberry Tea. Details and the booking
form are on the
SCR
website.
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How important changes to copyright laws will affect you
On Sunday 1 June, a number of significant amendments to the
1988
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA) came into force in UK law
which will extend exceptions to copyright law in some key areas. If you are
a member of one of the following groups: students, lecturers, researchers,
librarians or people with disabilities, then the laws that affect you have
changed and you will need to familiarise yourself with the changes.
A full article outlining the changes to the law and how they affect each
group is available on the LTI website
here.
Additional changes to copyright law are expected to come into force later in
the year as part of the government’s work to modernise laws for the digital
age.
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IMT Customer Satisfaction Survey
IMT is committed to improving the quality of its performance. In an effort
to improve services, IMT will now be inviting all customers to participate
in a brief survey to let them know how well their service is meeting
expectations. The survey should take no more than a couple of minutes to
complete, and all feedback will be invaluable in helping IMT to provide
customers with a higher quality of service in the future.
From Monday 9 June, email invitations to participate in the survey
will be sent out to all customers once their issue has been resolved.
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Diabetes group
A new diabetes group has been set up for all staff to help and support
each other and look at issues diabetic people face. The first meeting
will be on Thursday 12 June at noon in Tower 2, room 1.03.
If anyone can't make next Thursday but is interested in joining the
group, get in touch with Ian Marston at
i.marston@lse.ac.uk
for more details.
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Library course collection area review
This summer the Library will be reviewing the
course collection area to create additional study spaces for
students. As part of the project, all copies in the course collection
are being reviewed during June and July, with the aim of making the
space more efficient. The Library expects minimum disruption to students
during this period. The Library will retain all titles held in the
course collection and they will continue to be available to students.
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Library to launch new resource discovery system in August
The Library will be launching its new resource discovery system in early
August, which will upgrade the Summon and Catalogue search resources.
The search system will provide all Library users with a simple, single point
of access for searching, discovering and accessing all of the Library’s
content. As well as being more user friendly, the new search system will
improve the Library’s print and digital resource management, with stronger
analytics allowing greater insight into collection management and usage.
The implementation of the new system is currently underway and it is not
anticipated that there will be any disruption to the Library’s services. The
project team is currently working on the name for the new system and this
will be announced shortly.
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Barbeques, burgers and shakes at LSE Catering
There's another chance to visit the pop-up barbecue on the John Watkins
Plaza on Thursday 12 June between noon and 3pm where the team will grilling
and shaking, using only the finest and freshest ingredients, with gourmet
classic and vegetarian burgers available on the barbecue and your favourite
milkshake ready to be freshly mixed. So be sure to pop in to the pop up!
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LSE Catering's summer opening hours
Make sure you know where and when to get your hands on all the delicacies
LSE Catering has to offer and familiarise yourself with the new summer
opening hours of your favourite meal time haunts here.
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Computer tip of the week
How do I change the default font for new Word documents?
- Locate the template Normal.dotx (Office 2010 or 2007) or
Normal.dot (Office 2003). On an LSE computer, it is in H:\LSEsetup\templates.
On a private computer, open Windows Explorer or My Computer
and type Normal.dotx or Normal.dot into the search box in
the upper right corner of the window, just below the Close icon.
Then press Enter on the keyboard.
- Open the template by right-clicking on it and selecting Open.
Double clicking on a template creates a new document based on the
template rather than opening the template itself. The file name must end
with the file extension .dotx or .dot rather than .docx
or .doc.
- From the Home tab, right click on the Normal icon in
the Styles cluster and click Modify.
- Change the font settings as required.
- Click OK to close the dialog box.
- Save and close the template.
If you have a question, consider attending one of the weekly
Software Surgeries. Alternately, staff and PhD students are invited to
enrol for a
1-2-1 IT training session. Or contact
IT.Training@lse.ac.uk to book a
consultation with a training specialist.
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture has been taken for next year's prospectus promoting
LSE as a great place to study in the heart of a multicultural city
alongside students from across the world.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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Sensationalist media coverage skewing children's ability to assess
online risk
Sensationalist media coverage of online risks, such as cyberbullying or
the dangers of meeting an online ‘friend’ offline, may be acting as a
barrier to effectively educating children on e-safety, a new report has
claimed. The report, released on Monday 2 June, from the EU Kids Online
project based at LSE, explores how children between the ages of 9-16
across Europe experience the internet.
The findings reveal that children are strongly influenced by the media's
often sensationalist reporting of certain online risks, despite the fact
that these are in reality less likely to be experienced by the majority
of online users.
More
See the full report in LSE Research Online
here.
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This week's Gearty Grilling: Christine Chinkin on women in
international law and her experiences in Gaza
Christine Chinkin, Professor of International Law, welcomes a new
European convention combating violence against women and discusses her
experiences as a member of the UN fact-finding mission in Gaza. Professor
Chinkin explains how the Istanbul Convention is a landmark step in the
battle to reform legal culture around crimes such as stalking, sexual
harassment and psychological violence, as well as rape and other physical
abuse. She also reveals how her "hands-on" experience in Gaza has changed
the way she teaches international law.
She is the sixth LSE academic to take part in the new weekly series of
short, to-the-point video debates from LSE’s Institute of Public Affairs
(IPA) on key issues affecting the world today. Conor Gearty, director of the
IPA and professor of human rights law, subjects academics to a five-minute
grilling to showcase the School's word class research and faculty.
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Articles with most Altmetric mentions in LSE Research Online during
May
Altmetrics are a more diverse method of measuring the impact of
scholarly material online. By tracking the article's digital object
identifier, the Altmetric.com button records how many times it has been
picked up by news outlets, blogged, tweeted, shared or mentioned on social
media or online bookmarking sites.
1. Naci, H. and Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2013)
Comparative effectiveness of
exercise and drug interventions on mortality outcomes: metaepidemiological
study. BMC, 347 (oct01).
f5577-f5577. ISSN 1756-1833 (1,705 Altmetric mentions).
2.. Rietveld, C. A., Medland, S. E., Derringer, J., et al. (2013)
GWAS of 126,559 individuals
identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment.
Science, 340 (6139). pp. 1467-1471. ISSN 0036-8075 (441 Altmetric mentions).
3. Karanikolos, Marina, Mladovsky, Philipa, Cylus, Jonathan, Thomson,
Sarah, Basu, Sanjay, Stuckler, David, Mackenbach, Johan P and McKee, Martin
(2013) Financial crisis,
austerity, and health in Europe. Lancet, 381 (9874). pp. 1323-1331. ISSN
0140-6736 (372 Altmetric mentions)
4. Steventon, Adam, Bardsley, Martin, Billings, John, Dixon, Jennifer,
Doll, Helen, Hirani, Shashi, Cartwright, Martin, Rixon, Lorna, Knapp,
Martin, Henderson, Catherine, Rogers, Anne, Fitzpatrick, Ray, Hendy, Jane
and Newman, Stanton (2012) Effect
of telehealth on use of secondary care and mortality: findings from the
whole system demonstrator cluster randomised trial. British Medical
Journal, 2012 (344). e3874-e3874. ISSN 0959-8138 (294 Altmetric mentions)
5. Kentikelenis, Alexander, Karanikolos, Marina, Papanicolas, Irene, Basu,
Sanjay, McKee, Martin and Stuckler, David (2011)
Health effects of financial
crisis: omens of a Greek tragedy. Lancet, 378 (9801). pp. 1457-1458.
ISSN 0140-6736 (285 Altmetric mentions)
To see how your published journal articles are being mentioned over the web,
look for the Altmetric button in LSE
Research Online.
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 Events
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My Scotland, Our Britain: a future worth sharing - on
Tuesday 10 June at 5.30pm with Gordon Brown
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown will deliver a lecture to LSE staff and
students on the launch of his new book, My Scotland, Our Britain: a
future worth sharing.
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'Housing: where will we all live?' - LSE and BBC
Radio 4 public debate - on Monday 9 June at 6.30pm in the Old
Theatre, Old Building
BBC Home Affairs editor Mark Easton asks an expert panel, including
LSE’s Paul Cheshire and Rachel Fisher of the National Housing
Federation, why Britain has failed to build enough affordable homes and
looks at what can be done to solve our housing crisis.
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'No Part in Warfare: UN response to attacks on schools and hospitals'
- on Monday 9 June at 6.30pm in the Shaw Library, Old Building with Leila
Zerrougui
Leila Zerrougui was appointed Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict at the Under
Secretary-General level in September 2012. In this capacity, she serves as a
moral voice and independent advocate to build awareness and give prominence
to the rights and protection of boys and girls affected by armed conflict.
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'Harnessing the Power of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Fight
to Eradicate Sexual Violence in Conflict' - on Tuesday 10 June at
6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building with Zainab Hawa Bangura
Zainab Hawa Bangura assumed her position as Special Representative
of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict at the level of
Under-Secretary-General on 4 September 2012. In this capacity, she
serves as Chair of the interagency network, UN Action Against Sexual
Violence in Conflict.
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'Fault Lines and Silver Linings in the European Social Model(s)'
- on Wednesday 11 June at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
with Professor Anton Hemerijck, Dr Waltraud Schelkle, Professor David
Soskice
The speakers will consider whether the aftermath of the 2008 global
credit crunch marks a new opportunity to reconfigure and re-legitimise
social policy and the European project.
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'Mandela, the Lawyer' - on Thursday 12 June at 6pm in the Old
Theatre, Old Building with George Bizos, Professor David Dyzenhaus, Lord
Joffe, Dr Jens Meierhenrich
What role for law in the struggle against injustice? On 12 June 1964,
Nelson Mandela and seven of his co-defendants in the Rivonia Trial were
sentenced to life imprisonment for acts of sabotage against the
apartheid regime. On the 50th anniversary of their sentencing, LSE hosts
its official commemorative event to honour the life of Nelson Mandela.
Eminent contemporaries and leading scholars of the late President of
South Africa reflect on the role of law in the struggle against
apartheid - and on Mandela, the lawyer.
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LSESU Visual Arts Society display in the Atrium Gallery, Old Building
- final days
It's your last chance to see this year's LSE Arts
Public Exhibition either today or tomorrow. In association with LSE
Arts, the Visual Arts Society displays a collection of student art to
demonstrate the diversity of creative flair within the LSE community.
The exhibition is open to all from 10am - 8pm and no ticket is
required. For further information, email
arts@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7107 5342.
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'A New Strategy? Russia as an unlikely soft power' - on Monday
9 June at 6.30pm in the Wolfson Theatre, NAB with Professor Iver Neumann, Dr
Arkady Moshes and Dr Thomas Gomart and Professor Vladislav Zubok
This expert roundtable will discuss Russia’s declared strategy to invest
in soft power instruments in regional and global politics. What are Russia’s
soft power assets? Has Moscow been successful in turning them into
influence?
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'Sufis in Algerian Politics: Thriving on the system's contradictions'
- on
Wednesday 11 June with Dr Isabelle Werenfels at 6.30-8pm in
LG.04, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Dr Isabelle Werenfels will use Sufi-state relations as a prism through
which to analyse the dynamics that made the Algerian system so resilient
to change. She will question how contradictions and informal rules
inherent to the Algerian system have affected dynamics in the Sufi
scene. Do these dynamics re-enforce the political status quo? Or are
they undermining elite strategies?
This event is free and open to all, however registration is required.
Please register
here.
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‘The Plot against the Generals: Gülenists, Intellectuals, and the
fraud that transformed Turkish politics’ - on Wednesday 25 June at
6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
A court case against Turkish military officers relying on evidence now
acknowledged to have been forged enabled Prime Minister Erdogan and the
Gülen movement to consolidate power over the secular old guard. Drawing on
his personal connection with the case, Professor Rodrik examines how an
apparently democratising society found itself in a frenzy where fact and
fiction became virtually indistinguishable.
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'Misalliance' by George Bernard Shaw - performances until 21
June at the Tabard Theatre in Chiswick
An underwear tycoon, an armed gunman, a flying polish acrobat, 8
marriage proposals and a plane crash in the greenhouse - it’s just
another afternoon in Surrey.
This rarely-performed classic from one of LSE's great founders has been
revived by a new theatre company in south London and LSE staff can buy
the £10 student tickets
- just remember to take along your LSE ID to the performance. More
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
From Subsidy to Strategic Investment: what can the EU's new, reformed
regional policy do for growth and jobs in 2014-20?
Speaker: Johannes Hahn
Recorded: Wednesday 28 May 2014, approx. 92 minutes
Reflections on Leadership: a bank CEO's perspective
Speaker: Gail Kelly
Recorded: Wednesday 28 May 2014, approx. 65 minutes
England: a nation defined by dissent
Speaker: Billy Bragg
Recorded: Thursday 29 May 2014, approx. 91 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with.....Professor David Lewis
I work in Social Policy, and I'm currently Head of Department. Most of my research and teaching is concerned with international development. I have worked in several countries, but my research has focused mainly on South Asia - which contains many of the world's poorest people - and Bangladesh in particular. Outside work my two main interests are cycling and music. I live in Shepherd's Bush and my bike ride through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park is often a highlight of my day (unless it's raining!). I'm also a singer and songwriter - I've just released my fourth album 'Old World New World' which is available now on iTunes.
Please tell us something about your latest book.
I have two new books out at the moment, could I say something about each? The first is Non-Governmental Organisations, Management and Development. Compared with for-profit business, surprisingly little attention is typically given to this subject, which is incredibly complex. For example, people often give money to an organisation because it spends a low proportion of its income on 'overheads', but we forget that there is considerable complexity and cost involved in doing difficult work effectively, so is this really a good basis on which to decide? The other is a co-edited book Popular Representations of Development: insights from novels, films television and social media. We make the case that social scientists and policy makers could fruitfully pay more attention to 'non-traditional' forms of knowledge about development, poverty, and power such as that found in novels and films.
What advice would you give to this year's class of graduating students?
Be yourself, embrace change. Don't follow leaders.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose and why?
I'm very happy in Shepherd's Bush thanks! But I love travelling, and I've been fortunate to have had lots of opportunities. I'd probably choose the Jaflong Hills in north eastern Bangladesh close to the border with India. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.
What is your favourite place within lunchtime walking distance of LSE?
The India Club down on the Strand - it's not really a club as such, but a small hotel and restaurant with a fascinating history and reasonably priced home made tasting Indian food. It feels like going into a tiny forgotten corner of India in the 1950s.
Is there anything you cannot do and would like to learn?
Speak Italian. Last year we started exploring Umbria and Tuscany and it’s the perfect place to escape from Head of Department pressures!
Are you a lark or an owl?
An owl that seems to be turning into more of a lark as I get older. |
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 Training
and jobs
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Training and development opportunities for staff
Courses scheduled for next few weeks include:
These are just some of the events running next week. To receive a monthly
summary of all training courses, subscribe to email list by clicking
here and pressing Send.
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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.
- Administrative Assistant, LSE London
- Research Officer: High Dimensional Data, Centre for Economic
Performance
- Constituency Communications Officer, Advancement
- Department Manager: Operations, Economics
- LSE and Oxford University Urbanisation Programme: Geographic
Information Specialist, Centre for Economic Performance
- Fellow in Contemporary International Relations Theory,
International Relations
- Fellow in Sociology, Sociology
For more information, visit
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 Get
in touch!
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If you have some news, an achievement, or an aspect of LSE life that you
would like to share, I would love to hear from you. Do get in touch
at m.wall@lse.ac.uk
or on ext 7582. The next edition of Staff News is on Thursday 12
June. Articles for this should be emailed to me by
Tuesday 10 June. Staff
News is emailed every Thursday during term time and fortnightly during
the holidays.
Thanks, Maddy
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