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28 August 2014 |
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Saw Swee Hock shortlisted in four categories for the prestigious Brick
Awards 2014
LSE’s Saw Swee Hock Student Centre has been shortlisted in four
categories for the Brick Awards 2014. The categories are: Best Public
Building; Best Craftsmanship; Best Education Building; Innovative use of
brick and clay.
Julian Robinson, Director of Estates at LSE, said: “The Student Centre
demonstrates the craft of the bricklayer and the versatility of brick as a
construction material and we are delighted to have been shortlisted. The
building has received much critical praise and many awards and so we look
forward to the Brick Awards ceremony later in the year.”
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LSE launches new award for asylum seekers
LSE is set to offer financial support worth up to £20,000 per year for
asylum seekers who have been offered a place to study at the School.
From 2015, LSE will offer up to two awards per year for students who are
seeking asylum or have been granted limited leave to remain in the UK as the
result of an asylum application, and hold an offer of a place on an LSE
undergraduate programme.
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LSE celebrates fifth annual graduation ceremony in Beijing
LSE held its fifth graduation ceremony in Beijing on Monday 18 August,
celebrating the success of around 270 graduates with their families and
friends.
Professor Paul Kelly, LSE Pro-Director, congratulated each new graduate
and presented them with a commemorative certificate.
Professor Kelly said: "It is always a pleasure to participate in LSE
events around the world. Our engagement with academics and students in
China is very important for us, and the School has been involved with
China now for over 100 years. There is much enthusiasm and interest in
China for LSE's teaching and research on the social sciences - we look
forward to expanding on our work".
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 Notices
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lsesecure wireless network switch off
IMT will be decommissioning the lsesecure wireless
network service tomorrow. Users will no longer be able to connect to lsesecure.
Users should connect to eduroam instead, which offers better
connectivity, better security and the ability to access WiFi
seamlessly
wherever eduroam is available, including at many other higher education
institutions across the UK and even overseas. For more information, see
lse.ac.uk/imt/eduroam.
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Moodle reset and upgrade
On Wednesday 3 September, LTI will prepare Moodle for the new academic year,
which means:
What do you need to do?
- Read LTI's end-of-year arrangements guide
- Take a look at
https://muddle.lse.ac.uk, a copy of current Moodle already upgraded
- please note this is only available on campus
- Staff should download and keep all 2013-14 assignment submissions
- Staff should tell LTI if their course should remain available to the
2013-14 cohort after Wednesday 3 September
- Students should download whatever they want to keep from the 2013-14
academic session
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LSE's little red book
An updated version of LSE in Short is now available. This handy
little red book gives facts and figures about the School. If you would like
copies for visitors, please pick them up from the Press Office in TW3 3.02,
Tower Three. You can also download a
PDF copy. Please recycle any copies you may still have of the 2012
version, which is now out of date.
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Calling all LSE landlords
LSE’s Residential Services Office has launched its new private student
accommodation service,
LSEstudentpad.
Landlords can use the service to reach over 4,000 new students looking for
accommodation in the private housing sector each year by creating online
adverts.LSEstudentpad is the ideal way to source reliable tenants and
build a housing network within the School for years to come. Special rates
are available to LSE staff and alumni, so if you have space to rent, create
an account and set up an advert today.
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Senate House Library book amnesty
The Senate House Library is missing more than 9,000 books
worth £45,000. They want as many books to be made available to Library
users as possible so are holding a book amnesty throughout August. If
you have an outstanding fine, you can – throughout August – bring back
your overdue books, and you won't be charged. So if you've got any
lurking round the house, take them back!
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New and expectant mothers’ room
The new and expectant mothers’ room has moved from the Parish Hall to the
first floor of Tower 3. It provides a private and comfortable setting where
expectant mothers can rest, and breastfeeding women can express and store
their milk. To access the room, please visit Towers 1/2 reception.
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Award-winning pies at LSESU
Head to the LSESU Denning Learning Café
on the first floor of SAW for an award-winning Pieminster Pie. The Students'
Union sells a range of pies for a portion of the price you'll find them
elsewhere, complete with mash and peas. And all proceeds from LSESU's cafés
and other commercial services go towards student activities and support -
pies for a good cause!
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Holiday in Tuscany
La Doccia is an old stone farmhouse situated on a hill, about 6km from
the medieval village of Anghiari, on the borders of Tuscany and Umbria.
Two apartments, both with private entrances, are available to rent for
holidays.
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features the LSESU Denning Learning Cafe bar on the
first floor of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, home to the delicious Pieminster Pies!
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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Psychology of parenting: Mother's personality measured during pregnancy
predicts how well children perform in GCSEs
Babies born to mothers who hold a stronger belief that their fate is in
their own hands and not down to luck tend to perform better in their GCSE
exams 16 years later. That is the central finding of research by the Centre
for Economic Performance (CEP) published last week.
The study analyses data from the Children of the 90s project, which is
tracking the lives of more than 10,000 young people born in the Bristol area
in the early 1990s. The data includes a psychological measure of their
mothers’ expectations about how much their own actions influence their life
outcomes, collected during the first trimester of pregnancy.
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 Events
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Exhibition: South Africa's Democracy -
Mandela's 'Cherished Ideal' - from Monday 1 - Friday 26 September,
10am-8pm in the Atrium Gallery, Old Building
This exhibition by Moeletsi Mbeki will examine how close his country has
come to the 'cherished ideal' of democracy envisaged by President Mandela
and those, like Mr Mbeki's father, who were jailed for life alongside him
in the two decades since its first free elections.
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On Tuesday 23 September there will be a public lecture with Moletesi
Mbeki to accompany his exhibition, at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old
Building.
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Jo Fidgen interviews Michael Pollan - on Wednesday 3 September
at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old
Building
For the past twenty-five years, Michael Pollan has been writing books
and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our
plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment.
Contemporary classics like The Omnivore's Dilemma have
established him as arguably the best-known and most influential writer
in the US on the subject of food, farming and us. He has written
sustained critiques of industrial agriculture and urged humanity to
reconnect to the joys of growing, preparing and eating food. Jo Fidgen
will interview Michael and take questions from the audience in a session
to be recorded for an edition of 'Analysis' on BBC Radio 4.
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'The Shifts and The Shocks: What we've learned – and still have to
learn – from the financial crisis' - on
Tuesday 16 September at 6.30pm
with Martin Wolf in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Chief Economics Commentator of the Financial Times Martin Wolf gives
an insightful and timely analysis of why the financial crisis occurred, and
of the radical reforms needed if we are to avoid a future repeat. He will be
in conversation with Adair Turner.
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Growth Week 2014 public lectures - on Tuesday 23 September,
Wednesday 24 September, Thursday 25 September at 6.30pm in the Sheikh
Zayed Theatre
Growth Week is the International Growth Centre’s annual conference,
which brings together a worldwide network of leading researchers and
policy-makers, providing an excellent opportunity to discuss key growth
issues affecting developing countries. This year's speakers include Dr
Donald Kaberuka, Professor Sir Paul Collier and Dr Montek Singh
Ahluwalia (pictured).
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'Formality Bias: the habits holding Africa back' - on
Friday 26 September at 6.30pm
with Dayo Olopade in the Wolfson Theatre, NAB
Dayo Olopade, Nigerian-American journalist and author, will expose the
global pretensions that have stymied African development, and explore the
ingenious workarounds that are driving regional progress.
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'How to Build the Future' - on
Friday 26 September at 6pm with Peter Thiel in the Old Theatre, Old
Building
It's easier to copy a model than to make something new. Adding more of
something familiar takes the world from 1 to n. But every time we create
something new, we go from 0 to 1. Today our challenge is to imagine and
create new technologies to make the future more peaceful and prosperous.
This event is free but a ticket is required - tickets will be available from
Thursday 18 September.
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Nonlinear time series analysis: thresholding and beyond - conference
to celebrate Professor Howell Tong's 70th birthday
On Friday 19 and Saturday 20 September the Department of Statistics will be
holding a conference to celebrate Professor Howell Tong's 70th birthday,
bringing together experts, scholars and young researchers from around
the world. The conference will mark Professor Tong's pioneering
contributions and achievements in researching nonlinear time series and
related areas -
his work on threshold models has been highly influential both on theory
and application.
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If you would like to attend the conference, please email Ian Marshall
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 60
second interview
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with.....Ellie Gunningham
I’m Ellie and I work in the
Academic Partnerships team within
the External Relations Division. My
main role is to support the
co-ordination and administration of
the LSE-PKU Summer School in Beijing
and the LSE-UCT July School in Cape
Town. I’m an egyptologist turned
anthropologist with an interest in
international development and a love
of travel. I can often be found
around campus at Wrights or The
George IV.
What have you enjoyed most
during your time here at LSE?
I have been lucky to be both a
student and a member of staff here,
and so have experienced the school
from two different perspectives.
It’s been great to discover a whole
other side to LSE – the “behind the
scenes” action that makes the school
tick. Also it’s been nice to walk
past the library without any twinges
of guilt, and instead go to the pub!
What would your friends say is
your greatest quality?
You would have to ask them! I’m sure
I could list many…
If you were stuck in a lift
with someone famous, who would you
want it to be?
I think it would have to be John
Mayer. I love his music so he could
sing and play the guitar for me
while we wait. Plus he’s delicious
which always helps if you are stuck
in a small space with someone.
What is the first record you ever
bought?
It was all about the cassette
walkman when I first started
listening to music. I think the
first tape I bought was a Spice
Girls or Steps album – classic 90s
pop. I won’t admit how much of this
genre still features on my iPod!
If you were an animal, what would
you be and why?
Is a cat too boring? I’d like to
have nine lives to play with.
What is the most dangerous thing
you have ever done?
I have been known to be quite
reckless, usually after one too
many! Aside from this I guess
scrambling across the edge of
Victoria Falls was dangerous enough
for my Mum not to speak to me for a
week. Or being in control of a
motorbike weaving through the busy
streets of Dar es Salaam – bearing
in mind I still only hold a
provisional driving license (my Mum
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 Training
and jobs
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Training and development opportunities for staff
Courses scheduled for the next few weeks include:
These are just some of the events running in the next few weeks. To
receive a monthly summary of all training courses, subscribe to email list
by clicking
here and pressing Send. 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.
- Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics: Conflict and Peace
Studies, Department of Government
- Assistant Professor in Management: Public Management and
Governance, Department of Management
- Assistant to POLIS Thinktank Director 2014, Department of
Media and Communications
- Business Partnerships Officer, Research Division
- Departmental Website Manager, Department of Government
- Digital Library Developer, Library: Resources and Innovation
- Director of the Institute of Global Affairs, Institute of
Global Affairs
- Projects Coordinator, Middle East Centre
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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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 11
September. Articles for this should be emailed to me by
Tuesday 9 September. Staff
News is emailed every Thursday during term time and fortnightly during
the holidays.
Do send through any items you would like to be considered for inclusion
on the intranet at any time.
Thanks, Maddy
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