Coffee and cake for Macmillan Cancer Support
Help a good cause and enjoy some delicious treats later this month with a bake sale and the world's biggest coffee morning...

Sue Donnelly
LSE's Archivist, Sue Donnelly, is an avid reader and keen knitter, but if you're out and about on the Chilterns in the coming month you may see her exploring the hills...

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Saw Swee Hock Student Centre a highlight of Open House Weekend: 20 and 21 September 2014

The Saw Swee Hock Student Centre has been given the top spot in this year's Open House Weekend publicity. Promoted as a 'green exemplar', visitors are invited to take a look at the Saw Swee Hock as one of a number of projects which 'are making significant steps in creating a sustainable city'.

Guided tours, which will be taking place on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September, are already fully-booked.

Open House was started in 1992 by a small charity (now called Open-City). Giving everyone the chance to explore London’s great buildings helps us all to become more knowledgeable, engage in dialogue and make informed judgements on architecture. More

Colloquia in combinatorics

Earlier this year, LSE's Department of Mathematics jointly hosted the annual Colloquia in Combinatorics with Queen Mary University (QMUL). Each institution organised a day of events in May, which included twelve talks delivered by excellent speakers to large audiences.

QMUL's day culminated in a lecture by Miklos Simonovits who explored the stability method in extremal combinatorics, presenting interesting results and questions. The colloquia ended at LSE with final talk, the traditional Norman Biggs lecture, delivered by Peter Cameron who considered combinatorial problems arising from transformation semigroups, surveyed many results and open problems, and showed some consequences for semi-groups theory. More
 

2014 Audrey Richards Prize awarded

Dr Holly Porter, Department of International Development, has been named as one of three runners up for her doctoral dissertation in 2014's Audrey Richards Prize. This year the judges an unprecedented 22 nominations and the standard was remarkably high. Dr Porter's research focuses on gender, sexual violence, social healing and justice, particularly on women’s experiences after rape in northern Uganda, where she has lived and worked since 2005.

In announcing Dr Porter's award, the judges said: "It is of enormous credit to you that your research should figure among the final four dissertations. The judges very much enjoyed reading your work."
 

Special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies

Dr Alice Evans, Department of Geography and Environment, has just contributed to a special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies. Her paper explores how worsening economic security in the Zambian Copperbelt has impacted gender roles and relations with the suggestion that financial hardship has pushed growing numbers of women into the labour force, increasingly undertaking socially valued (masculine) roles. This has, slowly, led people to question gender stereotypes about competence and status, which suggests gender status inequalities are predicated upon assumptions of difference which can be undermined. More
 

The School believes strongly in developing the potential of the staff whom it has recruited.

The 2014-15 Guidelines for Review and Promotion can be found online:

• Guidelines for Review and Promotion of Assistant and Associate Professors 2014-15
• Guidelines for Interim Review and Major Review of Lecturers 2014-15

Green Impact

The launch of this year’s Green Impact is approaching quickly. Now in its sixth year at LSE, Green Impact is a national environmental awards scheme, which encourages teams to make changes within their departments to reduce their carbon footprint by completing projects. The launch for this year's scheme will be on Wednesday 17 September in the sixth floor studio of the SAW at 2.30-3.30pm. Everyone's invited, so come along for tea and cake and find out more about how you can be involved with Green Impact. More
 

Mackindergarten: LSE’s army class on the LSE History blog

In 1907 LSE and the War Office began an experiment in military education which was to last until 1932, with a break during the First World War. Find out more on the LSE History blog here.

Macmillan Cancer Support bake sale

The Department of Law and the Department of Management have joined forces to bake up a storm all in the good name of Macmillan Cancer Support. Join them in the NAB 2.14 on Friday 19 September from 10am to noon to pick up some treats and help an excellent cause.
 

Pizzas in SAW

The Denning Learning Café on the first floor of SAW now serves delicious thin crust pizza and wedges - perfect for a lunchtime treat. And all proceeds from LSESU cafés and other commercial services go towards student activities and support - pizzas for a good cause!
 

New LSESU online shop

LSESU has launched a new look online shop to make it even easier for you to buy LSE gifts and merchandise. You can pick up your purchases in the Houghton Street shop or have them delivered anywhere in the world. Visit lseshop.com to start buying! And, as with the LSESU cafés, all proceeds from the LSESU shop goes towards support, events and activities for current LSE students.
 

Jazz and tap dance class

Phoebe Dunster, Estates Division, is looking for new members for a mixed ability adult jazz and tap class she attends. Classes are in Norbury, South London on Thursday nights from 8 - 9.45pm. If you're interested in going along, get in touch with Phoebe on P.J.Dunster@lse.ac.uk or call the Betty Wivell Academy’s office on 020 8764 5500. More
 

Two bedroom flat to rent in Muswell Hill, N10

The flat has a spacious living room, a well-equipped kitchen with dining area, utility area and two large double bedrooms and a bathroom. There is also off-street parking, and a garden. It is offered unfurnished or part furnished. Lots of amenities nearby.

Good connections by bus to Highgate and Bounds Green Underground stations; it's just 30 minutes by tube from Holborn.
Rent is £300 per week, which includes heating and hot water.
The flat is available now. For more information, contact Seán Boyle on s.boyle@lse.ac.uk or 07967 985780.

This week's picture features Richard Burgos, Helen-Louisa Jordan and Pawel Opaska, the postal assistants in the Post Room in St Clement's Lane.

For more images like this, visit the Photography Unit.

Dementia now costs £26 billion a year

The cost of dementia to the UK has hit £26 billion a year – enough to pay the energy bills of every household in the country, according to an Alzheimer’s Society report published this week and co-authored by LSE.

People with dementia, their carers and families shoulder two-thirds of the cost themselves. The charity is urging the government to end the artificial divide between health and social care which unfairly disadvantages people with dementia. More

'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 in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Martin Wolf

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. At this event he will be in conversation with Adair Turner.

'South Africa's Democracy — Mandela's "Cherished Ideal"' - on Tuesday 23 September at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Moeletsi Mbeki

Moeletsi Mbeki, political analyst, author and entrepreneur, will examine how close his country has come, in the two decades since its first free elections, to the "cherished ideal" of democracy envisaged by President Mandela and those, like Mr Mbeki's father, who were jailed for life alongside him. More
 

'Formality Bias: the habits holding Africa back' - on Friday 26 September at 1pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building with Dayo Olopade

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. Olopade will share case studies in innovation, drawn from her reporting across 17 African countries - moving beyond the dire headlines and toward a realistic, constructive assessment of modern Africa. More
 

'How to Build the Future' - on Friday 26 September at 6pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Peter Thiel

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.

Tickets will be available from Thursday 18 September. More
 

'Giving Guidance On Future Monetary Policy In A Very Uncertain World' - on Tuesday 30 September at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Professor David Miles and Professor Charles Goodhart

David Miles, Monetary Policy Committee member, will explore the paradox of giving guidance on the course of monetary policy in an uncertain economic environment and consider the subsequent lessons for setting policy. More

Training and development opportunities for staff

Courses scheduled for the next few weeks include:

• Excel: logical and lookup functions

• Moodle Basics Training

• Word: navigable documents

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.
 

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

• Alumni Relations Coordinator, Department of Management
• Assistant Librarian: Collection Development, Library
• Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics: Conflict and Peace Studies, Department of Government
• Assistant to POLIS Thinktank Director, Department of Media and Communications
• Digital Library Developer, Library
• Employer Engagement Adviser, Careers Service
• HR Administrator CDR, Human Resources
• Head of Major Gifts, ODAR
• Institute Administrator, Grantham Research Institute
• Student Services Adviser, ARD