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Join the celebrations as we mark the official opening of LSE's newest building tomorrow.

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On Monday 13 October Elizabeth Chapman, Director of LSE Library Services, joined 400 other women at the annual Women of the Year Awards.

Elizabeth was invited to attend in recognition of her career in higher education, which has included roles at Brunel University, University of Oxford with one year as Junior Proctor, and as Deputy Director of Library Services at University College London. As Director of LSE Library Services, Elizabeth led the project to bring the Women’s Library to LSE.

During the awards, both Helena Kennedy, President of Women of the Year, and Sandi Toksvig declared their pleasure at the new home for the Women’s Library and their hopes to visit it. The Women’s Library Collection was also visited last week by Dame Lynne Brindley, now Master of Pembroke College Oxford, previously Chief Executive of the British Library. Dame Brindley led the project to convert the Library into the inspiring building it is today.

First Story National Writing Competition

The LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival is supporting this year’s First Story’s National Writing Competition, which is now open to all state secondary schools. Students can submit a story or poem of 850 words or less on the theme of ‘Home’, to have a chance of winning a coveted place on an Arvon creative writing residential and being published professionally in a collected anthology. Plus, teachers receive £100 if they gather over 50 entries within their school. The competition will be judged by five award-winning writers: Anthony McGowan, Bernardine Evaristo, James Dawson, Kate Kingsley and Laura Dockrill. The prize-giving event will be hosted at LSE in March 2015. More
 

Analysis of Multivariate Social Science Data online

Professor Irini Moustaki and Professor Fiona Steele, Department of Statistics, have developed a new online resource to accompany their book Analysis of Multivariate Social Science Data, written with David Bartholomew and Jane Galbraith. The materials include data and syntax from several statistical packages (e.g. R, SPSS, Stata and Mplus) to enable readers to reproduce analyses which feature in eleven chapters of the book. Take a look at the materials here.

Official opening of Saw Swee Hock Student Centre

Tomorrow, Friday 24 October will be a day of festivities celebrating the official opening of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre – LSE’s newest building which was shortlisted for the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize! The festivities will kick off at noon with a special performance outside the building, so be sure to arrive early to get a good view! The events, organised by those based in the building, are aimed at the whole LSE community. Both LSE and the LSE Students' Union invite you to join us for this day of celebration, activities, workshops, celebrity guests, music, comedy, freebies, food and much more. Check out the programme for the day here.
 

Researchers across the School can now submit works for next year’s Research Festival Exhibition. We are seeking posters, photographs and short films that convey research in compelling ways and open up dialogue with visitors to the exhibition.

Houghton Street is buzzing, there are a million posters everywhere and lots of students in fancy dress… Yes that’s right, it’s LSESU elections time again! Candidates are now campaigning to be elected as Postgraduate Students’ Officer and Postgraduate Research Students’ Officer among other positions. If any students in your class are running, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let them have five minutes at the start to put forward their manifesto.

From Wednesday 29 October - Thursday 30 October students can vote online at www.lsesu.com/vote

Spectrum - LSE's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender + (LGBT+) Staff Network

Spectrum is a staff initiative, which sees it in their collective interests to build a representative body in order, primarily, to promote the interests of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff, and to give them a stronger sense of visibility and presence in all aspects of the life of the School. Secondarily, we see our initiative as a positive for the School's diversity agenda and as an important aspect of achieving a key goal in the School's Strategic Plan.

The network is open to all, and non-LGBT staff are very welcome. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please email spectrum@lse.ac.uk. You will then be kept informed of all initiatives, events and our upcoming welcome reception. You can also follow Spectrum on Twitter to keep up to date with LGBT news, information and activities around London and beyond, or visit our website here.
 

LSE Chill

Take a break from a busy week and enjoy the music at the first Chill of term. Trevor Gowan, Daniel Print and Milli Karlstrom will perform from 2-4pm in the Weston Café, Sixth Floor of Saw Swee Hock, as part of the official opening of the student centre on Friday 24 October.

LSE Rejoice will be meeting this Friday 24 October at 12-1pm in room CLM3.02, 3rd floor Clement House as the Faith Centre is closed for the official opening ceremony of the Saw Swee Hock Students Centre. Clement House is on the Aldwych, next to the Post Office.

The LSE Treatment Clinic, which welcomes LSE students and staff, is on the first floor of Tower Two.

The clinic offers professional treatments, at reduced rates for LSE, of acupuncture, osteopathy and sports massage from practitioners with over 20 years of experience between them. Their combined expertise is effective in the treatment of musculoskeletal pain, repetitive strain injury, tension headaches, posture advice, sports injuries, anxiety, insomnia, migraine, among many other ailments.

The practitioners are:

• Hanya Chlala
  Acupuncture and Reflexology available in a dual-bed setting on Wednesdays and Fridays
• Laura Dent
  Sports massage available on Mondays
• Tim Hanwell
  Osteopathy available on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Appointments are available Monday - Friday from 9am - 6pm and can be booked online at www.lsetreatmentclinic.co.uk.

Download the Word 2010: Formatting an Academic Paper self-study course materials and work through them at your own pace. If you have any questions about this or other software issues, attend our weekly Software Surgeries. These run every Thursday, 1-2pm, from 23 October, and are open to all staff and students.

If you have an IT question, check out our online guides and FAQs. 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.

This week's picture features the 2014 Freshers' Fair.
For more images like this, visit the Photography Unit.

LSE report reveals £8 billion cost of mental health problems in pregnancy

Perinatal mental health problems cost the UK £8.1 billion each year, according to a new report released today by LSE, led by Annette Bauer and Professor Martin Knapp from LSE's Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), and the Centre for Mental Health.

The report, which was officially launched in Parliament yesterday, calls for the NHS to spend £337 million a year to bring perinatal mental health care up to the level recommended in national guidance.

“Pharmaceutical companies almost exclusively sponsor studies that favour their products” But, asks Huseyin Naci, does this mean that all industry-sponsored research is biased?

A new study, co-authored by Huseyin Naci, LSE Health research fellow, reveals that the findings obtained from industry sponsored studies for widely prescribed cholesterol drugs are similar in magnitude as those in non-industry sources.

There is concern that the vast majority of published medical research findings may be biased. An important source of potential bias relates to the influence of pharmaceutical industry sponsorship of clinical studies. A growing share of biomedical research is sponsored by industry and the findings from industry-sponsored research are often the most influential.

There are clear financial and non-financial conflicts of interest with such research. Of greatest concern, pharmaceutical companies have a long history of delaying the publication of unfavourable clinical study reports, withholding data from patients and regulators, and cherry-picking the publication of favourable findings. More

See the full report in LSE Research Online here.
 

Do insurance premiums reflect the real risk of hurricanes?

Alex Jarman, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Statistics, has spent three years critiquing and improving the techniques used to assess the quality of hurricane forecasts. His PhD thesis involved using statistical models and a different approach to scientists in the meteorological industry in predicting hurricanes.

The scientific consensus, backed up by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is that global warming is leading to an increase in hurricane intensity around the world.

How to comply with HEFCE Open Access policy for the next REF

When your journal article or conference proceeding is accepted by a journal, send your accepted manuscript to Lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk as soon as possible. LSE Research Online needs to receive the manuscript within three months of its acceptance.

LSE Research Online will check published policies and guide you through making your paper available in LSE Research Online at the right time.

For more details see lse.ac.uk/library/openaccess

'Nominal Democracy? Prospects for Democratic Global Governance' - on Tuesday 28 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Professor Robert O Keohane

Democratic global governance is a worthy ideal, but it is a naïve pursuit which risks purely nominal democracy. More
 

'The Vietnam Wars Reconsidered' - on Tuesday 28 October 7pm in the New Theatre, East Building with Professor Fredrik Logevall

With the outpouring of scholarship on the Vietnam Wars in recent years, it's time to take stock and reconsider two core questions: why did the wars happen, and why did two Western powers, first France and then the United States, fail in their efforts? More
 

'Names: the long shadow of war and remembrance, 1914-2014' - on Wednesday 29 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB with Professor David Reynolds

Professor David Reynolds will address the legacy of the First World War, in particular the effect of mass bereavement and commemoration. More
 

Lunchtime Concert: Ji-Yeoun You on the piano - on Thursday 30 October at 1.05pm in the Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building

Winner of five major competition prizes, Ji-Yeoun has performed in Berlin, Edinburgh, London, Paris and Seoul and with the Berlin and Brandenburg Symphony Orchestras. More
 

'Afghanistan: the transition' - on Thursday 30 October at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building with Renzo Frike, Dr Stuart Gordon, Emma Graham-Harrison (pictured)

The panel of experts reflect back on more than a decade of international aid and investment and discuss what is next for Afghanistan. More

This event is linked with the new exhibition in the Atrium Gallery 'Medecins Sans Frontieres: barriers to accessing healthcare in Afghanistan'. More
 

'The Real Story Behind the Invisible Hand' - on Thursday 30 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Russell Roberts

Adam Smith gave the world the metaphor of the invisible hand, the most famous metaphor of economics. But he only used the phrase three times in his writings, and none of the uses reflect what the phrase has come to mean today - a justification of laissez-faire capitalism. Yet Smith is indeed a key figure in the idea of emergent order - order that is the result of human action but not human design. More
 

'Structural Opportunities in the US Economy' - on Wednesday 5 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Jason Furman
Tickets will be released on Tuesday 28 October

Jason Furman's talk will focus on the three major structural opportunities that he sees in the US economy: the slowdown in health costs; the boom in energy; and recent developments in technology. More
 

'Crisis and Democracy - Democracy in Crisis. Social Anthropological Perspectives on the Fragility of the Social Contract' - on Tuesday 28 October at 6pm in the Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House with Eisabeth Kirtsoglou

The crisis has undoubtedly produced new communities of discontent, and novel spheres of economic, moral and political exclusion but it has not succeeded in changing fundamental patterns of accountability, historical and political causality. More
 

'The Greek Orthodox Church and the Economic Crisis' - on Wednesday 12 November at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House with His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias and Almyros

Historically a central pole of national identity, this lecture explores how the Greek Orthodox Church is affected by Greece’s economic crisis and how it responds to it is of major importance to the nation’s public and social affairs. More
 

A new banking standards body has been established in Britain to set voluntary standards, promote professional education and improve banking culture and competence. Will this lead to the development of global banking standards?

Podcasts of public lectures and events

The Establishment and How They Get Away With It
Speaker: Owen Jones
Recorded: Monday 13 October 2014, approx. 87 minutes

The Politics of Climate Change 2014: what cause for hope?
Speaker: Professor Lord Giddens
Recorded: Tuesday 14 October 201, approx. 86 minutes

Women in Public Life: above the parapet
Speaker: Dr Joyce Banda
Recorded: Wednesday 15 October 2014, approx. 83 minutes

Training and development opportunities for staff

Courses scheduled for next week include:

• Minute writing

• Presentation skills

• Information Session: New to managing an award?

These are just some of the events running in the next week. 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.

• Administrative Assistant, Department of Law
• Assistant Professor in Economic History, Department of Economic History
• Assistant Professor in International Relations: International Relations Theory, Department of International Relations
• Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
• Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, International Growth Centre
• Research Festival Assistant, Institute of Public Affairs
• Senior Graduate Admissions Administrator, Academic Registrar’s Division