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Research Excellence Framework 2014 Results Dear colleagues
As you may have picked up by now, LSE has performed outstandingly in the
2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).
The School is top for world leading (4*) research and second overall,
when taking an average of all results. Fifty per cent of our research work
has been assessed as world leading, the highest of all UK universities. It’s
a fantastic achievement. In addition, we come top for impacts across our
social science disciplines, with 66 per cent of our research assessed as
having world leading impacts. This shows that LSE academics are not only
doing the highest proportion of world leading work in the UK university
sector but we are successfully engaged in bringing our research to bear on
some of the world’s most pressing problems.
The overall REF score is a composite measure of research outputs,
research environment and impacts. We have three submissions which came top
overall: Media and Communications, the European Institute and the combined
entry of Management, Accounting and Finance. In second place overall are
Law, Government and International Relations (combined entry), Economics, and
Social Policy. At the moment the data we have does not take account of
submission rates: as LSE’s submission rate was fairly high, we’re hoping for
improvements in those rankings once this is taken into account.
Focusing on overall scores which are world leading and / or
internationally excellent (4* and 3* in REF categorisation) puts Government
and International Relations and Social Policy at the top of their rankings,
and Geography and Environment second.
Focusing on research outputs, Law and Anthropology came top for world
leading (4*) research, and both came top for research quality overall.
Sociology came second on 4* outputs and is the Department within the School
which has most improved on its RAE 2008 ranking. Combining the scores for
world leading and internationally leading research outputs (4* + 3*),
International Development, Geography and Environment, Social Policy, and
Anthropology come first.
Our research is also having a significant impact. All the impact case
studies of the European Institute, Social Policy, and Media and
Communications were assessed as world leading. In addition, Economics,
Management, Accounting and Finance, Politics and International Relations,
Philosophy, and International Development all led their categories for
research impact rated as world leading or internationally excellent.
You can also see all our impact case studies on the new LSE Research
Impact website, which will be continually updated in future to act as a
showcase for all the ways in which LSE research makes a difference to
societies around the world:
lse.ac.uk/researchandexpertise/researchimpact/home.aspx.
Congratulations to all!
Professor Julia Black
Pro-Director for Research
For more information on LSE's REF results,
click
here.
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Congratulations from the Director Commenting on LSE’s success
in the REF, Professor Craig Calhoun said: "LSE's Provost Stuart Corbridge
was the Pro-Director for Research who led the way to our outstanding result
in REF. Congratulations to Stuart, to the new Pro-Director for Research
Julia Black who has led on making LSE impact and knowledge exchange known,
to the faculty and staff who prepared our submission, and to all the great
researchers and communicators who made this happen." |
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 News
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LSE launches new research impact website The REF 2014 results
are in, ranking, for the first time, LSE’s research in terms of the impact
it has had, or is having, on the wider world.
For the first time, LSE’s research impact has been brought together to be
showcased online through a new part of the LSE website compiled by the
Research Division and launched today (Thursday 18 December) to coincide with
the REF2014 announcement.
The site initially features the 66 impact case studies submitted to the
REF but it will be refreshed frequently with new content so it becomes a
living resource of the way that LSE’s cutting-edge research is benefiting
society.
The case studies have been written for a wider audience and accompanied,
where possible, by short films and animations. Each study also has lists of
relevant resources and downloadable content, including links to the
underpinning research and policy documents which were influenced by the
research.
Pro-Director Professor Julia Black explains the School’s results in more
detail in the Direct View above, and the new site can be
found here.
Please do send feedback on the new site to Jo Hemmings, Research
Division, at j.hemmings@lse.ac.uk.
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South Korean minister visits The Women’s Library collection The
Director of Library Services,
Elizabeth Chapman, hosted an eight-person delegation from the Embassy of
the Republic of Korea on Thursday 11 December, led by
Hee Jung
Kim, Minister of Gender Equality and Family.
Elizabeth took the guests on a tour of
The Women’s Library Reading Room, the 40 seat research facility opened
in March 2014 to provide access to LSE’s Archives and Special collections,
and showed them a
selection of treasures from
The Women’s Library collection, the oldest and most extensive collection
of women’s history in Europe.
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New Gearty Grilling online
A
new Gearty Grilling video, part of the series of short video debates
between Conor Gearty, director of the IPA and professor of human rights law,
and leading researchers at LSE, is now online.
This week Sandra Jovchelovitch, Professor of Social Psychology, discusses
how methods of social change in Brazil's favelas can be used to help
slum-dwellers across the world.
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A singing success On Wednesday 10 December, the Circles Choir
performed in public for the first time.
They sung a short programme which started off with an energetic Nigerian
song sung in a round. The programme continued with ‘Seasons of Love’ (from
the Musical Rent), ‘Make you feel my love’ (the Adele version of the
Bob Dylan original) featuring two wonderful soloists, and Bill Withers’
‘Lean on Me’.
The audience also got to participate in a rendition of ‘When the saints
go marching in’ and ‘Swing low sweet chariot’ sung at the same time.
The Choir would love more people to join them. Everyone is welcome and
no experience is needed - you don’t need to read music and you won’t be
auditioned, just turn up and join in.
Meetings begin in the first week of Lent term, on Wednesday 14 January.
For more information, see Circles Choir on the
Disability and Wellbeing Service web pages.
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Mathematics Resilience - making it happen
Meena Kotecha (pictured), Department of Statistics and Management,
has been invited by the University of Warwick to share her research on
mathematics and statistics anxiety as well as resilience, at their
Research Symposium on
Friday 16 January from 10am-4pm at The Shard, London.
Registration is now open if you would like to attend. For more
information and to secure your place,
click here.
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Academics abroad
On 2-4 December Professor Sylvia Chant, Department of Geography and
Environment, gave the keynote address at a conference hosted by the
University of Barcelona on 'Childhood
in Feminine: girls', in which were a suite of presentations on girls
through the ages.
Sylvia's presentation concentrated on some of the problematic issues
around recent initiatives to incorporate Girls in GAD (Gender and
Development), including the Nike Foundation's 'Girl Effect', in which tropes
around women and girls as 'victims' and 'agents' resonate with historical
interpretations dating as far back as Ancient Greece.
On Friday 5 December Professor Nicholas Barr, European Institute,
gave a presentation on ‘Investing in Human Capital: don’t wait’ at a high
level conference on Challenges for Securing Growth and Shared Prosperity in
Latin America, organised by the Government of Chile and International
Monetary Fund, Santiago, Chile. It was attended by the President of Chile and
the Managing Director of the IMF.
From 9-11 December, Professor Barr took part in meetings of the Chile
Presidential Advisory Commission on the Retirement Pension System, of which
he is a member. He also had meetings with the President of Chile, with the
Minister of Finance and with the Minister of Education, and gave a
presentation on pension design at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. |
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 Notices
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Office move
On Friday 19 December from 2pm, the Chief Financial Officer’s office will be
relocating to the fifth floor of the Lionel Robbins Building, which is
accessed from Portugal Street, and will be in situ from Monday 22 December.
Please contact Cecilia Okereke on ext 7100 or
c.okereke@lse.ac.uk for any
queries.
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Emergency arrangements during Christmas closure
Over the Christmas closure period, Estates will provide out of hours
cover for all estates related issues. Estates will have one person on
call for each of the School closure days, including public holidays.
In an emergency, please call 020 7955 6555. For non-emergencies, call 020
7955 6200.
All emergencies will be dealt with in the first instance by a team of
security staff on duty at the Old Building reception desk in Houghton
Street.
These arrangements will start from 5pm on Wednesday 24 December through
to 8am on Monday 5 January.
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LSE 2015-16 Calendars now available The School’s two-year leave
planner/calendar is now available to order.
It comes in two parts: Jan-Jun and Jul-Dec, and is double sided. Side one
is for 2015 and side two for 2016. At the end of 2015, you simply turn it
over to display 2016.
Planner/calendar features:
- it is laminated so you can use highlighters on it so that text can
be later erased if need be
- School closure dates indicated
- comes in A5, A4 or A3 sizes, for either team use or individual use
- each of the two parts is either A5, A4 or A3 depending on size
ordered
- term periods shaded so you can immediately differentiate between
term time and non-term time
- term dates stated (2014-15, 2015-16, and 2016-17)
Please click here to view it.
To place your order,
click here, scroll down to Year Planners, and follow the
instructions provided. Please note that you will need to provide a valid
budget code in order to place your order, and remember that each of the two
parts for the planner/calendar is sized as A3, A4 or A5.
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LSE Chill - call for performers Spaces at the 2015 performance
nights are filling up fast so if you have a talent you’d like to share with
a friendly LSE crowd, get in touch.
Bands, solo artists, poets, comedians, everyone is welcome, so if you’re
interested check out the
website and email arts@lse.ac.uk
with details of your act.
The next LSE Chill will take place on Friday 30 January in Café 54, NAB.
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LSE Photo Prize - submissions now open To be in for a chance to
win a trip for two to The View from the Shard, and to see your work
displayed on campus, submit your photos to the LSE Photo Prize.
Staff and students can enter up to three photos into the competition -
submissions close at midnight on Wednesday 28 January. A selection of
submitted photos will be displayed around the LSE campus during the Literary
Festival,
which will be on the theme Foundations, in February 2015.
For more information, check
LSE
Arts or email
arts.photoprize@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 13 January, Tuesday 20 January,
Tuesday 3 February, Tuesday 10 February and Tuesday 24
February. Just
turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons are
free.
For more information, email Daniel at
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 LSE
in pictures
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Happy Christmas from LSE in pictures.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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LSE study shows sharp rise in teenage childbearing during Iraq War
The Iraq War led to a sharp rise in teenage childbearing, according to new
research from LSE.
A study by LSE’s Valeria
Cetorelli (pictured), a PhD candidate in demography, shows that teenage
fertility in Iraq rose by more than 30 per cent between 2003 and 2010 due to
increased early marriage among less-educated girls.
The doctoral student analysed retrospective birth history data from two Iraq
Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. The findings, published in the December
2014 issue of
Population and Development Review, represent the first detailed
account of recent fertility trends in Iraq.
She found that from 1997 to 2003, teenage fertility in Iraq was stable at
just below 70 births per 1,000 girls aged 15–19. However, soon after the
beginning of the war, teenage fertility rose sharply, reaching over 95
births per 1,000 girls in 2010.
"During the war, women who would have married later in life instead married
at much younger ages, possibly because of post-2003 insecurity," Valeria
said. "The actual and perceived dangers of harassment and physical harm,
combined with the resurgence of sectarian, tribal and other conservative
forces, prevented many women from participating in public life or even
leaving their homes without a male escort."
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Migration and London focus of new book by LSE London The
current debate on migration needs to be better informed and based on an
understanding of the impact and contributions of different migrant groups,
according to a new book by the research centre
LSE London.
Migration and London’s Growth brings together some of the material
from a two year programme of analysis and discussion and looks at issues
such as how migration has affected housing, politics and wages in the
capital as well as the experience in other cities.
Contributors highlight how migrants are moving into new areas. ‘Poor
country’ migrants are no longer especially concentrated in the inner city
for example. Driven by pressures, such as housing, they are increasingly
settling in outer London boroughs and even in some areas outside of the
green belt.
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 Events
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LSE Events Programme - Spring 2015
The programme of events for the 2015 Spring term is available to download
online now.
Highlights include lectures by Dr Pippa Malmgren, Mervyn King and Professor
Sonia Livingstone.
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Forthcoming LSE events include....
Battlefield Ethics and Secularisation
On: Monday 12 January at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Dr Giles Fraser
Picturing Race and Inequality: the potential for social change
On: Tuesday 13 January at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Professor Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Neville, Professor Tim
Newburn, Professor Gwendolyn Sasse, and Polly Toynbee (pictured)
Signals: the breakdown of the social contract and the rise of geopolitics
On: Tuesday 13 January at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Dr Pippa Malmgren
The Cold War and the Culture of Secrecy
On: Tuesday 13 January at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Matthew Connelly
Should Markets be Moral?
On: Wednesday 14 January at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Lord Skidelsky (pictured)
Conor Gearty in Conversation with Chaloka Beyani
On: Wednesday 14 January at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Dr Chaloka Beyani
Corporate Boards: facts and myths
On: Thursday 15 January at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Daniel Ferreira
Is the Brain a Predictive Machine?
On: Thursday 15 January at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speakers: Professor Paul Fletcher (pictured), Professor Karl Friston, Demis Hassabis,
and Professor Richard Holton
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Lecture by
Fatmir Besimi, Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs
On: Monday 19 January from 6-7.30pm in
Cañada Blanch Room, first floor, Cowdray House
LSEE - Research on South Eastern Europe invites you to this lecture by
Fatmir Besimi (pictured), Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister for European
Affairs.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket or pre-registration
required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
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LSEE Visiting Speaker Programme - Lent term The LSEE Visiting
Speaker Programme is a regular series of research seminars aimed at bringing
research and scholarship by academics, policy professionals and other South
Eastern Europe experts to a wider audience.
The Visiting Speaker Programme attracts researchers and specialists from the
UK, Europe and South Eastern Europe, covering a broad range of topics.
Events taking place next term include:
All of these events will take place from 6-7.30pm in the Canada Blanch Room,
first floor of Cowdray House.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
The Tyranny of Experts
Speaker: Professor William Easterly
Recorded: Monday 8 December, approx. 82 minutes
Democracy, decency and devolution
Speaker: Dame Tessa Jowell
Recorded: Monday 8 December, approx. 78 minutes
A Menagerie of Lines: how to decide who is poor?
Speaker: Professor Angus Deaton
Recorded: Tuesday 9 December, approx. 79 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with..... Jon Emmett
I work in the Sustainability Team
in Estates, improving the
environmental impact of the campus
one LED light bulb at a time. I work
on a whole range of projects
including training, engagement, and
our environmental management
processes. As a whole, our team
covers everything from energy and
waste reduction, to keeping bees on
the roof of Connaught House.
I’m originally from Ilford in
East London, but now live all the
way over in Stamford Hill, North
London. I enjoy making music and
writing, and also riding (and
fixing) my bike.
What small thing would you
change about the School that would
improve your quality of life?
Everyone putting their rubbish in
the
right bin (or better still,
joining their Department’s
Green Impact team), would make
my life at LSE a little bit
brighter! LSE monorail would also be
a fantastic addition to the campus.
If you weren’t at LSE, at what
other institution would you like to
work?
I recently discovered that the
Science Museum have an ‘Inventor in
Residence’, who gets to create weird
but useful objects for a living -
including a lampshade made from a
copper funnel he found in a bin.
Sounds like a pretty good place to
work.
Do you make good use of social
networking sites?
I edit the
LSE Sustainability Blog
(shameless plug: come and write for
us), and run the
@SustainableLSE twitter account.
Outside LSE I have a Tumblr blog
called
Climate Jumanji, where I collate
outlandish media claims about how
climate change will create
apocalyptic mutant wildlife. I also
occasionally
blog about urban cycling, and
other miscellaneous topics.
Name three things you cannot
do without.
My guitar - I play every day
(whether I have time to or not).
Things to read.
My phone (troublingly).
What was your best subject at
school - and your worst?
My best were music and physics -
the latter I went on to study at
university. My worst were PE and RE.
I think it’s curious how your
interests shift over time though -
I’m now less drawn to physics than I
once was, probably because I feel
you need to stand back at a safe
distance to appreciate it - when
Brian Cox does his inspirational
shows about the wonders of the
universe, he never mentions the
relentless amount of algebra that
goes into understanding it all! On
the other hand, I was always
lukewarm towards geography at
school, which I now find really
fascinating.
What is your favourite type of
music?
That’s a hard question. Depending
on what mood I’m in I like indie,
traditional jazz, blues, folk,
electronica, and various other
things. The last gig I went to was
my cousin’s 12-piece brass band
doing ska songs about climate change
and the singer’s trouble with being
late.
I also make quite a bit of music
myself - some of it’s
online here. I play various
instruments (guitar, piano, clarinet
and others), and recently had a
cameo playing percussion in my
colleague Elena’s orchestra. My
latest adventure has been teaching
myself electronic music production,
and the French horn (sorry about
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 Training
and jobs
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Research Division Training Sessions
Introduction to the REF
Wednesday 14 January from 12-1pm
Outlines the REF, what it means, what tools are used, and implications for
LSE.
Attracting corporate research funding while safeguarding academic
independence
Wednesday 14 January from 5.30-7pm
Successful academic-business partnerships are built on high quality
research, close collaboration and academic independence. They offer
academics an array of benefits including insight into new and innovative
business practice, and access to funding and valuable data.
Academics interested in finding out more about engaging with corporations
are invited to attend this panel discussion examining the benefits and
potential pitfalls of business partnerships.
Panellists include:
- Professor Julia Black, LSE Pro-Director for Research
- Susan Liautaud, LSE alumna and international ethics/governance
consultant
- Mark Selby, Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey with over
30 years of senior executive experience in technology, media and telecom
- Mandy Cormack, advisor/practitioner in international CSR practice,
non-executive Trust Director, and Visiting Fellow at Cranfield
University
Information Session: Looking for funding opportunities - online tools
Thursday 15 January from 12-1pm
Research Professional is an online access to news and funding opportunities.
In this session, participants will learn how to set up your profile and use
Research Professional to search for suitable funding opportunities. This
hands-on session will be delivered in a computer lab and run by a
Research Development Manager. This session will run
every term.
All training sessions are delivered in partnership with the
Teaching
and Learning Centre. For the list of upcoming events,
click here. For more information, contact
researchdivision@lse.ac.uk.
For daily updates, follow us on Twitter
@ LSE_RD.
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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 Social Psychology/Community Psychology,
Social Psychology
- Assistant Professor in Social Psychology/Economic Psychology,
Social Psychology
- Business Analyst, Information Management and Technology
- Coordinating Language Teacher (EAP), Language Centre
- Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow - EU-China relations, LSE
IDEAS
- Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow - EU-North America relations,
LSE IDEAS
- Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow - EU-Russia/Ukraine relations,
LSE IDEAS
- Departmental Manager, Methodology
- Development Manager, LSE Advancement
- Digital Marketing and Recruitment Executive, Summer School
and Executive Programmes
- Evaluation Manager, IGC International Growth Centre
- Events Coordinator and Office Assistant, Systemic Risk Centre
- Events and Communications Officer, Institute of Public
Affairs
- Global Alumni Programme Manager, LSE Advancement
- LSE Fellow in Global Politics, Government
- Office Co-ordinator/Assistant to the Director, Communications
- Policy Engagement Manager, IGC International Growth Centre
- Professor/Associate Professor in Economics, Economics
- Programme Coordinator, Management
- Research Assistant - Quantitative Social Research, Sociology
- Research Officer, Systemic Risk Centre
- Research Officer, LSE Health and Social Care
- Research Officer, Middle East Centre
- Senior Library Assistant - Discovery and Metadata, Library:
Collections Services
- Social Media Manager, Communications
- Taught Programmes Manager, Philosophy
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
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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 n.gallivan@lse.ac.uk
or on ext 7582. The next edition of Staff News is on Thursday 8
January. Articles for this should be emailed to me by
Tuesday 6 January. Staff
News is emailed every Thursday during term time and fortnightly during
the holidays.
Thanks, Nicole
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