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5 February 2015 |
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New online tool helps businesses, governments and individuals explore
low carbon worlds The climate outcomes of different lifestyle and
energy choices can now be explored by anyone, thanks to an online tool. Dr
Erica Thompson of LSE’s Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS) was
the lead climate scientist for the project, which draws on the latest
scientific results from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
to highlight the range of possible impacts resulting from different energy
choices.
The Global Calculator is an interactive tool for businesses and
individuals, NGOs and governments. It allows anyone to consider the various
options for cutting carbon emissions and the trade-offs for energy and land
use to 2050. It suggests that the world can eat well, travel more and live
in more comfortable homes while meeting international carbon reduction
commitments.
Dr Erica Thompson and Professor Leonard Smith of LSE are two of the many
academics around the world involved in creating the Global Calculator tool,
which was launched simultaneously in London and in China on Wednesday 28
January by the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change.
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Did you know? In 1970 LSE student Bob Mellor founded one of the
most influential civil rights groups in the UK - the Gay Liberation Front.
Which LSE building hosted their very first meeting? Find out at
lse.ac.uk/lse120
#LSE120.
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LSE passes UKVI audit From 27-30 January the Academic
Registrar's Division and the Human Resources Division underwent a UK Visas
and Immigration (UKVI) compliance audit.
The purpose of this audit was to ensure that LSE complies with policy and
regulations as set out in the published Tier 4 and Tiers 2 and 5 visa policy
guidance for international students and staff.
The School is delighted to report that LSE passed the audit without any
problems or complications; this means that we retain our Highly Trusted
Sponsor status.
A number of recommendations have been made by the auditors, particularly
around the issue of student monitoring, and these will be reported formally
to us after the General Election.
Simeon Underwood, Academic Registrar and Director of Academic Services,
said: “I would like to thank all colleagues who have contributed to the
successful visa operation at the School and to the very positive outcome of
the audit itself."
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IMT Customer Portal: competition winner Congratulations to
Chris Anderson (pictured), Estates Systems Manager, who won an iPad mini in
the IMT Customer Portal feedback prize draw.
The competition was open to all LSE staff (excluding IMT) who provided
feedback on the IMT Customer Portal, a new system which will ensure
effective, efficient and consistent IT service management.
IMT would like to thank everyone who provided feedback during the pilot
stages and open testing sessions. Your feedback will be invaluable in making
improvements to the Portal before it is open to the School this spring.
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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 Nigel Dodd (pictured), Professor of Sociology, discusses
different money systems and how they reflect on society.
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Academic abroad
On Monday 2 February Professor Ken Shadlen (pictured), Professor of
Development Studies, delivered a seminar at the
Finnish Institute of International Affairs, entitled 'The WTO,
Pharmaceutical Patents and Development - The North-South Politics of
Global Health'.
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 Notices
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Changes to Orientation Week for the 2015-16 academic year The
Student Services Centre is delighted to announce that Orientation Week is to
be renamed Welcome Week in preparation for the 2015-16 academic year.
In light of the changes to the structure of the academic year, Welcome
Week will take place between Monday 21 - Friday 25 September. A new logo is
in design to reflect the name change and will be circulated for use across
the School in due course.
The Welcome Week team will be in touch with stakeholders periodically as
the new academic year approaches, but please don’t hesitate to get in
contact if you have any questions -
WelcomeWeek@lse.ac.uk.
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Computer Tip of the Week: Three time savers you should know
Even the most efficient computer user may be unaware of simple steps that
can save time and effort. Do you know about these Word features?
1. Keep photos, charts and other images together with the text they
illustrate by ‘anchoring’
them.
2. Use Full Screen Viewing to read long documents. In the lower right
corner of the Word screen, click the second icon (which looks like an open
book). The ribbon at the top of the page disappears, and two pages of the
document are shown side by side. Customise this view using View
Options in the upper right corner of the screen, or click Close
to return to the previous view.
3. Use the Office Clipboard to collect and paste material from one or
more files or webpages into others. For example, paste text from a Word
document, an Excel chart and a Creative Commons (open licence) image from
the internet into a PowerPoint show. Or add text, such as long names, to the
Clipboard for frequent use while writing a long document.
Find out how here.
For more tips, see
online guides and FAQs or this
website.
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New edition of Perspectives The February edition of
Perspectives is now online.
Each month 12 photos taken by the LSE community are chosen to appear in
LSE Arts online gallery. Check out February’s edition
here.
Find inspiration in
past galleries, and find out how to submit your photos
here. For more information, email
lseperspectives@lse.ac.uk.
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Tech Talks - Stop Starting and Start Finishing: card games with
Kanban The next ‘Tech Talk’ event, taking place on
Wednesday 25 February from 2.30-4pm in AGWR, Old Building,
will feature an introduction to ‘Kanban’ courtesy of the IMT Development
Team.
Kanban is an Agile* way of organising work and an alternative to Scrum.
Kanban provides a visual focus on the flow of a team’s work items. Work is
divided into stages and items are pulled by team members from one stage to
the next. As an Agile approach it seeks to promote collaboration and to
adapt to change.
The Development Team have been using Kanban for the past nine months and
will share their insights and experience. As part of the show you will have
the opportunity to play a Kanban card game and learn some Kanban lessons
yourself.
Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment - RSVP to
imt.communications.team@lse.ac.uk.
*Agile is an iterative approach to project delivery that builds
software incrementally from the start of projects. Agile methods also
includes a focus on collaborative working between cross-functional teams.
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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 10 February, Tuesday 24
February, Tuesday 3 March, Tuesday 17 March, and
Tuesday 24 March. Just
turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons are
free.
For more information, email Daniel at
d.beckley@lse.ac.uk.
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Bike for sale
A
Gaint Expression DX town bike is currently for sale for £100 (or nearest
offer). The
bike has full suspension, an AluxX aluminium frame, 32 gears, and is
a very comfy ride.
For more information, email v.evans@lse.ac.uk.
The bike can be brought to campus for test ride.
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features the Exercise Studio on the sixth floor of
the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Events
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LSE Literary Festival 2015
Tickets now available to book online for the LSE Literary Festival
2015.
A series of events, free to attend and open to all, exploring the
foundations of knowledge, society, identity and literature, as well as those
of LSE itself.
Speakers include Lisa Appignanesi, Ian Bostridge, Anne Fine, John Gray,
Andrew O'Hagan, Elif Shafak, Raja Shehadeh, Will Self and Ali Smith.
Browse the programme
online here. To book tickets, visit
eshop.lse.ac.uk.
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Children’s Rights in the Digital Age On: Wednesday 11
February from 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE (pictured), Professor of Social
Psychology in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE and Project
Director of EU Kids Online.
Respondents: Jasmina Byrne,
Child Protection Specialist at UNICEF, and Professor Robin Mansell,
Professor of New Media and the Internet at LSE.
Are children’s rights enhanced or undermined by access to the internet?
Charters and manifestos for the digital age are proliferating, but where do
children fit in?
Professor Livingstone has written a blog to accompany this lecture which
you can
read here.
You can join the conversation on Twitter by following
@MediaLSE and using the hashtag #LSEchildrights.
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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Other forthcoming LSE events include....
On Informed Consent
On: Monday 9 February at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speakers: Professor Baroness O'Neill (pictured) and Professor Jonathan Wolff
Hong Kong: the struggle at the end of history
On: Tuesday 10 February at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Professor Conor Gearty, Raymond Li, Professor Danny Quah, and
Isabella Steger
How Good We Can Be: ending the mercenary society and building a great
country
On: Wednesday 11 February at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Will Hutton
Tuition Fees Assist Access: discuss
On: Wednesday 11 February at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speakers: Professor Nicholas Barr and Martin Lewis (pictured)
Philip Pilkington (piano)
On: Thursday 12 February at 1pm in the Shaw Library, Old Building
Investor Protection in TTIP: fading democracy or new generation?
On: Thursday 12 February at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement Hous
Speaker: Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp
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LSE Works
The fourth LSE Works lecture takes place on Thursday 5 February
and will be given by LSE Health and Social Care’s Professor Gwyn Bevan
(pictured) and Dr Mara Airoldi (formerly LSE) on ‘STAR: using visual
economic models to engage stakeholders to increase value in the NHS’.
The respondent will be Siân Williams, Programme Manager for IMPRESS, and
the event will be chaired by Sir Muir Gray, consultant in public health
in the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and Director of Better
Value Healthcare.
LSE Works is a series public lectures that will showcase some of the
latest research by LSE's academic departments and research centres. In
each session, LSE academics will present key research findings,
demonstrating where appropriate the implications of their studies for
public policy.
A list of all the LSE Works lectures can be viewed at
LSE Works.
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Bulgarians in Macedonia and Macedonians in Bulgaria - Do They Exist?
On: Tuesday 10 February from 6-7.30pm in the Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray
House
Speaker: Dr Kyril Drezov,
Lecturer in Politics at Keele University and Director of the Keele
Southeast Europe Unit.
The seminar will explore some long-standing disagreements on ethnic and
regional identities that prevent genuine normalisation of relations between
Sofia and Skopje.
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Philosophy, the Public and Other Subjects On: Tuesday 10
February from 6.30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Simon Glendinning (pictured),
Professor of European Philosophy at LSE.
50 years ago Professor Nigel Glendinning gave an inaugural lecture arguing for
the abolition of inaugural lectures. His failure allows his son, Professor
Simon Glendinning, to return to
this theme.
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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An Awkward Alliance: West Germany and Portugal at the end of the
Portuguese Empire On: Wednesday 11 February from 6.30-8pm in room
9.04, Tower Two
Speakers: Dr Rui Lopes (pictured),
Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the Universidade
Nova de Lisboa,
and Dr Kristina Sphor,
Associate Professor at Department of International History.
Led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Willy Brandt, the West German governments
of the late 1960s and early 1970s left a well-remembered mark on the history
of social-democracy, European integration, and Cold War détente. By
contrast, in the years leading up to the Carnation Revolution of 25 April
1974, Portugal remained Europe’s oldest authoritarian regime and, despite
international condemnation, continued to wage war against liberation
movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau.
The awkward relationship between Bonn and Lisbon during this period,
rooted in the intersection between European geopolitics and resistance to
African decolonisation, is at the core of Dr. Rui Lopes’ book, West
Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship, 1968-1974: Between Cold War and
Colonialism, which will be launched at this event.
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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INDIA-EU Roundtable - 'Strengthening relations between Europe and
India: which partnership for the Twenty First Century?' On:
Friday 13 February from 9.30am-6.30pm in the Shaw Library, Old Building
This event is in partnership with LSE's European Institute, King's India
Institute and LSE's India Observatory.
For a full event programme and to register for a place,
click here.
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LSE EMBRACE Chinese New Year Celebration
LSE EMBRACE staff network is hosting a Chinese New Year celebration on
Thursday 26 February.
The event programme will include refreshments, a talk on the Chinese
'Zodiac' and Chinese arts and music.
Please email embrace@lse.ac.uk to
register your interest for this event. Check the
EMBRACE webpage for more information.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
AEC 2015 – A Perspective from Business
Speaker: Dato Sri Nazir Razak
Recorded: Wednesday 28 January, approx. 88 minutes
Extradition and the Erosion of Human Rights
Speakers: Gareth Peirce, Professor Saskia Sassen, and Professor Jeanne
Theoharis
Recorded: Wednesday 28 January, approx. 86 minutes
Better Growth, Better Climate: cities and the new climate economy
Speakers: Graham Floater and Philipp Rode
Recorded: Thursday 29 January, approx. 87 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with..... Dr Leticia Sabsay
I joined LSE in 2014. Prior to
this, I was a lecturer at the
Department of Psychosocial Studies
at Birkbeck College, University of
London, and a research associate at
the Department of Politics and
International Studies, The Open
University. Previous to this, I held
a postdoctoral fellowship at the
Freie Universitat of Berlin,
Germany, and was a lecturer at the
University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
My work interrogates the
entanglement between sexuality,
subjectivity and the political as
processes of cultural translation,
both across disciplines and
transnational contexts, and is
concerned with changing notions of
gender and subjectivity within
political and cultural realms.
My research falls into three
broad areas: contemporary
representations and translations of
sexual ideals of freedom, processes
of sexual democratisation (with a
focus on Latin America), and Judith
Butler’s work on subject formations.
Over the past ten years, I have
written on issues of sexual
diversity and the politics of
recognition, sex work, transnational
sexual politics, performativity,
visual culture, and processes of
cultural translation.
If you could experience
working in another department/office
at LSE, which would it be?
I could work at the Department of
Media and Communications, or at the
Department of Sociology.
What would your friends say is
your greatest quality?
My friends like my honesty;
apparently I am sincere and very
open. They also say that I am a very
good listener, and warm.
If you could change places
with someone past or present, for a
day, who would it be and why?
A bunch of artists and
intellectuals from the early
Twentieth Century America and Europe
come to mind; I am drawn to that
specific configuration in time and
space as I find it most interesting
in terms of revolutionary ideas.
Having to choose one, I would change
places with Martha Graham, one of
the most impressive dancers and
choreographers of the time. I would
like to experience how it feels to
be able to dance like that, and to
have her creative vision. I would
love to spend one day among some the
vanguard artists of the 1920s.
What was the last thing that
made you laugh out loud?
The last time I had a good laugh
was at New Year’s Eve. I was dancing
on the streets of a little town in
the South of Spain, surrounded by my
dear friends and a miscellaneous
crowd, all together sharing a sense
of joy in a collective moment of
celebration.
As a child, what did you want
to be when you grew up?
When I was a child I wanted to be
many different things: first I
wanted to be a dancer; later in my
childhood I wanted to be an
architect, a psychoanalyst, a
singer, a photographer, a poet, or a
non-fiction writer.
If you had to choose a
personal theme tune, what would it
be?
Oh, I have too many! Among them,
I could choose Changes by
David Bowie, one of my favourite
artists. It always makes me happy to
listening to that track. I like the
mix of critical awareness and hope
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 Training
and jobs
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Impact Case Studies: a panel discussion with LSE authors
On: Thursday 12 February from 2-3.30pm
After the recent announcement of REF2014 results, come and learn from LSE
faculty who submitted impact case studies to the REF and members of the
assessment panels, who will share their experiences of creating and
documenting research impact.
Find out how impact can be generated and gain insight into both the rewards
and the challenges of effectively presenting that impact for REF (or other)
assessment. The examples discussed by the panel will cover a range of
different pathways to and types of research impact, as well as evidence used
to support impact claims.
Confirmed panellists include:
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Gwyn Bevan, Professor of Policy Analysis
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Giles Atkinson, Professor of Environmental Policy
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Chris Brown, Professor of International Relations
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Oriana Bandiera, Professor of Economics
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Nick Barr, Professor of Public Economics
For more information and to book your place,
click here. This event is brought to you by the Research Division in
collaboration with TLC. For more information, email
researchdivision@lse.ac.uk.
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Academic Development Programme Training Sessions Events
are open to academic and professional services staff.
Impact case studies -
a panel discussion with LSE authors
Thursday 12 February from 2-3.20pm
LSE faculty who submitted impact case studies to the REF to share their
experiences of creating and documenting research impact. As well as
supporting understanding of how impact can be generated, the discussion will
provide attendees with an insight into both the rewards and the challenges
of effectively presenting that impact for REF (or other) assessment.
Panellists to be confirmed.
Winning EC Grants -
visit from UK Research Office
Tuesday 24 February from 10am-2.30pm
This workshop will focus on the purpose, nature and structure of EU
collaborative grant proposals, as well as how to get successful grants from
EU bodies. LSE's UK Research Office (UKRO) advisor, Maribel Glogowski, will
present the session.
Knowledge Exchange and
Impact - what really works?
Wednesday 25 February from 12-1pm
This session will present success stories from the HEIF5 Bid Fund knowledge
exchange project.
How to write
applications for knowledge exchange funding
Wednesday 25 February from 1-3pm
This session will take participants through the HEIF Bid Fund application
process. Particularly for those who intend to apply for support.
Timesheets for
research grants
Wednesday 11 March from 12-1pm
This information session will introduce participants to LSE’s new timesheet
template to be used on European Commission and UK Research Council research
grants. Participants will learn:
- when timesheets are required to be used
- how timesheets should be completed
- how to use SharePoint to submit timesheets
All training sessions are delivered by the Research Division 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.
- Administrative Assistant, Planning Unit
- Assistant Archivist, Library: Archives Services
- Assistant Volunteer Coordinator, LSE Careers Service
- Data Coordinator, LSE Careers Service
- Departmental Manager (internal only), Mathematics
- Development Associate, LSE Advancement
- Director/Co-Directors, International Inequalities Institute
- Institute Manager, European Institute
- Language Coordinator (EAP) (internal only), Language Centre
- Managing Editor - LSE for Business Blog, Government
- Project Manager (Transcrisis), Centre for Analysis of Risk
and Regulation
- Student Engagement and Young Alumni Executive (maternity
cover), LSE Advancement
- Web Improvement Programme Project Manager, Communications
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 12
February. Articles for this should be emailed to me by
Tuesday 10 February. Staff
News is emailed every Thursday during term time and fortnightly during
the holidays.
Thanks, Nicole
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