Don't miss today's Research Festival Exhibition

The multimedia exhibition showcases films, photographs and posters by researchers at all levels across LSE and beyond.

LSE Chill

Join LSE Arts on Friday 29 May for a fun, free night of live music featuring staff and student musicians, at the final LSE Chill of the year.

James McFadzean

James, LSE Careers, is pretty obsessed with the Royal Family and if he didn't work at LSE, he'd love to go and try his hand in NASA or MI6.

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LSE academic awarded Honorary Degree by Geneva University

Judy Wajcman (pictured), Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, has been nominated for a Dr Honoris Causa by the University of Geneva’s School of Social Sciences.

The University of Geneva, Switzerland, is among the top universities in continental Europe according to international rankings. Professor Wajcman said: "I am thrilled to be awarded this degree from such a distinguished university".

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 Naila Kabeer (pictured), Professor of Gender and Development at LSE's Gender Institute, discusses women and capitalism. More
 

Did you know? Lionel Robbins’ (pictured) association with LSE began 90 years ago, in 1920, when he arrived to study economics.

Author of the 1963 Robbins Report on Higher Education, he taught until 1981-82. During his LSE career he was notably Chair of the Court of Governors during the LSE Troubles of 1966-69, where students protested against the Director.

He and William Beveridge created the Academic Freedom Committee at LSE in 1933 to help academics who were being persecuted by the Nazis to continue their research. Robbins’ legacy on campus is the Lionel Robbins Building. In 1971 he led the appeal for donations to purchase the site, Strand House at 10 Portugal Street. The building was named after him and officially opened by HM the Queen Mother in 1978.

Find out more about Lionel Robbins’ life outside of LSE, in the War Cabinet and in the world of the Arts, in this LSE Digital Library exhibition.

I will manage my stress by….

On Friday 15 May, the Student Wellbeing Service ran another Wellbeing Stall focussing on how to de-stress and remain healthy during the exam period.

Visitors were asked to complete leaflets saying "I will manage my stress by...." providing suggestions of things that we can all do to help maintain our mental health/wellbeing. It can be easy to rush through life especially when you are feeling stressed. Paying more attention to the present moment, to your own thoughts and feelings, and to the world around you, can improve your mental wellbeing.

Students were also offered free ten minute massages and Fitness First was on hand to offer fitness tips.

The stall also promoted the "Time to Change" campaign that aims to end mental health discrimination. It handed out leaflets offering tips on how to look out for your friends, maintaining your mental wellbeing at work, and ideas for a 'Five a Day for Mental Health'. This year’s campaign is "It’s time to talk" which encourages everyone to start a conversation about mental health.

The stall also publicised other support available at LSE including the Student Counselling Service, the Disability and Wellbeing Service, LSE Careers, the Peer Support Service, and LSESU activities. For more information, visit lse.ac.uk/studentwellbeing.
 

The 2015 LSE Research Festival is a series of public events, free and open to all, which celebrate public engagement with social science research.

The Research Festival Exhibition is the centrepiece of the events series. Now in its fifth year, this multimedia exhibition showcases films, photographs and posters by researchers at all levels across LSE and beyond. Researchers will be on hand to discuss their work with visitors.

Why not drop in to the lower ground floor of the NAB for a drink after work tonight between 5.30-8.30pm and take a look at the best social science research LSE has to offer.

A team of British Heart Foundation (BHF) practitioners will be available on campus on Tuesday 26 May during LSE Staff Wellbeing Day to provide valuable advice and information about maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

The BHF team will be running interactive sessions throughout the day in The Venue (the basement of SAW), focusing upon physical activity, healthy eating and wellbeing practices. During the session you will be guided through four themed health zones by an experienced and professional BHF team to learn more about eating well, being active, thinking well and changing habits.

Each session will last approximately 60 minutes - please email staffwellbeing@lse.ac.uk to book a place. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, so book early to avoid disappointment.

At the same time, a host of LSE volunteer providers will also be running a number of fitness and wellbeing taster sessions. There is no need to book, simply turn up suitably dressed for the relevant activity at the time specified (a t-shirt, leggings/shorts/tracksuit bottoms and trainers will suit most activities). All taster sessions will be taking place in the exercise studio, sixth of the SAW. More details about the schedule can be found here.

Social Psychology tribute to Steve Gaskell

The Department of Social Psychology will be hosting a tribute to Steve Gaskell (pictured), Social Psychology Workshop Technician, who died on 28 March 2015.

The tribute will take place on Tuesday 9 June at 2.30pm in the Faith Centre, SAW. As seating is limited, staff interested in attending should contact Daniel Linehan, Social Psychology Department Manager, at d.p.linehan@lse.ac.uk.
 

An LSE Social Media Directory has been created to support social media connections between Departments and Divisions at LSE. The directory - available online here - shows contact details for social media feeds from Departments, Centres, Groups, Blogs, and Divisions around the School.

The directory should make finding the right social media contacts easier and help to facilitate using social media to share content and promote events in other Departments.

Call for Reviewers: LSE Review of Books

The LSE Review of Books is hoping to expand its pool of LSE reviewers in the subject areas of economics, business, sociology and politics.

If you're interested, please send an email to lsereviewofbooks@lse.ac.uk with a brief bio and a writing sample.

The LSE Review of Books is a leading academic book review site. It reaches an engaged academic audience of 50,000 per month, and has an active social media presence with 24,000 followers on Twitter. It showcases LSE-authored books alongside books from academics across the breadth of the social sciences.
 

LSE Catering will be holding a pop-up cocktail bar with live jazz on the eighth floor of the New Academic Building on Friday 22 May.

The event was incredibly popular last year, with professionally made cocktails, excellent live jazz music combined with amazing views over London.

Are you a cyclist? If not, would you like to be?

LSE’s Health and Social Care Green Impact Team and LSE Cities are conducting a travel survey to seek your views on facilities around campus for cyclists. Even if you have no intention of ever being a cyclist, they would still like to hear from you.

LSE has been given a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a Guinness World Record attempt, the BCSWomen App-a-thon.

IMT be teaming up with The Chartered Institute of IT (BCS) specialist group, BCSWomen, to host 50 participants in a national challenge to get the largest number of people learning to write an Android smartphone app at a single time.

BCSWomen’s main objective is to provide support for female IT professionals, as well as mentoring and encouraging girls and women to pursue a career in IT. The App-a-thon will be led by LSE female trainers with the aim to change the perception of IT not being a ‘job for girls’.

If you would like to learn how to code and create your own app, join us on Saturday 13 June in LSE's Thai Theatre (NAB), from 10am-3pm (lunch will be provided).

Don't forget to recycle

If you have any clothes, shoes or textiles hanging around, remember you can drop the off at the TRAID bin on the first floor of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre.

By donating your unwanted clothes to TRAID, you are diverting them from landfill and incineration. Some textiles are reused as seat paddings and other items, and clothes are sold in TRAID shops, where the money raised goes to improving conditions and working practices in the textile industry.
 

Computer Tip of the Week - Shortcut keys in Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013

Most shortcut keys from previous versions of Office work in Office 2010 and 2013. However, these latest versions of Office also have an entirely new, additional set of shortcut keys you don’t have to memorise! To view and use them:

1. Open any Microsoft Office 2010 application.
2. Press the ALT key on the keyboard. Small grey boxes containing shortcut keys are displayed for each tab in the ribbon and for each icon in your Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) at the top left corner of your screen.
3. To use an icon in the QAT, type its shortcut key. The computer carries out the relevant command.
OR
4. To use an icon on one of the tabs in the ribbon, use your keyboard to type the relevant shortcut key (even if the tab required is currently displayed). The tab selected opens displaying a shortcut key for most icons.
5. Type the shortcut required. The computer carries out the relevant command.

NOTE: If you use the mouse, the shortcut keys disappear. These shortcut keys work only when the grey shortcut key boxes are displayed.

Additional resources are available on the IT Training website.
 

York Theatre Royal’s The Flanagan Collective are offering LSE staff £10 tickets for the London run of their brand new production of Romeo and Juliet.

Performed by an all female cast in the intimate surroundings of the West End’s newest immersive studio theatre you can expect a candle-lit, foot-stomping and heart-wrenching telling of Shakespeare’s homage to young love and tragic romance, infused with live music, soaring harmonies and good, honest storytelling.

This week's picture features Professor Conor Gearty, taken at the 2015 Election Night Party on Thursday 7 May.

For more images like this, visit the Photography Unit.

Forthcoming LSE events include....

Quality of Life in Urban China: economic growth and the environment
On: Tuesday 26 May at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Matthew Kahn (pictured)

Hubris: why economists failed to predict the crisis and how to avoid the next one
On: Wednesday 27 May at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Lord Meghnad Desai

Equality Without Equivalence: an anthropology of the common
On: Thursday 28 May at 6pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Dr Harry Walker

Flood of Fire
On: Friday 29 May at 1pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Amitav Ghosh
 

On: Friday 22 May from 6.30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Douglas Kysar, Joseph M Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Shimizu Fellow in LSE's Department of Law.

Frustrated with the pace of ongoing climate change policy negotiations, commentators and activists have increasingly called for resort to the courts to establish baseline principles of responsibility for harms caused or exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change.

In both the domestic and international cases, advocates seek to position climate change as a problem best addressed through principles of law and justice, rather than merely politics and power. This lecture will provide an overview of these efforts and an assessment of whether, and how far, they might succeed.

On: Tuesday 26 May from 6-7.30pm in the Thai Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Dr Gary Wilder

in this lecture, presented by the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Research Group, Dr Wilder reconsiders decolonisation from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty.

On: Tuesday 26 May from 6.30-8pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speakers: Liz Fekete (pictured), Executive Director of the Institute for Race Relations and Head of its European Research Programme; Kiri Kankhwende, human rights campaigner and journalist; Professor James Nazroo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity; and Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernard, Head of Research at the Runnymede Trust.

This event, co-hosted by LSE's Department of Sociology and the Runnymede Trust, will consider the ongoing significance of race and class to shaping inequalities in contemporary British life.

On: Thursday 28 May from 6.30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Nereo Peñalver García, European Union official, Sir Julian Priestley, former Secretary General of the European Parliament, Professor Simon Hix, Professor of European and Comparative Politics and Head of the Department of Government at LSE, and Manfred Weber, Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament.

One year ago Europeans went to the polls to elect their MEPs. For the first time they had a say in who should be the next President of the Commission. Against all odds, heads of government eventually accepted EP demands that Jean-Claude Juncker should be the next President. This was a parliamentary putsch and is narrated by Nereo Peñalver and Julian Priestley in their book, The Making of a European President.

But big questions remain - were voters aware that they could influence the choice of head of Europe's executive? Will this lead to undue politicisation of the Commission? What really changed with Juncker's election? How could this process be better organised in 2019?

The final LSE Chill of the year is on Friday 29 May and will feature staff and student musicians, such as David Lewis (pictured), Head of Social Policy; Misha Chapman; and Kim Kierkegaardashian and the Kantye Wests.

With a limited number of free drinks and snacks, join LSE Arts for a fun and free night of live music, from 6-8pm in Café 54, New Academic Building.

Podcasts of public lectures and events

Money and its Redemption
Speakers: Dr Laura Bear, Professor David Graeber, and Professor Bill Maurer
Recorded: Thursday 7 May

Dealing with China
Speaker: Hank Paulson
Recorded: Monday 11 May

For all staff:

• Balancing Work and Being Mum
• Balancing Work and Being Dad
• Managing Under Pressure
• Managing Stress in Yourself and Others
• Fair Treatment and Respect for Staff

For managers:

• Fair Treatment and Respect for Managers
• Strategic Thinking

The Research Division would like to invite centre managers, department managers, academics and professional staff interested in research funding or already with an award to attend the following events.

Funding Clinic
Wednesday 27 May from 2-4pm
A number of funding clinics throughout the term on a regular basis with not more than 5 academics around a table to discuss particulars of, e.g. a specific funding scheme, specific application systems, specific research questions and themes.

Looking for funding opportunities - online tools
Tuesday 2 June. First session: 11.30am-12.30pm, Second session: 2.30-3.30pm
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 hand-on session will be delivered in a computer lab.
Facilitated by a Research Development Manager from Research Division and Research Professional representative. This session will run every term.

Impact case studies - a panel discussion with LSE authors and REF panel members
Wednesday 3 June from 12.30-2pm
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. Four panellists confirmed:

• Giles Atkinson - Professor of Environmental Policy, Department of Geography and Environment
• Nick Barr - Professor of Public Economics, European Institute
• Chris Brown - Professor of International Relations, Department of International Relations
• Edgar Whitley - Associate Professor of Information Systems, Department of Management)

Below are some of the vacancies currently being advertised:

• Research Officer (Community Programme), Centre for Economic Performance
• Academic Support Librarian, Library: Academic Services
• Accounts Assistant (Residences), Residential and Catering Services Division
• Administrative Assistant to the Director, Directorate
• Coordinating Language Teacher (Mandarin Chinese), Language Centre
• Course Convenor, Sociology
• Faith Centre Coordinator, Teaching and Learning Centre
• Graduate Admissions Selector, ARD: Graduate Admissions
• Policy Communications Manager, International Growth Centre
• IT Support Officer, Information Management and Technology
• Fellow in Environment, Geography and Environment
• Fellow in Management (Decision Science), Management
• Fellow in Management (Human Resource Management, Employment Relations, or Organisational Behaviour), Management
• Fellow in Management (Information Systems), Management
• Fellow in Management (Operations Research), Management
• Fellow in Management (Public Management and Governance), Management
• Fellow in Media and Communications, Media and Communications
• Fellow in Sociology, Sociology
• Research Officer, Media and Communications
• Undergraduate Programme Administrator, Law