On 30 July, three women in senior roles at LSE will talk about their careers, their experiences and the challenges they've faced along the way. Come along and be inspired.

PLP and Events Leaflet deadline reminder

Submit your application form by 24 July if you would like your events to be included in the next Events Leaflet and considered for the School's Public Lecture Programme.

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Seven LSE professors elected new Fellows of British Academy

Seven LSE academics, including LSE Director Professor Craig Calhoun (pictured), have today been elected Fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their outstanding research.

Along with Professor Calhoun, LSE Pro-Director for Research Professor Julia Black, and professors Oriana Bandiera (Economics), Michael Lobban (Law) and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (Political Science) are among 42 highly distinguished academics from 18 UK universities elected British Academy New Fellows for 2015.

Harvard-based Philippe Aghion, who is also Centennial Professor of Economics at LSE’s International Growth Centre (IGC), and Columbia University-based Professor Jane Waldfogel, who is a Visiting Professor with LSE’s Centre for Analysis and Social Exclusion (CASE), have also been named Corresponding Fellows.

In response to the announcement Professor Calhoun said: "I’m enormously honoured - not least by being in the company of such distinguished colleagues from the LSE faculty. Julia, Oriana, Michael, Cheryl, Philippe, Jane and I have the privilege of joining impressive predecessors from LSE, including British Academy President Lord Nicholas Stern.

The School has installed new LSE branding to the large ground floor windows in 20 Kingsway. The series of six posters focus on LSE’s commitment to top quality research by addressing contemporary problems affecting the world.

The initial topics selected highlight the research areas of climate change, inequality, risk, prosperity, global health, and cities. Through working with a design consultancy, LSE Estates turned these research themes into exciting and unique images.

On Monday 7 September the new LSE Business Review blog will launch, with the goal of improving the links between LSE’s modern social science research community and the business world - corporations, firms, business executives and professionals.

The LSE Business Review will be cross-disciplinary, drawing on contributions from across the School, and will be looking for content that is business-facing and business-relevant.

The blog will be run by LSE Public Policy Group and Patrick Dunleavy, chair of the PPG, will serve as General Editor. If you have a blog post idea or have a question, contact the LSE Business Review’s Managing Editor, Helena Vieira, at h.vieira@lse.ac.uk or 020 7955 6909.

As with LSE’s other major school-wide blogs, the LSE Business Review will also directly involve business people, corporations, professional bodies and think tanks in writing and commenting. It will also draw in contributions from business-facing academics outside of LSE (across the UK, Europe and USA), maximising the exchange of knowledge.

LSE academic recognised by the British Science Association

Space policy expert Dr Jill Stuart (pictured), Department of Government, will deliver the prestigious Margaret Mead Social Sciences lecture at this year’s British Science Festival in Bradford from 7-10 September.

Dr Stuart is one of seven UK early career researchers recognised for expertise in their chosen fields by the British Science Association. Dr Stuart’s lecture, Who Owns Outer Space, will explain how politics on Earth affects what happens in the cosmos. More
 

Professor Charis Thompson (pictured), Department of Sociology, has joined a new working group at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics to explore the ethical issues raised by novel genome editing techniques which allow precise, targeted changes to be made to DNA molecules in living cells.

New website presents the first round of results from the Urban Governance Survey

The New Urban Governance project at LSE Cities, working in partnership with UN Habitat and the UCLG Committee on Decentralisation and Local Governance, has launched a new website to present the first round of results from the Urban Governance Survey.

The survey attempts to address a general lack of data about how cities are governed around the world and the new online platform explores new ways of communicating and ‘mapping’ urban governance.

The Urban Governance Survey is part of the larger LSE Cities New Urban Governance research and engagement project, co-funded by the MacArthur Foundation to examine multiple aspects of municipal planning, management, and governance.
 

Staff taking part in the Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) met at Lincoln’s Inn Fields on Tuesday (14 July ) to take part in the first ever GCC Relay.

Eleven teams took on the challenge of walking and running as many laps of Lincoln’s Inn Fields as they could in one hour. The SCC Team "Here for the Beer" jumped out to an early lead and were able to hold the blistering pace through the hour to complete 28 laps.

It was a close battle for the rest of the podium as "Chafing the Dream", "I Pace Away" and "LSE Library Challengers" were all tied with 22 laps and only two minutes separating second from fourth place.

The Finance and Human Resources Divisions jointly held a Strawberry Tea on Thursday 2 July, raising over £1,300 in a single day for Breast Cancer Care.

From strawberries and cream at lunch to a giant strawberry costume, the fruit-filled activity kept on coming. Thank you to all areas of the School and local businesses who very generously donated prizes for the raffle and to all those who contributed one way or another towards the charity - raising over £1,000 was more than the team could ever have hoped for and all for a wonderful charity. Without these donations the day would definitely not have been such a success.

Well done to all those calves out there that pedalled hard as part of the London Cycle Challenge over the last three weeks. LSE came fifth out of 158 organisations in our category.

Did you know?
Sidney Webb, one of LSE’s four Fabian founders, was born on 13 July 1859. Happy birthday Sidney Webb! Read about Sidney before LSE in Sidney Webb - the early years.

Exploring the past
Pick up the LSE History Explorer map now from one of LSE’s receptions. When did the Shaw Library open? Where did two bombs hit the LSE campus? Use the self-guided tour to explore the 120 year history of LSE and its key buildings.

The IMT Walk in Centre has relocated to the Library first floor from its previous location in St Clements.

The new centre features integrated services for both staff and students with the Staff Service Desk, Student Help Desk and Laptop Surgery (including Apple Time) all coming under one roof. For Summer opening times, please see the IT News Blog.

Centre Buildings Redevelopment newsletter

The countdown is over.... demolition contractor Cantillon started on the site on 15 June. Read the July newsletter for the latest information on the Centre Buildings Redevelopment project.

For further information, visit lse.ac.uk/centrebuildings.
 

LSE Garrick serves delicious made-to-order breakfasts from 8-10.30am in their downstairs restaurant.

Prices start at just £3.20 for a gourmet bacon sandwich, while other favourite dishes on offer include American style pancakes, eggs benedict, and smoked salmon with scrambled eggs.

Plus when purchasing any breakfast, you will receive a free tea or coffee with unlimited refills. The perfect place for a breakfast team meeting!
 

Public Lecture Programme and Events Leaflet deadline reminder

If you would like your Michaelmas term events to be included in the termly Events Leaflet, and considered for inclusion in the School’s Public Lecture Programme (PLP), please remember to submit the combined application form by Friday 24 July.

For more information, as well as the new application form, click here.

Please note, this only applies to events scheduled for the largest venues on campus (Old Theatre, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Hong Kong Theatre, and Wolfson Theatre). Smaller scale events can be advertised online by completing this online form.
 

EMBRACE LSE's Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff network wants to rebrand itself and attract new members, but in order to make it attractive and inviting to those interested parties, we’d like to find out exactly what staff hope the newly established network could offer.

If you would like to ensure that EMBRACE is representative of all minority ethnic staff and is able to effectively represent their interest, please take the short survey at surveymonkey.com/r/DH3F9MG.

Call for research project proposals 2015

Researchers, with a recognised interest in contemporary Greece, are invited to submit an application for funding in order to carry out a project on one of the following themes.

1. An evaluation of reform implementation
2. What model of employment relations for Greece?
3. Immigration, asylum, and the EU

This call has been made possible through generous funding provided by the National Bank of Greece. Applications should be submitted electronically by Sunday 27 September (10pm GMT) to hellenicobservatory@lse.ac.uk. For more information, click here.
 

How do you send an email reminder to only those people who did (or did not) respond to your meeting invitation? Try this in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013; unfortunately it is not available in Office 2011.

1. Open the event in your calendar.
2. On the Meeting tab, in the Show group of icons click Tracking. The screen changes to the recipients’ list, with each person ticked.
3. Untick everyone except those shown as None in the Response column. (Or vice versa - leave those you want to contact again ticked).
4. In the Attendees group of icons, click Contact Attendees and select New email to attendees. A new email opens addressed only to those people who were ticked in the list.
5. Write your reminder and Send.

Mondays (term time), 12.10-12:50pm Faith Centre, Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, room 2.01

What does it mean to develop a meditation practice and what is the goal of meditation in the first place? These lunchtime drop-in sessions offer a brief introduction followed by a silent sitting meditation. No previous experience of meditation is needed and all sessions are free.

This week's picture features the East Building, now behind scaffolding awaiting demolition.

For more images like this, visit the Photography Unit.

Older hospital patients in England face a "widespread and systematic" pattern of inadequate care. An estimated one million people in later life are affected by poor or inconsistent standards of dignity or help with eating in hospitals, according to a detailed statistical analysis of inpatient experience data in NHS hospitals in England.

Evolutionary constraints on the human mind may mean that we are adapted to be happiest when we live among people who are of the same ethnicity as ourselves, suggests new research published in the Journal of Research in Personality. However this effect is less strong among people with higher IQs.

According to analysis of data from the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), on average, ethnic minorities in the United States have lower life satisfaction than White Americans, even taking into account sex, age, education and marital status. However, once the ethnic composition of an individual’s state or county of residence was taken into account, the ethnic differences in life satisfaction were eliminated - although this was found to be less true for Asian Americans.

African Americans and Asian Americans who live in counties where they are the numerical majority have just as much life satisfaction as White Americans do.

A new LSE report commissioned by the Alzheimer’s Society reveals the hidden cost of dementia in Wales is estimated at £1.4 billion, an average cost of £31,300 per person each year.

The report, prepared by LSE’s Personal Social Services Research Unit is the first of its kind to analyse the economic impact that dementia has on Welsh society and will be the subject of a panel discussion ‘Can Wales afford to ignore dementia?’ on Tuesday 14 July at the National Assembly for Wales.

Sue Phelps, Director of Alzheimer's Society in Wales said: "There are 45,000 people living with dementia in Wales. The report estimates the financial cost of dementia in Wales is £1.4 billion, which is nearly a quarter of the health and social care spend by the Welsh Government each year.

Forthcoming LSE events include....

Sacred Mountains of China
On: Wednesday 29 July from 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Ryan Pyle (pictured)
 

LSE Power July events

LSE Power Open Meeting
On: Tuesday 28 July from 1-2pm in AGWR, fifth floor of the Old Building
This is an opportunity to meet the LSE Power Steering group, and give us feedback on the network, its events and aims. The Steering Group will talk about what it has been doing and how it’s been pursuing the network's priorities to date.

LSE Women in Management - Inaugural Panel
On: Thursday 30 July from 4.30-6pm in the Moot Court, seventh floor of the NAB
Speakers: Floriana Molone, Head of Customer Services in IMT; Hannah Bannister, Head of Student Services Centre; and Sarah Beck, Principal Projects Manager in LSE Estates
Floriana, Hannah and Sarah will talk about their careers, their experiences, and the challenges they've faced along the way. This is a unique opportunity to hear first-hand from women in management at LSE, exchange thoughts and even, we hope, find inspiration for your own career paths, in an informal and supportive environment. We are hoping that this will be the first in a series of panel events, inviting key people from across the School to talk about their experiences and about the career opportunities available for women at LSE.

On: Friday 4 and Saturday 5 December at the Grand Connaught Rooms

Complex systems can be observed from complex social networks and its evolution to transportation and electric power generation; from physical flow of fluids to neurological circuits in our brains; from spatio-temporal dependence of macroeconomic and financial; time series to the spread of disease. Understanding any patterns and providing good forecasts in these systems is of paramount importance in decision or policy making.

The aim of this conference, organised by the Department of Statistics, is to bring together expertise in these areas to create possible new research opportunities. Researchers from relevant scientific fields can also gain valuable information on new data analytics.

Podcasts of public lectures and events

Understanding Economic Development
Speakers: Professor Paul Collier and Professor Dani Rodrik
Recorded: Monday 22 June, approx. 78 minutes

International Cooperation and Climate Change
Speakers: Dr Alina Averchenkova, Professor John Broome, Professor Robyn Eckersley, and Fergus Green
Recorded: Tuesday 23 June, approx. 86 minutes

Above the Parapet - Women in Public Life
Speakers: Julia Gillard
Recorded: Tuesday 23 June, approx. 90 minutes

Below are some of the vacancies currently being advertised:

• Administrator, South Asia Centre
• Analyst Programmer, Information Management and Technology
• Application Analyst, Information Management and Technology
• Assistant Financial Controller, Finance Division
• Athena SWAN Project Officer, Human Resources
• Centre Administrator, US Centre
• Day Security Team Leader - 32LIF and Library (Internal Only), Estates: Security and Porters
• Employer Engagement Adviser (Maternity Cover), LSE Careers Service
• Events Coordinator and Office Assistant, Systemic Risk Centre
• HR Adviser, Human Resources
• Head of External Communications, Communications
• IGC Economist for the Country Programme (London), International Growth Centre
• IGC Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, International Growth Centre
• International Alumni Executive (Maternity Cover), LSE Advancement
• Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, Government
• Fellows in Economic History, Economic History
• LSE100 Class Teacher (GTA) (Internal Only), LSE100 The LSE Course
• MSc Course Administrator, International Development
• Research Officer (Family life courses and later life health in Europe), Social Policy
• Research Officer - Race in the Academy, Social Psychology
• Undergraduate Programme Manager (Internal Only), Social Policy