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3 December 2015 |
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LSE student wins medal for bravery during UN
peacekeeping mission in South Sudan An LSE postgraduate student has
been awarded the New Zealand Gallantry Star for two acts of extraordinary
bravery while serving as an army major in a United Nations peacekeeping
mission in South Sudan.
Geoff Faraday, 39, retired from the army last year and is now studying
for a Masters in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies.
Last year, while serving as a Major in the Royal New Zealand Armoured
Corps at a UN base in South Sudan, he intervened to protect Internally
Displaced People sheltering at the base who were coming under attack from a
mob armed with rifles and machetes protesting at the UN presence.
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Professor Saw Swee Hock awarded Distinguished Alumni Leadership Award
On Saturday 28 November, as part of the 120th anniversary celebrations, LSE
held its
Asia Forum in Singapore. The event, within the new series of regional
LSE Global Forums, celebrated the achievements of the School and its alumni.
One of the event’s highlights saw Professor Saw Swee Hock bestowed with
the Distinguished Alumni Leadership Award in recognition of his profound
contribution to life at LSE.
Professor Saw Swee Hock has donated regularly to the School to support
scholarships through the Singapore LSE Trust, the LSE Asia Forums in
Singapore and Beijing, the Library, the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, and
the new Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre.
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LSE to teach all undergraduates about the war on drugs From
December 2015, all second-year undergraduate students at LSE will begin to
study the war on drugs, through the School’s innovative LSE100 course. LSE
is the first university in the world to require all of its undergraduates to
study this topic.
LSE100 is the School’s flagship interdisciplinary course for
undergraduate students. It is designed to introduce students to the
fundamental elements of thinking like a social scientist, by exploring some
of the great intellectual debates of our time from the perspectives of
different disciplines.
Co-founder of LSE100 and LSE IDEAS Director, Professor Michael Cox said:
“In 2016, the UN General Assembly will hold its first Special Session on
Drugs in almost two decades and meet to address the failures of global drug
policies to date. We are always engaging and challenging the status quo on
global issues and this is exactly the kind of high impact policy analysis
and training that LSE has earned a global reputation for.”
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Celebrating 10 years of Urban Age
To celebrate 10 years of the Urban Age programme, a worldwide
investigation into the future of cities organised by
LSE Cities and
Deutsche Bank’s
Alfred Herrhausen Society, Guardian Cities have published
pieces by Norman Foster, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Alejandro
Aravena, Deyan Sudjic and Ricky Burdett here on
their
website.
The Urban Age Global Debates are also taking place at the LSE to
celebrate 10 years of the programme, with the final event on
Narratives of Inclusion: can cities help us live together? with
Richard Sennett and Suketu Mehta taking place on Thursday 3 December at
LSE. For more information follow #Urban Age10 or visit
the website.
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The work of Digital Ambassadors
SADL, the Student Ambassador for Digital Literacy programme, is now
up-and-running for its third year.
Throughout October we recruited over 40 students from across LSE
departments and now a new cohort of Student Ambassadors for Digital
Literacy networking and sharing their newly acquired skills. In addition we
have nine Senior Ambassadors who have completed the programme
before and are important members of the SADL team, helping prepare and
deliver workshops for the current ambassadors.
Visit the SADL blog to view
the students' recent
posts, their profiles and what
challenges they have set for themselves. The blog entries have useful tips on
finding and evaluating information as well
as
time management and
note-taking.
Over the next couple of months the Ambassadors will be planning their
projects which will be the basis for their engagement with the rest of the School. The projects will focus on
improving learning and assessment at LSE, peer learning, and improving learning spaces (including physical spaces and Moodle).
If you have any views on these topics, please leave your comments and suggestions
using Twitter @LSESADL. The results of this work will be presented
in the Summer term.
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Celebrating 120 years of LSE Did you know? LSE founder Beatrice
Webb’s handwritten diaries are in LSE’s archives. To see one of Beatrice’s
diaries in person, make sure you visit LSE Library’s fascinating exhibition
‘Foundations: LSE and the Science of Society’ before it closes on Friday 19
December.
LSE Library’s Eleanor Payne explains why she’s picked Beatrice’s diary as
her favourite piece from the exhibition in a new
LSE History blog post.
2015 is LSE’s 120th anniversary. Join in the celebrations at
lse.ac.uk/lse120
#LSE120
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Academics abroad
In November
Dr Edgar
Whitley, Department of Management, participated in a meeting at
the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, on 'Using biometric IDs to
advance global development'.
On the same trip, he hosted an LSE alumni event in Boston and then
participated in a three day workshop at Harvard University on '21st Century
National Identification Systems: data, politics, protection' where he spoke
about the UK government’s Verify Scheme.
Professor Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro, Department of Management, met
alumni in Brisbane,
Australia, on Monday 23 November and in Sydney on Monday 16
November. These events were organised in collaboration with Friends of LSE
in Australia.
Professor Robert Wade, Department of International Development, met
alumni in Wellington, New Zealand, on Wednesday 25 November and also in
Auckland on Tuesday 1 December. These events were organised in collaboration
with LSE Alumni Association New Zealand.
Professor
Leslie Willcocks, Department of Management, was keynote speaker at
the European Outsourcing Summit in Frankfurt on Tuesday 20 October, and the
IT Praktis Conference in Copenhagen on Wednesday 30 September, where he
discussed his forthcoming book on
Service Automation, Robots and the Future of Work (February
2016).
Professor Gareth Jones, Department of Geography and Environment,
gave a paper entitled "We're all in this together": inequality and space
at a conference 'After Piketty: the inequality agenda post-Capital in the
21st Century' held at the Bellagio Center, Italy, from 3 November - 4
December.
Dr Bart Cammaerts, Department of Media and Communications, gave a
keynote lecture on Tuesday 1 December in Sorbonne, Paris at the Institut des
Sciences de la Communication (CNRS/Paris Sorbonne/UPMC)
Times and
Temporalities of the Web conference. His lecture was entitled 'The
Resistant Shaping of Technologies of Self-Mediation: hacking print,
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 Notices
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2015 Staff Survey - Have Your Say! Over a third of staff have
already completed the staff survey, have you?
It’s open until Friday 11 December. Your opinion counts!
If you haven’t already received a link to the staff survey,
please contact Aon Hewitt.
For more information about the survey
or to check your department/division
response rate, please visit the
Staff Survey webpage.
This is your opportunity to have your say on the development of LSE.
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IMT Maintenance Sunday On Sunday 20 December from
8am-8pm LSE IT services will be intermittently unavailable throughout the
day. IMT will be carrying out essential maintenance during this time,
performing key upgrades to the network.
IT services will experience intermittent outages throughout the day.
Please be aware that while services may be available for brief periods, they
are at risk of losing connectivity to the LSE network for the duration of
the maintenance period.
Affected services include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Campus WiFi
- Campus PCs, printers and telephones
- H: space and any shared network drives
- Moodle and LSE For You
Access to the Abacus service and vWorkspace will be unavailable all day
on 20 December.
The completion of this work will improve the performance, reliability and
resilience of the LSE network. For all scheduled 'Maintenance Sunday' dates
for the coming academic year, please see our
blog post.
If you have any questions regarding the downtime or experience any
disruption outside of these times, please contact the IT Service Desk on
it.servicedesk@lse.ac.uk or
020 7107 5000.
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Send an LSE e-card this Christmas
Why not save resources this Christmas by sending e-cards? A specially
designed electronic card, together with the LSE logo and the words 'Season’s
Greetings', is now available for all staff to email out.
There is also room to add your own message below the e-card. Please contact
Liz Trumble at designunit@lse.ac.uk
for a copy to forward.
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Green News coming soon
Did you know that LSE saved 665,206 sheets of paper last academic
year (that’s about 67 trees), by introducing a ‘login-to-print’ system
in the Library and elsewhere.
Find out more in the next edition of Green News, coming to your
inboxes next week.
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Aperitivo
On Friday 4 December, from 5-8pm, the top floor of the New Academic
Building will be hosting its monthly Aperitivo. They’ll be serving a range
of prosecco, champagne, classic cocktails and fine wines with an
accompanying selection of delicious Italian bites.
The top floor of the NAB offers spectacular views and is a great
opportunity to get together for a team social or to unwind at the end of the
week. There will be a credit card machine on site for those of you who don’t
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features the newly opened
LSE PhD
Academy on the fourth floor of the Lionel Robbins Building.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit
or check out the School's
Instagram page.
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 Events
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Forthcoming LSE events....
Will Machines Rule the World?
On: Monday 7 December at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speakers: Dr Kate Devlin (pictured), Dr Mateja Jamnik, Professor Huw Price,
and Dr Mark Sprevak
In Wartime: stories from Ukraine
On: Monday 7 December at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Tim Judah
Anthropology and Neoliberal Capitalism: implications for theory and
ethnography
On: Wednesday 9 December at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Sherry Ortner (pictured)
Tackling Extreme Poverty through Programmes Targeting the World's Ultra-Poor
On: Wednesday 9 December at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speakers: Sir Fazle Abed, Professor Oriana Bandiera, Professor Robin
Burgess, Dr Mushtaque Chowhudry, and Professor Esther Duflo
Fighting the Behemoth: law, politics and human rights in times of debt and
austerity
On: Thursday 10 December at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Zoe Konstantopoulou
The Power of Ideas: a discussion with David Harvey
On: Thursday 10 December at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Professor David Harvey, Professor Michael Storper, and Professor
Jane Wills
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Of Austerity, Human Rights and International Institutions
On: Tuesday 8 December from 6-7.30pm in the
Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House
Speaker: Dr Margot Salomon, Associate Professor in LSE's Law
Department and Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and Director of
Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy.
Dr Salomon will discuss her role as advisor to Special Committee of the
Hellenic Parliament on the Audit of the Greek Debt, the issues at the
forefront of its establishment by the Speaker of the Greek Parliament in
early 2015, and her recent research on the legal obligations of the various
international creditors to respect the social rights of the people of
Greece.
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Each Age Gets the Great Powers It Needs: 20,000 years of
international relations On: Tuesday 8 December from 6.30-8pm in the
Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Ian Morris,
Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at LSE IDEAS
for 2015-16.
Twenty thousand years ago, ‘international relations’ meant interactions between
tiny foraging bands; now it means a global system. What drove the growth of
the international system and why has the geographical balance within it was
the amount of energy humans extracted from the environment.
Professor Ian Morris traces this story, asking why the world’s greatest
powers were concentrated in western Eurasia until about AD 500, why they
shifted to East Asia until AD 1750, why they returned to the shores of the
North Atlantic, and where they will go next.
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LSE Christmas Carol Service
On: Wednesday 9 December at 5.30pm in the Shaw Library, Old Building.
End the term on a festive note with traditional carols and readings.
Featuring the LSE Choir.
Free and open to all staff and students, with mulled wine and mince pies
included.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Europe's Perfect Storm: racism, anti-Semitism, terrorism and resurgent
nationalism
Speaker: Professor Michel Wieviorka
Recorded: Monday 23 November, approx. 86 minutes
The Creative Economy: invention of a global orthodoxy
Speakers: Professor Angela McRobbie, Professor Jonothan Neelands, and
Professor Philip Schlesinger
Recorded: Wednesday 25 November, approx. 89 minutes
Unstable Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood: a range of threats to European
security
Speaker: Edgars Rinkevics
Recorded: Thursday 26 November, approx. 57 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with..... Viki Chinn
Having said I would never move to London, then coming for six months and staying for 11 years, I’ve resigned myself to being a 'Liverpudlian on Loan' sent to spread a bit of Scouse humour and northern friendliness.
I firmly believe The Apprentice should be mandatory viewing for all job hunters, am ridiculously excited about next year’s return of Twin Peaks, and think selfies are an absolute abomination.
Tell us about your role in LSE Careers.
I’ve been a Careers Consultant within LSE Careers for over seven and a half years (so assume I’ve beaten the itch) working with students across the School offering advice, guidance and support on all job-search related issues.
Additionally I specialise in Disability and Employment so work closely with disabled students to support them throughout the recruitment process whilst also working with graduate recruiters to create truly diverse and accessible work environments.
If you were in charge of throwing a fancy dress party for the whole of LSE, what theme would you choose and why?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I honestly cannot think of anything that would amuse me more! It’s my party and if I pulled it off, I would consider it one of my finest moments and a highlight of my career.
If you could book any guest speaker for an LSE public event, who would you choose?
HRH Prince Philip. I’d brief him to talk on ‘Embracing Cultural Diversity in the 21st century’. If he was otherwise engaged, I suppose I could always give Jeremy Clarkson a shout.
If you could change places with someone past or present, for a day, who would it be and why?
The recent winner of £35,000,000 on EuroMillions. I would spend the day working hard transferring money in a non- traceable way so, whilst I may not have enjoyed that one day much, I could spend the rest of my life enjoying the swap*
*Disclaimer: I am not advocating theft or dishonesty and if a body swap ever happens, I promise I won’t do it.
If we opened your fridge right now, what would we find inside?
Half a supermarket and a mini off-licence.
Is there anything you cannot do and would like to learn?
Answering questions appropriately has always been a bit of a challenge....!
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 Training
and jobs
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Jobs at LSE Below are some of the vacancies currently being
advertised:
- Postdoctoral Research Officer (EPSRC), Statistics
- Assistant Professor in Global Health Policy, Social Policy
- Assistant Professor in Health Economics and Policy, Social
Policy
- Assistant Professors in Mathematics, Mathematics
- Assistant/Associate Professor in International Relations (Gender
and International Relations), International Relations
- Associate Professor in Global Health Policy, Social Policy
- Fellow (Postdoctoral) Fellowship in Political Science (two
posts), Government
- Fellow in Population Health/Global Ageing, Social Policy
- MSc Administrator, Finance
- Postgraduate Programmes Administrator (maternity cover), Law
- Professor/Associate Professor in Economics, Economics
- Programme Development Lead, The Marshall Institute for
Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship
- Project Officer, The Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and
Social Entrepreneurship
- Research Officer (Public Sphere Project), Institute of Public
Affairs
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
vacancies' heading. |
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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
communications.internal@lse.ac.uk or
on ext 7582. The next edition of Staff News is on Thursday 10
December. Articles for this should be emailed to me by
Tuesday 8 December. Staff
News is emailed every Thursday during term time and fortnightly during
the holidays.
Thanks, Nicole
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