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17 December 2015 |
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LSE appoints inaugural Director and Research Director of the Marshall
Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship The School is
delighted to announce the appointment of Stephan Chambers and Professor Nava
Ashraf to the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social
Entrepreneurship.
Stephan Chambers joins as inaugural Director after a career in both the
private sector and at Oxford University, where he chaired the Skoll Centre
for Social Entrepreneurship and developed and led Oxford Saïd Business
School’s MBA and EMBA programmes for many years.
Professor Nava Ashraf joins the Institute as its first Research Director,
and LSE as Professor of Economics. She is currently Associate Professor at
Harvard Business School, where she has been on faculty since 2005. Her
research combines psychology and economics, using both lab and field
experiments to test insights from behavioural economics in Africa, Latin
America and Southeast Asia.
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Gender expertise flourishes at LSE
A study into
Gender Experts and Gender Expertise by the
Graduate Institute of
International and Development Studies
has found that LSE provides the environment for academic gender
expertise to flourish. LSE and the University of Sussex (Institute for
Development Studies) emerge as the main centres of scholarship for
international gender experts.
Two of the most influential academic gender experts are based at LSE
with Naila Kabeer (pictured), Professor of Gender and Development in the
Gender Institute heading the table and
Christine Chinkin, Professor of
International Law, not far behind in 8th position.
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Lord Nicholas Stern to chair national review of university research
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of LSE’s Grantham Research
Institute, will lead a UK-wide review to ensure future university research
funding is allocated more efficiently and linked to widespread public
impact.
The review, announced by Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson,
follows the Government’s decision last month to protect the £4.7 billion
science and research budget in real terms during this Parliament.
It will take forward the Research Excellence Framework, the new system
introduced in 2014 for assessing the quality of research carried out in 154
UK universities.
Responding to the announcement, Lord Stern said: "Research assessment is
a vital element in promoting the excellence of UK universities’ research,
which we must continue to nurture. It is one of our country’s greatest
assets and it is essential our research remains fit for purpose, is
efficient, and carries the confidence of the UK research community".
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Harriet Harman visits LSE Library
On Thursday 10 December The Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP visited the
Library. She viewed a number of collections, particularly from the
Women's Library.
Nicola Wright, Director of Library Services, who welcomed Harriet said:
"Many of the items in the Library’s collections concerned with equality,
rights and citizenship have personal resonance for Harriet. She has real
experience to share as a woman who has helped shape these campaigns."
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Celebrating 120 years of LSE And I said to the man who stood at
the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the
unknown.”
These words, recited by George VI in his Christmas Day broadcast in 1939,
were written by LSE alumni and academic Minnie Louise Haskins in the early
1900s. Find out more about Minnie and her famous poem in
The Gate of the Year at the LSE History
blog.
The Communications Division would like to extend a huge thank you to
everyone who has participated in LSE’s 120th anniversary celebrations in
2015. Don’t forget you can delve further into LSE’s story at the
LSE History blog.
2015 is LSE’s 120th anniversary. Join in the celebrations at
lse.ac.uk/lse120
#LSE120
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Academics abroad
Dr Leonidas Cheliotis, Department of Social Policy, gave a plenary
lecture on 'Political Systems and Punishment: The Challenges of
Democratisation' at the 2nd Latin American Congress on Crime and
Society, in Argentina from 10-12 December.
On Thursday 10 December, he also gave two guest seminars, on 'The
Political Economy of Punishment and Immigration' and 'The Psychology of
Penal Populism', at the Law School of Universidad Nacional del Litoral, in
Santa Fe.
On Friday 11 December
Dr Ken Shadlen, Department of International Development, presented “The
New Politics of Pharmaceutical Patents in Developing Countries” at a
conference on National and International Intellectual Property Practices and
Policies: Assessing the Impact of Political, Economic and Technological
Pressures at the National Academies of Sciences, in Washington D.C.
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 Notices
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LSE Staff Survey: last chance to have your say
The LSE Staff Survey closes tomorrow (Friday 18 December).
Don’t miss your chance to have your say.
You should have received an email with a link to the survey from Aon
Hewitt, the consultancy running the survey. If you haven’t received a link,
it is vital you contact
Aon Hewitt or Eleni Michael for
assistance.
For more information about the survey or to check your
department/division response rate, please visit the
Staff Survey webpage.
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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.
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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Have you completed your content audit?
Around the School, departments and divisions are busy completing
their website content audits in time for the migration, which is the
process of moving content to the new website.
As our current site is made up of over 40,000 pages this is an enormous
task, but we’ve already had a good number of completed audits sent back to
Web Services, with well over 5,000 pages marked for deletion - which is
great news.
A thank you too to those who have completed their audits, but if you
haven’t submitted yours yet, then could you please try and return it by
Tuesday 22 December. Or, if you need more time, or extra help, please
contact Catherine Bellamy.
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Library revised opening
In direct response to student feedback, the Library will be open from
9am-6pm on 29, 30, 31 December and 2, 3 January to allow students to study
for the Lent term exams.
For more information, see the
Library’s webpage.
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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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LSE two-year Calendars now available The School's 2016-17
planner/calendar is now available to order.
Please click here to view it.
To place your order,
click here, scroll down to Year Planners, and
just follow the instructions. 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.
Please note that if you have the 2015-16 version, please order the new
2016-17 version to replace it as the term dates and School closure dates,
relating to 2016, were revised by the School since its publication.
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 include 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18
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Hellenic Observatory Visiting Opportunities
The Hellenic Observatory welcomes applications for Visiting Fellows,
Visiting Senior Fellows, and Visiting Professors by academics or policy
practitioners who may want to spend a period of between 6-12 months at LSE
to conduct independent research on a topic relevant to the work of the
Hellenic Observatory.
Application deadline is Friday 8 January at 5pm. Please send applications to
hellenicobservatory@lse.ac.uk.
For more information, visit
lse.ac.uk/ho/visitingopportunities.
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 LSE
in pictures
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#ThrowbackThursday - Christmas lights on Houghton Street in 2011.
Happy Christmas from LSE in pictures!
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit
or check out the School's
Instagram page.
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 Research
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TV leaders' debates 'should become part of the fabric of major political
events'
TV election debates have a significant impact on voters’ decision making
and should become part of the fabric of major political events, new research
argues.
The first comprehensive analysis of the 2015 debates, carried out by
researchers at the University of Leeds, found the leadership debates had
reached sections of the population least likely to be touched by the rest of
the campaign - including younger and first-time voters.
Dr Nick Anstead, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and
Communication at LSE, wrote a guest chapter for the report, focusing
specifically on social media.
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 Events
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January to April 2016 public events programme announced The
Spring 2016 events programme is
now online.
Speakers include Caroline Webb, Dr Gertjan Vlieghe, Professor Anne-Marie
Slaughter, Professor Christine Delphy, Professor Lord King, Caroline Lucas,
and Javier Marias.
The programme for
LSE's 8th Literary Festival is now online, taking place from 22-27
February 2016 with the theme "Utopias".
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From Migration Crisis to Refugee Crisis in Europe: securitisation
priorities vs integration policies?
On: Monday 18 January from 6-7.30 in the
Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House
Speaker: Apostolos G Papadopoulos, Professor of Human Geography at Harokopio
University of Athens, and Visiting Research Fellow in Regent’s Centre
for Transnational Studies, Regent's University London.
This presentation aims to uncover the perplexity of migration/refugee issues
that seem to trouble Europe, while at the same time to touch upon the
antinomies of EU migration and refugee policies.
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Mathematics of Contract Theory
On: Tuesday 26 January, Thursday 28 January, Tuesday 2 February, Friday 5
February, Tuesday 9 February, Thursday 11 February, Tuesday 23 February, and
Thursday 25 February from 5-7pm (16 hours in total)
Jakša Cvitanić
(pictured), the Richard N Merkin Professor of Mathematical Finance at CALTEC,
will visit the Department of Statistics in Lent term to give this programme
of special lectures.
The main problem in contract theory is the Principal-Agent problem, in
which Principal hires Agent to work on a project, and pays him according to
an agreed upon contract. The contract has to be such that both Principal and
Agent solve optimally their stochastic control problems.
The lectures will start with an explanation of the economics of contract
theory in simple single-period models. The rest of the course will be in
continuous-time, Brownian motion models (and maybe some Poisson processes
models, too, if time allows). This will include classical models of
Holmström and Milgrom (1987) and Sannikov (2008).
This is an amazing opportunity to attend these free lectures. To book
your place, email
statistics.events@lse.ac.uk.
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Lessons from the Greek Crisis
On: Thursday 28 January from 6.30-8pm. The venue will be confirmed to ticket
holders.
Speaker: Professor Louka T Katseli, Chair of the National Bank of Greece and
Hellenic Banking Association and Professor at the University of Athens.
The Chair of the National Bank of Greece visits LSE to discuss the lessons
from the Greek crisis.
The event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. Tickets will
be available online via the LSE events website from around 6pm on Thursday
21 January until at least 12 noon on Friday 22 January.
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Hellenic Observatory Lent term 2015-16 Research Seminar Series
The Hellenic Observatory Research Seminar series provides a forum for
academic and policy research. Topics cover current economic, public policy
and foreign policy issues related to Greece, Cyprus and southeast Europe
region but also extend to topics on culture and history.
The seminars will continue during Lent term, every second Tuesday from
6-7.30pm.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
In the Front Line of Climate Change
Speaker: Anote Tong
Recorded: Thursday 10 December, approx. 49 minutes
The Power of Ideas: a discussion with David Harvey
Speakers: Professor David Harvey, Professor Michael Storper, and Professor
Jane Wills
Recorded: Thursday 10 December, approx. 88 minutes
Fighting the Behemoth: law, politics and human rights in times of debt and
austerity
Speaker: Zoe Konstantopoulou
Recorded: Thursday 10 December, approx. 79 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with..... Sarah Coyle
I’m the Head of Internal Communications at LSE and have been here for about six months now. You may have got to know me by my maiden name ‘Guthrie’ (which is still my email address). I have communications experience from a range of different organisations, including our London neighbours UCL.
I recently got married so outside of work I am discovering all of the free time I have now that I am no longer busy with wedding planning. The first priority is the neglected Christmas shopping list which is dauntingly long at the moment.
What is the best part of your job at LSE?
The best part of my job is the variety. Every day is different and my role takes me to all corners of the School and to work with so many different people.
Nicole (who puts together this marvellous newsletter) and I have been talking to many people across LSE to understand how we all interact and share news, views and successes and what people do and don’t like about how we all communicate. For more information about what we do, visit our webpage or get in touch.
If you could experience
working in another department/office
at LSE, which would it be?
I used to work for an
international humanitarian charity
which had its opportunities and its
challenges. So I would like to
experience life in the newly
established Marshall Institute for
Philanthropy and Social
Entrepreneurship when it launches.
I can see the real-world value in
the reasons for establishing the
institute and think it would be
fascinating to hear from the experts
and to see the outcomes of the
institute’s work.
What is your best/worst
character trait?
I’m early for everything. Which
is probably my best and my worst
trait. I think it’s a good one as I
hate to be late. However, anyone who
has to catch a flight with me would
probably tell you it’s my worst.
Particularly at the times when they
are killing many hours in a small,
quiet airport when they could be
spending the last few hours of their
holiday having a lovely lunch.
If we opened your fridge right
now, what would we find inside?
Olives, mayonnaise and milk for
tea are always in my fridge.
Which celebrity was your
teenage heart-throb?
I wish I could say it was Kiefer
Sutherland, but it was in fact the
Goss twins from Bros.
What was the last thing that
made you laugh out loud?
My Dad’s speech at my wedding a
couple of weeks ago. I was expecting
to cringe my way through it but he
very dutifully listened to my plea
to steer clear of embarrassing
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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
- Acquisitions Manager, Library: Collections Services
- Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Centre for Women,
Peace and Security
- Assistant Professors in Mathematics, Mathematics
- Assistant/Associate Professor in International Relations (Gender
and International Relations), International Relations
- Fellow in Population Health/Global Ageing, Social Policy
- Office Coordinator, Management
- Professor/Associate Professor in Economics, Economics
- Research Officer (Public Sphere Project), Institute of Public
Affairs
- Research Officer, Centre for Women, Peace and Security
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
communications.internal@lse.ac.uk or
on ext 7582. The next edition of Staff News is on Thursday 14
January. Articles for this should be emailed to me by
Tuesday 12 January. Staff
News is emailed every Thursday during term time and fortnightly during
the holidays.
Thanks, Nicole
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