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• LSE Teaching Excellence Awards 2009-10
LSE wishes to raise the profile of teaching across the School, and to
acknowledge the effort and enthusiasm invested in teaching and the support
of learning by staff.
If you have a teacher or tutor whom you wish to recognise, then nominate
him/her for an LSE Teaching Excellence Award. Nominees can be in part-time or
full-time employment in the School, and should have spent a minimum of
20 hours in the academic year 2009-10 involved in teaching/student
learning support.
If you wish to make a nomination download a nomination pack from
www.lsesu.com/
Completed nomination packs must be submitted to the Students’ Union
Helpdesk (E65, East Building E65) by Friday 19 March. No further nominations
will be accepted after this date.
If you have any enquiries, email Emmanuel Akpan-Inwang at
su.edwelfare@lse.ac.uk
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• Communicating population policy
Eliud Wekesa, a PhD student in the Department of Social Policy, has been
made a population policy communications fellow by the Population Reference
Bureau in the US.
His research focuses on people with HIV/AIDS living in slums in
Nairobi, Kenya. As part of the fellowship, he will develop a communications
strategy for policy-makers, focusing on the policy implications of his
research in sub-Saharan Africa in general and Kenya in particular.
He was nominated for this position by his supervisor, Dr Ernestina Coast,
who is delighted that Eliud will soon be able to advise her on how to better
communicate research findings to policy audiences.
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• Do no harm
Students in the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN) have set up 'Do
No Harm,' a blog discussing development, underdevelopment and everything
in between.
The blog focuses on life in DESTIN and international development
issues. Contributions so far have been made by students within DESTIN,
as well as articles from DESTIN course administrators Sue Redgrave and Dru
Daley-Nelson, and
DESTIN academics Professor David Keen and Professor Robert Wade.
The students hope this blog will be of interest to other students at
LSE and would like to invite everyone to contribute. The blog can be
found at
www.badcure.wordpress.com
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• LSE Perspectives
March's photograph submissions to LSE Perspectives are now online.
Contributions include this photo taken by Piangtawan Phanprasit, an
undergraduate student in the International Relations Department. It was
taken in Mae Hong Sorn, Thailand on 5 January. Click
here to see all the selected photographs in this month’s exhibition.
As Lent term draws to a close, LSE Arts would like to encourage you to
keep your camera close at hand over the Easter break to capture some more
memorable moments for submission to the LSE perspectives online exhibition.
The next deadline is 1 April, please click
here for information about how to submit your photos. |
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 Notices
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• Run, LSE, run
LSE will once again be supporting the Sport Relief one mile run and we
are calling for all students to register to run (or walk).
The run will take place on Friday 19 March at 4pm around Lincoln’s
Inn Fields. The fee is £1 to take part, or £2 to support the event but
not take part. All additional sponsorship can be arranged online at
www.sportrelief.com/donate
Please note that you can enter the run right up until the race
starts.
To register, contact Chris Connelley in the Staff Development Unit at
c.connelley@lse.ac.uk or Ann
O’Brien in LSE Health and Safety at
health.and.safety@lse.ac.uk
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• LSE Research Magazine
This week, LSE publishes the inaugural issue of LSE Research,
a magazine showcasing the School’s celebrated research across the social
sciences.
The Spring 2010 issue’s cover story is an in-depth look at what the US
and UK health care systems can learn from each other. The article - written
by Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, and the
health economist Zack Cooper, a PhD candidate - comes as US President Barack
Obama makes a last-ditch effort to pass his health care reform legislation.
Among other things, Cooper and Le Grand point out that Britain has been more
successful than America at introducing market forces into some parts of the
health care industry.
In a related piece, law professor Emily Jackson explores what happens
when private and public health care collide in the UK. Other articles and
interviews in the 48-page magazine, edited by the Newsweek journalist
Stryker McGuire, explore a wide range of research that touches on public
policy in Britain and elsewhere - from the fragility of pension systems
around the world to the politics of aid programmes to the rise and fall of
Al Qaeda.
You can download a PDF copy
here.
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• This is your opportunity to have an impact on what happens at
LSE
Every five years, LSE gets externally audited on its academic standards
and the quality of its academic provision by the Quality Assurance Agency
for Higher Education.
As part of this, the Students’ Union puts together a student written
submission based on your thoughts about the School, and what could improve
over the next five years. The last Audit in 2004 led to reduced teaching
class sizes, more support for students studying at LSE, and the LSE100
course.
Every student has an opportunity to be part of this process and directly
inform the outcomes of the report that we will submit. Please help us create
the change you want by answering a few simple questions.
Visit
www.surveymonkey.com/s/Assess_LSE, fill in a simple survey and enter the
prize draw to win an iPod and £30 in iTunes vouchers.
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• LSE Teaching Day 2010 - final call for contributions
LSE Teaching Day is a free one day event dedicated to sharing experience
and showcasing successful teaching practice and innovation.
This year's Teaching Day, taking place on Tuesday 18 May, will focus on
the following themes:
- Feedback
- Assessment
- Success in undergraduate or graduate teaching
- Research-led teaching
Based on feedback from last year the organising committee are soliciting
contributions from students for the parallel sessions that will run during
the day. We aim to bring together staff and students to explore the
challenges and opportunities to improve the learning experience at LSE.
These can take the form of presentations, discussions, demonstrations and
workshops. Poster presentations, to be displayed throughout the day, are
also welcome.
Submit your contributions by visiting
www.lse.ac.uk/teachingday and
completing the form by Friday 19 March.
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• Careers Service jobs of the week
- EU Careers - a lifetime of different jobs, an international
focus and the chance to make a difference to the lives of millions…
learn more about the wide range of EU graduate opportunities at a
presentation on Monday 22 March. For more details visit
careers.lse.ac.uk and
click ‘browse events’. Deadline to register for this event is 5pm
Thursday 18 March.
- Research associates, United BioSource Corporation - an
opportunity to work on a variety of studies with the Health Care
Analytics group at UBC’s Centre for Health Economic and Science Policy.
- Press and marketing intern, Eastside Educational Trust - gain
experience of PR and marketing at this award-winning arts education
charity in Hackney.
For full details of these posts and over 550 more visit 'My Careers
Service' at www.lse.ac.uk/careers
and click ‘search for opportunities’.
Come and visit the Careers Service on Floor Three, Tower Three.
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• Crowdsource Climate
Crowdsource Climate is a social enterprise project set up by LSE
students, which seeks to use social networking movements to build an
internet platform on which people can come together and educate each
other and collaborate on potential solutions to climate change.
The website, which is currently under development, will allow users to
raise issues, provide potential options to those issues and vote/comment on
the feasibility of those options.
The team have created a
Facebook application
to start engaging users from LSE. Log on and become a member today. For more
information, email Lian Kor at
l.p.kor@lse.ac.uk |
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 What's
on
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• Upcoming LSE events include....
Religion and Pluralism in a Divided World
On: Thursday 18 March at 5pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Anwar Ibrahim
Friendship and Poetry
On: Thursday 18 March at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Vikram Seth
All tickets for this event have now been allocated. There will, however, be
a videolink to the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building. Entry will be on
a first come first served basis. Doors will open at 6pm.
The Future of Capitalism and Globalisation: global perspectives and a
European agenda
On: Monday 22 March at 5.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Karel De Gucht and Professor Marc De Vos
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• Podcasts of public lectures and events
The Brahimi Panels: the Goldstone Report and the peace process
Monday 8 March, 6.30-8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speakers: Ami Ayalon, Professor Christine Chinkin,
Karma Nabulsi, and Colonel Desmond Travers
Click here to listen
Sustainable Business Innovation
Thursday 11 March, 6.30-8pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: John Elkington
Click here to listen
Meeting Development Challenges in the 21st Century
Friday 12 March, 1-2pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Helen Clark
Click here to listen
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• My Fair Lady
Wednesday 17 to Friday 19 March at 7.30pm and Saturday
20 March at 4pm
Old Theatre, Old Building
The LSESU Drama and Music societies present 'My Fair Lady.' A musical
inspired by the play 'Pygmalion', written by LSE's very own George
Bernard Shaw.
This is a rags to riches tale of a cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle,
who meets speech expert Henry Higgins. Higgins takes on a bet from
a friend, Colonel Pickering, to transform Eliza into a lady in just six
months. Full of recognisable songs such as 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly', 'On
The Street Where You Live', and 'I Could Have Danced All Night', and
starring LSE Director Howard Davies, this is going to be a musical
extravaganza.
Tickets are available now on Houghton Street from 11am-3pm everyday and
cost £5 for drama/music society members and children under 18, £6 for
LSE staff and students, and £7 for the general public.
For more information, visit
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=322344619279&ref=ts
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• Europe
as a global actor? A conversation with Javier Solana
Thursday 18 March, 1-2.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Professor Javier Solana, senior visiting professor at LSE
Global Governance
After ten years of serving as EU high representative for CFSP, Javier
Solana reflects on the achievements and challenges ahead for Europe as a
global security actor.
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• NIHR SSCR Annual Conference 2010
Tuesday 30 March, 10.15am-4.15pm, New Academic Building, LSE
The NIHR School for Social Care Research is pleased to announce its
first annual conference. The conference will focus on:
- the background and future of the NIHR School for Social Care
Research
- key themes for adult social care practice in England
- current and future priorities for adult social care research in
England
- will provide an opportunity to discuss these issues
The conference is open to all. Registration costs £50 per delegate (£25
for students and concessions).
To register for the conference and to view a PDF of the programme, visit
www.lse.ac.uk/collections/NIHRSSCR/events.htm
For any queries, email sscr@lse.ac.uk
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• BBC SuperPower Nation
This Thursday (18 March), Shoreditch Town Hall becomes the world under
one roof as it hosts the BBC’s SuperPower Nation.
SuperPower Nation is all about people from all walks of life, from all
corners of the world engaging with one another about absolutely anything in
different languages. The BBC is giving 100 per cent of its editorial agenda
to its audience. With no overarching question, we'll let conversations
unfold naturally between people of different language groups as we aim to
get a snapshot of the global conversation as it happens in real time.
We’ve got over 20 of the BBC’s language services involved from Somali to
Macedonian, and BBC World, Arabic and Persian TV as well as Africa Have your
Say and World Have Your Say radio shows coming together for an ambitious day
of BBC broadcasting.
For more information, click
here. If you would like to attend, email Claudia Bradshaw at
claudia.bradshaw@bbc.co.uk
as soon as possible saying what time you'd like to arrive. The event is from
1-7pm and you can arrive at any time and stay as long as you like. |
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 Society
profile
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• LSESU Amnesty International
We raise awareness about human rights issues on campus and organise
various campaigns, ranging from 'Stop Violence Against Women,'
'Refugees and Asylum Seekers,' terrorism and security to business
and human rights.
Events include public lectures, documentary movie screenings,
fundraisers, greeting cards and letter writing campaigns as well as
protests. We empower students to stand up for human rights and humanity.
Through our activities on and off-campus, we hope to inspire students to
protest against human rights violations, and to protect people where
justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.
Claim to fame?
The most active human rights society on campus. We successfully organised
the first ever Human Rights Festival this term, which was a joint
collaboration with Anti-Slavery International (LSE Chapter) and the
International Criminal Court Students Network. We are also in the process of
launching LSESU’s first Human Rights Journal.
Approx number of members?
400
Society president?
Divya Chandran
d.chandran@lse.ac.uk
Biggest event or achievement?
Human Rights Festival 2010 which showcased five days of discussion,
public lectures, documentary screenings, career panels and debate. We
organised ‘Outside the Law: stories from Guantanamo’, a documentary
screening followed by Q&A session with co-directors Andy Worthington and
Polly Nash, and former Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes (Legal Director of
the Guantanamo Justice Centre). This event was a great success. We were also
fortunate to invite Thubten Samdup, the official representative of the Dalai
Lama in Northern Europe, to LSE in February.
Big event coming up that you would like to highlight?
Send us your articles, photos, poems, etc
by 20 March
for LSESU’s first ever Human Rights Journal. The theme of the journal is
based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and we are open to
contributions from all. For more information, e-mail
su.soc.amnesty-international@lse.ac.uk
Why should people join the society?
We are fun and active. We are passionate about human rights and love what
we do. Most students find it an enriching experience but above everything
else, you will get to inspire action and learn about the world of human
rights and how important it is for us to stand up for justice, raise
awareness and take action.
Website?
www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=2218868384&ref=ts |
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Ronny Goh
Ronny Goh is from Medan,
Indonesia. Following high
school, he worked as a freelance
computer programmer for two
years. After successfully saving
enough money, he decided to
pursue undergraduate studies in
Singapore. He enrolled in a
Mathematics and Economics course
offered by the LSE external
programme at the Singapore
Institute of Management (SIM).
After he graduated, Ronny received
an LSE External Study
Scholarship to come and study at
the School.
You were awarded an LSE
External Study Scholarship, what
is the scholarship for? What are
you studying?
The LSE External Study Scholarship
is very generous; it covers my
tuition fees and my living costs
for nine months (or three terms)
in London. The only condition of
the scholarship was that I
helped during the LSE External
Study Weekend in London, which
was great fun. I had the
opportunity to meet and talk to
numerous students from many
different countries. Right now,
I am studying for an MSc in
Applicable Mathematics.
What does it mean to you to be
awarded an LSE External Study
Scholarship?
When I received the email from
Rosie Gosling about being
awarded the LSE External Study
Scholarship, I could not believe
it. I remember pinching myself
and my sister pinched me twice
to make sure that it was not a
dream. This scholarship means a
lot to me. Not only does it
helps my family and me
financially, it also symbolises
all the hard work I have done to
make my parents proud.
What opportunities has this
scholarship brought you?
This scholarship has given me many
opportunities beyond providing
me with financial support to
allow me to continue to pursue
my masters at LSE. I think the
best part of the scholarship is
that it has provided me with the
opportunity to meet many
interesting people from around
the world. I have met some
inspiring and amazing people,
for example, there is one girl
from China who is younger than
me but she has many sports and
academic achievements and she is
an avid traveller too. These
kinds of people show us that life
is not all about studying and
camping in the Library.
How did you find out about the
scholarship?
I found out about the scholarship
from one of my lecturers back at
SIM in Singapore. His name is Dr
Zhang Jianlin. He was an LSE
External Student who was also
awarded the LSE External Study
Scholarship. I believe he
completed his PhD recently at
National University of
Singapore.
Are you the first person in
your family to go into higher
education?
No, I have an older brother and an
older sister; both of them have
bachelor degrees from
universities in Australia.
Is this your first time in
London? If so, what do you make
of the city?
Yes, this is my first time in
London and I really love the
buildings, museums, and
theatres. Coming from a tropical
country, I find the weather here
totally different; it used to
be around 30 degrees in my
hometown but now I have to live
with two to seven degrees. I
have to admit that I am
struggling with the British
food. Fortunately, I can still
find some Chinese food in
Chinatown. I also like Oxford
Street but unfortunately the
scholarship doesn't cover my
shopping sprees.
What are your plans for the
future?
Unlike many others who want to be
rich bankers, I am considering a
career in academia. I will
apply for a PhD after I complete
my masters but then I will have
a year gap. I am thinking of
applying for a teaching position
(teaching mathematics to first
year undergraduate students) at SIM.
Alternatively, I may want to go
to China to learn Mandarin for a
year. I think Mandarin has
become increasingly important in
daily communication. I have
often been mistaken for being Chinese
and I find it rude not being
able to reply to the people
who initiate a conversation with
me in Mandarin.
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