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Ethics Code consultation: message from the Director
When the LSE Council published Lord Woolf’s Inquiry into LSE’s links
to Libya in November, I made a personal commitment that we would both
learn the lessons of the report and implement Lord Woolf’s
recommendations this academic year. Ethical issues lie at the very heart
of Lord Woolf's Inquiry and his first recommendation was for the School
to establish an "embedded code dealing with ethics and reputational risk
which applies across the institution". To this end, Council has
established an Ethics Code Consultation Group, which will work this term
to produce the School's first overarching Ethics Code. The group met for
the first time on 3 February and have elected Dr Daleep Mukarji (lay
governor and former director of Christian Aid) as their chair. I am
deeply grateful to Dr Mukarji for taking on this role and to all the
consultation group for their thoughtful and diligent work to date.
Key to the success of the code is consultation - and this week marks the
start of that process, which will run until 5pm on Friday
13 April. We will only be able to establish a meaningful, workable code
if it is drafted with input from the numerous and diverse constituencies
that make up our School community. With this in mind, I hope that as many of
you as possible take this opportunity to contribute to the drafting of the
code.
There are two main ways to contribute. Members of the consultation group
will attend a number of meetings during February and March to ask for
comments on what an LSE Ethics Code should look like. This will include a
dedicated ‘town hall’ meeting in the Shaw Library at 5pm on
Thursday 23 February 2012, open to all members of the School community.
The group also invites individual written submissions by email to
ethics@lse.ac.uk. Read the full letter
from Director Judith Rees
here. An
ethics webpage has also been set up to provide further information on
the consultation process and timetable.
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LSE Languages Day 2012
The second LSE Languages Day, co-hosted by the LSE Students' Union and
LSE Language Centre, will take place on Tuesday 21 February, International
Mother Language Day.
International Mother Language Day was created by UNESCO, the United
Nations Education
Science and Cultural Organisation, to promote linguistic and
cultural diversity and multilingualism. Over 20 universities across the
country will be celebrating languages in Higher Education with a range of
serious and fun events. In Houghton Street there will be a variety of
lunchtime activities, and later on in the student bars you can try foreign
language karaoke, a language pub quiz and a world music disco.
The LSE Language Centre will be hosting a panel discussion on
Multilingualism with Professor Anne Pauwels from SOAS and Dr Dina
Mehmedbegović, lecturer in the Faculty of Policy and Society at the
Institute of Education, whose latest book on bilingual London
children is a fascinating study. This event takes place from 5.15-6.15pm in
LG.01, New Academic Building.
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Equality and Diversity in Lent Term 2012
There is an exciting range of events promoting equality and diversity in
the School this term, including films, social events, master-classes for
managers, workshops for students and much more.
This is the first of a series that celebrates diversity at LSE and
demonstrates its commitment to the Equality Act 2010. Come along to find out
more and get involved. Download the
Equality and Diversity Lent Term flyer for details of the events.
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Security in Transition launches new website
'The LSE Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit has launched
its brand new website for Security in Transition (SIT), a five-year
European Research Council funded
research programme led by Professor Mary Kaldor (pictured), exploring
the gap between outmoded state responses and contemporary security risks
such as terrorism, the financial crisis and environmental degradation.
See:
www.securityintransition.org/ for more.
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 Notices
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LSE GROUPS: limited places now available
LSE GROUPS is a fantastic opportunity for undergraduates to take part
in an original research project. This year it will take place from 18 to
29 June.
Participants will take part in a free, two-week research project after
exams. Working in supervised groups of mixed disciplines and mixed years,
you'll be able to enhance your research skills and critical thinking, and
develop your capacity for effective group-working, communication and
negotiation. There are limited places available, so don't delay.
For more details and to apply, visit
LSE GROUPS.
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Partnership PhD Mobility Bursaries 2012-13
Deadline: Tuesday 22 May
Aiding LSE PhD students to conduct research at: Columbia University, New
York; the National University of Singapore (NUS); Peking University
(Beijing); Sciences Po (Paris); or
the University of Cape Town.
Applications are invited from LSE PhD students for mobility bursaries to
visit one of the School's institutional partners in order to work informally
with an advisor on their PhD thesis, research and/or on related publications
and presentations and to introduce them to the academic culture,
professional contacts and employment opportunities of another
country/region.
For 2012-13, up to ten bursaries are on offer to visit one of the above
five partner institutions. For any one partner institution, up to two
flat rate bursaries of £2,500 are available.
Students registered for PhD studies at any LSE department and who have
already been upgraded to full doctoral student status are eligible to apply.
Each visit should be a minimum of two months and a maximum of three months in
duration.
The deadline for submitting complete applications including references
is: midday on Tuesday 22 May 2012. Full details about the Partnership Mobility Bursaries, including
application procedures, can be found
here. Any further enquiries should be
directed to
academic_partnerships@lse.ac.uk
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LSE Annual Fund call for funding applications
The Annual Fund supports projects that would otherwise not be possible
and invites applications for funding from student projects, including LSE
Students' Union societies and activities. Visit
apply for funding, where you will find details
on applying, including guidelines, contact details and the link to the
online application form.
Please submit your application by Wednesday 9 May at 5.30pm - late
submissions will not be accepted.
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LSE Perspectives - call for submissions
LSE Perspectives features photographs taken by LSE students and staff and
is published every month. Every new gallery publishes 12 images submitted
by members of the LSE community. We are looking for submissions for next
month’s gallery.
If you have taken any artistic images - such as this picture taken in
Essaouira, Morocco, by Othmane Mechatte - on your travels, from your home
town or even just here in London why not submit them to LSE Perspectives so
that they can be shared with the LSE community!
For more information and to submit your images click
here. Every month the Arts team
selects 12 images and publishes them online. Previous galleries can be found
here.
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Training for students
Courses scheduled for next week include:
-
SS112 Exam Preparation for Undergraduates: quantitative subjects 22
February at 4pm
- PhD: preparing for and handling your viva, 23 February at 2pm
- Sleep Well workshop 27 February at 1pm
- Excel 2010: Charts 27 February at 1pm
- Mindfulness and Stress Management Workshop 28 February at 12 noon
- Excel 2010: pivot tables, 28 February at 12 noon
For a full listing of what is available and further details, including
booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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More for less - take advantage of special offers for LSE students
LSE Department of Social Policy graduate Dessislava Baker is offering
LSE students and staff a 20 per cent discount off the Zaggora HotPant
range when
purchased online.
Just type in the code LSELOVE when you make your purchases online to get
the 20 per cent discount at
http://zaggora.com/
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 What's
on
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Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution: what we risk and how
we should cast the economics and ethics
On: Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 February, 6.30-8pm, Old
Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Lord Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics
and Government, and chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate
Change and the Environment at LSE.
Five years on from the Stern Review there have been important changes in
the world which are likely to have a profound impact on our response to the
two defining challenges of the century: overcoming poverty and managing
climate change. Lord Stern will discuss how we can bring economics and
political economy to the analysis of our response to these challenges in the
context of a special but difficult decade in the global economy.
These three events are free and open to all with no ticket required.
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Other upcoming events include....
On Friendship
On: Tuesday 21 February at 6.30-8pm in the New Theatre, East
Building
Speaker: Dr Mark Vernon.
Fantasy versus Reality
LSE Literary Festival and First Story prize-giving event
On: Thursday 23 February, 6pm,
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Caroline Bird, William Fiennes, Meg Rosoff, Philip Womack
Tickets now available online.
Science and the Media
Hire Intelligence LSE Literary Festival event
Date: Wednesday 29 February, 5.15-6.45pm in the Sheikh Zayed
Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Jim al-Khalili, Professor Pedro Ferreira,
Professor Elaine Fox
Tickets now available online.
The Fight for Free Speech: 40 years on
Index on Censorship 40th Anniversary LSE Literary Festival event
On: Thursday 1 March, 7-8.30pm
in the Sheikh Zayed
Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Pavel Litvinov, Michael Scammell
Tickets now available online.
A Moment of Mishearing
LSE Literary Festival event
On: Friday 2 March at 6-8.30pm (including interval with
complimentary drinks) in the
Speakers: Amit Chaudhuri, Ian Jack
Tickets now available online.
Under the Cranes: literature, film and the city
LSE Cities Literary Festival film screening and discussion
Date: Saturday 3 March at 5-6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed
Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Michael Rosen, Emma-Louise Williams
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Dispatches from the Dark Side: on torture and the death of justice
On: Thursday 16 February at 6.30-8pm in the Hong Kong Theatre,
Clement House
Speaker: Gareth Peirce,
a solicitor whose battles against miscarriages of justice have changed
legal history.
Evidence suggests that the British government has colluded in a range of
extrajudicial activities – rendition, internment without trial, torture –
and has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal its actions. Exploring the
few cases that have come to light, such as those of Guantánamo detainees
Shafiq Rasul and Binyam Mohamed, Peirce argues that they are evidence of a
deeply entrenched culture of impunity toward the new suspect community in
the UK - British Muslim nationals and residents.
Gareth Peirce represents individuals who have been the subject of
rendition and torture, held in prisons in the UK on the basis of secret
evidence, and interned in secret prisons abroad. Her battles against
miscarriages of justice have changed legal history.
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Designing a Comprehensive Peace Process in Afghanistan
On: Monday 20 February at 6.30 - 8pm in NAB 2.04, New Academic
Building
Speakers: Rina Amiri, senior advisor on Afghanistan for the Office of
the Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the US Government,
Andy Carl, co-founder and executive director of Conciliation
Resources, Horia Mosadiq Afghan human rights
activist, journalist and researcher for Amnesty International, and
Dr Lisa Schirch, director of 3P Human Security and professor of
peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University.
As pressure mounts for a negotiated settlement to the ongoing conflict in
Afghanistan, the panellists will discuss what a viable process would include
and how it might proceed, exploring ways to engage civil society to advance
a more inclusive peace process, and drawing on experiences in other
countries.
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European Community of Democracies - towards a new foundation of
Europe
On: Monday 20 February from 6.30-8pm in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB
Speaker: Ulrich Beck, professor of sociology at the University of
Munich and British Journal of Sociology LSE Centennial Professor.
German euro-nationalism is not inevitable. Europe's crisis is an
opportunity to enlarge democracy.
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The LSESU Economics Policy Challenge Final
On: Thursday 23 February at 6:30pm-8pm in CLM 202, Clement House.
Judges:
Sir Anthony Atkinson (pictured), senior research fellow, Nuffield
College, Oxford, Paul Johnson, director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and
Dr Tim Leunig, lecturer in economic history, LSE.
The Economics Policy Challenge is an essay-based competition run by the
LSESU Economics Society which asks students from across the globe to submit
essays that display a critical analysis of economic issues and research into
government policies. The top three essays have now been chosen and the
authors will present their papers to both the audience and a panel of
esteemed judges. This year’s topics include monetary and fiscal unions, and
development in Africa.
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Run While Others Walk: an LSE Student Community event Taking place on
Sunday 4
March, the LSE Student Community Festival is a one day student-run festival
bringing together students, staff and alumni to celebrate the diversity of
the School.
The Festival will incorporate a range of activities over the course of
the day. The main event will be a run/walk around Lincoln's Inn Fields to
raise money for LSE student support, including scholarships, hardship funds,
and the LSE African Initiative. Students choosing to participate will be
paired up with alumni with similar interests - a great opportunity to meet
new people and hear about life after LSE. The event will raise money for LSE
student support (including scholarships and hardship funds) and the LSE
African Initiative.
Open to all, participants must register and pay a £5 registration fee in
order to be entered into the raffles or participate in the run/walk. For more information or to get involved, visit
Facebook, see
http://www.run-or-walk.org or
email
runningwhileotherswalk@gmail.com.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation
Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett
Recorded: Monday 06 February 2012, approx 90 minutes
Crises and Revolutions: The Reshaping of International Development
Speaker: Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Recorded: Tuesday 07 February 2012, approx 85 minutes
OECD Labour Markets in the Great Recession
Speaker: Professor Christopher Pissarides
Recorded: Thursday 09 February 2012, approx 74 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with..... Elisa De Denaro Vieira and Julia Hug, founders of the new LSESU Beekeeping Society
We are both in our last year of
reading BSc environmental policy.
Elisa is from Rio de Janeiro and is
planning to move to China next year.
Julia is from Paris and has been
involved in organising the TedxLSE
event happening at the end of Lent
term.
What made you decide to start
this Society? Has it proved easy
to gain people's interest and how do
you plan to publicise the Society
further?
We started the Society to promote
urban beekeeping amongst LSE
students. We won a grant and
permission to install the hives, but
we need to make sure the project has
continuity. So far, we have
attracted a range of reactions from
interest, amusement and genuine
excitement.
We have been promoting the
Society on campus, so if you see two
girls in white suits on Houghton
Street - we are not astronauts,
fencers or avoiding biohazard - come
and talk to us about beekeeping. We
also have a
Facebook page and
blog.
Can you tell us more about the
process of raising the bees and
harvesting the honey?
The life of the hive revolves
around the queen. The number of bees
in one hive dwindles to around 5,000
during winter, when the bees are
mostly inactive and hibernate,
cuddling around the queen for
warmth. It is not advisable to open
the hive often so they don't lose
heat, but every now and again to
make sure they have enough food to
survive the season.
Since we collect their honey in
the summer, we need to provide them
with syrup in the winter. In the
summer, hives explode with activity
and numbers can go up to 50,000. As
soon as the weather is warm enough
and plants are in bloom, the busy
working bees start making honey. The
warmth brings a whole new excitement
to beekeeping and it’s important to
check on them often (in full
beekeeping suit, of course!) to
ensure they have enough space to
reproduce and that the colony is
healthy. Sometimes, the queen leaves
the hive to create another colony:
that is when you encounter the
swarms.
Honey harvesting takes place
around August. Beekeeping in London
is incredible because the variety of
plants bees have access to makes the
honey unique and exceptionally
good. We literally just squeeze it
out of the hive into pots - there is
no processing, no extra sugars or
anything, keeping it very pure.
To watch a three minute documentary
about the importance of bees,
click here.
You have an official
beekeeper, who will be training you
and members of the Society. How did
you recruit him?
Luke Dixon is our official
beekeeper. He is very experienced
and passionate. He has been involved
with LSE beekeeping for three years,
since Passfield Halls started their
hives, so he is the perfect person to
train the new generation of LSE
beekeepers.
What is your favourite food?
Elisa: Tomatoes
Julia: Cheese
What is your earliest
childhood holiday memory?
Elisa: Waiting for the sun to set
at the farm so I could finally watch
'The Little Mermaid'.
Julia: I slipped into a river in the
backyard of my grandfather’s house
and all my cousins rescued me.
What are you most afraid of?
Elisa: Rick Santorum
Julia: Losing my voice - I love to
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