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24 October 2012 |
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LSE launches major staff recruitment drive LSE has launched a major
recruitment drive to appoint leading scholars to 20 new faculty positions.
In all, the School plans to invest £15 million over the next five years in
additional academic faculty.
The aim is to further strengthen the academic excellence of LSE under new
Director, Professor Craig Calhoun, and the School is welcoming applications
to any department or interdisciplinary field.
In a global recruitment campaign, LSE has made it clear that it expects
applicants to be or shortly to become world leaders in their fields, and
that appointments will only be made to candidates whose research and
publications are of the highest international standard. Intellectual
achievement and potential must be demonstrated in significant publications.
The School is also looking for candidates who can demonstrate a commitment
and capacity to provide high quality and innovative teaching to LSE
students.
Professor Craig Calhoun said: ‘This is an enormously exciting time to be
at LSE and this recruitment drive is an invitation to world-class academics
to come and shape the future of the School. Our only pre-condition is
excellence; other than that we are open to scholars from any of the
disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields currently studied at LSE. We are
looking for people to help shape the future of the social sciences
globally.’
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Global drug policies need radical reform, says new LSE report
The global war on drugs has failed and international policy requires
radical reform to remove outmoded, unscientific thinking, according to a
major new report from LSE which has been endorsed by President Santos of
Colombia.
It explores the ‘overwhelming’ empirical data showing that the current
system has failed. It argues that the human cost of pursuing many
international policies renders them unjustifiable, from mass
incarceration in the US and Asia, to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Russia,
and violence dominating Latin America.
The Global Drug Wars, published by LSE IDEAS, says that the
failure of the global war on drugs is no longer a point of controversy,
yet the UN and key governments continue to pursue ineffective policies
‘driven by a mixture of bureaucratic and ideological inertia.’
It examines how the complex and opaque international drug control system
evolved and why it continues to operate in the manner that it does. The
reasons why some drugs have traditionally been the subjects of ‘war’,
while others have become deeply ingrained in the mainstream economy are
also explored.
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High rise hope
The first stage of a pioneering study has been completed on a West London
estate that could provide a blueprint for taking millions of UK households
out of fuel poverty, and demonstrates the huge impact the Green Deal could
have if it is accompanied by consumer education to help householders cut
energy use.
High Rise Hope presents evidence from LSE on the social
impact of greening homes by insulating residential tower blocks.
The study measures energy costs and social conditions before and during a
£16 million repair, energy saving and acoustic upgrade of three tower blocks
at the Edward Woods Estate in Shepherds Bush, West London. Radical
improvements affected community pride, feelings of safety, relationships
with other residents, energy bills and fuel poverty. A follow-up study in
2013 will measure the longer-term benefits and costs for residents and the
landlord, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
The report reveals that residents in virtually identical flats had
utility bills that ranged from £500 a year to £2,000, depending on layout.
The research shows the need for energy saving education to help residents
cut energy bills following the upgrade, to take the low income estate out of
fuel poverty.
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 Notices
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Overwhelmed? Lonely? Stressed? Homesick? Anxious? If you're
having problems with life at LSE or at home, issues regarding yourself or
friends, come and speak to one of the Peer Supporters.
We are a group of second year students who have been specially trained to
listen, provide informal and confidential support, and help students find
their own solutions.
Find out more at the
Peer Support webpage, the
Peer
Supporters Facebook page, or by emailing
tlc.peer.support@lse.ac.uk.
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Final Year Undergraduates: write your way to £5,000 The
London Library Student
Prize is a great opportunity to hone your writing skills, get published
in The Times and win prizes.
What’s more, LSE's Royal Literary Fund fellow is offering to run
workshops at which you’ll get expert advice on essay writing and tips on how
to make your mark in the competition.
If you’re interested in entering and would like to attend a workshop in
the next few weeks, email tlc@lse.ac.uk
by Friday 26 October, with 'London Library Student Prize' in the
subject line and giving your full name and department.
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Green Impact project assistants - open for applications
LSE’s Sustainability Team is offering students the opportunity to gain
skills in project management, communications and leadership, by
volunteering to support staff participating in the environmental accreditation
programme Green Impact.
A role description and application form can be found on the
Green Impact webpage. Completed applications should be sent to
Louise Laker,
sustainability assistant,
at l.laker@lse.ac.uk by midnight
on Wednesday 31 October.
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Students helpers needed The Student Recruitment Office is
looking for students to help at the LSE Graduate Open Evening on
Wednesday 7 November.
You will be paid £35 for helping at the event and will be needed from
4-9pm.
Email Darren Duffy at d.duffy@lse.ac.uk
if you would like to help.
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Training for students
Courses scheduled for next week include:
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Using EndNote to Manage your References
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Keeping Up to Date: tools and tips for your research
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Literature Searching and Finding Journal Articles
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English Through Creative Writing
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PhD Thesis Surgery
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Facebook: myths and facts
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International Students' Workshop
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Participating and Presenting in Classes and Seminars
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Managing Study Related Stress
For a full listing and more information, including booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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LSE Careers invites you to….
Public Sector and Policy Careers Conference
This conference is your opportunity to meet people who work in various
types of organisations across this diverse sector.
The event will consist of a small careers fair alongside a
series of presentations from employers such as the Civil Service Fast
Stream, the National Audit Office and The Bank of England. There will also
be a panel of speakers from some of the UK’s leading think tanks who will
give you a first-hand insight into the sector and what you can expect from
day to day.
Book your place now on
CareerHub
and keep an eye on the LSE Careers
blog this week for more information about attending organisations.
Business and Management Careers Fair
Booking opens
tomorrow
(Thursday 25 October) for the LSE Careers Business and Management
Fair. This fair has a great variety of roles on offer and organisations
available to talk to so that you can find out first-hand what it is like to
work in industries including pharmaceuticals, insurance, media, real estate
and engineering.
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London Student Volunteering Fortnight
London Student Volunteering
Fortnight was established in 2008 and is now an annual fixture in the
calendar for London student volunteers.
The event was created by a group of London universities who continue to
collaborate to coordinate a range of volunteering events across London that
are open to all students studying in London.
The 2012 fortnight runs from Saturday 27 October until Saturday
10 November. The aim of the event is to give students the opportunity to
find out more about volunteering through information and taster events and,
in turn, build relations with the community, gain new skills and make new
friendships.
There are many events to get involved in, but to sign up to the one that
the
Volunteer Centre @ LSE Careers is running on Wednesday 31 October,
check out the page on
Eventbrite. If
you have any questions, email David Coles, LSE volunteer coordinator, at
volunteer@lse.ac.uk.
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Day in the life of a student LSE's Student Recruitment Office
is looking for students interested in taking part in a series of videos to
show prospective students what it is like to study at LSE.
You will be filmed throughout a day, from your hall in the morning, to
classes, lectures and social engagements. If you are interested in taking
part, contact Sarah Alexandra George at
s.a.george@lse.ac.uk or call 020
7955 6614.
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Please support....
Maria Rosala (pictured), a third year philosophy student, will be
running a half marathon for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research this Sunday
(28 October) at London's Run to the Beat.
If you'd like to support her, visit her fundraising page at
www.justgiving.com/mariarosala.
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Volunteer with Education Partnerships Africa The UK charity and
Kenyan NGO, Education Partnerships Africa (EPA), is looking to recruit
volunteers from LSE for its 2013 summer project which will work to improve
the quality of education for young people in Africa.
Successful applicants will be partnered with a secondary school in rural
Kenya or Uganda and work there as a project worker for two months in summer
2013. You will have considerable responsibility for a budget of £1,800 which
you will invest in the most efficient way possible. You will experience
living and working in a rural African environment and be immersed in Kenyan
culture.
EPA offers project workers a comprehensive training programme to prepare
them for their time in Kenya, covering the project strategy and delivery.
Students from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, as well as UCL and
King's College London, are involved in the project.
For more information and to apply, visit
www.epafrica.org. Applications close
at midnight on Sunday 4 November. For further information, email the
London president at sachdev.bobby@gmail.com,
visit the Facebook page, join
the conversation on Twitter, or
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 What's
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LSE Inaugural Lecture - Knowledge Matters: the public mission of
research universities On: Tuesday 13 November at 6.30pm in
the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
In his Inaugural Lecture as Director of LSE, Professor Craig Calhoun
(pictured) will explore options for the future of universities. The lecture
will be followed by a reception.
This event is free and open to all but a ticket is required. LSE students
and staff are able to collect one ticket per person from the New Academic
Building SU shop, located on the Kingsway side of the building, from 10am on
Wednesday 7 November. These tickets are available on a first come, first
served basis.
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Other forthcoming LSE lectures include....
The Arab Uprisings
On: Thursday 25 October at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre,
Clement House
Speaker: Jeremy Bowen (pictured), Middle East editor for the BBC.
When China Met Africa
On: Wednesday 31 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speakers: Dr Chris Alden, reader in international relations at LSE,
Nick Francis, director of When China Met Africa and
co-director of Speakit Films, and Professor Jude Howell, professor of
international development at LSE.
Europe's Unfinished Currency: the political economics of the euro
On: Thursday 1 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Dr Thomas Mayer (pictured), senior fellow at the Centre of
Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt and senior advisor to
Deutsche Bank’s management and key clients.
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LSE Chill - this Friday Welcome back to LSE Chill, the popular
open performance evening. The first LSE Chill for this academic year will
take place this Friday (26 October) from 5.30pm in the 4th Floor Café
bar. The session is free and open to all.
The line-up is as follows:
6-6.30pm Konni Deppe and Martin Slade 'Le Swing Electrique'
Konni Deppe (vocals) and Martin Slade (guitar) will be performing an
eclectic range of jazz standards. Konni shares her time between working for
LSE Residential Services and a professional singing and teaching career in
the UK and Germany. Martin has spent many years gigging in indie, rock,
blues and jazz bands when not whizzing across campus to fix broken network
outlets.
6.45-7.15pm Frankie Bennett, Ed Bayes and Liam Budd
Frankie, Ed and Liam are students and members of the A Capella choir
'The Houghtones'. They will be performing a few acoustic songs.
7.30-8.30pm Daniel Fisher
Daniel has performed throughout the Midwest and the West Coast in the US.
His band 'Not Dark Yet' is a London based group and is currently in the
process of putting out a new album. He will be performing an acoustic set of
original songs inspired by the Midwest music scene.
We’re still looking for acts to perform throughout the year. If you are
interested in performing, email
arts@lse.ac.uk with your name and details of your act. For more
information, visit www.lse.ac.uk/arts.
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LSESU German Society's Oktoberfest
On: Friday 26 October at 9pm in the Underground Bar,
next to the Quad.
It’s time to get your Lederhosen and Dirndl out and join the LSESU
German Society’s Oktoberfest celebrations.
There will be German bratwurst (sausages) and brezeln (pretzels) on this
Bavarian night out. Plus free beer is included.
Tickets will be on sale on Houghton Street for the rest of this week - £7
for members of the German Society, £8 for non-members.
For more information, visit
Facebook or
www.german-society.co.uk.
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Can we deliver a better Europe? The Challenge of Meeting Expectations
for Economic Growth, Stability and Social Cohesion in the EU On:
Wednesday 31 October from 7-8pm in the Alumni Theatre, New Academic
Building.
Andreas D Mavroyiannis (pictured), deputy minister to the
president of the Republic of Cyprus for European Affairs, will speak at this
LSE Hellenic Observatory public lecture. A reception will follow the
lecture.
This event is free and open to all. Entry is on a first come, first
served basis.
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Education in the 21st Century: the problem with faith and freedom
On: Thursday 1 November from 6.30-8pm in room NAB.2.04, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Andrew Copson (pictured), president of the British
Humanist Association.
This event, organised by the LSESU Atheist, Secularist, and Humanist
Society, will debate whether the importance of freedoms, such as freedom
of speech, outweighs the importance of freedom to practise and teach
religion in the form of faith schools.
This event is free and open to all. Entry is on a first come, first
served basis.
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 60
second interview
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with..... Emily LeRoux-Rutledge
I'm a research consultant and PhD candidate in the Institute of Social Psychology, specialising in international development and media research. I did my master's at LSE in 2006-07. I'm a Canadian and I've lived in five countries: Canada, Kenya, France, the UK and Bangladesh.
Tell us about your first day
as a research student at LSE.
On my first day I attended the
PhD/research students' orientation,
and it was a surprisingly
entertaining hour and a half. Sunil
Kumar, the dean of graduate studies,
gave a presentation which he
punctuated with amusing musical
clips.
Craig Calhoun, LSE's new
Director, also gave an enthusiastic
welcome. Apparently the only piece
of wisdom imparted to him during his
own PhD induction was 'make index
cards'. Thankfully, he conveyed a
bit more wisdom to us.
What are the noticeable
differences between being a research
student and a master's student?
So far, we've been given keys to
special work spaces that we didn't
have access to previously, we're
allowed to borrow library books for
longer, and we can avail ourselves
of resources for PhD students at the
Teaching and Learning Centre. LSE
seems very supportive of research
students.
Where is the most interesting
place you have visited?
That's a tough one. I worked for
five years as an audience researcher
for BBC Media Action, the BBC's
international NGO, so I've travelled
to a lot of countries. The
Democratic Republic of Congo was
pretty interesting. I thought Angkor Wat in Cambodia was beautiful. Nepal
was breathtaking. Zanzibar in
Tanzania is one of my favourites.
Can you sing? What is your
favourite song?
Indeed. I currently sing in three
choirs. My favourite song? I’ll go
with Nulla In Mundo Pax Sincera
by Vivaldi. It's the song playing in
the movie Shine when Geoffrey
Rush is bouncing on the
trampoline.
Have you ever broken a bone?
Yes, I broke my metatarsal (one
of the bones in my foot) coming down
a flight of stairs.
What are you most afraid of?
Heights. When I was little my two
older brothers used to grab me by my
wrists and ankles and dangle me over
high places. They once pretended
they were going to throw me over the
railing of a boat! They never
actually dropped me though! |
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