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Early Years Centre update
From Thursday 1 November, the responsibility of Director and Council for
the Nursery was transferred from Andrew Farrell, Director of Finance and
Facilities, to Susan Scholefield, School Secretary (pictured at the
Nursery with LSE Director Professor Craig Calhoun).
Nursery manager Mamselle Jackson will report to Chris Gosling, HR
Director.
'I am delighted to take on responsibility for the Nursery,' said Susan Scholefield. 'As a young academic I was able to take advantage of a
university nursery and I know how important such services can be for
staff and students, particularly women. When I visited the Nursery I was impressed by the commitment of the staff and,
of course, very much enjoyed the company of the children. I look forward
to working with Mamselle Jackson and her team on how we best support our
young families at the School.'
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LSE student wins excellence award at the Global Thinkers Forum 2012
Nabila Ramdani (pictured), a PhD candidate in LSE’s Department of
International History, has been awarded the 2012
Global Thinkers Forum (GTF) Award for Excellence in Innovation for her
outstanding work in journalism.
The award was presented at a ceremony during the GTF Women Leaders in the
Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which took place in Amman, Jordan, from
6-8 October under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of
Jordan. The event celebrated MENA’s leading female thinkers and innovators.
Others honoured included Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah; HRH
Princess Rym Ali of Jordan; Dalia Mogahed, executive director of the Gallup
Centre for Muslim Studies; and Zaha Hadid, architect.
Nabila has also been nominated for the ‘Best Arab journalist in the West’
award at the Arabs Group Achievement Awards 2012. The competition is still
open and the winners will be decided by the public. The closing date for
voting is Thursday 15 November. If you would like to vote for Nabila,
click here and follow the instructions.
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American voters value honesty over strength in future president
Americans look for honesty over strength when voting for a president,
according to new research from LSE.
A unique electoral psychology research initiative, led by Dr Michael
Bruter and Dr Sarah Harrison, reveals that 32 per cent of American voters
rank honesty as the most important quality they would like to see in a
future president. The next most highly ranked quality was ‘intelligence’,
which was selected by 31 per cent of voters. ‘Common sense’ and ‘experience’
were chosen by nine per cent and ‘strength’ by just seven per cent.
Two thousand Americans were surveyed from 20-24 October as part of
the initiative. They were re-interviewed again just after the election in an
attempt to understand what goes on in the mind of voters and the importance
of their personality, memory and emotions in their vote.
The survey results revealed that 29 per cent of respondents reported that
they had previously changed their mind about who to vote for on the day of a
presidential election.
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Training for students
Courses scheduled for next week include:
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The Psychological Challenges Faced by MSc Students
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Preparing for Employers' Numerical Tests
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Literature Searching and Finding Journal Articles
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Excel 2010: logical and look-up functions
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Effective Reading Strategies
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PhD Thesis Surgery
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PowerPoint 2010: polished presentations in 10 steps
For full listings and further details, including booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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Pop-up Entrepreneurship Week, 12-16 November 2012
Pop-Up Entrepreneurship Week is part of
Global Entrepreneurship Week, the world’s largest campaign to
promote entrepreneurship.
LSE Careers will be taking the opportunity to pass on the practical help
and support to early start-ups and individuals who are considering
taking the plunge. We have developed a series of events, from pitch
practice to seminars, networking events for you to meet fellow
entrepreneurs, and even a pop-up cinema. To find out more and book,
visit the
LSE Entrepreneurship website.
We are also offering you the chance to win up to £5,000 for either an
existing social enterprise that you would like to take forward, or an
idea that you would like to develop. The LSE Entrepreneurship team and
Unltd, the leading provider of support to social entrepreneurs in the
UK, are inviting budding social entrepreneurs to enter the LSE Careers
Social Enterprise: Do It Awards 2012. Successful applicants will be
invited to pitch their idea to a judging panel during Global
Entrepreneurship Week and winning enterprises will be awarded prizes of
up to £5,000 as well as development support to get their projects up and
running.
Applications are open now and close on Wednesday 14 November.
Forms can be downloaded on the
LSE Entrepreneurship website.
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Groups and workshops from LSE's Student Counselling Service
Stress management group
Starting Thursday 15 November, 11am-1pm
This three week group will help students to develop new coping
strategies, manage anxiety and stress, feel more in control, help to
challenge negative thinking and look at good self-care. Please book your
place in advance.
Self esteem group
Starting Monday 19 November, 11am-1pm
This three week group is for students lacking in confidence, who doubt and
criticise themselves excessively or have low self-esteem.
Please book your place in advance.
There’s also a programme of workshops running during Michaelmas term,
including:
Good writing psychology workshop
Friday 9 November, 3-4pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
This workshop will look at ways of thinking about the task of writing, with
advice and tips to help manage blocks and unhelpful fears. It will include a
range of management techniques for dealing with common writing difficulties,
such as procrastination and perfectionism.
For the full listing for this term,
click here.
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Why not take a foreign language course at LSE?
If you haven't registered yet for a foreign language course, don't
worry, there's still time. Registration is open until Friday 16
November.
The Language Centre has a range of extra-curricular courses including
the
Certificate Course programme, which offers Arabic, Catalan, French,
German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
You may even be entitled to a free language course under the
LSE
Language Policy.
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Feel Good Food Day - good for you, good for the planet LSE
Catering will once again be promoting a Feel Good Food Day on Wednesday
14 November in the Fourth Floor Restaurant.
The main focus of a Feel Good Food Day is to demonstrate that limiting
meat in our diet and using healthier ingredients, seasonal vegetables, fish
from sustainable stocks and higher animal welfare produce can benefit your
health, the environment and animal welfare.
Our world cuisine options will offer reduced meat and increased
vegetarian alternatives. Come along and enjoy the ‘feel good’ experience.
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Breakfast on the Fourth Floor, Old Building, 9-11am Start your
day with one of the breakfast specials - delicious, fresh and excellent
value for money:
- Traditional English breakfast - any five hot items for £2.60
Made daily using the freshest ingredients and only free range eggs.
- Health bar combo - only £2.25
A lighter, healthier option. Choose from a selection of cereals,
yoghurts and fresh fruit salad.
Other tasty alternatives include croissants and Danish pastries, porridge
and hot toast. And why not wash it all down with a cup of our Fairtrade tea
or coffee?
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LSE Perspectives November's LSE Perspectives gallery is
now online. You can view the gallery
online here.
The gallery features 12 striking images submitted by LSE students and
staff. Each image reflects a unique perspective on a particular scene.
If you have taken any artistic images on your travels, in your home
town, or even just here in London why not submit them for LSE Perspectives so
that they can be shared with the LSE community.
For more information and to submit your photographs, visit
LSE Perspectives Submissions. Previous galleries can be
found here.
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Skip fit lessons
Security officer and former boxer Daniel Beckley is running skip
fit lessons for all students and staff at LSE.
Build up your fitness, burn calories and increase your stamina, all within
an hour.
The next lessons will take place from 1-2pm at the Badminton Court, Old Building, on
Tuesday 13 November, Tuesday 27 November and Tuesday 4
December.
Just turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons
are free. More sessions will take place during Lent term.
For more information, email Daniel at
d.beckley@lse.ac.uk.
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LSE Treatment Clinic The LSE Treatment Clinic, which welcomes
LSE students and staff, is now accessible on the first floor of Tower One
(follow the signs to Tower Two).
The clinic offers professional treatments at reduced rates for members of
LSE, including acupuncture, osteopathy and sports massage.
The practitioners are:
- Hanya Chlala
Acupuncture available in a dual bed setting on Wednesdays and Fridays
- Laura Dent
Sports massage available on Mondays
- Tim Hanwell
Osteopathy available on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Appointments are available Monday-Friday from 9am-6pm and can be booked
online at
www.lsetreatmentclinic.co.uk. All consultations are strictly
confidential and sessions will last between 30-60 minutes depending upon the
treatment.
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Applications for the Fulbright 2013 undergraduate US Summer
Institutes are now open The US-UK Fulbright Commission and US
Department of State have announced the return of the US Summer Institutes
for British students.
They have two new study abroad summer programmes: the
Summer Institute on Social Entrepreneurship and the
Summer Institute on Environmental Stewardship. The institutes are open
to students on all courses of study. Candidates must have a keen interest in
the topics offered by the institutes but they do not necessarily need to
have had previous experience in the subject matter. In addition to the
academic focus of each institute, the Summer Institutes are intended to
introduce European students to US culture and society. The institutes will
include cultural activities that allow students to become familiar with
their American host community.
The Summer Institute will cover all participant costs including
round-trip airfare from the UK to the US; tuition and fees at the host
university; accommodation and meals; a small daily allowance; health and
accident insurance; a small book allowance; and visa processing.
Full application details are
available here and the deadline for applications is Friday 15
February 2013. If you have any questions, email
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Can we learn from History? On: Monday 10 December at
6.30pm in Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Andrew Marr (pictured)
Andrew Marr is a journalist, broadcaster and author. He hosts the
Sunday morning BBC One programme The Andrew Marr Show as well as
BBC Radio 4's Start the Week every Monday. He wrote and presented
his own History of Modern Britain and The Making of Modern
Britain for BBC Two, which were hugely popular and won prestigious
awards from the Royal Television Society, the Broadcasting Press Guild
and BAFTA. His most recent show, History of the World, is being
broadcast on BBC One.
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 Tuesday 4 December. These tickets are available on a first
come, first served basis.
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Other forthcoming events include....
The Landgrabbers: the new fight over who owns the earth
On: Monday 12 November at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speakers: Fred Pearce,
environment, science, and development writer,
Professor Anthony Hall,
professor of social policy at LSE, and
Dr Charles Palmer, lecturer in environment and development at LSE.
Decentralisation and Popular Democracy: governance from below in Bolivia
On: Wednesday 14 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Dr Jean-Paul Faguet, reader in the political economy of
development at LSE.
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
On: Thursday 15 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Laurence Rees, writer and documentary maker.
How Protest Movements Change America
On: Wednesday 21 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Frances Fox Piven (pictured), distinguished
professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Centre, The
City University of New York.
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RSA The Forum: the individual versus society
On: Thursday 29 November at 6pm
This event, hosted by the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of
Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in association with the BBC Radio 4 World
Service, is part of The Forum’s 'Big Five' series focusing on tackling five
big challenges of our age: inequality, leadership, ageing, the individual
versus society, and education.
Speakers will include
LSE Director Professor Craig Calhoun, Margaret Atwood, author and
literary critic, and Sun Shuyun, author and filmmaker.
The event is fully booked online but if LSE students would like to
attend, please email rsa.events@rsa.org.uk
to request a ticket. All RSA public programme events are free but booking is
essential.
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 60
second interview
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with..... Manny Odogwu
I joined LSE in 2004 as a
security officer in the Estates
Division. My job, with the other
security officers, is mainly to
protect life and property within LSE
and help to keep the campus safe.
I'm
married with four adult children and
three grandchildren plus one on the
way, due soon. I am also a
traditional chief in Nigeria.
Tell us more about your role
as a traditional chief in Nigeria.
I come from Asaba, the capital
city of Delta state, Nigeria, and I
belong to the highly respected
prestigious group of 'Mkpalor' title
holders. We assume the title name of
'Ogbueshi'.
If I were resident in Asaba, I
would be involved in endless
meetings, mainly at my local village
level, and periodically representing
my village at a higher level in the
King's Palace.
However because I am
non-resident, I am expected to visit
regularly. Some visits are less
tasking than others: fewer meetings,
fewer land dispute cases to settle,
fewer harrowing stories of school
fees or house rents not
paid. But the role I most look
forward to is participating in the
initiation of a new Mkpalor. All the
Ogbueshis in my village turn out in
full traditional costumes, to the
chanting and singing of the village
women and dancing to the heavy drums
played by the young men. Large cows
are slaughtered and meat shared. Our
title name of Ogbueshi means 'the
killer of cows'.
The initiation fees paid by the
new entrant are also shared. For
every initiation undertaken, I
receive between £50 and £100 and a
large share of cow meat, which is
carried home for me by my personal
'butler'. I come home to my
household of 20, eagerly awaiting my
return to relieve me of all the cash
and meat.
Which is your favourite place
on the LSE campus?
Houghton Street. This is the
heart and soul of the LSE campus,
buzzing with life from people from
all over the world during the day
which then transforms to a very
serene place at night, where one can
enjoy some quiet moments on one of
the benches.
How do you spend your lunch
break?
Forty-five minutes of freedom! A
walk in Lincoln's Inn Fields or
sitting out on those lovely silver
chairs in the Plaza in good weather.
Otherwise, in bad weather, watching
BBC One's Bargain Hunt in our
staff rest room.
Do you have a temptation you
wish you could resist?
I wish I could resist the
temptation of having a large New
York style cheesecake topped up with
double cream, after a four course
dinner. Always nice but very
naughty.
What are your hobbies?
I love going to the theatre,
mostly musicals, and then dining at
a restaurant afterwards. Good red
wine, and of course, cheesecake with
double cream.
I love travelling. The excitement
of the airport buzz and the
in-flight entertainment. And when
family budget permits, cruise
holidays. My wife and I have done a
Caribbean cruise and are now saving
for a world cruise on retirement
(soon!).
Listening to all kinds of music;
pop, rock, classical, soca, reggae,
soul, R&B, African drums/sounds.
Plus watching Liverpool FC on TV
which ruins my Saturday afternoon!
If you could change places
with someone, past or present, for a
day, who would it be and why?
Brendan Rogers, the Liverpool FC
manager. Then I can select three
strikers: Steven Gerrard, Luis
Suarez and Raheem Sterling to play
together and, with any luck, end the
continuing goals drought.
What is the funniest thing
that has ever happened to you?
Mistakenly walking into a private
corporate function in a five star
hotel, thinking it was the hotel's
breakfast lounge, and then being
offered a glass of champagne at the
reception. That was embarrassing,
but the few people who noticed saw
the funny side of it before I
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