Unintended Consequences of the New Financial Regulations

This new event on Monday 11 March will celebrate the launch of the ESRC Systemic Risk Centre at LSE.

Sciences Po - LSE undergraduate exchange

Second year undergraduate students can now apply for the exchange programme with Sciences Po. The deadline for applications is Thursday 28 February.

Aidan Bruynseels

Aidan, who is a student volunteer ambassador, spent his summer volunteering in the Eastern region of Zimbabwe and encourages everyone to get involved in this week's Student Volunteering Week.

From September 2014 there will be a new financial package for UK and EU undergraduates at LSE.

LSE Council has approved a graduate repayment of £9,000 per year with increased cash bursaries for low-income students and an increase in funding for outreach activities.

LSE’s Academic Board voted in favour of this change at its meeting on Wednesday 30 January, as reported in Student News last week.

The £9,000 per year graduate repayment will enable the School to provide even more generous support for students from lower-income backgrounds, with larger cash awards to offset living costs.

Overall, 50 per cent of all additional fee income will be spent on bursaries, scholarships and widening participation activity - representing £3.47 million per year.

Professor Craig Calhoun said: 'No student should be put off applying to LSE due to financial concerns. Likewise, no student should be unable to thrive while studying here because of money troubles. In both cases, scholarships and bursaries are key, not the headline fee level.

On Thursday 24 January, Christian Busch (pictured), associate director of LSE’s Innovation Co-Creation Lab, presented his ideas and the work of the Innovation Co-Creation Lab whilst on a public panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Christian’s insights built on his work around ‘Impact Organisations,’ detailed in this TEDxLSE presentation, published in an International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing paper, and recently featured on the Harvard Business Review blog.

As part of International Development Month, LSE Careers has secured the services of Steven Allen, a former director of human resources for UNICEF, to give one-to-one appointments where you can discuss any aspect of careers within the UN system.

These will take place on Thursday 14 February and you can book from 9.30am on the day via CareerHub, in the same way as you would book appointments with our own careers consultants.

Undergraduates: keen to do some original social science research?

LSE GROUPS is a fantastic opportunity for undergraduates to take part in an interdisciplinary research project at the end of Summer term.

Applications are now open, and interested applicants are invited to attend a free information event on Thursday 14 February at 1-2pm in room KSW1.04, 20 Kingsway, to find out more.
 

Applications for second year undergraduate students to apply for the exchange programme with Sciences Po are now open and the deadline for applications is midnight on Thursday 28 February.

LSE Student Recruitment is looking for students to help at the following events:

Open Day on Tuesday 26 March

• LSE Helpers: 9am-4.30pm
  In the Peacock Theatre and around LSE Campus
• Accommodation Helpers: 11.45am-4.30pm
  Conducting tours of High Holborn or Bankside House (for those resident in High Holborn or Bankside respectively).

You will be paid £30-45 for working at the Open Day.

Visit Day on Wednesday 17 April

• LSE helpers: 8.30am-5pm
  In the Peacock Theatre and around the LSE campus
• Accommodation helpers: 11.15am-5pm
  Conducting tours of High Holborn or Bankside House (for those resident in High Holborn or Bankside respectively).

You will be paid £30-45 for working at the Visit Day.

If you are interested in working at either of these days, contact Darren Duffy at d.duffy@lse.ac.uk outlining which event you would like to work at, the role you are interested in, and your department.

Please note that only a limited number of students will be recruited for these positions, therefore you should reply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Please be aware that these events take place during the Easter vacation.

Training and development opportunities for students

Courses scheduled for next week include:

• Communicating Assertively

• Disclosing your Disability to Employers: focus on dyslexia/dyspraxia/neurodiversity

• Orbis: access to global company information

• PowerPoint 2010: polished presentations in 10 steps

• Using the Internet for your Research

These are just some of the events running next week. To receive a monthly list of all events, subscribe to the student training and development email by clicking here. To find out more about training and development across the School and for links to booking pages, see lse.ac.uk/training.
 

The LSE100 Writing Lab is now open to all undergraduates, not just current LSE100 students.

Writing Lab appointments are the chance to discuss any piece of coursework you are writing or have written and to get individual feedback from an LSE100 fellow.

This tailored feedback is on your writing style, your approach to answering the question and structuring your work, as well as your use of evidence in making your argument. The intention is to give you the basis on which you can develop your approach to and skills in argument. If you are ambitious about your time at LSE, developing the coherence and cogency of your critical writing skills will be an essential element and this is what the LSE100 Writing Lab specialises in.

Applications are now open for the tenth LSE-PKU Summer School, to be hosted by LSE’s partner institution Peking University in Beijing from 12-23 August 2013.

This exciting, intensive programme provides students and professionals from around the world with the opportunity to study with two world-class universities in one of Asia’s most important and dynamic cities.

In 2012, 410 participants representing 50 nationalities and more than 100 universities attended the programme. More than 40 LSE students and alumni attended, with particular interest in courses led by Peking University faculty such as 'China's Economic Development', 'Inside the Dragon: politics and policy in 21st century China', and 'A Rule of Law? The Dynamics of Chinese Commercial Law in an International Context'.

The 17 courses in the 2013 programme cover ten disciplines, from anthropology to management, international relations to social policy, and include five brand new courses and four which have been updated. There is also the opportunity for participants to take a ten-hour beginners’ Chinese language programme alongside their course.

LSE Chill is an open performance night organised by LSE Arts which takes place on the last Friday of every month during term time.

LSE Perspectives is a monthly online gallery that features photographs taken by LSE students and staff. LSE Arts is looking for submissions for upcoming galleries.

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.

Are you a fitness fanatic? Would you like to be part of an event to raise money for a good cause?

Fist and Feather® will be hosting a three and half hour body combat marathon in aid of The Bethany Chiddle Fund on Sunday 3 March.

Bethany is four years old and was born with Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy. Funds are needed so that she can have pioneering surgery on her spine in the USA. All profits from the marathon's ticket sales will go to The Bethany Chiddle Fund.

LSE students and staff can get two tickets for the price of one for Coalition at the Pleasance Theatre, Islington.

Coming to London after its Edinburgh run, Coalition charts the final days of Liberal Democrat leader Matt Cooper, in this fast-moving comedy satire about modern politics.

It's early 2015 and Britain's coalition government has only a few months left to run. The Conservative prime minister and his Liberal Democrat deputy haven't spoken for months, the economy has flat-lined, and government MPs are threatening to defect right, left and centre. Liberal Democrat leader Matt Cooper has to make a series of last, desperate gambles to save the party he loves.

Starring Thom Tuck, Jo Caulfield, Jessica Regan, Phil Mulryne, Alistair Barrie, John Dorney, Gyuri Sarossy, and Phill Jupitus as Sir Francis Whitford.

Day Jobs and the Twilight World
On: Wednesday 27 February at 5.15pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Christopher Andrew, author, Professor Lord Hennessy, Attlee Professor of contemporary British history at Queen Mary, University of London, and Alan Judd, author.

Altered States: what happens when we tell stories about science?
On: Wednesday 27 February at 7pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Greg Artus, lecturer in politics, philosophy and business ethics at Imperial College, Professor Tim Besley, School Professor of economics and political science at LSE, Aifric Campbell (pictured), writer and former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Professor Roger Kneebone, professor of surgical education at Imperial College, and Professor Armand Leroi, writer, broadcaster and professor of evolutionary developmental biology at Imperial College.

The Silence of Animals
On: Thursday 28 February at 7pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor John Gray (pictured), emeritus professor of European thought at LSE.

Unintended Consequences of the New Financial Regulations
On: Monday 11 March at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Dr Jon Danielsson (pictured), director of the Systemic Risk Centre at LSE, Professor Charles Goodhart, emeritus professor of banking and finance with the Financial Markets Group at LSE, and Matt King, managing director and global head of Credit Products Strategy at Citi.

To celebrate the launch of the ESRC Systemic Risk Centre at LSE this event will debate whether the post crisis reforms of financial regulations will be effective in protecting us from financial excesses, or may perversely destabilise the financial system. The panel of experts will debate the topic and take questions from the audience.

One Billion Rising

On: Thursday 14 February at 2pm at the London Eye

The LSESU Feminist Society and students from the LSE Gender Institute will be taking part in One Billion Rising, a global day of action to raise awareness about violence against women.

All across the world women will be taking part in 'risings' and the aim is to have one billion women (the same number as will be raped or beaten in their lifetime) dancing, all across the world.

Everyone is welcome. For more information, visit Facebook.
 

On: Monday 18 February from 6.30-8pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Fawwaz Traboulsi (pictured), associate professor of political science and history at the Lebanese American University and the American University of Beirut.

With few comprehensive histories of Lebanon, Professor Traboulsi's A History of Modern Lebanon, which weaves together more than five centuries of the country's social, political, cultural and economic history, has become a go-to reference for anyone who wants to understand the country.

In this lecture, Professor Traboulsi will share the problems he has faced in writing the history of Lebanon and how he has dealt and proposes to deal with these challenges.

On: Tuesday 19 February from 6-7.30pm in the Cañada Blanch Room, first floor of Cowdray House
Speaker: Dr George Christodoulakis (pictured), senior lecturer in finance at the University of Manchester, and former secretary of state for asset restructuring and privatisations of Greece.

At this seminar Dr Christodoulakis will examine the evolution of 'basis', the sovereign bond versus credit default swap spread, over time and space in a global context.

His approach first develops a methodology to reveal market preferences over basis, which are then associated to the transition properties of credit spread distributions within and across sovereign credit markets. This process identifies significant behavioural components in the current European periphery credit crisis.

On: Tuesday 19 February from 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Lord Anthony Giddens (pictured), former LSE director and a member of the House of Lords.

The risks we face, and the opportunities we have, in the 21st century are in many respects quite different from those experienced in earlier periods of history.

How should we analyse and respond to such a world? What is a rational balance of optimism and pessimism? How can we plan for a future that seems to elude our grasp and in some ways is imponderable?

TEDxLSE Rethink Your Definition

On: Saturday 9 March from 9am-5pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building

TEDxLSE is set to hold its second annual conference next month, on the theme ‘Rethink Your Definition'.

The student-led conference welcomes 13 speakers across a myriad of industries, from entertainment to enterprise, and from literature to physics, among others. The speakers will share their experiences with attendees, and more importantly, challenge the orthodox definition of thinking as well as revealing new possibilities through a series of 18-minute talks.

The conference will showcase the idea that the best form of innovation is, in fact, borderless. The speakers at this year’s conference have reinvented themselves by thinking and innovating outside the box, through pioneering ideas beyond the limits of their profession, across geographical barriers, and between divided cultures.

In addition to a full day of TED talks, attendees will have the chance to interact with speakers and challenge themselves to rethink their understanding of innovation.

The first round of tickets have now sold out, but a further limited number of tickets will be on sale on the LSESU website on Friday 15 February at 1pm. For more information, visit www.tedxlse.com.