Prospectus photo shoot

The LSE Student Recruitment Office is looking for students to participate in a photo shoot for the next prospectus on Thursday 23 May. You will be paid £20 for your time.

LSE Chill

LSE Chill is back for its final show of the academic year on Friday 24 May from 6pm in the 4th Floor Café, Old Building, so why not take a break from studying and chill.

Dr Sergio Chichava

Dr Chichava, who was awarded the first African Research Fellowship at LSE, likes eating spaghetti with tuna and tomato sauce and would like to learn how to fly a plane.

LSE’s annual Celebration of Sustainability was held on Friday 10 May.

The top scoring Green Impact team this year was the Grantham Research Institute, with Green Impact Excellence Awards going the Department of Mathematics, ODAR, LSE Estates Division and LSE Catering. A full list of results can be found on the Celebration webpage.

Student Switch Off was won for the first time by Sidney Webb House. Students in LSE Halls made average savings of 6 per cent in their energy use - an equivalent of 76 tonnes of carbon.

Special recognition goes to staff members David Scott and Dr Kira Matus, and to students Robin Ray and Margaux Wehr for making outstanding contributions to sustainability this year.

The hotly contested Recycling League was topped by three departments who achieved 100 per cent correctly sorted waste at the audits in March. These were the Gender Institute, the Department of Statistics and the Department of Mathematics. A full league table can be seen here.

This year’s Sustainable Projects Fund awarded funding to seven outstanding projects. A full list can be seen on the Sustainable Futures Society webpage.

The Library is pleased to announce that the building improvements to extend the shelving on the lower ground floor are now complete.

The Government Publications, Historical Statistics and British Parliamentary Papers are all available to students and the beanbag area is fully accessible again.

Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) - one day left

PhD students, have you told us your thoughts about your course? You have until 5pm on Thursday 16 May to complete the survey.

As a thank you for your time there will be a prize draw, with one prize of £250 and two prizes of £100.

For more information, including how to complete the survey, see PRES.
 

The LSE Student Recruitment Office is looking for students to participate in a photo shoot for the next prospectus.

The photo shoot will take place on Thursday 23 May from 1-3pm and you will be paid £20 for your time.

Please help Information and Management Technology (IMT) to develop and improve services in line with your needs by completing the 2013 student survey.

It should take no more than ten minutes to complete and you could win one of four £50 Amazon vouchers if you enter the prize draw.

This year’s survey focuses on student use of mobile devices and social media and the findings will shape IMT's approach to innovative practice and the development of technology enhanced teaching and learning at LSE.

Click here to take part in the survey.

The survey is open until midnight on Sunday 26 May to allow you to find a convenient time for completion.

The application deadline has been extended until Friday 31 May for the inaugural LSE-UCT July School, to be hosted by LSE’s partner institution the University of Cape Town, at its beautiful campus on the slopes of Table Mountain, from 1-12 July 2013.

This new intensive summer school-style programme offers students and graduates from around the world the opportunity to come together to study important issues relevant to Africa today.

The seven courses cover a wide range of social science disciplines and are led by world-class academics from the two institutions.

The courses on the programme will be:

• Africa and the Global Economy 1500-2000: an economic history
  Dr Leigh Gardner, LSE
• After 'The Hopeless Continent': challenges of African economic development since 2000
  Professor Anthony Black and Professor Mark Ellyne, UCT, Professor Léonce Ndikumana, UMass Amhurst
• Business Model Innovation at the Base of the Pyramid: Cape Town and beyond
  Professor Harry Barkema, LSE
• The State, Democracy and Development in Africa
  Professor Thandika Mkandawire, LSE
• Poverty: what causes it, and what it causes
  Dr Elliott Green, LSE
• Urban Modernities: space, place and difference
  Professor Sue Parnell and Dr Bradley Rink, UCT and Dr Sharad Chari, Wits

Training and development opportunities for students

Courses scheduled for next week include:

• iThenticate Training: research student event

• Understanding Copyright Issues for Researchers and PhD Students

• Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis

• Sleep Well Workshop

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.
 

LSE Catering provides healthy and nutritious food choices so call in to one of our outlets before your exam and feed your brain for that extra performance.

LSE Catering summer term opening times

Fourth Floor Restaurant, Old Building
Monday-Friday 9am-7pm

LSE Garrick, Houghton Street/Aldwych
Monday-Friday 8am-7pm

Fourth Floor Café Bar, Old Building
Monday-Friday 11am-8pm

Plaza Café, John Watkins Plaza
Monday-Friday 9am-10pm
Saturday and Sunday 12noon-6pm

Café 54, New Academic Building
Monday-Friday 8.30am-6pm

Mezzanine, New Academic Building
Monday-Friday 10.30am-4pm

The Bean Counter, 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Monday-Friday 10am-3.30pm

Copy formatting fast using the Format Painter

The Format Painter is a quick way to copy formatting from one item (text, tables, headings, etc) to others. It is found in all Microsoft Office 2010 applications such as Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Try this:

1. Select the item or text that has the format you want to use elsewhere.
2. On the Home tab, double click the Format Painter (paint brush) icon. As you move your mouse pointer back onto the file, a small paintbrush follows the pointer.
3. Click on or select text to change its format.
4. When you have applied the format everywhere needed, click the Format Painter again to turn it off. Or just press Esc on the keyboard.

This popular series of events runs from 1-5 July and is designed to help you plan, write and make the most of your dissertation.

Residences have several locations open to everyone as great value bed and breakfast accommodation over the Summer holiday, all offering affordable and central accommodation in the heart of London.

LSE students are also entitled to a 10 per cent discount from our standard rates making this a great option if you have friends and family visiting London over the summer break.

May's LSE Perspectives gallery is now online. You can view the gallery online here.

The gallery features 12 striking images submitted by LSE staff and students. Each image reflects a unique perspective on a particular scene.

We are always looking for submissions for future 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.

LSE student to climb Mount Kilimanjaro

Corina Mavrodin (pictured), a doctoral candidate in the Department of International History, is planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in August to raise money for Amani Children’s Home.

After her trek, Corina plans on visiting and volunteering at the children’s home, which is located in Moshi at the base of the highest free-standing mountain in the world. Amani, named after the Swahili word for ‘peace’, provides primary care, counselling and outreach options to the region’s most vulnerable street children. Their numbers have rapidly increased in the last few years due to poverty and the effects of HIV/AIDS. Amani offers them a safe environment, where they can grow, learn, and be treated for various psychological or physical afflictions.

Corina’s target is to ‘sell’ the 5,895 metres that she will trek to Kilimanjaro’s peak, for £1 each. Any donation stands to have a huge impact, considering that £16 is enough to feed one child at Amani for a month, while £230 covers a child’s care, including education, for a year.

The Kofi Annan Dialogues: LIVE

The Kofi Annan Dialogues: LIVE is a new initiative being launched by the Kofi Annan Foundation to which LSE students are invited to participate.

The Dialogues will launch on Wednesday 15 May as a series of online conversations between Mr Annan and young leaders on key issues central to the lives of young people today.

The Dialogues will share and capture respective experiences, amplify the voice of youth and highlight achievements, and promote a new form of inclusive dialogue.

For more information and to get involved, visit kofiannanfoundation.org.

Forthcoming LSE events include....

Anthropology and Emotion
On: Thursday 16 May at 6pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Dr Andrew Beatty, author of A Shadow Falls: in the heart of Java and a forthcoming ethnographic narrative After the Ancestors.

Progressive Capitalism
On: Monday 20 May at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Lord Sainsbury (pictured), chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Cooking as a Political Act
On: Thursday 30 May at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor Michael Pollan, professor of journalism at Berkeley.

On: Thursday 16 May from 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Dr James Hansen (pictured), adjunct professor of earth sciences at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

The unfolding human-made climate crisis seems almost surrealistic from a scientific perspective. As knowledge of a climate emergency improves, policies change in ways that exacerbate rather than mitigate the situation. The tragedy is that actions needed to stabilise climate, rather than being painful to society, would have multiple benefits, including stronger economies, more good jobs, and more equitable opportunities for individuals.

If our governments continue to fail to advance effective policy, thus causing continued extraction of every fossil fuel that can be found, today's children, future generations, and nature will bear the consequences through no fault of their own. A variety of options for making governments do their job will be discussed.

On: Wednesday 22 May from 6-7pm at the Waterstones Economists' Bookshop, Clare Market.

This event will launch the new book by Morten Jerven, senior visiting fellow with the Department of Economic History, entitled Poor Numbers: how we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it.

Poor Numbers presents a ground-breaking a study of the production and use of African economic development statistics and sets out the extent of our knowledge problem in African economic development. One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Poor numbers are too important to be dismissed as just that.

LSE Chill is back for its final show of the academic year on Friday 24 May from 6pm in the 4th Floor Café, Old Building.

The session is open to all and will feature some dynamic acts, so why not take a break from studying and chill. LSE Chill is now generously sponsored by Peer Support.

The line-up for the evening is as follows:

6-6.30pm Monika and Jon
Monika and Jon are two LSE graduates bringing some music into their hectic student lives. They will be playing acoustic covers (vocals and guitars) of their favourite songs.

6.45-7.15pm The Inheritors
The Inheritors, in their various incarnations, have been playing a mixture of original, melodic pop for about two years. They will be performing songs from their two, soon-to-be released albums.

7.30-8pm Sneha Sundaram and Ed Bayes
Sneha and Ed will play some of their favourite, folksy songs and some originals.

On: Monday 3 June from 6.30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Roberto Franzosi (pictured), professor of sociology and linguistics at Emory University.

This talk will illustrate the power of Quantitative Narrative Analysis, a quantitative social science approach to texts developed by the speaker using data collected from newspapers on the rise of Italian fascism and lynchings in the American 'Deep South'. It will show how narrative data lend themselves to cutting-edge tools of data visualisation and analysis as dynamic network graphs and maps in Google Earth and other GIS software, and how QNA data provide the basis for fascinating digital humanities projects.

On: Monday 20 May at 4.30pm at The Greenwood Theatre, King’s College London, 55 Weston Street, London, SE1.

LSE students and staff are invited to this event with Archbishop Desmond Tutu (pictured) and a panel of distinguished academic and religious figures who will be discussing the question - what is the essence of being human?

The forum is being organised in connection with the Templeton Prize which is being presented to Archbishop Tutu the following day.

The Archbishop will bring his long experience as an opponent of apartheid and as a champion of human rights to the discussion, which is designed to shed light on the very essence of being human and humanity’s uniqueness. The moderator will be a former Templeton Prize winner, George FR Ellis and panellists will include Malcolm Jeeves, Ian Tattersall, Anthony C Thiselton, Alan J Torrance and Adam Zeman.