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15 January 2014 |
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Saw Swee Hock Student Centre (SAW)
The Saw Swee Hock Student Centre (SAW) was officially handed over to
LSE on Wednesday 18 December 2013.
As snagging and building fit-out continues, the new occupants moved in
last Monday.
Inside SAW you will now find:
- LSE SU
- Activities Resource Centre (ARC)
- Three Tuns
- The Denning Learning Café
- The Weston Café
- Media Centre
- Advice and counselling
- Gym
- Dance and exercise studio
- Reception and offices
- Venue and events space
As well as:
- LSE Careers
- LSE Residential Services -
Accommodation Office
- LSE Faith Centre
The Three Tuns opened its doors this
Monday (13 January) and both cafés should be ready for business
next week. The gym is already up and running so feel free to drop by! For
more information about the
building features and services, take a look at the
Occupants' Guide.
Work began last week on the final stage
of the development with the pedestrianisation of Sheffield Street and public
realm enhancement which includes the installation of 819m² brick and
yorkstone paving, feature lights and street furniture as well as some
planting.
The planned completion date is April 2014.
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New survey shows university buildings matter to students
Over a third of students have rejected a university due to the quality of
its buildings and lack of facilities, according to research led by the LSE
Estates Division and the Higher Education Design Quality Forum (HEDQF).
The research, commissioned by HEDQF, asked 1,000 students from UK
universities for their views on the quality of their university campus and
sheds new light on how students make decisions as they go through the
application process.
When asked what were the most important factors when deciding where to
study, 76 per cent of students ranked campus facilities as either ‘quite’ or
‘very’ important, with only eight per cent saying it was ‘not very’ or ‘not at
all’ important in their choice. This was the fourth most important factor
after course, location and reputation.
Estate quality increases in importance once a student has chosen a
university, with 86 per cent of students saying that it is ‘quite’ or ‘very’
important in their first year of studies. However, the importance students
attach to estates decreases to 79 per cent for third years students.
The research also highlighted how factors such as demographics, region
and type of university attended have an impact on how students view the
university buildings.
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Lent Public Events Programme announced LSE’s public events
programme from January to April 2014 has been announced. Speakers include
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Linda Colley, David Harvey and Professor Amartya Sen.
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Graduate Course Choices The graduate course
choice facility in
LSE for You has now reopened and will remain open until
12 noon on 27 January, allowing graduate students
to make changes to their Lent Term half unit course choices.
More information about how to use the course choice
facility is available
here. Additionally, an illustrated tutorial on course choice is
available on
LSE for You.
The course choice facility does not reopen for
undergraduate students. Undergraduates who are considering changes to
their courses should speak to their academic advisor in the first instance
and complete a Late Course Change form at the Student Services Centre if
required.
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LSE Careers’ International Development Event Programme
LSE Careers’
International Development Event Programme (IDEP) starts this week with a
seminar this Friday on 'How to get into the humanitarian sector'.
Over the coming weeks, there will be
speakers from organisations such as Save the Children, Adam Smith
International, Care International and the European Commission, so if you
want to find out more about how to start a career in international
development there is sure to be something for you.
Additionally, for the first time, there will be an
International Development and Volunteering Fair. This will take place in
the new Saw Swee Hock Student Centre on Tuesday 28 January. We have 24
organisations attending, ranging from large organisations such as United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and
the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to smaller NGOs such as
Livelyminds and The Aegis Trust, all offering a range of UK based and/or
international opportunities in the field of international development.All events will open for
booking a week in advance at 9.30am on
LSE CareerHub and there's an
IDEP website which lists all IDEP events in one handy place. It’s
constantly being added to as more events are confirmed – so make sure you
bookmark it to ensure you don’t miss anything!
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LSE Literary Festival 2014 LSE Literary Festival 2014 will
be taking place from Monday 24 February – Saturday 1 March with the
theme ‘Reflections’, exploring the distinctive qualities of the social
sciences' and the arts' approaches to understanding the world around us.
There will be
a programme of talks, readings, panel discussions and film screenings, as
well as creative writing workshops and children’s events. Speakers will
include
Melvyn Bragg, AS Byatt, Sebastian Faulks, Margaret Macmillan and Michael
Rosen.
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LSE Research Festival 2014 Exhibition
MRes, MPhil and PhD students: can you convey your research visually? The
deadline is fast approaching for submissions to the LSE Research Festival’s
2014 Exhibition. Submissions are being accepted from academic and research
staff across the School for this year’s Research Festival Exhibition until
midnight on Friday 31 January. Entrants are asked to convey their research
through a poster, photograph or short film. Selected entries will be
publicly exhibited in May, and a prize will be awarded in each category.
Don’t miss this opportunity to have your work exhibited and viewed by
senior academics and the general public. Last year, over 600 people visited
the exhibition, and many of those involved remarked on how beneficial the
experience was to their research project and their own development.
For more information, to view last year’s entries, and to submit your
work, take a look at the website
here You can also follow the Festival on Twitter @LSEResearchFest
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Tell us what you think - Student News feedback survey
2014
The Press Office has put together a short survey for you to tell us
how you feel about Student News. It's an
important way for us to find out how we can improve the newsletter for you.
The survey is open to all students and should take no more than five
minutes to complete. Take part
here
The survey is open until Friday 21 March. Thank you for taking the
time to let us know what you think.
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Applications now open for the LSE-PKU Summer School in Beijing, China
Applications are now open for the 11th LSE-PKU Summer School, which
will run from 11 – 22 August 2014 at Peking University in Beijing.
Eighteen courses are available on the programme, all with a focus on
China and Asia in subjects including economics, management, international
relations, media and law. Courses are taught by a specialist in their field,
from one or both of these world class institutions.
The programme attracts a truly diverse mix of participants drawn from
over 40 nationalities and a variety of backgrounds. In 2013, a quarter were
graduate professionals working in a wide range of related fields.
Please visit our website
here to apply online and for further
information about the courses on the programme.
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LSE Photo Prize is back!
LSE staff and students are encouraged to submit their best photos
demonstrating their own interpretation of the Literary Festival theme
‘Reflections’. Submissions are now being accepted and will close
Friday 31 January.
Submissions will be displayed across the LSE campus during the Literary
Festival (25 February – 1 March). The three winning photographs, selected by
a panel of art professionals and LSE staff, will be announced at the
Festival’s closing event on Saturday 1 March. Winning photographers will
then get to see their images printed and displayed at the School.
Each photograph must be 300dpi, no smaller than 2MB as a jpeg file.
Please note that you can submit a maximum of three images. For more
information email the LSE Arts Team at
arts.photoprize@lse.ac.uk
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New issue of LSE Perspectives online
The January edition of LSE Perspectives is now online. Take a look at
the gallery
here. It features 12 striking images submitted by LSE staff and students
with each image reflecting a unique perspective on a particular scene.
We are always looking for submissions for future galleries, so if you've taken any artistic images on your travels, from your home town or
here in London, submit them for LSE Perspectives and share them with the
School community.
Further information on how to submit your photographs
can be found
here. And if you missed December's gallery, be inspired
here!
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Training and development opportunities for students
Courses scheduled for next week include:
• Presentation Skills and Confidence
Undergraduates can track the skills they develop by taking part in activities
beyond academic studies using
PDAM.
This is just one of the events running next week. To receive a monthly
summary of all training courses, subscribe to the email list by clicking
here and pressing Send. To find out more about training and development
across the school and for links to booking pages, see
here.
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Learning and personal development events Managing Depression
- on Monday 20 January, 2pm-3pm, NAB 2.04, New Academic Building
Coming to LSE can be an exciting time, but also a time of challenges that
can leave you vulnerable to depression. Depression and low moods are some of
the most common problems presented at University Counselling Services. This
workshop will look at how to become more aware of coping with low moods.
Other topics discussed will include strategies of how to challenge unhelpful
thoughts and behaviours. We will also discuss how to access ongoing support
to help you feel more in control. Book
here
Black and Minority Ethnic Student at LSE? - on
Tuesday 21 January, 11am-12pm, AGWR, Graham Wallas Room
Book
here
Managing Your Time - on
Wednesday 22 January, 12.30pm-2pm, CLM 3.02
Delivered by the Disability and Well-Being Manager you will gain tips on how
to manage your time successfully and avoid stress while
studying. Book
here
Remember, even if the courses are fully booked when you look online, you
can just go along on the day.
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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 21 January,
and Tuesday 28 January, Tuesday 11 February, and Tuesday 18
February.
Just turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons
are free.
For more information, email Daniel at
d.beckley@lse.ac.uk
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Lunchtime Meditations
Take some time for yourself at new lunchtime meditation classes on
Mondays and Thursdays at 12.10-12.45pm during Lent term in the
LSE Faith
Centre on the second floor of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre.
No previous experience of meditation is needed and the meditations will
be guided. There is no need to register so just come along, and there
is no fee. The first class is Monday 20 January.
For more information, email Erika Mansnerus at
e.mansnerus@lse.ac.uk and Tina
Basi at t.basi@lse.ac.uk
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Global competition to find new Schmidt-MacArthur Fellow and Mentor
The Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship, a joint initiative between the
Ellen MacArthur Foundation in the UK and the Schmidt Family Foundation
in the United States, offers an innovation platform for postgraduate
students together with academics from top international design, engineering and
business schools to rethink the economy. Ellen MacArthur and Wendy
Schmidt are pictured left.
To take part in the competition, entrants must be registered on a
postgraduate course in design, engineering or business at an accredited
educational institution in 2014. Both the student and academic must be
committed to taking part in the full one-year fellowship and be available to
attend the summer school in the UK during 23-27 June 2014. The challenge for
entrants is to create a one minute 40 second film in response to a challenge
statement about the circular economy that can be shared publicly. The shortlisted entries will go through to an online interview phase with a
selection team from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, UK.
Applicants must first register their interest at
www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/wildcard in order to download the
competition brief on 13 January 2014. Entries must be submitted no
later than 2 March 2014. The winner will be announced in March.
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Paris Marathon - fundraising
Tze Ni Yeoh, a third year Economics student, and Leyla Mahirah Nor, a
second year Actuarial Science student, will be running the Paris Marathon
this April and have pledged to raise £2,000 for the Association of
International Cancer Research (AICR) which funds the prevention and cure of
cancer.
They kicked off their fundraising efforts last term with a donut sale
which set a high, and delicious, mark for this year. Help them reach
their target by supporting them
at the events they have planned this month:
- Lunch Box Sale, Thursday 16 January on Houghton Street
- Lunch Box Sale, Thursday 30 January on Houghton Street
- LSE University Cup- Squash Tournament, Saturday 15 & Sunday 16
January at the LSE Squash Courts. Register
here or for more details email lsesquashcup@gmail.com
They are also looking to collaborate with other societies, so please
email them at yeohtzeni@gmail.com
if you can help. Keep updated with their progress on their Facebook page
here
And of course you can support them by donating online
here
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Technology tip! It's time to change your computer password and here's how to do it.
If you are using an on campus PC, press Ctrl|Alt|Delete together then
click Change a Password. Enter your current password to prove it is you then
enter a new password. Re-enter the new password to confirm it. Other
situations, e.g. Mac users, see further information on the link below.
Create a strong password. A strong password consists of at least eight characters, upper and lower
case letters, numbers and at least one punctuation character, e.g. ! or , .
Do not use an old password.
Make a secret note of your new password until you remember it. Also, you
can create a reminder with a security question, see link below.
Note: You must also update your other logins, e.g. Moodle, with
your new password, when you use those services.
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'The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: a critical perspective' - on
Thursday 16 January at 6.30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
Created by the UN Security Council to try the assassins of former
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri on February 14 2005, the Special
Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) was scheduled to start its hearings this week. The STL prosecutor has indicted five members of Hezbollah, who
have not been arrested and will be tried in absentia.
Come and hear criminal justice specialist Dr Omar Nashabe consider
the history, ethics and future challenges of the tribunal which he has been
monitoring since its launch in 2009.
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'Cities and Globalisation' - on Monday 20 January at
6.30-8pm in the New Theatre, East Building Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at
Harvard, where he also serves as director of the Taubman Center for State
and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He
studies the economics of cities, and has written on a range of urban issues,
including the growth of cities, segregation, crime, and housing markets. He
has been particularly interested in the role that geographic proximity can
play in creating knowledge and innovation. His 2011 book, Triumph of the
City: how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener,
healthier, and happier was shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs
Business Book of the year.
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'Agency and Gender in Gaza: masculinity, femininity and family
during the second intifada' - on Monday 20 January at 6.30-8.00pm,
NAB 1.04, New Academic Building
LSE's Dr Aitemad Muhanna will discuss
her new book, which is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork
among women and men in poor households in diverse locations in Gaza. The
book explores how gender and gender relations of power in Gaza are
renegotiated to develop material mechanisms of coping or resistance
against the livelihood crisis, providing empirical evidence of Gazan
women’s capacity to exercise actively their agency and to achieve
material outcomes. With attention to the changing roles of men in the
household and community as a result of the loss of male employment, the
author explores the extension of poor women’s mobility.
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The lecture is free and open to all on a first come
first served basis. For more details, email Sara Masry at
s.masry@lse.ac.uk
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'Disrupting International Rules and Organisational Practices for Women's
Rights and Gender Equality' - on Friday 25 January at 1-2:30pm in
Room TW1.G.01, Tower One
How can change be made to happen to disrupt the deep structures of
gender inequality in the programmes, policies and everyday practices of
social change organizations, mainstream development agencies and
systems? Come along to the next Gender Institute discussion to
explore this question with Aruna Rao, Co-Founder and Executive Director
of Gender at Work.
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Hellenic Observatory Research Lent Seminar Series
The Hellenic Observatory has announced its exciting
Research Seminar Series for Lent term. See full details
here
All Hellenic Observatory Seminars are open to the public.
Entry is on a
first come first served basis. More details
here
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'Reviving Famagusta; from ghost town to eco-city?' - on Friday 21
February, 2.00-6.45pm, LSE Shaw Library, Old Building
Recent citizens' initiatives in Cyprus have proposed the opening of the
ghost town of Varosha and have imagined the revitalisation of the Famagusta
area. This
half-day conference, organised by the Hellenic Observatory and
Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE, brings together town planners, architects, and
economists to discuss the anticipated social, economic, and ecological
consequences of a potential opening.
MoreThe conference is free and open to all, but a ticket is required.
Registration is through
LSE's E-shop and must be completed by
Monday 17
February.
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 60
second interview
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with.....Rhys Cadman
I’m an ex-LSE student, graduating in 2012 with a first in law and living in Shoreditch, although I don’t own nearly enough pastel shades of skinny chinos to blend in with the locals.
I’m spending this academic year working as the Graduate Admissions Assistant in the universally beloved Department of Finance before I start my LPC, and I’m enjoying the hardworking but relaxed atmosphere and decent working hours that LSE provides, before the hard-and-fast City lifestyle kicks in. I enjoy the fact that my work leads me to interact both with current students and other departments, in particular spending a decent chunk of time annoying the folk over in Graduate Admissions who are a great bunch of people; this is especially impressive given that I’m usually asking them to do something urgently for me.
Sport is probably my main pursuit outside of work. I am a crucial cog in the Drury Lane Lightning (Department of Finance street basketball squad), taking on all comers - so far this has mainly been High Holborn students hanging round the court and some summer school kid called "Boston" who looked about 12 and was much better than me. I also play hockey for King’s and Alleyn’s Hockey Club (awkwardly, an amalgamation featuring the King’s University Old Boys team). As is customary for middle-class privately-educated children from Oxfordshire, I had a gap year then went to university and didn’t shut up about it for years - I spent eight and a half months working on a ski resort in Banff, Canada, during which time I wrecked my left ankle snowboarding off a cliff, had to evacuate a house party/barbecue due to bear mace, worked in -30°C, fled from some moderately irate elk during mating season, and a host of other improbable and mildly stupid teenage things. I am proud to say I have done almost none of these things since.
Forget about daily complaints and little frustrations, what do you actually love about LSE and what would make it an even better unique institution?
Wright’s Bar toasties, and more funding for Wright’s Bar coupled with a wider range of toasties.
Also, the sheer breadth of cultural background of both students and staff which helps to make LSE one of the most impressively multicultural and inclusive environments in the world. I have no empirical evidence to support this assertion, but I’m pretty confident it’s true.
Can you play a musical instrument? If so, what and to what standard?
I’ve been through a few! I played guitar until year six - the highlight of my brief career was soloing the James Bond theme tune in a school assembly whilst a friend (dressed in what was presumably the world’s only tuxedo designed for a 10 year old) bobbed, weaved, and rolled around on the floor pretending to hold a toy gun (which had been taken away from him by the teachers as it was the 90s).
I also play the piano to a grade five standard, and took up the bassoon at secondary school - yes, the bassoon. My parents, clearly lacking confidence in my musical talent (despite the stunning guitar recital of James Bond) wanted me to take up an instrument that would get me into an orchestra easily, and within three weeks I was in the school’s Second Wind Band. I feel this speaks more to the quality of the Band than it does to my early ability. I ended up passing my grade seven exam, and even went on a school orchestra tour of Hong Kong and Beijing which was a pretty amazing cultural and musical experience, except being incredibly hungover in Ocean Park following the World Cup Final. That was awful.
What book are you currently reading and which have you enjoyed most in the past?
Rather awkwardly, contrary to my usual literary taste, I’m currently reading a celebrity autobiography by esteemed broadcaster Alan Partridge. It’s a cracking read and provides an interesting, unique perspective on what would objectively be an unbelievably comfortable middle-class life. The challenges he considers himself to have gone through, and succeeded despite, would have been debilitating for a lesser alter-ego.
My favourite book is probably Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, brilliant for its sheer logical irrationality, although I’m also a big fan of Raymond Carver’s short stories (his use of language is fantastic, every word is crucial) and the work of Richard Brautigan.
I also have a soft spot for Tusk Tusk, my favourite book as a kid. Apparently I cried when I couldn’t afford it on our school trip to the library when I was five.
What did you buy with your first pay cheque?
My first pay check for any job at all was when I spent the summer working at a warehouse near my home in Abingdon. It came to about £200, and I’m fairly sure I spent it on Ben & Jerry’s and Playstation games. My first LSE pay cheque went on mildly more mature items including, but not limited to, knitwear, vegetables, and a hangover.
What is your favourite sport?
Football is the easy answer but I’m going to have to say American Football. My older brother got me into it in the 2005-06 season and I’ve only got keener since, becoming infinitely more enthusiastic about the statistical analytics key to the sport; I regularly used to stay up until 4am to watch late games on TV, but unfortunately full-time employment tends to ruin that sort of commitment.
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