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LSE leads £15 million consortium to improve social care practices
LSE’s Professor Martin Knapp has been reappointed Director of the School for
Social Care Research (SSCR), which has been awarded a second, five-year term
following a £15 million funding injection from the National Institute for
Health Research (NIHR).
Martin Knapp, Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Personal Social
Services Research Unit at LSE, will lead the new phase of SSCR from
2014-2019, working with colleagues from the Universities of Bristol, Kent,
Manchester and York.
The SSCR was established in May 2009 to conduct world-class research to
improve adult social care practices in England. Since its establishment it
has commissioned over 56 research studies involving more than 192 Fellows
and engaged with a vast number of organisations in the social care sector.
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Princess Anne visits ICEF Moscow
Last Tuesday, Princess Anne, who is Chancellor of the University of London,
visited the International College of Economics and Finance in Moscow on her
way to Sochi, where she is leading the UK delegation to the Olympic games.
ICEF is a college of the Moscow Higher School of Economics whose academic
programme is governed in co-operation with LSE. In welcoming the Princess
HSE President Alexander Shokhin paid tribute to the role of 'professors of
the London School of Economics' in contributing to the College's success in
integrating into the global academic community including through the
international recruitment of teachers.
Afterwards, ICEF Director Sergey Yakovlev and LSE ICEF Project Director
Richard Jackman introduced the Princess to ICEF teachers, students, alumni
and staff. Princess Anne was particularly interested in how co-operation
between HSE and LSE had influenced the transformation of educational
standards and the approach to learning at the HSE. She also asked students,
including some non-Russian students, about their reasons for choosing ICEF
and their academic and career plans.
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LSE research asks 'Is it time to introduce user charges for NHS
cancer patients?'
An NHS cancer specialist researching fiscal sustainability of health care
systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has
outlined in a new research paper published in the latest edition of the
Journal of Cancer Policy, the potential role for charging cancer patients
for some treatments to ensure the continuation of high quality care within
stagnating NHS budgets.
Dr Ajay Aggarwal, argues in the paper, co-authored with Professor Richard
Sullivan, Director of The Institute of Cancer Policy at King’s College
London, that “user charges could provide a potential means of sustaining
spending proportional to the projected rise in the number of cancer cases,
whilst embracing technological innovations which could potentially improve
outcomes.”
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More jobs, better jobs, needed to tackle poverty in cities
according to report co-authored by LSE academics
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on Cities, Growth and Poverty shows
that the quality and quantity of jobs is the most important factor linking
economic growth and poverty. Dr Neil Lee from LSE’s Department of Geography
and Environment led the study, along with LSE colleague Professor Andrés
Rodríguez-Pose and researchers from The Work Foundation, Coventry University
and the University of Warwick.
The report looked at the 60 largest cities in the UK in the period between
2000 and 2010 and how employment and output growth impacted on poverty.
Significant increases in economic disparities between British cities were
found in this period, with London and surrounding cities experiencing more
rapid growth than elsewhere.
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Safer Internet Day - LSE based research projects EU Kids
Online and Net Children Go Mobile publish new reports
Children’s perceptions of online risks and problematic situations may
greatly differ from those of adults, with the line between positive and
negative online experiences being very thin. This can lead to teenagers
participating in risky pursuits, such as sharing sexual pictures with
friends. These are some of the conclusions of a new report from EU Kids
Online, a research project based at LSE to mark yesterday's Safer Internet
Day.
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Smartphones and tablets enable children to engage in more online
opportunities, but are also exposing them to more risks. This is one of the
findings of a new report from Net Children Go Mobile, a research project
co-ordinated by LSE, published today to mark yesterday's Safer Internet Day.
The report finds that 51 per cent of children own a smartphone and 45 per
cent use it daily to go online. Twenty per cent own a tablet, but 30 per
cent use it on a daily basis to access the internet. Smartphone and tablet
users engage more in communication and entertainment activities, the report
finds. They also have a higher level of digital skills, safety skills and
communicative abilities. They are, however, also more likely to be exposed
to online risks.
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 Notices
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Return of #AsktheDirector
Do you have a question for the LSE Director?
Professor Craig Calhoun (@craigjcalhoun)
will be live on Twitter to answer your tweets from 3-4pm on Wednesday 26
February.
Tweet a question in advance, or during the ‘live hour’, using the hashtag #AsktheDirector.
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LSE Research Festival exhibition - message from Professor Julia Black
(pictured), pro-director for research
As many of you will be aware, the LSE Research Festival will be holding
its fourth annual exhibition this May. I would like to invite you to
participate in this initiative, which forms part of the School's efforts
to find fresh ways to engage with wider society and each other, and to
cultivate a research environment that supports creativity.
The exhibition will be held in LSE’s New Academic Building on
Thursday 8 May and submissions are welcomed from PhD students,
research staff and academic colleagues from LSE, UCL, SOAS, Cambridge
University and the Bloomsbury DTC. You can submit
posters,
photographs and
films until midnight on Friday 21 February, via the online
submissions forms.
Please do take part and join us in celebrating what makes LSE’s research
culture distinctive and imaginative.
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Library student survey
The Library has opened its
biannual student survey giving all LSE students the opportunity to have their
say on the Library and its services. The survey closes on Friday 28
February so complete it now and make sure your opinion is heard.
Take the survey here.
Everyone who
takes the short online survey will have a chance of winning an iPad
mini, a £50 Waterstones voucher or a £10 book token.
The Library is using LibQual+, a library survey tool provided by ARL,
which will provide evidence on students’ perception of Library space,
resources, and services, as well as enabling benchmarking of the Library’s
performance against other Academic Libraries and similar institutions. The
results will be available this summer.
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Undergraduates: build your own personal development record
LSE’s Personal Development Aide Memoire – PDAM – lets you create a
personalised record of your extra-curricular activities here at LSE, such as
student mentoring, work experience, events and workshops. Keeping track of
these – and the skills you develop with them, like team work, communication
and problem solving – will help you prepare successfully for job
applications, interviews and networking.
Your PDAM record is built in LSE for You and auto-populates from School
systems, as well as being manually adjustable. Find out more about PDAM and
start building your own record
here.
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LSE Asia Research Centre (ARC) – Thailand Government Scholarship
The LSE ARC – Thailand Government Scholarship scheme is a partnership
between the Royal Thai Embassy in London and the Asia Research Centre,
LSE. The Scholarship aims to promote better understanding of and about Thailand.
LSE students selected for the Scholarship will visit Thailand and spend
from one to two months in Thailand to research a project relevant to Thailand and
improve their understanding of the country and its culture. Scholars can
also submit a project on Thailand as
part of their programme at LSE. The application deadline is Monday 12 May.
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Saint Valentine's Day taken care of by the LSE Water Brigade...
If you're looming on the edge of a Valentine's Day fail, have no fear...
Today and tomorrow at their stall on Houghton Street, the LSE Water Brigade
is collecting orders for roses to be delivered on Valentine's Day.
The Water Brigade is part of the LSE Global Brigades and brings together
students from all backgrounds in a unique volunteering experience to help
communities in developing countries access sufficient clean water through
infrastructural development, water treatment, community leader training, and
education. This summer, the Brigade is heading to Ghana for a ten day
volunteering project and all proceeds from your Valentine's gesture will go
towards their work there.
To order you just need to give the name and contact of the person, or
persons(!), you'd like to receive a rose.
Decide if you want reveal your name or stay anonymous...and the Brigade will
contact your chosen one asking them to collect their rose on Valentine's Day
from Houghton Street.
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Focus group needed for research on how the PhD is examined
Gill Clarke, a PhD student at Oxford University, needs to convene a small
focus group of PhD students for her research into how the PhD is examined.
She is interested in what candidates think examiners are looking for when
they read the thesis and how they think examiners will judge their
performance in the viva. Overall, what are they expecting in a candidate who
is going to be awarded a PhD?
The purpose of the research is to discover what qualities examiners are
seeking in PhD candidates, if there are differences across subjects in how
examiners assess the PhD and whether interviews suggest changes to the PhD
examination might benefit future candidates and improve the process.
If you're interested in contributing to her research, please contact Gill
directly at
gill.clarke@gtc.ox.ac.uk
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LSE Treatment Clinic
The LSE Treatment Clinic, on the first floor of Tower Two, offers
professional treatments at reduced rates for all LSE students and staff,
including acupuncture, osteopathy and sports massage from practitioners
with over 20 years of experience between them.
Their combined expertise is effective in the treatment of pain relief,
including musculoskeletal pain, repetitive strain injury, tension
headaches, posture advice, sports injuries, anxiety, insomnia, migraine,
among many other ailments.
The practitioners are:
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Hanya Chlala - acupuncture available in a dual bed setting on Wednesdays
and Fridays
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Laura Dent - sports massage available on Mondays
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Tim Hanwell - osteopathy available on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Appointments are available Monday - Friday, 9am-6pm and can be booked online
here. All consultations
are strictly confidential and sessions will last between 30 and 60 minutes
depending upon the treatment.
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Santander comes to campus
The Kings Chambers G.01 computer room is being converted to a
Santander Bank which will open this summer. The computer room will close
on
Saturday 15 February. New computer facilities have been
introduced around campus to ensure students will still have access to
the equipment they require.
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Cycle4Schooling 2014
Cycle4Schooling 2014 is run by the Al-Madad Foundation -
a UK-based charity committed to the promotion of literacy and education
for disadvantaged children, with excellent initiatives currently
underway in Syria. On Saturday 17 May people will be
cycling from London to Oxford to help raise vital funds for essential
education projects undertaken by the Foundation in Aleppo, Syria which
will make a real difference to disadvantaged children who are currently
missing out on an education.
It's open to all levels, so whether a humble beginner or an avid
cyclist, there's room for everyone on this challenge! Register
here.
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Street Food at Café 54 in the NAB
Come and check out the new street food options whilst enjoying Café 54's
relaxed atmosphere which has recently added a weekly themed ‘food-on-the-go’
option to its delicious menu. Tickle your taste buds with some Gourmet
Bratwurst, satisfy your spicy side with some Mexican Chilli Nachos or
pretend it's summer with BBQ Pulled Pork Brioche.
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LSE Smart Mugs
Help reduce the negative environmental impact of using disposable cups by
purchasing an environmentally friendly smart mug from LSE Catering. Mugs are
just £8.50, which includes a tea, coffee or hot chocolate.
The distinctive black and red mugs are sold and accepted in:
• LSE Garrick
• Fourth Floor Café Bar
• Café 54
• Mezzanine Café
• The Bean Counter
• SDR Café Bar (members only)
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Training and development opportunities for students
Courses scheduled for next week include:
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Safe Posture and Avoiding RSI
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Advanced Presentation Skills
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Mental Health First Aid
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Communicating Assertively
Undergraduates can track skills they develop by taking part in activities
beyond academic studies using
PDAM.
These are just some 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.
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Technology tip!
Imagine: You want to know whether you have worked excess hours in a
given month and by how many. Or you need to know how much you will save when
making bulk purchases of various things from food to computer items or paper
clips to theatre tickets. Do you know how to work these situations out in
Excel? Attend IMT’s Sherlock’s Challenge to learn the skills necessary for
these and other very useful formulas and functions. You will develop the
practical skills necessary for everyday workplace, and personal,
calculations.
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In Conversation with...
To mark the completion of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, the first
brand new building on campus for more than 40 years, LSE and the LSESU are organising a series of ‘in conversation’ events with some of
the School's distinguished alumni, including Martin Lewis and Daniel
Finkelstein. They will take place in the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre to
celebrate this new chapter in LSE’s history and will be open to LSE
students, alumni and staff.
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European Commission’s Late Payment Information Campaign
Seminar - on Thursday 13
February at 9am-1pm in Europe House, 32 Smith
Square, SW1P 3EU
The Late Payment Information Campaign is a pan-European information
campaign financed by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for
Enterprise and Industry. It consists of a series of national seminars in
Member States of the European Union that will highlight the harm being done
to businesses as a result of late payment, and explain the new measures
being introduced to combat the issue. The Late Payment Information Campaign
aims to highlight the issue of late payment amongst public authorities,
businesses, members of the judiciary and other interested parties. It aims
to change the attitudes of public authorities and businesses to paying bills
on time, and to provide businesses with information on the new measures
being introduced to support prompt payment. Book
here.
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'An American Century or an Asian Century?' - on Tuesday 18
February at 6.30-8pm in the
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building with Professor John
Ikenberry, Professor Michael Cox, Professor Arne Westad and Dr Kirsten
Schulze
The great defining debate of the 21st century now seems to revolve around
one fundamental question: will the future belong to the new rising powers of
Asia revolving around the great economic power-house called China or the old
Transatlantic powers of the West still led by the United States?
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'Power-Sharing's Diminishing Returns: ethnic
accommodation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia' - on Tuesday
18 February at 6-7.30pm in COW 1.11, Cowdray House with Dr Cvete Koneska
Dr Cvete Koneska currently works as a Central and Southeast Europe analyst
for Control Risks Group in London, advising companies and governments on
political and security risks in the region. Her book After Ethnic
Conflict: policy making in Bosnia and Macedonia will be published later
this year.
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'Gujarat: human rights violations, impunity and the Indian General
Elections' - on Wednesday 19 February at 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh Zayed
Theatre, New Academic Building with Dr Shakuntala Banaji, Ms Carla Ferstman,
Mr Suresh Grover and Dr Biju Mathew
Panellists will explore questions related to impunity and human rights
following the ferocious violence that erupted in the Indian state of Gujarat
in 2002, with the connivance of the state. The violence resulted in 1,500
deaths and the displacement of up to 200,000 Indian citizens, mostly Muslim.
It followed an incident in which almost 60 Indian citizens, mostly Hindu,
were burnt alive aboard a train in the town of Godhra in Gujarat. Numerous
human rights organisations and international bodies have repeatedly alleged
the involvement of the Gujarat state in the carnage, including the alleged
complicity of its chief minister, the BJP politician, Narendra Modi.
Contributors will discuss how the Indian media have presented Narendra Modi,
the international human rights context, and current human rights legal
cases, including ones in which UK citizens were killed during the pogrom.
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'Experiencing Revolution: the case of Iran'
- on Wednesday 19 February at 6.30-8pm in Room 1.04, New Academic
Building with Dr Naghmeh Sohrabi, Brandeis University
On 11 February 1979, a revolution was declared in Iran to the surprise of
many observers and participants. But what does a revolution feel like to
those in its midst before the term is even used to define this great
upheaval? Using archival documents and ethnographic interviews, the
theoretical and empirical issues of bridging the gap between historians’
understanding of the revolution and the ways it was experienced are
explored.
Free and open to all, entry is on a first come, first served basis.
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'War and Peace in Time of Ecological Conflicts' -
on Thursday 20 February at 6.30-8pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
with Professor Bruno Latour from Sciences Po, Paris and LSE Centennial
Professor in the Department of Sociology
Although it is still useful to insist on the distinction between science and
politics, the scale and importance of ecological mutations make it more and
more difficult to use it effectively. The problem is that the alternative
requires a redefinition of the two terms "science" and "politics". The
lecture will explore in which way an alternative definition could help us to
cope with the geopolitical debates that will become more and more intense in
the future.
Free and open to all, entry is on a first come, first served basis.
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'Labour Market Participation among
Palestinian Women: religiosity or "rational modernity"?'
- on Thursday
20 February at noon-1.30pm in Room 3.21, Old Building with Dr Randa Nasser,
Birzeit University
Dr Randa Nasser will discuss the findings of her study seeking to examine
the factors that may influence labour market behaviour of women in
Palestine. While both “Western” and local Palestinian feminist researchers
argue that the Islamic religion, people’s religiosity, and the resulting
patriarchal ethos explain low labour participation among Arab and Muslim
women.
Free and open to all, entry is on a first come, first served basis.
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London 2030 Summit
Join the LSESU London Society for the London 2030 Summit this March
- a two day event held at LSE which brings together current decision
makers to discuss London's future. The Summit will focus on four topics:
London in the World, Business, Politics and Society and Run London.
Panellists include, Sadiq Khan MP, Neil Jameson, CEO of CitizensUK and
Jamal Edwards, founder of SBTV. Tickets will be available and can be bought
here or on Houghton Street.
The LSESU London Society is currently sponsored by: Google, Harvard
Business Review and Boston Consulting Group.
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LSESU Emerging Markets Forum
Registration is now open for the fifth annual LSESU's Emerging Markets
Forum, held this year on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 March at the
Millennium Mayfair Hotel is now open. The Forum is one of the world’s most
reputed two day student conferences dedicated to discussing topical themes
in emerging markets; from politics, economics and finance to natural
resources, entrepreneurship and social development.
Over 200 top industry leading experts have previously spoken at the Forum
and it regularly attracts widespread media coverage.
This year, top speakers include: Mohammed Dewji, founder of METL Group and
Tanzanian CCM Politician and MP, Carl-Henric Svanberg, Chairman of BP and
Volvo, Mick Davis, founder of X2 Partners and former CEO of Xstrata and
Periso Arida, founder of BTG Pactual and former Governor of the Central Bank
of Brazil.
The Forum is open to and of interest to students from all disciplines.
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second interview
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with.....Moses Mpungu
My name is Mpungu Moses, I am currently pursuing a Masters degree in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies. I was born, raised and studied in Kampala, Uganda. I graduated in Bachelor of Arts in Development Economics in 2011. Before I came to the UK, I was working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uganda where I hope I will return at the end of my programme at LSE.
As well as a career at the Ministry, I would like to contribute to improving the social welfare in my country by ensuring social benefits to the elderly, unemployed youth and other groups such as orphans are prioritised. Living in the UK has opened my eyes to how an ideal Uganda should be in the next 50 years. Communicating social safety measures is one idea I would like to emulate from the UK, though there are a lot of bottle necks to its implementation in my country. It may not sound feasible today, but with proper design and implementation it could help Uganda and other low income countries move to another level.
Which is your favourite place on the LSE campus?
Wright's Bar and the Quad.
If you could choose any guest for any LSE event, who would you choose?
Dr Ken Shadlen.
What is the first news story you remember catching your attention?
About Dr Stuart Gordon’s adventure in Afghanistan.
What is the last film you saw at the cinema?
To be honest, the cinema is not my thing; I'm actually a soccer fan and that takes most of my interest. However I do take some time off and watch 'Series' but in my room or at a friend’s place.
What are your hobbies?
When I was a bit younger, a few years ago, I used to play soccer with my colleagues on the local pitch. However, due to my tight work schedule, I find myself sometimes working the whole week without a rest. So now, I go to the beach when I get some free time or go to a pub and watch my favourite club Manchester United, though that's mostly on weekends.
If you were offered the trip of a lifetime, where would you go and why?
This is a tricky question but, before I came here, my childhood dream was to visit London or New York because, coming from an Anglophone country (Uganda), the British and American cultures influence the daily lives of very many people, including my own. However, I would like to visit North Korea one day because sometimes many countries are portrayed in a negative way, when they might be the opposite. For example, last year I got a chance to visit Iran and I learned that Iranians were welcoming, peaceful, loving and very educated people, which wasn't what the popular international media was depicting.
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