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14 May 2014 |
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LSE ranked as top university in London
The first major university guide of the year has ranked LSE as the third
best university in the UK and London’s leading institution, maintaining its
excellent position from last year.
The Complete University Guide also places LSE in the top ten for 11
of the 12 subjects it offers, and it is once again rated as the top
place in the UK to study Social Policy.
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LSE Volunteer of the Year announced Connor Russell, a third
year undergraduate studying Mathematics and Economics has been named the LSE
Volunteer of the Year for his excellent work with
IntoUniversity.
The annual award is presented to an LSE student who has demonstrated
exceptional dedication to volunteering. It was presented to Connor at a
celebratory event held at LSE last night (Tuesday 13 May).
Jess Dunning, Volunteer Development Manager at IntoUniversity said, “We
can’t praise Connor enough for his volunteering work with IntoUniversity.
Connor has shown a high level of commitment to our opportunities and ethos
during his three years as a Mentor, Academic Support Tutor, Ambassador and
Buddy, contributing well over 100 volunteering hours. He really has gone
above and beyond as an IntoUniversity volunteer.”
Spires, a South London based
charity that helps hundreds of homeless and disadvantaged people all year
round, was also named a winner, being named LSE Voluntary Organisation of
the Year. Rebecca Sunter, Volunteer Coordinator, accepted the award on
behalf of Spires at last night’s event.
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Saw Swee Hock Student Centre named RIBA
London Building of the Year The Saw Swee Hock Student Centre (SAW),
the first new building commissioned by LSE in over 40 years, has won the
RIBA London Building of the Year Award 2014.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) London Building of the
Year award is presented to a building that demonstrates exceptional quality
and innovative architecture within the capital. The School was also named
the winner of a RIBA Regional Award and was runner-up in the Client of the
Year category at the awards ceremony on Tuesday 6 May.
As the winner of the regional award, SAW will now be considered for the
highly coveted RIBA National Award which recognises exceptional architecture
across the nation.
Julian Robinson, Director of Estates at LSE, said: “We are delighted to have
won this prestigious award and for the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre to be
recognised by RIBA not only as a landmark building for LSE, but for the
capital."
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LSE Green Week
The start of summer term saw the return of another successful Green Week on
campus, with free events to promote sustainability, energy and resource
conservation, carbon reduction and biodiversity. Despite the
temperamental weather, staff and students got involved and found out
more about the School’s sustainability projects. There were a host of
activities, from a bike maintenance workshop, a solar panel display, an
opportunity to taste some LSE honey along with a display of a morning’s
worth of waste on Houghton Street. If you missed out on anything, keep
an eye on the sustainability website for future events and projects.
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Northumberland House wins Green Tourism Business Scheme Award
Northumberland House has just received a Gold Award from the Green
Tourism Business Scheme, a globally respected sustainable tourism
programme, in recognition of the Northumberland House team’s commitment
to the School’s Environmental Policy and Sustainability Action Plan. The
award also recognises the progress the Northumberland House team has
made since 2012, when it was given a Silver Award.
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LSE student in top three of Bloomberg Aptitude Test in March
William Smith, a postgraduate student in LSE’s International
Development Department, was in the top three of all EMEA students to
take the Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) in March. The BAT is a
prestigious test which aims to help students and recent alumni connect
efficiently and fairly with financial employers worldwide. Any LSE
student can take the test for free. Register for the next LSE BAT
session on Wednesday 11 June at 6pm at the Bloomberg Office in London
here. For more information about the BAT, read LSE BAT ambassador
Katharina Greve’s 60 second interview
here.
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Library launches access to BoB, an online media archive of over one
million programmes
LSE students and staff now have access to
BoB (Box of Broadcasts), a shared
online TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further
education institutions. BoB enables viewers to choose and record any
broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels, including BBC, ITV
and Channel 4.
The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely and added to BoB’s
growing media archive of over one million programmes, with all content
shared by users across subscribing institutions.
The Library purchased its subscription for BoB following a consultation
with the LSE academic community.
To
sign up to BoB and start using the service, use your LSE account to
login
here.
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Nicholas Stern elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on
Climate Change and the Environment and IG Patel Chair of Economics and
Government at LSE, has been elected as a Fellow of the prestigious Royal
Society, the national academy of science in the UK, in recognition of his
ground-breaking work on the economics of climate change, his distinguished
career in mathematical economics and work with industry and government.
The Royal Society Fellowship is made up of the most eminent scientists,
engineers and technologists in the UK and Commonwealth. Professor Stern, who
is also the President of the British Academy, joins an eminent list of
current Fellows including Stephen Hawking, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Harry
Kroto and Tim Berners-Lee.
Professor Stern said, “I am very honoured by my
election to the Royal Society, which is the world’s oldest scientific
academy in continuous existence. The Royal Society was founded in the 17th
century at the start of the modern scientific revolution, and its Fellows
have included many of the scientists who have shaped today’s world, from
Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin to Tim Berners-Lee. I am particularly
honoured to have my work as an economist recognised by the Royal Society,
which I think indicates that the economic and social sciences share many key
principles with the natural sciences, such as a respect for evidence. I look
forward to joining the other Fellows in serving the Society and to
strengthening further its links with the British Academy.”
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Library awarded EU funding - FOSTER project
The Library has successfully bid for funding from the FP7 EU-funded
project, FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) in
partnership with King’s College London and QMUL libraries. FOSTER has
awarded the Library €5,000 to run a joint training event for PhD students
and early career researchers on open practices – from the benefits of making
research freely available via open access to research data management best
practices. The joint event will be hosted in September 2014.
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Queen’s Honours nominations
Nominations are invited for the Queen’s Honours, which include MBE, OBE,
CBE. Do you know someone who has given outstanding service to the School, as
a member of staff or in a voluntary capacity? Someone who has:
- made a real impact on the School and/or students
- gained the respect of their peers
- changed things for the better at the School
- demonstrated innovation or
- brought distinction to British life and enhanced its reputation
through their work at the School?
Awards channelled through the School should be for services to higher
education, with particular reference to the School. The deadline for suggestions is Friday 27 June.
Contact Joan Poole with any
queries at j.a.poole@lse.ac.uk or
ext 7825.
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MSc Dissertation Week, 30 June to 4 July
Bookings are now open for this year’s MSc Dissertation Week – a series
of free events and workshops that will help you plan and write your
dissertation. Sessions include structuring your dissertation, making an
original argument, and a writing retreat. Find out more and book places
at
MSc Dissertation Week.
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Systemic Risk Centre masterclass series
The Systemic Risk Centre (SRC) is holding a masterclass on Thursday 29
May entitled ‘risk management issues in central counterparty clearing’.
This one day course will be given by Priyanka Malhotra and Pedro Gurrola
(both of the Bank of England) and held at LSE. Starting with an introduction to
the clearing process and central counterparties (CCPs), the course will
delve into the finer points and challenges encountered both conceptually and
in practice. The course will cover solvency and liquidity requirements,
stress testing, margining methodologies, intra-day margin erosion,
concentration risk, collateral management, defaulter pays versus mutualised
models and recovery plans.
This course is free to attend and open to all. Further details and
registration are available
here.
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Library's
LSERO celebrates top five most popular pieces of research to mark start
of LSE Research Festival 2014
To mark the start of the
LSE Research Festival
2014, Lucy Ayre, manager of LSE Research Online, the institutional
repository of research output produced by LSE Staff, has written
a blog post looking at the five most popular pieces of Open Access
LSE research since its launch in 2005, all available to download from
the site.
In December 2013, LSERO reached the milestone of
10,000 Open Access papers available in the repository, including
articles, working papers, datasets, books, conference items, multi-media
and research blog posts.
To deposit your work in LSE Research Online, email
Lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk.
See the outputs of the LSE Research Festival 2013
here.
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Getting Published
LSE is pleased to once again offer a series of workshops on getting your
work published. Open to PhD students, these sessions will take you from
planning a publication strategy, through putting together a draft book
proposal with expert help, to a final event when you can meet publishers
and present your proposal to them. Details and booking for each session
are on the links below:
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Call for submissions – LSE Perspectives
Taken some artistic photos you’d like to share? Send them to
Lseperspectives@lse.ac.uk
before Thursday 22 May and your photos could feature in the June
edition of Perspectives.
See the
website for more information about submitting your images, or the
previous galleries can be found on the Perspectives
homepage.
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Feel Good Food Day today As part of the School’s
Wellbeing Campaign, LSE Catering will be taking part in ‘Eat Well Wednesday’
today. The Fourth Floor Restaurant is holding a ‘Feel Good Food Day’
where a ‘Feel Good Food’ world cuisine menu is offering reduced meat and
increased vegetarian alternatives. LSE Catering outlets around Campus are
also promoting the campaign and showcasing their healthy food and drink
options.
As well as raising awareness and promoting the sustainable aspects of the
food LSE Catering serves, the team hopes to show 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. More
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LSE Chill needs your talent
Are you a musician, group, comic or singer looking for somewhere to perform?
Then
LSE Chill needs you! LSE Chill is an open session for staff and students
held on the last Friday of every month from 6pm in the fourth floor café
bar, Old Building.
Interested? What are you waiting for? Email
arts@lse.ac.uk with your name and act details. Bring us your
talent and we'll provide the stage. The next LSE Chill night is Friday 30
May.
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Technology tip - Encryption
If you are handling particularly sensitive data, you may wish to further
secure it and prevent unauthorised access by using encryption. Encryption is
a way of encoding information so that it cannot be read without the
appropriate key to decode it. It is a way of rendering files, or hard disks
extremely secure.
You can encrypt information using:
You can also encrypt information on Apple and Android devices. For
further advice, see IMT Information Security’s
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 What's
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'The Towers Debate: Does London need more tall buildings?' - on
Monday 2 June at 6.30pm in the Peacock Theatre with Nicholas Boys
Smith, Paul Finch, Piers Gough, Simon Jenkins, Rowan Moore, Tony
Travers, Nicky Gavron and Riz Lateef
There are now proposals for over 230 new tall buildings to be built in
London over the next decade, 80 per cent of which are residential. As
London’s population continues to expand, is this high-rise vision of
London's future the right one for our city and its people?
Tickets will be available from Thursday 22 May for LSE staff and
students.
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'Risk Savvy: how to make good decisions' - on Wednesday 21 May
at 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Professor Gerd
Gigerenzer (pictured) and Professor Jason Alexander
Remember the volcanic ash cloud over Iceland? The subprime disaster?
What about mad cow disease? Each new crisis makes us worry until we
start worrying about the next one. When something goes wrong, we are
told that the way to prevent further crises is through better
technology, more laws, and bigger bureaucracy. How to protect ourselves
from the threat of terrorism? Homeland security, full body scanners,
further sacrifice of individual freedom. How to counteract exploding
costs in health care? Tax hikes, rationalisation, better genetic
markers. One idea is absent from these lists: risk-savvy citizens.
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'An Economy of Temporary Possession' - on Thursday 22 May at
6-7pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Dr Rebecca Empson
In this lecture Dr Empson outlines an economy based on the temporary,
rather than outright possession of resources and commodities.
Ethnographic evidence shows that such transient forms of possession can
come to shape the very financial forms we might have assumed were
incompatible with them. Mongolians located at the periphery of financial
centres thereby come to shape wider economic practices that impact upon
what we have understood capitalism to be.
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'The Social Conditions for Innovation: dissonance for discovery'
- on Thursday 22 May at 6.30-8pm in the New Theatre, East Building
with Professor David Stark
Professor Stark discusses the conditions for innovation; analysis of
dissonance, including the necessity of a healthy critical social science
and humanities to innovation.
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'Poverty, Justice and Development' - on Thursday 22 May at
6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB with Professor David Hulme,
Professor Thomas Pogge (pictured)
What do we owe to the global poor? David Hulme and Thomas Pogge will
discuss questions of global poverty from the point of view of
development studies and political philosophy.
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'The Macroeconomics of the Gulf' - on
Thursday 15 May at 4.30-6pm in Room G.03, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
with Raphael Espinoza, IMF
Raphael Espinoza's talk will analyse the challenges created by the
changing economies of the Gulf states over the last decade, spurred by
high oil prices and ambitious diversification plans. This event is free
and open to all on a first come first served basis.
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'Oman's Foreign Policy Under Sultan Qaboos: independent, but to what
extent?' - on
Thursday 22 May at 4.30-6pm in the Alumni Theatre, NAB with Dr
Marc Valeri
Oman’s foreign policy under Qaboos is usually considered to be pragmatic
and independent, epitomised by its announcement that it would not join a
hypothetical Gulf union. Dr Valeri will explore how this widely held view
should not obscure the fact that the perpetuation of this foreign policy
has necessitated an unquestioned political and economic dependence
towards London and Washington. This event is free and open to all on a
first come first served basis.
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'Fixing Europe Dialogues' series double book launch - on
Tuesday 27 May at 6.30-8pm with authors John Peet and Hugo Dixon in the
Old Theatre, Old Building
John Peet and Hugo Dixon will present and discuss the themes of
their two new books, respectively titled Unhappy Union: how the Euro
Crisis - and Europe - can be fixed and The In/Out Question - why
Britain should stay in the EU and make it better.
The event is free and open to all with no ticket required and entry on a
first come, first served basis.
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'Forty Years after the Collapse of the Greek Junta: reflections on
its historical significance' - on Wednesday 28 May at 6.30pm in the
Wolfson Theatre, NAB with Professor Richard Clogg, Professor Evanthis
Hatzivassiliou, Professor Constantinos Tsoukalas and Professor Kevin
Featherstone
2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the collapse of the Greek Junta and its
democratic transition. July 1974 and the events that followed were a pivotal
moment for modern Greece - the inclusiveness of its political system; the
return of many from the diaspora; the creation of new political parties; a
shift in its foreign policy; and a path towards Europe. The panel will
explore the issues and legacies that marked the end of the Colonels' regime
and relate them to recent events.
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Equality and Diversity events
The end of the academic year is
approaching but there’s still plenty to get involved in with the
Equality and Diversity team. There is an exciting films programme on
offer, the Gender Institute is celebrating its 20th anniversary with
public lectures and discussions, the Department of Management is holding
a conference on diversity and, as usual, there are networking
opportunities, workshops and sessions for staff and students.
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 60
second interview
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with.....Katharina Greve
I am a postgraduate student studying Management, Organisations and Governance, and as Student Representative of my programme, I ensure my fellow students have the best possible learning experience here at LSE. Being the Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) Ambassador also allows me to highlight opportunities for students through the Bloomberg Talent Search which connects students and recent graduates to Bloomberg’s network of more than 20,000 employers.
Please tell us about the Bloomberg Aptitude Test and your role as an Ambassador.
Bloomberg Institute is the educational division of Bloomberg LP, the world’s leading financial data and news provider. The Institute works with more than 3,500 universities offering the BAT to help students and recent alumni connect with financial employers. As BAT Ambassador, I promote the test to LSE students.
The BAT takes two hours and covers a range of subjects to evaluate financial knowledge and aptitude and career skills to identify students' strengths and the areas of finance which may suit them. Everyone who takes the BAT gets feedback on their strengths and weaknesses whilst also anonymously marketing themselves to over 20,000 employers via the Bloomberg Talent Search. The BAT exposes people to great job opportunities around the world as it matches a student’s skills to an employer’s needs.
All LSE students can take the BAT free - 215 students have taken the test this academic year and an incredible 384 BAT connections have been made which means that on average every LSE test taker received more than one employer request to discuss opportunities. The results show LSE students are outstanding in Economics, New Analysis and Maths. In the past few months there have been two fantastic performances with an LSE student ranked in the Bloomberg Hall of Fame for both January and March.
I believe LSE students have the skills to be regularly listed in the top rankings of Bloomberg’s Hall of Fame and I’d like to invite everyone to join our next LSE BAT session which is on Wednesday 11 June at 6pm at the Bloomberg Office in London. All test takers receive a free six month subscription to Bloomberg Briefs (valued at $2,000) which is a premium industry newsletter and ideal preparation for job interviews.
What would you do if you were LSE Director for a day?
I would arrange a meeting with all LSE academics to discuss a very controversial topic.
If you won a substantial amount on the Lottery, what would you do with the money?
I would donate a great amount of money because not everyone is lucky enough to have what I have. Then I would use the rest of the money to found a company.
What is your favourite form of
exercise?
I love playing football. I joined
the LSE women's football club which
is not only a fun and social team
but also a successful team that is
currently ranked first in the
league. The sport goes beyond
physical exercise though; football
strengthens the team spirit and is a
good balance to my university work.
If you could live anywhere in the
world, where would you choose and
why?
The world has so much to offer that
it is difficult to narrow it down to
one place but I really enjoyed the
year I spent living in Florida. The
state offers fantastic beaches,
national parks, great weather, and
is close to the Caribbean islands.
What is your favourite childhood
memory?
My favourite childhood memory is
getting a pony for Christmas. ‘Snow
White’ had brown and white patches,
was only 93cm tall and had a red
bow around her neck.
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