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15 October 2014 |
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The Saw Swee Hock Student Centre (SAW) wins LEAF Award The SAW
was shortlisted for two categories in the 2014 LEAF (Leading European
Architects Forum) Awards: Best Sustainable Development of the Year and
Public Building of the Year.
The SAW was beaten to the Best Sustainable Development award by One
Central Park, Sydney an amazing project by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW
Architects, which was also named as the overall winner. However, it did win
the Public Building of the Year award.
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The Stirling Prize, the BBC and the Saw Swee Hock
Student Centre
The BBC is currently running a series of online video featuring each of
the six buildings shortlisted for the 2014 RIBA Stirling Prize. The
films are also being shown on the BBC News Channel.
An online poll was launched on Friday, and ends today, inviting people
to vote for their favourite on the shortlist with the winner to be
announced to coincide with the Stirling Prize announcement tomorrow.
Take a look and vote for your favourite (SAW!)
here.
The winner of the 2014 RIBA Stirling Prize will be announced live on BBC
News Channel at around 8.20pm tomorrow.
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World Mental Health Day at LSE
Last Friday, the Student Wellbeing Service ran a stall outside the Saw Swee
Hock Student Centre to promote the 'Time To Change' campaign that aims to
end mental health discrimination. This year’s campaign is 'It’s time to
talk' which looks to encourage everyone to have a conversation about mental
health. One in four of us will experience a mental health problem in any
year. Despite being a common issue, it can be hard to talk about. This
campaign aims to help break down barriers and
end the stigma and discrimination of mental health issues by talking about
them.
People who come to the Student Wellbeing Service's stall were asked to
complete a 'Keep Calm And…' poster, giving ideas of how they manage their
mental health and wellbeing. 87 people shared how they relax and maintain
their mental health and wellbeing, with ideas ranging from 'have a cup of
tea', 'take a deep breath', 'dance', 'get lots of sleep' and 'study'!
The Student Wellbeing Service also publicised the support available at LSE,
including the Student Counselling Service, Disability and Wellbeing Service,
Careers and the Peer Support Service, with a range of staff from these
departments spending time at the stall.
The stall was a great success and lots of fun, particularly as the Student
Wellbeing Service was working alongside the Student Union's 'living room'
where they were asking people to say a few words about mental health over
tea and cake on the sofa.
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‘Relove’ raises £900 for student green projects
The start of the month saw the return of another successful Relove event to
Houghton Street and Bankside Hall of Residence. Relove collects items
donated by students moving out of halls, and gives them a new home by
selling them on to new students.
£900 was raised for the LSE Sustainable Projects Fund, which supports
student and staff projects to improve sustainability on campus. Relove also
saved around eight tonnes of items from going to waste, minimising LSE’s
environmental impact by reducing waste at source and providing affordable
items for students. Refrigerators of all shapes and sizes proved to be the
best seller at Bankside Hall of residence, along with stationery, books and
notice boards!
A big thank you to all the students who volunteered on the Relove stalls
this year! If you want to get involved with sustainability projects at LSE,
visit the Sustainable LSE
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 Notices
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#AsktheDirector is back
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 22
October.
Feel free to ask him a question in advance, or during the ‘live hour’, using
the hashtag #AsktheDirector.
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LSE History blog
The LSE History blog has been transformed. Take a peek at its new look,
subscribe to its posts, and read the latest about the wise works of
William Beveridge in his addresses to new students at the start of the
academic year during his time as Director of LSE in the 20s and 30s
here.
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Orientation Survey 2014 - now live!
The Orientation Feedback Survey is your chance to shape and improve the
future of LSE's Orientation Week, plus there’s a chance to win a £100
Amazon voucher! The deadline for completing the survey is Friday 24
October. Take the survey
here.
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International Growth Centre's new blog and website
The International Growth Centre has launched a new website and blog to
help their work promoting sustainable growth in developing countries by
providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Take a
look at them here.
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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 by
Tuesday 28 October and your photos could be displayed in the November
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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Morocco Trek 2015 - contributing
to Cancer Research
Tick something great off your bucket list, and raise money for a great
cause at the same time.
If you love travelling and enjoy the outdoors, trekking in the Atlas
Mountains in Morocco could be the perfect next challenge. The Morocco Trek
2015 has been put together by Worldwide Cancer Research and Choose A
Challenge and gives you the chance to experience a beautiful place whilst
helping cancer research projects worldwide.
Participants have to raise £1,200 to join this five day hike in a land of
incredible history and culture with a unique mix of Berber, Arab and
European influences. The trek travels through the High Atlas with the chance
to explore the rocky gorges and high altitude settlements that have
populated this area for centuries. The most trying part of the trip will be
the dawn ascent of Mount Toubkal, North Africa’s highest peak which is over
four thousand, one hundred and sixty seven metres above sea level.
Come along to the
information session on Thursday 16 October at 5pm in Room G.17,
Lincoln's Inn Fields.
More Email Leyla
for more information on
l.m.nor-binti-mukhlis@lse.ac.uk.
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The Library opens extra study space for LSE students in
the Course Collection
The Library has opened 36 additional study spaces in the Course
Collection on the ground floor of the Library.
The changes came following feedback from LSE students to increase the
amount of quiet study space available to them. The Library has listened and
as a result there are now 56 seats in the Library’s Course Collection area,
giving LSE students priority use of a substantial new area dedicated to
quiet study.
The space was made available by removing unused and out-of-date material,
although copies of all titles within the Course Collection have been
retained and remain available to students.
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LSE Chill
An extra special LSE Chill will take place on Friday 24 October from
2-4pm to celebrate the Saw Swee Hock opening ceremony. Three performers
will take to the stage to perform their music.
Check out the
LSE Chill webpage for more information about the acts and to see the
dates for upcoming Chill events.
If you are interested in performing at future LSE Chill sessions then please
contact arts@lse.ac.uk with your name
and details of your act.
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Training and development opportunities for students
Courses scheduled for next week include:
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. More
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Turbocharge your MS Office skills in practical
workshops
Need to be able to use Excel in a more sophisticated way? Want to develop a
more engaging way of using PowerPoint? Need to work with long Word documents
more efficiently?
Check out our
IT Practical Workshops. These sessions flip traditional training on its
head by presenting learners with the problem to be solved and encouraging
them to use their prior experience, real-world problem solving tools, and
their fellow course mates to find the solutions in short, focused sessions.
Trainers are on hand to guide and answer questions.
If you have an IT question, check out
our online guides and FAQs or attend our weekly
Software Surgeries. A huge range of additional computer training
resources is available via the
IT Training website. Subscribe to the
IT Training mailing list to stay informed of upcoming courses and
workshops.
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 What's
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'Buying Time: the delayed crisis of democratic capitalism' - on
Monday 20 October at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building with
Professor Wolfgang Streeck (pictured) and Colin Crouch
The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the
world on tenterhooks. The gravity of the situation is matched by a
general paucity of understanding about what is happening and how it
started.
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'In Search of Human Uniqueness' - on Monday 20 October at
6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building with Professor
Michael Tomasello (pictured), Professor Rita Astuti, Dr Alex Gillespie
An exploration of what distinguishes humans from other great apes in
terms of their cognitive and social capacities.
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'Do We Need to Shake Up the Social Sciences?' - on Tuesday 21
October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
with Professor Nicholas Christakis, Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Dr
Amanda Goodall (pictured), Professor Andrew Oswald
‘Yes’, according to Nicholas Christakis. He wrote in the New York
Times: ‘Taking a page from Darwin, the natural sciences are evolving
with the times. In contrast, the social sciences have stagnated. They
offer essentially the same set of academic departments[…]This is not
only boring but also counterproductive.’ Is Christakis right?
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'The Radical Transparency of the American Republic' - on
Tuesday 21 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with
Professor Matthew Connelly
For most of its history, the U.S. government’s commitment to
transparency stood as a radical counter-example to the rest of the
world. Washington, Madison, and Lincoln were in some ways as radical as
Julian Assange in their commitment to transparency. During the Civil
War, one hundred and fifty years before Wikileaks, the State Department
routinely made public normally secret diplomatic correspondences. More
recent invocations of national security stand in contrast with America’s
founders and their principles.
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'The Lakatos Award Lectures' - on Wednesday 22 October at
6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House with Professor Laura
Ruetsche, Dr David Wallace
Joint winners of the 2013 Lakatos Award, Professor Ruetsche will
speak on 'Developing the Scientific Image: The Quantum Darkroom' and Dr
Wallace will speak on 'The Emergent Multiverse'.
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'A Changing World and China' - on Wednesday 22 October at
6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building with
Ambassador Wu Jian Min
The rise of China has been one of the most important developments in
global affairs. Despite China’s growing interactions with the rest of
the world, the country’s foreign policy is largely dictated by domestic
politics and further economic reform. Distinguished Chinese diplomat Wu
Jian Min will explore China’s international strategy and what this means
for the country’s relations with the rest of the world.
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'Happiness by Design' - on Wednesday 22 October at 6.30pm in
the Old Theatre, Old Building with Professor Paul Dolan
Professor Paul Dolan will define happiness in terms of experiences
of pleasure and purpose. Behavioural science tells us that most of what
we do is not so much thought about; rather, it simply comes about. So by
clever use of priming, defaults, commitments and social norms, you can
become a whole lot happier without actually having to think very hard
about it.
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'Global News Media: the next horizon' - on Thursday 23 October
at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building with Andrew
Miller
Andrew Miller will address the challenges facing the news-media amid
continued technological upheaval, changing consumption habits and the
emergence of new competitors.
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Book launch: The Social Life of Money - on Thursday 23
October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre with Professor Nigel Dodd
(pictured) and Professor Keith Hart
Professor Nigel Dodd, Department of Sociology, one of the world’s
leading sociologists of money, will launch his new book The Social
Life of Money with a public lecture followed by a reception where
the book will be on sale. The respondent is Keith Hart, Centennial
Professor of Economic Anthropology in the Department of International
Development. Free and open to all, seats on first come first served
basis.
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'Art and Activism: reflections on the anti-apartheid struggle and two
decades of South African democracy' - on Thursday 23 October at
6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House with Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela has long spoken out about South Africa’s struggle for
civil rights. His talk will be about arts and activism, reflecting on
the role that he and other artists, particularly those in exile, played
in the anti-apartheid movement.
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A Lecture by the Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vučić - on
Monday 27 October
Tickets will be released on Monday 20 October
Aleksandar Vučić has been Prime Minister of Serbia since 27 April 2014.
He is the Leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and has
previously served as Minister of Information and Minister of Defence.
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A speech by Minouche Shafik, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
- on Monday 27 October
Tickets will be released on Tuesday 21 October
Nemat (Minouche) Shafik became Deputy Governor of the Bank of
England on 1 August 2014. She is Deputy Governor for Markets and
Banking. She represents the Bank in international groups and
institutions, including as G7 Deputy and in the Bank's engagement with
the IMF, overseas central banks and the Bank for International
Settlements. Dr Shafik sits on the Monetary Policy Committee, and
attends the Financial Policy Committee and the Bank's Court of
Directors.
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A Lecture by the Slovakian Prime Minister, Robert Fico - on
Thursday 30 October
Tickets will be released on Wednesday 22 October
Robert Fico is currently serving his second term as the Prime
Minister of the Slovak Republic. He is also the author of several
professional articles and books in the field of criminal law, as well as
a lecturer at universities in the Slovak Republic and abroad.
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Book launch: The Impact of European Employment Strategy in Greece
and Portugal - on Monday 20 October at 6pm in the
Cañada Blanch Room COW 1.11, Cowdray House
with Sotirios Zartaloudis
By focusing on three key areas of employment policy – public
employment services, gender equality policies and 'flexicurity' – in
Greece and Portugal, this study provides a model to explore how European
Employment Strategy can influence member states' employment policy.
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ALPHA launch: Ageing, Lifecourse and Population Health Analysis -
on Friday 24 October at 2-6pm in Room 9.04, Tower One
The goal of LSE's ALPHA research unit is to undertake and promote
research on lifecourse, socioeconomic and intergenerational influences on
individual and population health. LSE ALPHA brings together three research
programmes funded by the European Research Council. Join their launch to
hear more about LSE ALPHA, these research programmes and a speech from
Professor Lisa Berkman. Register for the event
here.
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Social Psychology Open Lectures: 'Human consciousness and the social
self' - on Tuesday 20 October at 2.15-3.45pm in the Old Theatre with
Dr Caroline Howarth
How do we think? How does human consciousness develop? What is the
connection between human consciousness, culture and social change?
This lecture focuses on the development of human consciousness and the
socially constructed and temporal nature of self, drawing on the works of
Mead and Goffman, before considering the impact of rapid cultural change on
the self and discussing links between human consciousness, relations of
power and agency.
Free and open to all, entry on a first come first served basis.
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'Political orientations and internal power-struggles in the
nationalist movement in Kosovo, 1968-2008' - on Tuesday 21 October at
6pm in the Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House with Dr Gëzim Krasniqi and Dr
James Ker-Lindsay
Dr Gëzim Krasniqi is the Alexander Nash Fellow at the School of Slavonic
and East European Studies, University College London. His main research
interests include politics, nationalism, nationalist movements and
citizenship in South East Europe.
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'The political economy of finance, energy and security in the UAE:
Between the Majilis and the market' - on Tuesday 21 October at 6.30pm
in Room 9.04, Tower Two with Dr Karen Young IDr Karen Young will
summarise her new book, The Political Economy of Finance, Energy and
Security in the UAE: Between the Majilis and the Market, presenting her
argument about the role of informal institutions in policy making and
state-building in the UAE.
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'A Matter of Life and Death for the Country: the Iranian intervention
in Oman, 1972-1975' - on Thursday 23 October at 6.30pm in the
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building with Professor James Goode
Professor Goode discusses one of the Shah’s most successful foreign
initiatives.
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'What is 'modern' about modern Greece?' - on Friday 7 November
at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House with Professor Molly
Greene, Professor Vassilis Lambropoulos, Professor Stathis Kalyvas and
Professor Kevin Featherstone
The debt crisis has provoked new debate over Greece’s historical path
and its identity. Was the crisis a result of it somehow being less
‘modern’ than previously thought? But what is ‘modern’ in this context?
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry on a
first come first served basis.
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Exhibition: 'Afghanistan: The transition' - from 26 October - 28
November, Monday - Friday, at 10am-8pm in the Atrium Gallery
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in collaboration with documentary
photographers Andrea Bruce and Mikhail Galustov, present a series of highly
evocative photographs capturing personal stories from MSF’s Afghanistan
projects to highlight the serious ongoing problems of accessing basic health
care in Afghanistan.
This exhibition is open to all, no ticket required. For more information see
the
website, or email arts@lse.ac.uk.
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 60
second interview
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with.....Dr Flora Cornish
I’m an associate professor in the Department of Methodology where I teach Qualitative Research Methods to students from departments across the School. I also research community mobilisation in relation to health. I grew up on the wild coast of south west Ireland and return there as often as I can. I recently find myself pondering inconclusively about the concept of ‘work-life balance’.
What are your current research
interests?
I’m obsessed by the processes of
translating concrete experience into
something abstract called evidence.
I’ve researched the workings of sex
worker organisations in tackling HIV
in India for many years, and more
recently considered the troublesome
meeting ground of grassroots
organisations and international
health and development systems. With
the International HIV/AIDS Alliance,
I’ve been working on the nature of
‘evidence’ in the context of
community action. With my brilliant
colleagues in the Department of
Methodology, our ‘Communicating
Chronic Pain’ project investigates
new figurations of pain, using
creative workshops and social media.
If you could teach a new subject
at LSE, what would it be and why?
I teach a half-unit methodological
course in Ethnography where we take
‘protest in London’ as a theme for
ethnographic investigation. I love
the course, but what a treat it
would be to teach a year-long course
studying contemporary grassroots
movements to re-invent society. I
could invite my favourite LSE
scholars as guest lecturers, go out
of the classroom to do lots of
practical case studies, experiment
with inventive pedagogical
practices, and then write an
interesting book!
With which famous person would
you like to have dinner?
Edward Snowden. He could probably do
with a lively dinner party at this
stage and I expect he has some
interesting stories to tell.
How do you relax?
Combing through a tray of Lego
looking for a particular piece is
surprisingly meditative. Reading
Michael Rosen poems aloud. Yes, with
two small children and a busy job,
I’ve got to find relaxation where I
can! Ultimate relaxation: coffee
with a friend and no agenda. Super
ultimate relaxation: a midweek swim
in Hampstead Heath ladies' pond.
What is your pet hate?
Long sentences.
What change would you like to
see in the world in the next 50
years?
How are we going to adjust to a
world run by robots? Seriously. So
many jobs are becoming obsolete, and
algorithms are replacing decision
making. If finally the automata take
most of the work off our hands,
we’ll need to figure out how people
can make a meaningful and
sustainable living. I don’t know the
answer but a global citizen’s income
might be a start.
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