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TRIUM Executive MBA Programme ranked number one in the world in
Financial Times survey
The TRIUM Global Executive MBA Programme, in which LSE is a partner,
has been ranked number one in the world by the Financial Times annual
ranking of Executive MBA programmes.
Every year the Financial Times survey evaluates Executive MBA programmes
offered by business schools around the world. The study assesses the career
progress of alumni three years after program completion, the academic
excellence of the faculty, as well as the programme's international scope.
One hundred programmes are ranked in this year's table.
TRIUM, a unique alliance between LSE, New York University Stern School of
Business and HEC Paris, has ranked consistently highly in the survey but
this year it has been recognised as the best in the world.
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LSE report reveals £8 billion cost of mental health problems in
pregnancy
Perinatal mental health problems cost the UK £8.1 billion each year,
according to a new report released today by LSE,
led by Annette Bauer and Professor Martin Knapp from LSE's Personal
Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), and the Centre for Mental
Health.
The report, which was officially launched in Parliament yesterday, calls
for the NHS to spend £337 million a year to bring perinatal mental health
care up to the level recommended in national guidance.
'The costs of perinatal mental health problems' is part of the Maternal
Mental Health Alliance’s ‘Everyone’s Business’ campaign, which is appealing
to government and health commissioners to ensure that all women throughout
the UK who experience perinatal mental health problems receive the care they
and their families need, wherever and whenever they need it.
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New Gearty Grilling online
A new Gearty Grilling video, part of the series of short video debates
between Conor Gearty, director of the IPA and professor of human rights law,
and leading researchers at LSE, is now online.
This week Paul Cheshire, Professor Emeritus of Economic Geography, argues
that green belt land should be used to solve the housing crisis.
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 Notices
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Official opening of Saw Swee Hock Student Centre
Friday 24 October will be a day of
festivities celebrating the official opening of the Saw Swee Hock
Student Centre – LSE’s newest building which was shortlisted for the
prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize! The festivities will kick off at noon
with a special performance outside the building, so be sure to arrive
early to get a good view! The events, organised by those based in the
building, are aimed at the whole LSE community. Both LSE and the LSE
Students' Union invite you to join us for this day of celebration,
activities, workshops, celebrity guests, music, comedy, freebies, food
and much more. Check out the programme for the day
here.
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RUN. VOTE. CHANGE.
Houghton Street is buzzing, there are a million posters everywhere and
lots of students in fancy dress… Yes that’s right, it’s LSESU elections time
again! Candidates are now campaigning to be elected as Postgraduate
Students’ Officer and Postgraduate Research Students’ Officer among other
positions, and for the first time ever a BME Students’ Officer will also be
elected. Read the candidates’ manifestos online at
www.lsesu.com/elections, come
along to Candidates’ Question Time (details on
www.lsesu.com/whatson) and then
vote from 10am on Wednesday 29 October until 7pm on Thursday 30 October
at www.lsesu.com/vote (log in with
your School username and password).
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Last chance to complete the Orientation Survey 2014
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 this Friday
24 October at 12pm. Take the survey
here.
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Green Impact Project Assistants
Do you want to get more involved in sustainability on campus and get
some project management experience? The Sustainability Team is currently
recruiting students to become Green Impact Project Assistants. In this
voluntary role, you will help a departmental team reduce its carbon
footprint, as part of the national environmental competition
Green Impact. Find out more about the role
here, and if you are interested complete the application form on the
website by Saturday 25 October.
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LSE Treatment Clinic
The LSE Treatment Clinic, which welcomes LSE students and staff, is on
the first floor of Tower Two.
The clinic offers professional treatments, at reduced rates for LSE, of
acupuncture, osteopathy and sports massage from practitioners with over 20
years of experience between them. Their combined expertise is effective in
the treatment of musculoskeletal pain, repetitive strain injury, tension
headaches, posture advice, sports injuries, anxiety, insomnia, migraine,
among many other ailments.
The practitioners are:
- Hanya Chlala
Acupuncture and Reflexology available in a dual-bed setting on
Wednesdays and Fridays
- Laura Dent
Sports massage available on Mondays
- Tim Hanwell
Osteopathy available on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Appointments are available Monday - Friday from 9am - 6pm and can
be booked online at
www.lsetreatmentclinic.co.uk.
All consultations are strictly confidential and sessions will last
between 30 and 60 minutes depending upon the treatment. To reach the clinic,
enter the Tower One/ Tower Two reception, go up to the first floor in Tower
Two and follow the signs to the LSE Treatment Clinic.
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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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Use templates for easy formatting of academic papers and
dissertations
Formatting issues can take far too much time away from the substantive task
of writing papers and dissertations. Make life easier for yourself by
learning to create a template containing the formatting styles required. By
basing your draft on this template, you’ll save yourself hours of work at
the end, as your deadline looms.
Download the
Word 2010: Formatting an Academic Paper self-study course materials and
work through them at your own pace. If you have any questions about this or
other software issues, attend our weekly
Software Surgeries. These run every Thursday 1-2pm from 23 October, and
are open to all staff and students.
If you have an IT question, check out our
online guides and FAQs. 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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'Nominal Democracy? Prospects for Democratic Global Governance' -
on Tuesday 28 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with
Professor Robert O Keohane
Democratic global governance is a worthy ideal, but it is a naïve
pursuit which risks purely nominal democracy.
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'The Vietnam Wars Reconsidered' - on Tuesday 28 October 7pm in
the New Theatre, East Building Professor Fredrik Logevall
With the outpouring of scholarship on the Vietnam Wars in recent years,
it's time to take stock and reconsider two core questions: why did the
wars happen, and why did two Western powers, first France and then the
United States, fail in their efforts?
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'Names: the long shadow of war and remembrance, 1914-2014' - on
Wednesday 29 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB with
Professor David Reynolds
Professor David Reynolds will address the legacy of the First World
War, in particular the effect of mass bereavement and commemoration.
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Lunchtime Concert: Ji-Yeoun You on
the piano - on Thursday 30 October at 1.05pm in the Shaw
Library, 6th floor, Old Building
Winner of five major competition prizes, Ji-Yeoun has performed in
Berlin, Edinburgh, London, Paris and Seoul and with the Berlin and
Brandenburg Symphony Orchestras.
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'Afghanistan: the transition' - on Thursday 30 October at
6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building with Renzo Frike, Dr Stuart
Gordon, Emma Graham-Harrison (pictured)
The panel of experts reflect back on more than a decade of international
aid and investment and discuss what is next for Afghanistan.
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This event is linked with the new exhibition in the Atrium Gallery
Medecins Sans Frontieres: barriers to accessing healthcare in
Afghanistan.
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'The Real Story Behind the Invisible Hand' - on Thursday 30
October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building with Russell Roberts
Adam Smith gave the world the metaphor of the invisible hand, the
most famous metaphor of economics. But he only used the phrase three
times in his writings. And none of the uses reflect what the phrase has
come to mean today--a justification of laissez-faire capitalism. Yet
Smith is indeed a key figure in the idea of emergent order--order that
is the result of human action but not human design.
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'Structural Opportunities in the US Economy' - on Wednesday 5
November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
with Jason Furman
Tickets will be released on Tuesday 28 October
Jason Furman's talk will focus on the three major structural
opportunities that he sees in the US economy: the slowdown in health
costs; the boom in energy; and recent developments in technology.
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A Lecture by the Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vučić - on
Monday 27 October at 6pm 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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Information Session with Associate Dean John
Holden of the Yenching Academy of Peking University - on Monday 27
October at 5.30-6.45pm in STC.S221
The Yenching Academy is the most ambitious academic initiative Peking
University has launched since the turn of the century. It will provide
international students with a nuanced understanding of China’s rich
civilization and its complexities today, as well as opportunities to work
with the faculty to develop and apply innovative research in humanities and
social sciences.
Two full fellowships are available for LSE graduates to join the
inaugural class of a one year, interdisciplinary Master's program in China
Studies beginning in September 2015. The programme is open to top performing
students from the world's leading universities for whom an intensive year
studying China at the country's premier university fits and enhances their
careers. Courses are available in both English and Chinese; it is possible
to complete the programme without any prior knowledge of China or its
languages. Those with advanced Chinese will be able to attend courses taught
in that language. More
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'Mizrahi Mothers, Wrapped in the Flag: Ultra-Nationalism, apartheid,
and the divinity of bureaucracy in Israel' - on Monday 27 October at
6.30pm in
Room 2.02, Clement House with Professor Smadar Lavie What
is the relationship between social protest movements in the State of Israel,
violence in Gaza, and the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran? Why did
the mass social protests in the State of Israel of summer 2011 ultimately
fail? In this lecture and book launch, Professor Smadar Lavie will discuss
social protest movements from the 2003 Single Mothers’ March led by Mizrahi
Vicky Knafo, to the “Tahrir is Here” Israeli mass protests of summer 2011.
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'25 Years After the End of the Cold War: Its legacy in a new world
Order' - on Monday 27 October at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East
Building with Professor Beatrice Heuser, Dr Andrew Monaghan, Professor
Vladislav Zubok, Professor Michael Cox
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the
Cold War, how do these events shape the world today? What are the legacies
of the Cold War? And are we truly in the midst of a new Cold War?
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'Crisis and Democracy - Democracy in Crisis. Social Anthropological
Perspectives on the Fragility of the Social Contract'
- on Tuesday 28 October at 6pm in the
Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House with Eisabeth Kirtsoglou
The crisis has undoubtedly produced new communities of discontent,
and novel spheres of economic, moral and political exclusion but it has
not succeeded in changing fundamental patterns of accountability,
historical and political causality.
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'The Greek Orthodox Church and the Economic Crisis' - on
Wednesday 12 November at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
with His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias and Almyros
Historically a central pole of national identity, how the Greek Orthodox
Church is affected by Greece’s economic crisis and how it responds to it
is of major importance to the nation’s public and social affairs.
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Symposium on the future of banking as a profession - on Friday
28 November at Holborn Bars in London
with speakers including Sir Richard Lambert and Professor Charles
Goodhart A new banking standards body has been established in
Britain to set voluntary standards, promote professional education and
improve banking culture and competence. Will this lead to the development of
global banking standards?
LSE Enterprise and the Retail Banking Academy are hosting a forum to
debate the future of banking as a profession, exploring how banks can better
serve the public interest.
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 60
second interview
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with.....Dr Alice Evans
I am a Fellow in Human Geography
in the Department of Geography and
Environment. Outside academia, I
divide my time between restoring a
knackered Edwardian house and
physical exercise (running, cycling,
lifting weights plus yoga).
You were recently interviewed on
Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ about your
medical condition, Mayer Kuster
Hauser Rokitansky syndrome – could
you tell us a bit about it?
One in five thousand women is born
without a womb. Many feel awkward,
embarrassed, alone and deficient. By
talking about this condition openly
and candidly, I sought to provide an
alternative, more pragmatic and
optimistic perspective. To quote
Maya Angelou, ‘If you don’t like
something, change it. If you can’t
change it, change your attitude’.
The feedback I have received has
been incredible. Even if my research
on the causes of egalitarian social
change has little impact on policy,
I feel this is one area where I can
really make a positive difference to
people’s lives. You can listen to
the interview
here.
What advice would you give to
new students coming to LSE?
Getting an education is not like
getting a haircut; you actually have
to put in the work yourself. So, in
lectures and your own study time,
don't just sit back and passively
listen. Instead, ask questions and
critically engage with the ideas
presented.
What would your friends say is
your greatest quality?
I just asked my running buddy. She
said, ‘your positivity of course’.
In my opinion, the key to happiness
is being easily pleased, seeing the
best in everyone and everything. My
research is also guided by such
optimism, in so far as I try to
understand and learn from ‘what
works’: how people and governments
come to support gender equality.
If you could bring one famous
person back to life, who would it be
and why?
Hmm… If I actually gained the power
of necromancy – as you suggest – I
would be more interested in
reflecting upon its phenomenal
implications for our understanding
of biology.
Moreover, as a Fellow on a fixed
term contract (ending in September
2015), I need to think
strategically. Chatting with a
deceased celebrity would doubtless
be rather fun, but surely sorcery
would be of greater aid to my
career…?
What has been the most
memorable day in your life so far?
To be honest, I rarely dwell on the
past. The present is far too
exciting.
Have you kept any toys from
your childhood?
No. I have long outgrown my Raleigh
bike and the stabilisers have become
redundant. Although I would delight
in writing papers from atop the
fort-like tree house my father once
built and then descending via the
zip-line death slide, my garden is
regrettably far too small for such
adventure.
But while I have not kept any
memorabilia, I do remain heavily
reliant upon the plaything most
integral to my childhood: my
imagination. That is something that
we, as social scientists, deploy
every day, in conceiving alternative
hypotheses and creatively designing
research methods.
What is your favourite smell?
The countryside. It is magnificent. |
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