Centre Buildings Redevelopment

The latest project newsletter illustrates how the works will affect pedestrian routes around campus when demolition starts in the summer.

LSE Photo Prize pop up exhibition

Check out this year's competition photos - catch it on campus throughout this Literary Festival week, until Saturday 28 February.

Paula Kiel

Paula, a PhD candidate and mother to a one and a half year old, has been involved in producing an information booklet for other LSE students with children.

SAW has now been open for over a year and the design award nominations are still flooding in - it is the only UK project to feature on the shortlist for the Design Museum’s 2015 Design of the Year Award.

The building has also been shortlisted for the prestigious Mies van der Rohe Award 2015 and the Building Magazine Awards - Project of the Year Award.

The world’s most prestigious award for architecture, the Royal Gold Medal for 2015, was awarded to the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre architects, Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey (pictured).

They were presented with the award by RIBA President Stephen Hodder on behalf of the Queen at a ceremony on 3 February.

An EU Capital Markets Union (CMU) has the potential to be the driving force for growth across the continent, according to the UK’s City Minister, Andrea Leadsom MP.

The Minister made her comments during a discussion with the German Parliamentary State Secretary for Finance, Steffen Kampeter, at a conference organised by LSE’s Systemic Risk Centre and Goldman Sachs on Monday 23 February.

In line with many of the conference contributors, she asserted that creating a single capital markets union would make it easier for small and medium enterprises to access innovative forms of financing, such as private placements or bonds, and mean the union is a "framework for jobs and prosperity". But she added this proposed system would be an opportunity to "expand what we have" rather than replacing more traditional bank-based financing of firms.

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 Connson Locke (pictured), Assistant Professor of Management, discusses why organisations benefit from more women at senior levels. More
 

There’s still time to catch the LSE Photo Prize on campus, featuring a very special "Ghosts of the Past" look at LSE. Check the website for dates and times for this pop up exhibition.

On Wednesday 18 February, the Student Wellbeing Service ran another Wellbeing Stall focussing on how to maintain our wellbeing.

To help promote the UMHAN (University Mental Health Advisors Network) National Mental Health and Wellbeing Day, visitors were asked to complete leaflets with ideas of things that we could all do to help maintain our mental health/wellbeing.

The stall also promoted the "Time to Change" campaign that aims to end mental health discrimination, by handing out leaflets offering tips on how to look out for your friends and maintaining your mental wellbeing at work. This year’s campaign is "It’s time to talk" which encourages everyone to start a conversation about mental health.

The stall also publicised other support available at LSE including the Student Counselling Service, the Disability and Wellbeing Service, LSE Careers, the Peer Support Service, and LSESU activities. For more information, visit lse.ac.uk/studentwellbeing.

The Centre Buildings Redevelopment (CBR) project is gaining momentum and the latest newsletter illustrates how the works will affect pedestrian routes around the campus, including the closure of part of Houghton Street, when demolition starts in the summer.

You may be aware that work has started on the redevelopment of New Court, which has planning permission for new residential properties.

New Court is the building at the junction of Portugal Street and Carey Street between the Library and 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The developers, LODHA, have erected scaffolding and hoarding and have started stripping out the building and we are aware that this is causing concern.

LODHA’s latest information suggests they intend to start demolition of the building before the end of February. However, the LSE Estates Division is currently in negotiation with them to try to ensure that any potential disturbance to neighbouring LSE buildings is minimised through appropriate mitigation measures, such as installing secondary glazing to those areas in 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields and the Lionel Robbins Building that do not currently have it, and also convincing the developer to apply to undertake the noisiest works out of hours.

LSE Estates, together with other non LSE neighbours, are also investigating whether the demolition can be delayed until appropriate mitigation measures and working methods are agreed.

The LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and the Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom are calling for papers for their first Postgraduate Workshop, which will be held on Friday 15 May at LSE.

This workshop is open to PhD students and early career researchers from all fields of the social sciences, arts and humanities.

Schwarzman Scholars, inspired by the Rhodes scholarship, is a programme designed to help future leaders meet the challenges of the 21st century and beyond, by preparing them to better understand China’s culture, economy, governance and motivations.

In the summer of 2016, the first cohort of young leaders will gather at the new Schwarzman College on the campus of Tsinghua University in Beijing. They want to build a professionally diverse cohort each year, and welcome applicants up to the age of 28, who have completed an undergraduate degree (or will complete the degree by July of 2016), and can articulate how the experience in China will help develop their skills as leaders in their fields.

There will be an information session with Global Director of Admissions, Rob Garris, on Tuesday 3 March in room B.07, 32 Lincoln Inn's Field. Rob will be hosting two sessions, 5-6.30pm and 6.30-8pm. Please RSVP at the links below.

• 5pm Session
• 6.30pm Session

Earlier this month Conference and Events internally re-organised into Room Bookings and Events Teams.

The newly formed Room Bookings Team manages all room bookings in LSE spaces, whether made by LSESU Societies, internal or external customers. Focussing on all room booking activity across campus, the team is aiming to improve efficiency, customer service and communication. While LSESU Societies and LSE staff should continue to make any room booking requests via LSE for You as usual, the Room Bookings team can be contacted via lse.roombookings@lse.ac.uk.

LSE Library and IMT are rethinking the lower ground floor study space of the Library. This is your chance to feed your ideas into a design that meets your needs and the needs of future students.

The Next Generation Learning Commons Competition will run from Thursday 26 February to Friday 20 March. The best design will be awarded an iPad Air 2 and other highly commended entries will receive Amazon vouchers.

You don’t need to be a professional designer, we just want to see your creative ideas. And if you don't have time to enter the full competition, please do still send in your thoughts and ideas.

In the Annual Survey last year, 63 per cent of you said the LSESU has had a positive impact on your time at LSE and that the LSESU should lobby the School on more study spaces and places to play sport. What issues do you care about?

From Thursday at 2pm, you can find out who's running to lead the LSESU and check out who's talking about the topics that matter to you - visit www.lsesu.com/elections.

Ever wondered who the "Sabbs" are, what they do or how to vote for them? Are you already a keen watcher of student politics? Or do you just want to know a bit more about the policies and personalities behind all those people marching up and down Houghton Street?

Whatever your answer, LSESU Elects is for you. Throughout the election week, starting tomorrow, we will be guiding you through everything you need to know about the LSESU elections, providing you with candidate information, short videos on why the elections matter and how you can get involved, and live election night coverage from our team of roving reporters and expert panellists in The Venue.

LSE provides access to a wide range of self-study training materials, free of charge, to all students and staff. These cover everything from Dreamweaver, Photoshop and SPSS to touch typing and basic word processing skills. The training format varies, depending upon the software and topic. Visit our Self-Study Resources page to see what is available.

Acupuncture Awareness Week

The brand new study by the British Acupuncture Council to mark 'Acupuncture Awareness Week' (2-8 March) shows that over half of the UK residents surveyed are more stressed now than ten years ago and turn to junk food and drink in a bid to feel better.

Symptoms associated with stress including anxiety, nausea, insomnia, headaches and stomach pains, however acupuncture can help.

Acupuncture sessions are available at the LSE Treatment Clinic, at discounted rates for students and staff. Book online at www.lsetreatmentclinic.co.uk. If you have any concerns about acupuncture, contact Hanya Chlala on 07789 322821.

Forthcoming LSE events

Clean Energy and Renaissance: a report from the race between revolution and collapse
On: Monday 2 March at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Jeremy Leggett

Gender and the Brain
On: Monday 2 March at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor John Dupré and Professor Gina Rippon

Power and Order, Peace and War: lessons for Asia from 1914-18
On: Tuesday 3 March at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Hugh White

Yes, it is a Curse: politics and the adverse impact of natural-resource riches
On: Wednesday 4 March at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Francesco Caselli (pictured)

Anna Gogova (piano)
On: Thursday 5 March at 1pm in the Shaw Library, Old Building

Touching and Feeling
On: Thursday 5 March at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor David J. Linden

Why We Should Talk to Terrorists
On: Thursday 5 March at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Jonathan Powell

Beyond the Cold War: how summits shaped the new world order
On: Thursday 5 March at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Dr Kristina Spohr (pictured)

If you haven’t spotted us yet, there’s still time. All the photos from this year’s Photo Prize competition will be displayed for the rest of the Literary Festival week, and the prize winners will be announced on Saturday 28 February.

We’ll be giving away freebies at every location, so come and enjoy the creative talents of your fellow LSE staff and students

On: Thursday 26 February at 6pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Jessica Goldberg (pictured), UCLA.

The Epstein Lecture series was created in memory of S.R. (Larry) Epstein, whose sudden death at the age of 46 in early February 2007 was an enormous loss, not only to his family and friends, but to his department and the global community of economic historians.

The Department of Economic History decided that one appropriate way of commemorating Larry’s achievements would be to inaugurate a regular Epstein lecture and, with the generous support of friends, colleagues and alumni, achieved this aim.

At the time of his death Larry had in mind a number of projects, but one to which he was particularly committed was the establishment of a regular lecture series at LSE by outstanding early career researchers in economic history. The lectures are given by an early career researcher regarded as a rising star in the profession. In line with Larry’s broad intellectual interests, there are no restrictions on subject matter or geographical scope or time period providing that the topic comes within the broad, interdisciplinary scope of economic history.

Nicki Fruth, Google Student Representative for LSE, will be running a Google Student Skills Seminar on Thursday 26 February from 6-8pm in room 171, East Building.

The seminar will introduce the evolution of online digital marketing, provide some background and history, and educate students on how technologies, such as those found at Google, create more targeted and effective marketing and advertising campaigns.

On: Saturday 28 February in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House.

The LSESU Technology Society is proud to present the inaugural Retail, Media and Technology Conference.

Discover sector trends and career opportunities in film and print media, network/digital video, fashion and advertising, venture capital, wearable technology and more. A networking session will follow the conference.

Speakers from Barclays, Paypal, DLA Piper, Disney, Girls in Tech UK, City AM, Piton Capital, CuteCircuit, and many more will be attending.

Cyprus Question: current state of play in the settlement negotiations and prospects in 2015

On: Monday 2 March from 6.30-7.30pm in CLM 5.02, Clement House

Ambassador Andreas Mavroyiannis (pictured), Negotiator of the Greek Cypriot Community, will speak at this event.

This event is free and open to all and no ticket is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. More
 

YTFN @ LSE

The LSE Volunteer Centre has joined forces with LSESU RAG and The Youth Funding Network (YTFN) to bring you this event on Tuesday 3 March as part of Student Volunteering Week.

Three small charities - Tanzania Development Trust, Rural Urban Synthesis Society, and Lensational - will be pitching and then you decide who gets your funding and time. There is also fantastic entertainment lined up with live music from the LSE Houghtones and an open mic session.

For more information and tickets, visit the blog. Buy your tickets for this event online or double the amount you donate for free by purchasing your tickets at the Santander branch on-campus.
 

On: Tuesday 3 March at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.

Wol Kolade (pictured), Managing Partner of private equity investors Livingbridge, is the speaker at LSE Entrepreneurship’s next Entrepreneurship Matters session.

He will discuss the British Venture Capital Association and what it taught him about the industry, some of the entrepreneurial companies that Livingbridge has backed over the year, and his thoughts on the future of private equity.

On: Tuesday 3 March from 6-7.30pm in the Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House
Speaker: Dr Rosa Vasilaki, National Bank of Greece Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Hellenic Observatory, LSE.

Because of historical, political and cultural reasons, the Greek police have not been yet the object of sociological analysis, except for cases of police misconduct.

As the sociological gaze has been focused mainly on the protesters and the manifestations of resistance, Dr Vasilaki will shift the emphasis to the experience of policing the crisis and its violent aspects, and to the views and perceptions of police officers.

All Hellenic Observatory seminars are open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. More
 

The Cyprus Recovery Plan: a midterm assessment

On: Friday 6 March from 8.45am-6.30pm in the Shaw Library, Old Building

This one day conference is organised by LSE's Hellenic Observatory in association with the University of Nicosia and the Neapolis University of Pafos.

Has the financial disaster of March 2013 resulted in the economic catastrophe of Cyprus or provided an opportunity for addressing deep rooted political and economic problems and implementing long overdue reforms?

This event debates whether the financial (crisis) disaster became an economic disaster or it has provided the opportunity to revise the hitherto economic model and implement the requisite reforms for a sustainable recovery.

TEDxLSE 2015

This year's TEDxLSE 2015 conference will be held on Sunday 8 March from 10am-5.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building.

Speakers will include:

• Mete Coban, Hackney's youngest Councillor and CEO of a non-profit organisation
• Russell Buckley,government advisor, mentor and angel investor in over 40 startups
• Ross Sutherland, poet, theatre-maker and former Times Literary Star of the Year
• Nadia Darwazeh, international disputes lawyer and Secretary-General of the Jerusalem Arbitration Center
• Jane Burston, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Head of the Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory
• Jonathan Glennie, Director of Policy and Research at Save the Children UK
• Tak Lo, Director at Techstars, former management consultant, investment banker and army veteran
• Dr Hugh Rayment-Pickard, co-founder and Director of Development of IntoUniversity
• Ed Cooke, memory champion and best-selling author
• Melissa Sterry, design scientist and futurist
• The Komola Collective, London-based theatre and arts company dedicated to telling the untold stories from women's perspectives
• Neal Lawson, British political commentator and author of the book All Consuming
• Alecia Maragh, TEDxLSE student competition winner