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7 October 2015 |
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Up to £1/2 million of scholarships for refugees at LSE
LSE is significantly increasing its funding for scholarships for asylum
seekers and refugees, in response to the on-going crisis across Europe, the
Middle East and Africa.
The School will increase the funds available to nearly £500,000 per year
for students classified as asylum seekers, or those awaiting the outcome of
an asylum application, and who have been offered a place to study at the
School.
Commenting on the announcement, LSE Director Craig Calhoun, said: "There
is a global refugee crisis. Responding is imperative. In the 1930s LSE
responded when refugees were driven out of central Europe and it responded
again after the Second World War. In the conflicts that accompanied the
break-up of Yugoslavia LSE admitted and supported refugees. Many went on to
be globally influential scholars and leaders. Educating such students is
part of our commitment to be Britain’s most global university and our
mission to bring knowledge to making a better world. I am very glad that we
are able to announce these scholarships and hope that in the future we will
be able to do even more. We are proud to join others across the UK who have
firmly said ‘refugees welcome’."
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LSE leaps into top 25 in World University Rankings LSE has
climbed 11 places in the
2015 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, published
last week.
The School is up to 23rd in the world, having previously been placed at
34th in the 2014 international ranking, and rises to fifth from seventh
within the UK. The rankings benchmark across key areas of higher education,
with LSE scoring particularly highly for its international outlook and
citation impact. This is also the fifth consecutive rise for LSE in the THE
rankings.
Commenting on the School’s performance, LSE Director Craig Calhoun said:
"This is excellent news for LSE and reflects the School’s position as a
global leader in social science. LSE was founded 120 years ago to address
the major issues of the day with a focus on innovation and practical
relevance, both in our research and our teaching. I am proud to say that
this mission is every bit as relevant in 2015 and I would like to thank the
School’s staff and our students for contributing to this outstanding
result."
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LSE launches United States Centre The
United States Centre at LSE
is a new hub for research, analysis and commentary about the United States.
Led by Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations at LSE and a
leading expert on American grand strategy and US party politics and
elections. The US Centre seeks to break down the boundaries between the
international and domestic sides of American political life and view the
United States against an international canvas.
Part of the Institute for Global Affairs, the US Centre will be formally
launched in late October, and will draw on the expertise of the fifty-plus
faculty across the School who write, teach and comment about the United
States.
Find out more about the Centre and its plans for the future by following
the US Centre on Twitter or
visiting the Centre
website.
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LSE recommendations behind UK government's new Infrastructure
Commission The UK government’s new Infrastructure Commission, unveiled
at the Conservative Party Conference on Monday 5 October, was one of the key
recommendations of the LSE Growth Commission, which reported in the autumn
of 2013.
The new commission will be chaired by Lord Adonis and will explore how
the UK can improve its construction of major road, rail, air, housing and
energy projects.
The LSE Growth Commission, led by the Centre for Economic Performance at
LSE with the Institute for Government, identified key elements of a
long-term growth strategy for the UK.
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Socially Responsible Investment Review Town Hall Meeting Many
thanks to all those who attended the Town Hall meeting on the School’s
Socially Responsible Investment Review on Monday 5 October.
Over eighty members of the School community attended, with 58 students
and Student's Union representatives attending to give a range of views and
to engage with the panel on the School’s Socially Responsible Investment
Review.
A report of the meeting will be available shortly for
staff and students here. For more information, email
ethics@lse.ac.uk.
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Celebrating 120 years of LSE Did you know? LSE’s first
prospectus was released in July 1895. What did the School aim to teach its
first students? Find out on the LSE History
blog.
2015 is LSE’s 120th anniversary. Join in the celebrations at
lse.ac.uk/lse120
#LSE120
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Between the Streets and the Stadiums
César Jiménez-Martínez, PhD Researcher in the Department of Media
and Communications, recently presented his work Between the Streets
and the Stadiums: looking at the international image of Brazil through
the eyes of a Chilean at the
Remapping Brazilian Cultural Studies conference, organised by the
European Network of Brazilianists working in Cultural Analysis,
REBRAC.
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Thank you Shanghai goes viral
Thank you Shanghai, a video produced by Ariel Margalith, alumni
from the
MSc Global Media and Communications (LSE and Fudan University), has
gone viral in China, reaching over 60 million views.
Click here to view
the video.
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 Notices
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Still looking for accommodation for this academic year?
There are still vacancies in Halls.
For more information, visit
Current vacancies in halls.
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What were your experiences of Welcome Week 2015?
Take the
Welcome Week 2015 survey to help improve Welcome Week for future LSE
students and for the chance to win a £100 Amazon voucher.
The survey will remain open until Friday 23 October.
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Become a Green Impact Project Assistant
Highly motivated students are needed to help out Green Impact Staff
Teams from November-March for a few hours a week to help them to achieve
their criteria and complete their projects.
You'll be provided with training from the LSE Sustainability team, plus
it's a chance to see the inner workings of the university and gain
experience that will look great on your CV. Your role will encompass many
skills from project management, communication, team work, leadership, and
organisation. You could be helping to do anything from organising clothes
swaps to managing a Departmental newsletter engagement campaign.
Click here for an application form. Please email your completed form to
m.dwyer2@lse.ac.uk by Friday 30
October. For more information, visit the
NUS website.
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Student Counselling Service Groups and Workshops -
Good Writing Psychology
On: Wednesday 14 October from 3.30-4.30pm in
KSW.G.01, 20 Kingsway
This presentation looks at ways of thinking about the task of writing,
with advice and tips to help manage blocks and unhelpful fears. It will
include a range of management techniques for dealing with common writing
difficulties, such as procrastination and perfectionism.
For more information on upcoming groups and workshops,
click here. If you have any other queries, email
student.counselling@lse.ac.uk
or ring 0207 852 3627.
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Travel risk training for fieldworkers LSE is providing a
Complex Travel Risk and Research workshop and a Female Lone Traveller
workshop for all MSc and PhD students who are planning to travel overseas
for their fieldwork research.
The Complex Travel Risk and Research workshop is aimed at students
who are intending to travel to complex risk environments or for those
whose research may put them at greater risk of attention from third
parties, particularly if the research is politically sensitive. You will
need to sign up for this workshop in order to obtain authorisation for
travel and to be covered by the School’s travel insurance.
The Female Lone Traveller workshop is for all female students who are
planning any School related travel. Focus is given to gender specific issues
and the mitigation of associated risk. The workshop provides a single gender
forum for the comprehensive discussion of female related concerns.
Situational awareness and the avoidance of dangerous and compromising
situations form the core of the workshop; with advice on how to deal with
situations should they occur.
For more information and to book your place, visit the LSE
Training and Development
System.
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What makes you feel #partofLSE? On LSE’s
Facebook page and
Instagram feed
we’re showcasing a selection of LSE students and staff and asking them about
what makes them feel part of the LSE community.
Follow along every day for stories and anecdotes, and submit your own
experiences in the comments.
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Help improve internal communications at LSE
Communications is looking for students to
participate in focus groups to feed into the development of internal
communications.
We want to hear first-hand how you feel engaged with School news and how
able you are to join conversations across LSE.
The sessions will last for one hour and participants will be given a £10
Waterstones voucher for attending.
If you're interested, please email
communications.internal@lse.ac.uk.
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New lunch menu at LSE Garrick This summer LSE Garrick’s
downstairs restaurant has undergone some exciting changes to its home cooked
lunch with a new style of menu being introduced.
The aim of the new menu is to simplify the offering while also using
improved ingredients with a street food influence to create some new
delicious dishes. These include Cantonese Satay Chicken, Coley in a Fennel
Butter Sauce, and a Butternut and Sweet Potato Burger.
Prices have been reduced, too! All hot meals cost less than £5.
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LSE Perspectives
The latest LSE Perspectives gallery is
available online. Each month LSE Arts selects photos submitted by
students and staff, reflecting some of the fascinations, concerns,
quirks and artistic sensibilities of our LSE community.
Want to send in your snaps? For more information,
click here, or email
Lseperspectives@lse.ac.uk.
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RUN. VOTE. CHANGE. Do you want to make change at LSE? Could you
make LSESU more diverse and representative? Are you looking to develop
skills in campaigning, leadership and events planning? Then run for election
to lead your Students' Union.
Elections are coming up for Postgraduate Students’ Officer, Postgraduate
Research Students’ Officer alongside volunteer Part-time Officer positions
and Postgraduate Trustee. The full list of positions is available at
lsesu.com/elections.
Nominations are open from 10am on Monday 12 October until 5pm on Monday
19 October at lsesu.com/elections.
For more information contact Engagement Coordinator, Laura Burley, on
l.a.burley@lse.ac.uk or come along
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in pictures
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A yummy risotto freshly prepared in LSE Garrick’s downstairs restaurant.
Be sure to try out the new menu and let the team know what you think.
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit
or check out the School's
Instagram page.
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 What's
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Forthcoming LSE events include....
Is Africa Rising: a personal perspective from Winnie Byanyima
On: Monday 12 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Winnie Byanyima (pictured)
The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt
On: Tuesday 13 October at 6.30pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Martin Sandbu
Confronting Gender Inequality: findings from the LSE Commission on Gender,
Inequality and Power
On: Tuesday 13 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Shami Chakrabarti, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, and Polly Toynbee
Shobhana Bhartia in conversation with Suhel Seth
On: Tuesday 13 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Shobhana Bhartia (pictured)
The Silo Effect: why putting everything in its place isn't such a bright
idea
On: Wednesday 14 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Gillian Tett
Cameron at 10 - the inside story of Cameron's premiership
On: Wednesday 14 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Dr Anthony Seldon and Peter Snowdon
Lunchtime Concert
On: Thursday 15 October at 1.05pm in the Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old
Building
Performer: Barbican String Quartet
Before Theory Comes Theorizing or How to Make Social Science More
Interesting
On: Thursday 15 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Professor Richard Swedberg
Reflections on the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in an Age of Extremism
On: Thursday 15 October at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Amina Mama (pictured)
The Book and the Believer: are Catholics, Jews and Muslims still outsiders
in British society?
On: Thursday 15 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Sughra Ahmed, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, and Dr Ruth Gilbert
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The Current Economic Developments in Greece and Cyprus: when and how
crisis exits are feasible
On: Monday 12 October from 6.30-8pm in CLM 2.02, Clement House
Speakers: Dr Michalis Sarris, Former Minister of Finance of Cyprus and
Former Department Director at the World Bank; and Dr Yiannis Kitromilides,
Associate Member of the Cambridge Centre of Economic and Public Policy,
University of Cambridge.
Why was Greece ‘bailed-out’ in 2010 and Cyprus ‘bailed-in’ in 2013? Why
the Greek economy collapsed after 2010 and how significant are
structural reforms?
This lecture will examine the two alternative narratives of the Eurozone
crisis and its effects on Greece and Cyprus.
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Book Launch - New Urban Diversities: London perspectives On:
Thursday 22 October from 6.30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
This event will discuss how new diversities and (im)mobilities are lived
in the contemporary urban space of the ‘world’ city. The discussion will be
directed through a presentation of two key ethnographies, both of which are
based in London, and engage with the accelerated diversification of the city
through the lens of everyday life.
The event will be followed by a drinks reception, which will take place
outside the theatre.
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Black History Month
Talk: Black Women in Leadership On: Thursday 22 October from 1-2pm
in
TW2.2.04, Tower 2
EMBRACE will be hosting this talk in celebration of Black History Month.
Join Dr Vanessa Iwowo, LSE Fellow in Management, as she explores the issues
faced by the average woman and highlights the deeper challenges of the black
woman in particular.
For more information and to book your free ticket,
click here.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Cyberphobia: identity, trust, security and the internet
Speaker: Edward Lucas
Recorded: Monday 28 September, approx. 86 minutes
The Nature of Memory: perspectives from art, history and neuroscience
Speakers: Jessica Bland, Dr Sebastien Groes, Professor Adam Roberts, and
Professor Barry C Smith
Recorded: Tuesday 29 September, approx. 89 minutes
The Future of Britain and Europe
Speaker: Professor Simon Hix
Recorded: Wednesday 30 September, approx. 85 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with..... Professor Carola Frege
I am a Professor in the Management Department, working on worker participation and trade unions and more recently on racism in the labour market.
I have been at LSE forever, first as a General Course student in Sociology and later on as a Graduate student in Industrial Relations. I left for three years to work in the USA but missed London and LSE so much that I returned. I am also a proud mum of an eight year old boy, who keeps me pretty busy day and night.
Tell us more about the work of the LSE Taskforce for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
The Taskforce has been created as a Director’s initiative to review and radically redesign the School’s approach to equity, diversity and inclusion. If we want to continue to excel in research and teaching in an increasingly globally complex world we also need to become a champion in diversity. This has been long overdue.
We need to attract more minority students and staff, we need to cherish the multicultural diversity we have on campus and we need to provide an inclusive, tolerant and also fair environment for all. These are huge tasks and we hope that the taskforce can initiate a change in perspective as well as promote effective solutions.
We are located on the ground floor of Queen’s House and have an open door policy. Come and talk to us, tell us where you see problems and recommend suggestions.
Which has been the most interesting LSE public lecture you have attended?
Too difficult to say. One of the big advantages of the School is to be able to attract world leading intellectuals and policy makers to speak and I love to attend their lectures whenever I find the time. Recently I really liked the ‘Above the Parapet’ Series about Women in Public Life.
If you weren’t at LSE, at what other institution would you like to work?
Labor Studies Department, Rutgers University (I have worked there for three years and loved it).
Describe yourself in three words
Curious, strong-minded, disciplined.
Who would be your ideal travelling companion on a long journey?
My son, who recently went with us on a sightseeing tour through China. He loved it and remained cheerful even during the longest traffic jams in Beijing.
What do you most regret not having done or achieved yet?
I would like to more regularly practice Tai Chi. |
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