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Professor Charlie Beckett joins parliamentary select committee
Professor Charlie Beckett of the
Department of Media
and Communications and Director of
Polis,
LSE's journalism think-tank, has been appointed as Special Advisor on
broadcasting to the House of
Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport.
He will be advising the committee on its inquiries into the future of
Channel 4 and the BBC's Charter renewal as well as identifying future topics
for the committee to address.
Professor Beckett said: "This is a critical time for broadcasting in
Britain and I look forward to contributing some insights from my time both
as a journalist and academic to the policy-making process."
Professor Beckett worked at ITN and the BBC as a journalist before
joining LSE in 2006. He is a specialist in the future of news, journalism
ethics and political communications and is the author of SuperMedia
and WikiLeaks: News in the Networked Era.
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UK's first Digital Exclusion Heatmap launched A new online
Digital Exclusion Heatmap tool which shows, for the first time, a single
nationwide measure of the likelihood of digital exclusion across the UK, has
been launched by Go ON UK in
partnership with LSE, the BBC and Local Government Association.
Dr Ellen Helsper, Department of Media and Communications, who developed
the methodology behind the map, said: "The heat map is a wake-up call. It
shows clearly how social and digital exclusion are closely related. The lack
of basic digital skills and access in already disadvantaged areas is likely
to lead to an increase in inequality of opportunity around the UK."
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Students more likely to feel part of LSE if they volunteer
Research completed by the
LSE Volunteer Centre shows that 41 per cent of students feel that
because of volunteering their sense of feeling part of the university has
increased. Other key finding include:
- The biggest motivator for LSE students volunteering is because they
want to "improve things", with 95 per cent of respondents agreeing with
this statement
• 95 per cent of those that do volunteer would recommend it to a friend
- 75 per cent think that their confidence in their abilities has
increased due to their volunteering
- 69 per cent think that the skills employers will value have
increased through their volunteering
- 45 per cent feel that because of volunteering their general
well-being has improved.
David Coles, LSE Volunteer Coordinator says: "We’re not surprised to find
that those that volunteer are more likely to feel part of the university and
have an increased sense of well-being. Those that volunteer consistently say
that they would recommend it to a friend, which also shows the quality of
the opportunities our charity partners provide. I would recommend
volunteering to anyone who is looking to help others and develop
themselves."
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Heavy drinkers and drugs users underestimate their levels of
consumption compared to others Heavy drinkers and users of illegal
drugs downplay their relative levels of consumption, when comparing
themselves to others, reveals research by LSE and South London and Maudsley
NHS Foundation Trust.
Published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, the research
shows that 68 per cent of respondents to the Global Drugs Survey - the
world’s biggest drug survey - were drinking at hazardous or harmful levels,
yet the vast majority (83 per cent) felt they were drinking at low or
average levels. The same pattern was evident across a range of illegal
drugs.
Dr Michael Shiner, an associate professor in LSE’s Department of Social
Policy and expert advisor to the Global Drugs Survey, said: "Given that drug
use carries certain risks, whether this be to health, of getting caught or
of damage to reputation, we shouldn’t be surprised that some people downplay
their levels of use as a way of managing their anxieties about what they’re
doing."
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Celebrating 120 years of LSE Did you know? LSE’s first Director
was William Hewins. Just seven months before LSE opened, on 24 March 1895,
Sidney Webb wrote to Hewins, a young Oxford academic: "It is now a matter of
serious import whether the
scheme can be carried through. I am still keen on it, and if it should be
possible for you to help to a greater extent than we contemplated it might
still be done." Find out what happened next to
LSE’s first Director 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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London Student Volunteering Fortnight 2015 This year’s
London Student Volunteering Fortnight (LSVF) runs from Thursday 22
October until Thursday 5 November.
LSVF is an annual event designed to get the students of London engaged in
voluntary work in their local communities. This year five universities -
LSE, UCL, Queen Mary, Imperial and City -
have come together to organise LSVF.
There are a series of one-off volunteering events happening over the two
week period, all of which are advertised under the
‘Events’ tab on CareerHub. Volunteers from all institutions will attend
so it’s a great opportunity to meet a different group of students whilst
making a difference to the communities you share.
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Last chance to complete the Welcome Survey 2015
The Welcome Week Feedback Survey is your chance to shape and improve the
future of LSE's Welcome Week, plus there’s a chance to win a £100 Amazon
voucher.
The deadline for completing the survey is this Friday (23
October).
Click
here to complete the survey.
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Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy – still time to apply
The
Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy programme run by
Learning Technology and Innovation and the Library is looking for first and second year undergraduates who
want to develop their digital literacy skills, support their peers and
transform learning at LSE.
Interested? Read the
getting involved
pages. The deadline for applications is open until midnight
on Friday 23 October. Check
out the
person specification/job description and complete the
online form if you wish to apply.
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Join the Programme for African Leadership The Programme for
African Leadership (PfAL) invites applications from ambitious graduate
students of sub-Saharan African nationality at LSE to join
PfAL@LSE 2015-16.
The programme, now in its second year, consists of monthly events that
aim to educate, challenge and inspire students and to provide an opportunity
for them to reflect on their own development as future leaders of African
organisations and communities. Regular social events are also included to
develop and strengthen new friendships amongst the group.
The programme is generously funded by Firoz and Najma Lalji and is
therefore free to attend, but students must check their eligibility and
submit an application form to be considered for the programme. For more
information and how to apply,
click here.
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Third year undergraduates - The Library needs you! LSE Library is looking for
third year undergraduate students to participate in a focus group exploring
the use of the LSE theses digitised collection.
We're interested to learn how (or if) you engage with our theses, whether
you consider it a valuable collection or overlook it as a resource.
We value the high quality research that our PhD students produce, and we
want to learn how we can better promote it to our student community.
The focus group will take place Wednesday 4 November from 12-2pm.
Lunch will be provided. Participants will also receive a £15 Amazon or
Waterstones voucher. Please send your expression of interest to
Lsethesesonline@lse.ac.uk.
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Interested in South Asia? Check out the South Asia @ LSE blog
LSE’s South Asia Centre blog exists to promote LSE research and analysis of
the region, and to spark dialogue about South Asian issues. It features
articles, event summaries, interviews and book reviews exploring everything
from the NGO sector in Bangladesh, to the debates around Nepal’s
constitution, to analysis of the latest Indian election.
Take a look here, and
follow South Asia @ LSE on Twitter
and Facebook for
updates. Interested in other LSE blogs? Check them out at
blogs.lse.ac.uk.
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Free IT training in just about anything Everyone at LSE has
access to a huge range of free computer training in a variety of formats.
The
IT Training website outlines workshops, surgeries and certification
programmes covering a full range of Microsoft Office skills and problems.
Interested in picking up skills in web design, Excel analytics, Adobe
InDesign? Register for access to
online video tutorials. Need to get to grips with touch typing? Enroll
in Typing Club. And if you want to
be more efficient in producing academic papers, including theses and
dissertations, download the bespoke course
Word 2010: formatting an academic paper.
If you have an IT question, check out the
online guides and FAQs or attend the drop-in Software Surgeries every
Wednesday from 1-2pm in LRB.R08. Subscribe to the
IT training mailing list to stay informed of upcoming courses and
workshops. Share your favourite IT tip with
IT.training@lse.ac.uk.
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LSE Catering Christmas Meals - save the date Christmas is
rapidly approaching and LSE Catering are delighted to confirm their
Christmas lunch dates as below.
- Fourth Floor Restaurant - Thursday 3 December
- LSE Garrick - Thursday 10 and Friday 11 December
Menus will be announced shortly.
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RUN. VOTE. CHANGE. In our Annual Survey last year, 63 per cent
of you said 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 LSESU and
check out who's talking about the topics that matter to you at
lsesu.com/elections.
From 10am on Wednesday 28 to 7pm on Thursday 29 October you can
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in pictures
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LSE's Old Building is becoming a popular selfie spot! Thanks
@momobuble for sharing
this with us.
Share your images
@londonschoolofeconomics.
#partofLSE
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 What's
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Forthcoming LSE events include....
Jobs only for the most skilled at the right age?
On: Monday 26 October at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Fredrik Reinfeldt (pictured)
Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals: a new partnership between
state and private sector
On: Tuesday 27 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Sir Suma Chakrabarti
Anthropology and Development: challenges for the 21st century
On: Wednesday 28 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speakers: Professor James Fairhead, Professor Katy Gardner, Professor David
Lewis (pictured), and Professor David Mosse
Lunchtime Concert
On: Thursday 29 October at 1.05pm in the Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old
Building
Performer: Sean Shibe (guitar)
Towards the Flame: empire, war and the end of Tsarist Russia
On: Thursday 29 October at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Dominic Lieven
Shaken but not Stirred? The Banking System Seven Years after the Crisis
On: Thursday 29 October at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic
Building
Speaker: Dr Andreas Dombret
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In Conversation with Amartya Sen On: Friday 6 November from
6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Amartya Sen,
Thomas W Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and
Philosophy at Harvard University.
Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen will discuss his latest publication,
The Country of First Boys, which is a new collection of cultural
essays in which he examines social justice and welfare.
A ticket is required for this event. One ticket per person can be
requested from Wednesday 28 October.
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Another ticket release reminder....
The Shifts and the Shocks: what we’ve learned - and still have to learn
- from the financial crisis
On: Monday 9 November
Speaker: Martin Wolf
Ticket release date: Thursday 29 October
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Migration - the ultimate challenge for Europe and the world
On: Thursday 22 October from 12.30-1.30pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New
Academic Building.
United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
International Migration, Peter Sutherland, speaks at this Institute of
Global Affairs migration initiative event.
Mr Sutherland has been a leading voice calling for action at the European
level and in the United Nations. He is former Director General of the WTO,
European Commissioner, Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, and Chairman
of the LSE Court of Governors.
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HEPL 10th Anniversary Event On: Thursday 22 October
from 6.15-7.45pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
This event marks the 10th anniversary of Health Economics Policy and
Law.
The programme will begin with some words about HEPL from Patrick
McCartan of Cambridge University Press and Elias Mossialos, Co-Editor in
Chief of the journal. There will then be short statements from some of the
members of HEPL’s International Advisory Board on what they think the
biggest challenges will be in health care policy, either from the
perspective of their own country or internationally, over the next 10 years.
A Q&A and reception will follow.
The event is free to attend but places are limited. To book your place,
email Adam Oliver at a.j.oliver@lse.ac.uk.
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Exploring the psychological effects of the Greek financial crisis
On: Tuesday 27 October from 6-7.30pm in the
Cañada Blanch Room, Cowdray House
Speaker: Bettina Davou, National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens.
The seminar will present the results of a research project that
investigated the emotional atmosphere during the financial crisis and the
way it affected citizens’ emotions and behaviour.
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A Theory of Everything: evolution, history and the shape of things to
come On: Tuesday 27 October from 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old
Building
Speaker: Professor Ian Morris, Philippe Roman Chair in History and
International Affairs at LSE IDEAS for 2015-16.
In the last 50 years, knowledge of archaeology, anthropology, history,
evolution, genetics and linguistics has exploded. A new synthesis of history
is emerging, suggesting that people are all much the same and the societies
we create all develop in much the same ways. What varies is the places in
which societies develop. Biology and geography have driven a 150,000-year
story of cooperation and competition. By projecting forward the patterns of
the past and the forces that disrupt them, we can begin to see where the
21st century might take us.
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LSE Graduate Open Evening On: Wednesday 4 November from
4.30-8pm
This is your opportunity to:
- discover the wide range of taught and research degrees available at
LSE
- visit departmental information stands
- attend talks on Financing your studies, Research at LSE and Careers
Did you know: LSE undergraduates and General Course students are entitled
to a 10 per cent fee discount on taught master’s programmes.
Advance booking is essential. For more information and to book,
visit the
Open
Evening webpage.
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15th Hellenic Observatory Annual Lecture: The Hypocrisy of European
Moralism: Greece and the politics of cultural aggression
On: Wednesday 4 November from 6.30-8pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Michael Herzfeld, Professor of the Social Sciences and
Curator of European Ethnology in the Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
Over nearly two centuries, Greeks were forced to fit their national
culture to the antiquarian desires of Western powers, inhabiting a
“non-modern” time and a marginal geo-political space. The West supported
conservative politicians who maintained Greece’s status as a “backward”
client state, while reproducing that inequity in their exploitation of
their electoral constituents. Western moralism about alleged Greek
“corruption,” “laziness,” and “irresponsibility” thus occludes the
West’s own complicity in generating these attitudes. Greece and its
patrons must now equally face daunting consequences; a balanced
admission of shared responsibility would be a good start.
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Celebrating 120 years of LSE - visit the LSE Foundations
exhibition
LSE Library’s autumn exhibition
Foundations:
LSE and the Science of Society looks at key personalities and
relationships that have been formed at LSE.
It explores how some LSE academics have achieved success working toward
the betterment of society, by serving the public and influencing reform.
2015 is LSE’s 120th anniversary. Join in the celebrations at
lse.ac.uk/lse120
#LSE120
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Migration and security challenges in the Mediterranean: every country
for itself or a European response?
Speaker: Angelino Alfano
Recorded: Tuesday 13 October, approx. 62 minutes
Confronting Gender Inequality: findings from the LSE Commission on Gender,
Inequality and Power
Speakers: Shami Chakrabarti, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, and Anne Perkins
Recorded: Tuesday 13 October, approx. 97 minutes
Cameron at 10 - the inside story of Cameron's premiership
Speakers: Dr Anthony Seldon and Peter Snowdon
Recorded: Wednesday 14 October, approx. 77 minutes
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 60
second interview
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with..... Nicola Wright
I joined LSE Library in 2008 and was appointed as Director of Library Services in March this year. I’ve worked in several wonderful libraries but LSE’s Library - the British Library of Political and Economic Science - is very special. I’m proud to lead a library that was established ‘for promoting the study and general knowledge of…all matters relating to the progress and development of communities and of mankind generally’.
At home I have two lovely children who ask ‘why?’ a lot. A good question but a bit trying when it concerns the need to tidy bedrooms.
How do you see the Library changing over the next five years?
The Library will have a stronger digital presence so that people perceive it as a virtual space as well as a physical building and collection. We need to ensure that our collections continue to represent social movements and this means acquiring born-digital materials from the web and finding new ways to use them in support of education and research.
The study environment will be improved with more study spaces to meet student demand and new spaces to enable more group working and use of technology. We also need to design spaces that support the different ways that people want to work – we need vibrant spaces where people can work together but also peaceful places for silent study
Some things won’t change - the Library will still be full of people (virtual or otherwise) and we will still have a lot of books!
What’s your favourite thing about working for the Library?
The people I work with - students, researchers and of course, my Library colleagues. I also enjoy my encounters with the characters that come to life through our collections - they are brilliant, dedicated, driven, sometimes tragic and quite often rather eccentric.
If you could change places with someone past or present, for a day, who would it be and why?
Amelia Earhart for her sense of adventure and feminism. I’m also frightened of flying so it would be lovely to experience flight without the anxiety I normally feel.
What was the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
I recently went on a Waltzer ride with my daughter. I hadn’t been on one for about 30 years and I had forgotten how fast they go. We screamed and laughed from start to finish. I felt decidedly queasy at the end but my daughter wanted to go straight back on!
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A free spirit.
If you could have one super power, what would it be?
Being able to be in two places at once would be handy.
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