Professional services team

Responsible for:

• Planning and management of departmental resources: human, financial and accommodation
• Acting as the key interface between the Department and the School
• Responsible for quality assurance (reviews)
• Compliance responsibilities i.e. employment law, race relations, special education needs & disability, data protection, health and safety
• First point of contact on contractual and financial matters
• Responsible for the professional services team and its development

Office Hours:

• In person: Thursday, 1pm to 3pm - by appointment only via Student Hub.
• On Zoom: by appointment only via Student Hub.

Room: SAR.1.03b
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7548
Email: d.frini@lse.ac.uk

Responsible for:

• Undergraduate programme, including: degree and course enquiries including course choice, orientation, exams, language course reimbursement queries, essay submissions queries, student staff liaison committee enquiries. Applications for undergraduate degrees are considered by Undergraduate Admissions, who make the decisions on whether to offer places. For admissions queries please contact ug.admissions@lse.ac.uk
• Department's Main Office and its facilities including post, fax, stationery; ordering and distribution of goods and services
• Estate-related requests e.g. maintenance issues and office requirements

Jacquie Minter has a certificate in Mental Health First Aid.

Office Hours:

• In person: irregular days, 1pm to 3pm - by appointment only via Student Hub.
• On Zoom: Monday to Friday, 12pm to 1pm - by appointment only via Student Hub.

Attend Jacquie Minter's office hours to discuss:

• general programme related queries
• exams
• essay submissions
• extension requests
• welfare and personal issues affecting studies

Room: SAR.1.03f
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6174
Email: ih.ug.admin@lse.ac.uk

Responsible for all aspects of:

• MSc History of International Relations
• MSc Theory and History of International Relations
• MSc Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation
• MSc International and Asian History

• Responsible for organising the Department's events programme: annual lectures, public lectures, the Cumberland Lodge weekend, and Department meetings.

Office Hours:

• In person: irregular days, 1pm to 3pm - by appointment only via Student Hub.
• On Zoom: Monday to Friday, 12pm to 1pm - by appointment only via Student Hub.

Room: SAR.1.03e
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7331
Email: ih.pgadmin@lse.ac.uk

Responsible for all aspects of:

• LSE-PKU Double MSc International Affairs
• LSE-Columbia Double MA degree in International and World History
• PhD Programme

Office Hours:

• On Zoom: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 10.30am to 11.30am - by appointment only via Student Hub.

Room: SAR.1.03c
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7126
Email:n.bhatti@lse.ac.uk

Responsible for:

• Organising the Department's events programme: Welcome Week events, annual lectures, public lectures and student events.
• Overseeing logistics and coverage of departmental events on the day.
• Producing social media features and audio-visual content for web resources.
• Managing and coordinating internal and external projects in relation to student experience.

Office Hours:

• In person: Tuesday, 1pm to 3pm - by appointment only via Student Hub.
• On Zoom: by appointment only via email.

Room: SAR.1.03g
Email: a.bryant@lse.ac.uk

Responsible for:

• Administrative support and general business of the Department's Teaching and Research Committees, and Teaching and Exams Meeting
• Planning, implementation of policy and advice related to teaching programmes and the student experience
• Leading departmental business on  the CAPIS course management system
• Departmental administration for the Research Excellence Framework (REF)
• Administration for Visiting Academics, primarily during the application and welcome stages

Matthew Betts has certificates in Mental Health First Aid and Introduction to Counselling.

Office Hours:

• In person: irregular days, 1pm to 3pm - by appointment only via Student Hub.
• On Zoom: by appointment only via Studnet Hub.

Attend Matthew Betts office hours to discuss:

• Timetabling
• Course choice and degree regulations
• Moodle, Turnitin, coursework queries
• Dissertations and research interests of faculty
• Careers, further study, wider opportunities at LSE
• Welfare and personal issues affecting your studies

Room: SAR.1.03d
Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5409
Email: m.betts1@lse.ac.uk

Responsible for:

• Alumni relations and careers programmes and their activities in the Department
• Assisting the Department Manager with One Finance administration, payments and queries.
• Bolstering programme and student administration where and as needed

Office Hours:

• On Zoom: by appointment only via email.

Room: SAR.1.03d
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7543
Email: e.gjonca@lse.ac.uk

Responsible for:

• Designing, editing and updating the Department's website on CMS Contensis
• Maintaining and keeping up to date the department's presence in the LSE Student Hub and in social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook
• Designing, updating and editing the department's Moodle courses and online reading lists (readinglists@LSE)
• Creating and overseeing the production of video, audio, graphic and written content for departmental web resourses
• Promoting departmental events, news and programmes online
• First point of contact on all website, social media, Moodle, readinglists@LSE and LSE Student Hub matters relating to the department

Office Hours:

• On Zoom: by appointment only via email.

Room: SAR.1.03f
Email: ih.projectadmin@lse.ac.uk