Are you a final year undergraduate student? If so, have you completed the National Student Survey yet? You can enter the survey here.
The survey is an important way for LSE to understand what’s good and what can be improved about your student experience. It’s vital as many eligible students as possible complete the survey so that the views are representative of everyone.
You are eligible to complete the survey if you are in your final year of an undergraduate degree at LSE and it is open to all UK, EU and overseas students.
Visit the exhibition, view the six design competition proposals and vote for your preferred scheme. Submissions will be on display in the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre from 2 March until 17 March.
Head to the Atrium Gallery, Old Building tomorrow from 12-1.30pm and the New Academic Building on Friday from 4-5.30pm to see all of the 2016 Photo Prize submissions and grab some freebies too!
Professor Oriana Bandiera Professor Bandiera, Director of STICERD, wanted to be an airplane pilot when she was a child: "I'm glad that I became an economist instead, at least you can sleep on the plane".
Researchers from LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) have demonstrated the benefits of equity crowdfunding as a "robust alternative" for investors and entrepreneurs.
CEP has analysed investment behaviour on the UK’s largest equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, a market leader in its field, nearly tripling between 2014 and 2015. According to CEP’s researchers, crowdfunding “serves as a robust source of alternative entrepreneurial finance which has operated in a stable and predictable manner" in its infancy.
Is Decentralization Good for Development: perspectives from academics and policy
On Wednesday 10 February Jean-Paul Faguet, Professor of the Political Economy of Development at LSE, spoke at The World Bank, Washington DC, as part of the MENA Chief Economist Seminar Series. The seminar was based on Professor Faguet's recent book Is Decentralization Good for Development?.
Message from Professor Paul Kelly, Pro-Director for Teaching and Learning
In teaching weeks eight and nine, the School will be conducting teaching surveys. There are two types, namely class/seminar/course survey and lecture survey. The surveys cover permanent faculty, GTAs and LSE Teaching Fellows.
You will be asked to complete the surveys for any courses that were not surveyed in Michaelmas term. The class/seminar/courses survey asks for your views on the course as a whole and also about your class teacher’s performance; the lecture survey asks about various aspect of your lecturer’s performance.
Surveys will be conducted during classes/seminars/lectures, and should take no more than ten minutes to complete. A student volunteer will be asked to collect completed questionnaires, and to return them in a sealed envelope to a drop box in the Student Services Centre.
The School takes this exercise very seriously. Results of the teaching surveys allow us to put in place support and training for teachers who need it. They also allow us to reward excellence in teaching. Please take the time to complete the questionnaires.
Over 1,500 people have now completed the Student Accommodation Satisfaction Survey, and we’ve given away almost £400 in Amazon Vouchers to say thank you for helping us improve our residences.
If you live in halls and haven’t yet completed the survey, do so as soon as you can to be entered into our Mini Prize Draw on Wednesday 9 March, and our Grand Prize Draw after Thursday 24 March. We still have seven £20 Amazon Vouchers, two £100 Amazon vouchers and four iPads to give away.
All current residents have been emailed a personalised invite and an individual link to the survey. To take part, please click on the link you were sent. Email residential.life@lse.ac.uk with your name, hall, and Student ID number if you didn’t receive the link, or if you need us to send you another one.
"Prevent" is part of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy. Since last September, universities have been under a legal duty to comply with it. But what does this mean for students?
We are laying on some briefing sessions with the help of the School lawyers, Pinsent Masons. Students have priority for the session on Thursday 25 February at12-2pm in 1 Kingsway. There are still a few places left. If you would like to attend please email Marta Gajewska on m.gajewska@lse.ac.uk.
If space permits, students would be welcome instead to attend on 25 February at 2.30-4.30pm, Friday 26 February at 12-2pm or 2.30-4.30pm or Thursday 3 March at 12.30-2.30pm or 3-5pm. If there’s demand, we’ll run more sessions.
If you’d like to know more but can’t attend a briefing, click here for background.
This Friday - Cocktail and wine evening
Celebrate the start of the weekend this Friday with our cocktail and wine evening taking place on the lower ground floor of the New Academic Building.
From 5-10.30pm, there will be a large selection of made-to-order cocktails and wines for you to enjoy. Bring along your friends and colleagues - all are welcome!
As you start to focus on exams and dissertations you will notice that the Library will get very busy from now until June.
We hope that the addition of 276 seats on the fourth floor this year, all of which are for LSE students only, will mean there is always room to study. But, if you are struggling to find a place to work in the Library, find out what things you can do here.
United Nations on Trial Date: Friday 26 February, 6-8.30pm Judge: The Hon. Mr Justice Jay Expert witnesses including: Dr Nazila Ghanea, Antony Loewenstein, Carne Ross
Tuesday 1 March from 6.30-8pm in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building Speakers: Theodore Pelagidis, NR Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, USA, Professor of Economics, University of Piraeus; and Michael Mitsopoulos, PhD Boston University, Coordinator of Research and Analysis, Hellenic Federation of Enterprises Discussant: Professor Dimitri Vayanos, Head of the Department of Finance, LSE
In the first part of the presentation, we will present the narrative which shaped the understanding of Greek policymakers and politicians about costs and benefits for Greece to join the single currency. We will then match this narrative with the declared policy strategy, and its implementation, by the government that introduced the Maastricht treaty for ratification, in order to investigate the extent to which its conviction that Greece could succeed to enter on equal terms as a constructive member country was well founded.
Lunchtime talk in the Library’s exhibition gallery
Thursday 3 March, 1pm
Join exhibition curator Gillian Murphy for a short talk in the library's exhibition 'Women, Peace and Equality'.
Drawing on the library's unique and distinctive archive collections the exhibition tells the stories of the varied roles women have had on the international stage to influence peace during times of conflict. We are delighted that Christine Chinkin from the Centre for Women, Peace and Security will be in attendance and there will be a chance to ask questions.
The tour is free and open to all; no need to book. Please note that due to space restrictions we will be welcoming the first 20 attendees on a first come first served basis.
Tuesday 8 March, 5.30-8pm, The Silverstone Room, TW3.7.01A
A screening of the 1995 film by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, based on Vito Russo’s book The Celluloid Closet, followed by a discussion chaired by Sarah Cefai and James Deeley.
Co-hosted by Spectrum (the LGBT+ Staff Network) and the LSE Department of Media and Communications (MC418 ‘Queer Theory’ session).
Wednesday 9 March from 7.30pm at the The British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG
At this event Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of LSE, will join American-British television presenter Loyd Grossman, That’s Not English author Erin Moore, and The Economist editor and columnist Adrian Wooldridge to ponder the lingering influence of Britain on the U.S., and whether the two nations’ deep alliance is on the verge of historic change.
The Hellenic Observatory is delighted to invite you to the Private View of the forthcoming exhibition ‘Imagine Greece’ organised within the framework of the Hellenic Observatory 20 Year Anniversary.
H.E Mr Konstantinos Bikas, Ambassador of Greece to the UK will give the opening speech, at 7.15pm. Attendance to the Private View is by RSVP only, please email hellenicobservatory@lse.ac.uk.
Thursday 10 March from 6.30-8pm in CLM.302, Clement House
The world spends around US$ 25 billion to provide life-saving assistance to 125 million people devastated by wars and natural disasters. Despite the generosity of many donors, the gap between the resources needed for humanitarian action and the available resources is increasing, reaching an estimated US$ 15 billion. In May 2015, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon appointed a High-Level Panel (HLP) of experts to work on finding concrete and actionable solutions to this widening gap.
Kristalina Georgieva, Vice-President of the European Commission for Budget and former Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, co-chaired the panel. She will present the key findings of the report and put them in the context of a more fragile global environment which is also the root cause of the refugee crisis Europe is facing at the moment.
Tuesday 15 March from 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Through most of history, humans lived in tiny foraging bands with very low political, economic and gender hierarchy. After the invention of farming about 10,000 years ago, societies got much bigger and most forms of hierarchy increased; but since the coming of fossil fuels 200 years ago, although societies have become even bigger, hierarchy has declined.
Philippe Roman Chair Ian Morris asks why changes in how we capture energy from the environment had these effects, and where inequality will go in the coming decades.
The Department of Media and Communications invites participants to join them in a film and discussion mini-series on Thursday 3 March, Wednesday 4 May and Wednesday 25 May.
The series aims to open a space for debate around the use of key terms, including: colonialism, postcolonialism, the decolonial and decolonisation, as well as race, modernity, representation, power, identity, and the image. We are interested to explore the critical purchase of these terms in contexts of freedom and domination and hope to stimulate a located and reflexive dialogue among researchers and postgraduates.
If you have some news, an achievement, or an aspect of LSE life that you would like to share, we would love to hear from you - get in touch at communications.internal@lse.ac.uk or on ext 7582.
The next edition of Student News is on Wednesday 2 March. Articles for this should be emailed to us by Monday 29 February. Student News is emailed on Wednesdays, on a weekly basis during Michaelmas and Lent term and fortnightly during Summer term.
