Alaa Murabit, who is studying for an Executive Masters in International Strategy and Diplomacy, will help promote action to achieve the SDGs adopted by world leaders at the UN Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015.
Commenting on the appointment, Alaa said: "I am very honoured to have been appointed for this role, and humbled to serve alongside such a distinguished group of esteemed individuals. I look forward to ensuring that our global goals translate into more equal, inclusive, prosperous, safe and fair societies."
The NHS can better utilise the vast potential of patient complaint data, according to a new study by LSE.
In their research paper, published in BMJ: Quality & Safety, Dr Alex Gillespie and Dr Tom Reader of the Department of Social Psychology argue that adopting a consistent system to assess the nature and severity of complaints across the NHS will both improve service levels and enable benchmarking across hospitals and trusts. They have developed the Healthcare Complaints Analysis Tool, the first reliable method of coding and systemising healthcare complaints.
Austerity measures at national level have not helped regions to recover following the 2008 economic crisis, according to a new LSE study of the UK and other EU countries.
On the contrary, high public debt countries have been more successful in sheltering their regional economies, the research concludes.
Calling all second and third year students - are you living in private accommodation and would you recommend your landlord/home to other LSE students? Perhaps you’ll be moving out of your house this summer, or perhaps only one of your flatmates will move out and leave you with a vacant room to fill?
Studentpad is LSE’s tailored lettings portal which connects LSE students with landlords to make househunting that little bit easier.
Launched in January 2015, this innovative civic engagement project aimed to crowdsource the United Kingdom Constitution. One of the key intentions of the project was to leverage and magnify the power of the community and the ‘massive’ in order to empower participants to engage in debate, identify solutions and come to a common agreement about the need for and the content of a UK Constitution.
The LSE BrexitVote Blog has published the first of five ebooks - 'On the Edge: David Cameron's EU renegotiation strategies'.Frank Vibert, a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at LSE, draws on his experience as a founder director of the European Policy Forum to analyse the five strands of Cameron’s renegotiation strategy.
BrexitVote is a multi-disciplinary, evidence-based blog run by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
The Library is now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week until the end of the Summer term.
Over this period, we will review the Library opening hours so that the service better reflects the changing needs and use patterns of students and we'll be seeking your views as part of this.
This is just one of the recent and upcoming developments in the Library:
We've also added 276 new study spaces, Find out more to discover where these are.
Over the next year we will be reorganising the collections to make it easier and quicker for you to find the books you need.
We are seeking your views through our regular staff satisfaction survey in February.
Our staff are onhand to help with anything in the Library and with any Library resources.
Thursday 28 January from 6.30-8pm. The venue will be confirmed to ticket holders.
Tickets will be available online via the LSE events website from around 6pm on Thursday 21 January until at least 12 noon on Friday 22 January.
Professor Luoka Katseli, Chair of the National Bank of Greece, visits LSE to discuss the lessons from the Greek crisis.
The Welcome address will be given by Antonis Ntatzopoulos, Hellenic Bankers Association-UK Chairman, and the event will be charied by Professor Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director.
Two events next week consider London, covering its transformation since the millenium and the Mayoral candidates take to the stage:
This Is London Date: Tuesday 26 January 2016 6.30pm Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Speaker: Ben Judah
Why I should be Mayor of London Tomorrow Date: Thursday 28 January 2016 6.30pm Location: LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders Speaker: Sian Berry, Sadiq Khan, Caroline Pidgeon, Colin Stanbridge, Tony Travers, Peter Whittle
Wednesday 27 January, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building.
Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 Years After Dayton - Opportunities and Challenges in 2016
Guest lecture by H.E. Valentin Inzko (pictured), High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina chaired by Dr Spyros Economides, LSE European Institute.
This is a free event, please register using the link below.
On Monday 8 February from 10am-3pm, the LSESU Venue in the Saw Swee Hock Building will be hosting ReLove Fashion, your opportunity to update your wardrobe by swapping clothes and learning how to make practical and sustainable use of your unloved clothing.
At the Fashion Swap Shop, bring along your unwanted clothes and pick up a new outfit. Sustainable fashion advocates TRAID will be running upcycling workshops showing you how to make a tote bag from an old t shirt. Places at the TRAID workshops are limited and require a £5 donation - book your place through Eventbrite.
This event is being run by the IMT Green Impact team.
Tuesday 9 February from 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
20,000 years ago, the average person stood a 10-20 per cent chance of dying violently. Today, the chance is under 1 per cent. We have cut rates of violent death by 90 per cent by creating large organisations that impose peace; but the main method for creating these organisations has been war. In effect, violence has slowly been putting itself out of business.
Professor Ian Morris, Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at LSE IDEAS for 2015-16, will discuss how the trends suggest that this process will probably continue.
The Library’s spring exhibition draws on its iconic collections to explore the theme of war, women and peace. It coincides with the launch of the new teaching programme at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at LSE.
On display are original photographs and documents from the Boer War in 1901, Eglantyne Jebb and Save the Children, Edith Summerskill’s visit to Spanish Civil War refugees, photographs from the first women’s international peace congress in 1915 which led to the formation of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and UN posters and letters.
Follow @LSELibrary and @LSE_WPS on Twitter for updates on exhibition events.
Inspired by the LSE's school motto Rerum Cognoscere Causas – "to understand the causes of things" - RCC Conference brings together top managers, world-renowned academics, influential policy makers and selected students to debate contemporary issues, collaborate on solutions, and define best practices.
The following three events are open to all students. Admission will be granted on a first come, first serve basis from Event Brite
Hamassala Dicko, Director of Innovation Air France KLM (Friday 29 Jan, 1.30-2.30pm Old Theatre)
Facebook Company Presentation (Friday 29 Jan, 2.45-3.45pm Old Theatre)
Antonio Belloni, Group Managing Director LVMH (Friday 29 Jan, 6.30-8pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre)
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The next edition of Student News is on Wednesday 27 January. Articles for this should be emailed to us by Monday 25 January. Student News is emailed on Wednesdays, on a weekly basis during Michaelmas and Lent term and fortnightly during Summer term.
