Last night LSE celebrated distinction in teaching at the Teaching Awards Celebration 2016. The LSESU Teaching Excellence Awards are voted for by students and this year a record-breaking 1,370 nominations were submitted.
Well done to all of the individual winners and to the Gender Institute which won the Departmental Excellence Award. To add to the excitement, the Teaching Promotion Awards and the Class Teacher Awards were also awarded last night. Congratulations to all!
You can find all of the winners here. More information about the winners will be included in next week’s Staff News.
The new room booking system Resource Booker has been extended so that you can now also book small teaching rooms, study rooms, and computer rooms in addition to small committee rooms for meetings, and the catering rooms for evening receptions and dinners.
The EDI Taskforce is keen to reinvigorate the network that was previously in place for staff with disabilities. If you would like to be involved in such a network, please contact Joy Whyte.
Stef Hackney Stef, a Registered Mental Nurse (official title!) working in LSE's Disability and Wellbeing Service, is very interested in how we all manage our mental health whilst working (or studying) at LSE.
Best of luck to LSE economist Swati Dhingra and PhD researcher Winnie M Li, both shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement awards tonight.
Swati is among the finalists in the Public Service section and Winnie has been nominated in the Social and Humanitarian category for her work to help sexual assault survivors.
Dr Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro, Professor of Organisational Behaviour in the Department of Management, has been elected as President of the Academy of Management (AOM).
Professor Coyle-Shapiro will begin her five year term on 10 August 2016 as Vice President-Elect and Program Chair-Elect. In 2019, she will become the 75th President of the Academy, the first time in the history of the AOM that a UK-based academic has been elected to the role.
Professor Michael Storper has been awarded a Royal Medal from the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), in recognition of his scholarship and leadership in human and economic geography.
Professor Storper said: "I am honoured to receive this award as a member of LSE's Department of Geography and Environment. My interactions with my departmental colleagues have been essential to any contributions I have been able to make to our discipline. This award can be considered recognition of our work collectively, in the best spirit of LSE as a leading hub of social science in the world."
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, Roman Frigg, has won the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award.
The award is given in recognition of Roman’s accomplishments in research and to support his future work.
When an entrepreneurial business model based around the making and selling of bamboo bicycles in poverty-stricken communities in Mexico City was entered for the 2016 Hult Prize Regionals in Dubai, it was impossible for the judges not to sit up and take notice.
Selected from over 25,000 entries to compete for the US$1million pot of seed-funding, Luc Griaud, Alyssa Campbell, Alice Mougin and Maxime Noell - all students in the Department of Geography and Environment - gathered with hundreds of teams from around the world to present their innovative and exciting social enterprise initiative, The Boocycle.
Following the MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies field trip to Athens, Tifenn, Adele, Hugo, Ari, Gabriela and Jeanne headed to the Idomeni refugee camp, Thessalonike. They helped provide daily support to thousands of transitory refugees waiting to cross the border into Greece.
Having independently raised €2,429 from 64 contributors - every euro of which went into supporting the refugees - the students paired up with two local Greek NGOs: Oikopolis, which provides food, mental support and shelter to those in need, and Colors Open Kitchen, which provides over 2,000 portions of basic warm food to refugees everyday.
Home Group, a provider of social housing, has published the results of a report carried out by LSE to assess the impact of a £140 million regeneration programme at Rayners Lane, a former council owned estate in the London Borough of Harrow.
Tax increases for private landlords will drive some small landlords out of the sector, while others will try to pass the costs on to their tenants, stretching household budgets and putting homeownership further out of reach. Taking Stock, a new report by LSE London, analyses the private rental sector and its growing importance to the UK housing mix.
New LSE guidance on supporting Muslim staff during Ramadan
Together with Human Resources and the Faith Centre, the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce has developed guidance on supporting Muslim staff during Ramadan.
This is available online, and will be useful to both Muslim staff and their managers.
It has never been more important to understand the ways in which your academic work can deliver benefits beyond academia. Knowledge exchange and impact (KEI) are priorities for funders, policy-makers and the School. With growing interest in the return on public investment in research, and impact likely to remain a key feature of research assessments including the REF, KEI can seem daunting.
Help and support is available at LSE. Research Division lunchtime sessions on impact are designed to introduce you to KEI and to help you think about how your LSE research can make a real difference in the wider world. Furthermore, if you’re not sure whether your research can be submitted to the next REF, join our training event to learn more.
The upcoming REF and KEI sessions delivered by Research Division are:
Next Tuesday LSE academics will be meeting alumni groups in three different countries all on one day - in Chile, Italy and Sweden.
Did you know that LSE has over 100 regional alumni groups across the world? LSE Advancement is always looking for academics to meet alumni during their travels - this could be for informal drinks or perhaps giving a short talk to alumni. If you have upcoming travel please let alumni@lse.ac.uk know and LSE Advancement can connect you with the local alumni group.
From 25-28 April, LSE's Configuring Light Team visited Muscat, Oman, to deliver a workshop looking into social research methods and lighting design to help improve the lighting in the traditional Souq al Seeb.
Five groups worked on five sites in the Souq, conducting social research and developing new lighting ideas for their sites. At the end of the week, students presented their work to the public, as well as invited guests and press.
This is the second workshop in the iGuzzini-supported workshop series and was a collaboration with the German University of Technology in Oman.
The 1989 Generation Initiative was created by students in the LSE European Institute in February 2015. Its objective is to reinvigorate the European Union by developing reform proposals through a process of intergenerational and pan-European dialogue.
Since their first conference last June, they have produced a declaration containing eight proposals for EU reform, which they presented to the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday 27 April.
To promote Dementia Awareness Week 2016 (15-21 May), Adelina Comas-Herrera and Lisa Trigg from the Personal Social Services Research Unit will be running a free ‘Dementia Friends’ Information Session.
Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme aims to transform the way the nation thinks, talks and acts about the condition. The one-hour session will take place on Tuesday 24 May, 12.30-1.30pm, room 9.04, Tower 2. Everyone is welcome.
Since our last update late in April, here’s a quick update on developments:
Having recently explained the proposed changes to content management we’ll be contacting departments and divisions in May to validate or nominate their appointed editors. We’ll then be contacting all editors to arrange training, assign access to the new site, describe the migration process and set up migration schedules.
This week, we’re presenting the proposed changes to Departmental Landing Pages at the Academic Managers' Forum. We’ll be revealing the latest look and feel, describing how the new templates can be used to personalise content, and explaining how related content from around the new site can be automatically ‘pulled-in’ to help provide a richer experience.
Our new student Programme/Course Finder has now been built, and is currently being tested by the team, ahead of content population which is scheduled for June.
Search results pages for the Research, People Finder, News and Events sections have now been built by our development partners, Zengenti, and are currently being integrated with Search.
Details pages for Research, News and Events are currently being coded.
Landing pages for Research, News, Events and Departments are currently being documented ahead of coding production next week.
All of our prototyping work is now complete, with our new Homepage wireframes shared with the Communications Division last week.
What’s coming up next:
Landing page designs for Study, Life at LSE, Library, Blogs, Current Students and Staff
Migration support communications
Migration support team due on site later this month
Standard content pages to production
Global search results pages prepared for integration
A ‘Digital Show and Tell’ event later in May.
Look out for the next programme update, and in the meantime if you have any questions or queries about any aspect of the programme, or would like to make any recommendations or suggestions on training, then please contact us at webreview@lse.ac.uk.
LSE Arts public exhibition Until Friday 10 June Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm, Atrium Gallery, Old Building
Shortly after the island of Gunkanjima (also known as Battleship Island) was registered by UNESCO as a World Heritage site, Nagasaki City granted photographer MAKIKO rare permission to visit and photograph the abandoned island in order to show it as it is now and remember how it was through the memories of a former resident who lived there as a child 40 years ago.
International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT)
Join Spectrum, LSE’s LGBT+ staff network, in marking #IDAHOBIT on Tuesday 17 May with an awareness raising campaign at LSE.
Remember, we are here year-round if you need us. If you’d like to join our mailing list or have a question then drop us a line at spectrum@lse.ac.uk, follow @LSESpectrumor visit lse.ac.uk/spectrum.
Thursday 19 May, 6.30-8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Speaker: Oscar H Gandy Jr, media scholar and Emeritus Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
After discussing threats of political profiling to the future of public participation in the democratic process, Oscar Gandy will explore some possibilities for managing the nature, extent and distribution of these and associated societal harms.
Tuesday 24 May, 6.30-8pm, Old Theatre, Old Building Speakers: Professor Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy and Director of LSE Housing and Communities, and Professor Bruce Katz, Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution.
Cities for a Small Continent is an international handbook, drawing together 10 years of ground-level research into the causes and consequences of Europe's biggest urban challenges. This event explores the potential for former industrial cities to offer a more sustainable future for a crowded European continent.
LSE is hosting a one day workshop that will focus on how to communicate research findings and expert analysis most effectively and on how to connect with non-academic audiences to maximise opportunities for impact. The event is designed to enhance the skills and confidence of researchers and their colleagues working in communications and public affairs. The event is funded by the ESRC’s Impact Acceleration Account and co-hosted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
It will offer opportunities to learn from media experts including: Paul Johnson, Director of the IFS; Ed Conway (Sky News); Soumaya Keynes (The Economist); Romesh Vaitilingamn (LSE), and David Walker (Guardian). The afternoon includes four breakout sessions: Social media and academic blogging; Managing your message - communicating sensitive research; Talk your way into radio; and Communication/PR planning - and spotting opportunities as they arise.
The event is funded by the ESRC’s capacity-building programme for the Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) community. Please note that places are limited. For a detailed programme and to register your interest in attending, please contact Tina Basi, Knowledge Exchange Manager.
Thursday 9 June, 12-1.30pm Do you have questions about completing timesheets? Are you curious what tricks your colleagues have learned to help them better manage their research grants? Learn more about completing timesheets for research awards and how to use them.
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 Staff News is on Thursday 19 May. Articles for this should be emailed to us by Tuesday 17 May. Staff News is emailed every Thursday during term time and fortnightly during the holidays.
