The festival will explore how resistance has been interpreted and understood within academic research, the arts, grassroots activism campaigns, student debate and mainstream politics. It will feature soapbox debates, lectures, film screenings, workshops, theatre, a lighting event, a gig night and more.
In 2015-16, LSE enjoyed a record year in philanthropic income secured for School projects, with almost £85.8 million raised from alumni and friends, trusts, foundations and business partners.
Find out who has been nominated as the first ever Star of the Week! To nominate your colleague or someone you have worked with recently, get in touch with us. We want to hear about your LSE stars!
Professor Julia Black Professor Julia Black is interim Director of LSE. Read her advice for new students, find out where her favourite place is on the LSE campus, and who would be her top dinner party guests.
LSE continues to be ranked among the top universities in the world according to the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.
Following a sharp rise of 11 places last year, the School has maintained its place within the world’s top 25 at 25th, and as fifth out of 91 institutions from the UK.
London homeowners are prepared to pay a premium to live in inner city areas where the congestion zone applies, new research from LSE shows.
The benefits of reduced traffic congestion, ease of parking, and better noise and air quality have pushed up house prices in some areas by as much as £30,000.
A new report from Alzheimer’s Disease International, authored by researchers at LSE and King’s College London, reveals that most people with dementia have yet to receive a diagnosis, let alone comprehensive and continuing healthcare.
The World Alzheimer Report 2016: Improving healthcare for people living with dementia, calls for concerted action to increase the coverage of healthcare for people with dementia worldwide.
The GIZ Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development (GPDPD) and the LSE IDEAS International Drug Policy Project (IDPP) are pleased to announce a pilot for a new 'Innovation Lab on Drug Policies and Human Development'.
The immediate objective of the Innovation Lab pilot is to translate the April 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) outcome document into smart drugs-related development policies in affected countries.
On Monday 12 September Dr Jose-Luis Fernandez (pictured), Associate Professorial Research Fellow at LSE, gave evidence to the Community and Local Government Committee of the House of Commons. To read a transcript of the session or watch a video, click here.
The following day (Tuesday 13 September) Professor Alistair McGuire, Chair in Health Economics at LSE, gave evidence to the House of Lords Committee on the Long-Term Sustainability of the NHS. A video of this can also be found here.
Open House
LSE Estates once again showcased the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre as part of Open House London weekend on Saturday 17 September.
295 members of the public were given a guided tour of the building and a further 168 visitors undertook self-guided tours.
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Following a number of weeks of continuous testing and validation, the WIP team is pleased to announce the commencement of training on LSE’s new website templates from Monday 3 October.
Our new site, which offers our editors a whole host of new templates, modules and intelligent features, has pushed our current platform to the limits in terms of technical delivery, but with only very minor issues to resolve, migration of content to LSE’s new look and feel is set to begin next month.
If you’ve been away over summer you will see that the redevelopment of the Centre Buildings is continuing at a pace. The demolition phase will be complete by the end of 2016, with construction commencing early 2017. For more information on the development visit the CBR web page where you will find updates and live webcams from Connaught House and the Lionel Robbins Building.
The redevelopment is being planned and managed by the LSE Estates Division. The team wants to hear from staff, so please email any questions or concerns to Estates.Centrebuildings@lse.ac.uk.
The DisabledGo guides provide a summary of all of our venues’ accessibility with detailed information and photographs to enable you to plan your journeys.
Staff and ancillary cards (formerly associate cards) are now issued by Estates Security and not LSE Library.
The new look Ancillary card request form can now be found on the Estates Service Request forms page and is available to authorised users.
The printing and issue of staff and ancillary cards is now carried out from OLD G.02, situated adjacent to the waiting area in the Old Building foyer, Houghton Street. Please direct any enquiries to security.card.id@lse.ac.uk.
If you're in need of a staff portrait, make a date to go over to room G19, Old Building on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 October between 11-1pm and 2-4pm. There's no need to book.
Portraits will cost departments £20 per head. All pictures are colour digital files. Pictures will be received two weeks after they have been taken, giving time for post-production work.
For more information, contact School photographer Nigel Stead.
LSE has recently taken out a subscription to Kudos for Institutions to help us understand, amplify and support researchers’ efforts to improve engagement with their published work.
Kudos is a free, web-based toolkit that helps researchers maximize and measure online engagement with their work. It maps the actions researchers take to promote publications against a wide range of metrics (including downloads, altmetrics and citations), to provide rapid feedback on the effectiveness of those actions.
LSE researchers are encouraged to register with Kudos and have a go at using the toolkit.
Some research data providers are asking that a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is carried out before they will release data. A PIA enables you to determine how much of an impact your research or a new system will have on the privacy of the individuals whose data you will be processing and storing.
To help staff and students who are required to carry out a PIA, the School now has a Privacy Impact Assessment template, which can be found here. The template includes examples from real research to guide you in filling out the form.
If you have any questions or need help, please contact the School’s Data Protection Officer Rachael Maguire at r.e.maguire@lse.ac.uk or ext 4622 and/or the Information Security Manager Jethro Perkins at j.perkins@lse.ac.uk or ext 6641, who will be happy to take you through the form.
Each year, the AXA Research Fund offers funding for 25 Postdoctoral Fellowships to outstanding researchers dedicated to developing a better understanding of global risks. Institutions are awarded up to €130,000 for the appointment of a Postdoctoral Fellow for 18-24 months.
Eligibility:
Candidates must have studied internationally for their master’s degree and/or doctoral studies.
Only candidates without a permanent academic position are eligible.
Candidates must have been awarded their PhD before the beginning of the grant and within the three years preceding the submission of their proposal.
The research topic must fall in the scope of the eligible thematic focus.
Please get in touch with Kathryn Darling, Business Partnerships Manager for more information about the research areas AXA supports and the proposal template. Proposals should be submitted to Kathryn by close of play on Monday 31 October.
We welcome new and returning students, give an update on what events are coming up at LSE LIFE, and launch the LSE Generate funding competition where students can win up to £10,000 for a brilliant entrepreneurial idea.
LSE alumnus and senior editor and economics columnist for The EconomistRyan Avent speaks about his new book on Monday 26 September.
Academic, broadcaster and columnist Tiffany Jenkins and Richard Armstrong, the Director of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and Foundation take part in a public discussion on Museums in a Global Age on 4 October. Tickets for this event can requested from Tuesday 27 September.
Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse delivers the Karl Popper Memorial Lecture on Wednesday 28 September. Make sure to save the date in your diary.
Charles Booth's Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in London was published in 1903 after 16 years of intense research and it remains one of the most ambitious and wide-ranging sociological surveys ever completed.
This exhibition focuses on the local area and on display is one of the original, hand-coloured ‘poverty maps’ of Holborn. There are also several of the original, hand-written notebooks which exemplify the work carried out to detail the poverty and industries from the time.
Find out more about fitness classes taking place at LSE including skip fit classes with LSE security officer Daniel Beckley, weekly taichi classes with Inés, and for one day only - a toning class with former LSE staff member Mandy Li.
See the latest edition of the LSE Government video series #GovStudentsAsk where Quintus Lim (BSc Government and Economics) from the LSE Undergraduate Political Review spoke to Nick Clegg MP after his LSE Government event on 15 September.
On Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, we’re showcasing a selection of students and staff sharing their favourite places on and around campus in celebration of all the wonderful places at LSE and across London.
As proud supporters of Mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s #LondonIsOpen campaign, the initiative is an opportunity for you to tell the LSE community what spaces make you feel part of LSE, and remind the world that our capital is open to everyone.
Follow along every day for new stories, and share selfies of you in your favourite places with us on social media.
Star of the Week
Paul Horsler
Congratulations to Paul Horsler from the Library who's been nominated as this week's Star of the Week:
"He’s been very helpful to us (academic department administrators) whenever we’ve struggled to create and update reading lists for each academic year. He’s trained us one-to-one in our offices, responds quickly to all our little niggly queries and is always friendly and chatty. Don’t know how we’d manage without him (and hope we never have to)!"
Good luck to Paul as he is also just about to submit his PhD.
Berrylands staff
A big well done to all the staff at LSE's Berrylands Sportsground who were praised by an appreciative member of the public in a recent letter to the Estates Division:
"Dear Sir, I have twice attended the amazingly splendid grounds that you have in Berrylands. My visits have been to watch Surrey IIs playing cricket.... ..... I congratulate the ground-staff for providing the most excellent wicket and outfield. Well done indeed when considering monsoon conditions and sweltering heat, all in the space of a day or two."
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The next edition of Staff News is on Thursday 29 September. Articles for this should be emailed to us by Tuesday 27 September.
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