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| Scholars At RiskMembers of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights work with others at LSE on the Scholars At Risk project. LSE's Scholars At Risk Steering Committee has just this year developed a scheme to house scholars whose lives or work are being threatened in their home countries. With a Pathfinder grant from the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, the Committee commissioned the production of a detailed mapping study and secured support for a scheme of hosting scholars at risk at LSE. LSE's Scholars At Risk programme will host an academic who is at risk and who has research interests that coincide with those of the School. Over time, with additional and secure funding, LSE plans to host several scholars per year. Each individual scholar will be hosted for up to two years, on a strictly non-renewable appointment. LSE has a long history of protecting scholars against persecution: in response to the persecution of central European scholars by the Nazis the LSE supported the establishment of an Academic Assistance Council (now the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics) set up to help refugee academics. From 1933 the School invited scholars fleeing the war to continue their work in the safe and stimulating environs of the LSE, among them Karl Popper and George Soros. In a speech at the Albert Hall, Albert Einstein– one of the most famous people dismissed by the Nazis – spoke of the consequences to humanity and to science that this initiative had.
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