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Department Diary 2008/9

Fear of death makes men want more children finds new LSE research
 
Young men contemplating death seek to have more children, according to a study by PhD student Paul Matthews.

The paper Life After Death, published in the September edition of the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, looks at the link between mortality and fertility by testing whether ‘mortality priming’ - questioning on death and dying - results in a marked increased desire for more children. More
 

LSE Department of Social Policy scores highly in recent social policy awards.

Professor Peter Townsend (pictured), Dr Tania Burchardt and former LSE Professor David Donnison were all honoured in the recent Social Policy Association awards.

Both Professors Townsend and Donnison were given the Social Policy Association Lifetime Achievement Award and Dr Burchardt the Best Newcomer Award during the Association's annual conference, held in Edinburgh. More

Grant awarded to LSE Health.

A grant of just over £100,000 has been awarded to Elias Mossialos (pictured), director of LSE Health. The grant is intended to fund a project aimed at informing US policy makers about how European health systems achieve universal coverage and high quality health care at relatively low cost (in comparison to the United States).

The project will be co-ordinated by Marin Gemmill research officer, and Sarah Thomson, research fellow, both at LSE Health. They will be working with European experts to provide a series of briefing papers for a high-level meeting of US and European policy makers to be held in Washington DC. The meeting is due to take place on 12-14 November, shortly after the US presidential elections.

Variation between spending on primary and secondary education is stark finds new LSE research.

More money is spent on pupils in secondary school than in primary school - yet primary education is vital to future success. The Funding of English Primary Education, by Dr Philip Noden and Professor Anne West, Education Research Group, LSE, looks at how much money is spent by schools on primary education per pupil and how this has changed over time, in comparison with expenditure in secondary schools.

Professor Anne West said: 'It is not clear on purely educational grounds why we should spend so much on our 11 year olds than our 10 year olds. Primary education provides the foundations for later learning and it is vitally important for as many children as possible to have a high quality primary education.' More

Disadvantaged communities can solve their own problems suggests LSE academic.

Neighbourhood problems such as graffiti, alcoholism and street crime need to be tackled from within communities by residents, alongside outside agencies such as the police and social services. This is the central proposal of a new book by Liz Richardson, associate of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at LSE.

DIY Community Action: neighbourhood problems and community self-help offers thought-provoking answers to these questions, based on detailed real-life evidence from over 100 community groups, each trying to combat neighbourhood problems. The book also discusses how people can be persuaded to take more control of their own lives, affecting change in their communities and work with external agencies to jointly improve quality of life in poor areas. More