Department Diary 2008/9

Please refer to this diary regularly for any additions/updates.

If you would like to add any Department events to this diary please contact Sarah Roberts (s.roberts@lse.ac.uk)

DATE

TIME

LOCATION

 EVENT

NOVEMBER

5

17:30-20:30

-

Postgraduate Open Evening

12

12:45-14:00

Room R505

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminar
A Minimum Income Standard for Britain: What people think
Speaker: Jonathan Bradshaw (Social Policy Research Unit, University of York) , joint with Noel Smith, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University

12

14:00

 

Academic Board

12

16:00

Room H103

Staff Student Liaison Committee Meeting

13

12:30-13:30

Graham Wallas Room

LSE Health and Social Care Formal Seminar
Title to be announced
Speaker:
Professor Peter Michael Taylor, RIGHT, School of Information Systems, Computing & Mathematics, Brunel University

13

12.30–13.45

Room NAB114

Centre for Civil Society Lunchtime Seminar
Transnational Networks of Managerialism in Oaxaca, Mexico
Speaker: Prof. John Paul Jones III, Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona and a Visiting International Fellow at the CCS
Chair: Armine Ishkanian

14

13:00

Room D402

Population Research Seminar
Speaker: Dr Joanne Hemmings

17

12:15

Graham Wallas Room

Staff Research Seminar

19

14:30

Webb Room

Teaching Committee Meeting

26

14:30

Graham Wallas Room

Staff Committee Meeting

27

12:30-13:30

Room J116

LSE Health and Social Care Formal Seminar
The NHS Century
Speaker: Dr Nicolaus Henke, McKinsey Consulting

DECEMBER

1

12:15

Graham Wallas Room

Staff Research Seminar

3

13:00-14:00

Room U8

LSE Lunchtime Seminar
Thinking like a social scientist
Speaker:
Professor Jude Howell, Department of Social Policy

3

13:45 - 15:00

Room R505

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminar
The Changing Earnings of Employees, Migrants and Families
Speaker: Richard Dickens (CEP & QMUL) , joint with Abigail McKnight, CASE

3

14:30

Webb Room

Research Committee Meeting

4

12:30-13:45

Room NAB114

Centre for Civil Society Lunchtime Seminar
NGOs, the policy process and the politics of resistance: women groups and family laws in post-war Lebanon.
Speaker:
Nisrine Mansour, Department of Social Policy

5

13:00

Room D402

Population Research Seminar
Speaker: Dr Ama de-Graft Aikins, University of Cambridge

9

12:30-13:30

Room J116

LSE Health and Social Care Formal Seminar
Prospects for change in U.S. health policy
Speaker: Professor Tim Jost, Washington and Lee University School of Law

10

12:45 - 14:00

Room R505

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminar
Health, Wealth and Consumption Among Older People
Speaker: Eleni Karagiannaki, CASE

10

17:30

Underground bar, SU

Department Christmas Party

11

12:30-13:45

Room NAB114

Centre for Civil Society Lunchtime Seminar
The relationship between strategy and identity in a transnational environmental network: the case of Friends of the Earth International
Speaker:
Brian Doherty, Senior Lecturer, Keele University.

12

12:30-13:30

Room NAB119

LSE Health and Social Care Formal Seminar
Achieving Horizontal Equity: Lessons From Global Cities
Speaker: Professor Michael Gusmano, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

12

-

-

Michaelmas term ends

JANUARY

12

-

-

Lent term commences

19

12:15

Graham Wallas Room

Staff Research Seminar

19

17:30

Room A121

Session for current Department MSc students interested in undertaking a PhD

21

14:00

 

Academic Board

30

13:00

Room D402

Population Research Seminar
Speaker: Dr Arjan Gjonca, London School of Economics

FEBRUARY

2

12:15

Graham Wallas Room

Staff Research Seminar

4

14:30

Graham Wallas Room

Staff Student Liaison Committee Meeting

6-8

-

-

Cumberland Lodge Residential

11

14:30

Webb Room

Teaching Committee Meeting

18

14:30

Graham Wallas Room

Staff Committee Meeting

20

13:00

Room D402

Population Research Seminar
Speaker: Dr Dominique Behague, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

25

14:00

 

Academic Board

MARCH

2

12:15

Graham Wallas Room

Staff Research Seminar

4

14:30

Webb Room

Research Committee Meeting

13

13:00

Room D402

Population Research Seminar
Speaker: Dr Zoe Matthews, University of Southampton

16

12:15

Graham Wallas Room

Staff Research Seminar

20

-

-

Lent term ends

APRIL

27

-

-

Summer term commences

29

14:00

 

Academic Board

MAY

6

14:30

Graham Wallas Room

Staff Student Liaison Committee Meeting

13

14:30

Webb Room

Teaching Committee Meeting

20

14:30

Room E304

Staff Committee Meeting

27

14:30

Webb Room

Research Committee Meeting

JUNE

10

14:00

 

Academic Board

24

14:00

 

Academic Board

JULY

3

-

-

Summer term ends

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