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When the UK hosts the Olympics in just a few short weeks, it will be the culmination of years of planning – for athletes and administrators alike. The excitement has not bypassed LSE, where LSE academics have researched and advised on the likely legacy of the games as well as their impact 11 38 on happiness, London borough budgets and children’s fitness, amongst other themes. LSE alumni are also set to play their part. Mara Yamauchi (MSc Politics of the World Features Regulars Economy 1996) will be running the marathon for team GB, while others will be commentating or using their LSE-honed skills to predict the medals (see page 6). Going for gold Headline news 4 The excitement and optimism generated by the games masks, however, Joanna Bale talks to LSE staff and alumni gearing up for the 2012 Opinion: Tim Newburn on pressing concerns about the UK’s economy and its position in the world. As researching with journalists 17 Professor Mick Cox makes clear in his piece on page 15, the last decade has Olympics, while alumnus Kurt Barling seen an extraordinary erosion in the power of the West, as the financial crisis offers a journalist’s viewpoint 6 Campus: latest developments 24 has brought parts of Europe to the brink of economic collapse and eroded the A cricketing nation LSE and me: alumna and power and confidence of the United States. “For many during the heady days Ramachandra Guha on the LSE governor Gita Patel of the 1990s it really did seem as if the West was best,” he writes, going on to 26 Indianisation of cricket 10 describe the impact of the rise of China and economies such as that of Brazil. LSE icons: from our Which is why it is fitting that our cover story is from Brazil, which will receive Life and death in the picture archives 27 the Olympic torch from the UK at the end of the games, and which will also favelas of Brazil host the World Cup in 2014. In her piece on the favelas of Brazil, Dr Sandra Sandra Jovchelovitch describes her Thank you: how you’ve helped 28 Jovchelovitch notes the extraordinary success of the Brazilian economy and the fieldwork in a favela 11 News huge prospects opened up by the hosting of these tournaments, but reminds 30 readers that for those living in the favelas life chances are still very limited. A hell of a decade Research update 34 These extraordinary stories and global shifts are reflected, I hope, throughout Michael Cox charts the rise of a the magazine. We also bring you news of developments closer to home. We new economic world order 15 Letters 35 welcome Professor Craig Calhoun who will become director of LSE this September, and say farewell to Professor Judith Rees, who has seen LSE through a tumultuous To dream the Alumni: news, events, reunions, year, not least with the publication of the Woolf report last November (see pages impossible dream group activities and volunteering 36 4 and 22). Armine Ishkanian examines the nature Class notes 42 As ever, I end by reminding you that we now offer LSE Connect online as of David Cameron’s “Big Society” and an alternative to receiving the magazine in print – in an effort to reduce our alumna Maria Crastus considers its Rapid resumé: Natalie Griggs 44 environmental impact. impact on biodiversity 18 Obituaries: featuring

Claire Sanders At the base of the pyramid Richard Descoings 45 Christian Busch on reducing poverty LSE Connect is Books 46 available online at through business model innovation 21 lse.ac.uk/LSEConnect Farewell and welcome LSE Connect Judith Rees introduces Craig LSE Connect is published twice a year by the Press and Information All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, Office at the London School of Economics and Political Science, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any Calhoun and says farewell as Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7060. means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, Fax: +44 (0)20 7852 3658. Email: [email protected] nor be issued to the public or circulated in any form of binding or director. Chair of council, Peter cover other than that in which it is published. Commissioning editor: Claire Sanders Production editor: Fiona Whiteman Requests for permission to reproduce any article or part of the Sutherland, pays tribute 22 magazine should be sent to the editor at the above address. Alumni news editor: Zoe Povoas Art and design editor: Claire Harrison In the interests of providing a free flow of debate, views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the editor, LSE alumni Assistant art and design editor: Ailsa Drake or LSE. LSE photography (unless stated): Nigel Stead Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy and Editorial assistants: Sarah Savage, Jess Winterstein reliability of material published in this magazine, LSE accepts no Printed by: Warners responsibility for the veracity of claims or accuracy of information Published by The London School of Economics and Political Science provided by contributors. (‘LSE’), Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. LSE is a School of the Freedom of thought and expression is essential to the pursuit, . It is a Charity and is incorporated in England advancement and dissemination of knowledge. LSE seeks to ensure as a company limited by guarantee under the Companies Acts (Reg that intellectual freedom and freedom of expression within the law number 70527). is secured for all our members and those we invite to the School. Copyright in editorial matter and in the magazine as a whole belongs to LSE ©2012. Copyright in individual articles belongs Printed on recycled paper to the authors who have asserted their moral rights ©2012. LSE CONNECT is available online at lse.ac.uk/LSEConnect. If you would like to opt to receive only the online version of LSE Connect via an email alert, please update the “Personal Information” section in the “My Profile Page” of your Houghton Street Online account. 27 6 HEADLINE NEWS

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for Public Knowledge and president of the Social Science Research Council. , chairman of LSE’s Court of Governors, said: “Craig is an outstanding appointment – an intellectual completely at ease in public life whose career shows how academia is not aloof from society but embedded in it. “He is also a vastly experienced leader of academic organisations, finding new ways of drawing out their inherent strengths and bringing their expertise to bear on society. I have no doubt LSE will thrive under his leadership.” Professor Calhoun, who is a US citizen, has deep connections to the UK, having taken a DPhil in History and Sociology at Oxford University and a master’s in Social Anthropology at Manchester. He co-founded, with LSE’s Professor , the NYLON programme, which brings together students from New York and London for co-operative research programmes. He is the author of several books including Nations Matter (2007), Neither Gods Nor Emperors (1997) and Professor Craig Calhoun, a world-renowned social rofessor Calhoun, who was Critical Social Theory (1995). appointed following an open Describing his own approach to scientist whose work connects sociology to culture, P competition by a selection panel academic work, Professor Calhoun communication, politics, philosophy and economics which included members of LSE’s faculty, says: “We must set high standards for will be the new director of LSE. student body and governors, will take ourselves, but in order to inform the public over from current director Professor well, not to isolate ourselves from it.” n Judith Rees on 1 September 2012. He For more information about Professor is currently university professor at New Calhoun see nyu.edu/ipk/calhoun or York University, director of the Institute read Judith Rees’ introduction on page 22.

For the biggest stories from around the campus and beyond, see page 30 LSE rises in UK and world Judith Rees signs off LSE launches its reputation rankings p new Ethics Code p digital library p

4 I LSE Connect I Summer 2012 I MANY EMINENT SPEAKERS HAVE LSE EVENTS VISITED THE SCHOOL RECENTLY

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1 “Leading Colombia towards explored by Masaaki Shirakawa, 4 Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft “The EU in the global economy: prosperity for all” was the topic governor of the Bank of Japan. and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda challenges for growth”. examined by Juan Manuel Santos Gates Foundation, re-affirmed the 3 Former US secretary of state 6 Managing director of the World Calderón, president of the Republic importance of inspiring people to Madeleine Albright spoke on global Bank Sri Mulyani Indrawati’s of Colombia (and LSE alumnus). join the fight against poverty at a political challenges and the leadership talk was entitled “Crises and Global Poverty Project event at LSE. 2 “Deleveraging and growth: is the of women in helping to build revolutions: the reshaping of developed world following Japan’s prosperity, foster peace, and promote 5 Italian prime minister Mario international development”. long and winding road?” was the topic democracy across the globe. Monti gave a public lecture entitled

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I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 5 GOING FOR

As London gears up for the games, Joanna Bale talks to an LSE the River Mara in Kenya where she spent her early childhood. She took up cross-country running while a competitor, a researcher and an LSE volunteer about the Olympics – PPE undergraduate at St Anne’s College, Oxford. After from medal chances to legacy. a master’s at LSE, she put her career as a diplomat with the British Foreign Office on hold to pursue her Olympic dreams. ext month London will host the world as it Here she explains her gruelling training regime for stages the 2012 Olympics. For LSE, a university the Olympic marathon, which takes place on 5 August, where the world has long come to study, the N and reminisces about her “stimulating” year at LSE. great event is a cause of much excitement. Situated on “I was really delighted to be picked early for the a major route out to the Olympic stadium, the School is Olympics, in December 2011, because it means I don’t well placed to watch the fun, and many students and have to run another marathon before the games and I members of staff have volunteered their services. LSE can really concentrate on my training for the Olympics. researchers have also been busy undertaking studies on “Typically I run between 80 and 100 miles a week a range of areas, from cost and security to the impact on and that is a mixture of different types of training. I deprived communities and the likely legacy. This article run at least once, normally twice a day. That can be provides just a snapshot of people, events and research. easy running or speed sessions. Sometimes I also do The competitor: Mara Yamauchi swimming or the bike in the gym to prevent injury. I also do weight training, drills, stretching. (Née Myers, MSc Politics of the World Economy 1996) “I took unpaid leave from the Foreign Office in Mara Yamauchi will compete for Team GB in the January 2006 and since then I have been a full-time 2012 women’s marathon, alongside the current world athlete. My husband, Shigetoshi, is my coach, training record holder, Paula Radcliffe. She was selected after partner, agent and manager, although he has no real overcoming a series of injuries to finish third in last background in athletics. He also does massage for year’s Yokohama Marathon in Japan, comfortably me and most of the cooking. Because I am training a inside the team-qualifying standard of 2 hours and lot and need a lot of rest, it’s really essential to have 31 minutes. The second fastest British woman of all that kind of support. I’m very lucky in that respect. He time behind Radcliffe, she finished sixth in the Beijing was working until 2007 in an investment bank, but Olympics and hopes to win a medal in 2012. I wasn’t really able to train, rest and do all the other Born in Oxford in 1973, the daughter of the British stuff by myself. Going to the Olympics is a dream, so environmentalist Norman Myers, she was named after he agreed to leave his work and help me.

6 I LSE Connect I Summer 2012 I “I came sixth in Beijing which was a good result for me, 2012 Olympic medal predictions so we decided to carry on, especially as the next Olympics is in London. It is an incredible privilege as an athlete to Rankings of nations predicted to win 5 or more medals in 2012 according to Olympic tradition (gold medals ranked first, then totals) be able to compete in a home Olympics because it’s really just pure chance if it comes to your home country Predicted Gold medals All medals while you are competing. Most athletes’ careers are quite ranking Nation Predicted Actual Predicted Actual 2012 short, less than ten years, so in that sense I am incredibly 2012 2008 2008 2012 2008 2008 lucky. It will be a fantastic event and the public will really 1 United States 34 34 36 99 98 110 get behind the British athletes. But at the same time the 2 China 33 40 51 67 79 100 expectation and pressure is, I would say, more than it 3 Russia 25 26 23 82 84 73 would be otherwise, especially in athletics because it is 4 Great Britain 20 12 19 45 36 47 the blue riband sport of the Olympics. 5 Germany 19 19 16 60 53 41 “I will be nearly 39 when I compete, but many top 6 France 11 11 7 37 36 41 marathon runners have performed at that age and even 7 Italy 10 10 8 31 26 27 into their 40s. Priscilla Welch, who represented Britain in 8 Japan 9 9 9 31 22 25 the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, ran her best races in 9 Australia 8 12 14 38 42 46 her 40s. The winner of the Beijing Olympics marathon, 10 Hungary 7 8 3 19 19 10 Constantina Tomescu, was 38 and so is Paula Radcliffe. 11 Romania 6 6 4 14 14 8 “You do have to adjust things, because you can’t 12 5 4 7 19 18 16 recover like you can when you are 20. Changes take 13 Poland 5 5 3 14 14 10 place in your body – ligaments and tendons become a bit 14 India 5 5 1 7 7 3 stiffer. If you are aware of that and adjust your training 15 Canada 4 4 3 17 17 18 and your recovery accordingly then there is no reason 16 Brazil 3 3 3 14 13 15 why you can’t compete with the best. 17 Bulgaria 3 3 1 12 12 5 “I remember my time at LSE very fondly. It is, of course, 17 Kenya 3 3 9 12 12 25 a very international university and there were people 19 Ethiopia 3 3 4 8 7 7 from all over the globe in my year group, whereas at 19 Norway 3 3 3 8 8 9 Oxford I was in quite a British environment. Also, there 19 Turkey 3 3 1 8 7 8 were lots of public lectures and eminent people visiting 22 Greece 3 3 0 7 7 4 LSE, so it was a very stimulating environment. Being in 22 Jamaica 3 3 6 7 7 11 London was also exciting – I shared a flat in Belsize Park 24 Spain 2 2 5 13 13 18 and commuted by bicycle. I was running quite seriously 25 Sweden 2 2 0 9 9 5 during that year as a member of Harrow AC so I did 26 Czech Republic 2 2 3 7 7 6 my studies and went home to train. I wasn’t hanging 26 Denmark 2 2 2 7 7 7 out drinking with other students. I suppose I am quite 26 Indonesia 2 2 1 7 6 5 competitive and want to achieve things. 26 New Zealand 2 2 3 7 7 9 “After I finished my master’s, I joined the Foreign 30 Argentina 2 2 2 6 6 6 Office. I worked in London for a year then was put 30 Switzerland 2 2 2 6 6 7 onto Japanese language training and entered the British 32 Belgium 1 1 1 5 4 2 Embassy in Tokyo for three years. During that time, I 32 Iran 1 1 1 5 5 2 found it difficult to carry on running with a full-time Predictions by Daniel Johnson, assisted by Rafael Alonso-Arenas job. So when I left Japan to return to London I decided For full predictions and more information see: faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~djohnson/Olympics.html to have another attempt at being an elite athlete and am now on unpaid leave.” n

I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 7 FEATURES GOING FOR GOLD

The researcher: populations or smaller incomes or military regimes. We All athletes don’t Daniel Johnson have shown that this advantage is entirely quantifiable, even predictable, using only macroeconomic variables. (MSc Economics 1992) start from the same “We ran the first prediction in the 2000 Sydney Daniel Johnson, now professor games and it was mind-bogglingly close. We did it starting blocks of economics at Colorado again for the 2002 winter games and it was the same, College, has become known so we decided to carry on doing this because we were across the world as the man getting a lot of press attention which was good for who predicts the Olympic our institutions and good for economics generally. The volunteer: medals. Using just a handful of economic variables, “Over the years, the prediction power has fallen off Sooraya Mohabeer his forecast model has demonstrated up to 96 per slightly. We started off with 96 per cent accuracy. In Knowledge Transfer Events cent accuracy between predicted and national medal 2010 that had fallen to 88 per cent, which is still good. Executive at LSE numbers at every summer and winter games since the “This year we are going to recalibrate for all the Sooraya Mohabeer has been 2000 Sydney Olympics. things that have changed over the last 12 years, such selected from thousands of He explains that pure economics, rather than an as China, which has changed a lot, not just in terms volunteers for the role of Games in-depth analysis of athletic ability, is key: of GDP per capita, or economic and political system, Maker in the National Olympic “I’m not a sports fanatic but I find something about but in terms of how much emphasis they are placing Committee (NOC) Services Team based at the Athletes’ the Olympics compelling. The fact that we line up on Olympic champions as a policy goal. We have Village, London Stratford, which will be home to more athletes from around the world, the starting pistol goes underestimated China in every year since 2006 because than 10,000 athletes and officials during the games. off and we assume that they are all on a level playing they were gearing up for their home games in 2008 She explains: “My role will involve being a key field – there is something about that that really troubled so invested a lot more in their athletes and therefore point of liaison between LOCOG (London Organising me and therefore inspired me to carry out this research. have done better than expected. Committee of the Olympic Games) and the athletes “I remember thinking: why is it that we think that a “As for Britain in 2012, the host nation advantage is and their team officials. I will be assigned a delegation British ski jumper like Eddie the Eagle, who competed dramatic. This is true for other sporting events too. There from a specific country in May and my position will in the 1988 Winter Olympics, belongs in the same is something about the familiarity of the home field and last four to five weeks. competition with people who have much greater access not having to travel, particularly across time zones, and, “I was born and raised in London and am incredibly to resources specifically for ski jumping? of course, the backing of the home crowd.” proud to be involved in the biggest sporting event on “In 1999 I co-wrote a paper explaining that, while This will help Britain achieve fourth place this year, the planet, happening practically on my doorstep. I’ve Olympic medals are a function of athletic ability and according to his medal predictions for 2012 (see page 7). always been involved in sport, having won medals at we mean in no way to detract from that excellence, Professor Johnson has maintained close links with local and regional level in gymnastics, trampolining, there is a clear development economics question at LSE where he says he spent the most challenging but athletics and football.” n play here. All athletes don’t start from the same starting enjoyable year of his life: blocks. There are ways in which we are all equal but “There is probably no single year of my life that Other LSE staff and student volunteers include: Dr we don’t all have equal opportunities and I wanted to comes close in terms of the amount that I learned Edgar Whitley, Rachael Elliott, Margaret Perkins, Lisa do something to show that for the world. about myself, about economics, about the world Trigg, Angela Ebiner, Hoa Doan, Rachel Gregory, “Unfortunately the angle that we chose has been around me. There was a great deal of stretching so it Tapinder Ghuman, Kaylie Sim, Eleanor Scott, Tao skewed a little by the popular press, who are more was an enormously difficult but enjoyable year. I enjoy Yang, Neil Shah, Chetan Varsani and Manjula Kalliat. interested in the predictions for the medals. The paper being pushed, being stretched, being challenged. is all about explaining historical patterns. It is utterly “I have been back many times to maintain Joanna Bale is a senior press reliable that rich, populous, cold nations, by and large relationships and I am also the LSE study abroad adviser officer at LSE. with democracies, but also with single-party communist for Colorado College, and before that for Wellesley regimes, win far more medals than nations with smaller College, Boston.” n GOING FOR GOLD FEATURES

ALUMNI VIEWPOINT Kurt Barling on covering the Olympics Once the games begin, logistics are going to be a key issue for us. Movement in and out of the Olympic There are some stories Tube bombings. The security implications for the games site will be heavily regulated, so we have to plan for that are so unique that have never been off the agenda since. how we get stories on air. The nature of modern you know you will never We’ve been very keen from the start to understand and broadcasting makes us extremely mobile, and we need see their like again. To explain the implications of hosting a modern Olympics to be, because movement around central London will work that journalistic to our audience. In 2006 I travelled to Atlanta to look at be slow. We are putting in place facilities to broadcast seam is a mouth-watering the consequences for an Olympic city of putting on the live from different venues beyond the Park to reflect prospect. In 1989, just games. I saw for myself the transformational possibilities, how the capital is enjoying the spectacle and how eight weeks out of LSE, I from Centennial Park in downtown Atlanta to the new Londoners are being affected. BBC London will also was extraordinarily lucky facilities adopted by the local university. A decade on be on the road with its own travel bus to make sure to report on the fall of the there was still a huge pride in what had been achieved it can reflect how different parts of the capital are Wall for the BBC. Now, this summer, I’ll be heavily to pull the people of the city together. experiencing the games. involved in another significant broadcast challenge The preparations for 2012 have certainly seen the In the final analysis, our job as journalists is to bring when the Olympic games come to London town. radical reshaping of the skyline of East London. In the story of the 2012 Olympic games to our audience, The Olympic story has been unfolding at BBC the economic doldrums since the late 1970s and the which is drawn from the 15 million licence-fee payers London News for nearly a decade. We have been at the collapse of the docks, the London “Olympic” boroughs in our patch. Whether it be in the competitions or in heart of the Olympic narrative since Ken Livingstone, the capital, it will be our responsibility to make sure when mayor, threw his political weight behind the of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Greenwich and it gets on air on time. bid in January 2003. Two years later, on 6 July 2005, Waltham Forest have seen levels of investment, pump- IOC chairman Jacques Rogge announced that London primed by the Olympic site. The inward capital investment Kurt Barling (MSc Government 1985, PhD had won the right to host the games. We reported the even surpasses that secured to revitalise Canary Wharf International Relations 1989) is the special sense of euphoria that swept the capital. The following and Docklands. It is clear that the regeneration and legacy correspondent for BBC London and a former lecturer day, of course, London witnessed the carnage of the story will continue long after the athletes have moved on. in international relations. Olympics research at LSE Ricky Burdett, professor of urban studies Rosemary Davidson and Anne Power, Centre This featured discussions with policymakers on the and director of LSE Cities and the for Analysis of Social Exclusion – report to Sport positive impact on Barcelona of the 1992 Olympics programme – chief adviser on architecture and England on families’ and children’s experience and comparisons with how London will benefit from urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics, now advises of sport and informal activity in deprived Olympic the regeneration of deprived communities in 2012 the Olympic Legacy Park Company. He was part of the neighbourhoods, providing policy recommendations and beyond. team of advisers and policymakers who promoted the on how to improve participation. Max Nathan, Geography and Environment – notion of “a compact, well-connected and sustainable Juliet Davis and Andrew Thorley, LSE Cities examination of government “Tech City” proposals city” that made the most of ex-industrial brownfield – urban regeneration: issues of land acquisition and for the post-2012 Olympic Park. This provides policy land, especially close to good public transport links legacy. This explores the impact on the people living recommendations for support for the development and which regenerated a swathe of East London. and working on the Olympic site in East London, of high-tech industries in East London. He advised on running design competitions for many of whom were relocated to make way for it. all the main venues and helped to secure high Kathleen Scanlon, Tony Travers, Christine quality and value-for-money building designs. The Paul Dolan, Social Policy – research following Whitehead and Fernandez Arrigoitia, LSE main objective of his contribution was to ensure a group of people over three years to establish if London – the impact of the 2012 Olympics on London that all the buildings remaining on the site could be there is a link between the 2012 Olympics and well- borough expenditure. This was commissioned by easily accessed by existing and new communities, being, including happiness, national pride and social London Councils and helped secure more government and that links to surrounding areas were prioritised cohesion. This will provide policymakers with advice funding for them. on how to promote well-being. to avoid creating an introverted development. Andrew Thorley, Geography and Environment Giles Atkinson, Geography and Environment Will Jennings and Martin Lodge, Centre for – the urban legacy of the Olympics and its impact on – valuing the intangible benefits of hosting the Analysis of Risk and Regulation – tools of security policy decision-making. risk management for the London 2012 Olympic games 2012 Olympics. Tony Travers, LSE London – audio and video and FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany. This comparison Cities Programme – master’s studio in 2010- discussion of the London riots and their impact on helps provide a better understanding for policymakers 11 featured a focus on “High Street 2012” looking the upcoming Olympics, on LSE YouTube channel. of the management of security risk at “mega-events”. at the design implications of the Olympics on the changing nature of the high street between Aldgate LSE Catalan Observatory – 2010 conference and Stratford. on Sports, Socialisation and Economic Development.

I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 9 A cricketing nation

Sport reveals a great deal about nations and is a legitimate field publicly acknowledged the stronger claim of of academic study, argues Ramachandra Guha. Here he draws Baloo. After retiring from cricket, Baloo became a key associate of Gandhi – who campaigned on his highly acclaimed book A Corner of a Foreign Field to chart against Untouchability – but he is still relatively the Indian relationship with cricket. unknown in history: the victim of his caste, of his role as a bowler, and being eclipsed in the political imagination by Bhimrao Ambedkar, a ricket was first played in India by its colonial all three teams, took place. By a similar process, later low-caste politician and reformer. rulers, yet it quickly took root. As a result, a Muslim team made it a Quadrangular in 1912; By the 1920s, cricket was followed by everyone Cinstead of dying a natural death when the eventually, in 1937, the Pentagular was established. in India. The Quadrangular was the main vehicle British left in 1947, it continued to flourish. There The fifth team, designated the Rest, included for the spread of cricket, and from 1934 it could are a number of reasons why Indians and cricket Sinhalese Buddhists, Jews and Indian Christians, be followed across the country on the radio, when are particularly well matched – indeed, cricket’s and underlines the chauvinism both endemic in ball-by-ball commentary began. Despite the societal development by India’s own people is bound up British rule and between Indians themselves: Indian divisions, anyone could play, and star players were with the overarching themes of Indian history itself: Christians could not play with the Europeans, for feted by Indians in every walk of life. In time, the race, caste, religion and nation. they were not white, but nor were they permitted Hindus and Muslims became more evenly matched, First, unlike football, cricket can be played in to join the Parsi, Hindu or Muslim clubs. but their rivalry further intensified as the case for the narrow streets and alleys of crowded cities, The Europeans could accept being taken on a separate Muslim nation, after the departure of where bowling and batting straight are a necessity. at their own game as long as they kept beating the British, became increasingly prominent. In fact, Second, physique is not as important as in other the subjugated locals, for they came to see it as a Partition led in the end not to the banishment of sports – anyone of any shape, athletic or otherwise, unifying and civilising force. But of course, while cricket but to its reincarnation in a tournament in- can take part. The structure, too, is significant: endorsing the playing of cricket along communal volving state-based, rather than communal, teams, in its purest form it is a slow game, suited to the lines, they reinforced the divisiveness inherent in as well as to a new international cricketing and pace of life and to the sociability of the Indian Indian society (typical of imperialism’s strategy: political rivalry, between India and Pakistan. people, who enjoy observing every detail, discussing divide and rule). However, when first the Parsis Cricket remains a colourful obsession for the vast every nuance of play and debating (heatedly) and later the Hindus began to beat the British on majority of Indians, a passion fuelled further still by team selection. Nationalism is the other crucial occasion, the victories were relished as joyfully by early success in the one-day form of the game (they ingredient: besides hockey, it is the only sport in the Indians as any on the battlefield. won the World Cup in 1983 and 2011) and exploited which the country excels on the international stage. The hero of the early Hindu teams was a left- by the progenitors of the more recent Indian Initially, cricket was played in imitation: the Parsis arm spin bowler named Palwankar Baloo, and Premier League, the Twenty20 competition. On (the Indian community most closely allied to the it was through discovery of this figure that I this game of bat and ball have been superimposed British rulers), having watched this curious activity first became interested in the social history of notions of communal and national loyalty, honour practised by Europeans in Bombay, then took it up Indian cricket. Despite Baloo’s prowess, he never and pride. Cricket has been fully Indianised. n themselves and in 1848 established the Oriental became captain of his side. Although bowlers As spoken to Hilary Weale, external relations executive. Cricket Club so that they could play formally. In seldom are captains, the chief bias against 1877 they were invited to play a match against him arose from his caste: he was a Dalit, or Ramachandra Guha holds the Europeans, which turned into an annual Untouchable. His younger brothers, who also the Philippe Roman Chair in History event. In turn, the Hindus strove to emulate the became good cricketers, went on strike in 1920 and International Affairs, based in Parsis, founding the P J Hindu Gymkhana, and in when he was overlooked for the position, and LSE IDEAS. You can listen to Professor Guha’s 6 March 2012 lecture “Sport

MAIN PICTURE © GETTY IMAGES 1907 the first Triangular tournament, involving even the Brahmin appointed ahead of him and the Nation: interpreting Indian history through the lens of cricket” at lse.ac.uk/ newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio on the public lectures The Europeans could accept being taken on at their own and events channel. A Corner of a Foreign Field: the Indian history of a British sport is published by game as long as they kept beating the subjugated locals Picador (2002).

10 I LSE Connect I Summer 2012 I LIFE AND DEATH IN THE

Undertaking research in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro is a dangerous hillsides of the Atlantic rainforest are hard to reach and business, as Sandra Jovchelovitch relates. But by involving local navigate and provide perfect hideouts. During this period the drug business became a major organiser of favela community groups she has been able to chart what helps some survive life, imposing parallel state-like structures and offering and prosper in the favela, while others sink. protection and jobs for those living in these areas. The police, historically the only face of the state in favela life, n 2009 I was undertaking fieldwork in Vigário by the narcotraffic but I had never before experienced opted for a policy of violent confrontation. Geral, a favela in the north of Rio de Janeiro, the fear of a bala perdida (stray bullet). Despite the extraordinary success of the Brazilian Iwhen our research team heard the first sounds As a Brazilian social psychologist I am well aware of economy and the huge prospects opened up by the of fire exchange between the police and the drug the survival strategies and patchwork of loyalties that hosting of the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in dealers who control the area. Our guide and research make up the favelas. Officially called urban subnormal 2016, for young people growing up in these segregated partner from Afroreggae, a grassroots organisation agglomerates, Rio’s favelas are ecosystems of great communities life chances are still very limited. Rio’s that works in Rio’s favelas, immediately told me to complexity, where the raw beauty of Rio’s human and urban landscape continues to be riven by socio- retreat so that he could negotiate our entrance. natural landscape co-exists with chronic lack of state economic disparities, and sharp geographical, social and After some discussion we were allowed to cross the services, heavy social control imposed by drug bosses psychological borders separate favela life from the city. “border”, which is overseen by armed men working and police violence. From the 1980s onwards drug The result is two very different worlds living side by side: with the drug factions. More than once I had been cartels have gradually gained control of favelas, which one rich and glamorous; the other poor, riven by armed prevented from entering favelas by curfews imposed offer an ideal territory for the illegal drug trade: the conflict and hidden as far as possible from public view.

I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 11 Social exclusion becomes not only a socio-economic but Rio to understand why some people break free of their dialogue between government, grassroots activists also a social psychological process, affecting the identity backgrounds while others are sucked under. and the police, observing how government officials and the self-esteem of favela dwellers. The fieldwork and the data analysis have given us and business leaders engage with local organisations These conditions made the young Afroreggae a tremendous opportunity to understand the feelings, to learn how to intervene in these areas – all this activist who guided us into Vigário Geral all the more perceptions and experiences of ordinary favela residents. has allowed us to see the energy and the potential remarkable and could not have been more illustrative of What is immediately striking is the human cost of of favela communities, the extraordinary amount of our research. Since 2009 an inter-institutional research poverty and segregation: the psychological suffering social capital they contain and their determination to partnership between LSE, the Federal University of Rio that accompanies the destruction of self-esteem. The make an impact in the new Brazilian public sphere. de Janeiro, the charitable foundations of Itaú Bank – interviews we conducted with children, young people Afroreggae and CUFA, both partners and objects of Itaú Social and Itaú Cultural – UNESCO and grassroots and mothers were often painful, and it was hard to study in the research, are favela-grown organisations that organisations Afroreggae and CUFA has worked to listen to how pessimistic and fatalistic they could be. have turned the traditional model of social intervention investigate routes of inclusion and exclusion in Rio’s Kids, usually those without support from family or any on its head. A combination of political activists, highly favelas. We want to understand how communities living other institution, can be enrolled in the gangs as young popular musicians and hip hoppers, successful cultural in conditions of poverty, social exclusion and violence as six or seven, initially acting as scouts. There is a careful entrepreneurs and agitators, conflict mediators and social develop positive routes of integration and socialisation. hierarchy in the gangs, one that offers power, identity workers, they are firmly grounded in favela life. Their To this end we have mapped the work methodology and respect. But it is a deadly game – colleagues in Rio leaders and activists were born, grew up and continue of Afroreggae and CUFA, local grassroots organisations have calculated that the average life expectancy once to live in the favelas. Crossing borders and expanding that use the arts, sports, cultural identity and civic you join the drug trade is three years. networks is an essential part of their methodology, which engagement to redraw favela contexts and establish And yet, it would be misleading to think that they combine effectively with psychosocial intervention lines of communication with the city outside. One of these are the only characteristics of favela life. Our at individual and community levels. At local level their our main objectives is to identify key indicators of best interviews and fieldwork could equally be inspiring activities range from holding clinical workshops exploring practice that can be used to inform public policy in Brazil and uplifting. Listening to stories of survival and self- what it means and how it feels to be a favela person, and beyond. We have worked in four different favelas renewal, observing workshops and artistic initiatives to the development of literacy, artistic and IT skills. At throughout Rio and have undertaken surveys, field that connect the favela and the city, systematising the city level they are powerful cultural agitators playing the observation and over 220 interviews with favela dwellers, grassroots activists, expert observers in academia, the What is immediately striking is the media, the United Nations’ Brazilian offices, industry, government officials, politicians and the police forces of human cost of poverty and segregation

12 I LSE Connect I Summer 2012 I ALL IMAGES COURTESY OF UNDERGROUND SOCIABILITIES mainstream circuit and engaging heavily with the media So what are the conditions that have enabled these opportunities, is what ultimately allows the re-writing to showcase the vibrancy and cultural richness of favela experiences to emerge and grow in the favelas of Rio? of life stories and a belief in the future to flourish. In the life. They have been presenting what they do nationally What turns a young person away from the drug dealers favelas this can mean the difference between becoming and internationally for some time. Afroreggae, for to a more positive life? We have amassed a great deal of a drug dealer or becoming an activist – and that, for instance, has been brought to London by the Barbican quantitative data to underpin our interviews. Mapping many, means the difference between life and death. n to perform and to run its methodology with children the complexity of individual life stories onto the trajectory in Hackney. of these social movements, we found that the major Sandra Jovchelovitch (PhD Social Psychology 1995) is a professor predictors of social integration and social exclusion are Our research has found that these groups introduce in the Institute of Social Psychology profound changes in the traditional way that social the inter-personal and institutional structures of support at LSE. For more information and movements work in Brazil. They bring to the public that provide resilience to cope with adversity and allow photographs from the project see www. undergroundsociabilities.co.uk. The final individuals to stand up when loss, violence and lack of sphere a new type of social actor – young black favela report will be launched at two seminars with UK and residents, fiercely independent and not interested opportunities push them underground. We call these Brazilian academics, government policymakers, activists in delegating voice to traditional political actors. structures of support psychosocial scaffoldings, which and the private sector in Rio (13 September 2012) and London (2 November 2012). They are not afraid of working with governments, refers to the enabling role others have in the develop- markets and the media; their activities are sponsored ment of the human self. Psychosocial scaffoldings are LSE is home to more Brazilian master’s students and they have acquired the status of “brands”, given to all of us by those who support our individual than any other UK institution, and over 60 Brazilian engaging a wide range of corporate partners in what and social development: they originate in the actions students were studying at the School in the they do. Through these partnerships they bring the of a care-taker and constitute the source of our internal 2011-12 academic year. The LSE Students’ Union mainstream to the favela and have a real impact security and trust in the world and others. Brazilian Society provides a focus for these and all in the lives of its residents. In 2010, for instance, While provision of psychosocial scaffoldings is students who love the country. Financial support is Santander Bank opened a branch in the notoriously traditionally found in the nuclear family and further available to eligible Brazilian students at all levels of violent and difficult to reach Complexo do Alemão enhanced by state services, our findings make clear study, and the School enrols a number of Brazilian favela, and other banks are now considering doing that grassroots organisations and community social Chevening Scholars. Staff from LSE’s Student the same. Our research partnership is one example capital can take this role too. Our data show that the Recruitment Office visit cities in Brazil annually and, of how these groups engage with academia and family is central to pathways of socialisation, but so are together with the Alumni Relations Office, fund international organisations. Indeed one of the key grassroots organisations that work as parents by proxy. pre-departure events for Brazilian offer holders. For lessons of our research is that academics alone could Mentoring people, offering them strong role models and more information visit lse.ac.uk/study not have conducted this investigation. emotional support alongside educational and training

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The optimism of the turn of the century has disappeared. may seem now, most of us in the developed West were then in the best of moods – riding high on the Michael Cox charts the rise of a new economic world order back of three great revolutions in international affairs. – and looks at why no one predicted the crisis of the West. The first and most important of these revolutions was of course the final triumph of the market in the emory can often play tricks on even wake of the global collapse of the centrally planned the most intelligent of human beings, alternative at the end of the 1980s and the beginning Mespecially in an age of rapid unexpected of the 1990s. Initially Poland and Central Europe, change, when all the normal signposts have been then Russia, and finally even “communist” China, removed or simply washed away by the tides of discovered that they had no alternative but to join history. Certainly, for those who have grown up over the only economic club in town – the one run by the the last ten, turbulent years, the world today is a very West, organised on Western principles and, according different looking place from what it was back at the to critics, largely designed to further the interests turn of the century. Indeed, inconceivable though it of the West. Nobody liked to say it too loudly at

I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 15 FEATURES A HELL OF A DECADE

the time for fear of sounding triumphalist. But for to the deregulating 1970s through to the hyper- which it simply did not have any easy answers. And many during the heady days of the 1990s it really globalising 1990s, nothing now appeared impossible. nowhere was this becoming more apparent than in did seem as if the West was best and would, for this And even the impossible now seemed achievable. The that once “steady as she goes”, rather unexciting very obvious reason, remain the axis around which liberation of Iraq? No problem, said the all-powerful place known as the European Union. The crisis began the world would rotate for the foreseeable future. Americans with their invincible military machine. slowly but then accelerated rapidly after 2008, leaving The second great core assumption – born of a Constant economic growth? Easily achieved on the a trail of failed governments in its wake (at least eight much longer revolution in world affairs – related back of cheap money and ever more complex financial fell between 2008 and 2010). Nor was this all. As to the United States, that most “indispensable” instruments. Everybody a homeowner? Why not, governments fell and the crisis deepened, not only of nations, which instead of doing what all other even if it meant a pile-up of unsustainable debt? did belief in the European project begin to ebb but great powers had done in the past (that is, decline) Economic crises? A thing of the past. And the future? many began to wonder about normal politics itself. did quite the opposite. In fact, the core belief after Not perfect, of course. But at least as perfect as it We live, in other words, not just in “interesting the end of the USSR was that we were now living was ever going to be in an imperfect world. Happy times” but in quite extraordinary times, where few in what Charles Krauthammer called a “unipolar days were here again and nobody was prepared to in the West now appear to have much confidence moment”, one that he felt would endure for a long listen to naysayers like Dr Doom (aka Nouriel Roubini) in the notion of the West; where policy leaders on time: in part because the US could lay claim to the or his foreign policy counterparts, who warned that both sides of the Atlantic realise how limited their most efficient economy in the world; in part because America’s unnecessary “war of choice” in Iraq would options are; where a once imperial America now it had constructed the greatest military ever known to end up costing the US its international standing, talks in humbling terms of “leading from behind” man; and in part because none of the other powers a lot of blood and a vast amount of treasure ($3 and adjusting to a new multi-polar world order; in the world – China included – had any chance of trillion so far). and where few have any idea at all about what the ever catching up with the United States. A second explanation connects more directly to seismic economic changes now taking place in the The third important revolution was the one that changes in the shape of the world economy. Here, world economy will mean for either global prosperity had changed the face of Europe. The end of the Cold Goldman Sachs does appear to have got it right back or international stability. War was undoubtedly Europe’s great chance, and in 2001 when it predicted (against the then prevailing The economic challenges we face are as real and as its leaders back then – Jacques Delors in particular orthodoxy) that the future belonged to the emerging serious as anything we have seen since the 1930s. n – enthusiastically grabbed the historic opportunity. BRIC economies – Brazil, Russia, India and, of course, What they created was impressive to say the least. China. But what Goldman Sachs did not predict, Michael Cox is a professor of Indeed, by the beginning of the new century, Europe however, was the sheer speed with which this shift international relations at LSE. He is also was becoming a serious point of global reference: was to take place and the main reasons why it did co-director of LSE IDEAS and academic director of the LSE Executive Summer equipped with its own currency, the largest market so. Goldman Sachs worked on a 25- – even a 50- School. His most recent books include in the world, many new members (inevitably not all year – timeline: it also assumed steady growth for all Soft Power and US Foreign Policy of them perfect), and the outlines of a Common countries in the international economy. What it did not (Routledge 2010) and The Global 1989: continuity and change in world politics (Cambridge University Press Foreign and Security Policy that would soon make it anticipate was firstly the pace of China’s rise and the 2010). His next book will be a second edition of his a major player on the international stage. Even some impact that this had on the rest of the world economy, co-edited and highly successful Oxford University Press Americans bought into this new vision, including, and secondly what happened to the international textbook, US Foreign Policy. This will appear in 2012. significantly, Charles Kupchan, former director for financial system in 2008 when the established Western European affairs in the Clinton administration. economies suffered a series of smashing body blows. This article is an edited version of a piece which first America would not be the dominant actor in the It was this “Black Swan” event more than anything appeared on Danny Quah’s blog, see dannyquah. 21st century, he opined, nor China, nor the Islamic else that was to be the real turning point. Before then wordpress.com. The themes outlined in this article world. Rather the future belonged to an integrating, the EU and the US could legitimately claim that they are explored, examined and debated at the Executive dynamic and increasingly prosperous Europe. The continued to represent the future. After 2008, such Summer School (see page 14). The programme attracts next century was its for the taking. a claim sounded frankly spurious. professionals from around the world, who are looking How and why this optimism verging on the The final reason for the great shift had less to do for a challenging course relevant to both their individual hubristic turned into its opposite in the years between with economic shifts and more to do with politics and and organisational needs. With subjects ranging from 2000 and 2010 has already been the subject of much a marked change in the capacity of governments to strategic decision making, macroeconomics, to climate feverish analysis and speculation. But at least three manage the world around them. As the new century change and emerging markets, the Executive Summer broad explanations have been advanced to help us wore on, it was becoming increasingly clear that the School offers cutting-edge thinking and research with think seriously about what Time magazine not long West in particular was facing a set of challenges to a practical application. ago characterised as the “decade from hell”. One explanation, favoured by most historians and As governments fell and the crisis deepened, social theorists, relates the fall from grace to the much earlier triumph of the West and the extraordinary lack not only did belief in the European project begin of caution that this seemed to induce among most to ebb, but many began to wonder about normal Western policymakers. Indeed, having won so much over such a long period of time, stretching right back politics itself

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we had recruited a research team, combining journalists, academics and researchers from local communities in and around those most affected Making a mark by August’s events. By early December we had interviewed close on 270 people and undertaken an initial analysis of the data. The Guardian then devoted six days – 21 with the media full pages – to Reading the Riots in early December. A week later we held a major conference at LSE, at which both the home secretary and the leader of the opposition spoke. The methods of working “Impact” is the new buzz word in universities. benefits of their research and, very practically, have been novel. Indeed that continues into phase Government, funding bodies and commentators about how we can get our research noticed. two, as we are now interviewing police officers, of all sorts want to know how useful academic Changing our relationship with the media is magistrates, lawyers and people in the local research is, and whether it offers value for money. one possibility. Consequently, blogging, Twitter communities where the riots occurred. In short, they want to know if it has impact. To this and the new social media generally are taking The study has not been without its difficulties end the new research assessment exercise, the 2014 an ever more prominent role. – journalists and academics have very different Research Excellence Framework (REF), will devote In terms of public visibility for research, in the styles of working and, some of the time, rather 20 per cent of its overall grading of universities to past year LSE’s Department of Social Policy has different priorities. Yet, whatever the problems, the impact of research. been engaged in something of an experiment. In the relationship has been enormously productive. For those who, like me, work in a Social short, we are doing research with the media. The Is this a model for the future? It is hardly likely Policy department, this emphasis on impact is focus is the August 2011 riots and our partner is to become a standard way of working, but what it less of a change than it might otherwise seem. The Guardian newspaper. In the aftermath of the does show, I think, is that social policy research can The very nature of much social policy research riots I was rung by their special projects editor. They be done in ways that combine rigour and speed, means that, almost by definition, it is linked had collected a lot of data on the disturbances and maximising opportunities for keeping pace with to matters of current public concern. This year were thinking of taking it further, perhaps via social fast-moving public and political debates. And, alone, colleagues have published important research. Might we be interested? who knows, possibly even having some impact! n work on issues as varied as child protection, After initial discussions we decided that we competition within the health service and fuel could work together and agreed that timeliness Tim Newburn is head of the Department of Social Policy at LSE. All poverty, to name but three. was vital. Within three weeks we raised initial the materials relating to the Reading the And yet the REF is making academics of all funding (from the Joseph Rowntree and Riots study can be found at: guardian. stripes think hard about the potential social Open Society Foundations). By early October co.uk/uk/series/reading-the-riots © GETTY IMAGES

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Is David Cameron’s “Big Society” an unattainable dream, invoked in power away from politicians and give it to people’”. The Cabinet Office has outlined three key components times of austerity as a way of reigning back the state, or an inspirational of the Big Society agenda – community empowerment, idea that will help mend our “broken society”? Armine Ishkanian opening up public services, and social action. is co-author of a new book that puts the idea to the test. The first chapter in the book, written by Jose Harris, seeks to place the idea in a historical context, and traces its modern ancestry back to Adam Smith’s t the height of the August 2011 riots in the on “Thinking critically about the Big Society” in March Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), where he set out UK, a group of white men, calling themselves 2011 together with Dr Hakan Seckinelgin (LSE) and his ideas for a “great society” alongside a free market A the Enfield Defence League (EDL), marched in Professor Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge and alternative. Whether proponents of the modern Enfield wearing white T-shirts and chanting “England” History & Policy). This brought together academics from notion of a Big Society, such as Philip Blond and and “EDL”. While the armies of local people with different disciplines, as well as practitioners from the Jesse Norman, know it or not, the term itself has brooms and mops cleaning up after the riots were voluntary and public sectors, to discuss the underpinnings longstanding, reverberating, transatlantic and cross- lauded as the Big Society in action, commentators of the Big Society agenda. I have since worked with Channel echoes. Theorists and politicians as unalike were far less comfortable about the EDL. But both Professor Szreter to produce an edited volume, The Big as August Comte and before the first can be seen as examples of individuals taking action Society Debate: a new agenda for social welfare? (2012), world war, and Friedrich Hayek and Lyndon Johnson to protect their communities and both raise profound which seeks to take this discussion forward. since the second world war, have each laid claim to it. questions about the nature of UK prime minister David Defining the Big Society is not easy. Launching the One of the most interesting of Harris’s observations, Cameron’s Big Society. idea in 2010, the government stated that the aim however, is that notions of a great society were not To address some of the many emerging issues being was “to create a climate that empowers local people explicitly invoked when the welfare state was designed raised by the Big Society agenda, I organised a workshop and communities, building a big society that will ‘take and implemented in the 1940s. Indeed, the idea was

18 I LSE Connect I Summer 2012 I not mooted in the 1942 Beveridge report, the 70th wake of the riots to bring diverse communities together emerging in Britain’s political landscape, with the anniversary of which will be commemorated by LSE and has drawn on the skills of professionals living in development of challenging citizen social networks. this year. Published five years after Beveridge had stood the borough to provide free legal and employment It remains to be seen how the democratic and down as director of LSE, the report sought to slay the advice to vulnerable workers. Two activists from the participatory forces of this other “Big Society” will “giant evils” of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and organisation, Jane Holgate and John Page, argue in the develop. But they are clearly something quite different disease and laid the basis of the welfare state. Martin book, however, that, as communities organise, they start from Cameron’s efforts to call forth politically safe, Albrow elaborates on Harris’s point in his chapter on to question the very underpinnings of the Big Society: anodyne and amateurish do-gooding. n funding and the Big Society, by observing that politicians “If community organising works because marginalised and their advisers in Britain have only spent their efforts communities can be taught the skills necessary to exert Armine Ishkanian is a lecturer in NGOs and development in envisaging the creation of a great or Big Society when ever-increasing power over their circumstances, then the Department of Social Policy at LSE. they have felt it to be a desirable but unattainable dream, they will, inevitably, challenge the current government’s The March 2011 workshop “Thinking a safe exhortation. Uniquely, between 1939 and 1948 a agenda of rolling back the welfare state…”. critically about the Big Society” was funded by STICERD. variant of the planned version of the great society became This is an argument familiar to academics and practi- practical politics – and the term was effectively redundant. tioners working elsewhere. Throughout the 1980s and When talking of the Big Society, Cameron prefers to 1990s structural adjustment policies were designed The Big Society Debate: a new agenda for social talk of volunteers, favouring charities, non-governmental to roll back the state in many parts of the world, in- welfare? by Armine Ishkanian and Simon Szreter is organisations, social enterprises and self-help groups. cluding sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia published by Edward Elgar (May 2012). To coincide with Left out of the debate are trade unions, professional and the former Soviet countries. From my research in its publication, the Department of Social Policy is holding organisations and, most crucially, local government. former Soviet countries, I have found that not only a public lecture on 19 June 2012. Ralph Michell, Faiza Sooner or later Cameron will have to spell out where he did these policies fail to stimulate growth, but such Chaudary, Dr Armine Ishkanian and Professor Simon and his government stand on the relationship between “shock therapy” policies instead left much suffering Szreter will examine the ideological underpinnings of Big Society and elected local government. As Simon and inequality in their wake. the concept of Big Society and Szreter argues, over the last 500 years local government Governments around the globe are being confronted the challenges it poses for those in Britain has been seen as a bulwark against overbearing by angry citizens who criticise politicians for imposing involved in translating it into central state interference and, frequently, as the single austerity measures and public spending cuts while practice. For more information most important expression of local community and continuing to subsidise and bail out the banks and see lse.ac.uk/events participatory citizenship. corporations whose irresponsible behaviour led to If Big Society is indeed to mend the “broken society”, the crisis in the first place. Profound changes are also then it will need to be regenerated by voluntary participation and leadership in fractured communities at the local level. Proposing that this should be done while ignoring local government makes little sense; proposing ALUMNI VIEWPOINT that it be done in place of elected and accountable local government begins to look like some form of vigilante Maria Crastus on the Big Society alternative to democratic structures, Szreter contends. I graduated from LSE in 2007 if the government framework and the skills needed to Indeed, the example of the EDL is troubling evidence with a BA in Geography, and oversee the enhancement of biodiversity in the UK are of a type of vigilantism emerging during the riots. While have gone on to work on being broken down. Over the spending review period journalists across the political spectrum lauded the environmental issues. Most 2011-16, several local authorities are likely to lose their Turkish men in Dalston and Sikh men in Birmingham recently I have produced a biodiversity officers and withdraw their funding for a who defended their shops with baseball bats – with report for Natural England considerable number of the conservation organisations one journalist even calling them “turbaned avatars of and the London Biodiversity that work in their boroughs. Cameron’s Big Society come to stop the burning” – all Partnership on the Big Alternative funding sources will come under ever were far less comfortable about the EDL. Society agenda and how this greater pressure as they are subjected to an increase in Whether we wish to cheer or denigrate these instances is likely to impact on efforts to improve biodiversity. In demand from larger numbers of organisations. In such as examples of self-organised defence or dangerous particular, I have looked at the Biodiversity Action Plans circumstances, it would be meaningless for third sector vigilantism, one thing remains clear: these groups were of London boroughs and how Big Society attempts to organisations to have more people being prepared to based on narrow ethnic, religious or racial identities. Yet, decentralise power might work alongside these plans. volunteer with them if they did not have the resources if communities are to organise in their own collective My starting point was that the Big Society agenda to facilitate and coordinate the voluntary work. interest, as is desired by Big Society proponents, then it is could benefit biodiversity because it seeks to involve My report came to the conclusion that, if the aim absolutely essential that connections are made not only individuals and community groups in worthwhile of the Big Society is that the state should offload its within groups but more importantly between groups in local initiatives. However, my interviews – with costs and responsibilities in terms of biodiversity onto a community – and it is no secret that such links are the environmental groups and those working to promote the third sector, then it is misguided and will harm most difficult to build and to sustain. the plans in local boroughs – found that we are a very efforts to improve biodiversity. Nevertheless, it is just this that Hackney Unites, an long way from seeing any evidence that the initiative Maria Crastus (BA Geography 2007) is a journal organisation that began life as “Hackney Unites against will bring about a major shift in behaviour, especially and newsletter feature writer. the BNP”, seeks to do. Hackney Unites has worked in the

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Can poverty be reduced through successful business model innovation? Working on the ground in Christian Busch, associate director of LSE’s Innovation Co-Creation BoP countries Lab, describes the Lab’s work and calls for LSE alumni to get involved. We have done many workshops and seminars with social enterprises, multinationals, and NGOs “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and and why new organisational types – or partnerships of around the world. The key challenges facing social rights.” While the first article of the Universal Declaration organisations – interact with people living at the BoP entrepreneurs are identified and analysed, enabling of Human Rights is widely accepted, reality is different. under specific economic, social and political constraints, them to develop solutions to address them. Four billion people around the globe live on under US$4 to reduce poverty. Workshops are due to take place in Cape per day, at the “economic base of the pyramid” (BoP). The This requires insights from multiple disciplines, so the Town, Nairobi and several Indian cities this year, in potential to involve these people in global social, economic ICCLab brings together researchers from management, collaboration with partners like Ashoka, Sandbox and political processes as consumers, producers and anthropology, sociology, psychology and other Network and The Hub. participants seems vast, yet will require innovative means. disciplines. For instance, Juli Huang, associate director Vili Lehdonvirta, the Lab’s director of operations, Sustainable, inclusive business model innovation at the of the Lab is not only central to the “mapping the is currently implementing an “interactive digital BoP, in combination with in-depth knowledge of how genome” project, together with Harry, but also brings knowledge map”, which will enable the Lab to the new organisations (social enterprises, companies, in important insights from anthropology. She is about create a bridge between academic contribution and NGOs, state organisations and so on) really impact the to leave for a two-year ethnographic study in Assam practical impact, and make the research accessible lives of people on the ground, can be an effective way to (India) – the first of its kind – of how social enterprises to those for whom it matters most. address problems associated with poverty and to promote enable informal labourers to possess their own means of We would be delighted to enter a dialogue with LSE basic human rights. This is the belief of Professor Harry production. Another comparative study of Kenyan social alumni, via our newly launched presence on Facebook Barkema, who founded LSE’s Innovation Co-Creation Lab entrepreneurs examines their effective uses of networks (LSE Innovation Co-Creation Lab) and Twitter (@ICCLab) (ICCLab) in the Department of Management in 2007, to scale; and several studies look at how multinationals or through our website www.icclab.com. Please join and of the entire team. It works with leading academics, have scaled their solutions in Indian and South African us on this journey through the constantly evolving body social entrepreneurs, NGOs and companies in Africa, BoP contexts. In order to extend research findings to of knowledge, whether as advisers, donors, partners, Asia and South America to co-create evidence-based people who might benefit most, this research is not only collaborators or critical observers. n knowledge to empower organisations and individuals published in academic journals, but also disseminated working at the BoP. via social media channels and through workshops on Christian Busch is associate the ground, as well as through master’s-level teaching. director at the LSE Innovation Co- Creation Lab (ICCLab). He co-founded Mapping the genome Sandbox (www.sandbox-network. The precise mechanisms of how organisations successfully Monitoring and evaluation com), and his research and teaching focus on the scaling-dynamics of (social) build and innovate their models are poorly understood. MSc student teams are currently working in India, enterprises. His latest TEDx-talk on The Lab is therefore focused on understanding and Kenya and other countries, with organisations such “Creating Impact Organisations” is on: http://bit. “mapping the genome” of the entire ecosystem of how as IBM, Riders for Health and Husk Power Systems. ly/dUDAik, Twitter: @ChrisSandbox

I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 21 Final message from Judith Rees

Craig leaves his roles as university professor at New York University and director of NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, as well as president of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), to come to LSE. As has been widely acknowledged, his work connects sociology to culture, communication, politics, philosophy and education. He has written extensively on the role of the public intellectual, most notably for the SSRC – where his essays on public social science have been widely translated, reprinted and circulated. After 11 September 2001, he launched an online essay forum called “Real Time Social Science”. This attracted over one million readers and has gone on to debate such issues as the impact of hurricane Katrina and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. He is also the author of several books, including Nations Matter (2007), Neither Gods nor Emperors (1997) and Critical Social Theory (1995). An American citizen, Professor Calhoun has strong links to the UK. He took a DPhil in History and Sociology at the University of Oxford and a master’s in Social Anthropology at Manchester. He also co-founded, with Richard Sennett, professor of sociology at LSE, the NYLON programme, which This is my last column for LSE Connect, written after an extraordinary brings together graduate students from New York year as director of LSE. I am signing off with a great sense of pride in and London for co-operative research programmes. It only remains for me to wish Craig well and to the School and secure in the knowledge that I have, in Professor Craig ensure that LSE is in good shape for his arrival. Calhoun, an outstanding successor. This brings me on to Lord Woolf’s “Inquiry into LSE’s links with Libya and lessons to be learned”. Craig will take up his post on 1 September and has When we announced Craig’s appointment in late Lord Woolf was commissioned by LSE Council in already undertaken four week-long trips to LSE to November 2011, the news that we had chosen such March 2011 to review LSE’s links to Libya following meet colleagues and students. He will set out his initial a prominent social scientist and public intellectual as the resignation of the director, Sir Howard Davies. thoughts on LSE in the next issue of the magazine, but I the next director was immediately well received. Craig The Council published Lord Woolf’s report in full in would like to use this column to introduce him to alumni. tells me that he received some 3,000 messages of late November, at the same time as it announced I would also like to reflect on the many, many events of congratulation, including 2,000 from alumni via Twitter the results of a separate inquiry by the University of this last year, most notably the publication of the Woolf and Facebook. As a non-Twitter user myself, I can only London into alleged academic misconduct by Saif report into LSE’s links to Libya but also our preparations marvel at the speed of this mass communication! Gaddafi. The University of London decided not to for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. revoke his PhD.

22 I LSE Connect I Summer 2012 I Lord Woolf’s report was highly critical, and for someone like me who has spent most of their working life at LSE, I firmly believe that we have an opportunity it made painful reading. It found that there were failings here to set a new standard of conduct in of governance, management and communication at LSE concerning Saif Gaddafi’s PhD and the decision higher education to accept a gift from the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation. I promised at the time to do everything in my power to implement the Woolf recommendations before the arrival of Craig, and I believe pro director for research and external relations, Task Force and drove forward its recommendations. we have made significant progress. we have produced a green paper that has been Janet comes to the end of her term as pro director At the time of writing we are firmly embarked discussed widely in the School. Although LSE has this summer and I wish to thank her in particular on an extensive consultation on a new Ethics Code, always performed extraordinarily well in the Research for her support over the last year. I would also like with a view to presenting a Code to Council and Assessment Exercises of the past, we have never to welcome Professor Paul Kelly to the role, who Academic Board later in June. The Code will be traded long-term strength for short-term RAE many of you will know as head of the Department a “living” document, constantly updated as new gains. This paper is no exception and has stimulated of Government. challenges arise. I firmly believe that we have an discussion across LSE about the robustness of the Finally, as I prepare to stand down and go back to opportunity here to set a new standard of conduct in School’s policies for supporting world-class research my role as director of the Grantham Research Institute higher education, and would like to thank my many over the next 10 to 20 years in a global environment on Climate Change and the Environment, I would like colleagues across the School for the frank and serious where competition for academics, funding and to thank colleagues, students and alumni alike for way in which the Woolf report has been debated to research students is expected to increase sharply. It their support and comments over the last year. It has date. I have put references at the end of this article is an extraordinarily thorough piece of work, and the been quite a journey. n to our web page on Woolf and our Ethics page, for discussions it has provoked have been intense and those who would like to follow this debate. will stand LSE in good stead as Craig takes the helm. For more on the Ethics Code see: lse.ac.uk/intranet/ Running alongside this work has been a serious Equally important has been our continued work on LSEServices/planningAndCorporatePolicy/ review of our research policy, as part of our preparation improving the student experience. I was able to report ethicsConsultation/Home.aspx for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. The in the last LSE Connect that LSE student satisfaction outcome of this exercise will determine a significant levels have been rising sharply. This is testimony to the For more on the Woolf Inquiry, and to read chunk of our research funding for years to come. hard work of Professor Janet Hartley, pro director for the full report, see: lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/ Under the leadership of Professor Stuart Corbridge, teaching and learning, who established the Teaching woolf/home.aspx

media on the day of its release. For someone A tribute to Judith Rees from who has never – as Judith herself has made clear – sought the limelight, her success in this Peter Sutherland, chair of Council was an extraordinary achievement. When Professor Judith Rees took over as with them systematically. In this her six years The work on the Ethics Code also bears director of LSE following the resignation of of experience as deputy director of the School her particular hallmark. The consultation has Sir Howard Davies in March 2011, we were from 1998 to 2004 stood her in good stead. been extensive and open, the documentation immediately put on notice. Originally referred But more than that, the high regard in which excellent. LSE is developing as a leader in this to as “interim director”, Judith was persuaded she is held across the School meant that she field. This is something many could not have to drop the interim. It was the right decision. resolved issues quickly and straightforwardly. dared hope for in March 2011. The fact that Her tenure as director may only have run from Third, and by no means least, she saw Judith has achieved it so seamlessly is again May 2011 to August 2012, but her legacy will through the submission of evidence to the testimony to her many strengths. be felt for years. She has been an extraordinary Woolf Inquiry, the submission of evidence to As chair of Council it simply remains for me and inspiring director. the separate University of London inquiry into to say that I am personally immensely grateful First, she put in place measures to secure the alleged academic misconduct by Saif Gaddafi, to her for her gifted stewardship of the School long-term future of the School. She instigated the publication of the Woolf report, the over the last year. I am seeking to persuade her the search for a new director and ensured announcement of the University of London to have her portrait in the Shaw Library, along that vital projects, such as the review of the decision and subsequently the implementation with all the eminent directors to date. I hope I School’s research policy and preparations for of the 15 wide-ranging Woolf recommendations. will receive support from across the School in this the Research Excellence Framework, went To do this Judith had to be the public face of endeavour. She will go down as one of the great ahead as planned. the School. She was interviewed in a video by LSE directors – and should be commemorated Second, she quickly took control of the day- a young academic film-maker on the subject as such. to-day running of the School. She identified of the Woolf report and its recommendations, any ongoing management issues and dealt and dealt with the numerous requests from the

I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 23 STUDENTS’ CENTRE, LSE CAMPUS TOWERS AND BANKSIDE

LSE moves a step closer to achieving its ambition of a world-class campus with the new Students’ Centre rated outstanding for sustainable design, and with planned regeneration of the Towers and Bankside House.

Bankside LSE has been granted planning permission to extend and partially refurbish its Bankside House hall of residence. Built in the early 1950s as an ancillary office space to the nearby power station, Bankside House was converted into a student hall of residence in 1996 by LSE and has been operated primarily as a student residence since then. The proposals include a roof top extension, an additional 104 student rooms, the creation of study rooms, a common room area, improved laundry facilities and additional cycling park facilities. Detailed designs are now being drawn up with work scheduled to start in 2013.

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Towers Work has started on the reception areas of Towers One and Two on Clement’s Inn. The £1.25m refurbishment project will create a large joint reception area for the towers and will relocate and improve the loading bay. As well as enhanced access and improved security, there will be new meeting rooms, disabled toilets and upgraded disabled access, interactive advertising and display areas, and a café. The work should be finished by the start of the 2012 Michaelmas term.

New Students’ Centre The new Students’ Centre, which is due to be completed in late 2013, has achieved a BREEAM design rating of Outstanding, becoming only the 17th building worldwide, the second establishment in higher education and the first in higher education in London to achieve such a high standard of sustainability. Julian Robinson, director of estates at LSE, said: “Sustainability has been a key factor for the School from the very start of this project so it is pleasing to have achieved our aim of creating not only a suitable home for our Students’ Union, but one of the ‘greenest’ buildings on campus.” BREEAM sets the standard for best practice in sustainable building design, construction and operation and has become one of the most comprehensive measures of a building’s environmental performance. For more information on the new Students’ Centre and to find out how you can support campus developments, see ‘Building on success’ on page 28. I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 25 ALUMNI MAKING LSE & ME A DIFFERENCE

My improbable journey

Gita Patel describes what inspired her to set up Trapezia, a fund dedicated exclusively to investing in companies led, managed or founded by women.

school, who had singled me out businesses and to give better access to markets and for LSE back in 1974, in part to business networks. LSE has been a key stepping because he had aspired to study stone, with its strong brand name, its reputation as at LSE himself. Having people in a centre of excellence, the contacts and networking my life who gave me the courage opportunities offered and the global perspective I and educational vigour to apply gained from its international reach. These have all to LSE, and succeed there, helped been invaluable in developing my corporate career me mark the first stepping stone and entrepreneurial ventures. to achieving my future career Throughout my career I have met people who success. I personally gained have studied at LSE and have gone on to hold senior so much from LSE – including positions in corporates, and others who have been in meeting my husband (who went very influential positions both in the UK and abroad. on to become an actuary). It has been interesting to note the strength of the After graduating from LSE I LSE brand, which earns immediate respect, rapport joined Arthur Andersen, at a and connection in many spheres of work. At times time when only five per cent I have come across leaders who have really inspired of the accountancy profession me. These were people who valued hard work, were graduate intake were women. not afraid of change or challenge, and had clear I then entered the corporate convictions and the strength of mind to challenge world – first in the oil industry, conventional thinking. One such person from whom followed by 15 years in banking. I learnt much and who left a mark on my thinking Eight years ago I chose a was Richard Goeltz. He is on the Council at LSE, and portfolio career and became our paths crossed when he was the director and an entrepreneur, business angel group chief financial officer at NatWest. Many years investor and fund manager. I later it is an honour for me to serve in the Court of also specialised in women’s Governors and on the Finance Committee, as well as s Michelle Obama said in her campaign markets and the female economy, which has taken participate in a number of initiatives at the request speech “each of us is here today by way of me to many parts of the world where I have shared of the students. A our own improbable journey”. My family insights and learning on international platforms. Looking back, however, there are things I wish arrived in the UK as immigrants expelled from East My research into women’s increasing influence and I had realised earlier in my career, particularly the Africa. Overnight we went from an educated and well- affluence identified market opportunities in a segment importance of self-confidence and self-belief: if the off family to rebuilding our lives from scratch in a new vastly underserved by traditional providers, who were odd thing does not go well it can drain self-esteem, so country. In the face of this, my parents’ generation had relying on historic trends for decision-making and were resilience is key. I have found this to be especially true incredible strength and vision and should be applauded blind to emerging developments in this segment of the for women. Also, chosen wisely, a good mentor can for instilling in us the value of education as a means markets. We therefore created a venture capital fund be priceless in providing a reality check and becoming of creating opportunities. called Trapezia to target companies that were led, part of your personal navigation system. Finally, the There have been certain key individuals in my life managed or founded by women. most important thing of all is to build your contact who have inspired me and given me the courage to Today Trapezia has become the international base. I cannot emphasise this enough! Whom you aim high. In addition to my parents, this began with inspiration for other countries to set up similar funds know and whom they know are the unwritten rules my Australian economics teacher from my grammar to improve access to capital, to mentor and nurture that exercise power, influence and control – and that’s not just in business. I wish someone had given Whom you know and whom they know are me this single piece of advice early in my career. n the unwritten rules that exercise power, influence Gita Patel (BSc Economics 1977), LSE governor, and control – and that’s not just in business is director of StarGate Capital Investment Group.

26 I LSE Connect I Summer 2012 I ICONIC IMAGES FROM LSE ARCHIVES LSE ICONS PICTURES FROM ALUMNI WELCOME

Sport at LSE

As London prepares to host the Olympics, LSE can be proud of its own sporting tradition.

With nearly 100 pictures in the LSE archives, showing students and staff in a range of sports from running to tug-of-war, this page offers a glimpse of this sporting history.

Apple-bobbing also appears to have been a popular LSE sport, as these pictures show – although one that has not yet made it into the Olympics.

I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 27 LSE THANKYOU

LSE Annual Fund supports scholars at risk

The LSE Annual Fund recently in written and spoken English in awarded £46,000 to the Scholars an academic context, as well as IT at Risk scheme, a programme and library research training, run established to house scholars three times this year, once each whose lives or work are being term. Each run of the course will threatened in their home be for eight weeks and will enable countries and who have ten deserving academics to benefit research interests that coincide from LSE expertise. In addition, this with those of the School. training will help as an induction for the academics into the UK LSE is currently hosting an Iraqi Higher Education sector. researcher and the School has Building on success previously hosted an Ethiopian The grant will also allow the The Wolfson Foundation, a key supporter of excellence in education, has given economist, an Iraqi professor Scholars at Risk scheme to develop a generous gift of £100,000 towards the new Students’ Centre. The centre is of international relations and a visiting fellowship programme an important undertaking for LSE, being the first entirely new building in over a Palestinian economist. The whereby four refugee scholars 40 years. It will transform student life and aims to be the best students’ centre School aims to provide a variety are welcomed into relevant in the world. Housing the Students’ Union and other student services such as of support to these scholars in departments at the School as LSE the School’s Careers Service, the building will become a student hub at the order to help them fulfil their visiting fellows. heart of campus, adding significant value to the student experience at LSE. potential and have a positive The School is excited that our deserving students and staff will finally have impact on the world. The Scholars at Risk programme surroundings worthy of their hard work and achievements. provides an opportunity to The recent Annual Fund grant has reaffirm LSE’s independence and The Wolfson Foundation was established in 1955 with the aim of supporting enabled the scheme to provide commitment to addressing the excellence through the funding of capital infrastructure in the fields of science language classes and crucial causes and effects of inequality and medicine, health, education and the arts and humanities. A key feature stipend support to individual and injustice, while helping of the Trustees’ funding is the use of their grants as a catalyst for leveraging scholars taken from a situation support persecuted scholars and additional partnerships and support. The Wolfson Foundation has been a of immediate risk. The language protecting academic freedom. significant supporter of LSE over many decades, having previously supported courses, which provide training the redevelopment of the Library and the New Academic Building. It is the School’s and the Wolfson Foundation’s hope that this generous gift will inspire The support of the Annual Fund has been others to pledge their support to this exciting project. absolutely crucial in both maintaining our hosting programme, which has offered safe refuge to a number The Wolfson Foundation’s chief executive Paul Ramsbottom said: “The Foundation of scholars facing immediate risk to their work and lives has a long history of supporting excellence in education, focusing on both over the past few years, and in developing our new teaching and student spaces. We are delighted to be contributing to the new Students’ Centre, which will provide high quality facilities for LSE students.” language and research course for refugee scholars. Zoe Gillard, co-ordinator of the LSE Scholars at Risk scheme, manager of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. LSE Health and the Pew Charitable Trusts collaborate Thanks to a generous $150,000 but also for facilitating clinical trials Through the Scholars at Risk Fellowship, I have been grant from The Pew Charitable needed to bring new, life-saving able to conduct my research into Islamic extremism freely Trusts, LSE’s Health and Social Care is antibiotics to market quickly. and fearlessly, and travel the world giving lectures and able to investigate the development talks and publish my work without fear of retribution. and use of rapid point-of-care Through the course of this 12 month Mina Al-Lami, research fellow in the Department of Media and diagnostics for bacterial infections. research project, the team at LSE Communications, hosted under the LSE Scholars at Risk scheme. Such tools are vital not only for Health and Social Care hopes to treating patients more effectively identify any weaknesses and areas

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brought not only deep insights Community Day Support from Santander to develop my thesis but also LSE is proud to continue its a travel research fund to enable memorable experiences. involvement with Santander through staff and students to undertake its Santander Universities Global research in countries in the Santander “FGV is considered the premier Division. This is a scheme originally Universidades network, and Excellence business school in Brazil and set up in 1997 in Spain to support in Enterprise, which supports a master many high ranking officials, Higher Education, and which since class series through LSE careers. senior executives, and renowned then has donated over £500 million. Santander also offers opportunities for economists are affiliated with the academics and students to work with school. I therefore viewed FGV as an Santander Universities began other universities within its network. ideal fit not only for myself but for A hardy gathering of LSE students, working in the UK in 2007 and LSE Through the generous travel grants, future LSE students as well. There is alumni and staff braved the unseasonal was one of the first ten institutions this can have a great impact not only no formal relationship between the weather on Sunday 4 March to take to receive support. Today, 57 UK on the student or academic, but also institutions but I came to discover a part in the LSE Student Community universities have signed agreements on both host and home institutions healthy informal network. Day. Held in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the with the bank, with over 1,010 as illustrated by the travel report from event was the brainchild of Jules Green institutions worldwide. We are very PhD student in international political “Who knows what the future (BSc Management Sciences 1985), a grateful to Santander for its support, economy D Rajeev Sibal: holds but I can affirm that LSE, member of the School’s Development which has totalled over £500,000 in FGV, and I benefited from this Committee. Along with events such as gifts and pledges. “I wanted to thank the fund for its exchange, and it was made tug-of-war and musical performances commitment during Michaelmas possible by Santander’s support.” (pictured), it raised funds for student Support from Santander for LSE has term to support my exchange as support and the LSE African Initiative. come in several ways: there have been a visiting scholar at the Fundação We would like to thank Santander for over 50 scholarships under different Getulio Vargas – Escola de its generous support of LSE and its Jules explained his motivation: “I truly schemes (current scholars pictured Administração de Empresas de São ongoing commitment to education. believe there is no better place to study here with John Hodges of Santander), Paulo. Time spent at FGV in the world than LSE. It has given us all unparalleled opportunity and for today’s students it will change their lives. I wanted the Student Community Day to be the start of a process of bringing the LSE community together.”

The centrepiece of the day was a run or walk of up to 5K– and special mentions go to pro director Professor Stuart Corbridge, Andy Farrell, director of finance and facilities, and Professor Thandika Mkandawire, chair in African development, who all completed the course.

The Community Day was made possible with generous support from Jules Green and Keith Young MBE (BSc Economics 1968).

high quality research and policy The Pew Charitable Trusts, an The organisation’s Antibiotics and LSE Health and the Pew Charitable Trusts collaborate analysis in health and social care. independent non-profit organisation Innovation Project develops and of potential efficiency gains in the based in Philadelphia, is “driven by supports policies that will spur diagnostics market with the overall Since its establishment in 2000, LSE the power of knowledge to solve innovation of new antibiotics to fight aim of promoting the development Health and Social Care has developed today’s most challenging problems”. infections today and to ensure a and use of practical point-of-care significantly, bringing in a substantial Under this umbrella, the Pew Health healthy nation in the future. tools to improve the treatment number of research awards totalling Group works to advance solutions of bacterial infections. LSE Health £48 million, and producing over 1,600 that will protect the public by We would like to thank the Pew and Social Care’s mission is the peer-review journal papers, books and ensuring the safety and availability Charitable Trusts for their support production and dissemination of reports since 2004 alone. of medical products and services. of this innovative project.

I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 29 WHAT’S HAPPENING AROUND LSE NEWS THE CAMPUS AND BEYOND

Outgoing director moves to sign off on new LSE Ethics Code

After a period of extensive investigation, Lord Woolf’s report into LSE’s links with Libya was published in full by the School in November. The University of London also concluded its investigation into the allegations of academic misconduct against Saif Gaddafi and determined that his PhD should not be revoked. The PhD thesis has been annotated to show where attribution or references should have © ALEKUP/DREAMSTIME.COM been made. Lord Woolf’s report was highly critical and the School’s director Judith Rees made a personal commitment that LSE would both learn the lessons of the Growing esteem for LSE report and implement the 15 recommendations made by the former Lord Chief LSE has overtaken Oxford rankings of global universities Justice. An action plan detailing what the School had achieved to date on each of University to rank second in this based on their reputation among the 15 recommendations was published in February and can be viewed at year’s Complete University Guide. senior academics, ranking 29th in lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/woolf/ActionPlan.aspx Cambridge University topped the the world and fifth in the UK.

ranking of 116 UK universities One of Lord Woolf’s key recommendations was that the School establish “an DREAMSTIME.COM © with Oxford coming third. The The Times Higher Education embedded code dealing with ethics and reputation risk which applies across the Guide says LSE has the “highest World Reputation Rankings are institution.” LSE began a wide and in depth consultation on this in February, with percentage of world leading based on a poll of over 17,500 the aim of presenting the Ethics Code to Council and Academic Board in June. research of any university in the academics worldwide. LSE is UK and topped or came close only one of five UK institutions At the time of writing, the consultation is being led by an Ethics Code to the top of a number of other to come in the top 30, after Consultation Group which is chaired by Dr Daleep Mukarji, lay governor and rankings of research excellence.” Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial former director of Christian Aid. The Group has solicited opinions widely and all of LSE also has the highest College London and University the School community has been encouraged to contribute to the document. employment rate, with 87.8 per College London (UCL). The cent of graduates in good jobs School was placed 37th in last The Code will provide guidance to members of the School community on best or further study six months later. year’s table. This year’s rankings practice in the consideration of ethical issues arising from all areas of the School’s lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/ show a drop for several UK work and will apply to all of LSE’s activities. The Code will be a “living” document, aroundLSE/archives/2012/ universities with LSE bucking the to be updated as and when new situations arise and, it is hoped, will become a completeuniguide.aspx trend with a rise of eight places. marker for a new standard of conduct across higher education. Further updates lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/ will be published online and the final Ethics Code will also be accessible from LSE’s The School also jumped eight aroundLSE/archives/2012/ website when approved by Council and Academic Board. See lse.ac.uk/intranet/ places in the second annual reputationRankings.aspx LSEServices/PlanningAndCorporatePolicy/ethicsConsultation/home.aspx

According to the Econsultancy table, table with Cambridge and LSE scores well in social media LSE is placed third, with a visibility Oxford in second and third score of 286,859. The University of place respectively. lse. LSE is the most “visible” Russell Group universities in order of Cambridge tops the table with a score ac.uk/newsAndMedia/ university in social media, the LSE their social visibility. Each university’s of 462,823, followed by the University aroundLSE/archives/2012/ Impacts Blog has found. social visibility score was calculated of Oxford at 442,758. However, socialMedia.aspx based on the total number of links a when these scores are charted against The LSE Impact of Social Sciences web domain has scored on six social the sizes of the universities involved, blog team has used data from an sites, including Facebook, Twitter, the results are reversed, with LSE Econsultancy ranking which lists 20 Linkedin and Google+. placed prominently at the top of the

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LSE launches its Digital Library LSE news in brief LSE Library celebrates 115th anniversary On 23 November, the © DREAMSTIME.COM For 100 years, the LSE Library’s collections have played a crucial role in the field of Library held a celebration to mark its 115th anniversary with an event attended by social sciences, making it vital to collect and preserve its material digitally. Now, over 150 supporters, friends of the Library, students and members of staff. LSE’s recently launched Digital Library means that the School can preserve digital material in all forms – from various media and formats through to emails and blogs. FMG celebrates a quarter of a century Over 100 past and current It contains both material that has been digitised from LSE Library collections as well members of the Financial Markets Group joined its founding chairman Sir David as born-digital material that has been collected and preserved in digital formats. Walker and founding directors Sir Mervyn King and Professor Charles Goodhart for a two day conference in January to mark its 25th anniversary. Elizabeth Chapman, director of Library Services said: “The Digital Library means lse.ac.uk/finance/news/FMG25thAnniversary.aspx we can build and preserve distinctive collections to support research and learning, and represent a record of LSE sculpture a top ten thought in the social sciences.” London art attraction Richard Wilson’s sculpture, “Square the Block”, The first major collection to be which is installed on the corner of the New made available through the Academic Building, has been named as Digital Library is the diary of one of the top ten public contemporary , with funding art works in London by ArtLyst, one of the from the Webb Memorial most comprehensive resource websites for Trust. Dating from 1869 to the contemporary art in the city. 1940s, the extensive diary is a key resource for research into TRIUM ranked second in the world by the Financial a wide range of subjects, such Times The TRIUM Global Executive MBA Programme, an alliance between LSE, as politics in the late 19th and New York University Stern School of Business and HEC School of Management, early 20th century, industrial Paris, has risen from third place to second in the world in the latest Financial relations, and the role of Times ranking of Executive MBA programmes. women in society. The Digital lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2011/10/TRIUM.aspx Library provides a single access point through which you can search and browse this material: digital.library.lse.ac.uk Big questions for young minds In December 2011, LSE held its first LSE Big Questions lecture, designed to introduce the social sciences to young people Blogging at LSE aged 11 to 14 (Key Stage 3). In “East beats West? Is the East taking over the world?” Professor Danny Quah addresses the issue of the rising economic power of LSE has launched two new blogs this year: European Politics and Policy – China and other Asian countries and asks whether we should be fearful of this. EUROPP – which launched in February, and the LSE Review of Books, which lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2011/12/big_questions.aspx went live in April.

EUROPP aims to foster debate on the continent’s biggest issues and enlarge LSE research groups among and improve the public debate around government and policymaking in the EU and its near-neighbours. The blog’s academic editor, Sara Hagemann from “world’s most influential” LSE’s European Institute, explained: “From the future of economic union and Two LSE research groups, the foreign 5,300 think tanks from 120 countries. migration to changes in human rights and shifts in global political power, affairs centre LSE IDEAS and political They were assessed on categories Europe is at the centre of a multitude of pressing questions. Our aim is to analysts/consultants the Public Policy including their ability to produce address them rigorously but accessibly through this blog.” EUROPP is at Group, have been jointly named the rigorous research, contribute socially blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog world’s fourth-best university think innovative ideas and to bridge the gap

tank in a global survey. LSE IDEAS, between policymakers and the public. LSE Review of Books covers academic and serious books across the social the centre for international affairs, Reputation among academics, peers sciences, providing timely and fair-minded book reviews, and reflecting diplomacy and strategy, was also and the media was also a factor. The on social science writing. The blog’s managing editor Amy Mollett said: ranked the 20th most influential think report’s publishers said their main aim “Our mission is to improve public engagement with the social sciences, via tank in Western Europe. was to bring international recognition involvement with their best written and most accessible products – books and for the important role played by think ebooks. This project will thrive on public engagement. We already know there The rankings, in the annual report tanks around the world. is an appetite for bold ideas and good writing and the LSE Review of Books of the Think Tank and Civic Society will bring them together for the benefit of us all, with new reviews every day. Program of the University of lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/ Come and join us at blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks” Pennsylvania, compared more than archives/2012/01/thinktanks.aspx

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STUDENT LIFE Marcus Mepstead, an Economics and Geography undergraduate, describes how he has combined his studies with competing for a place on the British Olympic fencing team.

LSE is very important to me, which is why, after taking 2010/11 out, I came I have been fencing since I was 9 and I am now 21. I started at an after school club back this year to keep in control of my studies, whilst pursuing my ambition of at The Hall School in London. My elder brother and I were quite naughty, so my competing in the 2012 Olympics for the British fencing team. There are nine mum thought it would be a good way of getting rid of some of our excess energy. of us vying for three places on the team, so during the qualifying period it’s At the age of 13 I started competing in international competitions, and I now been extremely intense; being able to focus on my studies has alleviated some compete all over the world as part of the Olympic Pathway Programme for 2012 of the pressure and allowed me some breathing space outside of training. and 2016 set up by UK Sport. The Olympics is the highest competition in fencing and has always been a dream of mine. When I Because of fencing, my time at LSE has always been a bit stop-start. I’ve completed competed in the Olympic test event at the Excel my first year and am now in my second year, and my tutor, Dr Steve Gibbons, has Centre back in December 2011, the atmosphere been really accommodating; it’s nice not having to worry too much about logistics and home crowd served up an incredible feeling in that sense. It’s hard trying to manage university and fencing as I train every day, and it would be amazing to be able to compete but Dr Gibbons has been very understanding about what I’m trying to do, as have in these Olympics and have the opportunity to many of my class teachers. I train six hours a day, a mixture of fencing lessons and win a medal in London. sparring, strength, cardio and conditioning. I was able to arrange a lot of my classes so that they would take place later in the evenings, on Wednesday mornings or on In my first year I completed a few Friday afternoons, so that I could train as much as possible. Only one other member banking internships in sales and of the squad is currently at university, so making sure I don’t fall behind on training trading and really enjoyed it. Because sessions is always important. fencing has taken over everything, it is all I think about at the moment, but During my first year at LSE in 2008/09, I had a great time living in halls and after I finish my sporting career it is enjoying the full university experience, making the most of the athletics union something I would definitely hope to do. and finance societies. I am currently living back at home in north London. Despite the fact that a lot of the friends I started university with have now At time of publication Marcus had yet to graduated, got jobs or are travelling the world, it’s great to be able to keep in learn whether he had qualified for the touch with them, while the pressures of the qualifying period have grown. British Olympic Fencing Team.

Astute economic analyst takes Pulitzer Prize winner announced up Paulson chair as next Philippe Roman Chair

Professor Paul economists can take to ensure a stable Author and a focus on issues of economic and De Grauwe, a future for the European trading bloc. Pulitzer Prize political transition. Her best known world-leading winner Anne book, Gulag: a history, won the 2004 Professor De Grauwe, who took up economist who Applebaum Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, as well as the post in the European Institute in predicted the will take Britain’s Duff-Cooper Prize. It was also February, is an expert on European present financial up the post a finalist for the National Book Award, debt and monetary union, a former crisis engulfing of Philippe the National Book Critics Circle Award, adviser to the president of the Europe, has Roman Chair the LA Times Book Award and the European Commission and a former become the first in History and Samuel Johnson Prize. member of the Belgian Parliament. holder of the John Paulson chair in International Affairs, based at LSE In 2009 he called for a “new science Anne Applebaum said: “I’m European Political Economy at LSE. IDEAS, for 2012-13. of macroeconomics”, arguing that delighted to be given this wonderful The chair, founded with a donation existing models failed to grasp the Anne Applebaum, who is currently opportunity to meet and work with of more than £2.5 million by John A complexities of the modern world. director of political studies for the the students and faculty of LSE, one Paulson, is for research and teaching to Later the same year he wrote Legatum Institute and a columnist of the few truly global institutions.” help understand the crisis gripping the that Greece’s debt problems were for the Washington Post and Slate, lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/ eurozone, the threat to the stability of likely to cause systemic problems will succeed Professor Ramachandra news/archives/2012/01/ the EU and the actions politicians and across the eurozone. lse.ac.uk/ Guha when she takes up the post AnneApplebaum.aspx newsAndMedia/aroundLSE/ in October 2012. She writes about archives/2011/DeGrauwe.aspx US and international politics with

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Professor Tim Besley and Lord Richard Layard, emeritus Professor David Soskice have professor of been announced as the first LSE economics, has School Professors. Professor Besley is been named as School professor of economics and one of the most political science, and Professor Soskice influential 100 is School professor linked to the people working on Department of Government. Both will health policy and

© ONUR ERSIN/DREAMSTIME.COM work to strengthen the intellectual life the NHS, by the Health Service Journal. of the School community as a whole. LSE Growth Commission launches Professor Eileen Munro, Department How best can the UK create a strategy for long-run growth? That is the central Dr Joanne Braithwaite, Department of Social Policy, question to be addressed by the LSE Growth Commission, which launched in of Law, was a received a CBE in January. finalist for Law the New Year’s Teacher of the honours list for her Working with the Institute for Government, the Commission aims to provide an Year 2012, a services to children authoritative contribution to the formulation and implementation of a long-term national teaching and families. An growth strategy for the UK. A series of evidence sessions will be held over the year award aimed at expert in the fields of child protection and the commission aims to make its policy recommendations by the end of 2012. recognising the vital role that teachers and social work practice, Professor Professor Tim Besley, co-chair of the LSE Growth Commission, said: “Even in play in the education of tomorrow’s Munro was commissioned by the times of slow growth and protracted economic turbulence, it is essential to stay lawyers, and rewarding achievement government in 2010 to review official focused on the key drivers of prosperity over the long term. The LSE Growth in teaching. child protection policy and practice. Commission will use frontier research and ideas to provide a framework for policy and policymaking in the UK to support sustainable growth.” lse.ac.uk/ Professor Conor Gearty, Department Sir Geoffrey Owen, Department of newsAndMedia/news/archives/2012/01/growthCommission.aspx of Law, has been Management, has been awarded the named one of the 2010 Wadsworth Prize for Business most influential History by the Business Archives 100 lawyers in Council for his book The Rise and Fall society in a list of Great Companies: Courtaulds and compiled by The the reshaping of the man-made fibres Times. Compiled by 12 judges, the list industry. The prize is awarded annually features lawyers considered influential to an individual judged to have made beyond their area of practice. an outstanding contribution to the study of British business history. Professor Jeffrey Golden, Department of Law and chair of the Dr Andrew Scott, Department of LSE Alumni Association, is chairman of Law, has been appointed an academic the management board of the world’s fellow of the Honourable Society of the first financial tribunal, the P.R.I.M.E. Inner Temple. The scheme recognises – conference space at LSE Finance Disputes Centre based in The the outstanding contribution of legal Hague. The tribunal is devoted to teaching and research of early to mid- A dedicated conference space at LSE, available to hire year-round. settling the world’s most complex and career academics. A versatile and interesting venue with a calm relaxed ambiance. The contentious financial cases and is the flexible meeting area, accommodating up to 50 theatre style, can be brainchild of Professor Golden. Professor Peter Sommer, set up for the specific requirements of your event. A spacious social area, elegantly furnished with comfortable sofas provides space for Information Systems and Innovation networking and more informal discussion and breakout sessions. Professor Deborah James and Group, gave evidence in November The Cabinet of Curiosities separating the two areas always provokes Dr Alice Forbess, Department of to the House of Commons Science interest and curiosity among delegates with its unique collection of unusual objects. Anthropology, briefed the House of and Technology Select Committee on Lords on the potential impact of Legal malware and cyber-crime. For further information or to arrange a viewing please contact: Aid cuts in November. Their paper, Email: [email protected] or Tel: 020 7955 7461. ‘Rights, welfare and law: legal aid Emeritus Professor Dame Helen www.lse.ac.uk/lseeventservices advocacy in austerity Britain’, makes Wallace, European Institute, was a series of recommendations to awarded an honorary doctorate by government about legal aid cover. Sciences Po, Paris, in December. 10% discount I Winter 2011 I LSE Connectfor LSE I Alumni33 LSE NEWS

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Going with the emotions?

An LSE study by Professor Paul Willman and Dr Emma Soane of LSE’s Department of Management, Nigel Nicholson of London Business School and Mark Fenton- O’Creevy of Open University Business School, has concluded that the most successful traders are acutely in tune with their emotions. Instead of suppressing their feelings, they try to keep a distanced, critical eye on how they are reacting to the market in order to control their emotions rather than being controlled by them. The research analysed interviews with 118 traders and ten senior managers at four City of London investment banks. It found marked differences between high and low performing traders in how they engage with their intuitions and © DEBRA BOAST/DREAMSTIME.COM emotions. The findings show that when they are making losses on the markets, Anorexia study backs government the most successful traders are in touch with their emotions, become more cautious and take fewer risks. The least successful tend to ignore their anxiety ban on underweight models and continue to go with “gut feelings” rather than rationally weighing up pros and cons. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/job.720/abstract Anorexia is a socially transmitted disease and appears to be more prevalent in countries such as France where women are thinner than average, according to research from LSE economist Dr Joan Costa-i-Font and Professor Mireia Jofre-Bonet of City University. India is not a superpower This first ever economic analysis of anorexia in Europe concludes that peer group pressure is the most significant influence on self-image and the development India is not a superpower and of anorexia. The findings endorse government intervention to compensate for will not become one in the social pressure on women, regulating against the use of underweight models in foreseeable future suggests the fashion industry and in women’s magazines, for example. an LSE IDEAS special report. The study examined nearly 3,000 young women across Europe. The country The authors argue that despite with the highest average BMI for all women was the UK and the one with the India’s rising power and wealth it lowest average was France. The country with the highest prevalence of female remains shackled by weaknesses anorexia was Austria, followed by France. “In the light of this study, government which include corruption and intervention to adjust individual biases in self-image would be justified to curb or poor leadership, extreme social at least prevent the spread of a potential epidemic of food disorders”, conclude divisions, internal security threats the authors. lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2012/03/anorexia.aspx and religious extremism. India: the next superpower? features essays by nine experts New approach to which examine the nation’s economy, defence, government, culture, environment fuel poverty needed and society. lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2012/03/India.aspx

Professor John Hills, director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, has published Competition between NHS hospitals the final report of his independent review of improves efficiency fuel poverty. The review confirms that fuel poverty is a serious national problem that is Competition between NHS hospitals improves their efficiency and can save set to rise rapidly. The report predicts that significant amounts of money. But allowing NHS hospitals to compete against fuel poverty, which is already three-quarters private providers has not produced the same positive outcomes for the public

© CALEK/DREAMSTIME.COM higher than in 2003, will rise by a further half, sector hospitals. to £1.7 billion by 2016. This means fuel poor households will face costs nearly These are among the findings of a Centre for Economic Performance study £600 a year higher on average than better-off households with typical costs. by Zack Cooper, Stephen Gibbons, Simon Jones and Alistair McGuire. The Professor Hills, said: “There is no doubt that fuel poverty is a serious national researchers examined over 1.8 million patient observations in the NHS from 2002- problem. But this daunting problem is one with solutions.” lse.ac.uk/newsAnd- 10 and looked specifically at patients’ length of stay. lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/ Media/news/archives/2012/03/fuelpoverty.aspx news/archives/2012/02/NHSefficiency.aspx

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Please send correspondence to: Editor, LSE Connect, Press Cambridge days and Information Office, LSE, Houghton Street, London I was delighted to receive just WC2A 2AE. Email: [email protected]. The editor now – for the first time – your reserves the right to cut and edit letters. magazine LSE Connect (winter 2011). I was most interested to read the letter from Joan Julius (BA History 1945) in which she says about the 50 Plus reunion guest list: “… sadly no one from the Cambridge days. I suppose there are not many of us left.” My fiancée Eloise Smyth (BCom 1946) and I were both at LSE’s Grove Lodge, Cambridge, in 1944-45 and we moved to Houghton Street for our final year in 1945-46. I knew Harold Laski, who supported me for fellowships in the USA. Eloise and I were married at Princeton University in February 1947. We both remain in good health – now aged 85. Breaking the cycle Some years ago in London I attended an LSE reunion dinner that brought together the eldest alumni then still living – around 50 people. I visit the I read with interest the piece by Anne Power, ‘Fearing for the Future’ (LSE Connect, UK once a year and look forward to the possibility of attending another winter 2011). I sit regularly in both the adult Criminal Court and the Family “oldies” reunion. Proceedings Court (FPC), which deals primarily with children at risk. During the Anthony Dawson (BSc Econ 1946), Bedford, MA, USA “riots” of last August I also twice chaired benches in the Remand Court. My analysis at the time was that, in the vast majority of cases, the motivation was mob criminality based upon greed, a worrying lack of any moral standards, and the belief, mistaken in many cases, that they were going to get away with it. LSE Language Centre provides a range of But that same week I also spent a day in the FPC. One of the cases I had to language programmes for students, academic deal with was an application to take into care three young children who had staff, alumni and the general public. Over 2,000 been found stealing food from neighbours’ dustbins. Their mother, a single people take a course with us every year. We offer: parent and product of the care system herself, spends all her money on drink and drugs, and the children are growing up feral. If they don’t steal they don’t English for Academic Purposes – eat. Sadly, this case was just one amongst many that we encounter every day. foundation and pre-sessional programmes Our task is to try to break this cycle. As Camila Batmanghelidjh, the founder of Kids Company, frequently argues, it is during the first three years of life English for Business – summer school and that a child’s social values and attitudes are “hard wired” in. tailor-made programmes I’m not suggesting that all, or even the majority, of the offenders we Degree options in: French, German, encountered at the time of the riots are from this type of dysfunctional Literature, Russian, Spanish and Mandarin background. Subsequent studies appear to be inconclusive. But what Certificate courses in: Arabic, French, happened should be a wake up call to us all. German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Anthony Melnikoff (BSc Econ 1968, MSc 1969), Barnet, Herts, UK Portuguese, Russian and Spanish – including business options in selected languages ANY ANSWERS? Tandem Learning – find a buddy, exchange your languages, attend language events Catching up, rather late, with suggestions on updating the motto (and putting aside the passing thought that, in the last few years, it must have been, at If you would like further information, contact some point, amended to “to seek to find the funders”), I would like to support [email protected] or go to our website Tony Taylor’s suggestion [to change the motto to rerum cognoscere causas www.lse.ac.uk/languages et meliorem], which conveys the need to use such knowledge for socially valuable purposes – and in admirably concise form! Jeanne Downton (BSc Econ 1950), Lichfield, UK

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2012 is a momentous year for LSE and for London, what with the mayoral elections, the Olympics during the summer and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. © FERNANDO CARNIEL MACHADOI/DREAMSTIME.COM

In our feature on the Olympics (page 6), marathon runner Mara Yamauchi (née Myers, MSc Politics of the World Economy 1996) looks forward to competing and Professor Daniel Johnson (MSc Economics 1992) makes medal predictions for 2012. Kurt Barling (MSc Government 1985; PhD International Relations 1989), special correspondent for BBC London News, gives us a sense of what goes into reporting the biggest show on Earth.

LSE’s alumni community can be found in just about any field alumni and in ‘Volunteering for LSE,’ my good friend, of endeavour and Rapid LSE governor and fellow alumnus Tim Frost (BSc Resumé (page 44) features Government 1987) tells us why he volunteers and why alumna Natalie Griggs (BA he would recommend volunteering to other alumni. Anthropology 2005) who, as bakery buyer at Fortnum The leaders of LSE’s 84 alumni groups and contact networks & Mason, surely has one of certainly know all about volunteering and in this edition we the best jobs in the world feature our groups in Nigeria and the USA (pages 38–39). – as anyone who has ever visited the famous London I’ve also had the pleasure of meeting alumni during my store’s confectionery and cake recent travels to Rwanda, the US and halls knows. Qatar and at alumni events on campus. Do you want to One of the highlights was reconnecting get in touch with us? with my former LSE law professor and LSE wouldn’t be the You can contact the fabulous place it is former president of the International Alumni Relations team without the volunteer Court of Justice, Dame Rosalyn Higgins. by emailing alumni@ service of dedicated I look forward to meeting many more lse.ac.uk or telephoning Jeffrey Golden of you at LSE and on my travels. +44 (0) 20 7955 7361. UPCOMING ALUMNI EVENTS LSE REUNIONS 2012 CHRISTMAS CONCERT PRE-DEPARTURE EVENTS Reunion celebrations for the AND RECEPTION Events bringing together LSE graduating classes of 1980-84 Join us for a special Christmas reception offer holders with recent alumni (6-7 July) and classes of 1985-89 prior to the annual LSE Choir and Orchestra and current students, organised (14-15 September). Book your place Christmas Concert. For further details, visit by alumni groups around the at www.alumni.lse.ac.uk/reunions www.alumni.lse.ac.uk/events world in June, July and August. For more details, visit www.alumni.lse.ac.uk/events

36 I LSE Connect I Summer 2012 I LSE ALUMNI Events and reunions The Alumni Relations team organises an extensive programme of events and reunions at the School, supports the events organised by the special interest groups and works closely with the international groups on events around the world. Here are some highlights: Alumni lecture series a lecture on the subject of poverty, Our principal lecture series continues instalment of the alumni lecture giving the audience a chance to © FERNANDO CARNIEL MACHADOI/DREAMSTIME.COM to grow in popularity. Along with over series, “Understanding the causes relive their student experience as they 200 alumni, we started the academic of things”, with Dr Jonathan Leape, participated in an interactive session. year with a lively conversation to senior lecturer in economics, and The audience was also invited to give celebrate the joint award of the 2010 Michael Cox, professor of international its opinion on the statement: “I believe Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences relations. The lecture focused on LSE100 strengthens the School’s to Professor Christopher Pissarides LSE100, the innovative new course undergraduate programme” to which (PhD Economics 1973), Norman now taken by all LSE undergraduates. an impressive 93 per cent agreed. Sosnow chair in economics at LSE. Dr Leape, director of LSE100, began Professor Pissarides was joined on the lecture by outlining the aims and Events in this series are always stage by Professor Stuart Corbridge, structure of the course, highlighting followed by networking receptions, LSE pro-director (research and its fundamental importance in helping and are advertised by email to all Spring and external relations) and professor students to think like a social scientist. alumni in the UK and on of development studies. Professor Professor Cox joined the stage to give www.alumni.lse.ac.uk. Christmas Corbridge led an engaging and receptions informative dialogue asking Professor Pissarides about a range of subjects, For the third year, we celebrated from the eurozone to the latest UK the festive season with alumni at unemployment figures, as well as a special Christmas reception held an insight into Professor Pissarides’ prior to the LSE Choir and Orchestra academic history and interests. Christmas Concert at St Clement Danes Church. In February we welcomed over 100 alumni and friends for the Lent term This year we were delighted to continue the tradition of a similar reception prior to the equivalent Gallery event Spring Concert, which took place in late March. The concert included In March a diverse group of alumni celebrated Gabriel Faure’s Requiem by the LSE the success of artist and LSE alumnus Matthew choir and Mahler’s Symphony No.4 Picton (BSc Government and History 1981) performed by the LSE orchestra. with an exclusive private viewing of his work at the Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London. The exhibition, Urban Narratives, explored the Reunions in 2012 recent development of civilisation and the rapid growth and change of urban space. Using the Graduating classes depopulated aesthetic of the map or architectural of 1980-84 model as a point of departure, Picton’s work is Friday 6 and Saturday 7 July about far more than the urban environment alone. Matthew gave guests a private tour Graduating classes of the exhibition, and spoke passionately of 1985-89 about his influences and how he developed Friday 14 and Saturday from LSE graduate to international artist. 15 September

I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 37 LSE ALUMNI Alumni reunions This year we welcome back to the School alumni who graduated in the 1980s.

Classes of 1980-84: 6-7 July 2012 Highlights of the weekend include a welcome reception on Friday, a lecture by LSE professor of economics Danny Quah, and a Gala Dinner at the House of Commons hosted by Stephen Pound MP (BSc Government 1984) as well as plenty of opportunity to tour the School. The class chairs are Richard Dunn (BSc Economics 1984, MSc Economics 1985) and Keir Hopley (BSc Government 1983).

Classes of 1985-89: 14-15 September 2012 In addition to the opportunity to discover developments at the School, highlights include a welcome reception, shared memory session chaired by past Students’ Union sabbatical officers and a Gala Dinner at the House of Commons hosted by Richard Bacon MP (BSc Government, 1986). The class chairs are Lucy Stylianou (BSc Government and History 1986) and Gavin Pottinger (BSc Government 1988).

Do you have an idea for an alumni-led event? We are always interested in hearing about new ways in which we can create and deliver engaging alumni events. Email: [email protected] or visit www.alumni.lse.ac.uk/events for more details.

The LSE-PKU Summer School in Beijing is a two- Courses offered include: Economics, International For more information about the LSE-PKU Summer week programme offering intensive university level Relations, Economic History, Management, School and full details of the courses available please courses, each with a focus on China and/or Asia. International Development, Finance, Media, see www.lse.ac.uk/LSEPKUSummerSchool or The programme attracts students and professionals Anthropology, Social Policy, Government, Law email [email protected] from around the world and is taught in English by outstanding faculty from Peking University and the www.facebook.com/LSEPKUSummerSchool www.twitter.com/LSEPKUSummerSch London School of Economics and Political Science. Student discount available to all LSE alumni LSE ALUMNI Rebirth of the LSE Alumni the number of applications to Association of LSE from high calibre Nigerian students and reaffirm the strong Nigeria links between Nigeria and LSE. The LAAN also organised a cocktail The LSE Alumni Association of Nigeria (LAAN) has experienced a renaissance in reception in Abuja on 20 November recent years. Nigeria is home to one of the largest numbers of LSE alumni in Africa, 2011 in honour of visiting LSE but there were few organised alumni activities in the past three decades. academic Professor Alnoor Bhimani, head of the Department of Accounting. The event took place Thandika Mkandawire, the inaugural at the Abuja residence of Mr Dapo holder of the chair in African Oyewole (MSc Management of NGOs development at LSE, which helped and Social Policy and Planning 2003), to launch LSE’s African Initiative with technical assistant to the honourable a lecture titled “Developing Africa’s minister of national planning. The human capital: the multiplier effect”. event was well attended by LSE alumni resident in Abuja. LSE’s African Initiative is focused on fostering much closer ties with the Other news continent of Africa and is essentially With regret, we are saddened a partnership with Africa for Africa to announce the passing of our with the objective of working with prominent alumnus Professor Sam the continent’s universities to make Aluko (MSc Economics 1959, PhD real Africa’s promise and potential. Economics 1959) at 82. During The chairman was Dr Gamaliel his career he was professor of Onosode, the pro chancellor and economics at the University of chairman of Council, University Ife (now the Obafemi Awolowo Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the inaugural holder of the chair of Lagos, and the special guest of University) and a trusted economic in African development at LSE, held a public lecture in Lagos. honour was governor Babatunde Raji adviser to a number of Nigerian Fashola, Lagos state. This event was administrations. He is credited with Since the summer of 2009, the Among the events which the executive equally well attended by LSE alumni introducing VAT to Nigeria and LAAN has actively raised the committee of the LAAN organised and the Nigerian public. creating the Petroleum Trust Fund profile of the LSE in Nigeria’s to raise the profile of the School in where excess government oil revenues public awareness through a Nigeria was a public lecture, held in The LAAN organised a pre-departure are accrued for strategic capital series of well promoted and December 2009, on “Financial risks, event in September 2011 – a sending- expenditure. He rose to prominence stimulating events directed at financial crises, and public policy, forth ceremony for LSE offer holders very quickly, even as a student at the political classes, captains of with special reference to Africa”, with – with another public lecture titled LSE, where he publicly criticised the industry, prospective overseas a networking cocktail reception in “Learning in a knowledge based Western Region’s administration students and broadsheet media. Lagos. The lecture attracted over 90 economy: a panacea for individual and budget. The Western administration participants, including over 40 LSE organisational competitiveness”. The responded by pulling the funding of The exceptional change in the alumni. The participants represented lecture given by Mr Stanley Agwuh his scholarship and ordered him to fortunes of the LAAN is due to the a wide range of professions including (MSc International Employment return home to Nigeria. LSE stepped commitment and determination bankers, economists, lawyers and Relations and Human Management in and vowed to cover his scholarship of a small group of alumni, led by accountants as well as members of the 2007) was sponsored by the Nigerian in any eventuality. The Western Mr Uba Okonkwo (BSc Economics diplomatic corps, academia and the Bank of Industry Ltd. The event was administration subsequently changed 1969). Mr Okonkwo successfully media. The high quality of participants a remarkable success which not only its stance – its leader Obafemi rallied a young group of alumni facilitated an open and lively discussion afforded alumni a chance to give new Awolowo congratulated Aluko on his (busy and career focused) who of the theme. offer holders guidance on how to successes and brought him into his gave up their time to help form a make the most of their time at LSE, administration when Aluko completed dedicated executive committee and The LAAN also held a public lecture but also raised the School’s profile for his PhD. His impact on generations of organise meaningful networking in December 2010 in Lagos, Nigeria, prospective students, due to media Nigerian students of economics over events for the rest of the alumni. working with highly respected coverage and public interest. It is scores of years is a testament to the Malawian economist Professor hoped that the event will increase man and his LSE education. n

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SPOTLIGHT ON THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF... the USA

The Alumni and Friends of the London School of Economics in the United States chosen by a committee of alumni (AFLSE) holds more than 200 events each year all across the country. The AFLSE’s volunteers who review applications 18 chapters, led by dozens of dedicated alumni volunteers, organise events such as collected by the LSE’s Financial Support office. The scholarship monthly happy hours, annual “bon voyage” parties for new students, holiday parties, recipient for 2011-12 was Chike lectures and round-table discussions with LSE faculty and thought-leaders in our Croslin, who is pursuing a master’s communities, and receptions at the British Embassy and consulates. in Anthropology and Development.

Alumni in the US and around the world can learn about the AFLSE’s activities and benefits by visiting the website at www.aflse.org and signing up for monthly national and chapter newsletters. The AFLSE is also on Facebook, with pages for the national organisation and each of the chapters.

The AFLSE encourages all US alumni to join. Membership offers numerous benefits, including discounts on admission to activities, access to the AFLSE online alumni directory, discounts on publications, and access to the career and networking newsletter and LinkedIn group.

The AFLSE’s president, Beth Halpern (MSc Public Administration and Public Policy 1998), is happy to answer any questions about The AFLSE was delighted to host In addition to bringing together scholarships to American citizens membership or about the AFLSE former LSE director Howard the alumni community, the AFLSE and permanent residents for a in general and can be reached at Davies and the incoming director supports the next generation of LSE year of graduate study at LSE. It [email protected]. Craig Calhoun, as well as other students through its scholarship currently awards one scholarship members of the LSE faculty, programme. For more than 30 each year, and the recipient is at some of these events. years, the AFLSE has awarded

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Volunteering at LSE

There are many ways in which alumni can help at the School: not only by giving financially, is a two way street. I hope that the but also by giving their time, their experience and expertise. We interviewed Tim Frost presence of volunteers also helps to (BSc Government 1987) who is an alumnus, donor and volunteer at the School. provide some continuity. The School has grown rapidly in recent years. Volunteers can help ensure that the Tell us a little about kids to realise that LSE can change necessary. But some of my fellow values that attracted them to the yourself and your their lives. My company has helped to governors spend more time than School are cherished and nurtured connections to LSE. sponsor it. that, and some less. by those who are here today. I came to LSE in 1984. I came straight here from the Falkland What are your reasons What do you think the Would you recommend Islands where I had been serving in for volunteering? value of volunteering is volunteering to other the British Army. In my first week I LSE buzzes. Being around bright to the School? alumni? met a fellow student who was from people from all over the world is People add value in all sorts of No, I want to do it all (sorry that’s a Belfast. We got married and still are very exciting and stimulating. It is a different ways. I know a friend joke). Yes I certainly would. [Alison Rankin Frost (BA International pleasure and a privilege. Of course who has been asked to lecture History 1985)]. My tutor was I also feel good about helping, on a finance course; others are Ken Minogue in the Government in a very small way, to make the involved in the mentoring Department. Between them – LSE, School bigger and better. As you get programme. But in aggregate the student from Belfast and Ken – older you recognise that you have I think that all volunteers they taught me life, liberty and the a responsibility to give something help ensure that the School pursuit of happiness. back, particularly if, like me, you stays engaged in broader believe that government involvement society, which is where What do you do as a should be kept to a minimum. our founders wanted us to volunteer for LSE? be. We are in the middle I am a governor of the School and vice How much time does your of London because we chairman of the Finance Committee. volunteering take? want to engage, I have also helped out at our summer Around two or three days per month and engagement school which is part of our widening by the time I have prepared for participation programme getting clever meetings and followed up where

practical to the School by acting special interest groups, rely on Get involved as a contact for potential future committees of dedicated alumni applicants to LSE across the volunteers. You can get involved in There are many ways in which alumni can volunteer and have world. Ambassadors are profiled these by attending the events and an impact at the School. Volunteering is an excellent way on the School’s website and by contacting the group leaders. to meet fellow alumni, share your experiences and make a potential applicants can email All the details can be found on difference to the LSE community. questions about LSE and their Houghton Street Online. experiences (via a moderator, Alumni Professional at least two years’ experience in not directly). Also ambassadors Volunteering is very rewarding, Mentoring Network their field, but more usually five have the opportunity to get whether it is talking to potential The mentoring network is an or more. The service is accessed involved in recruitment events students or passing on your online career networking resource both for mentors and mentees in their countries. knowledge to another graduate, in which alumni of the School through Houghton Street Online. it brings the LSE community can share their professional Alumni groups close together. Details of all of experience and knowledge with Alumni ambassadors All of the alumni groups at LSE, these and further opportunities other alumni and students to The alumni ambassador scheme whether they are one of the can be found at www.alumni. mutual benefit. Mentors will have is a way to give back something 52 country groups, or the eight lse.ac.uk

I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 41 LSE ALUMNI Class notes an economist for the World Bank, This section allows alumni to share their latest news and achievements. If you would and for STICERD and the Centre for like to be included in a future issue, email [email protected]. Economic Performance at LSE. Entries are listed by year of first LSE degree received, with any additional degrees included Nisha Valabhji (MSc International in the entry. House style is to list simply BSc/MSc without the additional Econ. Relations) has been officer-in-charge of the Defence Support Section, United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials, since March 2011. 1974 1978 1994 She previously worked at the United Jeffrey Dvorkin (MPhil International Jenny Kingsley (BA Social Moritz von Nations International Criminal Tribunal History) recently took on the role of Anthropology) is a journalist, Laffert (BSc for the former Yugoslavia from 2000. lecturer and director of the journalism short story writer and poet. Her Economics) has programme at the University of work has appeared in British and recently been 1997 Toronto Scarborough Campus, whilst American newspapers, women’s appointed a vice Collin Tseng-Liu continuing to serve as the executive magazines, and literary and specialist president of Condé (BSc Economics) has director of the Organisation of News magazines including The Art Nast International. been appointed Ombudsmen, a role which he was the Book, Blackmore Vale Magazine, Moritz began his publishing career in chief operating first to take on in 2008. Prior to this, The Berkshire Eagle (‘Letter from 1995 when he joined Axel Springer. officer (Southeast he held positions as managing editor London’), The Daily Telegraph, He became head of the publisher’s Asia) at Baker & of CBC Radio News in Toronto and Decanto, The Financial Times, Pen Mediahouse Munich division in 2000 McKenzie LLP. VP of News and Information at NPR in Pusher, Petits Propos Culinaires and and rose to managing director of its A qualified chartered accountant Washington, DC. South Bank Poetry. Women and Lifestyle Group in 2008 (ICAEW), Collin previously headed Subarna Man Tuladhar (Diploma before joining Condé Nast Germany up business development and Social Planning in Developing 1986 as president in 2009. Earlier this year marketing at Allen & Gledhill LLP and Countries), director of studies at Nepal Ancela Nastasi Moritz was named the media PricewaterhouseCoopers in Singapore. Administrative Staff College, has been (Diploma representative to the Senate of the awarded the 2011 Toshihide Numata Accounting and Economy, a prestigious organisation 1998 which advises the government on Book Prize by the Centre for Buddhist Finance) recently Lutfey Siddiqi (MSc Economics), economic matters. Studies, University of California, joined Fulbright and managing director at UBS and Berkeley and Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Jaworski LLP as adjunct professor at the National for his 2012 book Sugat Saurabha: an partner to head up 1996 University of Singapore, has been epic poem from Nepal on the life of the firm’s New York office’s bankruptcy Dr Tobias (Toby) named a Young Global Leader by the the Buddha by Chittadhar Hridaya. and insolvency practice group. Krohn (BSc World Economic Forum (WEF). Government and Law) has been 2001 appointed professor Hans Rasmussen of economics (MSc in (media and Organisational and communication) at the Baden- Social Psychology), Wuerttemberg Cooperative State PhD and Clinical University. He previously held a position Psychologist at as managing director of a Southern Copenhagen Germany regional newspaper. University was recently granted Lupin Rahman (BSc Economics) 270.000 euros from the Danish is an executive vice president on Agency for Science, Technology the emerging markets portfolio and Innovation, Ministry of Science, management team in the Newport Innovation and higher education Beach office of PIMCO, specialising for further studies into the role of in sovereign credit analysis and serotonin in the pathophysiology foreign exchange strategy. Prior of schizophrenia. See his recent to joining PIMCO in 2008, she publications on the topic here: spent five years at the International www.biomedexperts.com/Profile. Monetary Fund after working as bme/1697892/Hans_Rasmussen)

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Sandie Stringfellow (MSc uses food culture and cooking to on agricultural development and 2009 engage youth in learning about Organisational and Social stabilisation programmes. Dr Eric Golson (Diploma PGCert the connection between health, Psychology) and Alastair MacKenzie HE, PhD Economic History 2011) nutrition, and sustainability. are thrilled to announce the birth 2007 has joined the faculty of the New of their first daughter, Eloise Yuki Niamh Gallagher (MSc Alice Ekman (MSc China in College of the Humanities in London MacKenzie on 24 November 2011. Comparative Politics: Empire) was Comparative Perspective) has recently as lecturer in economics. He was recently awarded the 2011 Social been appointed research fellow in previously an Economic History 2004 Entrepreneurs Ireland award for her charge of China at the French Institute Society anniversary fellow, a junior Ünsal Köşlü (MSc Political Theory) organisation, Women for Election of International Relations (IFRI). research fellow at the University of led the 2011 volunteer project (womenforelection.ie), which tackles Oxford and a guest lecturer/teaching Hatay Virtual Archeology Museum, the barriers to women participating 2008 fellow at LSE. which was introduced by the Turkish in the Irish political system. Maite Morren Kemel Toktomushev (MSc Minister of Culture and Tourism (MSc European International Relations) joined the to launch a virtual museum in Anthony Gilbert (MSc Environment Studies: Ideas and University of Exeter as a PhD student December 2011. and Development) will be posted Identity) was in politics and international relations. to Bogotá, Colombia in August recently appointed Prior to this, Kemel worked as the 2005 2012 to serve as the agricultural president of the director of communications and Alissa Bilfield (MSc Environment attaché at the American Embassy independent youth public relations at the American and Development) recently Bogotá. Previous postings include branch of the sp.a Flemish social University of Central Asia located in founded a non-profit organisation serving on a provincial reconstruction democrats, Animo – Young Left Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan. called The Cookbook Project team in western Afghanistan and (www.animoweb.be). (thecookbookproject.org) which working with the Spanish army

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RAPID RESUMÉ

What have been the my job and am just working hard highlights of your career and seeing what comes up. so far? Getting the coveted assistant Any advice for LSE confectionery buyer role at Fortnum students today? & Mason just two years after Enjoy studying. Enjoy the whole graduating. It was a dream job, process and don’t just see it as a almost too good to be true: eating means to an end. I wish I had calmed and choosing chocolate for a living! down a bit more about exams and I learned so much so quickly. I got coursework and soaked up more of to use elements of my degree when the fun of learning. There is a great considering the industry’s current pressure to succeed at LSE as so many issues: sourcing raw materials, child people there are so worldly, successful labour and the fair trade debate, and ambitious – that’s part of what and got a solid education on the makes it such a great and inspirational job regarding negotiating, putting place to study, but especially for a range together, profitability undergrads, this can feel like pressure etc. Then, as an assistant buyer, to squeeze every benefit out of every compiling my first St Valentine’s class and lecture. Chill out and go to range and seeing products I some lectures for the fun of it. You developed with our suppliers on won’t get the chance to do it again, the shelf was fabulous. I was so lap it up. proud and delighted to learn on 15 February that year that we had Don’t panic about your career. I beaten the previous year’s sales and wasted a lot of time panicking about our budget for that season. what I would achieve and stressing about a career plan, but in the I was promoted to bakery end, my career happened totally by buyer last April and I am now accident. I decided to take a year’s Fortnum’s youngest buyer. It break to travel after university, I got was a great achievement both a gap year job to save money and personally and professionally. everything fell in to place. Take a Natalie Griggs (née Albon) (BA Anthropology 2005) minute after graduating to relax and is a bakery buyer at Fortnum & Mason. Finally, meeting HRH Prince of Wales think about what you really want to at our Tercentenary celebrations do, there’s no rush. was really good fun. He had a chat What led you to study with the lecturers where we debated with me about sweets – a bizarre at LSE? amongst ourselves and took fun but fabulous experience. I was also I really wanted to attend a lunch breaks. I also recall being delighted to be presented to HRH prestigious university and worked scared but fascinated during Duchess of Cornwall and see HM hard throughout my A levels to get Dr Freeman and Prof Bloch’s the Queen and HRH the Duchess my place at LSE. I also preferred the tutorials. Reading Death Without of Cambridge at their recent visit idea of a non campus university Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes to the store as part of the Jubilee and I love London. I was ecstatic for a class on the family stands celebrations. The atmosphere was when I won my place. out amongst all the classes and readings – it totally changed my electric and everyone was so happy and proud. What do you most whole perspective and that’s what remember from your university should be about: spinning What are your plans time at the School? your opinions on their head and for the future? I really remember spending challenging everything you thought I don’t have anything time in the Seligman library: the you knew. And the overriding social specific planned. I love anthropologists’ retreat from the memories all started with meeting classes and more formal sessions friends outside the Old Building.

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The School is sad to report the deaths of the following alumni and staff. Full obituaries, where available, can be accessed via the news pages of Houghton Street Online, www.alumni.lse.ac.uk

Albert, Maurice Wolfe Figueroa, Peter Mary Eugene Lessing, Johannes Paul Grayling Osborne, Barbara Mary BSc Econ 1947 PhD Sociology 1975 LLM 1983 Diploma in Social Work Studies 1977 Allen, Douglas Albert Vivian Foulsham, William BSc Statistics Loizos, Peter PhD 1970, emeritus Parkin, Frank Iorweth BSc Econ 1939 and Mathematics 1939 professor of anthropology PhD Sociology 1966 Asmal, Abdul Kader Glass, Denison Prideaux Lyon, Michael Conrad Parsons, John E PhD 1965 LLB 1962, LLM 1964 General Course 1982 MSc Sociology 1980 Pomerance, Joseph Bederman, David Jeremy Gonzalez, Martin Abel MA History Mallard, Keith Surtees MPhil Anthropology 1970 MSc Sea-Use Law and Economics 1984 of International Relations 2002, PhD BSc Geography 1950 Prentice, Barry MSc Politics and Bourgi, Ramy Saleh International History 2011 Matharu, Ajeet Singh Government of Western Europe 1985 Diploma Management Sciences 1982, Gould, Philip MSc History of General Course 2004 Primus, Bernard Victor BSc Econ MSc Accounting and Finance 1983 Political Thought 1976 Melko, Matthew PhD 1959 1959, MSc Econ 1960 Cassell, Frank BSc Econ 1953 Hailey, Anthea Mary PhD 1973 Mellor, M Joanna Rapport, Hannah MSc Voluntary Cowan, Alexander Francis Hardigg, Alice Hendrick BSc Sociology 1963 Sector Organisation 1989 PhD 1973 MSc Econ 1953 Miller, Dennis Edward Rebmann, Alexander MSc Cunliffe, Stella Vivian Hatmadji, Sri Harijati BSc Econ 1950 Economics 1966, PhD Economics 1969 BSc Econ 1938 MSc Demography 1978 Miro, Amber Reis, Robert Kenneth MSc Regional Davidson, Margaret Mary Norval Koolman, Gregor BSc Economics Assistant director of IT Services and Urban Planning 1974 Certificate in Social Science 1939 1956, PhD Economics 1969 Mitchell, David Hugh Shure, Randl Louis Dowling, Maria Josephine Clare Kramer, Daniel Caleb BSc Econ 1955 General Course 1984 PhD 1980 General Course 1956 Odette, Louis Lawrence Smith, Sheila BA 1956, MSc Engler, Aylon B MSc Analysis, Kryt, Fim BSc Economic History 2010 General Course 1946 Operational Research 1983 Design and Management of Lea, John Douglas Organ, Anthony Smurthwaite, Gillian Christina Information Systems 1983 BSc Geography 1952 LLB 1972, LLM 1978 Diploma in Social Science 1945 Staltmeier, Andrea, Veronica Richard Descoings, 1958-2012 BSc Sociology 1980 Stone, Jennifer Alison Diploma in Richard Descoings, director of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Social Administration 1964, Diploma Paris, better known as Sciences Po, was found dead in New York on in Applied Social Studies 1966 3 April. Tan, Roger Kim Hock LLB 1971 Richard’s 16 years as Sciences Po’s director saw the development Temu, Fraternus Lazar MSc of many links between LSE and Sciences Po, leading to the Analysis, Design and Management development of a formal institutional partnership. of Information Systems 1982 Described by colleagues as a charismatic and visionary figure, Turvey, Professor Ralph BSc Econ Descoings has been praised by Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of 1947, professor of economics France, for his influence on French higher education. Vickers, David BSc Econ 1973 He became director of Sciences Po in 1996 and under his leadership Walker, Josephine Nora Certificate transformed the institution, successfully recruiting more students in Social Science 1951 from poorer backgrounds and more international students. As a result, Sciences Po more than doubled in size to Lord Wedderburn, Kenneth William over 10,000 students. Cassel Professor of Commercial Law Westley, Peter BSc Economics 1961 LSE director Professor Judith Rees said: “Richard was a truly inspirational leader whose vision, drive and commitment have been of enormous benefit not just to Sciences Po, but also to higher education in France and Wijesinghe, Fitzroy Derek Christopher MSc Econ 1961 globally. The LSE bond with him was particularly warm and close, given our successful and growing institutional partnership and our similar visions for the social sciences. We shall miss him greatly.” Wilkens, Ronald Eglinton BSc Econ 1961 Director designate Professor Craig Calhoun said: “Richard was an important adviser to successive directors, a friend, Worssam, Pamela Certificate in Social and a major force in higher education in France and globally. He is particularly to be remembered for his enduring Science and Administration 1951 and effective efforts to increase access to France’s most elite institutions, including Sciences Po. He was also central Yu, Chun-Kit Ivan MSc Statistics to a renewal and expansion of its intellectual vitality and leadership.” and Mathematics 1985

I Summer 2012 I LSE Connect I 45 LSE BOOKS

A selection of recent books by LSE academics and alumni. For more information on books by LSE authors see lse.ac.uk. For books by alumni, and to let us know about books you have coming out, see the news section at Houghton Street Online.

REVIEW LSE AUTHORS LSE Space for Thought Literary WikiLeaks: news in the networked era Charlie Beckett with James Ball Festival 2012: relating cultures Polity, 180pp £45 h/b £12.99 p/b WikiLeaks is the most challenging journalistic Writing a review of this year’s Literary Festival is rather happiness of blond people: angst, immigration and phenomenon to have emerged in the digital like reading 30 books in a weekend, and then being the art of story-telling”; an LSE Health and Social Care era. It has provoked anger and enthusiasm in asked to summarise them all in one go. event on “The medicine chest of the soul: arts and equal measure. The authors combine inside I have organised the Literary Festival at LSE for four health” with Jeanette Winterson; and a discussion knowledge with the latest media research and years, and I think it has now established itself in the about “Myths for a modern world” with Booker-prize- analysis to examine WikiLeaks and its place in the School calendar as a different kind of event, where winning novelist AS Byatt. contemporary news environment. the links between the social sciences and the arts can I particularly enjoyed those events that created be explored and celebrated. a festival atmosphere. A performance by the Amit Disintegrating Democracy The organisation of this year’s Festival began last Chaudhuri five-piece band (pictured) of their East/West at Work summer, when the theme “relating cultures” was fusion music and the closing night performance by LSE Virginia Doellgast chosen. The idea was to continue our exploration band The Funktionalists were memorable. A special Cornell University Press, 272pp of the relationships between the academic cultures mention must go to a poetry slam (a live, high-energy, £40.50 h/b £15.50 p/b of the arts and social sciences, but also look at the interactive, stand-up poetry competition) and the LSE interaction between global cultures, and at ideas of SU Swing Dance Society in action in the atrium of the The shift from manufacturing communication, language and storytelling. Groups New Academic Building. to service based economies has often been across the School, from the European Institute to the It was a real pleasure to co-ordinate the programme accompanied by the expansion of low-wage and Library, got involved in putting together events on once again, and we have received great feedback, so I insecure employment. The author contends that, the theme. We were also delighted to work with the hope it is something LSE will continue for years to come. with strong unions and collective bargaining, high LSE SU Literature Society on events including “Speed As Elif Shafak tweeted after her talk: “LSE Literary pay and good working conditions are possible book dating”, at which single, literary-minded people Festival is a great venue where minds and imaginations, even for marginal service jobs. were encouraged to bring along a book for discussion cultures and opinions meet.” with their “dates”. Podcasts of many of the events are now available Global Civil Society 2012: ten years Some of the most popular events included a on the LSE events web pages at lse.ac.uk/events of critical reflection conversation between award-winning biographer Any ideas for themes to explore in future years, or Eds: Mary Kaldor, Henrietta Moore and Claire Tomalin and John Carey on “Charles Dickens: authors to invite, would be very welcome – do contact Sabine Selchow the best of men, the worst of men”; a discussion me at [email protected]. Palgrave Macmillan, 240pp £29.99 p/b about “Rhetoric, lies and politicians” with Lord Hurd, In this anniversary edition of the Global Civil Sam Leith, Ian Leslie and Jonathan Powell; a talk by Louise Gaskell, deputy events manager and literary Society yearbook, activists and academics look best-selling Turkish author Elif Shafak about “The festival organiser, LSE back on ten years of “politics from below”, and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has changed – or whether there is something genuinely new about the way in which civil society is now operating.

The Triumph of Politics George Philip, Francisco Panizza Polity Press, 200pp £55 h/b £15.99 p/b

This book offers a comparative and historical interpretation of Venezuela’s Chavez, Bolivia’s Morales and Ecuador’s Correa – South America’s most prominent “21st century socialists”. It

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argues that their governments have been agenda Innovation and Regional Growth setters and their claims should be taken seriously – ALUMNI BOOKS in the European Union though not necessarily at face value. A Brief Guide to Secret Religions Riccardo Crescenzi (MSc Local Economic Development 2004) State Violence, Collusion Dr David V Barrett (PhD Sociology 2009) Springer, 215pp £90 h/b and the Troubles Robinson, 320pp £8.99 p/b This book investigates the EU’s regional growth Maurice Punch The Brief Guide to Secret Religions, a companion dynamics and, in particular, the reasons why Pluto Press, 256pp £17 p/b book to The Brief Guide to Secret Societies, peripheral and socio-economically disadvantaged This is the story of how the British explores the diversity of esoteric and occult beliefs. areas have persistently failed to catch up with the state collaborated with violent The book asks why there is renewed interest in rest of the Union. groups and directly participated in illegal violence old beliefs and why millions of people today during “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland (1968- eschew the established religion of their heritage The Tribal Imagination: 98). It also raises urgent questions about why states and 21st century scientific rationalism in favour civilization and the around the world continue to deploy such violence of these esoteric teachings. savage mind rather than seeking durable political settlements. Presenting History: past and present Robin Fox (BSc 1957) Harvard University Press, 400pp The SAGE Handbook of Professor Peter J Beck (BSc Economics £22.95 h/b Political Communication and International History 1965, PhD Margaret Scammell, Holli A Semetko International History 1971) Palgrave In this book Robin Fox sets out to show how a SAGE, 544pp £95 h/b Macmillan, 368pp £17.99 p/b variety of human behaviours reveal traces of tribal roots, and how this evolutionary past limits our Drawing together a team of the world’s This book raises questions about the nature, capacity for action. leading scholars, this comprehensive survey study and communication of history and sets the agenda for future study of political explores the vital role played by presenters African Parliamentary Reform communication, providing a benchmark in both establishing why history matters in publication for advanced students, researchers and today’s world and communicating the past to Ed: Alexander Hamilton (MPA Public and practitioners in the fields of politics, media and audiences within and outside academia through Economic Policy 2008) and others communication, sociology and research methods. case studies of historians, novelists, filmmakers Routledge, 192pp £85 h/b and television presenters. It asks what can be This book presents recent reforms in selected Together: the rituals, improved in engaging people with history in a African parliaments and the ways they have pleasures and politics digital age. implemented cross-cutting innovations in of cooperation fighting corruption, in providing development to Richard Sennett America the Vulnerable: constituents and in combating climate change. Yale University Press, 336pp inside the new threat £25 h/b matrix of digital The Responsible Living with people who differ – racially, ethnically, espionage, crime, Corporation in a Global religiously, or economically – is one of the most and warfare Economy urgent challenges facing civil society today. Joel Brenner (PhD Ed: Camilla Maclean (MSc The author contends that the foundations for Government 1972) Development Management skilful cooperation lie in learning to listen well Penguin Press, 320pp £17.85 h/b 1998) Oxford University Press, and discuss rather than debate. He addresses 320pp £55 h/b In post-9/11 America, Joel Brenner entered the the nature of cooperation, why it has become inner sanctum of American espionage, first as the By examining the increasingly important arena of weak, and how it could be strengthened. inspector general of the National Security Agency global economic governance and the role played and then as the head of counterintelligence for by major corporations, academics and practitioners European Union Economic Diplomacy the director of national intelligence. America share their views on why corporate social Stephen Woolcock the Vulnerable looks at America’s next great responsibility is now a major concern. Ashgate, 220pp £65 h/b £25 p/b battleground: digital security. Brenner saw at The European Union is a key player in close range how adversaries are now attacking Managing an Age Diverse Workforce international economic relations, but its in cyberspace – spies from around the globe Ed: Shaun Tyson (PhD 1980) and Emma Parry exact role and how it goes about making operating remotely. He analyses the dangerous Palgrave Macmillan, 328pp £68 h/b implications for government, business, and society decisions and negotiating is often poorly This book includes both conceptual argument and and discusses how to address the issue to bring understood within and especially outside the practical research to provide insights into how EU. This book provides the first comprehensive to cyberspace the freedom, accountability and recent government developments have influenced analysis of the factors that determine the security we take for granted in other aspects of the growth of an age diverse workforce. role of the EU in economic diplomacy. our lives.

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