Other News

Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Erzsebet Strausz have won funding from the Wellcome Trust for their 12 month project, 'Counterterrorism in the NHS: Prevent Duty Safeguarding and the new 'Pathology' of Radicalisation'.

Juanita Elias and Shirin Rai have published a piece in OpenDemocracy about their report, Towards a New Deal for Care and Carers.

"Why was social care missing from the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement? It seems government fears the issue is just too big to tackle, or assumes someone – normally women – will always step in."

The article can be read here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/we-need-a-new-deal-for-social-care/

We are delighted to announce that a Students' Question Time will be held on Monday 16 January at 6.15pm.

Did you enjoy this year's Question Time event but wish you could have been more involved in the debate? Well now's your chance to share your viewpoints on the topics discussed at the event in October.

The panel will be made up entirely of students and we will be collaborating with Economics and PPE, giving you the chance to debate not only with your own classmates but also students from other departments who will no doubt have differing views to your own.

We are currently looking for students to be on the panel and you can submit your one minute application video online. Taking part in this event will give you the chance to practice your public speaking skills, as well as preparing a reasoned argument and improving your confidence.

If being on the panel doesn’t appeal to you then you can come along and see how the debate unfolds from the audience. Book your place now.

Jennifer Philippa Eggert has published a blog post on women's motivations to join IS, including a critique of gendered assumptions on their reasons to join.

The blog, for LSE, can be read here: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2016/11/24/why-do-women-join-is-a-critique-of-gendered-assumptions-about-womens-motivations/

PAIS PhD candidate, Alexandra Dobra, was selected as a finalist (top 4% internationally) to present her innovative idea at the “Falling Walls Lab Finale” in Berlin - "The brightest minds on the planet” BBC - presided by the Chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation.

Falling Walls Lab 2016 - Alexandra Dobra - Breaking the Wall of Unethical Corporate Behaviour from Falling Walls on Vimeo.

Alexandra’s innovative idea, the "High-Performance Corporate DNA Transformation Model” aims to break the walls of unethical corporate behaviour. Following 2007, investment banks have been under the spotlight for unethical corporate behaviour. They responded by implementing new core control systems, organisational structures and (formal) corporate cultures. Nine years later, these investment banks continue to incur damages due to unethical corporate behaviour and to drive down social value. So how can this be fixed? The "High-Performance Corporate DNA Transformation Model”, that Alexandra has developed as part of her PhD thesis, answers how this can be fixed. The "High-Performance Corporate DNA Transformation Model” shall be commercialised by Swiss Economics, a leading independent consulting company with proven experience in supporting companies, associations and public authorities in regulated industries.

Falling Walls is a unique international annual gathering of leaders from science, business, government, and the arts. Inspired by the peaceful fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, the question of every Falling Walls meeting is: Which are the next walls to fall - in science and society? The meetings are acclaimed for the high-level speakers, the brevity of presentations, the diversity of issues and the amicable open atmosphere. The Falling Walls Foundation, a charity, is generously supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research, the Helmholtz Association, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Berlin Senate, and numerous other acclaimed academic institutions, foundations, companies, non–governmental institutions and individuals.