LSE Donors' Remember newsletter - October 2015

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With the new academic year under way, campus is alive with students and faculty seeking to advance social science in order to help the world better address major public issues. Some of these students would not be at LSE without legacy donors; similarly, some of our faculty’s ground-breaking work is made possible through bequests supporting their professorships or research projects. Legacy gifts also help the School towards our goal of housing this activity in a 21st century campus commensurate with our global reputation for excellence.

achievement we can all reflect on with immense satisfaction. Contributing significantly to this total was the £30 million donation from the visionary philanthropist Paul Marshall to establish the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship and create its home in the Paul Marshall Building at 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields. This wonderful news is featured below.

In this update, it is my pleasure to report on a landmark year for philanthropy at LSE. In the 2014/15 financial year a record £43 million of philanthropic income was received, an

The successes of 2014/15 demonstrate our progress in embedding in the School what I hope will become a culture of philanthropy for the common good, championed by our alumni and friends.

While we celebrate the largest private donation in the School’s history, philanthropic giving in its many forms made this outstanding year possible.

An example is the Annual Fund, which enjoyed its own record year by raising £913,000 from more than 3,200 donors – alumni and friends around the world pledging their support for the School through their annual gifts.

Issue 13 October 2015 This will enable us to support the scholarships, campus redevelopment initiatives and bold teaching and research innovations that characterise LSE as a world class university.

As legacy donors you are integral, our ambassadors for a vision of exemplary philanthropy at LSE. This spirit was embodied perfectly by the late Professor Derek Diamond, an influential academic within the Department of Geography and the Environment who was also a generous donor to the School and a leading ambassador for the legacy programme. Professor Diamond is fondly remembered within this newsletter – and I hope his example continues to resonate for generations to come.

Thank you for your continued support.

Professor Craig Calhoun, Director

LSE announces ‘Paul Marshall Building’ in honour of historic gift entrepreneurship to increase the impact and effectiveness of private contributions to the public good. The gift is the largest private donation in LSE’s history, and includes £20 million towards the redevelopment of 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Paul Marshall (left) alongside Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Chair of the Institute LSE has named its 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields development as the Paul Marshall Building in recognition of the unprecedented gift by the philanthropist and financier.

In April 2015 Paul Marshall pledged £30 million to the School for the creation of The Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship, which will provide teaching – including a master’s programme – research, and a collaborative forum to enable current and future leaders in philanthropy and social

In addition to housing the Marshall Institute, the redeveloped building will provide a new home for LSE’s Department of Management, Department of Finance and Department of Accounting, as well as new research centres and student sporting facilities.

LSE made the announcement as it launched an international design competition for the redevelopment of the site, which the School purchased in 2013.

The School is once again working with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to run the competition, and has invited expressions of interest from architects, indicating that LSE is looking for a design

which will be environmentally sustainable, provide innovative teaching and research workspaces, enhance the public space around Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and inspire future generations of students and academics.

LSE would like to welcome the following supporters to the School’s Legacy Circle: Jane Berryman (MSc Politics and Government of Western Europe 1986) Dr Stephanie Cooper (BSc Geography 1970, MSc Social Policy and Administration 1979, PhD Social Administration 1984) and Jeffrey Cooper (BSc Geography 1970, MSc Geography 1971) Andrew Dekany (LLB 1986) Rosemary Phillips (Diploma in Social Science 1961) One anonymous donor

LSE Advancement | The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE Tel:+44 (0)20 7852 3654 Email: legacy@lse.ac.uk www.lse.ac.uk/legacygiving

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Library exhibition celebrates School founders’ vision letter from Karl Popper concerning a student of his, Imre Lakatos, who went on to revolutionise the philosophy of mathematics.

As part of LSE’s 120th anniversary celebrations, the Library is hosting an exhibition illustrating how the vision of the School’s founders was realised, developed and implemented in 1895 and beyond. Foundations: LSE and the Science of Society opened to the public in September and will stay on display until the end of Michaelmas Term.

Drawing on iconic material from across the Library’s collections, the exhibition aims to inspire students and the wider School community by showing how LSE academics have taken the founding vision of ‘making society work better in the future’ and put it into practice. Original archive items on display include field photographs of Bronislaw Malinowski (BA Anthropology 1916), the founder of social anthropology, and a

The exhibition also highlights examples of LSE academics who achieved success as reformers and public servants, informing public policy and events in the 20th century. On display is the first draft of former LSE Director William Beveridge’s report for social insurance which led directly to the creation of the welfare state, while the diary of lecturer Hugh Dalton describes his work as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1945 and the radical reforms that he was implementing.

The exhibition can be found in the new Exhibition Space which has opened in the Library, located by its entrance. It is open Monday to Friday, 9am–7pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 11am–6pm. The last day of the exhibition is 19 December.

Over 2015 LSE has been celebrating its 120th anniversary with a series of engagements and events. More information can be found at lse.ac.uk/lse120

Legacy programme celebrated at annual lunch Alongside Director of LSE Advancement, Chris Yates, and LSE Director, Professor Craig Calhoun, attendees also heard from LSESU General-Secretary Nona Buckley-Irvine (pictured), who read a speech on behalf of the Charles J Mauro scholarship recipient, Jasmine Samantar.

The annual Legacy Futures lunch took place in the Shaw Library in June, with over 50 guests hearing updates on the life of the School and the impact of legacy pledges.

Jasmine is the daughter of Somali immigrants, who fled their country’s civil war in the early 1990s. After being offered a place on the MSc Comparative Politics programme last year, she had initially thought that she would need to defer the year in order to raise the funds for tuition fees.“It is difficult to convey the many emotions that ran through me at that precise moment I found I had been chosen for the Charles J Mauro scholarship,”she said.“Mere words such as relief, delight, and disbelief do not begin to touch on this rare emotion.”

LSE would like to remember the following donors and is grateful for the legacy gifts that they generously made to the School: Sheila Aldworth (Certificate in Social Science 1954, Certificate in Mental Health 1955) Professor Frank Anton (BSc Geography 1950) Professor Leonore Davidoff (MA International History 1956) Barbara Dearnley (Certificate in Social Science and Administraton 1951, Certificate in Mental Health 1955) Sir Gordon Manzie (BSc Government 1960) Jeremy McMullen QC (MSc Industrial Relations and Personnel Management 1972) Professor William Mead (BSc Geography 1939, PhD 1946) John Toll (BSc Industry and Trade 1956) John Trimmer (BSc Economic History with Economics 1947) Dr Moya Tyson (BSc Economics 1950)

She continued: “This scholarship encouraged me to strive for my best – no longer for myself and my family, but for the estate as well; because they believed in me, when I started losing faith in myself.”

Since completing her studies this summer, Jasmine has gone on to work as a Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Somalia on US Affairs, based in Washington, D.C. “Without my time at LSE, I would never have had this opportunity,” she said.

After lunch, guests were also given the chance to take tours of campus, where work has begun on the Centre Buildings redevelopment on Houghton Street.

An update on the project, due to be completed in 2018, can be found in the School Highlights on the back page.

Remembering Professor Derek Diamond (1933-2015)

The School is deeply saddened by the death of legacy programme ambassador Professor Derek Diamond. As well as being a regular volunteer, advocate for and adviser to LSE, working tirelessly on promoting the legacy programme to staff and retired staff, Professor Diamond was an active donor and legator himself. He also maintained long-standing links with the Department of Geography and Environment which first brought him to LSE. Professor Diamond joined the Department in 1968 to run the Urban and Regional Planning programme, later becoming Emeritus Professor of Geography with Special Reference to Urban and Regional Planning. In addition, he directed the Greater London Group from 1980 to 1995, was Vice-Chairman of the Academic Board from 1988 to 1993, and was instrumental in the foundation of the Gender Institute. He was particularly involved as a volunteer in the Campaign For LSE, which raised £100 million for the School and saw over 100 alumni and friends join the Legacy Circle.

He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2006.

This year Richard Oram (MSc Planning Studies 1977), who studied under Professor Diamond, made a generous gift in support of the Regional & Urban Planning

Studies (RUPS) programme – the modern-day incarnation of the programme Professor Diamond oversaw. Richard spoke highly of the influence Professor Diamond had on his career: “Coming to LSE affected my life, but Professor Diamond changed it profoundly,” he said. “With his guidance I wrote a report that he published. Thus validated, it was circulated in the US and my success flowed from that. But he was more than just the best teacher I ever had – I know many of the 600 students he guided benefited similarly from his dedication.”

London as a laboratory, each year attracting 30-40 MSc students and a small cohort of research students.

The Urban and Regional Planning programme was first formed in 1966, when professors in the Economics, Geography and Government departments concluded there were significant intellectual gains to be made in training future planners in an interdisciplinary environment. Since then it has challenged nearly 1,000 young ‘urbanists’ to engage with economics, politics and space, using

Speaking of his gift, Richard added: “My LSE experience reflects what RUPS can do. I stayed for a year after my MSc – which was only possible due to a grant I received and generous support and encouragement from Professor Diamond, who was the planning programme director at the time – and my post-MSc work in essence framed much of what I was able to do in my career.”

“I was delighted to make a legacy pledge to LSE because I believe in the School, in what it does and the way in which it does it. It’s a very special place where ideas get translated into action.

The important thing is to maintain that sense of quality so this virtuous circle continues.

We have amongst the staff and the students a common understanding.

There are no hard and fast boundaries between departments. I think past members of staff like me have a strong commitment to the School because of this collegial nature. It comes down to quality – what you do and the way you do it has to be excellent.

You then get outstanding staff, this attracts outstanding students, which in turn attracts outstanding staff.

Richard’s gift has established the Oram Foundation Research Position, providing support for post-MSc researchers pursuing a programme of research consistent with the curriculum of the department; the Oram-Stott-Schlusche Scholarship for an MSc student in Regional & Urban Planning; and the Leslie and Richard Oram Fund, a flexible fund for research support, conferences, training and networking, academic trips and seminars.

I think legacy gifts are a great idea, and a tradition that goes right back to the very beginning of the School, with its very first donation being a legacy. The money is unrestricted because one can’t foresee the future that clearly. They enable people like me, with a sense of commitment and a wish to support, to be able to do so as pensioners. If you’re interested in the world becoming even marginally a better place, this is one institution which has that purpose at its centre.”

Professor Derek Diamond, speaking to LSE in 2009

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Legacy gifts in action Two study spaces in The Women’s Library @ LSE Reading Room have been named in recognition of a generous legacy gift from alumna Professor Leonore Davidoff (MA International History 1956).

The spaces will be named after Vera Douie OBE, a founding librarian of the collections, and Esther Rachel Freedman, while Professor Davidoff’s name will also be added to its main donor board.

Professor Davidoff was a feminist historian and sociologist who pioneered new approaches to women’s history and gender relations, helping to create the Feminist Library in London and founding the academic journal, Gender & History. Her master’s thesis written at LSE in 1956 on the ‘Employment of Married Women’

became a foundation for her life’s work in the research field of women’s history.

She later went on to teach the UK’s first MA in women’s history at the University of Essex.

The Women’s Library @ LSE, the oldest and most extensive collection of women’s history in the world, has now opened all three of its physical spaces: The Reading Room, the Teaching and Activity Room and, most recently, the Exhibition Space, a facility showcasing the best and most interesting items from the Library’s collections.

The gift will be used by the Department to provide master’s and PhD Scholarships, known as the Frank Anton Scholarships.

The Department is also looking into using the funds to host an annual public lecture by a visiting leading distinguished economist, who would also interact with graduate students. Dr Anton was the first Department Head at the University of Calgary, instrumental in its establishment.

Professor William Mead (BSc 1939 Geography), an alumnus and longstanding donor over the last four decades, has generously left the School a legacy gift of £10,000.

The Department of Economics has benefited from a generous legacy gift of 1.25 million Canadian Dollars (£680,000), bequeathed by the estate of alumnus Dr Frank Robert Anton (BSc Geography 1950).

Professor Mead, whose career involved heading the Geography Department at University College London, received an Honorary Fellowship from the School in 2000.

His gift is for unrestricted use.

Monthly drop in sessions with the demolition contractor, Cantillon, and LSE Capital Development staff are being held on the last Wednesday of each month, between 1-3pm at the demolition site office in the Anchorage.

Alternatively any questions can be sent to estates.centrebuildings@lse.ac.uk

The first centre in Europe for examining the participation of women in conflict-related processes has been launched at LSE.

School highlights

The Centre Buildings redevelopment, the biggest transformation of LSE’s campus to date, has now started, with demolition work having commenced at the end of Summer Term 2015.

This initial stage, which began in June, involves the demolition of East Building, Clare Market, the Anchorage and the east section of St Clement’s. The new development will provide a new state of the art flexible and highly sustainable academic and teaching facility for students, staff and public alike. In addition a new public square will be opened up between Houghton Street and the Library, ensuring an exciting new area at the heart of the LSE campus.

The School has launched a 400m² PhD Academy, located on the 4th floor of the Library.

The Academy will help to attract the very best PhD students and provides them with a dedicated learning environment.

This separate physical space comprises training, study, seminar and social facilities, and access to support staff, and was launched in September.

Pro-Director for Research, Professor Julia Black, said: “The School faces fierce global competition from many institutions in attracting the best PhD students, and so we must be able to coherently communicate an identity for our PhD programmes. By providing the dedicated space our PhD students so richly deserve we have begun to address this.”

The Centre for Women, Peace and Security (WPS) was launched at an event in February by Professor Christine Chinkin, the first Director of the Centre, alongside then Secretary of State William Hague, UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt, and LSE Director Professor Craig Calhoun. It provides a dynamic space in which scholars, practitioners, activists and policy-makers are working together to develop strategies that help prevent crimes of sexual violence, hold perpetrators to account and protect the rights of survivors. Executive short courses and a postgraduate teaching programme in WPS, leading to an MSc degree, will later be available.

“LSE is setting an impressive example to other universities in the UK,” said Mr Hague. “We need new and innovative partnerships, and this Centre will become part of a network working to shatter impunity for sexual violence in conflict and advance the rights of women.”