LSE NEWS LSE100 RECOGNISED in Teaching Excellence award LSE100 has been named runner-up in the Teaching Excellence category at the inaugural Guardian University Awards. LSE100, known as “The LSE Course: understanding the causes of things”, is the most significant reform to LSE undergraduate education in three decades. It is an innovative interdisciplinary course that introduces LSE undergraduates to the different ways of thinking like a social scientist, by exploring some of the great debates of our time from the perspectives of different disciplines.
been recognised for its innovation in this way. It’s a tribute to the tremendous team effort that has gone into developing and delivering the course. LSE100 has pioneered a new approach to supporting the development of intellectual breadth, in a higher education environment of increasing academic specialisation, while strengthening students’ higher order academic skills.”
Dr Jonathan Leape, director of LSE100, said: “I am delighted that LSE100 has
Journalist and former World Bank economist awarded honorary degrees LSE has awarded two honorary degrees: to Professor Justin Yifu Lin, former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, and journalist Nick Davies. The award of an Honorary Doctorate is one of the most prestigious awards that the School can bestow. It is conferred on those who have made an outstanding contribution to the increased understanding, or appreciation of “the causes of things” and their practical application in the social sciences or related fields.
Justin Yifu Lin is professor and honorary dean at the National School of Development at Peking University. He was senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank from 2008-12, where he guided the Bank’s intellectual leadership and played a key role in shaping the economic research agenda of the institution. The author
of 23 books, he is a deputy of China’s People’s Congress and vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.
LSE PEOPLE Dr Jo Braithwaite, Department
Professor Stavros Panageas,
of Law, has been appointed Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple for her outstanding contribution to legal teaching and research.
Department of Finance, has been awarded the Smith Breeden first prize for his co-authored paper ‘Technical growth and asset pricing’. The award was given to the best paper in any area other than corporate finance.
Professor Ricky Burdett, LSE Cities, has joined the Airports Commission, which is chaired by former LSE director Howard Davies. The Commission has been tasked with identifying, and recommending to the government, options for maintaining the UK’s status as an international hub for aviation. Dr Vincent Cuñat, Department of Finance, has been awarded the 2012 Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize for a paper he coauthored. The paper was judged to be “exceptional” by The Journal of Finance. Latefa Guemar, Gender Institute, has been shortlisted in the online category of the Migrant and Refugee Women of the Year Awards for an article published on the Guardian Online which tells of her experience of being a refugee scholar. (See page 14.)
Professor Mary Kaldor, Civil Nick Davies has been named Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year for his investigations into crime, drugs, poverty and other social issues. He has been a journalist since 1976 and is currently a freelance, working regularly as special correspondent for The Guardian. The author of four books, he also makes TV documentaries and has, in the last two years, been involved in publishing secret material obtained by Wikileaks as well as writing more than 90 stories on the phone-hacking scandal at News International. lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/ aroundLSE/archives/2012/ HonoraryDegrees.aspx
Society and Human Security Research Unit, has been presented with the Dr Jean Mayer Global Citizens Award at the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University.
Professor Andrés RodríguezPose, Department of Geography and Environment, has been voted as president-elect of the Regional Science Association International.
Professor Edward Page, Department of Government, has been awarded the Political Studies Association Innovation in Teaching Politics Award for his innovative teaching methods.
Professor Christopher Pissarides, Department of Economics, has been appointed personal economic adviser to the president of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades. He will head a small team advising the new government on all aspects of economic policy.
Professor Michael Power, Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Uppsala University in Sweden. He was one of only two academics awarded the honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences. A book by Professor Paul Preston, Cañada Blanch Centre, has been selected as The Sunday Times History Book of the Year. The Spanish Holocaust: inquisition and extermination in twentieth century Spain was also one of six books shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.
Professor Danny Quah, Department of Economics, has been awarded the Hanban’s Confucius Institute Individual Performance Excellence Award of the Year for his work promoting a greater understanding of China’s place in the world.
Dr Jane Secker, Centre for Learning Technology, has received a Mover and Shaker award from the US Library Journal for her work on information literacy.
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