Thank you to everyone who attended our End of Year Celebration on campus yesterday!
It was truly incredible to celebrate all of your wonderful academic achievements and share a special afternoon together at the end of an academic year like no other.
Congratulations to all! 👏
Congratulations to the new generation of MPP and MPA graduates from @LSEPublicPolicy Your hard-work, resilience, empathy and sense of community will make you better policy-makers, politicians and leaders. 🙌🎉
See the new Chapter on “Incrementalism and its Alternatives” in the Oxford Handbook of Time and Politics edited by Klaus Goetz for this discussion. (3/3) https://t.co/SZj4lBz6pF @JannProf@0le_J@howlettm@ChFlachsland@AnkeHassel
I'm very honoured to have been asked by LSE to act as Editor-in-Chief for @LSEPress with a mission to develop digital open access publishing in the social sciences. See also https://t.co/oY3ZaUGxUX
Maximising the Impacts of Academic Research by @PJDunleavy and me is now out!
We look at how academic impact happens, how to think about impact outside universities eg working with intermediaries and via public engagement, and (1/2)
Research advances knowledge, changes how issues are understood, and helps people make better decisions – but only if it is communicated effectively. Read a sample chapter from Maximizing the #Impacts of Academic #Research by @PJDunleavy and @janetinkler: https://t.co/29tJbmiZMG
As part of our Welcome to the SPP, this morning our new MPP students learnt all about leadership in diverse settings - how can we be an active bystander? #sppwelcome
In the workplace, self-learning computer systems are being introduced by companies to assist in areas such as hiring, evaluating performance and even terminating employment.
Learn more @EdithCowanUni@Sydney_Uni@uwanews: https://t.co/Uq6hiB3yqD
Imagine temperature in the high 30’s in a 12x8 toilet cubicle 3 or 4 storeys up, on your own or with a stranger who will be defacating & urinating socially distanced 2m from your bed. Your only cold drink is whatever comes out of the tap. Shower? dream on. Family contact ditto.
If taxpayers over 40 are to pay more for social care - as suggested in the @guardian - they will want to know where the money goes. Currently £millions leak out to offshore tax havens and to private equity managers at the same time that care workers receive poverty pay.
We're experiencing a surge of COVID-19 cases in our area.
After searching through our data I have some tips for the UK Test & Trace system...
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