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Welcome to the latest news update from the School of Public Policy |
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Save the Date! Upcoming Events |
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Although restrictions in the UK are easing, we are keeping our main events virtual for Summer Term both to comply with regulations and for the ease of our international alumni. We are, however, very much looking forward to when we can see some of you in person.
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Alumni Career Development: Applying for Jobs in Testing Times
Date: Tuesday 25th May; 6:00 - 7.30PM BST
All alumni are invited to join us for a professional development session run exclusively for SPP alumni in partnership with LSE Careers. This practical session focuses around applying for jobs during challenging times: including an overview of current market trends, networking skills, and an examination of the practical and emotional aspects of job hunting.
Register online.
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Summer Social
Date: Wednesday 16th June; 5.30 - 7.30PM BST
Join us to celebrate the end of an unusual academic year! All alumni, students and faculty are warmly invited to join our Summer Social celebration, which will be held on Gather.town - a fluid-video app which allows you complete control over who you talk with and what you do, as well as providing virtual games and private spaces where you can chat with friends. More information will be coming shortly, and we hope you're able to join us!
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Can you help our students?
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'Life Beyond LSE' Alumni Panel - Wednesday 9th June
Many of our students are facing the end of their degrees, and are looking ahead to what comes next with both anxiety and excitement. We are inviting recent alumni graduates to join this lunchtime panel and share a little of their own experiences after leaving the SPP - what words of wisdom can you share about job hunting, breaking into a new career sphere, or just making the most of your new degree?
If you're interested in helping at this event, or have any questions about supporting our student community, please get in touch at spp.alumni@lse.ac.uk.
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Almuni Words of Wisdom
A new cohort of alumni will soon be graduating from the SPP, while new students will soon be joining us to study in September. It's a big life change under any circumstances, but particularly during the current climate; and we want to remind all our students that they remain part of a community that will always support them in the years ahead.
We are therefore inviting our alumni to pass on your words of wisdom and best wishes to those leaving the SPP, and those joining it. Do you have advice you wish you'd known before entering a particular sector? Words of wisdom for the start of the academic year? Or would you simply like to pass on a message of well wishes to everyone starting a new chapter in their lives?
We'd love to demonstrate the SPP's fantastic community spirit - if you can offer advice or well wishes, please share them online and we will be compiling them together for our students soon.It's a great way to support our students - we really hope you take part!
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Meet Miranda Da Costa
Did you ever feel that you were getting as much from your fellow classmates as you were from your academic studies at the SPP? That's what Miranda Da Costa, who graduated 2015, says about her time studying for an MPA. Having enjoyed many different opportunities since leaving the SPP, Miranda is now a Content Operations Lead at Spotify.
You can read more about Miranda's story online. |
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Do you know an alumnus whose story should be shared with the SPP community? It could be a friend, a colleague, someone whose work you admire from afar - it could even be yourself! Drop us a line to recommend the next alumni profile.
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Alumni Benefits in the Spotlight
Don't forget: you can connect to fellow School of Public Policy alumni very easily via our LinkedIn and Facebook groups.
These social media spaces are exclusive to the SPP community, and are a great way of keeping in touch with fellow classmates or making new connections. |
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Professor Daniel Sturm awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project 'Quantitative Models of Cities' |
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Congratulations to our EMPA/EMPP Programme Director, Professor Daniel Sturm, who has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of £1.6m for the project 'Quantitative Models of Cities'.
The project, which will run from 2021-2026, builds on the research agenda of Daniel Sturm and his co-authors to develop economic models of how firms and residents compete over limited space in cities, and how this competition shapes the productivity and residential amenities of city neighbourhoods and the flow of commuters. |
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Daniel said: “
The majority of the world’s population already lives in cities...this makes it imperative to improve our understanding of the agglomeration forces that pull people into cities. Understanding how cities work and how they are affected by urban policy choices has been made even more urgent by the Covid-19 pandemic. The very generous funding from the ERC will enable us to bring our understanding of the forces that shape cities to an exciting new level.”
Congratulations, Daniel!
Find out more online. |
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SPP Academic Publications and Talks |
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Today's Latin America Has No Female Presidents. It's Not Going Well.
In an op-ed for
Americas Quarterly, Professor Vanessa Rubio-Márquez examines the gender balance in the leadership of Latin America today.
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Brazilian Debt Jitters
Professor Andrés Velasco and new SPP Policy Fellow Frank Muci examine Brazil's fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic in an article for
Project Syndicate.
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The IMF has the firepower, but it's going unused.
The International Monetary Fund is at the centre of the international financial safety net, but countries have failed to take up its support during the pandemic. In the LSE COVID-19 blog, SPP Visiting Fellow Ousmène Jacques Mandeng asks if not during COVID, then when?
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How many people will carry on working from home? The answer will determine the future of central London.
As part of an article exploring London's current challenges and future vision for the LSE COVID-19 blog, Professor Tony Travers sets out the challenges facing the centre of London following the effects of mass working from home during the pandemic.
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Thank You for Supporting the SPP |
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The support shown to us by all our alumni and friends is hugely appreciated by everyone at the School of Public Policy. Whether through financial donations or by time donated to student support through career panels or capstone projects, we could not carry out the work we do without your help.
We would particularly like to thank everyone who has donated either to the SPP or to the wider LSE community. This support enables us to do wonderful things, and we are delighted to be able to offer an outstanding policy education experience to our students even in such unusual times.
Find out more about financially supporting the SPP here.
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Our events programme is regularly updated on our website, as well as our LinkedIn and Facebook alumni groups. If you want to be kept up to date with SPP public events, why not join our event mailing list? |
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Doom: the politics of catastrophe
Wednesday 20 May 2021
7.15 - 8.15pm BST
Speaker: Professor Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Senior Faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard.
Find out more.
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Urban Age Debates: cities in the 2020s
Localising Transport: towards the 15-minute city or the one-hour metropolis?
Thursday 20 May
1 - 2pm BST
Speakers: Professor Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University; Sir Peter Hendy, Chair of Network Rail; Yolisa Kani, Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO) of Transnet.
Find out more.
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Rescue: from global crisis to a better world
Wednesday 26 May
2 - 3pm BST
Speaker: Professor Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University.
Find out more.
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Liars: falsehood and free speech in an age of deception
Thursday 27 May 2021
12 - 1pm BT
Speaker: Professor Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard.
Find out more
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Haldane and LSE: applying political philosophy to public service in today's polarised politics
Thursday 10 June 2021
5.30 - 7pm BST
Speakers: Gordon Brown (UN Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the UK); John Campbell (Co-founder and Chair of Campbell Lutyens); Dr Jill Pellew, (Senior Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London);Professor Andrés Velasco, (Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE).
Find out more
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Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tuesday 29 June 2021
4 - 5.30pm BST
Speakers: Professor Francisco Ferreira, (Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE); Professor Adnan Khan, (Professor in Practice at LSE's School of Public) Policy; Professor Lucinda Platt, (Professor of Social Policy and Sociology and Head of Department of Social Policy at LSE.)
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Stay connected! Keep in touch via our Facebook and LinkedIn Alumni groups, or follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
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