Archive 2005

News and press releases from 2005

Michaelmas term

• Trusting the experts. Who should have governance over scientific decisions? ( 23 December 2005)
• Golden Tsunami: information deficit, competition and distrust in the relief effort ( 21 December 2005)
• Running the risk? The risk management of everything Olympic ( 20 December 2005)
• Winner of the 2005 Lakatos Award announced (19 December 2005)
• Brits happy to pay up to £2 billion to cover 2012 Olympics cost, says new research (15 December 2005)
• AU Barrel incident on Friday 2 December (Updated 9 December 2005)
• Investment and Reform: transforming health and healthcare (7 December 2005)
• Brothers under the Bridge - photographs from Oaxaca, Mexico ( 5 December 2005)
• POLIS - teaching, research, policy and debate in the news media marketplace ( 5 December 2005)
• What are human rights? Part-time evening courses with the experts (1 December 2005)
• Pensions research and LSE ( 1 December 2005)
• Human Rights Day balloon debate - who is the greatest of the 20th century? (28 November 2005)
• The welfare state was a mistake (28 November 2005)
• The promise and perils of international organisations (28 November 2005)
• Pal Csaky, deputy prime minister of Slovakia, to speak at LSE (28 November 2005)
• Wanted: the next Stelios (25 November 2005)
• ID cards - written evidence Thursday 24 November (23 November 2005)
• The education and employment of disabled young people (23 November 2005)
• Democratic responses to terrorism - the Madrid Agenda (23 November 2005)
• The origins of American constitutionalism (23 November 2005)
• Make Poverty History - is it really possible? (18 November 2005)
• Whither the East Asian flying geese? Regional integration and other options (18 November 2005)
• Professor Christine Chinkin awarded 2006 Goler T Butcher Medal (17 November 2005)
• Cricket test to citizenship test (17 November 2005)
• New MSc Finance programme launched at LSE (16 November 2005)
• The reproductive revolution - how far have we come? (16 November 2005)
• What future for central banks? (16 November 2005)
• LSE's ID card research - current status (17 November 2005)
• Neo-conservatism and the Origins of the New American Empire (16 November 2005)
• Global connectedness (16 November 2005)
• Making globalisation work for development (16 November 2005)
• Tax Reform in Russia - History and Future (2 November 2005)
• The biggest problems in the world - what should we deal with first? (1 November 2005)
• Is America a Foreign Country? Reflections on the Right Nation (1 November 2005)
• Children and women in Palestine (1 November 2005)
• Urban Age London (31 October 2005)
• The pros and cons of serial entrepreneurship - Stelios Haji-Ioannou to speak at LSE (31 October 2005)
• Assessing the impact of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry (28 October 2005)
• Turkish prime minister announces Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE (28 October 2005)
• 2005 Hamlyn Lectures - can human rights survive? (27 October 2005)
• Bush Two, Year One: lame duck or radical reformer? (27 October 2005)
• Making peace in South Asia - Dr Maleeha Lodhi to speak at LSE (27 October 2005)
• Norwegian foreign minister gives speech at LSE (26 October 2005)
• International Standard Setting for Financial Reporting - Accounting Standards Board chairman to speak at LSE (25 October 2005)
• Border Postcards: chronicles from the edge (24 October 2005)
• Where does Europe end? (24 October 2005)
• Government failing to learn valuable lessons from UK health care experiment (21 October 2005)
• The economics of buzz - word of mouth drives business growth finds LSE study (18 October 2005)
• The role of religion in a changing Europe (17 October 2005)
• The Turkish economy and the European Union (17 October 2005)
• LSE named part of Alcoa Foundation $8.6 million Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship program (14 October 2005)
• Terrorism and civil liberties (14 October 2005)
• The London Conference (13 October 2005)
• Melting Modernity: the demons of open society (13 October 2005)
• Can Europe be put back together again? Chris Patten gives public lecture at LSE (13 October 2005)
• American Power: global sheriff - international outlaw? (13 October 2005)
• Europe and the World Trade Round (13 October 2005)
• Terrorism and development (13 October 2005)
• A message from Howard Davies to all students, staff and alumni (12 October 2005)
• Poverty to rise unless economies factor 'Nature's Capital' into national accounts (10 October 2005)
• Information technology boosts UK productivity but US-owned firms do IT better (6 October 2005)
• LSE launches double degree with Peking University (5 October 2005)
• LSE Director's Dialogue with Ian Davis (5 October 2005)
• Mao, the Chinese Revolution and After (4 October 2005)
• Disease and security (4 October 2005)
• Students of six leading British and French universities launch the first Franco-British Student Summit (3 October 2005)
• Global Risk: how civil society responds (3 October 2005)
• Public intellectuals and British sociology since 1945 (3 October 2005)
• Can free trade promote development or is fair trade the answer? (3 October 2005
• India's Position in the World (3 October 2005)
• Living with Global Risk (28 September 2005)
• LSE academic awarded IZA Prize in Labor Economics 2005 (28 September 2005)
• LSE marks the UK's European Union presidency with European lecture series (28 September 2005)
• Can Europe run the 21st century? (26 September 2005)
• Economic Lessons for Europe: the Irish miracle and the German malaise (26 September 2005)
• Simon Schama to speak at LSE on slavery, the American Revolution and Britain (26 September 2005)
• Challenges for Germany in Europe - LSE launches European Series of lectures with speech by prime minister of Saxony (26 September 2005)
• Columbia University, LSE and Sciences Po launch Global Public Policy Network (16 September 2005) 
• Practical Issues in UK Monetary Policy - LSE academic to give British Academy's Keynes Lecture in Economics (15 September 2005)
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2005 (14 September 2005)
• Archives Made Easy - LSE launches new web resource for 21st century historians (14 September 2005)
• LSE and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd host a major forum (9 September 2005)
• New issue of CentrePiece out now - focus on unions and management (8 September 2005)
• Attention for neglected diseases (8 September 2005)
• Professor Timothy Besley awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Prize in economics (5 September 2005)
• The commercialisation of intimate life (5 September 2005)
• What is the place of Islam in non-Islamic societies? (5 September 2005)
• Why (and how) things happen (5 September 2005)

Summer term

• UK visa system (31 August 2005)
• Richard Burdett appointed director of 10th Venice Architectural Biennale (26 August 2005)
• What is Terror? (26 August 05)
• Jack Welch on winning (22 August 2005)
• Winner of 2005 John Watkins Prize announced (22 August 2005)
• Managing the Dynamics of Growth: a major forum announced by LSE and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd (11 August 2005)
• The future is local: challenges for public policy in the new parliament (8 August 2005)
• LSE team responds to Home Office criticisms of The Identity Project report (5 August 2005)
• First in a series of LSE and the China Center for Economic Research annual conferences to be held in August (20 July 2005)
• Birth Control Rights: the impact on women's wellbeing (18 July 2005)
• Dr Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel (1924-2005) (18 July 2005)
• Corporate governance analysed in the Financial Markets Group's Review (15 July 0205)
• LSE - business as usual (8 July 2005)
• London blasts - expert comments (8 July 2005)
• Involuntary Retirement: damaging effects on living standards and wellbeing (4 July 2005)
• Wealthier older Brits enjoy more health care (4 July 2005)
• Shanghai becomes the world stage for cutting-edge debate on the future of global cities (1 July 2005)
• Winner of the GAM Gilbert de Botton Award in Finance Research 2005 announced (1 July 2005)
• New regulation fails to boost credibility of independent public inquiries (30 June 2005)
• Lord Layard and Dr Raj Persaud to debate the politics of happiness (30 June 2005)
• Iraqi officials and international experts debate future of Iraqi oil  (30 June 2005)
• LSE student named Finance Student of the Year (29 June 2005)
• Living like the (Bridget) Joneses? Increasing singleness among British 20-somethings (27 June 2005)
• ID Cards - UK's high tech scheme is high risk (27 June 2005)
• The ethical dimension of European foreign policy (27 June 2005)
• The Identity Project report launch (24 June 05)
• Political fixation with 'responsiveness' to public opinion could distort the regulation of immigration and asylum (23 June 2005)
• The impact of the UK's electoral systems (23 June 2005)
• Immigration and asylum regulation examined in latest Risk&Regulation magazine (22 June 2005)
• LSE academics participate in the 2005 Social Policy Association Conference (22 June 2005)
• Europe: where do we go from here? (20 June 2005)
• India's policy on genetically modified crops (20 June 2005)
• Book launch: The New Egalitarianism. LSE hosts panel debate on social inequality (20 June 2005)
• A technology to produce risk and disease: a comparative analysis of genetic testing for breast cancer (20 June 2005)
• The Big Bang - the history of the universe in 60 minutes (17 June 2005)
• Response to the Home Secretary's comments on the LSE's identity cards study (16 June 2005)
• New Franco-British students alliance (15 June 2005)
• LSE and ESRC Social Science Week (14 June 2005)
• Operationalizing pro-poor growth in India (10 June 2005)
• Management practices across firms and nations (10 June 2005)
• 2005 Hamlyn Lectures - can human rights survive? (7 June 2005)
• The magic and mathematics of Sudoku explained (7 June 2005)
• The Identity Card Bill debate: what model might work? (6 June 2005)
• The misbehaviour of markets (6 June 2005)
• Will we dismantle the welfare state? Paul Krugman to speak at LSE (6 June 2005)
• Anti-social Anthropology - Dr David Mosse to speak at LSE (1 June 2005)
• The secret of a big movie - get people talking before it opens (27 May 2005)
• Removing the innovation roadblock: The Gauntlet teaches UK start-ups how investors think (23 May 2005)
• José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, speaks at LSE on development and aid (20 May 2005)
• The Identity Card Bill: what model might work? (19 May 2005)
• Youth violence and social justice in Latin America -  Dr Pinheiro to give public lecture at LSE (16 May 2005)
• Congratulations to executive education partner Duke Corporate Education (16 May 2005)
• John Edwards to speak at LSE: Towards a New Egalitarianism (16 May 2005)
• The political ecology of famine in North Korea: Amartya Sen revised (16 May 2005)
• LSE academic contributes to Tate Modern's fifth anniversary publication (12 May 2005)
• General Election update: LSE alumni elected to parliament (11 May 2005)
• President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, to speak at LSE (10 May 2005)
• Reforming Public Pensions in the UK and US - Professor Peter Diamond to speak at LSE (10 May 2005)
• Polarisation and Conflict (9 May 2005)
• Shooting History: Jon Snow to give public lecture at LSE (9 May 2005)
• Greece's modernisation process: visions and new realities (9 May 2005)
• Torture: the ultimate abuse of human rights? (3 May 2005)
• Professor Fred Halliday on the Middle East (3 May 2005)
• Our Common Interest: supporting Africa's resurgence (the Commission for Africa report) (3 May 2005)
• LSE alumni and students - General Election Thursday 5 May (3 May 2005)
• 'Net baffled' parents may reduce children's job and education prospects (28 April 2005)
• Culture and Inequality: a talk about talent (28 April 2005)
• Joseph Nye to speak at LSE: soft power and the struggle against terrorism (26 April 2005)
• What kind of a World Bank does the world need?  (26 April 2005)
• Disturbing finding from LSE study - social mobility in Britain lower than other advanced countries and declining (25 April 05)
• High commissioner of India in the UK to speak at LSE (25 April 05)
• The peculiar primate - Lakatos Award winner to speak at LSE (25 April 05)
• High commissioner of India in the UK to speak at LSE (25 April 05)
• LSE contributes to the Greek debate on labour market flexibility (19 April 2005)
• Britain in 2005 - is there any access to justice for asylum seekers and migrants? (15 April 2005)
• Does inequality matter? (15 April 2005)
• Election debates at LSE: What Has Labour Done For Us? and What Difference Would the Conservatives Make? (12 April 2005)
• The Asian tigers have roared before now (11 April 2005)
• Underpricing new issues on the London Stock Market: how modern day IPOs compare with the past (11 April 2005)
• The race for 'social capital' in the 21st century: Asia versus the Old World (11 April 2005)
• Improvements in the health of the nation add over 130 per cent to economic growth rates over the past century (11 April 2005)
• Dr Willem Buiter joins LSE's European Institute (6 April 2005)
• Images of youth violence in Latin America: photographs by Donna DeCesare (5 April 2005)
• The end of poverty (1 April 2005)

Lent term

• Citizen Mobile - opportunities and challenges of the mobile society (31 March 2005)
• LSE academics to speak at the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (21 March 2005)
• Current identity card legislation must be abandoned, urges LSE study (21 March 2005)
• LSE academics help Fudan University celebrate its centenary with a joint conference in China (18 March 2005)
• The education debate (17 March 2005)
• LSE shares one third of the added income from higher fees (16 March 2005)
• What to expect from the second Bush administration, and why (16 March 2005)
• LSE and The Times Join the Debate UK Election Series: Britain and Europe (16 March 2005)
• Public debate on pension policy objectives essential (10 March 2005)
• Ukraine: the path ahead (10 March 2005)
• LSE and news reports re: admissions (10 March 2005)
• LSE team complete fourth 'value for money' study for National Audit Office (9 March 2005)
• THES awards - bang the drum for higher education (8 March 2005)
• The 21st Century will be Europe's Century - panel debate at LSE (8 March 2005)
• The new pioneers (8 March 2005)
• Democracy and terror - panel debate at LSE (8 March 2005)
• The Economic Impact of ICT: a perspective from the age of steam (7 March 2005)
• Is autism an extreme of the male brain? (7 March 2005)
• Tony Travers to speak at conference on local government finance (7 March 2005)
• An LSE lecture by the Turkish minister of foreign affairs (7 March 2005)
• LSE and The Times Join the Debate UK Election Series, starts 16 March (4 March 2005)
• 'Cyber Trust' at its lowest point for a decade, warn internet security experts (4 March 2005)
• Buy-to-let investors plan to stay (4 March 2005)
• Democracy increases education spending in Africa (4 March 2005)
• Poverty in Colombia: are we trapped? LSESU Colombian Society conference (4 March 2005)
• Barcelona FC and collective identity - more than sports management? (4 March 2005)
• Can we become happier? Professor Lord Layard to speak at LSE (29 February 2005)
• Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality to speak at LSE (29 February 2005)
• Adair Turner lecture at LSE: pensions reform (28 February 2005)
• Re-framing justice in a globalising world (28 February 2005)
• Terrorism changes are 'serious challenge to our political liberty', says leading human rights lawyer (24 February 2005)
• William Robson Memorial Prize awarded to LSE Operational Research Student (24 February 2005)
• LSE Operational Research Students win prizes for best student projects (23 February 2005)
• Re:urbanism: changing philosophies in cities (21 February 2005)
• Russia and the War on Terror (21 February 2005)
• A lecture by the Russian minister of foreign affairs (21 February 2005)
• What's great about Great Britain? (21 February 2005)
• International experts gather in New York to investigate the contemporary city (18 February 2005)
• Corporate social responsibility - latest trend or the way forward? Dame Anita Roddick to speak at LSE (18 February 2005)
• The silent qualifiers of globalisation (18 February 2005)
• Why globalisation works (14 February 2005)
• The rehabilitation of 'human nature'. Or where did anthropology go? (14 February 2005)
• Human rights under attack (14 February 2005)
• Richard Dawkins lecture at LSE: is evolution predictable? (14 February 2005)
• Financial Reform in the Middle Kingdom (14 February 2005)
• Oil and Activism: public debate at LSE (14 February 2005)
• Corporate Ethics: is business more than profits? (14 February 2005)
• Apprentice runner-up Kwame Jackson to speak at LSE (14 February 2005)
• China Week at LSE (11 February 2005)
• 2005: make or break for global governance (9 February 2005)
• Opportunities and risk go hand in hand on the internet (9 February 2005)
• Life After Hutton: renewing the BBC Charter (8 February 2005)
• Liberalism and the City (8 February 2005)
• Global Inequality: from the end of World War Two to today (8 February 2005)
• 'Biosocialities' and the legacy of breast cancer genetics (8 February 2005)
• Britain's proposed new equality and human rights commission (31 January 2005)
• Unions march to Perdition: despite having much to offer, all concerned wilfully risk union marginalisation (31 January 2005)
• Why AIDS is exceptional (31 January 2005)
• Chinese nationalism under the shadow of globalisation (31 January 2005)
• Spanish foreign policy - the Right Honourable Jordi Pujol to speak at LSE (31 January 2005)
• LSE German Symposium 2005 (28 January 2005)
• Meeting the challenge of development - vice president of the World Bank to speak at LSE (28 January 2005)
• Making health campaigns more effective - bridging the 'missing link' (27 January 2005)
• LSE statistician explores the unknowns of climate modelling (27 January 2005)
• Book launch. Financing Higher Education: answers from the UK by Nicholas Barr and Iain Crawford (27 January 2005)
• Growing Sustainable Peace (26 January 2005)
• LSESU Development Week focuses on UN millennium development goals (26 January 2005)
• London 2012 - why should we back the bid? (26 January 2005)
• Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission speaks on US capital markets - transcript online (25 January 2005)
• Peter Mandelson to speak at LSE on Trade, Development and the European Union (24 January 2005)
• European commissioner Danuta Hübner to speak on regional policy of the EU ( 24 January 2005)
• Journalists Barbara Ehrenreich and Polly Toynbee to give LSE lecture on gender inequality (24 January 2005)
• Will biomedicine transform society? (24 January 2005)
• Is there such a thing as a European society? Professor Ulrich Beck to speak at LSE (24 January 2005)
• Speaking and deceiving - Baroness Onora O'Neill to give lecture at LSE (24 January 2005)
• Stelios to give £2 million to LSE (24 January 2005)
• Eminent sociologist Professor Paul Gilroy to join LSE from Yale (20 January 2005)
• Robert Tavernor appointed professor of urban design and director of LSE Cities Programme (17 January 2005)
• Richard Burdett appointed LSE centennial professor in architecture and urbanism (17 January 2005)
• The death of the West? US-European relations in the age of Bush (17 January 2005)
• The DNA of a Market Economy explored in three public lectures at LSE (17 January 2005)
• France-UK: entente cordiale or...'glaciale'? Why do the French and the English like to dislike each other? (17 January 2005)
• Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission to speak at LSE (17 January 2005)
• US secretary of homeland security Tom Ridge speaks at LSE (14 January 2005)
• The Asian Tsunami - the work ahead (12 January 2005)
• A thirst for human rights law - LSE evening class certificate course offers twice as many places in 2005 (12 January 2005)
• New Labour turns the tide of poverty, but inequality still runs deep (12 January 2005)
• New Year honours for LSE academics and alumna (11 January 2005)
• Institutions collaborate to allow secure access across continents (11 January 2005)
• Diversity an important factor for those in high density London neighbourhoods finds new LSE research (11 January 2005) 
• Reducing Poverty: how human rights can help (11 January 2005)
• Secretary general of Amnesty International to speak at LSE (10 January 2005)
• High commissioner for Pakistan to speak at LSE on Islam and the West (10 January 2005)
• The TH Marshall Fellowship Programme: a symposium led by Lord Dahrendorf on Citizenship and Social Policy in 21st Century Europe (10 January 2005)
• The Great Irresponsibles? - the United States, the United Kingdom and the future of international society (6 January 2005)
• Guantanamo Is Closer Than You Think: internment without trial after the law lords ruling (6 January 2005)
• Tsunami crisis - academic experts from LSE available for media comment (6 January 2005)
• A message from Howard Davies to all staff, students and alumni (4 January 2005)

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