Department diary

Please refer to this diary regularly for any additions/updates.

If you would like to add any Department events to this diary please contact Sarah Roberts (s.roberts@lse.ac.uk|). 

May

Wednesday 2 May

• CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminar, 12:45-14:00, Room R505
  Decentralising the means-test: The design of student bursaries from Oct. 2012
  Speakers: John Hills and Ben Richards

Wednesday 9 May

• LSE Health and Social Care Formal Seminar, 12:30-13:45, Room STC S221
  Title to be announced
  Speaker: Professor Mirella Cacace, Leuphana University, Luneberg, Germany
• Social Policy Cluster meeting, 16:00, Webb Room 

Monday 14 May

• NIHR SSCR Annual Meeting - Register via LSE eshop

Wednesday 16 May

• Staff Student Liaison Committee meeting, 14:30, Graham Wallas Room
• CASE Social Exclusion Seminar, 16:30-18:00, Room R505
  Who saves for retirement
  Speaker: Mark Bryan, University of Essex
• Mannheim Centre for Criminology Seminar Series, 18:30, Room CON 1.01
  (joint with British Society of Criminology)
  Global Policing 
  Speakers: Professor James Sheptycky, York University, Toronto and Professor Ben Bowling, Kings College, London discuss their new book

Thursday 17 - Friday 18 May

• British Academy Conference
  Modelling for Policy
  Convenors: Professor Tony Barnett and Dr Erika Mansnerus, LSE Health

Wednesday 23 May

• Teaching Committee meeting, 14:30, Webb Room
• Mannheim Centre for Criminology Seminar Series, 14:30-20:00, Thai Theatre
  (joint with British Society of Criminology)
  Beyond Pentonville
  Speakers: Professor Alison Liebling and Louis Blom Cooper QC
  Chair: Emeritus Professor David Downes
• Behavioral Economics Seminar, 16:00-17:00, Graham Wallas Room
  Behavioural Political Economy and Robust Institutions 
  Speaker: Tim Besley
• St Paul's Institute, LSE and JustShare Public Debate, 18:30-20:00, St Paul's Cathedral
  What Money Can't Buy - the moral limit of markets
  Speaker: Professor Michael Sandel
  Discussants: Professor Julian Le Grand, Rt Revd Peter Selby
  Chair: Ann Pettifor

Wednesday 30 May

• CASE Social Exclusion Seminar, 16:30-18:00, Room R505
  Providing a Sure Start: How Government Discovered Early Childhood
  Speaker: Naomi Eisenstadt, University of Oxford

Thursday 31 May

• Social Policy PhD Research Day, 15:00-19:30, Room OLD 3.21
  Register via Rachel Deacon, r.e.deacon@lse.ac.uk

June

Friday 1 June

• LSE and Hay Festivals Public Conversation, 13:00-14:00, Peacock Theatre
  In Conversation with Daniel Kahneman
  Speaker: Professor Daniel Kahneman
  Discussant: Professor Paul Dolan
  Chair: Evan Davis

Wednesday 13 June

• Staff Committee meeting, 14:30, Graham Wallas Room

Tuesday 19 June

• The Big Society Debate, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre
  A New Agenda for Social welfare - A panel discussion
  Speakers: Professor Simon Szreter, Dr Armine Ishkanian, Faiza Chaudary and Ralph Michell
  Chair: Professor Nicholas Deakin

Wednesday 20 June

• Mannheim Centre for Criminology Seminar Series, 18:30, Room NAB 1.07
  (joint with British Society of Criminology)
  From Penal Hell and Back Again
  Speaker: Dr Dave Scott, University of Central Lancashire

Wednesday 27 June

• Research Committee meeting, 14:30, Webb Room
• Behavioral Economics Seminar, 16:00-17:00, Graham Wallas Room
  Categories and Consequences: How exposure to broad vs. narrow categorizations affect subsequent, unrelated choices
  Speaker: Amitav Chakravati

September

Wednesday 5 - Saturday 8 September

• International Long-term Care Policy Network (ILPN) 2012 Conference 
  Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care

October

Wednesday 24 October

• Behavioral Economics Seminar, 16:00-17:00, venue TBA
  Can behavioural economics do for the study of executive compensation what behavioural finance has done for the study of investment decisions?
  Speaker: Sandy Pepper

November

Wednesday 14 November

• Behavioral Economics Seminar, 16:00-17:00, venue TBA
  Just do it: Temporary restrictions and new consumption habits
  Speaker: Francisco Costa

December

Wednesday 12 December

• Behavioral Economics Seminar, 16:00-17:00, venue TBA
  Mindset spillovers: experimental evidence from the lab and the field
  Speakers: Matteo Galizzi and Paul Dolan

Wednesday 17 December

• Department 100 Year Anniversary Colloquim, 10:00-17:45, Wolfson Theatre
  Social Policy Futures: Wreckage, Resilience or Renewal?