This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Sajda Qureshi, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 11/07/2015
Duration of interview: 00:21:46
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: 1989 Diploma in Management of Information Systems, 1991 MSc Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems, 1995 PhD Information Systems

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Carol Wain (Hornsey), along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Tom Sturdy
Date of interview: 10/07/2015
Duration of interview: 00:23:57
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: 1964 Sociology, 1967 MPhil; 1971-72 Researcher

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Wendy Weinberg (Yates), along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Sue Donnelly
Date of interview: 17/06/2015
Duration of interview: 00:19:59
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: 1956 BSc Econ

Personal author: Kusmu, Petros

Three photos. Two from June 2015 celebrating the last day of exams with my colleagues in the MSc IPE program (one in front of the Old Building and Lincoln's Inn Fields). Another from Dec 2015, again in front of the Old Building, celebrating our last day together after our graduation ceremony. Looking at these photos completely floods me with happiness, nostalgia and a yearning to go back in time. My time at LSE was remarkable.

Was life as an LSE student so different in 1955 to 2015? What changes have our long-serving staff seen over the years? Where was there a Paternoster lift on campus? Who was Wright of Wright’s Bar? Find the answers to these questions and more in Tales from Houghton Street, an oral history project to celebrate LSE’s 120th anniversary in 2015.

Everyone at LSE has a story to tell and in summer 2015 the oral history project team (Hayley Reed, Sue Donnelly, Clara Cook and Tom Sturdy) was fortunate enough to speak to a small selection of alumni, academic and professional services staff about their LSE experience.

The collection contains one introductory podcast and 30 audio recordings of interviews with alumni and staff who were studying or working at LSE between the 1950s and 2015.

Participants discussed themes including their experiences as students, teachers and researchers at LSE, developments in higher education and the future of LSE. They also shared memories about the changes on LSE’s campus: the buildings, halls of residence, the social life, and about life in London through the years.

Each recording is accompanied by a summary of the interview to help researchers identify key points. The introductory podcast features excerpts from the interviews with alumni Carol Wain (1967), Brian Van Arkadie (1956) and Mary Evans (1967/1968, LSE Centennial Professor, Gender Institute).

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with John Hills, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 17/07/2015
Duration of interview: 00:43:45
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: joined in 1986; 1997 Director, Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), 2015 Co-director, International Inequalities Institute; Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Paul Rock, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 29/07/2015
Duration of interview: 00:49:27
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: Department of Sociology, Emeritus Professor of Social Institutions, Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Nicholas Sims, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 07/08/2015
Duration of interview: 00:41:19
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: 1968-2010. Emeritus Professor of International Relations

Personal author: Froio, Mariasilvia

Last day of exams for the students of the Department of International Development (June 2014). Celebrating with champagne in Lincoln's Inn Fields!

Personal author: Serolong-Holzapfel, Lesego

Msc Social Policy and Development 2013-2014. Photo taken at the LSE. Im an entrepreneur from South Africa.

Personal author: Diessner, Sebastian

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Personal author: Coles, David

In 2014 the Tower of London hosted "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" which was the moat filled with poppies, representing soldiers that had died in World War 1. Hundreds of volunteers helped build the memorial in the spring of 2014 and then take it down in autumn. As the Volunteer Centre Manager I took 60+ students and staff over two days to help take down the installation. It was a truly remarkable experience standing in the moat of the Tower of London and the student volunteers did a fantastic job. They even built a small production line to make the process more efficient! It's one of my favourite memories from my time working at LSE.

Personal author: Froio, Mariasilvia

LSE's MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies (Class of 2014)

Personal author: Gao, Biqi

I went to LSE in 2013 for a graduate study in social policy and graduated from the School with a Master of Science in Development and Social Policy a year later. Being a student of LSE provided me a great opportunity to see the world and to learn more about social policies from my excellent lecturers and fellow students from all over the world. One of my most impressive memory of life in LSE was the department trip to Cumberland Lodge in January 2014. We worked in groups on researching and making policies on different subjects, such as education, traffic problem, public health, etc. It was a wonderful memory of discussing and presenting opinions on police-making with my intelligent group members, as well as an unforgettable memory of a weekend in the beautiful Windsor Great Park. In LSE, the courses I took on health, gender and social welfare, reshaped my understanding of social development, and then contributed to my career in public sector in my home country. Now I'm working for a institution that provides in-service education for schoolteachers from rural areas of China, which helps them to be accessible to more advanced teaching resources, and may finally contribute to improving the education levels of rural areas. It is my experience in LSE that inspires me to work for better education for teachers, and to keep on working even harder in the future.

Personal author: Lee, Minkyu

On 18th Dec 2013, I had my graduation ceremony from LSE, officially holding my degree in MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation. The degree is very rare for a man, male person, heterosexual feminist man, diversity-oriented gender studier, who is from Busan, South Korea, however, I am so proud of my achievement and time that I could spend with most wonderful women and men, human beings, friends and colleagues from Gender Institute and other departments at LSE. Although it was just one year, I loved it so much so that I had to bring someone who I love with me for my graduation day. It was my mom. She was sitting at the very front seat while I was shaking hands with the then Dean of the School, David Calhoun. So much great memory and a sweet end of the time, which will last forever and ever. Thank you very much, LSE, for being always the smallest but most beutiful part of my life. Thank you.

Personal author: Weinstein, Julia
Personal author: Weinstein, Barry

Handing in our dissertation in the New Building April 2013! Six years later we got married :)

Personal author: Ghatak, Kasturi

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Corporate author: LSE Students' Union
Publisher: London : London School of Economics and Political Science
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Personal author: Lopez-Murcia, Julian

Graduation (2012)

Personal author: Lopez-Murcia, Julian

3rd February 2012

Corporate author: LSE Students' Union
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