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Reflections on my exchange in the uk by pernille from denmark.

In August last year, Pernille from Denmark kindly wrote about her thoughts as she is prepared for her departure for her year exchange to the UK. She spoke of her nerves and excitement and determination to succeed, and now, 10 months later she has written about her experience and reflected on the opportunities and challenges she has faced.

​ Now that you are preparing to go home, how do you feel about your exchange experience?

It’s been such an amazing experience and I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. It’s been challenging and I’ve learned so many things and grown extremely much in such a short time. I’ve experienced so many things and met so many nice people while staying here and I couldn’t be more thankful for this opportunity.

What did you enjoy most about your time on exchange?

I know it’s a typical thing to say, but everything. I don’t think I can pick out one thing and say that I’ve enjoyed that more than another thing, because each thing I’ve experienced has a meaning to me in different ways.

How did you find living with a host family?

I am so pleased with the host family I got. They are all very nice and really good company. I’m really happy that I got to stay with them and get to know them. It has been a really fun experience to live with someone else and create this bond between us. They are so nice to you and treat you as you were a part of their family. They listen to what you have to say and make sure that you feel welcome and are happy.

What was it like meeting your family for the first time?

It was so weird and awkward (haha). It was weird meeting them because I’ve been talking to them before I came. They helped me feel welcomed and a part of the family from day one.

What challenges did you face when starting school?

It was not too easy making friends at the beginning because I had to settle in first. The language wasn’t difficult but it was still a challenge at the beginning that everything was in English. But of course it got better with time.

How did school in the UK differ from school in Denmark?

The school system in the UK is a bit different than in Denmark. For example I had a different class/classmates for each subjects because we chose our subjects ourselves. In Denmark you have one class for all subjects. And I got frees during the day so I didn’t go to school from 8-3 everyday with only one break, as in Denmark. It was nice trying something new. The teachers are nice and funny and we could always talk to them if we had something on our minds. The other students made sure I felt welcome as well, and I got a lot of really nice friends. In general, the school was such a nice place with lots of fun things to do. They even planned a trip to Bristol for our photography class.

Do you feel more confident speaking English and how will you keep practising when you are home?

I definitely feel more comfortable in my spoken and written English after these months. I don’t think as much about if what I say is right anymore as it comes more naturally. I plan to still have contact with my friends and host family so in that way I’ll keep up practising my English, and of course I’ll have English at my college when I go home.

Did you feel prepared for the exchange and supported by the staff?

I think so, yeah. We got a lot of information about the exchange before we left and while we were here, so I knew what I was going into, even though of course it’s different when you’re there. I could always contact my Area Rep if I had any problems so that was nice as well.

What advice would you give someone preparing for exchange?

I would first of all say, no matter what, don’t be afraid to ask for help if you’re in doubt of anything no matter how stupid you think it is. And then just make sure to be open, have an open mind and think positive. That will get you a long way!

Would you recommend an exchange to other people?

I have already recommended it to so many people. Being on exchange is a special thing and you learn and experience so many things while you’re away. I was surprised myself how much I’ve changed and learned. It’s something you can’t just experience by going on holiday to the country. Living there in the culture, in their environment gives you a better understanding about the country and the people. You see how other people live outside from your own country and that is an amazing thing! I think this is something every person should experience in their life.

What are your plans when you get home and has exchange influenced your plans for the future?

I’m starting college after summer holiday and then continuing my education after that. During the summer I’ll just work to earn money. The exchange made me realise how passionate I am about photography so it definitely influenced me to start working with my camera a lot more.

Pernille’s reflections on her experience highlight the fact that it does take work to make your exchange a success. Students have to be willing to be open and talk with their host family, classmates and local Area Representative. Her commitment to the experience helped her to make the most of her exchange and we congratulate Pernille for her effort and wish her every success in the future. We hope to see some of your photos from Denmark!

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The story. BMW Group, owner of the BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce brands, has been based in Munich since its founding in 1916. But by 2011, only 17 per cent of the cars it sold were bought in Germany.

In recent years, China has become BMW’s fastest-growing market , accounting for 14 per cent of BMW’s global sales volume in 2011. India, Russia and eastern Europe have also become key markets.

The challenge. Despite rising sales revenues, BMW was conscious that its profits were often severely eroded by changes in exchange rates. The company’s own calculations in its annual reports suggest that the negative effect of exchange rates totalled €2.4bn between 2005 and 2009.

BMW did not want to pass on its exchange rate costs to consumers through price increases. Its rival Porsche had done this at the end of the 1980s in the US and sales had plunged.

The strategy. BMW took a two-pronged approach to managing its foreign exchange exposure.

One strategy was to use a “natural hedge” – meaning it would develop ways to spend money in the same currency as where sales were taking place, meaning revenues would also be in the local currency.

However, not all exposure could be offset in this way, so BMW decided it would also use formal financial hedges. To achieve this, BMW set up regional treasury centres in the US, the UK and Singapore.

How the strategy was implemented. The natural hedge strategy was implemented in two ways. The first involved establishing factories in the markets where it sold its products; the second involved making more purchases denominated in the currencies of its main markets.

BMW now has production facilities for cars and components in 13 countries. In 2000, its overseas production volume accounted for 20 per cent of the total. By 2011, it had risen to 44 per cent.

In the 1990s, BMW had become one of the first premium carmakers from overseas to set up a plant in the US – in Spartanburg, South Carolina. In 2008, BMW announced it was investing $750m to expand its Spartanburg plant. This would create 5,000 jobs in the US while cutting 8,100 jobs in Germany.

This also had the effect of shortening the supply chain between Germany and the US market.

The company boosted its purchasing in US dollars generally, especially in the North American Free Trade Agreement region. Its office in Mexico City made $615m of purchases of Mexican auto parts in 2009, expected to rise significantly in following years.

A joint venture with Brilliance China Automotive was set up in Shenyang, China, where half the BMW cars for sale in the country are now manufactured. The carmaker also set up a local office to help its group purchasing department to select competitive suppliers in China. By the end of 2009, Rmb6bn worth of purchases were from local suppliers. Again, this had the effect of shortening supply chains and improving customer service.

At the end of 2010, BMW announced it would invest 1.8bn rupees in its production plant in Chennai, India, and increase production capacity in India from 6,000 to 10,000 units. It also announced plans to increase production in Kaliningrad, Russia.

Meanwhile, the overseas regional treasury centres were instructed to review the exchange rate exposure in their regions on a weekly basis and report it to a group treasurer, part of the group finance operation, in Munich. The group treasurer team then consolidates risk figures globally and recommends actions to mitigate foreign exchange risk.

The lessons. By moving production to foreign markets the company not only reduces its foreign exchange exposure but also benefits from being close to its customers.

In addition, sourcing parts overseas, and therefore closer to its foreign markets, also helps to diversify supply chain risks.

The writers are, respectively, professor of economics and finance and associate dean of research, and a research associate at CEIBS

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Knowledge exchange can happen with any non-academic audiences, and there are many ways to engage these audiences with your research.

LSE supports a variety of approaches and methods for engagement with all kinds of audiences throughout the research life cycle. Here you will find just a few examples of the innovative work being done around the School.

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Reinventada

Topic: Migrant Women in Medellín and Their Right to the City

The project co-produced remotely a 32-minute documentary of the everyday lives of 12 women in Medellin, Colombia during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020/2021. In collaboration with the 12 women, researchers and filmmakers in Colombia and the UK the team developed a pioneering participatory video methodology using participants smartphones for filming, editing and online discussion and reflection activities. The film illustrates issues that already have been challenging for the women before the pandemic such as inequality, poverty and insecurity but also highlights new insights such as the importance of gardens for food security and mental health as well as mutual aid activities that took place.

In addition to developing a new methodology, this project enhanced women’s capacities through skill development, learning to use their smartphones for filming but also to join online activities such as Zoom meetings and sending data online.

The film was screened at film festivals, Royal Geographical Society film geographies conference and at local Medellin events and online.

Students and the education sector have benefited through viewing the film and the sharing of lessons learned in the development of a remote participatory video project.

This KEI project produced process-driven impact that created long-term skill development, capacity building and solidarity networks for the women.

Their beneficiaries (research users, partners and audiences) are:

• Migrant women in Medellin, Colombia and the wider local community
• NGO Con Vivamos
• Spectacle Training - a participatory video filming company
• Local policymakers
• Students and education sector in the UK

Hear more about the project in this video  or read this article  Collaborating in a pandemic: empowering migrant women in Colombia to tell their stories

Adolescents and abortion: Ethiopia, Malawi and Zambia

The team worked with NGO  Ipas  and creative agency  PostiveNegatives  alongside youth champions to co-create animated films and comics that would amplify girls’ voices, reach adolescents and educate and inform around the legal options for abortion-related care in Ethiopia (Kokeb’s Story), Malawi (Mphatso’s Story) and Zambia (Mwansa’s Story). Made in multiple languages, these were shared online and through networks on platforms like WhatsApp and YouTube.

KEI funding led to a further award from the Medical Research Foundation to continue work with an Africa-focused communications specialist, and using the project outputs to create training for healthcare workers.

• Adolescents aged 10-19 years in Ethiopia, Malawi and Zambia
• IPAS, The International Campaign for Women's Rights to Safe Abortion
• World Health Organisation

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Climate Change Laws of the World database

The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI)’s  Climate Change Laws of the World database  is the world’s largest database covering climate change-related legislation and policy.

Analytical and comparative tools make the data accessible to a broad non-academic audience.

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Almanac of Electoral Ergonomics

The project created an online database to showcase electoral data for every democracy in the world. It is based on the concept of electoral ergonomics, a term that assumes that all small aspects of electoral design – such as the format of ballot papers, or the mode of remote voting used (internet, postal, advance, etc) which had so far been largely assumed to be neutral actually affect voters’ satisfaction, turnout and electoral choice.

The almanac also features information regarding an “effective access to the vote”, which aggregates all aspects of registration, vulnerable categories accessibility, and ability to vote for all citizens on Election Day into one measure which we wish to promote as a key metric of the quality of electoral democracy across systems.

This online compendium highlights examples of best practice and it has become an important resource for practitioners in the field of electoral management. The resource is fully searchable by country, category, and instruments with significant interactive content. Overall, the aim was to improve the quality of electoral democracy by providing decision makers and influencers with research based-knowledge understanding of how the choices that they make in each aspect of the design and organisation of electoral procedures affects the attitudes (satisfaction, efficacy, sense of representation, trust), their turnout, and potentially distorts the electoral choice of voters in general and specific under-represented categories (first time voters, disabled voters, vulnerable minorities).

• Election management bodies (international)
• Commonwealth parliamentary association
• International organisations and NGOs including European Commission, Committee of the Regions, Counterpoint, Open Society, European Youth Forum, Electoral Stakeholders Network, International Centre for Parliamentary Studies
• Citizens, particularly first time voters, disabled voters, vulnerable minorities

Global Kids Online

Topic: children's use of the internet

This international research project generated and sustained a rigorous cross-national evidence base around children’s use of the internet by creating a global network of researchers and experts.

The team created a best practice training and toolkit, policy and practice briefs, child-friendly resources (created with the participation of children) to promote digital citizenship, and resources for parents and teachers.

Their beneficiaries (research users, partners and audiences) were:

• UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
• Internet Governance Forum
• World Summit on the Information Society
• International Telecommunications Union

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Configuring Light

Topic: social inequalities in public lighting

This interdisciplinary research programme explored the role lighting plays in our everyday lives, to help build a better social knowledge basis for lighting design interventions. It has centred on collaborations with designers, developers and municipalities. Projects explore how lighting is configured into social life: as infrastructure, as technology, as ambiance or as a particular kind of material that we make and shape through our everyday practices and professional expertise. The KEI Fund supported a project tackling social inequalities in public lighting, focussing on an urban space in Southwark.

The team created a website, film, handbook, report and exhibition. They held workshops, a training session and a symposium.

• Local community members
• Social scientists
• Lighting design professionals
• Urban professionals
• Urban designers
• Local authority

Topic: Egg freezing and fertility

In this public engagement project, the team created a fictional beauty brand to inform and engage women in thinking about their options around social egg freezing and fertility. They also raised public debate on how these advances in biomedical science may impact on the world of work, relationships and wider society.

The team held a pop-up shop in London, interactive workshops, graphic visualisations, talks and exhibitions. They made two short films, a website, and produced media articles and engagement.

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Housing Plus

Topic: housing policy for practitioners and policy-makers

This project used the research expertise in LSE Housing and Communities, and CASE, to develop new thinking and solutions for the complex, interacting problems of housing, poverty, work, community and environment.

The Housing Plus Academy promoted knowledge exchange and participative learning among decision-makers, frontline staff and tenants of social landlords; tackling problems affecting both housing association and local authority landlords, such as benefit cuts, Universal Credit financial pressures, energy saving, work and skills, community enterprise, estate regeneration, private renting, community resilience, supported housing and housing young people.

They produced a practical guide for practitioners and policy-makers, held themed residential ‘think-tank’ days, morning roundtable sessions and a policy forum, and created a Housing Plus Network.

• Businesses and industry
• Public sector bodies
• Charities and the third sector 
• Private and social housing tenants
• Builders and Developers
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Topic: the perspectives of autistic people

Open Minds was an exhibition to improve public understanding of the unique perspectives of autistic people. It contained posters, sensory installations and an augmented reality experience. There were also recorded talks and workshops.

• People with autism spectrum conditions
• Research community
• Parents/carers of autistic people

Tackling the War on Drugs

Topic: drug policy reform in Ireland

As part of the work of the  International Drug Policy Unit  at LSE, this KEI project aimed to meaningfully engage police, the public and key stakeholders in drug policy reform in Ireland. The overall aim was to sensitise audiences to the evidence in relation to drug policy, thereby providing people with the knowledge to regard existing assumptions with a critical eye.

The team produced a comic book series highlighting the life situations of drug involved individuals and how they interact with society, a series of posters and short factsheets on key drug policy topics for use in media and townhalls, a feature length piece on the project for publication in national and local media, and a podcast. They held town hall sessions in locations around Ireland and a policy summit on law enforcement and policy change.

• Affected population
• Civil society actors
• Community leaders and activists
• Local politicians and policy makers
• Local businesses
• Local health services
• Local law enforcement
• Senior police
• Public health professionals
• Government ministers
• International policy audiences

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Cultural Diversity, Migration Integration and Youth Action

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Special Collection of the Chinese and ESEA for the UK Web Archive

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The Art Response to Migration: Reframing the Cultural Narrative of Contemporary Migration

Dr. Federica Mazzara's research, showcased in the Sink Without Trace exhibition, uses contemporary art to reshape mainstream discourse on migration in Europe. She is the Lead Researcher and Author of REF 2021 Impact Case Study:  The Art Response to Migration: Reframing the Cultural Narrative of Contemporary Migration .

Reproductive Health of Factory Women Migrant Workers

Professor Lilian Miles was part of the team (Stumbitz, Miles, Lewis, Freeman & Lyon) which led the research and developed an Impact Case Study submitted by Middlesex University ( Extending Maternity Protection and Reproductive Rights at Work in the Global South ) to REF2021. 

Italian Emigration 

Julia Pepe was the co-organiser of the event “Mobilita’ internazionale dalle universita’ italiane” –Italian Consulate in London - February 2020. In addition, she was the organiser of the event “Moving Identities: Italian emigration in the contemporary world” – University of Westminster, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Consulate, London - October 2019.

HOMELandS Dialogue Series 

We have organised three consecutive HOMELandS Dialogue events since 2022 to enhance knowledge exchange between the University, NGOs, advocacy groups, cultural institutes and migrant and refuges communities on a range of issues related to migration, EDI and social integration. 

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Privatization and liberalization are further advanced in the UK than elsewhere in the EU (removal of the last remaining vestige of monopoly power, the restriction on companies other than BT and Mercury owning and operating their own circuits for international calls, took place in 1996), and lessons can accordingly be learned from experience there. It is important to note from the outset, however, that whereas AT&T has suffered divestiture and subsequently lost a considerable part of its remaining long-distance market, British Telecommunications (BT) has so far lost less than 20 per cent of the overall market for telecoms services, and far less specifically in voice telephony where, in March 1996, it was estimated by OFTEL to control 94 per cent of local calls, 83 per cent of national calls and 70 per cent of international calls. BT is predicted to relinquish only a further 3–4 per cent per annum for the foreseeable future, with an OFTEL estimate of an overall market share of 65 per cent in 2001, although that disguises the extent of competitive pressures in particular markets.

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Frank McCourt's Project Liberty forms consortium to bid for TikTok's US operations

Entrepreneur and former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt said on Wednesday his non profit Project Liberty is forming a consortium to buy social media platform TikTok in the United States.