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Current undergraduate student Ayla Varvarina was in attendance at US President Barack Obama's second inaugural ceremony last month in Washington DC, and wrote a short account of her personal experience at the event to share with other PAIS students.

Read Ayla's blog on the inauguration (.doc)

Second year PhD student was recently interviewed on 11 February by , a blog for visual, audio, and written content by the youth and for the youth in East Africa, about her PhD research on food security and farmers’ perspectives in rural Tanzania.

, Head of Department, was recently featured in a 8 February BBC News article entitled 'Viewpoints: How serious are China-Japan tensions?' Below is an excerpt from the piece:

The problems of the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party in trying to maintain one party rule in the face of pluralist pressures are well known. Japan is a democracy so does not face quite the same pressures, but there is a similar sense of the bankruptcy of the legitimacy and competency of the governing elites, and all of this is set against a difficult economic climate.

Applications are invited for the 2013-14 果冻传媒 Retired Staff Association Bursaries which aim to support creative and cultural extra-curricular activities by 果冻传媒 students. Awards are intended to cover a wide range of activities including Science, Medical, Social Science and Arts-based projects, including both the performing and creative arts.

A sum of £1000 will be available and a small number of awards, not necessarily of the same value, will be offered to the chosen applicants. In recent years a range of projects have been supported.

More information available here:

, Associate Professor in International Politics of the Middle East, participated in a debate on 31 January on Jamaica Speaks radio over the causes of the current violence in Egypt, the implications for President Morsi and the possible political solutions.