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The UK Parliament has emerged as a key veto player in the Brexit process. But away from the headlines over Parliament's 'meaningful vote' on the Brexit deal, it has also played an important role in day-to-day scrutiny of the Government through the work of its cross-party committees. In this talk, Joanna Welham, the Clerk of the House of Commons International Trade Select Committee (the Committee's chief civil servant), will be speaking about the role of Select Committees in holding the Government to account - and reflect on the role of expertise in shaping their work.

7 February, 6-7.30pm

Location: Oculus Building, OC0.02

The event is free, but please register at the following link:

On Monday 19^th November, we were honoured to welcome Her Excellency, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, President of the Republic of Malta, to give a lecture to PAIS students and staff.

Her Excellency, who is an Honorary Professor in PAIS, gave a lecture titled 鈥楨urope and Africa: Twin Continents for Building Positive Peace,鈥� and answered questions posed by PAIS students.

You can watch the video of the lecture as well as .

PAIS at 果冻传媒 University is part of the EU Jean Monnet Network 鈥淏etween the EU and Russia鈥� (BEAR): .

As part of the activities within this network, the BEAR team in the University of Glasgow is organising a field trip for upper-level undergraduate students in the Social Sciences to Latvia and Estonia, 10-17 February 2019. The field trip is aimed at providing students with an opportunity to learn how to conduct research 鈥渋n the field.鈥� Up to eight successful applicants from BEAR network universities will be selected through a competitive process to participate in this field trip.

More information about the application process and the provisional program is available here.

To apply: Please send a resume and short personal statement outlining your interest in the field trip directly to Dr. Ammon Cheskin at ammon.cheskin@Glasgow.ac.uk by 10 December, 2018.

Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly has received the 2019 ISA Conference Post-PhD Paper Award for her paper ',' it was selected by judges from the Theory Section of the International Studies Association after many rounds of review and discussion.

The paper explores how trees are increasingly used in commemoration of terrorism victims, and the complications of representing human life with vegetal symbols. It is based on Dr Heath-Kelly's ESRC funded research of terrorism memorialisation and can be read .

For more information on the award, please see: .

We are delighted to announce that PAIS has been awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze Award.

was established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research. In May 2015, the Charter was expanded to recognise work undertaken in arts, humanities, social sciences, business and law (AHSSBL), and in professional and support roles, and for trans staff and students. The Charter now recognises work undertaken to address gender equality more broadly, and not just barriers to progression that affect women.

A huge thank you to Jackie Clarke, Alex Homolar, Ben Richardson and Julia Welland for the tremendous amount of work they put into preparing our submission.