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Keith Hyams has been awarded funding from the ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund for the 2 year research project ‘Challenging Inequalities: An Indo-European Perspective’.

The project is a collaboration with the Economics Department at ¹û¶³´«Ã½, the Centre de Sciences Humaines in Delhi, and others. It aims to look at appropriate definitions and approaches to the measurement of inequality, attitudes to inequality, and interventions to reduce inequality in a development context.

Dr Steven Kettell recently contributed to an Observer feature by Harriet Sherwood on the relationship between Church and state.

You can read the article here:

The Psychotherapy and Counselling Union has issued strong condemnation of the intrusion of the prevent duty into their clinical practice. As part of their statement, Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly's research is cited as one of the main reasons.

You can read the full statement here:

For more information about Dr Heath-Kelly's research, please see the project website: /fac/soc/pais/research/researchcentres/irs/counterterrorisminthenhs

Dr Vincenzo Bove has written a joint blog post, with Tobias Böhmelt and Kristian Gleditsch, on violence against refugees and state capacity at the Monkey Cage for the Washington Post

The post draws attention to how refugees are more likely to give rise to forms of nonstate violence. The ability and willingness of states to exercise authority and control is key to preventing attacks against refugees.

The article, titled "Politicians blame refugees for violence. But refugees are more likely to be its victims" can be found here:

Dr. Maria Koinova (¹û¶³´«Ã½) and Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas (University of Birmingham) are co-organizing a workshop on "Governing Transit Migration: Varieties of Approaches to International Politics" on 17 September, 2018 at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ University.

This workshop is part of the activities of the British International Studies Association working group on the "International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diasporas," which they co-founded in 2016. The workshop has attracted established and early career scholars from the UK, Europe, US, Canada, and Peru.

The full programme is available here.