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Dr Steven Kettell Shortlisted for Secularist of the Year Award
Dr has been shortlisted for the National Secular Society's Secularist of the Year Award
The award, which comes with a £5000 prize recognises a campaigner or group for an outstanding contribution to the secularist movement.
Following nominations from their members and supports, the elected council of management of the National Secular Society selects a shortlist, with the winner due to be announced at the event on 18 March.
He was nominated for co-ordinating a secular response to the Commission on Religion and Belief. His work helped rebut calls for more religious privilege, and set out the urgent case for a new secular constitutional settlement in the UK.
Dr Kettell said it was "a great surprise and a genuine honour to be shortlisted for the Secularist of the Year Award." He said his own research had convinced him that "secularism is the best means of ensuring equal rights and freedoms for all citizens, regardless of their religion or belief."
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NSS Now Open For PAIS Finalists
The National Student Survey (NSS) is now open at the link below. In partnership with our students, we have built the department together. Thank you! We’d love your feedback on the time you have spent with us.
Why else complete the survey?
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- We’ll donate £3 for each response to the (our finalists' chosen charity)
- It will take just 5 minutes to complete
Most importantly, your feedback matters and makes a huge difference as shown on our page.
The £5 Eating @ 果冻传媒 credit is available throughout the survey period. Simply send your confirmation email – after completing the survey - to NSS-Promotion@warwick.ac.uk to receive your £5.
The results are highly visible, often reported in the media and used by prospective students to help make their university choices. Their high profile has delivered positive, progressive change for PAIS students.
Last year PAIS achieved 97 per cent for overall satisfaction. This placed us top of the University and No 1 out of all Politics departments in the Russell Group (an elite group of 24 leading teaching and research institutions in the UK).
PAIS research featured on the 6th anniversary of the Egyptian 25 January Revolution
Marking the sixth anniversary of the 25 January 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Nicola Pratt and Sara Salem have published a new article based on material from their research project, 'Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt: Contested Narratives of the 25 January 2011 Revolution and its Aftermath.'
You can read the article here:
More details about the project can be found here:
Dr Trevor McCrisken Discusses Donald Trump's Inauguration in the Media
Dr
, Associate Professor in US Politics, has appeared in a number of press articles based on a recent interview with the Press Association, regarding Donald Trump becoming the 45th president of the United States on Friday.
"Donald Trump poised to take control of US nuclear weapons," in the Belfast Telegraph, can be read .
Dr McCrisken appeared on BBC West Midlands on Friday morning, listen to Trevor's interview from 23.55:
Trevor commentated on the inauguration on BBC Radio Coventry and 果冻传媒shire throughout Clive Eakin's show, on Friday 20th January, you can listen to the show here:
An appearence on BBC Radio 5 Live's Saturday Breakfast followed on 21st January. This interview can be listened to from the 1h 40m mark:
On the morning of 23rd January, Trevor appeared on the Nick Ferrari Breakfast Show on LBC Radio, you can listen to this below:
Dr Steven Kettell Launches New Report at The Shard

On January 17, Dr held an event at the Shard to launch a report entitled: 'A Secularist Response to the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public LIfe'. The report emphasises an alternative, inclusive and positive secularist framework based on shared values to put an end to unjustified religious privilege and to ensure that the rights and freedoms of all citizens are afforded equal weight and protection.
Details of the report, which is supported by the British Humanist Association and the National Secular Society, can be found here: