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PAIS EU Referendum Debate - 6th June

Join our panel of experts who will get to the heart of the issues over whether the UK should stay or go and will be ready to answer your questions.

Speaking for ‘Remain’:

, Emeritus Professor of Politics, 果冻传媒

, Researcher, Politics and International Studies, 果冻传媒

, Professor in European Politics, 果冻传媒

Speaking for ‘Leave’:

Lincoln Allison, Emeritus Reader in Politics, 果冻传媒 and freelance writer and broadcaster

Dave Nellist, National Chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)

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BISA Best Article Prize Winners

Every year the leading International Relations journal Review of International Studies, in collaboration with the British International Studies Association (BISA), awards a Best Article Prize for an article selected from the previous volume of the Review.

The members of the selection panel for this year’s BISA Best Article Prize were Professor Jennifer Clapp (University of Waterloo), Professor Tim Dunne (University of Queensland), and Professor Mervyn Frost (King’s College London), who awarded the prize to (果冻传媒) and (University of the Witwatersrand) for their article:

The publication is the lead article in the 2015 Special Issue of Review of International Studies on ‘The Politics of Numbers: The Normative Agendas of Global Benchmarking’, edited by Broome and Quirk, which is part of the Global Benchmarking Project within the Centre for the 果冻传媒 of Globalisation and Regionalisation.

The prestigious award will be presented at a prize ceremony at 5.30pm on Wednesday 15th June 2016 at the in Edinburgh.

Further information:


Jeremy Corbyn endorses PAIS report on West Papua

Corbyn-new-photoKeith Hyams launched a major policy report on the Politics of West Papua in parliament on Tuesday 3rd May 2016, written by PAIS academics Keith Hyams and Marinella Capriati. Jeremy Corbyn MP spoke at the launch, he quoted from the report and said that 果冻传媒 had produced ‘an excellent report’ and that the report’s fourteen recommendations provided a ‘good way forward’, which he would take up in parliament. Lord Harries of Pentregarth, who was also at the launch, has asked the PAIS team to prepare a list of parliamentary questions based on the report which he will put to the government.

Other participants in the launch included the Prime Minister of Tonga Samuela 'Akilisi Pohiva, the Vanuatu Minister for Foreign Affairs Bruno Leingkone, the Vanuatu Minister for Lands Ralph Regenavu, the Solomon Islands Melanesia Spearhead Group Special Envoy on West Papua Rex Horoi, the Governor of Oro District (Papua New Guinea) Gary Juffa, Andrew Smith MP, Nick Brown MP, and international human rights lawyers Jennifer Robinson, Melinda Janki and Charles Foster. PAIS postgraduate Lisa Tilley and PAIS undergraduate Connor Woodman also attended the launch.

More information and a full transcript of Corbyn’s comments will be available at the website of the Politics of Papua Project:

Thu 05 May 2016, 14:30 | Tags: Staff Impact PhD Postgraduate Undergraduate Research

Short and Long Lists Announced for WATE/WATE PGR

We are delighted to announce that Dzeneta Karabegovic and Lisa Tilley of PAIS are on the short-list of the 果冻传媒 Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates who Teach (WATE PGR). Many congratulations to them both!

Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Rebecca Reilly-Cooper were nominated and on the long-list of the 果冻传媒 Awards for Teaching Excellence.

Kawther Alfasi, Ilke Dagli, Antonio Ferraz De Oliveira, Lorenzo Genito and Lucy Hatton were nominated and on the long list of the WATE PGR.

This is a further reflection of our teaching excellence in PAIS and our standing as a Department and we thank our students and staff for their nominations

Many congratulations to all those recognised. Winners and Commendees will be announced at the end of June! Best of luck to Dzeneta and Lisa in the final stages!

The full list of those short-listed and long-listed across the University can be found here:

Wed 04 May 2016, 12:20 | Tags: Staff PhD Postgraduate Undergraduate

Dr Marijn Nieuwenhuis appointed as Teaching Fellow in PAIS

The Department is delighted to announce that, with effect from 1 June 2016, Dr has been appointed to a one-year Teaching Fellowship in International Relations and East Asia. Marijn has studied and lived for long periods of time in different cities across China and Europe.

He submitted his PhD dissertation, entitled: 'Producing China: The Politics of Space in the Making of Modern China', in September 2013, and successfully completed his viva voce in December 2013. His trans-disciplinary research is at the intersection of Geography and International Relations. His current research focuses on the politics of the air and deals with questions of technology, gassing, pollution, security, territory and governance. He discusses these themes primarily in the Chinese context.

Fri 29 Apr 2016, 09:35 | Tags: Staff PhD Undergraduate

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