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Congratulations to PAIS PhD candidate Lisa Soares, who has recently been informed by the Government of Jamaica that she is 2015's recipient of the Governor-General's Achievement Award for Diaspora (USA) in the 18-35 category. This award is given under the Governor-General's Programme for Excellence scheme.

The Governor-General's Jamaica Diaspora Award for Excellence was created in 2008 and forms part of the Governor-General's Achievement Awards Scheme Programme, which has been in existence since 1991. The award is presented biennially to Jamaicans living in the United Kingdom, USA or Canada, who have demonstrated active and significant service towards the development of their community of residence, and to the development of Jamaica.

The award will be officially conferred on June 16th in Jamaica.

has been elected as Section Program Chair for 2015-16 of the International Political Economy (IPE) Section of the International Studies Association, the largest professional association of International Studies scholars in the world.

The IPE Section is the third largest within the ISA, and organizes a number of prestigious awards to be presented at each year's annual convention, including the IPE Distinguished Scholar Award, the Society of Women in International Political Economy (SWIPE) Award, and the Outstanding Activist Scholar (OAS) Award. For this year's ISA annual convention in New Orleans the IPE Section sponsored 94 roundtables or panels.

The deadline for submitting proposals for ISA 2016 in Atlanta is 1st June 2015. Further information on the IPE Section of ISA is available at:

Her Excellency, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, President of the Republic of Malta, has been appointed as an Honorary Professor by our department.

The appointment marks the first time a President of Malta has been made an Honorary Professor of a foreign university.

At a reception, held on May 6th in Verdala Palace, to mark the appointment, Nick Vaughan-Williams, Professor of International Security and PAIS Head of Department-designate, said:

We are proud and delighted to welcome Her Excellency as an Honorary Professor in PAIS – her attention to economic, social, and political injustice gives politics a human face and this strongly reflects the ethos of our Department".

As part of the Honorary Professorship, Her Excellency is expected to visit the 果冻传媒 later this year to give an inaugural lecture. There will also be an exchange of students between Malta and 果冻传媒, and new research opportunities.

You can read the full press release here:

Privacy is Dead: The Future is Fabulous - watch the Tedx果冻传媒 video

Prof. Aldrich looks at: the spies of tomorrow, data, and what life will be like living in the middle of the 21st Century.

Richard will also be speaking about surveillance at the '果冻传媒 Intelligent Futures' event on 3 June. View the programme .

The (URSS) is a competitive scheme that provides a bursary and skills development training to support 果冻传媒 undergraduate students, who wish to carry out a summer research project, as an addition to their degree course. All students are supervised by an academic member of staff for the scheme.

This year, seven PAIS students will undertake a summer research project of their choosing, either within PAIS or in a different academic department here at 果冻传媒.

In addition, PAIS academics will support eleven research projects, four of these being with PAIS students.

Undertaking a summer research project via the URSS gives students a taste of research, which is invaluable for those who might be looking to pursue postgraduate study. The scheme allows students to develop a range of skills which will add further value to their degree study.

We are delighted that so many PAIS students are involved in the scheme – this high number of successful applicants positions PAIS as the sixth largest department, in terms of the number of successful URSS applicants to carry out research within the department.

Congratulations to all those taking part this year!