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PAIS Academic discusses the Fifa investigations and the politics of Sepp Blatter's re-election

Following the launch of the US-led investigation into the alleged corruption at Fifa, Dr was approached by a number of media agencies across the world for his analysis of the allegations, and Sepp Blatter's position as president of football's global governing body.

As well as featuring on local radio stations, BBC Coventry & 果冻传媒shire and BBC WM, David has also appeared live on Scottish ITV, Euronews, Al Jazeera, CNN, Business News Network (Canada), Sky Sports News, and France 24. His comments on the crisis at Fifa have also been picked up by Reuters UK and the Press Association, and been published in the print editions of Bloomberg, the Daily Express, Today (Singapore) and the Washington Post.

David's original press statements, sent out from the 果冻传媒 Newsroom, can be found here:

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PAIS Moves Up to 5th in Guardian University League Table

PAIS has moved to 5th in The Guardian University League Table 2016 for Politics, up from 7th in 2015.

The Guardian table is based to a large extent on student satisfaction, employability, entry tariffs and departmental spend on each student. PAIS scored 10 out of 10 on spend per student, with only a few other institutions able to match this in the top ten.

You can view the league tables for Politics here:

The University as a whole has risen to 6th from 9th.

Well done to everyone in PAIS for this very good rise, which again confirms our consistency across every research and teaching league table as a top five department.

Tue 26 May 2015, 10:39 | Tags: Staff Impact PhD Postgraduate Undergraduate Research

Fill in the PTES & you could win an iPad Air or £250 Amazon vouchers!

The national Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) is run by the University in conjunction with the Higher Education Academy. Your participation in this survey is greatly valued and will contribute to the continuous enhancement of postgraduate research degree provision at 果冻传媒.

Fill in the survey online before the 18th June and receive £5 Eating at 果冻传媒 Credit.

You'll also be in with the chance of winning an iPad Air from PAIS and £250 in Amazon vouchers in a university-wide draw.

For more information, and to fill in the survey, please see:

Fri 22 May 2015, 13:22 | Tags: Postgraduate

PAIS Academic Wins Prestigious Prize in Political Philosophy

PAIS academic has been awarded the inaugural Marc Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy. This is a prestigious essay competition open to researchers within 15 years of completion of their PhD, run by the leading journal Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Keith will present his paper at the Oxford Studies workshop in Syracuse in September.

More details here:

Fri 22 May 2015, 10:39 | Tags: Staff PhD Postgraduate Undergraduate Research

Talk with PAIS Masters Alumni to launch the PAIS Masters Alumni Network

What next after PAIS… Careers and experiences: A talk with PAIS Masters Alumni to launch the PAIS Masters Alumni Network

28th May at 5pm in S0.11

PAIS Masters students go on to some really interesting careers in business, finance, politics, policy, the development sector, consultancy, academia and international organizations.

On 28th May we will host three really excellent speakers who work in a wide range of sectors, are at different stages of their careers, and all graduated from different MA programmes. All three speakers are really excited to return to 果冻传媒 to tell us about the work that they do and how they got to where they are

Come and hear from three PAIS Masters alumni who will be talking about their post-PAIS careers and life experiences. This is a great opportunity for you to hear from and network with some of our alumni who have gone on to careers in financial services, politics, development and ethical trade.

Aisha Aswani has a Master’s Degree in International Political Economy from the 果冻传媒. She is responsible for defining the strategic direction and leading the Co-operative Ethical Trade programme. Prior to joining the Co-operative in 2007, Aisha worked at John Lewis and Safeway as a Responsible Sourcing Manager, the International Business Leaders Forum and spent over a year working with homeware and garment suppliers in India on improving working conditions. Aisha has played an active role in supporting the creation of ethical trade supplier forums in key sourcing countries. She was recently elected as a Board Director of Sedex, a not for profit membership organisation dedicated to driving improvements in responsible and ethical business practices in global supply chains.

Helen Jane Martin completed an MA in International Relations with PAIS in 2012. She has recently taken up the role of Press and Media Officer with International Medical Corps, an emergency relief organisation. Until May’s general election, she was Senior Adviser to Labour’s Shadow Policing Minister in Westminster, working across policy, media and parliamentary processes.

Akash Patel is a 果冻传媒 alumni, who studied for his MA in International Politics & East Asia. At present Akash is an analyst at Barclays, where he is working with it's design and technology division to innovate Pingit in the open market payments space. Akash recently joined Barclays from Tryum, where he was a founding team member. Tryum is a relationship science company that delved in loyalty and payments, and was on the inaugural cohort of Techstars/Barclays Accelerator.

Wed 20 May 2015, 13:43 | Tags: Staff PhD Postgraduate Undergraduate

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