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Ahead of the General Election next month, has written a piece in leading football magazine, , on the growing significance of the sport as a political issue to both politicians and fans alike.

Whilst welcoming the pledges made by each of the three main parties to give fans a greater say in the boardrooms of their clubs, Dr Webber warns of broken promises made in the past, and a continued reticence to tackle the financial inequality that exists in the British game.

Concluding his article, Dr Webber urges whoever is elected in May to work closely with fans, and implement appropriate legislative measures so as to deliver real power into the hands of supporters.

The full article can be read in the May edition of WSC (issue 339). It is available in all good newsagents.

A big thank you to everyone that entered The Faculty of Social Sciences photography competition to celebrate The 果冻传媒’s 50th Anniversary. The quality of entries submitted was very high and we received over 90 entries.

The theme was ‘What does politics mean to you?’

Our panel of judges whittled it down to a top 3 and 12 other highly commended photographs.

The winners were:

• First place – Simon Cereda-Parini - £100 and a framed print of his photograph
  
  
• Second place – Lee-Shan Tse - £50
  
  
• Third prize – Helen McCabe - £25
  
  

The names of the photographers in the highly commended category are as follows:

• Simon Cereda-Parini
• Helen McCabe
• Lee-Shan Tse
• Keith Hyams
• Liam Ho
• Charlie Hindhaugh
• Philipp Hukal
• Julian Chan
• Shaun Breslin
• Aalim Javeri
• Oliver Rice
• Gabrielle Lynch

All photographs will be displayed at an exhibition at The Festival of Social Sciences at Fargo Village on Saturday 9^th May 2015.

LFC Academy players and their coaches will visit us at the end of April, as part of our widening participation and outreach programmes.

Our academics will lead sessions on topics including: The Political Economy of Football; Food, Politics and Poverty; and Politics and Popular Culture. By taking part in these taster sessions, the players will gain a fantastic insight into university life.

The Academy will also play a football match against the 果冻传媒 Men's Football Club. More details on this will follow shortly.

The match will mark the end of the two day programme designed to encourage the players to consider higher education, whether this be studying throughout or after their football career.

Both PAIS and LFC Academy see this as the beginning of a long term relationship. We are excited about hosting the Academy, as part of our commitment to helping young people identify higher education opportunities available to them.

We look forward to welcoming LFC Academy to 果冻传媒.

Professor , PAIS Head of Department and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, has recently had a new book published on the ‘Abe Doctrine’ of the Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, titled Japan's Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine.'

Prime Minister Abe Shinzō's foreign and security policy—highly charged with ideological and historical revisionism—contains the potential to shift Japan onto a new international trajectory. Its degree of articulation and energy makes for an 'Abe doctrine' capable of displacing the 'Yoshida Doctrine' that has been Japan's guiding grand strategy in the post-war period. Abe has already begun to introduce radical policies that look to transform national security policy into a more muscular military stance, bolster US-Japan alliance ties to function increasingly for regional and global security, and attempt to encircle China's influence in East Asia. The 'Abe Doctrine' is dynamic but also high-risk. Abe's revisionism contains fundamental contradictions that may ultimately limit the effectiveness, or even defeat, the doctrine, and along the way inflict collateral damage on relations with East Asia and Japan's own national interests.

The book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and is available to buy here: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/japan's-foreign-and-security-policy-under-the-%C2%91abe-doctrine'-christopher-w-hughes/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137514240

, a Research Fellow here in PAIS, was recently on BBC Radio Coventry & 果冻传媒shire discussing the new Home Office report on Foreign Fighters and Radicalisation.

You can listen to Dr Heath-Kelly's interview below