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PAIS PhD student Jennifer Philippa Eggert is to give a talk on women in ISIS in Leamington on Saturday April 16th for the UNA 果冻传媒 & District.

Since the emergence of so-called 'Islamic State' (ISIS) in the Spring and Summer of 2014, the cases of young Muslims from Europe joining ISIS in Syria have garnered considerable media attention. Especially the fact that dozens of young women have decided to migrate to the Middle East and join ISIS has raised many questions.

In her address to the local UN Association, Jennifer Eggert will share findings from her research focusing on women and terrorism in general, and women in ISIS in particular. She will address issues such as:

• What are the reasons for which young British women decide to leave their homes and join a terrorist group in a war zone?
• What do we know about their motivations and expectations?
• Once with ISIS, what are their roles within the organisation?
• Why have ISIS decided to encourage women to join them from abroad?
• What can we do to counter and prevent this trend?

In her research, she focuses on political violence and terrorism, with a particular focus on the role of women during war and violent conflict. She holds degrees from LSE, Sciences Po and the European University Viadrina and has worked in the fields of intercultural dialogue, community empowerment, capacity building and the prevention of extremism in a number of countries in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia.

Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly has written an article, titled Counterterrorism in the NHS: The ‘Prevent’ Strategy takes to the Clinic, for E-International Relations.

The article can be read at

Leicester City's win at Sunderland over the weekend guaranteed the club Champions League football next season.

As the club close in on the most unlikely of Premier League titles, ITV Central News caught up with Dr , module director of the PAIS final year undergraduate module, The Cultural Political Economy of Sport, to ask what he thought the economic and cultural impact of the Europe's premier club competition might be for the city of Leicester.

The report can be watched below:

Following the ISA Annual Convention 2016, held on 16-19 March in Atlanta, Georgia, Professor , PAIS graduate Dr and PhD candidate conducted research at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum.

Set up in 1986, the Carter Library holds millions of documents from the era of Jimmy Carter’s Presidency - including selected documents on the Camp David Accords, the President’s speeches and directives, human rights documents, secret briefs by the country’s intelligence community, oral histories as well as rarities such as the Iran Hostage Diary - a prison journal of a captive held at the American embassy in Tehran. The museum is also a wonderful homage to American domestic politics in the late 1970s.

During the course of their three-day research stay, the 果冻传媒 team focused on documents pertinent to the history of the CIA, events related to and triggered by the Columbian civil war, and materials on the alleged Soviet sponsorship of Cold War terrorism. Research at the Ford, Carter and Reagan libraries is being accelerated by computer databases of recently declassified materials linked to printers, which makes even a short research visit very productive. Gems uncovered by the PAIS team included a signals intelligence operation by the US National Security Agency against the British territory of Grenada.

Their research visit was made possible due to support for travel and accommodation from the Politics and International Studies Department.