果冻传媒

, Professor of Political Economy, has been awarded an ESRC Professorial Fellowship. This is a 3-year fellowship starting in September 2013, with a project entitled 'Exploring the Concept of 'the Market': Combining History of Ideas and Historiographical Approaches'.

ESRC Professorial Fellowships are extremely competitive, involve a very arduous application, and are a mark of the highest standing in any social science discipline. Many congratulations to Prof Watson.

Second year PhD student was recently interviewed on 11 February by , a blog for visual, audio, and written content by the youth and for the youth in East Africa, about her PhD research on food security and farmers’ perspectives in rural Tanzania.

, Associate Professor in International Politics of the Middle East, participated in a debate on 31 January on Jamaica Speaks radio over the causes of the current violence in Egypt, the implications for President Morsi and the possible political solutions.

and were recently highlighted in a 31 January article by Cocorioko pre-event and a 4 February article in The Torchlight post-event on their recent workshop held in the embassy of Sierra Leone in Beijing, China.

The workshop, entitled 'Re-Thinking Development Assistance In A Changing Global Order: China's Growing Presence In Africa', was an informal brainstorming session aimed at ensuring a policy-oriented trilateral engagement to collectively analyze and elaborate on optimizing mutual benefits from Sino-Africa relation with particular focus on (FOCAC). It was also a way of presenting the Makona River Free Zone Development Initiative – which is a joint sub-regional initiative of the three countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia – as a case study in terms of exploring feasible ways to move the Agenda within the broader framework of China-Africa development cooperation and showcasing the Mano River Union as a good example of sub-regional integration and cooperation that can potentially benefit from the support of an external partner, the PRC, amongst other objectives.

Together with Nic Cheeseman (Oxford) and Justin Willis (Durham), , Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, is leading a team of ten academics as part of a UK-sponsored early-warning and monitoring project of Kenya's next general election scheduled for 4 March 2013. These elections are the first under a new constitution and will be more complex than any ballot previously held in Kenya, while, the post-election violence of 2007/8 raises fears of another crisis. Given this context, the project draws on the experience and knowledge of a group of experts to provide a flow of information to the Kenyan and UK governments, and other interested parties, on local circumstances and key issues before, during and immediately after the elections.