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Chris Hughes appointed Chair of Faculty of Social Sciences
Effective from 1 September, , Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies and Head of Department in PAIS, will serve as the new Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Prof Hughes will also continue in his current role as Head of Department.
Dr Ben Richardson's research on 'sugar aid' featured in The Guardian
, current Research Fellow and future Assistant Professor in PAIS, has recently been featured in an article by Mark Tran in The Guardian entitled 'EU sugar aid for Swaziland leaves a bitter taste'. Below is an excerpt from the piece:
"The attempts by the European commission to integrate the EU sugar regime deeper into the world market as part of its 2013 common agricultural policy (CAP) reform – not to mention prospective liberalisation under the Doha round or an EU-Mercosur (Latin America's trade bloc) – would effectively sacrifice its poverty reduction agenda on the altar of price competitiveness," says Richardson.
Dr Oz Hassan receives ESRC Future Research Leaders grant
It has now been confirmed that , Research Fellow in , has been successful in securing an grant.
This is one of the first awards in this new scheme. It involved a very extensive application and was, of course, extremely competitive. Hence, this is a great achievement by Dr Hassan.
In addition, Dr Hassan would like to thank his other colleagues in PAIS, including Stuart Croft, Mat Watson, Ed Page, Jackie, the GR:EEN team, as well as many others, for all their support in the application process.
PAIS Postdoc Charlotte Heath-Kelly awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
Charlotte Heath-Kelly, one of PAIS's newest 果冻传媒 Postdoctoral Research Fellows, has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant entitled Securing through the Failure to Secure: Reclaiming the Sites of Terrorist Attack.
PAIS PhD student publishes article in special issue of 'Globalizations'
Maurice Stierl, a first year PhD student in PAIS, has contributed a full-length research article to a special issue of the journal Globalizations. The theme of the issue is 'Global Movement' and Maurice's article is entitled ''No One Is Illegal!' Resistance and the Politics of Discomfort'. Maurice's doctoral research looks at EU border security and dissent, and his supervisors are Dr James Brassett and Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams.
The article and special issue can be accessed here: