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, Professor of International Security in PAIS, was recently profiled on the Research Councils UK (RCUK)'s website highlighting policy-related case studies on researchers' interaction with government in its project entitled . These case studies provide guidance, top tips and best practice for helping researchers to realise the impact of their research.

Prof Aldrich led a project to analyse the public image of the CIA. He has engaged with a number of government and policy makers including the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and the UK’s most secret intelligence agency, GCHQ. He also highlights the impact of developing the early career researchers working on the grant, one of which is now advising the International Spy Museum in Washington.

Prof Richard Aldrich, Professor of International Security in PAIS, worked on the documentary feature "" this year with Brave New Films and Director/Producer/Editor Paul Elston. The documentary tells the incredible story of how it was the British who gave the Japanese the knowhow to take out Pearl Harbor and capture Singapore. For 19 years before the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, British officers were spying for Japan. Worse still, the Japanese had infiltrated the very heart of the British establishment - through a mole who was a peer of the realm known to Churchill himself.

Watch the premiere of "The Fall of Singapore: The Great Betrayal" on BBC2, 21 May at 21:00.

Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams, Associate Professor of International Security in PAIS, gave an invited talk at the 'Regulating Unregulated Migration' Conference hosted by the European Union Center of Excellence and the Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, PA, 3-5 May 2012. The conference brought together policy experts from academia, think tanks, and the professional world to examine policy responses to immigration in the U.S. and Europe. Nick's presentation, entitled 'Europe's Border Wars and the Arab Spring', was based on research for a book he is currently writing on the impact of border security on migrants' lives.

Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams, Associate Professor of International Security in PAIS, gave the after-dinner keynote lecture at the 2012 Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) Annual Conference on 13 April at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA. He was presented with the ABS Gold Award, consisting of a plaque and certificate, for his monograph Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power newly available in paperback.

The judges of the ABS Book Award Committee said: “Border Politics is an agenda-setting book, both in terms of demonstrating how new and challenging ideas can be incorporated into border studies, and more importantly, in leading the way in thinking the problem of the border afresh in order to understand the diversity of bordering strategies which exist in world politics”.

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