Other News
Dr Ben Clift receives Leverhulme grant
Ben Clift was successful this week in being awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2012/2013. Ben's project is entitled 'Its Mostly Fiscal - The IMF, Evolving Fiscal Policy Doctrine and The Crisis' .
The Leverhulme scheme is extremely competitive and Ben's success is testament to the very high quality of his proposal. Many congratulations to Ben on this great success.
PaIS Associate Professor Dr Tim Sinclair was interviewed for “Credit Rating Agencies,” File on 4, BBC Radio 4. February 28, 2012.
Click the link below to hear the full programme.
Dr Steve Kettell featured in Times Higher Education article
Dr Steve Kettell was recently featured in a Times Higher Education article, 'Inside Higher Ed: Religion, Ignored'. The article discusses how much (or little) Political Science scholarship takes religion into account as a major factor influencing people's lives. Steve is quoted in relation to this topic as addressed in his recent article ''.
Sir Robert Worcester to speak on elections
On Wednesday 11 January, Sir Robert Worcester, founder of , will be speaking on US and UK elections as part of the PAIS seminar series.
The seminar will take place in room S0.18 in the Social Sciences building at 4.00pm; refreshments will be available from 3.30.
Sir Robert is the chairman of the Magna Carta 800th Anniversary in 2015 Committee. He is also Visiting Professor of Government and a former Governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Honorary Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, where he is Chancellor, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at 果冻传媒 University.
EUROPEAN BORDER SECURITY AFTER THE ARAB SPRING
An EU-GRASP policy brief by Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams
What is being done to secure the EU’s 11,000km external land borders, 43,000km sea borders, and 593 international airports confronted by c.700 million border-crossers per annum -- up to 4million of whom, according to British MEP Sir Graham Watson, are potentially “illegal"?
This was the focus of a recent conference on European Border Security in Brussels attended by Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams as part of the of which PAIS is a Partner Institution.