果冻传媒

Wyn Grant has been appointed as Chair of a new 果冻传媒 Commission on the subject of Elected Mayors and City Leadership. Further information is available on the announcement about the new Commission is available here.

Wyn has already begun to publicise the work of the Commission and it looks like it will attract considerable attention in the academic and policy spheres. More information will be available as the Commission gathers pace.

PAIS extends its congratulations to Wyn for being selected for this role. It is another reflection of Wyn’s standing as a scholar and continued dynamism post-retirement. It is also a reflection of the quality of PAIS in the third commission to be headed up by a member of the Department.

Dear All,

Nick Vaughan-Williams has brought me news of success in obtaining an ESRC Small Grant.

The project is entitled 'Public Perceptions of Threat in Britain: Security in anAge of Austerity'. Nick obtained the funding Dan Steven at Exeter. It is 12 month project, funded at £99k, with a 50-50 split between 果冻传媒 and Exeter. Nick has given me a summary of the project which I have pasted below.

We should extend special congratulations to Nick as this is one of the last awards in this scheme before its closing down. Apparently this made the competition particularly tough this time.

I think Nick would also like to stress that he feels one of the contributory factors to the success was that the proposal was carefully scrutinised by the PAIS Research Committee beforehand, and this provided lots of constructive feedback on how to get the application in the best shape possible. So the process does really work.

Well done to Nick.

Chris Hughes
Head of Department

Dr Owen Parker is quoted in an article on EuropeanVoice.com on the situation facing the Roma in Europe. You can read the full article, entitled '', on their website. Alternatively, you can download the pdf here.

Whilst undertaking research in Kenya as part of her ESRC First Grant project on 'Truth and Justice: The Search for Peace and Stability in Modern Kenya', Gabrielle Lynch gave a series of talks to the policy-making community.

• ‘Truthtelling, Reconciliation and Documentation’, Victim Centred Workshop on Transitional Justice organised by the Joint Advisory Technical Committee on Transitional Justice (JATCO), Simba Lodge, Naivasha, 29 August 2011
• 'Amnesty and implications for the forthcoming elections and ongoing ICC proceedings', Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission Workshop on Reparations and Amnesty, Monday 5 September 2011, Ole Serenei Hotel, Nairobi
• 'Briefing on Kenya'sTruth Justice and Reconciliation Commission', Conflict & Security Donor Group Meeting, 15 September 2011, The Netherlands Embassy, Nairobi

Wyn Grant has been asked to give the Amos Memorial Lecture for the East Malling Research institute. The talk is on “Safe, Sustainable, Sufficient: The Challenge for Food” and is being held on 3rd November 2011 at 3pm in the East Malling Conference Centre.

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