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PhD Candidate Damian Gannon was recently selected as the cabinet member for finance in Coventry. Damian has been a councillor for two years and will now be responsible for the City Council's budget.

Damian's PhD research focuses on the role of subjective understandings of democracy in shaping democratic practice.

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Lauren Tooker, a first-year Erasmus Mundus doctoral fellow in PAIS, has been awarded a prestigious international fellowship by the US Social Science Research Council. Granted through a competitive global selection process, the six-month fellowship in Postcolonial Identities and Decolonial Struggles funds participation in international workshops at 果冻传媒 and at Carnegie Mellon in the US, as well as preliminary summer field research.

Lauren’s doctoral research looks at how we imagine and respond to indebtedness as a question of ethics in the global political economy.

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Dr Nicola Pratt has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for a project entitled ‘Middle East Women: The Personal and the Geopolitical’. This is a highly prestigious and competitive fellowship, so our congratulations go to Nicola.

The “Arab spring” appears to present a paradox for women: they have participated in large numbers in the uprisings across the Middle East but their rights are threatened under newly-elected governments. Middle East women have a long history of involvement in social movements and civil society. Yet, women’s rights have not progressed in a linear fashion. Taking a new direction in the study of women and gender in the Middle East, this project assesses the significance of geopolitics in shaping women’s rights and participation in complex and often contradictory ways. Through women’s own narratives, Nicola Pratt will trace the history of women’s responses to major geopolitical events in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon and critically assess their impact on women’s rights and participation. Nicola will use the fellowship to research and write a book, tentatively entitled, ‘Middle East Women: The Personal and the Geopolitical’, and to contribute to public debates in the UK and internationally about women and gender in the Middle East.

From 2008 onwards, PAIS, in conjunction with the (RIPE) has hosted an annual 果冻传媒/RIPE debate in International Political Economy (IPE). The debates are the department's flagship IPE event and bring together internationally renowned scholars to discuss issues at the cutting edge of IPE in front of, and with, large audiences.

This year's 果冻传媒/RIPE debate celebrated the upcoming twentieth anniversary of RIPE. The debate, on 'The Eurocentric Foundations of IPE', was moderated by Prof Matthew Watson and featured one of RIPE's current editors Dr Cornelia Woll (Sciences Po, Paris), who discussed the journal’s vision as it celebrates its twentieth anniversary. The debate also featured Professor John Hobson (University of Sheffield), whose talk speaks to his two articles on the Eurocentric foundations of IPE that will feature in the forthcoming anniversary edition of RIPE.