果冻传媒

果冻传媒 MA student António Ferraz de Oliveira has been jointly awarded the 2013 Dissertation Prize by the Political Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers). The dissertation was entitled “Space of Exception (?) - Christiania’s Alternative”, and was completed at the University of Cambridge. António will be going on to study for a PhD in PaIS following the completion of his MA.

A Journal Article Writing Skills (JAWS) Workshop for PHD students takes place on 23rd May 2014.

This workshop is open to PAIS PhD students who have passed the 1st year annual review, and is an opportunity to present a fully-developed draft paper for journal publication and receive detailed feedback and advice from experienced reviewers.

The JAWS Workshop will be of particular interest to doctoral researchers preparing their first journal article submission.

Places on the workshop are limited, and paper abstracts that do not meet a sufficient standard of academic quality will not be accepted.

Participants must be able to deliver a fully developed draft paper of 8,000-10,000 words by Friday 2nd May 2014.

Papers must be written and formatted for article submission, not cut-and-pasted from a thesis chapter.

Please apply to participate in the workshop by e-mailing by 5.00pm on Friday 31st January 2014.

APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE:

(1) Paper title; (2) 100-word author biography; (3) 300-word abstract

Please click here to view the call for papers

The department of Politics and International Studies will be launching thirteen research assistant positions starting in the New Year. The aim of these positions is to involve undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD candidates directly in the ESRC-funded Transatlantic Interests and Democratic Possibilities in a Transforming Middle East project. This will not only complement the department's excellence in teaching and research, but innovate in the university's overall approach to research-led teaching.

As part of a large research team, successful candidates will become directly involved in the research project's analysis of Middle Eastern politics, US and EU foreign policy and help develop new techniques for mapping civil society and visualising big data. They will be taught the latest research techniques and be directly led by the project’s principal investigator Dr. , becoming involved in Big Data Analysis, Social Media Analysis, Advanced Discourse Analysis and Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis. As such, in addition to providing candidates with valuable practical research experience, they will help push the boundaries of the latest research techniques.

In addition to this form of research-led teaching and training contributing to the already vibrant research culture of the department, the results of this project will be submitted to the UK Data Archive and be used internationally as a data resource for scholars and researchers. Candidates will also contribute to the project's wider impact, which has already seen the initial project research publicized around the world through various media outlets and fed directly to policy-makers in the UK, US and European Union.

Dr talks on Russia Today's flagship show Cross Talk about democracy and the Arab Spring, sharing some of the results of his ESRC funded Future Research Leaders Project.

Dr was interviewed live on the on BBC Radio Coventry and 果冻传媒shire this morning about the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy's assassination.

To listen to this interview please use the audio player below: