News in the departments

Keep up to date with the latest news and events from around the school and the wide-ranging projects our staff and students get involved with.

Evaluating the impact of aid: which way forward?

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IDD's Claire Mcloughlin was part of a panel of experts who took part in a Guardian Live debate on the best ways to evaluate the impact of development assistance.
Date:
Friday 17th May 2013

CREES academic organises conference in Moscow

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CREES academic organises conference 'Russia and the EU: the Future of Europe and Eurasia' at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Europe in Moscow
Date:
Friday 17th May 2013

Russian Politics from Below

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David White attended a conference in Edinburgh at the end of April organised under the auspices of UACES. Speakers at the conference came from the UK and Russia.
Date:
Tuesday 14th May 2013

Free breakfast workshop - Supporting health and wellbeing boards to be the new conductors of integrated care

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This free workshop offers you the opportunity to hear the learning gained from our work with over 70 health and wellbeing boards across the country and to find out how they can improve integrated care.
Date:
Tuesday 14th May 2013

Philosophy of the Social Sciences at Birmingham

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Justin Cruickshank had an article on Popper and Rorty published early / online for the prestigious journal Social Epistemology in May. Earlier in the year he was invited to become a 'Contributing Editor' by Oxford University Press, for their online Annotated Bibliography in Sociology. His 12,000 word peer reviewed article on 'epistemology' was accepted by OUP for publication later in the year.
Date:
Friday 10th May 2013

ESRC Seminar Series: 'The Future of American Power'

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On Friday April 19 Dr Adam Quinn of POLSIS convened the first event of the ESRC Seminar Series on 'The Future of American Power', on which he is principal investigator.
Date:
Thursday 9th May 2013

European Politics During the Crisis: Developing Research Agendas

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The POLSIS European Studies Research Group hosted a research workshop on Wednesday 01 May. The workshop, titled "European Politics During the Crisis: Developing Research Agendas"
Date:
Thursday 9th May 2013

IDD staff attended the International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, 3-6 April 2013

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Heather Marquette and Jonathan Fisher organised a panel called 'Politicising or Depoliticising Aid? The Political Economy of Political Economy Analysis', and presented a joint paper on 'Donors Doing Political Economy Analysis™: From Process to Product (and back again?). Claire Mcloughlin gave a paper on '(Re-) building State Legitimacy via Service Delivery: Beyond Institutional Approaches'. Nicolas Lemay-Hebert gave a paper on 'The Unfulfilled Potential of the Light Footprint Approach for Peace Missions'.
Date:
Thursday 9th May 2013

UK should revisit its decision on South Africa and its concept of aid

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Ending support for middle-income countries shows a misunderstanding about the role aid can play in increasingly better-off areas. Guardian "Poverty matters blog" written by Siân Herbert and John Glennie.
Date:
Friday 3rd May 2013

Why national politics is a mixed blessing in today's local elections

Why national politics is a mixed blessing in today's local elections
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Local elections will be held today in 34 councils, for 2,362 seats in 27 county councils and seven mainland unitaries. There are also two mayoral elections. Gains and losses will be measured in terms both of seats won and which parties have overall control of which councils.
Date:
Friday 3rd May 2013
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