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.
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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.
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- Friday 10th May 2013
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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.
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- Thursday 9th May 2013
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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"
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- Thursday 9th May 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'.
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- Thursday 9th May 2013
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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.
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- Friday 3rd May 2013
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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.
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- Friday 3rd May 2013
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- Voters in 27 county councils and seven unitary authorities will head to the polls on Thursday 02 May. With 2,362 seats up for grabs, four INLOGOV academics examine the key issues.
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- Thursday 2nd May 2013
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- The International Development Department is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity to undertake the MSc in Governance and State-building, followed by a six-month internship at IDD and six months with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation in London with a full scholarship. Applicants must have the equivalent of a first class UK bachelors degree and be African nationals domiciled (or permanent residents) in an African country. Preference will be given to scholarship candidates living in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Tuesday 30th April 2013
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- Dr Elena Denezhkina, an Honorary Research Fellow of CREES, with the support of the Centre presented a paper at the 2013 BASEES conference, entitled 'the Sverdlovsk Saga'.
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- Friday 26th April 2013
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- While it is sometimes tempting to see the regime of Kim Jong-eun as superficially comical, with its extravagant uniforms, dynastic worship and wild rhetoric, it is also important not to underestimate the serious risk of miscalculation and military escalation inherent within the current crisis. While there are many aspects of the present situation that are familiar to observers of the hermit state, there are also enough differences to give concern that this manufactured crisis could end differently.
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- Friday 19th April 2013