Videos and podcasts

Alumni video profile: Katherine Tonkiss, PhD Local Government Studies (2012)

Description
Katherine Tonkiss describes her experience of studying a PhD in the Institute of Local Government Studies during her recent graduation.
Date:
Thursday 9th August 2012

Alumni video profile: Alyson Nicholds, PhD Local Government Studies (2012)

Description
Alyson Nicholds describes her experience of studying a PhD in the Institute of Local Government Studies during her recent graduation.
Date:
Thursday 9th August 2012

Alumni video profile: Claire Kueh, MSc Public Management (2012)

Description
Claire Kueh describes her experience of studying a MSc in Public Management at the Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham during her recent graduation.
Date:
Thursday 9th August 2012

Blog: Sport Under Communism – Dr Jonathan Grix discusses his new book

Blog: Sport Under Communism – Dr Jonathan Grix discusses his new book
Description
POLSIS's Dr Jonathan Grix appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed this week to discuss his new book Sport under Communism: Behind the East German 'Miracle', co-authored by Mike Dennis from the University of Wolverhampton.
Date:
Friday 27th July 2012

2nd Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Postgraduate Colloquium

Description
The Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Postgraduate Colloquium was the second annual conference that brings together postgraduate researchers in gender and sexuality from a wide range of disciplines.
Date:
Wednesday 18th July 2012

Blog: Dr Jonathan Grix on the Olympics

Blog: Dr Jonathan Grix on the Olympics
Description
The Olympic Games are now less than two weeks away. In this podcast for the University of Birmingham's Ideas Lab, POLSIS's Dr Jonathan Grix discusses the Olympic 'legacy', the impact of the Games outside the capital, and parallels with the 1948 Austerity Olympics, which were also held in London.
Date:
Monday 16th July 2012

Masters video profile: Lesego Motlogelwa, MA International Studies in Education

Description
Birmingham University is really a good place, you feel like home, there's no gap to miss home, to miss Botswana, you feel like wow…this is a good place to be! I have received a scholarship award called Congleton. It's for women who have passion to go back to their country to make some impact in the development of their country. I'm really happy about it and I'm glad to be part of it.
Date:
Thursday 5th July 2012

Blog: Staff 3-2 Students: Match Report!

Description
On the 6th of June 2012, the teaching staff of POLSIS took on a select band of undergraduates in the annual football game. The POLSIS Blog dispatched football correspond Angus Nore-Hoghorris (who is totally impartial and has absolutely no conflict of interest with the staff team) for this once-a-year encounter.
Date:
Tuesday 12th June 2012

Blog: Iran's nuclear programme – videos uploaded

Description
On April 25th, the University of Birmingham's new Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security held an event to assess the options for cooperation and conflict surrounding the Iranian nuclear programme.
Date:
Sunday 10th June 2012

Undergraduate video profile: Hannah Lane, BA International Relations and Megan Baxter, BA History and Politics (2nd year)

Description
I remember looking round Birmingham and particularly Muirhead and thinking wow, this is spectacular. It's modern, it's new and the University has an excellent reputation, POLSIS has an excellent reputation and that's what you want really, to know that you're in safe hands studying in a place where it has good facilities and excellent people teaching.
Date:
Wednesday 21st March 2012
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