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Gender In Global Governance Net-work Website launched
23 July 2012The Gender in Global Governance Net-Work - http://genderinglobalgovernancenet-work.net - is a new resource for academics, research students, policy-makers, practitioners and members of the public interested in gender and governance.
Scottish Independence - the great debate
06 April 2012Members of the Politics and IR department have been kept busy with debate about Scottish independence. Michael Keating, whose book The Independence of Scotland (Oxford University Press) traces the implications of independence and its alterntives, has done three items of the BBC’s PM programme and interviews in English for...
Former PhD student wins Rado Lencek Prize
06 March 2012Egor Fedotov, who graduated in November 2011 with a PhD in Political Studies, has received the Rado Lencek Prize [$ 1000] from the Society for Slovene Studies in the US for the best student paper in 2011. The paper was a revised chapter of his PhD thesis about the...
Lecturer awarded an EU COST Grant
06 October 2011Lecturer Andrew Glencross has been awarded an EU COST grant for a Short Term Scientific Mission at the Humboldt University, Berlin. This award is part of the EU COST Action: International Law between Constitutionalism and Fragmentation
Lecturer awarded a grant from European Commission
15 July 2011Andrew Glencross, lecturer in PIR, has been awarded a grant for 21,000 euros by the European Commission as part of its Jean Monnet Programme to promote the study of EU integration. This is one of only eight such grants given to a UK university this year. Further information on this...
James Brown wins prize for best journal article
28 April 2011James Brown’s paper “A Stereotype, Wrapped in a Cliché, Inside a Caricature: Russian Foreign Policy and Orientalism” has been awarded the Political Studies Association’s prize for best paper published in Politics in 2010.
According to the PSA: “The jury particularly liked the way the article applied a classic...
Andrea Teti took part in Tuesday's Good Morning Scotland
11 February 2011Andrea Teti took part in Tuesday's Good Morning Scotland, interview available on the BBC iPlayer at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00ymw9c/Good_Morning_Scotland_01_02_2011
at time mark: 1:10.52.
Inside Story interview: Egyptian Uprising
11 February 2011Andrea Teti took part in Inside Story, one of Al-Jazeera's 'in-depth' programmes on the 'Egyptian Uprising'. The link is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOkaKSO-GZk
How to know when election turnout makes a difference
29 October 2010Low and declining voter turnout at elections raises questions about the legitimacy of democratic politics when fewer and fewer people choose to take part. Political scientists have frequently pointed out that these concerns may be unfounded, as the vote shares of political parties are unlikely to be affected by changing...
The Eastern European Student Experience
17 August 2010A research group of undergraduate social scientists at the University of Aberdeen has completed successfully its study into the Eastern European student experience. The project was funded by C-SAP, the Higher Education Academy’s Subject Network for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics, and supervised by Professor Claire Wallace. The students,...