News Archive

07 May 2013

Memorial Event for Frank Bealey, Founding Chair in Politics

A memorial event for Frank Bealey will be held at King's College Chapel on Friday 7 June 2013 at 2.30 pm followed by a small social event thereafter.

Draft obituary penned by Byron Criddle:
Professor Frank Bealey Obituary Draft

Professor Frank Bealey – a pioneering founder of the academic study of politics...

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22 March 2013

Sociology PhD student selected to partipate in and International event

Sandra M Rios, a PhD student in Sociology funded by the Leverhulme Programme ‘Compromise after Conflict’ has been selected to participate in the 12th International Sociological Association International Laboratory for PhD Students that will be organised jointly with the University of Sydney’s School of Social & Political Sciences, July 15-20,...

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22 March 2013

Success for PIR in AUSA 2013 Student Choice Awards

AUSA 2013 Student Choice Awards
Colleagues in the Politics & International Relations department have scooped prizes at the annual AUSA Student Choice Awards. They are as follows: Thesis Supervisor of the Year - Gabriela Borz; Postgraduate Demonstrator of the Year - Siabhainn Russell; Accessible Teaching Award - Archie Simpson;...

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13 March 2013

PIR lecturer Andrew Glencross quoted in the House of Lords EU Committee Report

PIR lecturer Andrew Glencross quoted in the House of Lords EU Committee Report on the Future of Enlargement (6 March 2013) http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201213/ldselect/ldeucom/129/129.pdf

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08 March 2013

Dr. Cristina Flesher Fominaya has been awarded the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF

“CONTENTIOUS POLITICS IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTS IN SPAIN AND IRELAND”

The two year project involves undertaking a comparative study on anti-austerity mobilizations in Ireland and Spain to explain their widely divergent trajectories, thereby contributing important empirical knowledge while advancing major theoretical issues in...

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06 March 2013

Shortlisted nominees for the 2013 Student Choice Awards announced

Colleagues in the Politics & International Relations department have been nominated in 6 categories of the AUSA 2013 Student Choice Awards. They are as follows: Thesis Supervisor of the Year - Gabriela Borz and Archie Simpson; Postgraduate Demonstrator of the Year - Siabhainn Russell and Christopher Noble; Personal...

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