Dr. Cristina Flesher Fominaya delivered the keynote address for the symposium “Arab Spring: Youth participation for the promotion of peace, human rights and fundamental freedoms” in Tunis, Tunisia on August 28, 2012.

The symposium was held under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Tunisia, Dr. Mancef Marzouki, who...

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The 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.


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Members 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...

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John Brewer has been appointed by the Irish government to the new Irish Research Council, which is an amalgamation of all research councils under one new body. Its inaugural meeting took place in the Royal Irish Academy and was attended by the government minister for Research and Innovation. John Brewer...

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Egor 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...

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John Brewer is to be awarded a Doctor of Social Science degree honoris causa in 2012 by the University of Brunel. The honorary degree is for service to social science. It marks the end of his three-year period as President of the British Sociological Association in June 2012 but recognises...

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John Brewer's new book is published by Oxford University Press on 2 December 2011. Entitled Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland it develops a conceptual framework for advancing the comparative analysis of religious peacebuilding by using Northern Ireland as a case study. It is based on a four-year...

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Dr. Cristina Flesher Fominaya delivered the keynote address at the "NEW AGENDAS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES CONFERENCE" at the National University Ireland, Maynooth on November 26, 2011. The conference was organized by Laurence Cox and Theresa O'Keefe on behalf of the Centre for Politics, Power and Society, Dept. of Sociology,...

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The National Student Survey is open to all final year undergraduate students across the UK to complete each year. It assesses how satisfied students are with the teaching they received in their degree programmes. The 2011 results have just been announced.
We are delighted to say that Sociology at Aberdeen has...

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Lecturer 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

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