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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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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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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“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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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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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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