Other News
Sleep-out to raise awareness about homelessness in Coventry
This evening some members of the Politics Society, and Charlotte Lewis, our PaIS Undergraduate Student Experience Officer, will be taking part in a sponsored sleep-out to try and raise awareness of the fantastic work of Coventry Cyrenians, a local homeless charity who support homeless people in and around the Coventry area.
The team will be sleeping rough on the streets of Coventry from 7pm this evening until 8am tomorrow morning, armed with the clothes they are wearing, a sleeping bag and a bottle of water. They have managed to raise over £600 so far, but if you would like to support them please go to the Politics Society fundraising page.
PAIS awarded grant as part of RCUK Global Uncertainties Programme
PAIS colleagues Stuart Croft (PI), George Christou, Oz Hassan and Nick Vaughan-Williams, along with Jon Coaffee, a new colleague joining the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) in April 2013, have been awarded a grant as part of the RCUK Global Uncertainties Programme. The ESRC, AHRC and Dstl Futures and Innovation Domain have launched a new research initiative entitled ‘Science and Security: Linking Social Science, Arts and Humanities to understand the impacts of science and technology on defence and security’. The call seeks to fund research projects and a Research Integrator to develop greater understanding of how developments in science and technology (S&T) will present opportunities and threats to future UK defence and security.
The work carried out in response to this call will help enable UK defence and security to better harness possible opportunities and to counter potential threats that may emerge in future. The team from PAIS will act as a Research Integrator to enhance the potential economic and societal impact for this initiative. This will include synthesising the research outputs and enhancing their accessibility, acting as an interface with Dstl and others to encourage the uptake of the research findings and encouraging dialogue between project leads.
Matthew Watson awarded ESRC Professorial Fellowship
Matthew Watson, Professor of Political Economy, has been awarded an ESRC Professorial Fellowship. This is a 3-year fellowship starting in September 2013, with a project entitled 'Exploring the Concept of 'the Market': Combining History of Ideas and Historiographical Approaches'.
ESRC Professorial Fellowships are extremely competitive, involve a very arduous application, and are a mark of the highest standing in any social science discipline. Many congratulations to Prof Watson.
Advanced Quantitative Methods Workshop at University of Nottingham
Workshop Title:
'Issues in latent structure analysis using survey data'
The Nottingham ESRC DTC, in collaboration with the Methods and Data Institute, will be hosting an Advanced Quantitative Methods workshop for social science research students (both ESRC DTC funded and non-funded) and academic staff at the Universities of Birmingham, Nottingham and Warwick on Friday, 8 March 2013 from 10:00-16:00.
If you would like to register for this workshop, please email penny.gresswell-bristow@nottingham.ac.uk. Places are limited to 30 participants and registration will be on a first come, first serve basis. Participants should be familiar with methods of quantitative analysis commonly used in the social sciences.
A student's account of Obama's second inauguration
Current undergraduate student Ayla Varvarina was in attendance at US President Barack Obama's second inaugural ceremony last month in Washington DC, and wrote a short account of her personal experience at the event to share with other PAIS students.