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Funding available for student projects with Monash University in Australia
Want to go to Australia and team up with students at Monash University? The University has up to £20,000 funding for student organised projects that will bring Warwick and Monash students together. This may be of particular interest to students already leading student societies and events such as the Politics Society, WIDS, One World Week, etc.
Here's what the University says about the scheme: "The aims of the scheme are to support the integration of the student bodies of both universities, to develop students as ‘global citizens’ through working as part of international teams, to increase both the impact and profile of existing student-led activities at both universities and to transfer knowledge and innovation in student activities across our campuses."
The next deadline for all funding applications is 15 May.
Dr Andre Broome contributes to European Politics and Policy Blog
Dr Andre Broome, Associate Professor of International Political Economy, recently contributed to LSE's European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog on 30 April with a commentary entitled 'Competing bureaucratic mandates have produced a ‘clash of organisations’ that impedes effective crisis management in Europe'. This blog post was based on an article Dr Broome wrote for the Journal of European Public Policy entitled 'The politics of IMF–EU co-operation: institutional change from the Maastricht Treaty to the launch of the euro'.
In the piece, he examines the evolution of bureaucratic cooperation between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union between the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and the launch of the euro in 1999. He finds that the exercise of informal influence by advocates for change within international organisations can shape the outcomes of formal decision-making processes, even when these cut across the national preferences of powerful states, but can also impede the development of robust formal structures for institutional cooperation that are needed for effective crisis management.
Dr Broome's blog entry has also now been cross-posted to Public Finance International's website as 'Global governance: clash of the titans'.
2013/14 DIVERSITY Calendar Photography Competition
The University of Warwick publishes a calendar every year which showcases the diversity of of our people, environment, events and local community.
Deadline: Friday 28 June 2013
Read more about the competition
Submit your entries online at: warwick.ac.uk/calendarcomp
PAIS Success: Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme (URSS)
We are pleased to announce that full funding (totalling £2265) has been given to five projects in the Department of Politics and International Studies on account of the high scores they received from the Review Board.
Congratulations, therefore, to the following PAIS students: Dominic Lew Kwong, Branislav Barjaktarevic, Hannah Seaman, Hyung Choi and Elizabeth Hubert (and to their supervisors, PAIS colleagues George Kyris, Peter Ferdinard, Michael Saward, Benjamin Richardson and Gabrielle Lynch, who all their assistance and support in putting these successful applications together).
You can find more details of the URSS here
Applications for 2014 will be open in Autumn 2013.
Nicola Pratt secures British Acadamy fellowship
Dr Nicola Pratt has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for a project entitled ‘Middle East Women: The Personal and the Geopolitical’. This is a highly prestigious and competitive fellowship, so our congratulations go to Nicola.
The “Arab spring” appears to present a paradox for women: they have participated in large numbers in the uprisings across the Middle East but their rights are threatened under newly-elected governments. Middle East women have a long history of involvement in social movements and civil society. Yet, women’s rights have not progressed in a linear fashion. Taking a new direction in the study of women and gender in the Middle East, this project assesses the significance of geopolitics in shaping women’s rights and participation in complex and often contradictory ways. Through women’s own narratives, Nicola Pratt will trace the history of women’s responses to major geopolitical events in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon and critically assess their impact on women’s rights and participation. Nicola will use the fellowship to research and write a book, tentatively entitled, ‘Middle East Women: The Personal and the Geopolitical’, and to contribute to public debates in the UK and internationally about women and gender in the Middle East.