Other News

Wyn Grant has been asked to give the Amos Memorial Lecture for the East Malling Research institute. The talk is on “Safe, Sustainable, Sufficient: The Challenge for Food” and is being held on 3rd November 2011 at 3pm in the East Malling Conference Centre.

Full details are available on the EMCC website.

We are pleased to announce details of a Santander-funded competition for current students studying for their Masters at Warwick. This is open to all students from all disciplines but applicants must have originated from a Santander Partner country. Applications close on the 11th of December 2011 and selected applicants will be invited to interview in January 2012. Successful applicants will be awarded ?5000. Further details, including the application form, can be found by clicking here. <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/gsp/scholarship/funding/santander/2011-2012>

Applicants must:

· Be currently enrolled at The University of Warwick on a postgraduate taught course (Masters level).

* Originate from one of the Santander Partnership countries. These are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain, Portugal, UK, China, Russia and the USA.

• Demonstrate that their study relates to the understanding of development within Latin America or an individual country within Latin America; or alternatively, shows how the study of the masters will contribute to a Latin American community.
• Demonstrate how their research and knowledge will be disseminated to the wider Warwick community.
  Obtain a statement of support from a member of staff within their department before submission. The statement of support should endorse the application and provide any further information which may further enhance the application. All statements of support should be completed on official letter-head paper and signed and dated by the supporting member of staff.

ECPR has announced details for the 2012 Joint Sessions in Antwerp, Belgium. You can download the poster here.

The deadline for participants to submit papers for the Antwerp Joint Sessions is 1^st December 2011. For more details of the Workshops please see the ECPR website at http://www.ecprnet.eu/joint_sessions/antwerp/default.asp - and particularly the new pages where you can go to propose a paper: http://new.ecprnet.eu/Joint%20Sessions/2012_Antwerp/Default.aspx

Further information about travel, accommodation, grants and the social programme for Antwerp will be placed on the ECPR and local organisers’ websites in due course. They will be regularly updated as more information becomes available.

The ECPR has a travel and accommodation grant to assist young scholars and PhD student from member institutions, and a professional grant to assist newer members (employed in the professions for fewer than five years) from member institutions or retired members of the profession who were affiliated to a member institution, who wish to participate in the Joint Sessions. Participants wishing to be considered for a travel and accommodation or professional grant should submit their application even before being accepted to participate (information will be on the funding pages of the ecpr website http://www.ecprnet.eu/funding/ as and when it is available).

Dr Nicola Pratt will be speaking at the University of East Anglia on 11 November on 'The Arab Uprisings--Where From and Where To?'

For more information, please contact DrVassiliki Koutrakou.

Download the poster here

A Knowledge Centre video reflecting on the career of Professor Wyn Grant

After 40 years at the University, Professor Wyn grant is retiring from the Department of Politics and International Studies. The video below showcases Professor Grant's final lecture in whch he discusses the changes that have taken place in British politics over the past 40 years. He also explains how the processes and techniques involved in teaching Political Science have developed over the course of his career.

Watch the video