Other News

Chris Moran has been awarded a three year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to be held in PAIS. The title of the project is ‘Politics, Partnership and Paranoia: Nixon, Kissinger and the US Intelligence Community’.

This is a superb achievement. The British Academy received over 800 applications, only put forward around 100 to the second round and awarded just a total of 47 fellowships across the whole of the UK. Chris’ award is the only one in entire University for this year.

The award is a recognition of the excellence of Chris’s work, and once again demonstrating the quality of PAIS and its postdoctoral programme.

Richard Aldrich has been awarded a 12 month extension to his AHRC 'Landscapes of Secrecy'. The original project was £580k and this extension adds a further £41k.

The follow on is entitled: 'Enhancing Openness and Explaining Secrecy: Policy Lessons from the Declassification and Management of US Intelligence and Security Records'. 

This is a very interesting follow on project because it is designed solely for impact, and will involve engagement with the Cabinet Office and six NGO partners.

The funding will be used to distil the policy lessons of the original project and then launch a 'roadshow' for practitioners in London, The Hague and Geneva.

Congratulations to Richard for this innovative follow on award.

CSGR and PAIS would like to welcome Toni Haastrup, who will be starting as a Research Fellow working on GR:EEN on 1^st June.

Toni recently completed her doctoral degree at the University of Edinburgh, where she was a Tutor and Research Assistant. Prior to Edinburgh, she was a Junior Researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa. Her current research focuses on the intersection between security and development in EU external relations and the EU?s role in international affairs. Toni is particularly interested in the interregional cooperation especially EU-Africa relations, and has published on EU-Africa security cooperation'.

Toni is very excited to be working on GR:EEN and at Warwick, PAIS in general and looks forward to meeting colleagues in June. 

The PaIS undergraduate handbook has been updated. The key changes are:

* Clarification of the responsibility of students to regularly check for updates to the undergraduate handbook (page 2).

* Inclusion of material on policies and procedures concerning harassment and complaints (pages 14-15).

* Clarification on the procedure for applying for an extension, and changes to the use of medical evidence for extension requests (page 32-3). This informs students that PaIS reserves the right to check the validity of any medical evidence provided in support of an extension with the provider of that evidence.

* Information about the move to a 3,000 word limit for assessed essays from the 2011/12 academic year (page 30). This change does not apply to students entering their final year in 2011/12. Students entering their final year remain on the 5,000 word limit

* Inclusion of information about forthcoming changes to the weighting system for core PaIS degrees (Politics, Politics and International Studies). This applies only to students entering PaIS at the start of the 2011/12 academic year (page 47). 

The handbook can be downloaded from the usual place: http://bit.ly/djnRie

On the basis of a seminar paper he delivered in the Business School earlier in the year, first year PhD student Justin Brown has been invited to participate in a very high-profile 'Audience with...' event with the Knowledge and Innovation Network at Lloyd’s Registry in early June . 'Audience with...' event. The format will primarily be Q&A with opportunities for discussion. Patricia Eng from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Hugh O'Neill, Associate Director of Marketing at Jones Lang LaSalle, will also be on the panel.

Justin will talk about the work he has done with GPR Dehler on “accelerated learning”. GPR Dehler is a management consultancy with offices in London, Sydney and San Diego. Justin is also undertaking a double doctorate at the University of Warwick and l’Université libre de Bruxelles, focusing on learning and innovation in the international monetary system. Justin also specialises in managing change and talent management.

The 'Audience with...' event will take place on 7 June 2011. More details can be found on the KIN website.