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Charlotte Heath-Kelly's Research Cited in Psychotherapy and Counselling Union Statement
The Psychotherapy and Counselling Union has issued strong condemnation of the intrusion of the prevent duty into their clinical practice. As part of their statement, Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly's research is cited as one of the main reasons.
You can read the full statement here: https://pandcunion.ning.com/news/pcu-statement-against-prevent
For more information about Dr Heath-Kelly's research, please see the project website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/researchcentres/irs/counterterrorisminthenhs
Warwick Question Time 2018
We are delighted to announce that PAIS and the Department of Economics are once again hosting a Warwick Question Time to debate current affairs. It will take place on Monday 1st October, 6.15-7.30pm, in the Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre.
The event is very similar in format to the popular BBC television show, and will form part of our induction activities for PAIS and Ecominics students to start the new academic year in style and is an excellent opportunity for students to engage with politicians, policy makers and academics on major issues and questions that concern the world.
The panellists will be:
- Dharshini David - Author, economist and broadcaster.
- Christina Lamb - Reporter and author
- George Grant - Former foreign correspondent and security analyst and Conservative Parliamentary Candidate
- Matt Western - Labour MP for Warwick and Leamington since 2017
- Louise Sodergren - Year 3, BSc Economics
- Harry Ford - Year 2, BA Hons Politics, International Studies and Hispanic Studies
The Panel will be Chaired by Professor Chris Anderson, Professor of Politics and Economics and Director of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE).
More details and a registration form can be found here. Please do register ASAP to ensure your place. We look forward to seeing you there!
Vincenzo Bove writes blog post on violence against refugees and state capacity for Washington Post
Dr Vincenzo Bove has written a joint blog post, with Tobias Böhmelt and Kristian Gleditsch, on violence against refugees and state capacity at the Monkey Cage for the Washington Post
The post draws attention to how refugees are more likely to give rise to forms of nonstate violence. The ability and willingness of states to exercise authority and control is key to preventing attacks against refugees.
The article, titled "Politicians blame refugees for violence. But refugees are more likely to be its victims" can be found here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/09/19/what-data-shows-about-refugees-and-violence-in-their-new-homes/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0a6e92d2be27
Lauren Tooker Awarded ECPR Jean Blondel Prize for Best PhD
We are able to report the exceptionally good news that Lauren Tooker, a former PAIS PhD student and now an IAS Early Career Fellow, has been awarded the ECPR Jean Blondel Prize for Best PhD. This is a Europe-wide PhD prize, and huge congratulations must go to Lauren on such a tremendous achievement.
The news is now live on the ECPR website, including the commendations of the prize jury. Lauren’s thesis was entitled, ‘Ordinary Democracy: Reading Resistance to Debt after the Global Financial Crisis with Stanley Cavell’s Ordinary Language Philosophy’.
Using a theoretical approach rooted in Cavell’s ordinary language philosophy, Lauren’s thesis shows how ordinary democratic subjects are opposing debt-based economic citizenship in the UK and the US. The study's central argument is that debt’s ordinary democrats are reconstructing debt relations as a site of democratic selfhood and community in finance, thus representing important practices of civic freedom.
Lauren was a GEM School PhD student funded through our Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme. She was supervised through her degree at Warwick by Lena Rethel, James Brassett and Matthew Watson, and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles by Firouzeh Nahavandi. She was examined by Paul Langley (Durham), Amandine Crespy (ULB) and Mike Saward (Warwick).
BISA Workshop on Governing Transit Migration
Dr. Maria Koinova (University of Warwick) and Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas (University of Birmingham) are co-organizing a workshop on "Governing Transit Migration: Varieties of Approaches to International Politics" on 17 September, 2018 at Warwick University.
This workshop is part of the activities of the British International Studies Association working group on the "International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diasporas," which they co-founded in 2016. The workshop has attracted established and early career scholars from the UK, Europe, US, Canada, and Peru.