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We are delighted to announce that PAIS has been awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze Award.

ECU’s Athena SWAN Charter was established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research. In May 2015, the Charter was expanded to recognise work undertaken in arts, humanities, social sciences, business and law (AHSSBL), and in professional and support roles, and for trans staff and students. The Charter now recognises work undertaken to address gender equality more broadly, and not just barriers to progression that affect women.

A huge thank you to Jackie Clarke, Alex Homolar, Ben Richardson and Julia Welland for the tremendous amount of work they put into preparing our submission.

Keith Hyams has been awarded funding from the ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund for the 2 year research project ‘Challenging Inequalities: An Indo-European Perspective’.

The project is a collaboration with the Economics Department at Warwick, the Centre de Sciences Humaines in Delhi, and others. It aims to look at appropriate definitions and approaches to the measurement of inequality, attitudes to inequality, and interventions to reduce inequality in a development context.

Dr Steven Kettell recently contributed to an Observer feature by Harriet Sherwood on the relationship between Church and state.

You can read the article here: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/07/church-and-state-an-unhappy-union

Earlier this year, The Strategy Bridge asked university and professional military education students to participate in their first annual writing contest by sending in their thoughts on strategy.

Congratulations to Julian D’Souza, an International Security MA student here in PAIS, who finished third in the contest!

You can read Julian's essay, titled "Lost Blue Helmets in Wars Among People: Revitalizing UN Peace Operations for the Context of Modern Warfare" at the following link: https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2018/9/27/lost-blue-helmets-in-wars-among-people-revitalizing-un-peace-operations-for-the-context-of-modern-warfare

PAIS academic Gabriel Siles-Brügge recently spoke at an event organized by EU-level health organisations in the European Parliament (on Thursday, 27 September 2018).

Drawing on his ongoing work into the political economy of Brexit and the future EU-UK economic partnership, Gabriel stressed two things. Firstly, that Brexit was likely to be an ongoing process beyond March 2019, requiring constant engagement from the health policy community and, secondly, that the options to maintain existing health policy collaborations outside of an EEA-style arrangement were relatively limited.

Gabriel is also an adviser to the European Public Health Alliance on trade and investment policy issues, but spoke in a personal capacity.

For more information on the event, see: https://www.biomedeurope.org/news-press/2018/111-brexit-the-european-parliament-s-role-in-prioritising-patients-public-health-and-health-security-across-europe-thursday-27-september-09h-00-11h-00-european-parliament-brussels.html