Other News

The Department of Politics and International Studies has once again ranked 4th in the latest Complete University Guide; overall the University of Warwick is 8th.

This latest good news follows on from PAIS' ranking of 44th in last month’s QS World University Rankings (up from 50th last year). Well done to all staff and students on this collective achievement.

Professor Brian Jacobs has won a prestigious Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship. Brian has previously taught Public Policy in PAIS and has an interest in mass urban housing. He has extensive experience of working with the public and private sectors including local government.

The Leverhulme Emeritus project will provide a policy study of innovative approaches to the provision of prefabricated (offsite and "pop-up") housing in London. The context is the housing crisis in the capital and the urgent quest by the Mayor for new approaches to mass housing provision and resident involvement in planning.

The project, which is due to start on 1 September 2017 and will last for 24 months, holds the exciting prospect of networking with leading edge public and private sector innovators, a possible link to the Warwick University London Centre and contact with the Ostrom Centre at Indiana University who are using the same analytical framework.

Very many congratulations to Brian on this outstanding achievement, which means that PAIS is soon to hold 8 live awards with The Leverhulme Trust, spanning their Early Career Fellowship, Research Fellowship, Philip Leverhulme Prize, Major Research Fellowship, and Emeritus Fellowship schemes.

Further details on these and other projects in PAIS can be found here: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/projects/

Losing Ground: On Holes and Other Absences, a two-day event which includes a workshop, an exhibition and a round table, will take place on May 19th and 20th.

Both the workshop and the exhibition are funded by the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), the department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and The New School in New York.

The exhibition will feature the work of Heide Fasnacht and Jenny Perlin (The New School, New York). They will be joined in a roundtable session by Professor Teresa Stoppani (Leeds-Beckett) and Dr Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Durham).

The event will be held in the Humanities Studio at the University of Warwick on the 19th and 20th of May, 2017.

Programme details, news and biographical information on the artists, panellists and chairs can be found on their blog: sinkholesworkshop.wordpress.com.

You can register for the event on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/losing-ground-on-holes-and-other-absences-tickets-33940233151

For more information, please contact Marijn Nieuwenhuis: m.nieuwenhuis@warwick.ac.uk

Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly has been extensively quoted in an article on The BMJ, titled "Is there any place for counterterrorism in the NHS?"

The article concerns Dr Heath-Kelly's Wellcome Trust funded research project, Counterterrorism in the NHS: Evaluating Prevent Duty Safeguarding in Midlands NHS Trusts.

Charlotte Heath-Kelly, associate professor of politics and international studies at the University of Warwick, describes Health WRAP as the “strangest training” she has ever encountered.

“It tries to impart this idea that you have a duty to report anything you find dangerous or suspect, but it doesn’t tell you how you know something is dangerous or suspect. It’s very vague and doesn’t give you any factors to look out for because the science isn’t there. There are vague statements about social exclusion and changes in behaviour, but that could be all teenagers ever,” she says.

The full BMJ article can be read here.

Quotes were also used in a Telegraph article published on April 27th

Radical-right populist movements have grown more potent in liberal democracies, yet there has been little academic focus on how migrant and diaspora populations react to these parties, although anti-immigration campaigning is at the core of populist activities. The European Research Council Project "Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty" will hold a workshop dedicated to research on how migrant and diaspora communities respond to populist, anti-immigrant and ethno-nationalist movements. We will address research on whether, when and how migrants and diasporas mobilise; what groups or parties they choose as political allies; and whether radical-right parties themselves reach out to certain diasporas while rejecting others, among other questions.

The workshop will be held at the University of Warwick’s London site on September 26, 2017.

If you are interested in participating, please send a paper abstract of max. 300 words by 25 May, 2017 to Dr. Ben Margulies (b.margulies@warwick.ac.uk) and Dr. Maria Koinova (m.koinova@warwick.ac.uk).

More information about the workship is available here.