Other News
NSS Now Open For PAIS Finalists
The National Student Survey (NSS) is now open at the link below. In partnership with our students, we have built the department together. Thank you! We’d love your feedback on the time you have spent with us.
TAKE THE SURVEY – DIRECT LINK TO COMPLETE THE NSS
Why else complete the survey?
- £5 Eating@Warwick Credit if you complete online.
- We’ll donate £3 for each response to the Warwick Cancer Research Centre (our finalists' chosen charity)
- It will take just 5 minutes to complete
Most importantly, your feedback matters and makes a huge difference as shown on our You Said We Did page.
The £5 Eating @ Warwick credit is available throughout the survey period. Simply send your confirmation email – after completing the survey - to NSS-Promotion@warwick.ac.uk to receive your £5.
The results are highly visible, often reported in the media and used by prospective students to help make their university choices. Their high profile has delivered positive, progressive change for PAIS students.
Last year PAIS achieved 97 per cent for overall satisfaction. This placed us top of the University and No 1 out of all Politics departments in the Russell Group (an elite group of 24 leading teaching and research institutions in the UK).
Academic appointment - Dr Tom Long
Dr Tom Long will join PAIS with effect from 1 September, 2017 as an Assistant Professor in Rising World Powers.PAIS research featured on the 6th anniversary of the Egyptian 25 January Revolution
Marking the sixth anniversary of the 25 January 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Nicola Pratt and Sara Salem have published a new article based on material from their research project, 'Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt: Contested Narratives of the 25 January 2011 Revolution and its Aftermath.'
You can read the article here: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/25933/revisiting-the-“blue-bra”-incident_towards-a-new-a
More details about the project can be found here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/researchcentres/cpd/popularcultureegypt/
Warwick Politics Society Events
Videos from a number of Warwick Politics Society's recent events are now available for viewing:
Interview with Sir Richard Leese - Leader of Manchester City Council:
Interview with Peter Hitchens - Award winning journalist and author:
Interview with Sam Bowman - Executive Director of the Adam Smith Institute:
TALK: How Free Markets Can Help The Poor with Sam Bowman:
TALK: Britain Has Never Had a War On Drugs with Peter Hitchens:
TALK: Labour: Moving Forwards? with Sir Richard Leese:
Dr Trevor McCrisken Discusses Donald Trump's Inauguration in the Media
Dr Trevor McCrisken
, Associate Professor in US Politics, has appeared in a number of press articles based on a recent interview with the Press Association, regarding Donald Trump becoming the 45th president of the United States on Friday.
"Donald Trump poised to take control of US nuclear weapons," in the Belfast Telegraph, can be read here.
Dr McCrisken appeared on BBC West Midlands on Friday morning, listen to Trevor's interview from 23.55: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04n6dpp
Trevor commentated on the inauguration on BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire throughout Clive Eakin's show, on Friday 20th January, you can listen to the show here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04n9p6f
An appearence on BBC Radio 5 Live's Saturday Breakfast followed on 21st January. This interview can be listened to from the 1h 40m mark: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08b12rp
On the morning of 23rd January, Trevor appeared on the Nick Ferrari Breakfast Show on LBC Radio, you can listen to this below: