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Christopher Moran, Associate Professor of US National Security in PAIS, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Founded and given its Royal Charter in 1868, the RHS is the UK’s foremost-learned society advancing the scholarly study of the past.

Fellowships are awarded to those who have made an original contribution to historical scholarship, typically through the authorship of monographs or a body of scholarly work similar in scale and impact to a monograph. Election is conducted by peer review.

We would like to thank all of our students, recent graduates, and academic and administrative colleagues for our exceptional results in the 2016 National Student Survey (NSS). Every year finalists complete the NSS across the UK and it is a key component of league tables published in the media.

We are delighted to announce that in the 2016 NSS we have achieved an overall satisfaction rating of 97 per cent. We are now top of the University for overall student satisfaction (the Institution as a whole has risen by 1 per cent to 88 per cent) and the Vice-Chancellor has sent us his personal congratulations on this terrific result.

Among Russell Group competitor institutions (an elite group of 24 leading teaching and research universities in the UK), Politics at Warwick is ranked:

• No 1 for overall student satisfaction
• No 1 for assessment and feedback
• No 1 for academic support
• No 1 for organisation and management
• No 1 for personal development
• And No 2 for teaching

Other key NSS headlines:

• PAIS is joint 1^st in the University for teaching (also 97 per cent).
• PAIS is 1st in the University for organisation and management (96 per cent)
• PAIS is 2^nd in the University for Assessment and Feedback (88 per cent)

We look forward to working in partnership with our amazing students and dedicated staff to sustain and build on these strong results, which reflect our deep commitment to research-led teaching excellence.

At the start of the new academic year we will feedback in greater detail to all students and we will discuss and take forward ideas for further enhancement of the PAIS student experience via our Student Staff Liaison Committee.

To all of our current and incoming students: we hope you enjoy the rest of the summer vacation and we look forward to seeing you all in October!

Photographs from our graduation ceremony on July 21st are now available to view.

The gallery is also available on our Facebook page. Please tag yourselves!

All photos taken by Nick Short (www.nickshortphotography.com)

In an article for Your Middle East, PAIS PhD researcher Ragnar Weilandt explains how Erdoğan took on the Turkish military.

Ragnar has also written for Europe’s World, arguing that Brexit might not have a major effect on EU foreign policy.

PAIS PhD students David Yarrow and Matthias ('Matt') Kranke have recently published a co-authored article on sports statistics in Volume 9, Issue 5, of the Journal of Cultural Economy.

From a performativity angle, David and Matt argue that sports statistics are more consequential than we often think. Such statistics neither merely reflect indicators of athletic performance, as 'instrumentalists' like to believe, nor do they merely reinforce the commercialisation of sports, as 'romanticists' tend to presume. The article allows us to put the pervasive quantification of professional sports in perspective and to understand how the use of statistics may shape their evolution.