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PAIS is currently advertising for a Research Assistant and Teaching Fellowship in International Security.

This is part-funded (0.4FTE) by Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams’ Leverhulme project ‘Everyday Narratives of European Border Security and Insecurity.’

The remainder of the role (0.6FTE) is to support teaching and learning in the International Security pathway at undergraduate level. The successful candidate will also have an opportunity to develop their own research trajectory alongside these commitments.

The deadline for applications is 22 May and further details can be found here.

The Department is delighted to announce that, with effect from 1 June 2016, Dr Marijn Nieuwenhuis has been appointed to a one-year Teaching Fellowship in International Relations and East Asia. Marijn has studied and lived for long periods of time in different cities across China and Europe.

He submitted his PhD dissertation, entitled: 'Producing China: The Politics of Space in the Making of Modern China', in September 2013, and successfully completed his viva voce in December 2013. His trans-disciplinary research is at the intersection of Geography and International Relations. His current research focuses on the politics of the air and deals with questions of technology, gassing, pollution, security, territory and governance. He discusses these themes primarily in the Chinese context.

It is a very encouraging start to term for PAIS with the publication of the 2017 Complete University Guide League Table. The Department has moved up from 6th place to 4th place, which follows our recent ranking of 3rd in The Times/Sunday Times: http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?s=Politics 

These outcomes underscore that the Department is at its strongest when our high performance in both research and teaching are taken together. Of particular note is that the CUG places us 1st in the Russell Group for student satisfaction. Indeed, no other Politics department in the Top 30 overall beats us on student satisfaction.

We look forward to working in partnership with all our students and staff to build on this success in the months and years ahead.

The University is ranked 8th overall and PAIS is among the top 5 highest performing Departments. A press release can be found here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/warwick_in_uk

On May 3, 2016 the ERC Starting Grant Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” is organizing a workshop with the survey advisory board in preparation for the launching of a large-scale survey among conflict-generated migrants and diasporas in Europe.

This survey workshop builds on series of inter-coder discussions and tests conducted at PAIS in 2014-2016. Six conflict-generated diasporas will be polled – Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian, Kurdish, Iraqi and Palestinian – in five Western European countries – France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This survey will be path-breaking with its large-scale scope and endeavours to combine hypotheses from a variety of scholarly domains in order to account for the substance and levels of transnational diaspora mobilization.

More information can be found here.

The ERC Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” and the PAIS International Relations and Security Cluster organize a public lecture by Dr. Neophytos Loizides, Reader in Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, on 28 April, 2016, 12:00 - 14:00 in S0.20.

The public lecture is entitled "Rethinking Conflict Resolution in the Contemporary Post-Ottoman Neighborhood and Beyond" and will present innovative theories about institutional design of divided societies. Refreshments will be served.

More information can be obtained here.