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Nicola Pratt has been awarded an AHRC Research Grant for a 3-year project entitled 'Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt: Contested Narratives of the 25 January Revolution and its Aftermath'.

The interdisciplinary project, to be conducted in collaboration with Dr Dalia Mostafa, University of Manchester, and Dr Dina Rezk, University of Reading, will explore how popular culture has framed political events since 2011 and informed popular understandings of citizenship, national identity, agency and political authority.

Michael Saward, Professor of Politics and International Studies and the Director of the Warwick ESRC Doctoral Training Centre, has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to commence in 2016. The Fellowship project is entitled Democratic Design: modelling political futures.

Richard Aldrich has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled ‘The end of secrecy? Whistle-blowers, electronic data and the transparent state,’ which argues that State secrecy is under pressure.

Hosted by the Politics and International Studies Department at the University of Warwick, Dr Maria Koinova leads the discussion on Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 Years after Dayton: Achievements, Challenges and Transnational Diaspora Activism.

Dr Waqar Azmi OBE (Remember Srebrenica), Dr Eric Gordy (UCL) and Dzeneta Karabegovic (University of Warwick) join Maria on the panel.

For more on Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty, please see their webpage.

Dr Trevor McCrisken, Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, recently appeared on Vic Minett's radio programme on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, discussing the asssasination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

You can listen to the piece using the player below.