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PAIS PhD candidate Thomas Parr's chapter ‘From Philanthropy to Philanthropists’ has recently been published in Behrooz Morvaridi (ed.), Philanthropy and Social Justice: Debating the Conceptual and Policy Discourse (Bristol: Policy Press, 2015), 65-78.

Details are available here: http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781447316978&.

We have a limited number of tickets for PAIS students and staff to attend this game!

As we previously announced, LFC Academy U18s will visit PAIS next week, for a two day widening participation and outreach event.

During this two day event, the Liverpool U18 team will play a football match against The University of Warwick Men’s Football team.

The match will be held on Wednesday 29 April at 3pm, at Cryfield sports pitches. You must have a ticket in order to attend the match.

If you would like a ticket, please visit the PAIS teaching office (S1.45) from today! As mentioned, we only have a limited number of tickets, so it will be first come, first served!

For anyone who doesn't get one of the limited tickets, the match will also be shown live on the big screen at the Piazza.

Come and see the football stars of tomorrow! Get your ticket as soon as you can!

Following our recent announcement that Liverpool FC Academy will visit PAIS for a widening participation and outreach visit, we invite you to attend a special lecture.

Entitled ‘Politics and Power in the ‘People’s Game’’, Dr David Webber will deliver the keynote lecture for the LFC ‘Pathways to Higher Education’ visit. You can view the poster for the event here.

Come along and listen to David present his research on the ‘great transformation’ of English football.

Developing the ideas of the economic sociologist, Karl Polanyi, David traces the origins of modern football, and analyses the political, economic and cultural effects that the transformation of the game has had upon different sets of supporters.

David has written a number of academic papers on the cultural political economy of English football, contributed a chapter for a forthcoming book on European football supporters, and has recently appeared in the New Statesman and When Saturday Comes.

David is a lifelong Liverpool FC fan and a member of the Liverpool supporters union, Spirit of Shankly.

The lecture is open to all and will take place on Tuesday 28 April at 7.30pm in R0.21 Ramphal lecture theatre. Tickets are not required.

Hidefumi Nishiyama, a PhD candidate here in PAIS, has recently had a journal article, 'Towards a global genealogy of biopolitics: race, colonialism, and biometrics beyond Europe', published on Environment & Planning D: Society & Space.

The article interrogates Foucault's articulation of modern racism through an examination of the production of racial knowledge during Japanese colonialism.

The article is available to read at http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=d19912)

In an exciting new venture, we will be offering a Double MA in Global Governance in association with the University of Waterloo, Canada.

The degree programme will combine Waterloo’s Master of Arts in Global Governance (MAGG) programme, based at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, with the choice of one of ten Masters programmes offered by PAIS.

The programme allows students to start at Warwick or at Waterloo. On completing the two year course of study, students will receive degrees from two prestigious and internationally recognized institutions.

You can read more about this programme on our Masters pages or view the press release here.

Professor Chris Hughes, Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences and PAIS Head of Department said:

“Offering a world-class education means ensuring that our students have the chance to tap into quality teaching and learning with our partners around the globe. Working with schools like the Balsillie School of International Affairs enables not just our students, but our staff also to widen the scope of their research. A Double Masters degree such as this will provide students with a unique education, the opportunity to study in two very different but equally innovative institutions and to maximise their exposure to a range of academic opinions.”

Pictured: Back row (L-R) Dr Nello Angerilli, Associate Vice President of the University of Waterloo; Dr Trevor McCrisken, PAIS Director of International Programmes and Associate Professor; Ms Jackie Smith, Director of Administration for PAIS, Philosophy and Sociology; Prof Chris Hughes, PAIS Head of Department and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences; and front row (L-R) Prof Feridun Hamdullahpur, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo; and Professor Sir Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick.