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Charlotte Heath-Kelly, a Research Fellow here in PAIS, was recently on BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire discussing the new Home Office report on Foreign Fighters and Radicalisation.

You can listen to Dr Heath-Kelly's interview below

The 2015 Annual Warwick Debate on the Future of IPE recently took place with the speakers Carl Death (University of Manchester), Caroline Hughes (University of Bradford) and Ben Selwyn (University of Sussex) debating the topic "Doing Development Differently?"

The year 2015 is in many ways a pivotal moment for debates in International Development. It marks the concluding date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the focus of the international community has now turned to consider what a post-2015 development agenda will look like. 2015 also is significant in that it marks 60 years since the Bandung Conference. Bandung was a pivotal moment in the emergence of those third world political solidarities that eventually became the non-aligned movement. It focused on the needs to foster economic co-operation and to forge development strategies within the third world. So where are we now?

The speakers for this year’s IPE debate were asked to consider what it means to 'do' International Development in IPE, 60 years after Bandung and on the eve of the conclusion of the MDGs. This included questions such as, on the one hand, what role can IPE play in putting forward critical and alternative perspectives and positions that consistently challenge the way in which IPE is done by key players and donors in the development industry? Or, on the other hand, is there still analytical utility in talking about International Development as something that takes place outside of the OECD - indeed, does the study of IPE still rest upon

You can now watch the video of this debate below:

Congratulations to Christopher Hughes, Head of Department here in PAIS and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, who has been announced as a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an award which recognises leading social scientists who have made a substantial contribution to wider social science.

Professor Hughes is one of Europe’s leading experts on international relations with Japan, particularly the US-Japan alliance, and is among only 33 leading social scientists to receive the honour.

The Academy of Social Sciences is the National Academy of Academics, Learned Societies and Practitioners in the Social Sciences. Its mission is to promote social science in the United Kingdom for the public benefit.

The department is delighted that we have been ranked 35th in the world in Politics and International Studies in the 2015 QS World University Rankings by Subject, with an overall score of 60.8.

For the fourth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, 3,467 universities were evaluated and 971 institutions were ranked in total. Over 82 million citations attributions were analyzed and the provision of 13,132 programs were verified.

The national Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) is run by the University in conjunction with the Higher Education Academy. Your participation in this survey is greatly valued and will contribute to the continuous enhancement of postgraduate research degree provision at Warwick.

To complete the survey, please go to: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/gsp/current/surveys/pres/

PAIS are going to be adding £5 to the Eating at Warwick cards of all PAIS PGRs who complete the survey. Please send proof of completion to paispg@warwick.ac.uk