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As part of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, Chatham House hosted a roundtable discussion analysing the experiences of women facing violence in the Middle East and North Africa and exploring the effectiveness of individual, community, and government level responses. Dr Nicola Pratt, one of the panellists, spoke about the challenges and opportunities surrounding these issues, with particular reference to the gendered implications of recent political developments in the region. The event, held at the ExCel Centre, was open to all those at the Summit, including Ministers, international media, experts, and the general public.

Foreign Secretary William Hague and Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, co-chaired the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict on 10-13 June 2014. It was the largest global meeting on this issue ever convened, with a view to creating irreversible momentum against sexual violence in conflict and practical action that impacts those on the ground.

Sponsored by the British Academy, The 'Getting Published' Masterclass is an event is aimed at providing useful, practical, information to PhD students and early career researchers on how to get their work published.

The event will feature presentations from leading publishers, eminent authors, literary agents and marketing specialists. At the close of the day there will a drinks reception where delegates will get the opportunity to ask specific questions with all of the speakers.

Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, Fellow of the British Academy, and the world's foremost authority on Hitler and Nazi Germany, will be the keynote speaker.

A three course lunch will be provided.

Registration is FREE. To register please email: R.Golding@warwick.ac.uk

Space is limited to 75 delegates, and will be filled on a first come, first serve basis.

Please see this webpage for more information

The University of Warwick’s contribution to Universities Week at the National History Museum is a research project from PAIS' Professor Richard Aldrich and Dr Chris Moran. The discussion is about the Future of Intelligence and Intelligence Agencies.

This is an opportunity to explore a hot topic in the news and understand the implications for our everyday lives. The project includes interaction with artifacts from the real and fictional world of intelligence, borrowed from the International Spy Museum in DC, as well as video and audio recordings with real spies, including Tony Mendez of ‘Argo’ fame. And an opportunity to explore important societal questions with two leading and well-published experts on British and American intelligence.

It will be one of 3 projects featured at the Natural History Museum (Darwin Centre) on the evening of Wednesday 11 June (6-10pm), during a Researchers’ Café – a drop-in café environment where visitors will be encouraged to have a drink and join university researchers to discuss some of the burning social issues of our time.

This event is part of a week of activity from 9–13 June at the Natural History Museum, and throughout the country from 9–15 June. Find out more information about Universities Week 2014 online.

PAIS are delighted that we have moved up from 8th to 7th in the latest Guardian League Table. This is a reflection of all the hard work of our brilliant students and staff as we strive to improve our teaching and the overall student experience.

Thank you to everyone for all your help and support. We have achieved excellence across a range of indicators. In particular, we have gained high scores on 'spend per student' and 'value added' (comparing students' individual degree results with their entry requirements, to show how our students have worked to progress and how effective our teaching is).

We also remain one of the leaders in the Russell Group in terms of employability. Our strategic ambition, as the ever stronger reputation of our research and teaching continues to influence the league tables over the next few years, is to maintain our position as a Top 5 Politics department in the UK and internationally.

The department achieved an 87% response rate in The National Student Survey (NSS) - our highest ever total! We also achieved the fourth highest response rate in the University.

Many thanks to all our finalists who took the time to complete the survey!