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We are pleased to announce that the competition is now live for two PhD studentships to be linked to Matthew Watson's ESRC Professorial Fellowship project, 'Rethinking the Market'.

The deadline for applications is January 13th 2014.

Link for details on how to apply: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/study/studyphd/funding/watson/.

PAIS Associate Professor Trevor McCrisken appeared live on BBC World TV programme "Impact" on Friday November 29th. Trevor participated in a discussion on Guantanamo Bay and talked about the reasons why President Obama is finding it so difficult to make good on his pledge to close the detention facility. The programme focused on the case of Shaker Aamer, the last British citizen being held, who was first detained by the US authorities 12 years ago. Also taking part in the discussion were the lawyer for Shaker Aamer, Clive Stafford Smith, and Dr David Nicholl, who has written about the medical ethics of force-feeding hunger-striking detainees. Trevor focused on the political barriers being faced by the Obama administration in its attempts to release or transfer to the US or to third countries.

You can watch the video below:

Misato Matsuoka, a third year PhD candidate in PAIS, was recently quoted in a 1 December article in The Japan Times entitled 'China’s new air zone at top of agenda for Biden’s visit to Tokyo'. Read an excerpt from the piece below:

Misato Matsuoka, a doctoral researcher in political science and international studies at the University of Warwick, said it was unlikely Japan would want to discuss what Taiwan’s role might be in the latest clash over the Senkakus, at least not directly. “While China has been expanding its ADIZ, it seems to be difficult for Abe’s government to suggest new initiatives to cooperate with Taiwan, due to Taiwan’s delicate position among China, the U.S. and Japan. But there is a possibility to propose a bilateral air transport agreement, for instance,” she said.

Read the full article

Warwick MA student António Ferraz de Oliveira has been jointly awarded the 2013 Dissertation Prize by the Political Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers). The dissertation was entitled “Space of Exception (?) - Christiania’s Alternative”, and was completed at the University of Cambridge. António will be going on to study for a PhD in PaIS following the completion of his MA.

A Journal Article Writing Skills (JAWS) Workshop for PHD students takes place on 23rd May 2014.

This workshop is open to PAIS PhD students who have passed the 1st year annual review, and is an opportunity to present a fully-developed draft paper for journal publication and receive detailed feedback and advice from experienced reviewers.

The JAWS Workshop will be of particular interest to doctoral researchers preparing their first journal article submission.

Places on the workshop are limited, and paper abstracts that do not meet a sufficient standard of academic quality will not be accepted.

Participants must be able to deliver a fully developed draft paper of 8,000-10,000 words by Friday 2nd May 2014.

Papers must be written and formatted for article submission, not cut-and-pasted from a thesis chapter.

Please apply to participate in the workshop by e-mailing André Broome by 5.00pm on Friday 31st January 2014.

APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE:

(1) Paper title; (2) 100-word author biography; (3) 300-word abstract

Please click here to view the call for papers