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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

Professor Wyn Grant of PAIS has recently featured in a Warwick Knowledge Centre article on the 'Westminster Bubble.'

"It’s often argued that politicians are disconnected from society because they spend most of their time at Westminster. But is the ‘Westminster Bubble’, or the ‘Westminster village’ as it is sometimes referred to, merely a case of politicians occasionally falling out of touch with voter concerns? Or could it actually be damaging to British politics and society as whole? Professors Wyn Grant and Chris Warhurst offer their perspectives."

To view the article, please follow this link to the Knowledge Centre website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/culture/is-the-westminster-bubble-detrimental-to-british-politics

Beyond The Bottom Line: The Warwick Emerge Forum 2014 – From Local to Global
25th January 2014, PLT Science Concourse, 10:30am – 5:00pm

The Warwick Emerge Forum – 2014

Beyond the Bottom Line is a student led social enterprise conference at The University of Warwick. This year, the theme is 'From Local to Global' and it focuses on the issues with growth and locality that social enterprises face. A panel will discuss whether a social enterprise can have more impact by keeping itself rooted in the community or by growing and competing for large companies’ market share. The conference will feature prominent speakers such as Karl H Richter CEO and co-founder of Engaged Investment.

There will be workshops by MakeSense, Teach First and the Uni Food Coop. These will be very interactive and a great way of bringing out your entrepreneurial side.

To find out more and to get your tickets visit www.beyondthebottomline.org

The Warwick Emerge Forum is the student led sister conference of Emerge, the largest student social enterprise conference in the UK, run by Student Hubs and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford. The Warwick Emerge Forum is run by Warwick Hub, a branch of Student Hubs.

Tickets

Student Ticket: £5.00

Buy your tickets online now!

Email: beyondthebottomline@warwickhub.org

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondTheBottomline

BTBL website: http://www.beyondthebottomline.org/

Bahar Baser, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow here in PAIS, has published a new book titled "Diasporada Turk-Kurt Sorunu: Isvec ve Almanya’da Ikinci Kusak."

This book aims to contribute to a broader understanding of spill-over of homeland conflicts to the host country by diaspora groups. It analyses how the repercussions of the Kurdish question in Turkey are reflected in the interactions between second-generation Turks and Kurds in Sweden and Germany.

It argues that the on-going conflict adversely affects the relationship between the two ethnic groups, but that the tensions and conflict dynamics are not an exact reflection of the situation in the homeland, and instead take a different form in each host land. The contentions between the groups and their grievances are dependent on several factors that are rooted in the host land and directly or indirectly affect how these groups establish contact with one another.

The book is written in Turkish and is available to buy here.