Other News
ESRC funding success
The ESRC has agreed to fund the AiO project, in which Professor Tom Sorell is Co-Investigator and Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo is Research Fellow. The IERG share of the funding is £210,000.
This project, which is led by Professor Tim Grant of Aston University, uses forensic linguistic techniques which will make it possible for police more effectively to counter paedophile activity on the internet. The Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group (IERG) is responsible for ethics work in this project.
Masumi Owa wins BISA award
Congratulations to PhD candidate Masumi Owa on being granted an award from the BISA (British International Studies Association) Founders Fund to support completion of her doctoral thesis on ‘Collective action in global governance: the case of the Development Assistance Committee.’
Prof Shaun Breslin delivered keynote lecture at APSA conference
Shaun Breslin was invited to give the keynote opening lecture at the annual Australian Political Studies Association conference in Perth. The conference theme was governing the resource boom with Breslin’s presentation, “Low Profile No More? Resource (In) Security and Chinese World Views” focussing on the international politics of Chinese energy concerns.
Announcement of Two PhD Studentships
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/.
Trevor McCrisken on BBC World TV
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: