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PAIS student promoted in National Student Apprentice Competition
Caroline Omotayo, a second year undergraduate student in PAIS, was recently promoted to and competed in the National Student Apprentice Competition along with her team from the University of Warwick. The NACUE connects over 5000 students across the UK through student-led societies offering business skills, employability and venture creation programmes.
Prior to the national competition, Caroline and her team had placed 2nd in the University of Warwick's Apprentice Competition and 1st in the Regional Competition.
On her time in the competition, Caroline commented:
During the National Student Apprentice we had the opportunity to further consolidate our skills and also meet fellow students who were keen to gain entrepreneurial experience. In fact I was one of the youngest students there and I was able to use the skills which I gained from studying politics and sociology to my advantage.
One of the key skills I was able to develop were, the ability to think critically and analytically. Those are skills that are needed in any workplace and which enables you to stand out from other students, as it also aids creativity. In addition, I also gained the ability to think independently and not take things at face value or regurgitate information, but to come up with my own opinions and ask further questions. I think that really helped especially during my work experience as I was one of the people that asked the most questions and employers really like that. In addition it also helps you to think quickly and come up with coherent arguments, which is an ability that is very valuable in all kind of contexts.
Prof Shaun Breslin quoted by NBC News on Bo Xilai trial
Prof Shaun Breslin, Professor in PAIS and an Associate Fellow with Chatham House's Asia Programme, was recently quoted in a 21 August article on the Bo Xilai murder trial featured on NBCNews.com entitled 'Disgraced Chinese high-flier set for court in biggest trial in almost half-a-century'.
Below is an excerpt from the piece:
“There is this feeling that elites are running the country for themselves and their kids are running around in Lamborghinis and Ferraris. It is a key cause of resentment among the general population,” Breslin said.
Deadline Extended-- Warwick Graduate Conference in Security Studies
‘Security and the Everyday’
31 October - 1 November 2013
Keynote: Professor Jutta Weldes (University of Bristol); Professor François Debrix (Virginia Tech)
More and more research in critical security studies pays attention to the realm of everyday experience, popular culture and fictional narratives, and how they produce and reproduce discourses of security and representations of identity. At the same time, distinctions between politics and entertainment seem increasingly tenuous in a world of globalized spaces of hyper-reality. From the real-time images of remote controlled drone strikes to the imagined realities of video game franchises, and from the realpolitik of TV shows and comic books to the narratives of IR textbooks, virtual and actual realities blend into each other. This conference explores the interconnections and implications of this inter-textuality of security and image, narrative and identity, and power and fiction.
If you are interested in participating please send details of your affiliation, an indicative title, and an abstract of no more than 250 words to Georg Löfflmann (g.lofflmann@warwick.ac.uk).
Deadline for abstracts: 9 September 2013
PhD candidate quoted in Ryukyu Shimpo article
Miriam Grinberg, a PhD candidate under the supervision of Professor Chris Hughes and Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams, was recently quoted in an 11 August article appearing in the print edition of the Ryukyu Shimpo, a local newspaper in Okinawa prefecture, Japan. She was interviewed by a reporter about the plans for relocating US Marines Air Base Futenma from Ginowan City to Henoko Village in Nago City, Okinawa.
Read the article (JPEG in Japanese)
Prof Chris Hughes featured in Mainichi Shimbun article
Professor Chris Hughes, Head of Department, was recently featured in a 2 August Mainichi Shimbun article discussing expectations for Japan's global role under the Shinzo Abe administration after the victory of his party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), in July's Upper House elections.
The Mainichi is one of the most widely-read newspapers in Japan with a daily circulation of 4 million readers.
Read the article (PDF in Japanese)