University of ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ - Archive (politics-soss)
Filter by year
2025
11
March
2025
|
10:23
Europe/London
On Tuesday, 25 February, students and academics gathered at ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ to hear first-hand accounts of resilience and democratic resistance from Ukrainian leaders. The event, Democratic Resilience After De-Occupation: Local …
Read more
24
February
2025
|
12:25
Europe/London
Liz Richardson, who leads the Politics department at the School of Social Sciences, has been recognised as one of the top 25 thinkers by the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU).The list features leaders who are finding solutions to some of the …
Read more
19
February
2025
|
14:45
Europe/London
US President Donald Trump has once again echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%. In reality, polling by experts including Professor Olga Onuch of The …
Read more
24
January
2025
|
13:40
Europe/London
The 2024 general election was the first in the UK’s history to be run under a system of voter ID. When heading to the polling station, people could only vote if they proved their identity first. This was the result of a law brought in in 2023 and …
Read more
20
January
2025
|
13:55
Europe/London
As Donald Trump’s begins his second term as President of the United States, a groundbreaking study led by ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ has revealed that a majority of Ukrainians hold a cautiously optimistic view of his presidency - even amid …
Read more
15
January
2025
|
15:41
Europe/London
David Stroup is a Senior Lecturer of Chinese Politics at ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ. In his article, he examines the discourse around Wuhan’s Party Secertary Ma Guoqiang, an ethnic Hui Muslim. Using discourse analysis of posts regarding …
Read more
10
January
2025
|
13:40
Europe/London
The Centre for Joined Up Sustainability Transformations (JUST) will accelerate the understanding of a just transition by coordinating research into action at all levels of society.Launching in February 2025, the JUST Centre will work closely with …
Read more
2024
19
December
2024
|
10:33
Europe/London
Al-Kindi completed his PhD in the Politics Department at ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ in November 2022. His thesis, Toward an Analytical Framework for Authoritarian Reform, was supervised by Angelia Wilson and Vero Pin-Fat. Angie Wilson …
Read more
20
November
2024
|
16:24
Europe/London
The School of Social Sciences has seen two of its departments rise in the latest Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) Subject Rankings for 2024. Our Politics department is now ranked in the top 50 globally for universities …
Read more
06
November
2024
|
10:46
Europe/London
Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented Labour’s first budget in 14 years by promising to put an “end to short-termismâ€. British governments typically see budgets as an opportunity to present policies providing short-term gain in terms of public …
Read more
08
October
2024
|
16:50
Europe/London
Professor Wilson has been awarded the Distinguished Career Service Award 2024 by the American Political Science Association (APSA) LGBTQ Caucus. The Caucus, which serves as the primary association for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and …
Read more
19
September
2024
|
15:50
Europe/London
James Pattison, Professor of Politics, co-authors Prioritizing Global Responsibilities with Luke Glanville, Professor at the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. The book considers that ‘states face …
Read more
11
September
2024
|
13:41
Europe/London
Nick Turnbull is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and the project is a collaboration between Politics and Criminology. It aims to contribute to policy theory by discovering how policy workers make interpretations, manage relationships and practice …
Read more
10
September
2024
|
07:41
Europe/London
Clara is a Lecturer in Political Theory and the British Academy/Leverhulme project will support her research on how different forms of cross-border and domestic solidarity can be harmonised. The research questions the assumption that solidarity …
Read more
04
September
2024
|
11:57
Europe/London
Since 2014, this community hub has also served as the setting for a fruitful collaboration between the University of ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ and local refugees and asylum seekers, fostering both language skills and community building.The initiative, spearheaded …
Read more
23
August
2024
|
14:33
Europe/London
The report sets out strategies for navigating the UK’s political context on climate change, which were developed during a workshop at ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ with academics, practitioners from various political parties, as well as NGOs and social movements.In a …
Read more
12
July
2024
|
11:44
Europe/London
After the election, Louise Thompson wrote a piece for The Conversation, focusing on the ‘fragmentation of the British parliament and the rise of smaller parties at the expense of the Conservatives’.Robert Ford wrote for the Observer, analysing the …
Read more
28
June
2024
|
15:56
Europe/London
It’s not controversial to say that contemporary affluent societies do a rather poor job of taking the interests of younger generations into account. This is not only because children can’t vote and the elderly tend to turn up to elections in higher …
Read more
24
June
2024
|
12:28
Europe/London
Htet Lynn Oo is a former MA Peace and Conflict Studies student. In addition to the ASEAS prize, Htet was also awarded a special commendation for his MA dissertation in the New Voices in Cultural Relations prize, organised by the British Council …
Read more
17
June
2024
|
17:01
Europe/London
The outgoing Head of Department of Politics, Yoram Gorlizki, has been awarded a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship to complete a long-standing book project on A Soviet Rule of Law: Justice and the Constitution in Soviet Russia.Gorlizki is …
Read more
04
June
2024
|
13:22
Europe/London
With polls predicting huge losses for the Conservatives and huge gains for Labour, the election campaign so far has focused on the battle between the two biggest parties in Westminster. But the parliamentary dynamics are exceptionally fluid this …
Read more
03
June
2024
|
15:30
Europe/London
The team was one of seven awarded a total of £1.8 million under the Smart Data Research UK scheme. This project will improve how browser and social media information can be anonymised and linked to survey data responses. Researchers can then …
Read more
22
May
2024
|
12:39
Europe/London
Jamie J. Hagen is currently a Lecturer in International Relations at Queen’s University Belfast, where she is the founding co-director of the Center for Gender in Politics. Her work sits at the intersection of gender, security studies, and queer …
Read more
21
May
2024
|
14:21
Europe/London
Dr Luke Bhatia, Lecturer in Global Politics, has won an award at the Student Union awards for ‘creating safe space for global majority student and staff and supporting student-led campaigns to make Politics more diverse’.Bhatia has been co-chairing …
Read more
10
May
2024
|
11:57
Europe/London
Liu completed his doctoral degree in sociology at the John Hopkins University. His research uses comparative-historical methods to examine the uneven development of capitalism across space and time, as well as its multifold crises. Some of his …
Read more
08
May
2024
|
17:29
Europe/London
Dr Hannah Wright joins the Politics Department from Queen Mary University of London, where she holds an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Prior to that, she was Research Officer at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace, and Security.Hannah’s research …
Read more
08
April
2024
|
12:41
Europe/London
Dr Jess Gifkins’s has co-authored the report Queering Atrocity Prevention in collaboration with the charity Protection Approaches, which works to change how the world views and thereby prevents identity-based violence. During the United Nations …
Read more
05
April
2024
|
16:42
Europe/London
Dr Michael Magcamit from the Department of Politics at the University of ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ was recently awarded a Leverhulme International Fellowship of £31,000 for his research project ‘Decolonising Japanese peacebuilding through the affective peace …
Read more
04
April
2024
|
16:28
Europe/London
Dr Lama Tawakkol will be researching the water-for-energy deal as a lens (geo)politics, capitalist relations and power asymmetries in the region, particularly as they pertain to water governance and politics in Jordan.Tawakool is a Lecturer in …
Read more
03
April
2024
|
15:34
Europe/London
Commenting on her new role, Haastrup said:‘UACES has been a cornerstone of my professional life, from PhD student to Professor. I have benefited from this community which has emphasised the importance of collaboration, critical thinking and …
Read more