Politics news
ESRC award for Hall
Congratulations to Dr Alex Hall who is part of a successful network bid to the ESRC for a seminar series entitled 'Everyday Practice and Resistance in Immigration Detention', along with Mary Bosworth (Oxford), Imogen Tyler (Lancaster) and Dominique Moran (Birmingham). The seminar series is led by Nick Gill (Exeter) and will involve five events during 2012-2014, with international speakers from US, Canada and Australia. These events aim to provide a means of exchanging knowledge around burgeoning contemporary detention practices in a national and international context. One of the events will take place in the Politics Department at York.
Posted April 2012
**NEW - the Department secures over £50,000 towards funding new postgraduate scholarships and fee waivers**
The Department of Politics is delighted to announce that it has secured five fee waivers for its current MA programmes and one full PhD Scholarship (a Home/EU fee waiver and a stipend of £13,500 for three years). The awards will be awarded on the basis of an open competition between all applicants to the relevant programme or programmes (there is no need to submit a separate application). In addition, the Post-war Reconstruction Unit are offering a number of 50% fee waiver scholarships (Overseas and Home/EU) and travel bursaries each worth £1000 for the MA in Post-war Recovery Studies, 2012/13.
For full details on all scholarships and fee waivers please see our Postgraduate Finance web page.
Posted April 2012
Middle East Studies award for Afshar
Congratulations to Professor the Baroness Afshar OBE who has been awarded the Annual Award for Services to Middle East Studies by the British Middle East Studies Association.
Haleh also appeared on Radio 4's Any Questions on March 30: you can listen here
Posted March 2012
Research award for Rogers
Congratulations to Dr Chris Rogers, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to study The Political Economy of British Mutual Organization in an era of Globalization.
Posted March 2012
New senior academic staff
The Department is delighted to announce that it will be joined by Professor Tony Heron, Professor Martin Smith, Professor Lucia Quaglia, and Dr Nina Caspersen as part of its continuing expansion. Further information available here
Posted March 2012
Amnesty International Debate on (non-) intervention in Syria
For further information click here
Posted March 2012
Debate on the Kony 2012 Campaign - hosted by the International Development Society
For further information click here
Posted March 2012
Social Justice and the Future of Flood Insurance
Dr Martin O’Neill of the Politics department has co-authored a new report on how the system of flood insurance in the UK can treat vulnerable people more fairly in the future. Further details are available here
Posted March 2012
