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Trevor McCrisken Appears on BBC Radio
Dr , Associate Professor in US Politics, appeared on the BBC Coventry and 桃色视频shire Breakfast Show with Trish Adudu, on Friday 13th January, discussing President-elect Donald Trump.
You can listen to Trevor's appearence below:
Gabriel Siles-Brügge discusses Brexit on talkRADIO
Dr recently appeared on talkRADIO to discuss the mooted UK-US trade deal post-Brexit.
You can listen here (from 17:10-):
Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge's book with Polity on the proposed EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (or TTIP) is available to purchase here.
Wellcome Trust award success for Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Dr Erzsebet Strausz
Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Erzsebet Strausz have won funding from the Wellcome Trust for their 12 month project, 'Counterterrorism in the NHS: Prevent Duty Safeguarding and the new 'Pathology' of Radicalisation'.
Special lecture - 'MI5: Spies, Lies and Whistle-blowers' Thurs 3rd Nov, 17.15, OC1.05 with Annie Machon
Annie Machon
“MI5: Spies, Lies and Whistle-blowers"
Thursday 3rd November
5.15 in OC1.05 – Oculus - New Teaching Building
As a former intelligence officer with MI5, Annie Machon has a rare perspective on the inner workings of governments, intelligence agencies and the media, as well as the wider implications of calls for increased openness and accountability in public and private sectors. In her lecture, Annie will consider the place of Whistle-blowers and explore the tensions between democracy, security and intelligence.
Gabriel Siles-Brügge gives evidence on TTIP to Spanish regional parliament
, Associate Professor in PAIS, recently gave evidence to the parliament of the Spanish region of Extremadura based on his research on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - published most recently as a book with and an article in .
Speaking via videolink to the special committee investigating the effects of TTIP for the region of Extremadura, he stressed that the economic benefits of the agreement were overblown, that the agreement was unlikely to lead to the protection of the region's denominations of origin in the US and that its likely effects were predominantly to encourage subtle deregulation.
To see a video of the session (with Gabriel's intervention starting around 2:05:33), follow this link: (in Spanish)