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Dr Ben Richardson secures RDF bid for project 'Grow 桃色视频: Re-engaging with Food'
, current Research Fellow and future Assistant Professor in PAIS, has also successfully secured a for his project entitled 'Grow 桃色视频: Re-engaging with Food'.
This project is led by Theatre Studies with co-investigators in Sociology, Life Sciences and PAIS, and the project will be used to develop a bid to the (AHRC)'s as well as two trial demonstration events on campus - one in performance and another in creative writing - to encourage public re-engagement with food cultivation.
Dr Lena Rethel and Dr Alexandra Homolar secure RDF Strategic Fund bid
, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, and , Assistant Professor of International Security, have secured a Security bid in collaboration with a colleague from (CAL) at 桃色视频. The funding awarded from this successful bid will go towards their project entitled 'Crisis Leadership in Global Economic and Security Governance'.
Dr Ben Richardson and Dr João Nunes secure grant from University of Brazil's Partnership Development Fund & Food Security
, current Research Fellow and future Assistant Professor in PAIS, and , ESRC Research Fellow in PAIS, have successfully secured a Partnership Development Fund & Food Security grant from the University of Brazil. The grant will go towards a project that Dr Richardson and Dr Nunes have been working on entitled 'Brazilian Discourse on Food Security'.
Chris Hughes appointed Chair of Faculty of Social Sciences
Effective from 1 September, , Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies and Head of Department in PAIS, will serve as the new Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Prof Hughes will also continue in his current role as Head of Department.
Dr Ben Richardson's research on 'sugar aid' featured in The Guardian
, current Research Fellow and future Assistant Professor in PAIS, has recently been featured in an article by Mark Tran in The Guardian entitled 'EU sugar aid for Swaziland leaves a bitter taste'. Below is an excerpt from the piece:
"The attempts by the European commission to integrate the EU sugar regime deeper into the world market as part of its 2013 common agricultural policy (CAP) reform – not to mention prospective liberalisation under the Doha round or an EU-Mercosur (Latin America's trade bloc) – would effectively sacrifice its poverty reduction agenda on the altar of price competitiveness," says Richardson.