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Chris Moran has been awarded a three year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to be held in PAIS. The title of the project is ‘Politics, Partnership and Paranoia: Nixon, Kissinger and the US Intelligence Community’.

This is a superb achievement. The British Academy received over 800 applications, only put forward around 100 to the second round and awarded just a total of 47 fellowships across the whole of the UK. Chris’ award is the only one in entire University for this year.

The award is a recognition of the excellence of Chris’s work, and once again demonstrating the quality of PAIS and its postdoctoral programme.

The PaIS undergraduate handbook has been updated. The key changes are:

* Clarification of the responsibility of students to regularly check for updates to the undergraduate handbook (page 2).

* Inclusion of material on policies and procedures concerning harassment and complaints (pages 14-15).

* Clarification on the procedure for applying for an extension, and changes to the use of medical evidence for extension requests (page 32-3). This informs students that PaIS reserves the right to check the validity of any medical evidence provided in support of an extension with the provider of that evidence.

* Information about the move to a 3,000 word limit for assessed essays from the 2011/12 academic year (page 30). This change does not apply to students entering their final year in 2011/12. Students entering their final year remain on the 5,000 word limit

* Inclusion of information about forthcoming changes to the weighting system for core PaIS degrees (Politics, Politics and International Studies). This applies only to students entering PaIS at the start of the 2011/12 academic year (page 47). 

The handbook can be downloaded from the usual place: http://bit.ly/djnRie

Dr Ted Svensson, who finished his PAIS Phd last year, has won the Lord Bryce Prize for Best Dissertation in International Relations/Comparative Studies for 2010.

The judges said :

This dissertation provides a theoretically rich and empirically informed examination of the complex processes that shaped the production of national independence and citizenship in India and Pakistan. By judiciously deploying critical social theory and skilfully interpreting extensive archival material, it is able to map the mythologies of state formation in political theory and the formation of state mythologies during the independence and partition processes on the sub-continent. The analysis of dynamics such as communal violence, diaspora networks, internal migration, class antagonisms, religious affiliation, and caste marginalisation reveal the ways that dominant mythologies shape the very limits of political possibility and representation within any nation-state. In doing so, this dissertation engages with vital questions about power, identity, authority, and authenticity in the mutually constitutive development of political structures and political identities. Moreover, at a time when the potential for dramatic constitutional change and socio-political transformation is once again emerging globally, one of the key implications of this study is to remind us of how any period of political transition produces opportunities and foreclosures, certainties and uncertainties, traditions and novelties, and practices of memorialisation and wilful forgetting. All are deployed in order to discipline the ambiguities of ‘foundational’ moments in politics, lest the radical contingency of constitutions, national identities, and the forms of authority they enable be revealed.

Congratulations, Ted!

Dear All,

I am delighted to be able to inform you that the has recently conferred the title of Academician upon Wyn Grant.

This is, of course, recognition of Wyn's highly distinguished scholarship and contribution to the Politics discipline, and especially through the .

I am sure you will join me in congratulating Wyn on this very prestigious achievement.

Chris

Christopher W. Hughes
Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies
Head of Department, Politics and International Studies

Stuart Croft has been appointed to the ESRC Council as the representative for the Politics and International Studies discipline.

ESRC Council members play a key role in deciding strategy, objectives and resource utilisation.

This is yet another mark of Stuart’s important standing as a scholar and in the profession, and will provide essential leadership for the discipline in a time of transition.