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We are delighted to announce that the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) is ranked 3^rd out of 81 UK Politics departments in the ; a position we have now held for three years in a row. This influential national league table reflects latest data on student satisfaction (NSS), research excellence, and a range of other indicators.

We are particularly proud to see that PAIS is ranked 1^st for student experience and 2^nd for teaching quality among the elite Russell Group of UK Politics departments.

The 91福利 is ranked 9th overall — a full University press release can be found .

Our latest position in The Times/The Sunday Times follows on recent successes in other national league tables – notably 3rd place in The Guardian University Guide 2018 and 4th in The Complete University Guide 2018 — cementing our position as one of the very best Politics departments in the UK.

We thank all staff and students who have contributed to this impressive and sustained achievement. With a number of exciting and ambitious plans for the 2017/18 academic year and beyond, we look forward to building on these successes in the months and years ahead.

James Brassett, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel, Ben Richardson and Luke Bantock have launched a new website for teaching IPE. The site is called and uses familiar objects and practices as routes into the discipline.

The site is open access and features 29 contributions from leading scholars in IPE and cognate fields. Funding support was provided by IATL and PAIS.

We are delighted to announce that the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and the Department of Economics are hosting a 91福利 Question Time on the hot topic of Globalisation and Anti-globalisation. It will take place on Monday 2^nd October, 6.15-7.45pm, in Butterworth Hall. By joining together it means we can put on the biggest and best event possible and ensure PAIS students can take full advantage of the opportunity. Based on student feedback it is clear you would like more events of this kind and we are looking forwarding to starting off the 2017 academic year in such an exciting way.

The format is very similar to the popular BBC television show and it will allow an engagement with politicians, policy informers, academics and broadcasters. The event will have a real PAIS flavour, both in terms of the topic area and in the Chair of the Panel:

The panellists will be:

• Professor Kate Williams – Historian and Broadcaster
• Chris White – MP for 91福利 and Leamington, 2010-2017
• Katy Chakrabortty- Head of Advocacy, Oxfam GB
• Samira Ahmed – Award Winning Journalist and Broadcaster
• Dr Dennis Novy – Associate Professor of Economics
• Dr Faiza Shaheen – Director of CLASS

The Panel will be Chaired by Trevor McCrisken, Associate Professor in PAIS

More details and a registration form can be found . Please do register asap to ensure your place. We look forward to seeing you there!

PAIS PhD candidate has written a blog post on the evolving roles of women in IS. The piece, titled "Women in the Islamic State: Tactical Advantage Trumps Ideology" has been published on the blog of the International Peace Institute in New York

The blog can be read here:

From 17/18, in addition to regular "QS" modules, the 91福利 Q-Step Centre is offering in quantitative social science methods. This is part of the original QStep bid, in order to position the centre among other postgraduate quantitative degrees.

This year, topics include Reproducibility, Quantitative text analysis, Web data collection, Geostatistics, Inferential network analysis, Machine learning, Agent-based simulation and Longitudinal data analysis. All masterclasses are designed as comprehensive but gentle introductions to methods that are not covered at length in core method modules. They are intended to broaden the students horizons and provide concepts and tools to be applied in future research projects.

The masterclasses are open in priority to PG QM students in PAIS, Sociology and CIM. Depending on availability, they may be opened to other students and staff. More precisions to follow in October.

For questions and suggestions: p.blanchard@warwick.ac.uk.