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Dr Jennifer Philippa Eggert has spoken at two events in London recently.

Dr Eggert was invited to speak at roundtable at the LSE () where she shared her experience of being a woman, mother and Muslim in academia.

She then attended an event at the ICSR at King's College London, where she spoke on communities-focused and gender-sensitive counterextremism strategies (.

Columba Achilleos-Sarll, a PhD Candidate and ESRC Fellow in PAIS, has written a blog post for the Centre for Women, Peace and Security on the LSE website. In the post, Columba warns that departmental ‘ownership’ of women, peace and security, and a discordant approach to foreign and domestic policy, risks reinforcing gendered and racialised boundaries.

The post, titled "The WPS Agenda requires a complementary approach to foreign and domestic policy," can be read here:

Four students - all currently taught in PAIS - formed the University's Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge Team on 26/27 February. This two-day cyber policy competition was organised by the Atlantic Council for students across the globe to compete in developing national security policy recommendations tackling a fictional cyber catastrophe.

The Student Challenge rounds took place in Washington DC, Geneva, Sydney, New York and London - the latter at the top of the BT tower. Sixteen universities entered teams in the London round which featured a variety of challenges and tests. The 91¸£Àû team leader was Sarah Mainwaring and the other team members were Sophie Davies, Sophie Cowling and Emily Bassett. Day One featured policy briefing and Day Two featured an extended "Cyber Crisis Sim".

Congratulations to the 91¸£Àû team who won the prize for best performance in the "Cyber Crisis Sim."

PAIS PhD researcher has recently had two articles published.

In , he argues that it should not surprise anyone that Britain does not yet feel the ramifications of not being an EU member as it has not left yet.

Ragnar also writes, in an , that members of the German Social Democrats should think twice before vetoing the grand coalition.

Drs Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Steve Kettell recently gave TEDx talks, for , on the theme of conflict.

Dr Heath-Kelly's talk, The Motivation of Terrorism, explored the motivations of terrorism, as identified through Charlotte's interviews with members of EOKA (a terrorist organization based in Cyprus).

Dr Kettell's talk, The Necessity of Secularism, addressed the role religion plays in warfare and will question society’s habit of hastily blaming religion for conflict.