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Congratulations all of our Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) winners!

The Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) is a scheme to provide a bursary and skills development training to support undergraduate students who wish to carry out a summer research project as an addition to a degree course.

PAIS researcher was interviewed live on Sky News on Wednesday 25 May about the European Parliament and the upcoming EU referendum. Related to her PhD research, which considered issues of participation and democracy in the EU, Lucy was invited to discuss the role of the European Parliament in EU democracy and its impact on the UK.

Asked about the idea that the European Parliament imposes laws on the British people, Lucy highlighted that British citizens are represented in the European Parliament by their directly elected MEPs, who have as much influence over decisions made in the Parliament as MEPs from any other EU member state. She added that it is therefore difficult to understand the use of the term 'impose' unless it is also suggested that the British Parliament imposes its laws on parts of the UK.

Lucy, who is also an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies here at 91福利, will be appearing on the panel at PAIS's EU Referendum Debate on 6 June (for more information on the debate, ). She is also blogging about the EU referendum at .

Join our panel of experts who will get to the heart of the issues over whether the UK should stay or go and will be ready to answer your questions.

Speaking for ‘Remain’:

, Emeritus Professor of Politics, 91福利

, Researcher, Politics and International Studies, 91福利

, Professor in European Politics, 91福利

Speaking for ‘Leave’:

Lincoln Allison, Emeritus Reader in Politics, 91福利 and freelance writer and broadcaster

Dave Nellist, National Chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)

On 28th June the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group is hosting a workshop to discuss 'The Limits of States - Ethics, War, and Migration'.

From the refugee crisis to the newly shifting plates of the world order, the limits of states have never been more critical. This workshop brings together a series of thinkers whose research examines the frontiers of war and security. How can we treat people ethically at borders? What special obligations towards refugees arise out of military intervention? How far can an existing state-based international order be hospitable to the protection of individual and global security in a nuclear world? What counts as a military victory and what rights do victors acquire? Each raises important further questions about the way that we understand the relations between states, and this workshop will provide an opportunity both to examine those issues independently and to identify their interdependencies.

Speakers include Prof. Tom Sorell (91福利); Prof. Jason Ralph (Leeds); Prof. Nicholas Wheeler (Birmingham); Dr. Cian O'Driscoll (Glasgow); and Dr. Tom Walker (Belfast). To sign up please contact F.Melhuish.1@warwick.ac.uk.

You can view the workshop schedule here.

PAIS Research Fellow, Dr Charikleia Tzanakou was invited as a private expert from the European Commission (DG Research and Innovation) on March 18th 2016 to contribute to a declaration of young researchers initiated by the upcoming Slovak Presidency. Collaborating with a diverse team of researchers, this had led to the development of the Bratislava Declaration for Young Researchers which presents the aspirations of young researchers in Europe.

The declaration will be presented at a mini-Conference in June 2016 in Brussels and to the Ministers of Science and Research in Slovakia in July 2016.