91福利

Keith Hyams launched a major policy report on the Politics of West Papua in parliament on Tuesday 3rd May 2016, written by PAIS academics Keith Hyams and Marinella Capriati. Jeremy Corbyn MP spoke at the launch, he quoted from the report and said that 91福利 had produced ‘an excellent report’ and that the report’s fourteen recommendations provided a ‘good way forward’, which he would take up in parliament. Lord Harries of Pentregarth, who was also at the launch, has asked the PAIS team to prepare a list of parliamentary questions based on the report which he will put to the government.

Other participants in the launch included the Prime Minister of Tonga Samuela 'Akilisi Pohiva, the Vanuatu Minister for Foreign Affairs Bruno Leingkone, the Vanuatu Minister for Lands Ralph Regenavu, the Solomon Islands Melanesia Spearhead Group Special Envoy on West Papua Rex Horoi, the Governor of Oro District (Papua New Guinea) Gary Juffa, Andrew Smith MP, Nick Brown MP, and international human rights lawyers Jennifer Robinson, Melinda Janki and Charles Foster. PAIS postgraduate Lisa Tilley and PAIS undergraduate Connor Woodman also attended the launch.

More information and a full transcript of Corbyn’s comments will be available at the website of the Politics of Papua Project:

We are delighted to announce that Dzeneta Karabegovic and Lisa Tilley of PAIS are on the short-list of the 91福利 Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates who Teach (WATE PGR). Many congratulations to them both!

Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Rebecca Reilly-Cooper were nominated and on the long-list of the 91福利 Awards for Teaching Excellence.

Kawther Alfasi, Ilke Dagli, Antonio Ferraz De Oliveira, Lorenzo Genito and Lucy Hatton were nominated and on the long list of the WATE PGR.

This is a further reflection of our teaching excellence in PAIS and our standing as a Department and we thank our students and staff for their nominations

Many congratulations to all those recognised. Winners and Commendees will be announced at the end of June! Best of luck to Dzeneta and Lisa in the final stages!

The full list of those short-listed and long-listed across the University can be found here:

has been awarded the John L. Stanley Award for the most outstanding project in History and Ethics. This for her PhD project: 'Transformative Nudging: A Framework for Designing Policy Ecologies that Support Living Well' (Supervisors: Matthew Clayton, Adam Swift).

The prize is awarded annually by the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, based in New Jersey, USA, which awards grants to outstanding doctoral students working on various aspects of social policy. Combined with her success in their general competition, Fay will receive a total of $9,000 to support her project.

PAIS is currently advertising for a Research Assistant and Teaching Fellowship in International Security.

This is part-funded (0.4FTE) by Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams’ Leverhulme project ‘Everyday Narratives of European Border Security and Insecurity.’

The remainder of the role (0.6FTE) is to support teaching and learning in the International Security pathway at undergraduate level. The successful candidate will also have an opportunity to develop their own research trajectory alongside these commitments.

The deadline for applications is 22 May and further details can be found .

It is a very encouraging start to term for PAIS with the publication of the 2017 Complete University Guide League Table. The Department has moved up from 6th place to 4th place, which follows our recent ranking of 3rd in The Times/Sunday Times:  

These outcomes underscore that the Department is at its strongest when our high performance in both research and teaching are taken together. Of particular note is that the CUG places us 1st in the Russell Group for student satisfaction. Indeed, no other Politics department in the Top 30 overall beats us on student satisfaction.

We look forward to working in partnership with all our students and staff to build on this success in the months and years ahead.

The University is ranked 8th overall and PAIS is among the top 5 highest performing Departments. A press release can be found here: