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We are able to report the exceptionally good news that Lauren Tooker, a former PAIS PhD student and now an IAS Early Career Fellow, has been awarded the ECPR Jean Blondel Prize for Best PhD. This is a Europe-wide PhD prize, and huge congratulations must go to Lauren on such a tremendous achievement.

The news is now live on the , including the commendations of the prize jury. Lauren’s thesis was entitled, ‘Ordinary Democracy: Reading Resistance to Debt after the Global Financial Crisis with Stanley Cavell’s Ordinary Language Philosophy’.

Using a theoretical approach rooted in Cavell’s ordinary language philosophy, Lauren’s thesis shows how ordinary democratic subjects are opposing debt-based economic citizenship in the UK and the US. The study's central argument is that debt’s ordinary democrats are reconstructing debt relations as a site of democratic selfhood and community in finance, thus representing important practices of civic freedom.

Lauren was a GEM School PhD student funded through our Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme. She was supervised through her degree at 91¸£Àû by Lena Rethel, James Brassett and Matthew Watson, and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles by Firouzeh Nahavandi. She was examined by Paul Langley (Durham), Amandine Crespy (ULB) and Mike Saward (91¸£Àû).

Dr. Maria Koinova (91¸£Àû) and Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas (University of Birmingham) are co-organizing a workshop on "Governing Transit Migration: Varieties of Approaches to International Politics" on 17 September, 2018 at 91¸£Àû University.

This workshop is part of the activities of the British International Studies Association working group on the "International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diasporas," which they co-founded in 2016. The workshop has attracted established and early career scholars from the UK, Europe, US, Canada, and Peru.

The full programme is available here. 

Arzu Kibris has been named a Turing Fellow by the Alan Turing Institute for a tenure of two years. The ATI is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. The fellowship will allow Arzu to interact with colleagues in related disciplines and at other universities, initiate research through new collaborations and partnerships and help set the research agenda for the Institute.

Dr Caroline Kuzemko recently appeared on 's programme on BBC Radio Coventry and 91¸£Àûshire, discussing how the Hothouse Earth will affect our lives, and what we can do to halt the effects of climate change.

You can listen to Dr Kuzemko's appearance below:

Professional photographs from our Graduation Reception on July 28th are now available to view from this page.

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