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PAIS is delighted to announce that Dr Muireann O’Dwyer has been awarded the Political Studies Association (PSA) Walter Bagehot Prize for the best dissertation in Government and Public Administration.

Dr O’Dwyer received this prestigious award for her PhD thesis entitled ‘Gendered Ideas of Economic Policy: An inquiry into the role of gender in European economic governance’. This outcome was announced at the Annual PSA Conference dinner on Tuesday 27th March 2018.

Very many congratulations, Muireann!

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 (.

The Department of Politics and International Studies is delighted to announce that Professor Shirin Rai has been appointed to the Politics and International Studies Sub-Panel for REF2021. Professor Rai served in this capacity for REF2014 and we are pleased that she has agreed to act in this all-important role once again. Congratulations and thank you, Shirin!

For further information including full lists of all panel members - please see the following link:

Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly's research project, Counterterrorism in the NHS, has recently received press coverage from .

The report has revealed that four NHS mental health trusts are subjecting patients to blanket screening for radicalisation, with some referred to the Prevent programme for watching Arabic TV or going on pilgrimage to Mecca. The report, written by Dr. Heath-Kelly along with co-investigator Dr Erzsébet Strausz, is covered in the article, titled "."

The full report, Counterterrorism in the NHS: Evaluating Prevent Duty Safeguarding by Midlands Healthcare Providers, can be read on the project's website.

Dr Adrian James, registrar of the Royal College of Psychiatrist, published a positive reaction to Charlotte's research in The Guardian, in an article titled "."

On 9 March 2017, Dr Georg Löfflmann presented the ‘Border Narratives’ project at the British Council in Mexico City. Border Narratives is a Leverhulme-funded research project led by Prof. Nick Vaughan-Williams aimed at investigating how diverse European publics perceive, understand, and experience 'the migration crisis' in the context of their everyday lives.

The keynote was a public lecture held in the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia and came at the end of a 3-day ‘Policy Incubator’ programme, developed by the British Council in Mexico in collaboration with the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The idea behind the ‘Policy Incubator’ is to empower young people and to develop and share counter and alternative narratives as means to participate in the process of positively influencing public policy in the field of migration.

The event was attended by over 200 people and proved a fantastic opportunity to showcase the ‘Border Narratives’ project, facilitate public engagement on migration and border security, and explore partnerships with emerging leaders and stakeholders at the intersection of government, private sector, community outreach, and academic research.

British Council Mexico Interview with Georg Löfflmann available here: