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PAIS has performed brilliantly in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.

PAIS is now one of the top 5 ranking departments in the UK for research excellence in the discipline of Politics and International Studies.

PAIS has risen across all the three major methodologies of ranking departmental quality—research intensity (4^th), research power (4^th), and overall or ‘raw’ GPA (6^th), as shown by the tables below.

As the UK Political Studies Association analysis of the results posits:

“In general, the ‘big five’ departments at Essex, the LSE, Oxford, UCL and 91福利 come out top from REF2014, whatever ranking system is used.”

Dr ’s lead article in Contemporary Political Theory is second ‘most cited paper’ in the history of the journal. ‘The Inseparability of Ethics and Politics: Rethinking the Third in Emmanuel Levinas’ offers a rejection of traditional Levinasian ethics and of any politics based on this, arguing instead that Levinas asks us to think in terms of the ethico-political. This is part of Dr Fagan’s broader research project on the repoliticisation of poststructuralist ethics.

Find the full article, and the reply from Amanda Loumansky, here:

The Islamic finance industry is rapidly expanding. With an annual growth rate of 15 per cent, it is widely regarded as a ‘development to watch’. This has led to debate among policy makers and market practitioners about whether there is something distinctive about Islamic finance or whether it is simply emulating conventional finance.

This was the central theme at a recent workshop organised by Dr Lena Rethel (PAIS), Dr Kerstin Steiner (Monash University) and Dr Jikon Lai (The University of Melbourne) and hosted by Monash Business School. It brought together eminent national and international academics from the fields of law, political science, economics, international political economy and sociology to debate and review recent developments in the Islamic finance industry.

Representatives from Australian regulators were in attendance, as were their international colleagues from the Shariah (Islamic religious law) Advisory Council at the Central Bank of Malaysia and the Securities Commission. Legal practitioners and business representatives, including the chairperson of the Australia Malaysia Business Council and the Consul-General of Malaysia to Victoria also attended the workshop.

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has recently published an article in The Geographical Journal entitled "The Geopolitics of Boko Haram and Nigeria's 'War on Terror'" (). Alongside this he contributed a short piece to the Royal Geographical Society's 'Geography Directions' blog on the parallels between Boko Haram and Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ().

His work on this theme, which links to his wider historical and conceptual work on territory, was also featured in an article in Geographical Magazine ().

On 12 November 2014, gave a public lecture at Nottingham Contemporary gallery entitled 'Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth'. The lecture discussed Foucault's most recently published lecture course, within the context of a manuscript in progress entitled Foucault's Last Decade, forthcoming with Polity Press.

You can watch the video recording of the lecture and discussion below:

More information on the book can be found on Stuart's blog -