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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:

On May 3, 2016 the ERC Starting Grant Project “” is organizing a workshop with the survey advisory board in preparation for the launching of a large-scale survey among conflict-generated migrants and diasporas in Europe.

This survey workshop builds on series of inter-coder discussions and tests conducted at PAIS in 2014-2016. Six conflict-generated diasporas will be polled – Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian, Kurdish, Iraqi and Palestinian – in five Western European countries – France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This survey will be path-breaking with its large-scale scope and endeavours to combine hypotheses from a variety of scholarly domains in order to account for the substance and levels of transnational diaspora mobilization.

More information can be found .

The ERC Project “” and the PAIS organize a public lecture by Dr. Neophytos Loizides, Reader in Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, on 28 April, 2016, 12:00 - 14:00 in S0.20.

The public lecture is entitled "Rethinking Conflict Resolution in the Contemporary Post-Ottoman Neighborhood and Beyond" and will present innovative theories about institutional design of divided societies. Refreshments will be served.

More information can be obtained .

A new blog post by Professor , entitled 'Europe's border crisis as an autoimmune disorder', has been published by the European Green Journal.

"A crisis point has emerged, whereby the figure of the ‘irregular’ migrant is seen as both a security threat to the European Union (EU) and its borders and as a life that is itself threatened and in need of saving by the EU and its agencies. This contradiction leads to paradoxical situations in the field of EU border politics whereby humanitarian policies and practices frequently expose ‘irregular’ migrants to dehumanising and sometimes lethal security mechanisms."

The full article can be accessed here:

PAIS PhD student Lucy Hatton was invited by the President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Georges Dassis, to speak at the 2016 ECI Day conference. This annual conference brings together European politicians, campaigners, civil society representatives, academics and stakeholders at the EESC in Brussels to discuss their experiences of the European Citizens' Initiative, a tool of participatory democracy in the EU and the focus of Lucy's doctoral research.