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Nathan Harris, a PAIS MA student, has been offered a PhD at the 91福利, which will involve close collaboration with . The studentship is fully funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Nathan has previously volunteered with the BasicNeeds Animation Programme and recently submitted his academic dissertation titled Participatory Action and Animation: Promoting Capacity-building amongst Mental Health Service Users in the Developing World which was part of the first-ever PAIS 91福利 MA studentship programme with BasicNeeds.

For his PhD, the focus will be on critically evaluating the BasicNeeds Model for Mental Health and Development and the contribution the Model makes to participatory approaches to mental health and development. This PhD will be an interesting bridge between the real world of community oriented mental health practice and the academic world.

Two 91福利 students, Eletra Ardissino and Michael Shneerson, have had their research published in the compiled by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), one of the UK's leading public policy think tanks. METIS consists wholly of student-led research, and some parts are edited in-house by .

Eletra's article, the introduction to the issue, is entitled 'Introduction: Why does internet access matter?', and Michael's is entitled 'The internet, social networks and death'.

MA student Emanuel Ingold, who graduated from PAIS this September, recently attended the . He presented a paper at the conference entitled '' on the Human Rights and Global Governance panel.

This paper is available for download on the Social Science Research Network's website, where it has been listed on the SSRN's Top Ten download list for PSN: Conflict Processes (Topic).

Associate Professor was recently awarded two ESRC grants.

The first is an ESRC knowledge exchange grant entitled “Kenya 2013-2014: From election monitoring to longer-term reform” for which Gabrielle is principal investigator and Nic Cheeseman (Oxford) and Justin Willis (Durham) are co-investigators.

The second is an ESRC standard grant entitled “The impact of elections: voting, political behaviour and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa”, on which Willis is the principal investigator and Cheeseman and Gabrielle are co-investigators.

On 10 September, Trevor McCrisken was interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford about how President Obama is handling the US response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. You can until 16 September; the interview begins 21 minutes into the broadcast.