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Dr Caroline Kuzemko, recently appointed to an indefinite Assistant Professorship in International Political Economy in PAIS, has won a prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders grant.

This brings the total number of ESRC FRLs held in PAIS to 5. Other existing ESRC FRL award holders include Dr Julian Gruin, Dr Oz Hassan, Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly, and Dr Alexandra Homolar.

Dr Kuzemko’s project, entitled ‘Local Authorities and Sustainable Energy Innovations: Decentralisation, Institutional Capacity and Civic Participation’, will commence in September 2016.

2nd Annual PAIS Research Conference - Thursday 30 June 2016

The Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) invite you to a one-day research conference for researchers across the discipline of political science and international relations.

The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for researchers in PAIS at all career levels to celebrate their research and receive useful feedback on work in progress.

PAIS Research Conference 2016 Programme

We are delighted to introduce Sara Salem as the new Research and Teaching Fellow in Middle East Politics in PAIS. Sara will be supporting Dr Nicola Pratt’s AHRC-funded project, ‘Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt: Contested Narratives of the 25 January Revolution and its Aftermath’, and teaching a module on Middle East Politics. She will join us in September 2016 from the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, where she is currently completing her PhD in International Political Economy.

recently appeared on BBC Booktalk, alongside co-author Rory Cormac, talking to Mark D'Arcy about their new book The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers, on the relationships between prime ministers and the intelligence agencies.

In an , PAIS PhD researcher explains three very Austrian causes that explain why the country almost elected a fascist president.