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Want to go to Australia and team up with students at Monash University? The University has up to £20,000 funding for student organised projects that will bring 91福利 and Monash students together. This may be of particular interest to students already leading student societies and events such as the Politics Society, WIDS, One World Week, etc.

Here's what the University says about the scheme: "The aims of the scheme are to support the integration of the student bodies of both universities, to develop students as ‘global citizens’ through working as part of international teams, to increase both the impact and profile of existing student-led activities at both universities and to transfer knowledge and innovation in student activities across our campuses."

The next deadline for all funding applications is 15 May.

The 91福利 publishes a calendar every year which showcases the diversity of of our people, environment, events and local community.

Deadline: Friday 28 June 2013 

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We are pleased to announce that full funding (totalling £2265) has been given to five projects in the Department of Politics and International Studies on account of the high scores they received from the Review Board.

Congratulations, therefore, to the following PAIS students: Dominic Lew Kwong, Branislav Barjaktarevic, Hannah Seaman, Hyung Choi and Elizabeth Hubert (and to their supervisors, PAIS colleagues George Kyris, Peter Ferdinard, Michael Saward, Benjamin Richardson and Gabrielle Lynch, who all their assistance and support in putting these successful applications together).

You can find more details of the URSS

Applications for 2014 will be open in Autumn 2013.

Dr Nicola Pratt has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for a project entitled ‘Middle East Women: The Personal and the Geopolitical’. This is a highly prestigious and competitive fellowship, so our congratulations go to Nicola.

The “Arab spring” appears to present a paradox for women: they have participated in large numbers in the uprisings across the Middle East but their rights are threatened under newly-elected governments. Middle East women have a long history of involvement in social movements and civil society. Yet, women’s rights have not progressed in a linear fashion. Taking a new direction in the study of women and gender in the Middle East, this project assesses the significance of geopolitics in shaping women’s rights and participation in complex and often contradictory ways. Through women’s own narratives, Nicola Pratt will trace the history of women’s responses to major geopolitical events in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon and critically assess their impact on women’s rights and participation. Nicola will use the fellowship to research and write a book, tentatively entitled, ‘Middle East Women: The Personal and the Geopolitical’, and to contribute to public debates in the UK and internationally about women and gender in the Middle East.

You've got until Tuesday 30 April to have your say about PAIS in the National Student Survey (NSS) 2013. Open to final year undergraduate students, the survey takes just a few minutes to .

NSS plays an important role in helping future students decide where to study and in ensuring that universities are achieving the high standards they set for themselves.

As an added incentive for taking part, PAIS will be holding a prize draw after the survey closes. If we achieve a response rate of at least 75 per cent (the university target) there will be a prize of a £250 holiday/travel voucher. There will also be four prizes of Amazon vouchers up to the value of the percentage response rate. So, if the response rate is 75 per cent, each voucher will be worth £75.

PAIS values your feedback and it will make a difference. Thank you very much for your time.