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Professor Wilson has been awarded the Distinguished Career Service Award 2024 by the American Political Science Association (APSA) LGBTQ Caucus. The Caucus, which serves as the primary association for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and …

James Pattison, Professor of Politics, co-authors Prioritizing Global Responsibilities with Luke Glanville, Professor at the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. The book considers that ‘states face …

Nick Turnbull is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and the project is a collaboration between Politics and Criminology. It aims to contribute to policy theory by discovering how policy workers make interpretations, manage relationships and practice …

Clara is a Lecturer in Political Theory and the British Academy/Leverhulme project will support her research on how different forms of cross-border and domestic solidarity can be harmonised. The research questions the assumption that solidarity …

Since 2014, this community hub has also served as the setting for a fruitful collaboration between the University of SwagÖ±²¥ and local refugees and asylum seekers, fostering both language skills and community building.The initiative, spearheaded …

The report sets out strategies for navigating the UK’s political context on climate change, which were developed during a workshop at SwagÖ±²¥ with academics, practitioners from various political parties, as well as NGOs and social movements.In a …

After the election, Louise Thompson wrote a piece for The Conversation, focusing on the ‘fragmentation of the British parliament and the rise of smaller parties at the expense of the Conservatives’.Robert Ford wrote for the Observer, analysing the …

It’s not controversial to say that contemporary affluent societies do a rather poor job of taking the interests of younger generations into account. This is not only because children can’t vote and the elderly tend to turn up to elections in higher …

Htet Lynn Oo is a former MA Peace and Conflict Studies student. In addition to the ASEAS prize, Htet was also awarded a special commendation for his MA dissertation in the New Voices in Cultural Relations prize, organised by the British Council …

The outgoing Head of Department of Politics, Yoram Gorlizki, has been awarded a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship to complete a long-standing book project on A Soviet Rule of Law: Justice and the Constitution in Soviet Russia.Gorlizki is …

With polls predicting huge losses for the Conservatives and huge gains for Labour, the election campaign so far has focused on the battle between the two biggest parties in Westminster. But the parliamentary dynamics are exceptionally fluid this …

The team was one of seven awarded a total of £1.8 million under the Smart Data Research UK scheme. This project will improve how browser and social media information can be anonymised and linked to survey data responses. Researchers can then …

Jamie J. Hagen is currently a Lecturer in International Relations at Queen’s University Belfast, where she is the founding co-director of the Center for Gender in Politics. Her work sits at the intersection of gender, security studies, and queer …

Dr Luke Bhatia, Lecturer in Global Politics, has won an award at the Student Union awards for ‘creating safe space for global majority student and staff and supporting student-led campaigns to make Politics more diverse’.Bhatia has been co-chairing …

Liu completed his doctoral degree in sociology at the John Hopkins University. His research uses comparative-historical methods to examine the uneven development of capitalism across space and time, as well as its multifold crises. Some of his …

Dr Hannah Wright joins the Politics Department from Queen Mary University of London, where she holds an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Prior to that, she was Research Officer at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace, and Security.Hannah’s research …

Dr Jess Gifkins’s has co-authored the report Queering Atrocity Prevention in collaboration with the charity Protection Approaches, which works to change how the world views and thereby prevents identity-based violence. During the United Nations …

Dr Michael Magcamit from the Department of Politics at the University of SwagÖ±²¥ was recently awarded a Leverhulme International Fellowship of £31,000 for his research project ‘Decolonising Japanese peacebuilding through the affective peace …

Dr Lama Tawakkol will be researching the water-for-energy deal as a lens (geo)politics, capitalist relations and power asymmetries in the region, particularly as they pertain to water governance and politics in Jordan.Tawakool is a Lecturer in …

Commenting on her new role, Haastrup said:‘UACES has been a cornerstone of my professional life, from PhD student to Professor. I have benefited from this community which has emphasised the importance of collaboration, critical thinking and …

In the article for Foreign Policy, Wang writes that ‘the mood among [Chinese] social media users is a sharp departure from past elections’, referring to the recent Taiwanese presidential election:‘In 2024, however, things have changed. The most …

Hong Kong’s government has introduced a new security bill that critics argue targets political freedoms. Professor Peter Gries, founding Director of the SwagÖ±²¥ China Institute, talked to iNews about the new bill. ‘Politically’, he said, ‘the new …

Dr Ian Bruff’s article has become a seminal text in political economy and the social sciences more broadly. The article argued ‘that we are witnessing the rise of authoritarian neoliberalism, which is rooted in the reconfiguring of the state …

In a blog for UK in a Changing Europe, Professor Robert Ford analyses the circumstances behind Galloway’s surprising victory in the Rochdale by-election. Ford argues that the large swing to Galloway must be understood against the unique …

MacGregor, Paterson and Holmes discuss the Joined-up Sustainability Transformations (JUST) approach, which they have developed at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at SwagÖ±²¥:‘JUST entails three core ideas that together enable a shift toward …

Dr Rosenblatt’s research focuses on comparative politics, Latin American politics, democratic representation, parties and party systems.He completed his PhD at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and his book Party Vibrancy and Democracy in …

Both of these new books explore different and usually unscrutinised aspects of academic writing and research, and thereby provide new insights into methodology and global politics.Writing Saved Me: When the International Gets Personal is a …

Jonathan is currently a Hallsworth Research Fellow at the Department of Politic and will take up his post as Lecturer in January 2025. He completed his PhD at SwagÖ±²¥ and has taught at King’s College London and Utrecht University. His …

Almost immediately after being appointed as foreign secretary, David Cameron’s ties with China generated difficult headlines for Rishi Sunak’s government.

Based on an article published in The American Political Science Review, Benson discusses the dangers of political polarization. He explains that the main threat isn’t that people come to accept misinformation or falsehoods, but that it narrows our …