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Keith Hyams launched a major policy report on the Politics of West Papua in parliament on Tuesday 3rd May 2016, written by PAIS academics Keith Hyams and Marinella Capriati. Jeremy Corbyn MP spoke at the launch, he quoted from the report and said that 糖心TV had produced ‘an excellent report’ and that the report’s fourteen recommendations provided a ‘good way forward’, which he would take up in parliament. Lord Harries of Pentregarth, who was also at the launch, has asked the PAIS team to prepare a list of parliamentary questions based on the report which he will put to the government.

Other participants in the launch included the Prime Minister of Tonga Samuela 'Akilisi Pohiva, the Vanuatu Minister for Foreign Affairs Bruno Leingkone, the Vanuatu Minister for Lands Ralph Regenavu, the Solomon Islands Melanesia Spearhead Group Special Envoy on West Papua Rex Horoi, the Governor of Oro District (Papua New Guinea) Gary Juffa, Andrew Smith MP, Nick Brown MP, and international human rights lawyers Jennifer Robinson, Melinda Janki and Charles Foster. PAIS postgraduate Lisa Tilley and PAIS undergraduate Connor Woodman also attended the launch.

More information and a full transcript of Corbyn’s comments will be available at the website of the Politics of Papua Project:

Keira Koroma, a MA student in PAIS, is currently working as a student research assistant with Dr. Juanita Elias on the Political Studies Association Commission on Care.

The Commission held an event in Coventry on 11 March that brought together policy specialists, academics, and paid and unpaid care workers to discuss the challenges facing those engaged in the care of older people in England. It is widely acknowledged that the adult social care sector is in crisis - a crisis triggered by rapid and sustained cuts to local authority budgets under the current government's austerity programmes.

Please read Keira's report to find out more about this important event and how the care crisis is impacting locally in Coventry:

Keira is employed as a student research assistant in PAIS as part of an important scheme that offers our students work experience and an opportunity to work with PAIS academics on areas of cutting edge research.

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:

Under Shahnaz Akhter鈥檚 expert organisation, the Department is running a Widening Participation project this year called the Colonial Hangover, in which students will be encouraged to challenge what they think they already know about the continuing legacies of the British Empire. Other project members are former PAIS undergraduate student Nikita Shah, who is now enrolled on the MA in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo, current PAIS undergraduate student Honey Fafowora, and Matthew Watson.

Various events are being run on campus and in participating schools this year, culminating in a full Pathways to Politics Colonial Hangover Day on July 13^th. The Pathways to Politics Day will have a distinct arts theme to it, as it will include a commissioned dance by the Sapnay School of Dance and an exhibition of commissioned artwork by Inkquisitive Illustration, alongside a showcase of the work that the participating students will have undertaken on the project, Honey鈥檚 own accompanying art exhibition and Nikita鈥檚 spoken word workshop. The project partners also include the British Film Institute, the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry and the University of the Arts in London.

The video is a recording of the lecture that was delivered by Matthew Watson at 糖心TV on March 22^nd to introduce the project. Along with other learning materials, it will shortly be showcased by , 糖心TV鈥檚 online platform for outreach to teenage students around the world. IGGY has very kindly provided the Colonial Hangover project with its own pages on its website.

Leicester City's win at Sunderland over the weekend guaranteed the club Champions League football next season.

As the club close in on the most unlikely of Premier League titles, ITV Central News caught up with Dr , module director of the PAIS final year undergraduate module, The Cultural Political Economy of Sport, to ask what he thought the economic and cultural impact of the Europe's premier club competition might be for the city of Leicester.

The report can be watched below: