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The EU Commission has announced its decision to fund a new project, entitled 'European Leadership in Cultural, Science, and Innovation Diplomacy' (EL-CSID), as part of the Research and Innovation Framework Programme.

Led by Professor Luk van Langenhove at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), EL-CSID is a programme of research worth a total of €2.3M of which €300,000 has been awarded to PAIS.

Professor will be coordinating Work Package 3 'Cultural and Science Diplomacy: The Transnational and Collaborative Dynamic' and she will be joined by Dr and Dr who are named researchers on the project.

PAIS is delighted with the outcome. Professor , Director of Research, says: "Congratulations go to all those involved in preparing the bid. Securing funding for H20/20 consortia and work packages is extremely competitive, and this really is a wonderful achievement. We look forward to assisting Diane in co-ordinating the 糖心TV-based work package, and helping Andre and Chris carry out their research on the project"

The over-arching objectives of EL-CSID are threefold:

• To detail and analyse the manner in which the European Union (EU) operates in the domains of culture and science diplomacy in the current era; comparing its bilateral and multilateral cultural and science ties between states, regions, and public and private international organisations.
• To examine the degree to which cultural and science diplomacy can enhance the interests of the EU in the contemporary world order and to identify:

How cultural and science diplomacy, and innovations in them, can contribute to Europe’s standing as an international actor in a manner comparable to that of the other major contemporary actors, particularly the USA and China.

Opportunities offered by enhanced coordination and collaboration amongst the EU, its members and their extra-European partners.

Constraints posed by economic and socio-political factors affecting the evolving operating environments of both science and cultural diplomacy.

• To identify a series of mechanisms/platforms and tools to raise awareness among relevant stakeholders of the importance of science and culture as vehicles for enhancing the EU’s external relations.

Final year PAIS and History student, Chloe Wynne, has had her URSS research on the place of women within Formula 1 accepted for oral presentation at the prestigious next March.

The annual conference, to be held next year at Manchester Metropolitan University, is the largest of its kind in the UK, and promotes undergraduate research in all disciplines. Undergraduates of all levels are invited to submit papers, posters, workshops and performances to the Conference. Abstracts are peer-reviewed and only those accepted will be invited to attend the conference.

Chloe's research focuses upon the different gendered experiences faced by women competing and working within Formula 1. As part of her URSS project, which was supervised by Dr , Chloe wrote an article that later appeared in Autosport magazine, which explored the absence of women in prominent positions within the sport.

PAIS academics Associate Professor and Dr Marinella Capriati have been invited to speak at Westminster on October 26th to a cross-party group of MPs on their project ''.

The project, which runs until 2016, is funded by an ESRC Impact Accelerator Grant.

, Professor of International Security and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of 糖心TV, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize worth £100,000.00 by The Leverhulme Trust.

Philip Leverhulme Prizes recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is judged to be exceptionally promising. Each year the scheme awards up to thirty Prizes across a range of disciplines and in 2015 the selected subject areas are: Classics, Earth Sciences, Physics, Politics and International Relations, Psychology, and Visual and Performing Arts.

The Prize is in recognition of Nick’s research at the intersection of international security and border studies. Drawing together his long-standing interest in the international politics of border security with more recent work on vernacular theories of security threats, he will use the Prize to launch a new three-year project (2016-19) entitled ‘Everyday narratives of European border security and insecurity’.

The project will investigate how European citizens narrate their own experiences and understandings of border security and insecurity against the backdrop of the on-going Mediterranean migration and refugee crisis. In-depth critical focus group research across major cities affected by the crisis – with groups varied according to age, ethnicity, socio-economic background, religion, and gender – will generate rich qualitative insights into how diverse publics make sense of the crisis, the kinds of stories they tell about how it affects their own lives and others’ including migrants and refugees, and the impact of EU border security and migration management policies and practices on ‘regular’ populations.

Aside from several scholarly outputs including a research monograph, the Prize will generate an open access data archive of vernacular theories of everyday border security and insecurity, and research findings will be disseminated via a bespoke project website, targeted media interventions, and engagement with end-users (citizens, migrant and refugee activist groups, governments, the EU Commission, and media) throughout the lifecycle of the research.

Further information about the Philip Leverhulme Prize can be found here:

IPE researchers from PAIS have won the IATL Strategic Project Grant for I-PEEL: International Political Economy of Everyday Life.

This innovative teaching project aims to create an online teaching tool for use in political economy modules. Its content will be steered by students and geared to their development as self-directed learners. The central format will revolve around a set of front page 'tiles' (i.e. clickable squares) presented on a webpage, which will feature an image or object such as a cup of coffee, a bar of soap, or a development charity poster. Our pedagogical purpose is to provide students with an accessible route into the study of the global economy; a topic which is complex and can often feel like it is far removed from the realities of people’s daily existence. The project will achieve this by producing a platform website which will host a series of short academic reflections on the political economy of the objects and events of everyday life. Taking advantage of the online format, the text will also be supplemented with pictures and podcasts, hyperlinked sources, feeds on further reading, and linked forums for online discussion.

The project is funded by the . Project team members are: James Brassett, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel and Ben Richardson (all PAIS). The online platform will be developed in collaboration with .

We are currently in the process of recruiting volunteers for our student advisory board. Please email Lena at L.Rethel@warwick.ac.uk if you want to get involved.

We also gratefully acknowledge the support from colleagues in CAL, CIM, English and Comparative Literary Studies, Film and Television Studies, History, Law, Sociology, Theatre Studies and WBS.