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PAIS has performed brilliantly in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.

PAIS is now one of the top 5 ranking departments in the UK for research excellence in the discipline of Politics and International Studies.

PAIS has risen across all the three major methodologies of ranking departmental quality—research intensity (4^th), research power (4^th), and overall or ‘raw’ GPA (6^th), as shown by the tables below.

As the UK Political Studies Association analysis of the results posits:

“In general, the ‘big five’ departments at Essex, the LSE, Oxford, UCL and 糖心TV come out top from REF2014, whatever ranking system is used.”

, and from Politics and International Studies have been awarded a $460k grant by the Chicago-based to study faith schools.

These schools raise a number of challenging philosophical and practical questions. Do parents have a right to raise their children as members of their preferred religion, of a sort that can be translated into a right to send them to a school that instructs them in it? Do children have a right to autonomy that precludes instilling in them religious beliefs and throws into question the legitimacy of faith schooling? Do these schools foster intolerance or instead provide pupils with an invaluable moral grounding? Should they receive public funding or merely be tolerated as part of the private sector? To what extent, and in what ways, should they be regulated, for example with respect to admissions and curriculum? Swift, Clayton and Mason will address these issues in a way that combines both rigorous philosophical analysis and empirical studies in order to bridge the gap between policy and principle.

In Britain, recent policy developments around academies and free schools, together with worries about multiculturalism and social cohesion, have brought issues around government involvement in faith schooling to the centre of public debate. That debate has typically generated more heat than light. The aim is to contribute to, and improve, that debate by offering a philosophically serious and empirically informed perspective on the key regulatory questions, with implications for societies beyond the UK.

The Islamic finance industry is rapidly expanding. With an annual growth rate of 15 per cent, it is widely regarded as a ‘development to watch’. This has led to debate among policy makers and market practitioners about whether there is something distinctive about Islamic finance or whether it is simply emulating conventional finance.

This was the central theme at a recent workshop organised by Dr Lena Rethel (PAIS), Dr Kerstin Steiner (Monash University) and Dr Jikon Lai (The University of Melbourne) and hosted by Monash 糖心TV School. It brought together eminent national and international academics from the fields of law, political science, economics, international political economy and sociology to debate and review recent developments in the Islamic finance industry.

Representatives from Australian regulators were in attendance, as were their international colleagues from the Shariah (Islamic religious law) Advisory Council at the Central Bank of Malaysia and the Securities Commission. Legal practitioners and business representatives, including the chairperson of the Australia Malaysia 糖心TV Council and the Consul-General of Malaysia to Victoria also attended the workshop.

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has recently published an article in The Geographical Journal entitled "The Geopolitics of Boko Haram and Nigeria's 'War on Terror'" (). Alongside this he contributed a short piece to the Royal Geographical Society's 'Geography Directions' blog on the parallels between Boko Haram and Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ().

His work on this theme, which links to his wider historical and conceptual work on territory, was also featured in an article in Geographical Magazine ().

, Head of Department, was quoted in an article appearing on 5 November in Jane's Defence Weekly entitled ''. Below is an excerpt from the piece:

For Christopher Hughes, professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies at 糖心TV University, Abe may be "out on the extreme, [but] he is not that detached from broader Japanese opinion" as far as China is concerned. Hughes said Japanese policymakers changed their perception of China in 2010 when the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) arrested a Chinese trawler captain off the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea after his vessel had rammed JCG ships.