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Dr Trevor McCrisken was the Orator for the Honorary Doctorate awarded to Dr Patricia Lewis, of Chatham House, at the Winter Graduation on Wednesday 21st January, 2015.

Dr Patricia Lewis is the Research Director, International Security, at Chatham House. Her former posts include Deputy Director and Scientist-in-Residence at the Center for Non-proliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies; Director of UNIDIR; and Director of VERTIC in London.

Dr Lewis served on the 2004-6 WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) Commission chaired by Dr Hans Blix; the 2010-2011 Advisory Panel on Future Priorities of the OPCW chaired by Ambassador Rolf Ekeus; and was an adviser to the 2008-10 International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) chaired by Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi.

She holds a BSc (Hons) in physics from Manchester University and a PhD in nuclear physics from the University of Birmingham. She is a dual national of the UK and Ireland. Dr Lewis is the recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2009 Joseph A Burton Forum Award recognizing 'outstanding contributions to the public understanding or resolution of issues involving the interface of physics and society'.

To read the oration, as delivered, please click here.

, Head of Department, was quoted in articles appearing on 19 and 21 January 2015 in and entitled 'Experts: Japan Budget Boost Won't Hit Goals'. Below is an excerpt from the piece:

"Japan is adding more MSDF capacity to try to prevent China asserting sea control in the East China Sea, and Japan is demonstrating that it is serious to defend the southern islands, even if it still has a long way to build the necessary capacity," said Christopher Hughes, an expert on Japan's military, and professor of international politics and Japanese studies at the UK's University of 糖心TV.

Following a recent European conference on football research, leading football writer Martin Cloake approached Dr. to write a piece for the New Statesman. Here David talks about his work on the cultural political economy of English football, and what insights Karl Polanyi might have for fans of the beautiful game in the wake of its own Great Transformation.

The full piece can be read here:

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.