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Assistant Professor 's book "Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain" has won the 2014 St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award.

The St Ermin’s Hotel in St James’s Park, London began this annual award for the best new intelligence book in recognition of the hotel’s long connection with the British intelligence community. The award is open to all non-fiction titles concerned with the world of intelligence published in English during the previous year and which, in the opinion of the judges, adds substantially to the published literature.

He was awarded the £3,000 prize at by intelligence expert Nigel West, who chaired the judging panel.

West described the book as "a survey of how successive British governments have exercised censorship and stifled public discussion about the security and intelligence services. Altogether a very impressive, balanced study of what has become a veritable cottage industry of publications that attempt to lift Whitehall's veil of secrecy".

This year’s judging panel also included literary agent Andrew Lownie; historian Daniel J Mulvenna; British intelligence analyst; lecturer Glenmore Trenearn-Harvey; and author and screenwriter Michael Smith.

Dr has been awarded a prestigious Research Fellowship by the , which is due to commence on the 1st October 2014 for 12 months.

The Fellowship will allow Dr Holmes to complete a research monograph entitled 'Visions of perfectibility: state, market and alternatives in the formation of economic ideas'. The book will examine the way in which public economic discourse has become trapped within a notion of opposition between state and market, unpacking the history of ideas that gave rise to this situation as a set of ‘visions of perfectibility’. It will observe how state-market opposition has constrained debate on economic management in the post- 2008 landscape, before exploring various sites for re-imagining the purpose of the economy outside of the bounds of state and market.

Assistant Professor 's book "Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain" has been shortlisted for the 2014 St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award.

The St Ermin’s Hotel in St James’s Park, London began this annual award for the best new intelligence book in recognition of the hotel’s long connection with the British intelligence community. The award is open to all non-fiction titles concerned with the world of intelligence published in English during the previous year and which, in the opinion of the judges, adds substantially to the published literature.

The awards ceremony takes place on Tuesday 29th April at St. Ermin's Hotel, London.

Professor has an article in on widening participation.

This article was written following involvement in a 糖心TV workshop on social immobilities and access to university organised by Pro-Vice Chancellor . It explores the relationship between higher education marketisation at the level of university income and attempts to enhance access to degree programmes for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. It was published to coincide with the release of new figures by the , arguing that the current policy is inattentive to class differences in attitudes to holding debt and therefore has hidden costs that operate against the stated objectives of policy.

Dr and Dr 's research has been cited in the newly released House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Report on The UK’s Response to Extremism in North Africa. Citing their written evidence no fewer than three times throughout the report, the committee tied their research to the following policy recommendations:

Addressing terrorism in the Western Sahel-Sahara region comprehensively means addressing the environmental conditions that are allowing it to grow: poverty and inequality, corruption and mis-governance, the pressure of fast-growing populations on depleting natural resources, insufficient cross-border co-operation, and the spread of extremist ideology. This is a huge task requiring international co-operation across a number of disciplines. We [the committee] see signs that development and investment challenges are beginning to be addressed, but are concerned that co-operation on security matters should not be neglected.

We [the Committee] recognise that the UK Government has sought to secure international co-operation, for instance through the communiqué agreed at the 2013 G8 summit. We recommend that the UK Government, in its response to this report, outlines how it proposes to maintain momentum on this issue over the remainder of this Parliament, particularly in relation to security and intelligence co-operation.

The UK's response to extremism and instability in North and West Africa - Volume 1

The UK's response to extremism and instability in North and West Africa - Volume 2

The UK's response to extremism and instability in North and West Africa - Volume 3