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has recently been interviewed for the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Beyond Belief' about Islam in Germany.

Other contributors to the episode include James Hodkinson and Silke Horstkotte of the Department of German and the Anglican Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines.

You can listen to the programme on the BBC website:

has written for the International Feminist Journal of Politics' Conversations section, in which she reflects on her experience of conducting fieldwork, on non-state armed actors in Lebanon, while being accompanied by her daughter.

You can read the article here:

We are delighted that the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) has moved up to 3^rd place (from 4th last year) in the latest Guardian rankings, which measure student satisfaction (NSS), career prospects, and a range of other important indicators.

The University of 糖心TV is ranked 8th overall — a full University press release can be found .

Our latest position in The Guardian builds on recent successes in other national league tables – notably 3^rd place in the 2017 The Times/Sunday Times University Guide and 4^th place in the 2018 Complete University Guide.

We thank all staff and students who have contributed to this impressive and sustained achievement. Research and teaching excellence in Politics and International Studies are at the heart of who we are and what we stand for as a Department. We look forward to building on this success in the months and years ahead.

Dr has written a blog, titled Trouble in Macedonia as ethnic tensions run high, for .

Macedonia may be a parliamentary democracy, but it’s also a fragile multicultural state. Its democracy has been in gradual decline since the mid-2000s – and in an era of unstable geopolitics and rising authoritarianism, the right sequence of events could send it slipping back into inter-ethnic strife.

The precarity of the country’s situation was made plain in April, when more than 200 protestors and loyalists to the Macedonian conservative-nationalist VMRO-DMPNE party , and physically attacked lawmakers, who had earlier elected an ethnic Albanian politician, Talat Xhaferi, as speaker. The brawl left 77 people injured.

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Taking the next step: new frontiers in the interdisciplinary study of finance

Agenda

It is a strange moment for young scholars to research finance. The furore of the Great Financial Crisis and the Eurozone Crisis has faded, yet the risks and uncertainties of finance remain the same. Rampant speculation and asset bubbles continue to thrive. Public debt and private debt is back to pre-crisis levels, and the financialization of virtually all aspects of economic and social spheres is deepening further. Meanwhile, research efforts in recent years have unveiled finance as a richly heterogenous field reaching far beyond what is commonly assumed to be financial. A large amount of work across disciplines has uncovered new ways in which finance is changing both itself as well as economies, societies and politics more broadly.

The purpose of this Early Career Researcher Workshop is to reflect on the current juncture of finance research, to understand the complexities of finance and to discuss the changes and continuities in a research agenda gradually moving on from the overriding concern with the crisis. Therefore, the workshop seeks to address several new research areas within finance which we believe can benefit from interdisciplinary engagement and it aims to cultivate an academic sensitivity to the plurality of approaches that sustain the current lines of finance research.

Call for Papers

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Timeline

Application deadline: 1 June 2017
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2017
Papers due: 31 August 2017
Workshop: 25-26 September 2017