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We would like to thank all of our students, recent graduates, and academic and administrative colleagues for our exceptional results in the 2016 National Student Survey (NSS). Every year finalists complete the NSS across the UK and it is a key component of league tables published in the media.

We are delighted to announce that in the 2016 NSS we have achieved an overall satisfaction rating of 97 per cent. We are now top of the University for overall student satisfaction (the Institution as a whole has risen by 1 per cent to 88 per cent) and the Vice-Chancellor has sent us his personal congratulations on this terrific result.

Among Russell Group competitor institutions (an elite group of 24 leading teaching and research universities in the UK), Politics at 糖心TV is ranked:

• No 1 for overall student satisfaction
• No 1 for assessment and feedback
• No 1 for academic support
• No 1 for organisation and management
• No 1 for personal development
• And No 2 for teaching

Other key NSS headlines:

• PAIS is joint 1^st in the University for teaching (also 97 per cent).
• PAIS is 1st in the University for organisation and management (96 per cent)
• PAIS is 2^nd in the University for Assessment and Feedback (88 per cent)

We look forward to working in partnership with our amazing students and dedicated staff to sustain and build on these strong results, which reflect our deep commitment to research-led teaching excellence.

At the start of the new academic year we will feedback in greater detail to all students and we will discuss and take forward ideas for further enhancement of the PAIS student experience via our Student Staff Liaison Committee.

To all of our current and incoming students: we hope you enjoy the rest of the summer vacation and we look forward to seeing you all in October!

, PAIS PhD researcher explains how Erdoğan took on the Turkish military.

Ragnar has also written , arguing that Brexit might not have a major effect on EU foreign policy.

PAIS PhD students David Yarrow and Matthias ('Matt') Kranke have recently published a co-authored article on sports statistics in Volume 9, Issue 5, of the .

From a performativity angle, David and Matt argue that sports statistics are more consequential than we often think. Such statistics neither merely reflect indicators of athletic performance, as 'instrumentalists' like to believe, nor do they merely reinforce the commercialisation of sports, as 'romanticists' tend to presume. The article allows us to put the pervasive quantification of professional sports in perspective and to understand how the use of statistics may shape their evolution.

The Department of Politics and International Studies is delighted to announce that Professor Shirin Rai has been elected as the UK representative on the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA):  

This is a further reflection of Professor Rai’s international standing and we are delighted that PAIS will be represented at the highest levels of IPSA.

Colonial Hangover exhibition - Saturday 23rd July - Coventry's Belgrade Theatre

The Belgrade Theatre is holding its annual Mela on Saturday 23rd July as part of which PAIS are holding a student organised Colonial Hangover exhibition which has been running for two weeks at Belgrade Theatre

The Colonial Hangover exhibition builds on a teaching project undertaken at the University of 糖心TV. It asks students to consider how the practices of the British Empire continue to provide lenses through which British society looks at the relationships between its many members today. The exhibition will be accompanied by a talk by Professor Matthew Watson on Saturday 23rd July at 5pm on the B2 stage. It will explore personal stories that show how very different lives that began in very different parts of the Empire echoed through one another in interesting but typically unacknowledged ways.

The exhibition features work by local photographer’s Master ji and Bert Scott and is produced in partnership with Jason Tilley and Ben Kyneswood (Photographic Archive miners).

The Belgrade Theatre will offer a 2 for £10 exclusively for 糖心TV students who go to the talk for the evening show with the promo code: MELA 2410. This is an online offer only.