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Dr Trevor McCrisken, Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, spoke on BBC Coventry and 糖心TVshire's radio programme this morning, discussing the US elections.

You can hear what Trevor has to say at 1hr 37 on the BBC iPlayer link:  

The European Leadership in Cultural, Science and Innovation Diplomacy (EL-CSID) project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research programme.

The EL-CSID project aims to advance the study of cultural and science diplomacy, and is led by Scientific Coordinator Professor Luk Van Langenhove at the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Under the leadership of Professor Diane Stone, 糖心TV researchers in Politics and International Studies are contributing to Work Package 3 of the EL-CSID project on 'Cultural and Science Diplomacy: The Transnational and Collaborative Dynamic'.

On 7-8 March 2016, the first meeting of the steering committee was organised at the Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The meeting brought together the members of the consortium to discuss the EL-CSID research agenda, work plan, output and agenda. Two representatives from the European Commission (DG RTD and REA) briefed the consortium on the H2020 programme priorities and the project management-aspects.

Visit the EL-CSID project website:

Further information is available at:

(PAIS) and (Political Economy, University of Sydney) have been awarded a small grant from the on the project 'Henri Lefebvre's writings on Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics of Land'. The grant is to support the translation of essays by the French Marxist Henri Lefebvre on the political economy of ground rent and rural sociology. Stuart and Adam will edit these essays and present them as a book with substantial notes and introduction, on the model of a previous book of Lefebvre’s essays that Stuart co-edited with – , Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

The first essay from the project, ‘” was recently publishing in the journal Antipode, translated by 糖心TV Philosophy PhD student , and edited and with an by Stuart and Adam. Several more such essays will appear in the edited book.

When Stuart and Adam were first beginning the project they wrote a short piece for the Politics Reconsidered blog answering a key question about this project:

Dr. published a new article on the Armenian diaspora mobilisation for genocide recognition in a special issue on the Southern Caucasus of Osteuropa, 7-10, 2015, pp. 285-298 (in German, English version to follow in 2016). This research has been conducted with funding from the European Research Council Starting Grant ""

In 1915 close to 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives during the genocide committed by the collapsing Ottoman Empire. Numerous others were expelled and became refugees in neighboring and distant countries. The Armenian diaspora is fighting since then for the recognition of this crime against humanity as genocide. Large Armenian diaspora communities live at present primarily in the US, France, the Middle East, and Russia. The Armenian diaspora is an important economic factor for Armenia, but its strong influence is not without problems. The diaspora often holds an uncompromising stance, which brings difficulties to finding pragmatic solutions to contentious politics related to Nagorno-Karabakh and Turkey.

The article can be read here:

Dr and Dr have been awarded a grant of £83,000 from the Newton Fund Institutional Links scheme to investigate the gender impacts of slum resettlement projects in Jakarta, Indonesia. The project involves a partnership with Universitas Indonesia’s Centre for Election and Political Party (CEPP) and also involves input from civil society partners engaged in housing, architecture and development work. The project partners at Universitas Indonesia are Dr. Chusnul Mar’iyah and Dr. Reni Suwarso, co-directors of CEPP.

The research, funded under the Newton scheme’s ‘future cities’ theme, will focus on low-income dwellers in two Jakarta slum locations. These areas are amongst the most vulnerable of Jakarta’s population, affected by floods, fire and economic precarity. The project seeks to understand how current rehousing projects affect the lives of women and what their developmental needs are, e.g. safe spaces, access to finance, opportunities for (in)formal economic activity and how these can be delivered. In dialogue with local women’s groups, the project will develop resources and an online toolkit for women's empowerment. The project will run for two years.