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PAIS has moved to 5th in The Guardian University League Table 2016 for Politics, up from 7th in 2015.

The Guardian table is based to a large extent on student satisfaction, employability, entry tariffs and departmental spend on each student. PAIS scored 10 out of 10 on spend per student, with only a few other institutions able to match this in the top ten.

You can view the league tables for Politics here:

The University as a whole has risen to 6th from 9th.

Well done to everyone in PAIS for this very good rise, which again confirms our consistency across every research and teaching league table as a top five department.

PAIS academic has been awarded the inaugural Marc Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy. This is a prestigious essay competition open to researchers within 15 years of completion of their PhD, run by the leading journal Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Keith will present his paper at the Oxford Studies workshop in Syracuse in September.

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Congratulations to PAIS PhD candidate Lisa Soares, who has recently been informed by the Government of Jamaica that she is 2015's recipient of the Governor-General's Achievement Award for Diaspora (USA) in the 18-35 category. This award is given under the Governor-General's Programme for Excellence scheme.

The Governor-General's Jamaica Diaspora Award for Excellence was created in 2008 and forms part of the Governor-General's Achievement Awards Scheme Programme, which has been in existence since 1991. The award is presented biennially to Jamaicans living in the United Kingdom, USA or Canada, who have demonstrated active and significant service towards the development of their community of residence, and to the development of Jamaica.

The award will be officially conferred on June 16th in Jamaica.

has been elected as Section Program Chair for 2015-16 of the International Political Economy (IPE) Section of the International Studies Association, the largest professional association of International Studies scholars in the world.

The IPE Section is the third largest within the ISA, and organizes a number of prestigious awards to be presented at each year's annual convention, including the IPE Distinguished Scholar Award, the Society of Women in International Political Economy (SWIPE) Award, and the Outstanding Activist Scholar (OAS) Award. For this year's ISA annual convention in New Orleans the IPE Section sponsored 94 roundtables or panels.

The deadline for submitting proposals for ISA 2016 in Atlanta is 1st June 2015. Further information on the IPE Section of ISA is available at:

Her Excellency, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, President of the Republic of Malta, has been appointed as an Honorary Professor by our department.

The appointment marks the first time a President of Malta has been made an Honorary Professor of a foreign university.

At a reception, held on May 6th in Verdala Palace, to mark the appointment, Nick Vaughan-Williams, Professor of International Security and PAIS Head of Department-designate, said:

We are proud and delighted to welcome Her Excellency as an Honorary Professor in PAIS – her attention to economic, social, and political injustice gives politics a human face and this strongly reflects the ethos of our Department".

As part of the Honorary Professorship, Her Excellency is expected to visit the University of 糖心TV later this year to give an inaugural lecture. There will also be an exchange of students between Malta and 糖心TV, and new research opportunities.

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