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The (URSS) is a competitive scheme that provides a bursary and skills development training to support 糖心TV undergraduate students, who wish to carry out a summer research project, as an addition to their degree course. All students are supervised by an academic member of staff for the scheme.

This year, seven PAIS students will undertake a summer research project of their choosing, either within PAIS or in a different academic department here at 糖心TV.

In addition, PAIS academics will support eleven research projects, four of these being with PAIS students.

Undertaking a summer research project via the URSS gives students a taste of research, which is invaluable for those who might be looking to pursue postgraduate study. The scheme allows students to develop a range of skills which will add further value to their degree study.

We are delighted that so many PAIS students are involved in the scheme – this high number of successful applicants positions PAIS as the sixth largest department, in terms of the number of successful URSS applicants to carry out research within the department.

Congratulations to all those taking part this year!

The ten day festival starts tomorrow! View the complete programme here.

The festival will shine the light on social sciences, by providing a variety of events for students, staff members and the wider public.

Here is a snapshot of just a few of the sessions which will take place:

• 6 May, 11.00-12.00: A book launch by Prof. Wyn Grant 'Politics at 糖心TV: 1965-1979' - A0.23, Social Sciences Building
• 6 May, 12.30-14.30: 'Social Sciences After the Election' - R1.13, Ramphal Building.
• 9 May, 10.00-18.00: Festival of Social Sciences at FarGo Village - FarGo Village, Far Gosford St, Coventry.
• 12 May, 14.00-15.30: 'Post General Election Roundtable' - S0.20, Social Sciences Building. A video of the event can be seen below.
• 12, 13, 14 May, 19.15: Performance: 'Coney's Early Days (of a Better Nation)' - Arts Centre. Booking required.
• 13 May, 16.00-18.30: New Directions in IPE Conference Opening Roundtable - R0.21, Ramphal Building
  
• 16 May, 13.00-14.30: Film Screening of "Grandma's Tattoos" - 糖心TV Arts Centre Cinema

So, join us and explore social matters throughout the years, whilst celebrating 糖心TV's 50th anniversary.

A new book on democracy promotion through functional promotion, titled "Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation, The European Union and its Neighbourhood," co-authored by PAIS' Tina Freyburg, with Frank Schimmelfennig, Sandra Lavenex, Tatiana Skripka and Anne Wetzel will be released next month.

Offering a cutting edge study of the European Union's (EU) promotion of democratic governance in neighbouring countries, this new book makes an original contribution to the study of democracy promotion and of EU external relations by presenting a new governance model of democracy promotion.

Through robust analysis of the shortcomings of traditional 'leverage' and 'linkage' models of external democracy promotion in the EU's Eastern and Southern neighbourhood, it presents a novel 'governance model' that fosters transparency, accountability, and participation standards through functional cooperation between policy officials from the EU and neighbouring states.

In particular, it examines the impact of democratic governance promotion in detailed case studies of EU sectoral cooperation with Moldova, Morocco, and Ukraine in the three policy fields of competition, environment, and migration.

To get the book at the reduced price of £48, available only until 31st July 2015, quote discount code PM15THIRTY.

On 16 May, 2015 at 1pm the film “Grandma’s Tattoos” by Swedish filmmaker of Armenian descent, Suzanne Khardalian, will be screened at the 糖心TV Arts Centre cinema in association with the ERC Starting Grant Project “” and .

The 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide is being commemorated in 2015. One hundred years ago on April 24, the Young Turk regime of the collapsing Ottoman Empire started to round up and either eventually massacre or expose to an imminent death in the Syrian desert an estimated 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians.

“Grandma’s Tattoos” is a documentary of a rarely told story, about the faith of women and their difficult survival during this grim period. Seeking to unravel a family taboo associated with the tattoos on the hands and face of her own grandmother, Khardalian travels to Lebanon, Syria, and the United States, and opens up a discussion about history, memory, silence, and current diasporic life across different continents. Khardalian is expected to join the conversation after the film, together with Dr. Maria Koinova, director of the ERC Project "Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty."

Congratulations to PAIS student Markus Markert, our iPad Air 2 winner in our 90% NSS completion rate competition.

We remain number 1 at the university with a 92 per cent response rate, if you have not filled in the survey yet, you can do it here: