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has been awarded the John L. Stanley Award for the most outstanding project in History and Ethics. This for her PhD project: 'Transformative Nudging: A Framework for Designing Policy Ecologies that Support Living Well' (Supervisors: Matthew Clayton, Adam Swift).

The prize is awarded annually by the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, based in New Jersey, USA, which awards grants to outstanding doctoral students working on various aspects of social policy. Combined with her success in their general competition, Fay will receive a total of $9,000 to support her project.

has been elected as Chair of the International Political Economy (IPE) section of the International Studies Association for 2016-17, the largest professional association of International Studies and International Political Economy scholars in the world.

With over 800 members from around the world, the IPE Section is one of the largest sections 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 Atlanta the IPE section organized 91 panels.

The deadline for submitting proposals for ISA 2017 in Baltimore is 1st June 2016. Further information about the IPE Section of ISA is available at:

To join the IPE section mailing list please visit: .

PAIS is currently advertising for a Research Assistant and Teaching Fellowship in International Security.

This is part-funded (0.4FTE) by Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams’ Leverhulme project ‘Everyday Narratives of European Border Security and Insecurity.’

The remainder of the role (0.6FTE) is to support teaching and learning in the International Security pathway at undergraduate level. The successful candidate will also have an opportunity to develop their own research trajectory alongside these commitments.

The deadline for applications is 22 May and further details can be found .

The Department is delighted to announce that, with effect from 1 June 2016, Dr has been appointed to a one-year Teaching Fellowship in International Relations and East Asia. Marijn has studied and lived for long periods of time in different cities across China and Europe.

He submitted his PhD dissertation, entitled: 'Producing China: The Politics of Space in the Making of Modern China', in September 2013, and successfully completed his viva voce in December 2013. His trans-disciplinary research is at the intersection of Geography and International Relations. His current research focuses on the politics of the air and deals with questions of technology, gassing, pollution, security, territory and governance. He discusses these themes primarily in the Chinese context.

It is a very encouraging start to term for PAIS with the publication of the 2017 Complete University Guide League Table. The Department has moved up from 6th place to 4th place, which follows our recent ranking of 3rd in The Times/Sunday Times:  

These outcomes underscore that the Department is at its strongest when our high performance in both research and teaching are taken together. Of particular note is that the CUG places us 1st in the Russell Group for student satisfaction. Indeed, no other Politics department in the Top 30 overall beats us on student satisfaction.

We look forward to working in partnership with all our students and staff to build on this success in the months and years ahead.

The University is ranked 8th overall and PAIS is among the top 5 highest performing Departments. A press release can be found here: