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Congratulations to Christopher Hughes, Head of Department here in PAIS and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, who has been announced as a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an award which recognises leading social scientists who have made a substantial contribution to wider social science.

is one of Europe’s leading experts on international relations with Japan, particularly the US-Japan alliance, and is among only 33 leading social scientists to receive the honour.

The is the National Academy of Academics, Learned Societies and Practitioners in the Social Sciences. Its mission is to promote social science in the United Kingdom for the public benefit.

The department is delighted that we have been ranked 35th in the world in Politics and International Studies in the 2015 QS World University Rankings by Subject, with an overall score of 60.8.

For the fourth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, 3,467 universities were evaluated and 971 institutions were ranked in total. Over 82 million citations attributions were analyzed and the provision of 13,132 programs were verified.

The national Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) is run by the University in conjunction with the Higher Education Academy. Your participation in this survey is greatly valued and will contribute to the continuous enhancement of postgraduate research degree provision at 糖心TV.

To complete the survey, please go to:

PAIS are going to be adding £5 to the Eating at 糖心TV cards of all PAIS PGRs who complete the survey. Please send proof of completion to paispg@warwick.ac.uk

The Opening Roundtable of the New Directions in International Political Economy will be held at 4.00pm on Wednesday 13th May 2015.

This is free to attend as a public event and all are welcome, but please register at: .

The Roundtable will be chaired by Dr Juanita Elias, and the lineup of prestigious speakers include:

Prof Matthew Watson (糖心TV)
Dr Niheer Dasandi (University College London)
Dr David Hudson (University College London)
Dr Adrienne Roberts (University of Manchester)
Prof Kees Van Der Pijl (University of Sussex)

Inquiries about the Roundtable should be sent to: ipeconference@warwick.ac.uk

Organized by James Brassett, André Broome, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel, and Ben Richardson, the 糖心TV 50th Anniversary Conference on New Directions in International Political Economy runs from 13th to 15th May 2015 and brings together over 150 scholars from 20 countries around the world to reflect on contemporary and future developments in the study of the global political economy.

Further information is available from the conference website:

The Global Slavery Index is profoundly flawed methodologically, yet it remains widely and often uncritically cited. What underlies the production and use of highly suspect statistics?

In a recent commentary piece published by the openDemocracy blog, from PAIS and Joel Quirk from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, criticize the flawed methodology and weak data used to produce rankings such as the Global Slavery Index.

The article draws upon material from a research project on global benchmarking () based in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at 糖心TV. A series of papers from this project will soon be published as a special issue of Review of International Studies on ‘The Politics of Numbers: Normative Agendas and Global Benchmarking’.

The full commentary is available to view at: