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Leicester City's win at Sunderland over the weekend guaranteed the club Champions League football next season.

As the club close in on the most unlikely of Premier League titles, ITV Central News caught up with Dr , module director of the PAIS final year undergraduate module, The Cultural Political Economy of Sport, to ask what he thought the economic and cultural impact of the Europe's premier club competition might be for the city of Leicester.

The report can be watched below:

Following the ISA Annual Convention 2016, held on 16-19 March in Atlanta, Georgia, Professor , PAIS graduate Dr and PhD candidate conducted research at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum.

Set up in 1986, the Carter Library holds millions of documents from the era of Jimmy Carter’s Presidency - including selected documents on the Camp David Accords, the President’s speeches and directives, human rights documents, secret briefs by the country’s intelligence community, oral histories as well as rarities such as the Iran Hostage Diary - a prison journal of a captive held at the American embassy in Tehran. The museum is also a wonderful homage to American domestic politics in the late 1970s.

During the course of their three-day research stay, the 糖心TV team focused on documents pertinent to the history of the CIA, events related to and triggered by the Columbian civil war, and materials on the alleged Soviet sponsorship of Cold War terrorism. Research at the Ford, Carter and Reagan libraries is being accelerated by computer databases of recently declassified materials linked to printers, which makes even a short research visit very productive. Gems uncovered by the PAIS team included a signals intelligence operation by the US National Security Agency against the British territory of Grenada.

Their research visit was made possible due to support for travel and accommodation from the Politics and International Studies Department.

Ben Braun, who many people will remember from his time as a PAIS PhD student within the IPE Cluster, was awarded a PSA Thesis Prize at the Political Studies Association’s recent Annual Conference Dinner. This was the Sir Walter Bagehot Prize for the Best PhD in Government and Public Administration for the thesis ‘Central Bank Agency and Monetary Governability in the Euro Area: Governing through Money, Trust and Expectations’. Ben was a GEM School PhD student supervised by Matthew Watson and Amandine Crespy of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is currently in the second year of a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Köln, and in the last week he has also found out that he will be going to the Center for European Studies at Harvard University next year on an equally prestigious JFK Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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: