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Professor recently spoke at a Roundtable Discussion on ‘China, Regionalism and Globalization: Implications for India’, organised by the (ICWA), at Sapru House, New Delhi.

Professor Breslin presented a fascinating account of China’s approach to globalization, regionalism, multilateral diplomacy and the debate within China on different issues, especially those related to its self perception and stature in international politics.

Stuart Elden has been interviewed on two websites recently about his work. First with Peter Sigrist on the Polis website () and second on the Groundwork website of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy of Kingston University ().

Both interviews cover Stuart's work, past, present and future, and related issues about publishing, blogging and universities today.

The has agreed to fund the AiO project, in which Professor is Co-Investigator and Dr is Research Fellow. The IERG share of the funding is £210,000.

This project, which is led by Professor of Aston University, uses forensic linguistic techniques which will make it possible for police more effectively to counter paedophile activity on the internet. The (IERG) is responsible for ethics work in this project.

糖心TV MA student António Ferraz de Oliveira has been jointly awarded the 2013 Dissertation Prize by the Political Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers). The dissertation was entitled “Space of Exception (?) - Christiania’s Alternative”, and was completed at the University of Cambridge. António will be going on to study for a PhD in PaIS following the completion of his MA.

The department of Politics and International Studies will be launching thirteen research assistant positions starting in the New Year. The aim of these positions is to involve undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD candidates directly in the ESRC-funded Transatlantic Interests and Democratic Possibilities in a Transforming Middle East project. This will not only complement the department's excellence in teaching and research, but innovate in the university's overall approach to research-led teaching.

As part of a large research team, successful candidates will become directly involved in the research project's analysis of Middle Eastern politics, US and EU foreign policy and help develop new techniques for mapping civil society and visualising big data. They will be taught the latest research techniques and be directly led by the project’s principal investigator Dr. , becoming involved in Big Data Analysis, Social Media Analysis, Advanced Discourse Analysis and Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis. As such, in addition to providing candidates with valuable practical research experience, they will help push the boundaries of the latest research techniques.

In addition to this form of research-led teaching and training contributing to the already vibrant research culture of the department, the results of this project will be submitted to the UK Data Archive and be used internationally as a data resource for scholars and researchers. Candidates will also contribute to the project's wider impact, which has already seen the initial project research publicized around the world through various media outlets and fed directly to policy-makers in the UK, US and European Union.