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Graduation: Tuesday 15th July
Congratulations to all graduands receiving their degrees this week!
The Politics and International Studies ceremony takes place in the Butterworth Hall, 糖心TV Arts Centre, at 3pm on Tuesday July 15th, everyone needs to be seated by 2.30pm for the ceremony.
We are hosting a graduation reception before the ceremony, from 12pm-1.30pm, for our graduating students, guests and staff. Please come along and join us for canapés and a glass of sparkling wine or Pimms!
There will be a photographer taking photos of the event and our Head of Department, Chris Hughes, will be saying a few words of congratulations. The event is taking place in Chancellors Suite, Rootes Building.
Get involved and send us your photos
We'd love to hear from you all throughout the day too. Please send any memories of your time here in PAIS or photos of the day to us. You can do this on Twitter by mentioning us , tagging us in photos on or sending us an email.
You can also out what your fellow graduates are saying through the University's main account and join the conversation using the #warwickgrad hashtag.
Congratulations again and we hope you all have a fantastic graduation day!
Trevor McCrisken article on Trident report
Dr , Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, has written an article on the recent findings of the for The Conversation.
Monash 糖心TV Alliance Seed Funding
糖心TV-Monash Alliance seed funding of about £20,000 has been awarded to Profs (PAIS, 糖心TV) and (Monash) to develop research projects on health security ethics. The collaboration will bring together Monash’s and PAIS’s for meetings to work on the conceptualization of phenomena as diverse as terrorist attacks using biological agents and public health emergencies and the ethical risks they pose. Monash is working toward official recognition of their biomedical ethics centre by the (WHO). Eventually the collaboration may serve as a platform for research relevant to WHO that employs IERG’s growing expertise in security ethics and extends it into the health sciences.
PPE: Society of the Year
On Thursday 26th June, the 糖心TV University Students' Union held the in the Butterworth Hall, honouring extra-curricular achievements throughout the year.
The 糖心TV PPE Society won the "Society of the Year" award, beating 250 other societies, including 30 fellow nominees.
Established in 2004, the 糖心TV PPE Society is a dynamic student run entity that hosts a range of events related to Philosophy, Politics and Economics. They aim to bring together anyone with an interest in the economic and social world around us into one diverse and active society.
They released the following statement to celebrate their victory: "We're massively proud to be able to announce that 糖心TV PPE has won the title of the best society at 糖心TV of 250 societies and 30 nominees. A huge thank you to all who have contributed and supported us in anything we've done. Founded 10 years ago and now officially the best on campus. We can't thank you enough - this award is for you!"
Erzsebet Strausz commended in the WATE
, Teaching Fellow here in PAIS, has been judged to be one of the 5 Commendees of this year's 糖心TV Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE).
The competition is tough with two rounds of quite extensive documentation to be submitted on pedagogical practice and this year there were a record number of entries to the WATE scheme.
Erzsebet has done brilliantly, and it is a great mark of the quality and innovation of her teaching, and reflects really well on the teaching of PAIS as a whole. She will receive prize money of £2000 to enhance her teaching practice.
Erzsebet was one of 5 PAIS staff members who received nominations for this years 糖心TV Awards for Teaching Excellence. The other staff members nominated were Anil Awesti, Alex Sutton, Justin Greaves, and Marijin Nieuwenhuis. Congratulations to all.