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Presenting your research to an international audience at will allow you to develop key transferrable skills for the future and will give your research the audience it deserves.

Have doubts that this opportunity is for you? Taking the step of presenting at a research conference is easier than you think – and here is why:

1. You are already a researcher.

You may well already be doing research here at 糖心TV:

- as a component of your degree curriculum

- within a particular module you are taking

- as part of a funded project external to the curriculum

- within the URSS scheme

- as preparation for your dissertation

- or as an independent project on a topic you are particularly interested in.

Your contribution may be large, such as a new discovery or a game-changing way of thinking in your discipline. Or it may be more modest, such as an extension of existing ideas that broaden our knowledge or deepen the practice of the field. But, as long as you’re asking questions using the methodologies and analyses of the discipline, it’s “research.”

2. 250 words (or less) is all you need to start.

All you have to do to apply is to submit an abstract of 250 words or less. And we’ve made that even easier for you by providing guidance on how to write an abstract – which you can find. Abstracts will be assessed and presenters selected after the abstract submission deadline on Friday May 9, 2014.

3. You can choose to present your research in the way you are most comfortable with.

includes spoken presentation sessions (either to other attendees from 糖心TV or as part of our international sessions) or poster presentation sessions. You can choose how best to express your work depending on what suits you.

4. Submitting is as easy as filling out this .

You will also need to include information on five pieces of academic work that are related to your abstract.

5. ICUR is a supportive and collegial environment.

It would be difficult to find a better place to try your hand at presenting your research. We offer before, during and after the event and your fellow attendees are an interested and encouraging community of undergraduate researchers, many of whom will be presenting their work for the first time.

6. Whatever the future holds - these are skills you need.

Conference presenting is not just for those that are looking to do a further degree, or to pursue a career in academia. Most jobs in most industries will involve presentations: to colleagues, to students, to clients, or to fellow professionals in other companies.

7. Anyone can participate.

As long as you are an undergraduate at the University of 糖心TV, there is a way for you to participate in ICUR. Current final year students are encouraged to apply, as long as they can return to campus for the event on 23^rd September, 2014. 

Staff members from here in the department have decided to take on this summer’s , in order to raise funds for . Some have even signed up for the adventurous ‘Pretty Muddy’ version!

All funds raised will go directly to Myton. Any donations, big or small, will be greatly appreciated.

Please visit their page here and show your support:

and are editing a new book series for , entitled Global Reordering.

Global Reordering invites manuscript submissions based on innovative empirical research that is theoretically-informed and is relevant for contemporary policy debates. Key areas include: changing modes of global governance and multipolarity; global public policy networks; emerging powers and multipolar alternatives; regions and regionalism; as well as regional and global leadership.

The (EJIR) have published ’s article "Why Do Conflict-generated Diasporas Pursue Sovereignty-based Claims through State-based or Transnational Channels? Armenian, Albanian, and Palestinian Diasporas Compared."

Over the past decade, diaspora mobilization has become of increasing interest to International Relations scholars who study terrorism, civil wars and transnational social movements and networks. Nevertheless, an important area remains under-researched: conditions, causal mechanisms and processes of diaspora mobilization vis-a-vis emerging states, especially in a comparative perspective. This article asks why diaspora entrepreneurs in liberal states pursue the sovereignty goals of their original homelands through the institutional channels of their host-states, through transnational channels or use a dual-pronged approach. Empirically, the article focuses on a comparison between the Albanian, Armenian and Palestinian diasporas in the UK and their links to the emerging states of Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh and Palestine.

The EJIR is a top journal in International Relations, the article can be read by clicking the following link:

The 糖心TV International Summer School offers unique accredited courses taught in prestigious departments by expert academics using innovative teaching methods. Our specially designed programmes offer undergraduates from all over the world a chance to combine intensive academic study with a varied social agenda exploring the diversity of British culture and heritage.

The Summer School is split into two three-week blocks, and each course will run either in Block 1 (29 June to 19 July) or Block 2 (20 July to 9 August). When you've chosen the course you'd like to take, please check carefully which block it will run in. If you see two courses you'd like to take, you're welcome to join us for two courses and stay for six weeks rather than three!

Please see www2.warwick.ac.uk/summerschool for more general information, and for information about the International Summer School.

A PDF with key info on the ISS can also be viewed here