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Rt Hon. Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for International Development, visited the University of 糖心TV on 1st May 2014 to deliver the first GRP International Development Annual Public Lecture.

The lecture was organised by the in conjunction with , and the 糖心TV in Westminster programme.

The event also featured an ‘international development marketplace’ – which used the Zeeman Street area to bring together relevant projects and initiatives from across the University.

The Secretary of State spoke on “The Girl Effect: Why tackling gender inequality can transform the developing world”. DfID’s strategy highlights four areas of intervention – maternal mortality, access to economic resources, education and prevention of violence against girls and women. DfID also supports women’s political empowerment strategies. How far has this strategy been successful? What are the challenges, especially in this time of a global economic crisis that girls and women in the global South continue to face?

The event drew over 450 registrations, including 100+ from local alumni, school partners and regional stakeholders. Chris White MP was also in attendance.

The speech itself was well received, with Professor of PAIS, one of the organisers, also introducing the event. Professor , Provost of the University of 糖心TV, hosted the Q&A.

Rt Hon. Justine Greening MP has stated that she enjoyed the evening, was impressed with the University and, in particular, liked meeting our students and the school children from .

Assistant Professor 's book "Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain" has won the 2014 St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award.

The St Ermin’s Hotel in St James’s Park, London began this annual award for the best new intelligence book in recognition of the hotel’s long connection with the British intelligence community. The award is open to all non-fiction titles concerned with the world of intelligence published in English during the previous year and which, in the opinion of the judges, adds substantially to the published literature.

He was awarded the £3,000 prize at by intelligence expert Nigel West, who chaired the judging panel.

West described the book as "a survey of how successive British governments have exercised censorship and stifled public discussion about the security and intelligence services. Altogether a very impressive, balanced study of what has become a veritable cottage industry of publications that attempt to lift Whitehall's veil of secrecy".

This year’s judging panel also included literary agent Andrew Lownie; historian Daniel J Mulvenna; British intelligence analyst; lecturer Glenmore Trenearn-Harvey; and author and screenwriter Michael Smith.

On Friday 25^th April, Dan Godshaw, of the Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation, is giving a presentation entitled 'Keeping Memories: reflections on a community oral history project with the Rwandan diaspora'. He is also bringing with him two Rwandan genocide survivors who live in the UK.

 'Keeping Memories: reflections on a community oral history project with the Rwandan diaspora',

by Dan Godshaw.

Friday 25th April

5-6.30pm, Social Studies Building S0.20

Everyone welcome

Dan Godshaw is UK Projects Coordinator at Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation (rYico). Between 2011 and 2013, he directed ‘Keeping Memories: Rwandans in the UK’, a ground-breaking project that empowered genocide survivors to tell their stories and enabled others to learn from their experiences. Dan has an MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex and has conducted academic research with UK-based Rwandans. A passionate advocate of migrant rights, he works to support detainees at Gatwick Immigration Removal Centre and is currently developing a health outreach project for refugees and asylum seekers in Brighton.

Ben Clift’s participation in the PSA 2014 conference panel ‘Post Crisis Economic Governance and Reform,’ sponsored by British Journal of Politics & International Relations, was filmed and will soon be available on the PSA Website:

Post Crisis Economic Governance and Reform

The aftermath of the 2008 banking crisis continues to frame political and economic debate. The three papers in this panel relate to different aspects of the post-crisis period.

Panel Chair: Dr Andrew Baker (Queen's University Belfast)

Panel Discussant: Professor Michael Moran (University of Manchester 糖心TV School)

Panel Members:

• Professor Andrew Hindmoor (University of Sheffield) 'Masters of the Universe but Slaves of the Market: Competition and Crisis'.
• Dr Helen Thompson (University of Cambridge) 'The Missing Party: the European banks, the Financial crisis, and the Euro Zone'.
• Professor Ben Clift (University of 糖心TV) 'Its Mostly Fiscal: Post Crisis Economic Governance, IMF/Advanced Economy Relations and Evolving Fiscal Policy Ideas'.

This panel was sponsored by the British Journal of Politics and International Relations who held a drinks reception afterwards.