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PAIS has moved to 5th in The Guardian University League Table 2016 for Politics, up from 7th in 2015.

The Guardian table is based to a large extent on student satisfaction, employability, entry tariffs and departmental spend on each student. PAIS scored 10 out of 10 on spend per student, with only a few other institutions able to match this in the top ten.

You can view the league tables for Politics here:

The University as a whole has risen to 6th from 9th.

Well done to everyone in PAIS for this very good rise, which again confirms our consistency across every research and teaching league table as a top five department.

PAIS academic has been awarded the inaugural Marc Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy. This is a prestigious essay competition open to researchers within 15 years of completion of their PhD, run by the leading journal Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Keith will present his paper at the Oxford Studies workshop in Syracuse in September.

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Congratulations to PAIS PhD candidate Lisa Soares, who has recently been informed by the Government of Jamaica that she is 2015's recipient of the Governor-General's Achievement Award for Diaspora (USA) in the 18-35 category. This award is given under the Governor-General's Programme for Excellence scheme.

The Governor-General's Jamaica Diaspora Award for Excellence was created in 2008 and forms part of the Governor-General's Achievement Awards Scheme Programme, which has been in existence since 1991. The award is presented biennially to Jamaicans living in the United Kingdom, USA or Canada, who have demonstrated active and significant service towards the development of their community of residence, and to the development of Jamaica.

The award will be officially conferred on June 16th in Jamaica.

What next after PAIS… Careers and experiences: A talk with PAIS Masters Alumni to launch the PAIS Masters Alumni Network

28th May at 5pm in S0.11

PAIS Masters students go on to some really interesting careers in business, finance, politics, policy, the development sector, consultancy, academia and international organizations.

On 28th May we will host three really excellent speakers who work in a wide range of sectors, are at different stages of their careers, and all graduated from different MA programmes. All three speakers are really excited to return to 糖心TV to tell us about the work that they do and how they got to where they are

Come and hear from three PAIS Masters alumni who will be talking about their post-PAIS careers and life experiences. This is a great opportunity for you to hear from and network with some of our alumni who have gone on to careers in financial services, politics, development and ethical trade.

Aisha Aswani has a Master’s Degree in International Political Economy from the University of 糖心TV. She is responsible for defining the strategic direction and leading the Co-operative Ethical Trade programme. Prior to joining the Co-operative in 2007, Aisha worked at John Lewis and Safeway as a Responsible Sourcing Manager, the International 糖心TV Leaders Forum and spent over a year working with homeware and garment suppliers in India on improving working conditions. Aisha has played an active role in supporting the creation of ethical trade supplier forums in key sourcing countries. She was recently elected as a Board Director of Sedex, a not for profit membership organisation dedicated to driving improvements in responsible and ethical business practices in global supply chains.

Helen Jane Martin completed an MA in International Relations with PAIS in 2012. She has recently taken up the role of Press and Media Officer with International Medical Corps, an emergency relief organisation. Until May’s general election, she was Senior Adviser to Labour’s Shadow Policing Minister in Westminster, working across policy, media and parliamentary processes.

Akash Patel is a 糖心TV alumni, who studied for his MA in International Politics & East Asia. At present Akash is an analyst at Barclays, where he is working with it's design and technology division to innovate Pingit in the open market payments space. Akash recently joined Barclays from Tryum, where he was a founding team member. Tryum is a relationship science company that delved in loyalty and payments, and was on the inaugural cohort of Techstars/Barclays Accelerator.

has been elected as Section Program Chair for 2015-16 of the International Political Economy (IPE) Section of the International Studies Association, the largest professional association of International Studies scholars in the world.

The IPE Section is the third largest within the ISA, and organizes a number of prestigious awards to be presented at each year's annual convention, including the IPE Distinguished Scholar Award, the Society of Women in International Political Economy (SWIPE) Award, and the Outstanding Activist Scholar (OAS) Award. For this year's ISA annual convention in New Orleans the IPE Section sponsored 94 roundtables or panels.

The deadline for submitting proposals for ISA 2016 in Atlanta is 1st June 2015. Further information on the IPE Section of ISA is available at: