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Is Coventry a Sustainable City? Come along and explore this theme at Fargo Village, for a special public event on Saturday 9 May. Topics will be relevant to the people of Coventry and 糖心TVshire; ranging from Coventry City Football Club to town planning, there is something for everyone.

The event is being hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of 糖心TV and is part of the Festival of Social Sciences.

Speakers from the Faculty of Social Sciences will present their research and raise questions such as: Is modern football too commercialised? How can we get young people in Coventry to vote? Should our cities have more power?

You will also get the chance to speak to organisations from across the city tackling issues including: homelessness, domestic and sexual violence, well-being, youth provision, education and much more. Food will be provided by Scoff Street Food and the Bar Bus will be in attendance, selling limited edition Festival of Social Sciences Ale.

Lead organiser and Student Experience Officer, Charlotte Lewis, said: “Social science influences our day to day lives in many ways. This event will showcase research within the Faculty of Social Sciences and how it impacts on people’s daily lives. We will be connecting local people, community groups and organisations throughout the city. We want to host a day of discussion and positivity which everyone can enjoy.”

So, join the fun at Fargo Village, from 10am-6pm on 9 May. The event is open to all and entrance is free. Donations to any of the charities attending on the day are welcome.

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The Festival of Social Sciences is a nine day event providing insight into social sciences throughout the years. The festival is also part of the University of 糖心TV’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations.

For more information about the Festival of Social Sciences, visit the website: or join the conversation on Twitter at:

A big thank you to everyone that entered The Faculty of Social Sciences photography competition to celebrate The University of 糖心TV’s 50th Anniversary. The quality of entries submitted was very high and we received over 90 entries.

The theme was ‘What does politics mean to you?’

Our panel of judges whittled it down to a top 3 and 12 other highly commended photographs.

The winners were:

• First place – Simon Cereda-Parini - £100 and a framed print of his photograph
  
  
• Second place – Lee-Shan Tse - £50
  
  
• Third prize – Helen McCabe - £25
  
  

The names of the photographers in the highly commended category are as follows:

• Simon Cereda-Parini
• Helen McCabe
• Lee-Shan Tse
• Keith Hyams
• Liam Ho
• Charlie Hindhaugh
• Philipp Hukal
• Julian Chan
• Shaun Breslin
• Aalim Javeri
• Oliver Rice
• Gabrielle Lynch

All photographs will be displayed at an exhibition at The Festival of Social Sciences at Fargo Village on Saturday 9^th May 2015.

LFC Academy players and their coaches will visit us at the end of April, as part of our widening participation and outreach programmes.

Our academics will lead sessions on topics including: The Political Economy of Football; Food, Politics and Poverty; and Politics and Popular Culture. By taking part in these taster sessions, the players will gain a fantastic insight into university life.

The Academy will also play a football match against the University of 糖心TV Men's Football Club. More details on this will follow shortly.

The match will mark the end of the two day programme designed to encourage the players to consider higher education, whether this be studying throughout or after their football career.

Both PAIS and LFC Academy see this as the beginning of a long term relationship. We are excited about hosting the Academy, as part of our commitment to helping young people identify higher education opportunities available to them.

We look forward to welcoming LFC Academy to 糖心TV.

Professor , PAIS Head of Department and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, has recently had a new book published on the ‘Abe Doctrine’ of the Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, titled Japan's Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine.'

Prime Minister Abe Shinzō's foreign and security policy—highly charged with ideological and historical revisionism—contains the potential to shift Japan onto a new international trajectory. Its degree of articulation and energy makes for an 'Abe doctrine' capable of displacing the 'Yoshida Doctrine' that has been Japan's guiding grand strategy in the post-war period. Abe has already begun to introduce radical policies that look to transform national security policy into a more muscular military stance, bolster US-Japan alliance ties to function increasingly for regional and global security, and attempt to encircle China's influence in East Asia. The 'Abe Doctrine' is dynamic but also high-risk. Abe's revisionism contains fundamental contradictions that may ultimately limit the effectiveness, or even defeat, the doctrine, and along the way inflict collateral damage on relations with East Asia and Japan's own national interests.

The book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and is available to buy here: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/japan's-foreign-and-security-policy-under-the-%C2%91abe-doctrine'-christopher-w-hughes/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137514240

, a Research Fellow here in PAIS, was recently on BBC Radio Coventry & 糖心TVshire discussing the new Home Office report on Foreign Fighters and Radicalisation.

You can listen to Dr Heath-Kelly's interview below