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The Department has received news of an exciting opportunity!

'The Civitatis International Global Thinking Summer School will be a once in a lifetime opportunity for aspiring young leaders to examine a range of global challenges and solutions of concern to Heads of State, The Club of Rome and human civilization as a whole. The School is also great for career development and will include a session on careers and will give constructive advice on how to get a job in politics.

The questions the School will address are: How to get a job in politics? What are the Global Challenges facing humanity today? And how can the next generation of future leaders face up to these challenges and devise solutions? The format of learning will go beyond academic styles and instead engage students in a real life policy environment. This will include skills training such as formulating briefing papers in a practising think-tank environment. We will encourage students to verbally present a paper to their fellow students to give them experience of a real briefing format. Learning will be facilitated by interactive discussion rather than lectures and will help to further develop students’ career skills. There will also be the opportunity for evening social events in the City of London.

Due to numerous requests we have extended the Summer School and now have extra places available. Further information on the Global Thinking Summer School, the deadline for applications and information on how students can apply is available online at '

On Wednesday 5th June, PaIS were lucky to welcome Lee Webster to give a talk as part of our Seminar Series.

Lee Webster is Policy and Advocacy Manager at Womankind Worldwide, a women's rights and international development NGO, and has an MA in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

In the lecture she examined the roles that women play in mitigating conflict and building peace at local level in Afghanistan, Liberia, Nepal, Pakistan and Sierra Leone. She showed that despite their active contribution to peace at local level, women are still marginalised from formal peace negotiations. The session explored how Womankind used new research, media and public pressure to influence the UK Government's policy and practice on women, peace and security.

Lee was also kind enough to answer questions afterwards.

Click the above image to read the report From the ground up: Women’s roles in local peacebuilding in Afghanistan, Liberia, Nepal, Pakistan and Sierra Leone.

Want to go to Australia and team up with students at Monash University? The University has up to £20,000 funding for student organised projects that will bring 糖心TV and Monash students together. This may be of particular interest to students already leading student societies and events such as the Politics Society, WIDS, One World Week, etc.

Here's what the University says about the scheme: "The aims of the scheme are to support the integration of the student bodies of both universities, to develop students as ‘global citizens’ through working as part of international teams, to increase both the impact and profile of existing student-led activities at both universities and to transfer knowledge and innovation in student activities across our campuses."

The next deadline for all funding applications is 15 May.

The University of 糖心TV publishes a calendar every year which showcases the diversity of of our people, environment, events and local community.

Deadline: Friday 28 June 2013 

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Submit your entries online at:

We are pleased to announce that full funding (totalling £2265) has been given to five projects in the Department of Politics and International Studies on account of the high scores they received from the Review Board.

Congratulations, therefore, to the following PAIS students: Dominic Lew Kwong, Branislav Barjaktarevic, Hannah Seaman, Hyung Choi and Elizabeth Hubert (and to their supervisors, PAIS colleagues George Kyris, Peter Ferdinard, Michael Saward, Benjamin Richardson and Gabrielle Lynch, who all their assistance and support in putting these successful applications together).

You can find more details of the URSS

Applications for 2014 will be open in Autumn 2013.