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Owen Parker has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. The award is for a project entitled "Roma Resistance in the EU:  Beyond Cosmopolitan Government?", which will run for two years from 2012.

Leverhulme ECFs are very competitive, and Owen's winning of this award is indicative of the quality of his scholarship and the interest of this very innovative project.

Nick Vaughan-Williams' monograph Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power (Edinburgh/Columbia University Press, 2009, 2012) has won the Gold Award in the Association of Borderlands Studies’ Past Presidents’ Book Award Competition 2011. Nick has been invited to give the keynote lecture at the 2012 ABS conference in Houston, Texas, where the award will be presented.

Chris Moran has been awarded a three year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to be held in PAIS. The title of the project is ‘Politics, Partnership and Paranoia: Nixon, Kissinger and the US Intelligence Community’.

This is a superb achievement. The British Academy received over 800 applications, only put forward around 100 to the second round and awarded just a total of 47 fellowships across the whole of the UK. Chris’ award is the only one in entire University for this year.

The award is a recognition of the excellence of Chris’s work, and once again demonstrating the quality of PAIS and its postdoctoral programme.

Richard Aldrich has been awarded a 12 month extension to his AHRC 'Landscapes of Secrecy'. The original project was £580k and this extension adds a further £41k.

The follow on is entitled: 'Enhancing Openness and Explaining Secrecy: Policy Lessons from the Declassification and Management of US Intelligence and Security Records'. 

This is a very interesting follow on project because it is designed solely for impact, and will involve engagement with the Cabinet Office and six NGO partners.

The funding will be used to distil the policy lessons of the original project and then launch a 'roadshow' for practitioners in London, The Hague and Geneva.

Congratulations to Richard for this innovative follow on award.

CSGR and PAIS would like to welcome Toni Haastrup, who will be starting as a Research Fellow working on GR:EEN on 1^st June.

Toni recently completed her doctoral degree at the University of Edinburgh, where she was a Tutor and Research Assistant. Prior to Edinburgh, she was a Junior Researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa. Her current research focuses on the intersection between security and development in EU external relations and the EU?s role in international affairs. Toni is particularly interested in the interregional cooperation especially EU-Africa relations, and has published on EU-Africa security cooperation'.

Toni is very excited to be working on GR:EEN and at 糖心TV, PAIS in general and looks forward to meeting colleagues in June.