Politics and International Relations news
22 February 2010
Workshop on political trust
The Centre for Citizenship, Globalisation and Governance (C2G2) co-organised a workshop in London on 27 January 2010, along with the Hansard Society and the Political Studies Association, entitled Public Expectations of and Trust in Parliament and Politicians.
04 February 2010
Senior Fellowship Award
Professor Graham Smith, takes up a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, from February 2010.
01 February 2010
Evidence to Parliament
Professor Graham Smith gives evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution on the potential role of referendums in the UK.
22 January 2010
Nobel Prize Winner praises new book
Professor Gerry Stoker (Chair in Governance, School of Social Sciences) and Professor David Marsh (Australian National University) publish the third edition of their successful text, Theory and Methods in Political Science
21 January 2010
Our common future
Dr Clare Saunders has been selected as one of 100 young scholars from around the world to help organise and participate in the Our Common Future Conference that will take place in November 2010 in Hanover and Essen.
15 January 2010
Keynote Lecture on Democratic Renewal
Professor Gerry Stoker gave a keynote lecture to a conference on Governance Networks: Democracy, Policy Innovation and Global Regulation, organised by the Centre for Democratic Network Governance, University of Roskilde, Denmark, on 3 December 2009.
14 January 2010
The Politics of Heathcare
Dr Bona Muzaka was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Healthcare and Trade, organised by the Erasmus Observatory on Health Law, at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam in The Netherlands on 10-11 December 2009.
01 January 2010
University of Southampton Professor honoured for services to social science
Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton, Chris Skinner, has been awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours list. He’s been recognised for services to social science.
22 October 2009
Prestigious journal prize awarded
Southampton academic, Dr Clare Saunders, has been awarded the inaugural British Journal of Sociology prize at an award ceremony held in London during October.
23 October 2009
Academician award honour
Professor Gerry Stoker has been honoured with the award of Academician status in the Academy of Social Sciences.
22 October 2009
British Politics in the media
Southampton academic, Dr Alexandra Kelso, has recently featured in the BBC's flagship political programme, The Politics Show, along with BBC Radio 4’s programme, The Westminster Hour.
22 October 2009
Top 5 rating for PAIR
The division of Politics and International Relations has received excellent results in the 2009 National Student Survey.
15 October 2009
PAIR Welcomes new staff
Two new members of staff joined the division of Politics and International Relations in September 2009.
25 September 2009
ESRC Research funding success
Dr Alexandra Kelso has been successful in securing research funding through the ESRC First Grants Competition 2009 for a research project entitled 'The Scrutiny Universe: The House of Commons Select Committees and the Psychology of Group Processes'.
17 August 2009
Designing participation?
How can we increase and deepen citizen participation in the political decision making process?
10 August 2009
Prospects for Citizenship workshop
On Monday June 22nd, a one-day workshop on Prospects for Citizenship took place featuring academics from the University of Southampton, talking on citizenship, democratic innovations, diversity and integration.
Award shortlist success
Dr Clare Saunders has been shortlisted for the British Journal of Sociology Prize. The prize is to be awarded biennially to a paper, published in the BJS, which in the opinion of the judges, makes an outstanding contribution to increasing sociological knowledge.
12 June 2009
Community empowerment
Professor Graham Smith, Professor Gerry Stoker and Dr Corinne Wales have undertaken research that has recently been published by the Department for Communities and Local Government into community empowerment.
27 May 2009
Contributing to UK security policy debates
Professor Frank Gregory recently contributed to the work of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) on UK Border Security: Issues, systems and recent reforms.
15 May 2009
ESRC research funding success
Dr Clare Saunders has recently been successful in securing ESRC research funding for a European Collaborative project to analyse social movement protests and mobilisations in the UK and Europe.
Leverhulme Trust research success
Professor Andrew Mason has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, which will start in October 2009 and last for two years.
05 May 2009
New book published on Westminster Parliament
Alexandra Kelso has just had a new book published by Manchester University Press, entitled Parliamentary Reform at Westminster. This is Dr Kelso’s first book, and is the result of extensive research on the Westminster Parliament and attempts to reform it over the past century.
19 March 2009
International conference on parliamentary investigations
Dr Alexandra Kelso was recently invited to deliver a paper to an expert meeting at Maastricht University entitled 'Parliamentary investigations in a comparative and European perspective', organised by the Montesquieu Institute for European Parliamentary History and Constitutional Development.
19 March 2009
Visiting professorships abroad
Professor David Owen recently combined his duties at University of Southampton with a visiting professorship at the J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt a/M.
16 July 2008
Scrutinising power at Westminster
The notion that government has too much power, and parliament too little, is a comment heard frequently in Britain. Research being conducted by Dr Alexandra Kelso seeks to explore and unpack this assertion.
16 July 2008
Globalisation, development and underdevelopment
Dr Ben Selwyn 's research focuses on causes and consequences of development and underdevelopment in the global south. He undertook his PhD research in North East Brazil where he investigated how relatively inexperienced and lowly capitalised firms achieved international competitiveness (thus leading to employment generation and capital accumulation) and how these processes impacted upon the regions work force. He has written several articles on these subjects.
25 June 2008
National accolade for politics student
Social Sciences student James Rose has been named one of the most promising young political writers in the country. The second year International Relations student has jointly been awarded the T.E. Utley memorial prize for political writing.
19 May 2008
Leverhulme Trust funding for research on global equality
Dr Chris Armstrong has been awarded a prestigious and highly competitive Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship to pursue his innovative research on global equality, to begin formally in October 2008.
14 May 2008
Understanding civic behaviour
What motivates citizens to engage in the making and delivery of policies that affect their lives? We know that increased community engagement can increase social capital and have a significant impact on public policy outcomes such as low crime and reduction in anti-social behaviour, more cohesive communities, environmental improvement and better local democracy. But we are constantly told that this is an age of growing disillusionment and disengagement with politics. Is it possible to reverse these trends and promote civic behaviour?
14 May 2008
The spread of nuclear weapons
For forty years, the fear of nuclear war kept East and West from waging World War Three. But the Cold War ended in 1991, the year in which many of Southampton's first year students were born. How will nuclear weapons fit into their new world?
14 May 2008
Leading human rights campaigner speaks at the University of Southampton
Prominent civil rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti fielded tough questions about human rights, the Government's controversial plans for 42 day detention without trial and religious tolerance from 250 students and staff at the University of Southampton.
14 May 2008
£5 million grant for new research centre to understand population change
The University of Southampton's School of Social Sciences is to share in a £5million grant over five years to create a new Centre for Population Change. It will explore the issues surrounding migration, fertility and ageing including the implications for society of migration both within and beyond national borders.
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