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| 11 September 2024 | 19:00 | If the UK wants to retain resilient food and farming systems, which can deal with the demands of a changing climate and technological innovation, we need farming communities and rural communities which are healthy and sustainable.. Full details | Add event |
| 3 - 4 June 2024 | | In this in-person introductory course, you will acquire the foundations to understand, execute and communicate data analysis in a widely recognised software platform that was built for statistics. R is used in a number of professions, from academia to government departments and from data journalists to pollsters.. Full details | Add event |
| 22 May 2024 | 10:45 | Environmental land management and the agricultural transition in England, where are we, and why?. Full details | Add event |
| 15 May 2024 | 13:00 | Social groups are part of our everyday life, from small lab groups to large-scale political groupings. However, we still know relatively little about the way we psychologically become group members or leave groups, and how we navigate between the different sets of social norms and values that define the various groups we are part of.. Full details | Add event |
| 8 May 2024 | 10:45 | Managing carbon on-farm. Full details | Add event |
| 8 May 2024 | 9:30 | The local elections in May are the last set of widespread voting before the next general election. Citizens across the country will elect their local councillors, police and crime commissioners, and in some areas their mayors. Join us for a one-day conference to explore the results of these elections and the significance of local government in the British political system.. Full details | Add event |
| 24 - 25 April 2024 | | This course provides the foundations for you to understand, execute and communicate text data analysis in a widely recognised software platform that was built for data analysis.
Specifically, it will introduce additional skills using the Python programming language and requires prior introductory experience with Python. . Full details | Add event |
| 22 - 23 April 2024 | | This practical-based face to face session will be delivered over two days and will provide you with both the technical programming skills and understanding of data science techniques that you will need to research pre-existing and novel social-political and economic issues and the kind of transferable skills that are currently in demand in the job market.. Full details | Add event |
| 27 March 2024 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 20 March 2024 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 13 March 2024 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 13 March 2024 | 13:45 | James Fisher UoE - The enclosure of knowledge: Books, power and agrarian capitalism in Britain 1660-1800. Full details | Add event |
| 13 March 2024 | 12:30 | An exploration of the incelopshere and how incels fit into the current self-initiated terrorists (SITs) landscape with Dr Lewys Brace. Full details | Add event |
| 6 March 2024 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 28 February 2024 | 15:30 | Harry West: Heritage foods and how European practices remains an important reference point for folks in this sector in the UK. Full details | Add event |
| 21 February 2024 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 21 February 2024 | 10:45 | Rob Booth, University of Birmingham - Between Scales, Subjectivities and Species: Towards a political ecological theory of futurity in agri-food systems. Full details | Add event |
| 7 February 2024 | 15:30 | Evaluating Greece's environmental policy implementation patterns in turbulent times (2007-2022). Full details | Add event |
| 31 January 2024 | 13:15 | Full details | Add event |
| 31 January 2024 | 10:45 | Cyborg Cooks: Digitalizing Domestic Cooking in Germany. Full details | Add event |
| 29 January 2024 | 13:00 | In the discipline of politics, we tend to view the environment along a spectrum of something that humans have to make decisions about protecting; to environmental disasters that limit human action, and require political responses. This talk questions these assumptions, asking to what extent to the nature and structures of our politics are entangled and co-evolving with the environments that we live in, and the kinds of economic opportunities that local geologies, ecologies, and geographies afford. The paper draws on ethnographic research in communities the mountains of southern Appalachia, and in the Cornish gold mining town of Grass Valley, California to explore the extent to which the natural environment, communities, and polities, are inseparably entangled. Full details | Add event |
| 24 January 2024 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 24 January 2024 | 15:00 | We would like to invite you to our upcoming networking event, to celebrate our launch as the Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2). Full details | Add event |
| 17 January 2024 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 13 December 2023 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 13 December 2023 | 10:45 | War and Cheese. Full details | Add event |
| 29 November 2023 | 14:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 29 November 2023 | 13:00 | Text is often used for qualitative research, but it hasn’t been used much for quantitative research. This talk will show how we can use automated text analysis in crime research.. Full details | Add event |
| 22 November 2023 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 22 November 2023 | 10:45 | Learning From The Herd?: Ethics and Intercorporeality in Equine-Assisted Therapy.. Full details | Add event |
| 17 November 2023 | 10:00 | This event aims to improve people's well-being by feeling more connected to their community through a community archive/museum, bringing together people from all ages to share artefacts related to their experiences of the community. Full details | Add event |
| 14 November 2023 | 13:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 8 November 2023 | 10:00 | The two hour interactive workshop aims to equip the participants with the tools and the code to start making high-quality maps in Stata. Full details | Add event |
| 7 November 2023 | 13:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 1 November 2023 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 1 November 2023 | 10:45 | The invention of nature to its metrification. Full details | Add event |
| 25 October 2023 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 22 October 2023 | 20:00 | Dr Annie Gray is one of Britain’s leading food historians, specialising in the history of food and dining from c.1600 to the present day. As part of our Harvest Festival and in partnership with our Food on Film Series and Exeter Food, Annie turns her attention to excess and abstinence. Full details | Add event |
| 22 October 2023 | 17:00 | When Babette’s fortune changes one day she takes the opportunity to bring quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly devout villagers offering them sensual pleasures and experiences for one night only. Full details | Add event |
| 17 October 2023 | 18:00 | WASTED! exposes the criminality of food waste and how it’s directly contributing to climate change and shows us how each of us can make small changes – all of them delicious – to solve the greatest problems of our time. Full details | Add event |
| 14 October 2023 | 13:30 | Join us for a visit to Exeter Growers Co-operative’s 5 acre site on the edge of Exeter as part of Food on Film’s autumn season. The co-op grow delicious organic produce together on the site to promote healthy food, growing knowledge, enjoyment, biodiversity and sustainable use of the land. Full details | Add event |
| 11 October 2023 | 10:45 | Grassroots Solutions: Landworkers' Alliance and the emergence of farmer-led research. Full details | Add event |
| 10 October 2023 | 18:00 | Agnès Varda’s extraordinary self-reflexive documentary explores the world of modern-day gleaners: those living on the margins who survive by foraging for what society throws away. Full details | Add event |
| 2 August 2023 | 12:00 | This engaging stop-motion, claymation from Aardman (Shaun the Sheep) shares the adventures of Ginger and her friendly brood who are trapped on a horrible farm.. Full details | Add event |
| 1 August 2023 | 12:00 | This engaging stop-motion, claymation from Aardman (Shaun the Sheep) shares the adventures of Ginger and her friendly brood who are trapped on a horrible farm.. Full details | Add event |
| 29 July 2023 | 12:00 | This engaging stop-motion, claymation from Aardman (Shaun the Sheep) shares the adventures of Ginger and her friendly brood who are trapped on a horrible farm.. Full details | Add event |
| 25 July 2023 | 18:00 | Imagine a world where real meat is produced sustainably without the need to breed, raise and slaughter animals. This is no longer science fiction, it’s now within reach. Full details | Add event |
| 11 July 2023 | 18:45 | Should we all be giving up meat and dairy if we’re to have a hope of avoiding dangerous climate breakdown?
This is what the headlines seem to tell us. But is this too simplistic a picture – and what would this mean for Cornwall, where the majority of our farmland is used to raise livestock or to grow crops for these animals to eat?. Full details | Add event |
| 29 - 30 June 2023 | | This two-day workshop will focus on analysing and presenting data from mixed methods projects. REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW LIVE. Full details | Add event |
| 14 June 2023 | 10:30 | Agricultural Crime as an additional Stressor for Farmer Mental Health and Wellbeing. Full details | Add event |
| 31 May 2023 | 10:30 | The need for interdisciplinary approaches toward research into farming. Full details | Add event |
| 17 May 2023 | 10:30 | Cheese, maggots, and multi-species bodies. The decay of more-than-human health in rural Sardinia. Full details | Add event |
| 3 May 2023 | 10:30 | Suffering, Respect, and Identity in High End Kitchens. Full details | Add event |
| 25 April 2023 | 18:45 | The seeds of a better food system.
In Our Hands explores a quiet revolution that is transforming the way our food is produced and distributed. Our current industrial food system is a vast and wheezing giant that is only upheld by a stilted subsidy regime that pays out to landowners and leaves many farmers by the wayside. Full details | Add event |
| 18 April 2023 | 18:00 | From Below, is a documentary that showcases the mutual aid and grassroots community action that helped feed and comfort the vulnerable during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns.. Full details | Add event |
| 17 - 27 April 2023 | | Researchers interested in computational social science will be given the chance to learn new skills at our 2nd annual spring school in April 2023. Full details | Add event |
| 29 March 2023 | 10:30 | Stefano Pascucci. Full details | Add event |
| 29 March 2023 | 10:00 | In this iteration of the interdisciplinary reading group, we will discuss a text by Richard Bellamy and Sandra Kröger: Lies, Truthfulness and the Crisis of Representative Democracy.. Full details | Add event |
| 15 March 2023 | 10:30 | Agricultural Crime as an additional Stressor for Farmer Mental Health and Wellbeing. Full details | Add event |
| 14 - 15 March 2023 | | Full details | Add event |
| 8 February 2023 | 14:00 | Institutional Ethnography is an interdisciplinary feminist approach to research that examines how texts and language organise our everyday lives.. Full details | Add event |
| 8 February 2023 | 10:30 | Local Food System Marketing Innovations – Links to Employer Wellness and Other Win-Win Branding Ideas Needing to Be Developed. Full details | Add event |
| 7 February 2023 | 19:00 | The story of a master who created a community in Tokyo, one bowl of ramen at a time. Full details | Add event |
| 31 January 2023 | 18:00 | How far would you go for the perfect ramen? Guided in her quest by scrappy truck drivers Gun and Gorō, Tampopo strives to create the best ramen around to serve from her roadside shop. In the process she is run through a rigorous training process, encouraged to steal secrets of broth-making and challenges other ramen-makers in Spaghetti Western (noodle Western?) style stand-offs. Full details | Add event |
| 25 January 2023 | 18:15 | Joseph, Marlvin, Pardon and Tinashe form a unlikely team of Zimbabwean refugees turned sommeliers, who turn the international wine establishment of privilege and tradition on its head in this inspiring documentary. Full details | Add event |
| 25 January 2023 | 10:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 14 December 2022 | 10:30 | Josh Milburn - Animal rights and food: Can we have our cow and eat her too?. Full details | Add event |
| 30 November 2022 | 10:00 | In this iteration of the interdisciplinary reading group, we will discuss a text by Lise Herman et al., on: 'A Climate of Optimism? EU Policy-making, Political Science and the Democratisation of Central and Eastern Europe (2000-2015)’. Full details | Add event |
| 28 November 2022 | 14:00 | Michele Scotto Di Vettimo (SPSPA) will discuss his working paper on EU integration and policy preferences.. Full details | Add event |
| 23 November 2022 | 10:30 | “Keeping on top of it”: how livestock farmers manage their workloads and the demands of farm assurance shortly. Full details | Add event |
| 22 November 2022 | 14:00 | Simge Andi & Travis Coan (SPSPA) will discuss their ongoing research measuring the impact of fake news laws on online political discussions. Full details | Add event |
| 16 November 2022 | 14:00 | Alexey Bessudnov (SPSPA) will discuss his work on predicting perceived ethnicity from data on personal names for major ethnic groups in Russia.. Full details | Add event |
| 2 November 2022 | 14:30 | The teaching of quantitative methods has a crucial role to play in the decolonisation of undergraduate politics degree programmes, given that Eurocentrism determines the quantitative approaches used today. As such, the decolonisation of, and through, quantitative methods teaching is both possible and necessary. Full details | Add event |
| 2 November 2022 | 10:30 | Mapping the Good Farmer: Using Mental Maps to Explore Good Farming and Biosecurity in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Full details | Add event |
| 26 October 2022 | 10:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 6 - 7 October 2022 | | Closing Date for Abstracts: Tuesday 6th September 2022. Full details | Add event |
| 5 October 2022 | 13:00 | How were newly enfranchised women mobilized? Classic narratives suggest that newly enfranchised women were mobilized by their arguably more politicized husbands. However, husbands' mobilization of wives has not been subject to rigorous tests, primarily reflecting lack of suitable data.. Full details | Add event |
| 6 September 2022 | 18:00 | A delightful opportunity to visit Exeter’s oldest building and explore its extraordinary history with this private tour and talk focusing on the 20th century restoration of the Priory and its eccentric patron Maud Tothill.. Full details | Add event |
| 14 July 2022 | 16:15 | Join us online for a public roundtable discussion, the last of the Migration, Mobility and Displacement Series. Full details available below.
To register for the zoom sessions please write
To: sekretariat-altertum@uni-potsdam.de (24h in advance) and use Zoom link below
Zoom link:
https://uni-potsdam.zoom.us/j/64368136838
Meeting-ID: 643 6813 6838
Password: 74720546. Full details | Add event |
| 7 July 2022 | 16:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 30 June 2022 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 25 May 2022 | 10:00 | The conference will take place on May 25th after which we’ll have a drinks and food reception at the RAM bar. Full details | Add event |
| 25 May 2022 | 10:00 | The conference will take place on May 25th after which we’ll have a drinks and food reception at the RAM bar. Full details | Add event |
| 25 May 2022 | 10:00 | The conference will take place on May 25th after which we’ll have a drinks and food reception at the RAM bar. Full details | Add event |
| 20 May 2022 | 9:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 10 May 2022 | 18:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 6 - 7 May 2022 | 13:00 | A two-day event for the retirement of Professor Iain Hampsher-Monk. Full details | Add event |
| 27 - 28 April 2022 | 14:00 | The Centre for European Studies and the Human Rights and Democracy Forum join forces for this two-day workshop with high profile speakers. Full details | Add event |
| 25 April 2022 | 16:00 | This event is being organised by the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) and the the Department of Politics,. Full details | Add event |
| 6 - 14 April 2022 | | Researchers interested in computational social science will be given the chance to learn new skills at a spring school in April 2022. The NCRM/Exeter Computational Communication Methods Spring School will provide training at introductory and advanced levels, catering for both social scientists and data scientists. Full details | Add event |
| 31 March 2022 | 18:00 | Includes an inspirational talk International Relations alumnus Tom Bonsundy O'Bryan. Full details | Add event |
| 16 March 2022 | 13:45 | The Centre for Political Thought and the Centre for European Studies join forces for the book launch of ‘Flexible Europe. Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy’ by Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger, and Marta Lorimer. Full details | Add event |
| 11 March 2022 | 13:00 | In a laboratory setting, we explore strategic discrimination in principal-agent relationships, which arises from mutually reinforcing expectations of identity-contingent choices. Our experimental design isolates the influence of the strategic environment from effects of other sources of discrimination, including statistical differences between subpopulations and outright prejudice.. Full details | Add event |
| 8 March 2022 | | Full details | Add event |
| 3 March 2022 | 9:00 | A number of psychological challenges hinder the countering of misinformation and science denial. Polarization on issues such as climate change and COVID-19 result in some segments of the population being more resistant to fact-checks. Inoculation theory offers a solution to polarization, with experimental studies finding that inoculating messages neutralize the polarizing influence of misinformation on issues like climate change.. Full details | Add event |
| 24 February 2022 | 14:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 24 February 2022 | 14:00 | There has been much concern about the “microtargeting” of political messages at individuals on social media based on sometimes sensitive personal characteristics that are inferred by the platforms from mundane data and activities. Evidence suggests that this type of microtargeted advertising, for example based on recipients’ personality, can be effective.. Full details | Add event |
| 23 February 2022 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 3 February 2022 | 14:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 26 January - 30 March 2022 | 12:45 | Full details | Add event |
| 25 January 2022 | 18:30 | Topic: Justice and Class. Full details | Add event |
| 25 January 2022 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 9 December 2021 | | Full details | Add event |
| 8 December 2021 | 15:00 | Consumer sovereignty and competition law: from personalization to diversity. Full details | Add event |
| 30 November 2021 | 16:00 | We will discuss this reading: T. G. Daly (2019) ‘Democratic Decay: Conceptualising an Emerging Research Field’, 11, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 9-36. Full details | Add event |
| 23 November 2021 | 11:00 | Funded by ESRC and as part of NCRM training, Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal study of its kind. It provides crucial information for researchers and policymakers on the changes and stability of people's lives in the UK on topics including Biomarkers, Genetics and Epigenetics; Covid-19; Education; Employment; Ethnicity & immigration; Family & households; Health & wellbeing; Politics & Social attitudes; Transport & environment; Young people.
As with most other longitudinal household surveys, the structure and documentation of the Understanding Society are quite complex. Sometimes this may seem as an obstacle for researchers who are just starting to use the data. Full details | Add event |
| 23 November 2021 | 9:00 | NVivo is a powerful and intuitive qualitative data analysis software for gaining richer insights from diverse data. This workshop is aimed at those who have no experience of Nvivo and little-to-no experience of computer coding. Full details | Add event |
| 16 November 2021 | 18:30 | First event of the movie screening series for Politics and IR students launched by the University of Exeter's Politics Department. Full details | Add event |
| 4 November 2021 | 14:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 28 October 2021 | 12:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 27 October 2021 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 25 - 29 October 2021 | 9:30 | The University of Exeter and Exeter Q-Step Centre are partners in the National Centre for Research Methods -- the UKRI funded national consortium for social science research methods training. Full details | Add event |
| 14 October 2021 | 16:00 | Routes Conversation: Is the asylum system fit for purpose for Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (SOGI) claimants? with Raawiyah Rifath (Lecturer in Law and PhD Candidate, University of Exeter) and Prof. Nuno Ferreira (Professor of Law, University of Sussex). Full details | Add event |
| 14 October 2021 | 12:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 13 October 2021 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 13 September 2021 | 10:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 8 September 2021 | | Full details | Add event |
| 15 July 2021 | 14:15 | Online discussion around the role of politicians and policy in the fight against climate change. Full details | Add event |
| 7 July 2021 | 14:00 | Those completing PhD research over the past 16 months may have had to develop new strategies for conducting comparative research because travel to other countries has not been possible. Full details | Add event |
| 30 June - 2 July 2021 | 9:30 | We have an exciting programme about various aspects of asylum and refugee status determination by international speakers, including judges, lawyers and researchers. The conference programme and other details are available on our website: https://asyfair.com/output/events/asyfair-conference-2021/
Registration is free, and will be open from 4 May until 16 June 2021. Please click on the link to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asyfair-conference-2021-adjudicating-refugee-claims-in-practice-registration-152681682021. Full details | Add event |
| 23 June 2021 | 17:00 | Webinar to refine and develop proposals for A Model Court For Migrant Children, Chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy of the Shaws. Full details | Add event |
| 23 June 2021 | 12:30 | Organised by the Centre for Political Thought and Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter. Full details | Add event |
| 23 - 25 June 2021 | | Full details | Add event |
| 14 June 2021 | 13:00 | The British Election Longitudinal News Study 2015-2019 (BELNS) covers campaign coverage relating to three general elections: 2015, 2017, 2019. Full details | Add event |
| 9 June 2021 | 16:00 | Routes conversations are monthly meetings where two scholars or activists from different disciplines discuss a migration question from their different perspectives.
In this conversation Dr Lucy Mayblin, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Sheffield and Dr Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies at UCL will have a conversation on 'Why should colonial histories be central to the study of migration and what does taking this seriously really mean?'. Full details | Add event |
| 9 June 2021 | 12:30 | Join us on Zoom. Full details | Add event |
| 2 June 2021 | 14:00 | Dr Akitaka Matsuo will be presenting his work with Tiffany Barnes, Charles Crabtree and Yoshikuni Ono.
What explains the type of electoral campaign run by politicians? Prior work shows that parties strategically manipulate the level of emotive language used in their campaigns based on their incumbency status, their policy position, and objective economic conditions ... Full details | Add event |
| 26 May 2021 | 14:00 | Bruno Castanho Silva, Lennart Schürmann, and Sven-Oliver Proksch
While research on the tone of politicians' rhetoric has picked up steam in recent years, almost all of our knowledge on factors that influence negativity is based on political communication during electoral campaigns. Full details | Add event |
| 19 May 2021 | 14:00 | This paper uses multilevel models to investigate how parties influence affective polarization and interpersonal trust in multiparty systems. Full details | Add event |
| 19 May 2021 | 10:00 | Join Dr Bridget Sealey, Higher Education Consultant, to understand why you might want to apply for a government tender and how. Full details | Add event |
| 12 May 2021 | 14:00 | Researchers often aim to compare estimates across groups. For an intuitive and compact presentation of empirical results, many practitioners prefer reporting group-specific estimates instead of pairwise differences, and subsequently seek to infer the statistical significance of pairwise differences from the confidence intervals of the group-specific estimates. Full details | Add event |
| 5 May 2021 | 16:00 | This will be an informal talk outlining some of the findings from a set of ethnographies of asylum appeals in France, Germany, the UK, Belgium and Austria conducted over the last few years by researchers at Exeter University as part of the ASYFAIR project. It will examine why asylum appeals are important, but also some of the challenges they encounter on the ground. It will raise concerns about the superficiality and (in)accessibility of legal protection via asylum appeals, and use this to reflect on some of the problematics of refugee protection more broadly. Full details | Add event |
| 8 April 2021 | | Exeter students discuss COVID and Euroscepticism on their Democracy in the European Union module EU at the Centre for European Governance. Full details | Add event |
| 30 March 2021 | | Exeter students discuss Democratic backsliding in Hungary in their Democracy in the European Union module on the Centre for European Governance's Soundcloud podcast series. Full details | Add event |
| 29 March 2021 | | Exeter students discuss Democratic backsliding in Hungary in their Democracy in the European Union module on the Centre for European Governance's Soundcloud podcast series. Full details | Add event |
| 12 March 2021 | 12:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 10 March 2021 | 16:30 | Panel discussion to mark International Women's Day 2021. Full details | Add event |
| 8 March 2021 | | Undergraduate students discuss the European Citizens' Initiative on University of Exeter's Democracy in the European Union module. Full details | Add event |
| 3 March 2021 | 16:00 | Anthony Vale is a 1972 law graduate from the University of Exeter, who
has been practicing law in the USA.
Tony represents immigrants caught up in the US immigration system, who
seek asylum or relief from removal. He has been successful in cases on
behalf of non-citizens from Angola, Cameroon, El Salvador Guatemala
and Honduras.
These cases are difficult and raise many constitutional issues, which he
will clarify and discuss. Full details | Add event |
| 1 March 2021 | | students discuss the EU’s democratic deficit on their Democracy in the European Union module on the Centre for European Governance's Soundcloud podcast series. Full details | Add event |
| 1 March 2021 | | students discuss the EU’s democratic deficit on their Democracy in the European Union module on the Centre for European Governance's Soundcloud podcast series. Full details | Add event |
| 15 February 2021 | | Undergraduate students discuss Europarties on the University of Exeter's Democracy in the European Union module. Full details | Add event |
| 10 February 2021 | 16:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 2 December 2020 | 16:00 | Routes Conversation: What Does Citizenship Mean Today? with Dr Ben Hudson (Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter) and Daniel Mutanda (MPH Candidate at the University of Warwick). Full details | Add event |
| 11 November 2020 | 15:30 | Researchers have called for developmental criminologists to better understand how criminal career patterns and 'risk factors' relate to intersectional identities. Full details | Add event |
| 9 November 2020 | 17:00 | The College of Social Sciences and International Studies will be organising a short programme of online VIP Honorary Graduate talks for the College over the course of Term 1.
Colonel Lucy M Giles BSc MA PGCE Hon LLD will be giving a talk on Monday 9th November 2020 titled "Leadership – a perspective". Full details | Add event |
| 4 November 2020 | 12:30 | Chaired by Professor Catriona McKinnon (Department of Politics, Exeter). Full details | Add event |
| 28 October 2020 | 12:30 | Ross Carroll will introduce a discussion of interest for Black History Month. Full details | Add event |
| 26 October 2020 | | Full details | Add event |
| 14 October 2020 | 12:30 | Rob Lamb will introduce a discussion of interest for Black History Month. Full details | Add event |
| 13 October 2020 | 17:00 | The College of Social Sciences and International Studies will be organising a short programme of online VIP Honorary Graduate talks for the College over the course of Term 1.. Full details | Add event |
| 9 September 2020 | 15:00 | Fathers often earn more than their childless counterparts, although effects can vary among groups of men. Most of this literature uses micro data and attributes these wage effects to individual selection. We instead draw on relational inequality theory (RIT) to argue the importance of establishment relations behind group differences in net fatherhood wage premiums.. Full details | Add event |
| 17 July 2020 | 11:00 | The University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute and the GW4 Water Security Alliance cordially invites you to its first online Think Tank, Towards Fashion Justice: A UK-India Exchange on Friday 17 July, between 11am-1pm. Full details | Add event |
| 1 July 2020 | 13:00 | Building upon the basic introduction offered to Python in workshop 1, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data in Python and the Seaborn package. Full details | Add event |
| 24 June 2020 | 13:00 | This workshop is aimed at those who have no experience of Python and little-to-no experience of computer coding.. Full details | Add event |
| 3 June 2020 | 13:00 | In this workshop you will learn about the principles of longitudinal data analysis; when it should be used and the advantages and disadvantages of longitudinal methods. Full details | Add event |
| 15 May 2020 | 13:00 | This seminar will be an Introduction to Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT). It will cover some broad themes of what OSINT is and what it is not, as well as some thoughts on the future of OSINT.. Full details | Add event |
| 12 May 2020 | 14:00 | One of the advantages of Bayesian analysis is its great flexibility with respect to the functional form of the model. To take full advantage of this flexibility, the analyst need to know how to write code for Stan, JAGS, BUGS or a similar sample.. Full details | Add event |
| 11 May 2020 | 14:00 | This workshop offers an introduction to Bayesian analysis in R. We will talk about the theoretical underpinnings of Bayesian analysis and the practical considerations for conducting such analyses in R.. Full details | Add event |
| 18 March 2020 | 15:30 | Researchers have called for developmental criminologists to better understand how criminal career patterns and 'risk factors' relate to intersectional identities.. Full details | Add event |
| 10 March 2020 | 14:00 | The Executive Approval Project (EAP) is a global collaborative data and research project whose goal is to measure public approval of political leaders to help understand why some executives are despised and removed while others remain popular and reelected.. Full details | Add event |
| 4 March 2020 | 13:00 | Building upon the basic introduction offered to R in workshop 4, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data using R, as well as introducing the various libraries that a user needs to be familiar with in order to carry out such tasks. Full details | Add event |
| 13 - 14 February 2020 | 14:00 | This research workshop is meant to start a conversation between scholars working from different perspectives on the nature and development of contemporary political regimes. We shall concentrate on two main cases, the European and the Chinese political regimes; which can also be regarded as both emblematic and paradigmatic of the rather simplified dichotomy between authoritarian and democratic regimes that often dominates political analysis and political discourse. This slight Manichean categorization of political regimes has long maintained a stronghold on the political imagination—perhaps with some reason, in terms of the underlying conviction that modern political authority needs to rest on some form of popular legitimacy and unforced acceptance. Arguably, such simplification was at its most popular and pervasive during the last decade of the last century, after the collapse of the Soviet regime, which seemed to signal the unchallenged dominance of the liberal democratic model. Full details | Add event |
| 7 February 2020 | 15:30 | Multilevel models have been applied to study many geographical processes in epidemiology, economics, political science, sociology, urban analytics, and transportation. They are most often used to express how the effect of a treatment or intervention may vary by geographical group, a form of geographical process heterogeneity.. Full details | Add event |
| 5 February 2020 | 13:00 | A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to allow researchers to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. This workshop will introduce attendees to the introductory principles of GIS and how to use Python QGIS for research purposes. Full details | Add event |
| 30 January 2020 | 9:00 | Suggested participants: Mid/senior level managers, SMEs in any business sector, those seeking promotion to management levels or new to management, HR SMEs, Data scientists/analysts. Full details | Add event |
| 15 January 2020 | 13:00 | This workshop is aimed at those who have no experience of R, and will provide a solid introduction to using it for data analysis by covering how to handle data structures such as vectors, matrices, and data frames. Full details | Add event |
| 3 December 2019 | 12:30 | LaTex is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting that is used extensively in academia and elsewhere for technical and scientific documents. This workshop is aimed at those with little-to-no experience of LaTex, but who wish to develop a working understanding of it in order to produce high-quality documents. Full details | Add event |
| 27 November 2019 | 12:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 22 November 2019 | 15:30 | Come along to our Q&A event and speak to a number of recent Exeter Q-Step and Politics graduates who have taken different career routes into social data science since graduating!
This event is intended for any students, UG or PG, interested in a career in data analysis.
You will have the opportunity to find out about a range of careers, and learn about what you can do, both now during your studies and after graduation, to follow a similar path.. Full details | Add event |
| 20 November 2019 | 10:30 | Behaviour differs between social groups – this appears to be true for linguistic style as well. Recent research has shown differences between age, gender, religious and political groups in the way group members speak. Since we are members of many different social groups, the question arises whether group membership affects our linguistic style constantly or whether our style shifts towards the group membership most relevant to the situation. Full details | Add event |
| 12 November 2019 | 13:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 8 November 2019 | 15:30 | Analyses of educational interventions need to produce evidence that is relevant to specific groups of students. When a group is not the target population of an intervention, any analysis involving just that group is called subgroup analysis, which is often regarded as a statistical malpractice, as its findings are often underpowered, unreliable, prone to overinterpretation at best, or misleading at worst.. Full details | Add event |
| 6 November 2019 | 13:00 | Building upon the basic introduction offered to Python in workshop 1, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data in Python and the Seaborn package. Full details | Add event |
| 6 November 2019 | 10:30 | During a merger the acquiring organization is often a dominant force. It overwhelms the target organization and replaces its norms, routines, and formal structures. I will present the results from an ongoing analysis of a massively rich dataset of emails, longitudinal surveys, individual performance, and ethnography that paints a detailed picture of an unfolding organizational merger.. Full details | Add event |
| 30 October 2019 | 13:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 29 October 2019 | 13:00 | An investigation into the conflicting interests and powerplay revealed in the behaviour of the main protagonists- USSR and USA. A brief overview of this dangerous incident will be provided, but the main focus will be an analysis of public versus private decisions. We'll look at the personal drives and motivations of key figures such as John F Kennedy and Nikita Khrushev and discover why was not all as it seemed... Full details | Add event |
| 28 October 2019 | 19:00 | Dr. Eva Thomann, senior lecturer in Politics, will deliver a lecture on customisation and output legitimacy in the European Union at SOAS on 28 October. Full details | Add event |
| 23 October 2019 | 12:30 | Emotions have garnered increasing attention in IR, yet the dynamics through which some emotions become prevalent in certain situations are not yet fully conceptualized. We highlight the role of “emotions entrepreneurs”, i.e. political figures who instrumentally prompt a certain emotional experience among audiences. Full details | Add event |
| 16 October 2019 | 12:30 | Gabriel Katz, Exeter's Institutional Academic Lead for the ESRC-funded South West Doctoral Training Programme (SWDTP), has organised an information session on the SWDTP PhD and MA Programs, scholarships and selection procedures. Full details | Add event |
| 9 October 2019 | 12:30 | How can we best conceptualize China and the US’s great power role within contemporary regional dynamics and developments in East Asia?. Full details | Add event |
| 2 October 2019 | 13:00 | This workshop is aimed at those who have no experience of Python and little-to-no experience of computer coding. The workshop will provide a practical introduction to the Python programming language, and cover a host of the major operations a user will need to do in Python; ranging from assigning variables and working with lists, through to writing to/reading from a file, producing graphs, and debugging. Full details | Add event |
| 27 September 2019 | 15:30 | A student-lecturers debate, followed by a pub crawl. Full details | Add event |
| 25 September 2019 | 16:00 | The University of Exeter Politics Department is hosting a book event based on Gregorio Bettiza's new book, "Finding Faith in Foreign Policy: Religion and American Diplomacy in a Postsecular World" (Oxford University Press: 2019), followed by a drinks reception.. Full details | Add event |
| 17 - 19 September 2019 | 11:00 | Events for incoming and current students hosted by the Department of Politics. Full details | Add event |
| 12 September 2019 | 14:00 | Half Day Workshop Hosted by the Dept of Politics' Centre for Political Thought & Egenis' Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, featuring a range of guest speakers including Prof. Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA), Prof. Amy Linch (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Dr. Urszula Lisowska (University of Wrocław, Poland), Prof. Christopher Gill (University of Exeter, UK), Dr. Jack Griffiths (University of Exeter, UK). Full details | Add event |
| 9 - 13 September 2019 | 11:30 | The Exeter Q-Step Centre is celebrating six years of teaching and research and our move to a new home.
We are holding a series of workshops, seminars and keynote addresses around our key research labs: Education and Life Course Studies, Policing in Practice and Computational Social Science. We will also be hosting a related Arts & Culture stream. Full details | Add event |
| 25 July 2019 | 13:00 | The aim of this workshop is to bring researchers together across the University of Exeter, and beyond, with an interest in understanding women’s mental health. The workshop will convene a multi-disciplinary group with shared substantive interests, but who take different approaches to research on this topic.. Full details | Add event |
| 16 July 2019 | 11:15 | Graduation Ceremony for the conferment of honorary and substantive degrees. Full details | Add event |
| 27 - 29 June 2019 | | The 16th biennial conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) will be held at the University of Exeter, 27–29 June 2019. ESCAS seeks to support the study of Central Asia — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and adjacent regions of the Caucasus, Russia, China, Afghanistan and Iran. The theme for the 16th conference is "The Globality of Central Asia". Our conference will assess globalizations from below as well as those from above. We ask how individuals and communities of Central Asia are related to global processes.” Registrations now open. Full details | Add event |
| 24 June 2019 | | For students with little or no experience of programming or coding, the Institute of Coding Summer School at Exeter is an opportunity to enhance your digital skills through a course designed to introduce you to the fundamentals of computer programming and social data analysis. Full details | Add event |
| 18 June 2019 | 18:00 | These seminars provide a series of academic talks into the changing politics and policies of Europe including Brexit and the UK’s changing relationship with the EU.. Full details | Add event |
| 13 June 2019 | 12:30 | The aim of the workshop is threefold:
1. To empirically identify and map: (i) what are the main critiques offered by these left
and right-wing strands of activism and what alternative visions do they articulate and
advance; (ii) what are the main international networks and transnational connections
between different left and right movements across Europe and North America; and
(iii) identify and highlight the main practices of contestation.
2. To complicate the present conceptual understanding of populism in political science
and IR, by exploring and identifying the key connections and differences between
North American and European populist movements, leaders and agendas on the left
and on the right.
3. To contribute to debates about the crisis, transformation and future prospects of the
liberal international order and globalization. Full details | Add event |
| 12 June 2019 | 16:00 | In a recent article in The Journal of Ethics, J. Angelo Corlett (2018) offers a critique of what he calls ‘offensiphobia’: the belief that people have a right not to be offended.We argue that offensiphobia doesn't really exist in higher educational institutions (which Corlett takes this to be the main context for his paper).We therefore attempt to amend his points in such a way that they purport to offer some criticisms of existing university policies and practices. However, as we demonstrate, even with these amendments Corlett’s critique will fail, since his argument that hate speech should not be censured is a bad argument. Finally, we wish to demonstrate that the term 'offensiphobia' is not only misleading, but ideological.It conflates hate speech with offense, and in so doing implies that hate speech cannot seriously harm its targets (beyond those forms of speech already unprotected by the First Amendment).This failure of recognition may even constitute a form of willful ignorance. Full details | Add event |
| 5 June 2019 | 13:00 | Unfortunately this workshop has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Full details | Add event |
| 4 June 2019 | 18:00 | These seminars provide a series of academic talks into the changing politics and policies of Europe including Brexit and the UK’s changing relationship with the EU.. Full details | Add event |
| 3 June 2019 | 14:00 | Workshop on Grand Strategy, featuring a presentation from Thierry Balzacq, Professor of IR at Sciences
Po and Professorial Fellow at CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, and Simon Reich, Professor in the Division of
Global Affairs and Department of Political Science at Rutgers, Newark and Associate Research Fellow at CERI-Sciences Po. The presenters will draw on material from their forthcoming book, Comparative Grand Strategy: A Framework and Cases, Oxford University Press. For further details see the attachment. Full details | Add event |
| 29 May 2019 | 14:00 | In the last two decades, the LGBT movement has gained momentum that is arguably unprecedented in speed and suddenness when compared to other human rights movements. This book investigates the recent history of this transnational movement in Europe, as well as backlashes to it, focusing on the diffusion of the norms it champions and the overarching question of why the trajectories of socio-legal recognition for LGBT minorities are so different across states. The book makes the case that a politics of visibility has engendered the interactions between movements and states that empower marginalized people - mobilizing actors to demand change, influencing the spread of new legal standards, and weaving new ideas into the fabrics of societies. It documents how this double-edged process of 'coming out' empowers some marginalized social groups by moving them to the center of political debate and public recognition and making it possible for them to obtain rights to which they have due claim. Full details | Add event |
| 13 May 2019 | 16:30 | Richard Foltz (Ph.D., Harvard, 1996) is a cultural historian specializing in the broader Iranian world and his work highlights the wide-ranging influence of Iranian civilization on diverse societies stretching from the Balkans to China.. Full details | Add event |
| 7 May 2019 | 18:00 | These seminars provide a series of academic talks into the changing politics and policies of Europe including Brexit and the UK’s changing relationship with the EU. Full details | Add event |
| 17 April 2019 | 13:00 | Computational propaganda is becoming a non-negligible presence on news forums and social media, and it is crucial to be able to separate between real users and social bots or trolls. Following Twitter, Reddit released a list of accounts suspected of being state-sponsored trolls, users who wrote more than 15.000 posts and comments between 2015 and 2018. How precisely can these posts be detected based on their content and the available metadata and what techniques can be used to achieve maximum accuracy?. Full details | Add event |
| 28 March 2019 | 17:00 | An evening of talks, debate and film showing on the eve of Brexit day. Full details | Add event |
| 28 March 2019 | 13:00 | Rebecca discusses her PhD work which examines the effects of a politics focused civic education curriculum on political engagement amongst young people in the South West of England. Full details | Add event |
| 27 March 2019 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 21 March 2019 | 12:00 | Pizza and Politics – PGR Seminar Series - Probing the Nature of Democratic Change: The Insurgent Minorities in the Political Theory of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Ranciere. Full details | Add event |
| 20 March 2019 | 13:30 | In this workshop you will learn about the principles of longitudinal data analysis; when it should be used and the advantages and disadvantages of longitudinal methods. Full details | Add event |
| 20 March 2019 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 14 March 2019 | 12:00 | Join us as we welcome prestigious guest speaker Dr Deborah Goodwin OBE, to present her seminar on Crisis Negotiation Skills. Ever wondered how negotiators work? How do they even start to de-escalate something like a siege or a conflict? Would you know what to do? No? Well, here's a chance to learn! We're also throwing in a pizza lunch for attendees!. Full details | Add event |
| 13 March 2019 | 15:30 | Abstract TBC. Full details | Add event |
| 13 March 2019 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 12 March 2019 | 18:00 | Long considered a problem of ‘third countries’, concerns about ‘shrinking civil society space’ have moved to the heart of the European Union: confronted with the challenges of terrorism, financial crises and populist governments numerous member states have passed legislation constraining civil society organizations (e.g. EC 2018; CoE 2018; FRA 2018).. Full details | Add event |
| 6 March 2019 | 14:00 | Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics, details of her research interests can be found here http://www.lse.ac.uk/government/people/academic-staff/lea-ypi. Full details | Add event |
| 6 March 2019 | 13:30 | Building upon the basic introduction offered to R in workshop 4, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data using R, as well as introducing the various libraries that a user needs to be familiar with in order to carry out such tasks. Full details | Add event |
| 6 March 2019 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 5 March 2019 | 18:30 | This open lecture argues for re-imagining peacekeeping, which starts with a return to critical theories and concepts in order to acknowledge the production of gendered, racial and classed inequalities in peacekeeping spaces and relations.. Full details | Add event |
| 5 March 2019 | 13:00 | This paper explores how the public stereotypes politicians based on gender and sexual orientation when cued about these identities in low information environments. While many studies examine high profile races to demonstrate the impact that media coverage and its potential to trigger stereotypes has on opportunities for female or queer candidates, few studies explore its implications in typical elections at the riding level.. Full details | Add event |
| 27 February 2019 | 15:30 | The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a key instrument in setting the agenda around global development until 2030. The promotion of gender equality features prominently in the SDGs, both as a standalone goal as well as in relation to other goals (e.g access to education). Full details | Add event |
| 27 February 2019 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 21 February 2019 | 13:00 | Pizza and Politics – PGR Seminar Series
From Representation to Meritocracy: conceptions of parliamentary work and the political class in the Boyle Committee reports, 1971-197. Full details | Add event |
| 20 February 2019 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 13 February 2019 | 15:30 | Old people tend to be more religious than young people, and Western societies today are less religious than they were in the past. Scholars disagree, though, about what’s changing and why.. Full details | Add event |
| 12 February 2019 | 18:00 | Professor Alison Harcourt (University of Exeter) will speak about the roadmap for the EU's Digital Single Market (DSM) outlining different scenarios for the UK’s trade in digital services post-Brexit including discussion of the EU’s recent copyright package, the GDPR, e-privacy revision and audio-visual media services.. Full details | Add event |
| 7 February 2019 | 13:00 | Pizza and Politics – PGR Seminar Series - Hannah Willis. Title tbc. Full details | Add event |
| 6 February 2019 | 13:00 | Discourse network analysis is a toolbox of research methods for the analysis of actor-based debates, such as policy debates or political discussions. Examples include the policy debates on climate change, pension politics, or around the introduction of large infrastructure projects. Full details | Add event |
| 6 February 2019 | 13:00 | Ethnic and racial bias in frontline implementation: a systematic review of possible interventions. Full details | Add event |
| 6 February 2019 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 30 January 2019 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 29 January 2019 | 18:00 | Professor Michael Winter (University of Exeter) will explain why CAP is featured as ripe for reform and change in the context of the UK’s Brexit plans. He will consider what that might mean for the future of UK agriculture and the likely divergence in agricultural policy between the UK and the EU post-Brexit.. Full details | Add event |
| 24 January 2019 | 13:00 | Virginia Thomas (Exeter) will present a draft of her thesis’ research design 'The landscapes and limitations of rewilding'. Full details | Add event |
| 23 January 2019 | 13:00 | This workshop provides an introduction for beginners to Social Network Analysis. It gives an overview of key concepts needed to design research that looks at social relations (networks) that connect individual units (actors), so that students can apply social network analysis to their own research.. Full details | Add event |
| 9 January 2019 | 13:00 | This workshop is aimed at those who have no experience of R, and will provide a solid introduction to using it for data analysis by covering how to handle data structures such as vectors, matrices, and data frames. Full details | Add event |
| 19 December 2018 | 13:00 | Discussion of Professor Bolleyer's ERC Consolidator Grant Proposal “The ‘Shrinking Space’ for Civil Society in Europe: Drivers and Consequences”. Full details | Add event |
| 10 December 2018 | 16:30 | The Department of Politics invite you to a panel discussion to mark International Day of Human Rights. Full details | Add event |
| 5 December 2018 | 16:30 | The Exeter Centre for Political Thought will host a roundtable on Alex Lefebvre's new book, Human Rights and the Care of the Self. Confirmed Speakers include Robert Lamb (Exeter), Sarah Lucas (Exeter), Ayca Cubukcu (LSE), and Alex Lefebvre (University of Sydney). Full details | Add event |
| 5 December 2018 | 14:00 | ASI Data Science utilise artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in conjunction with large and small data sets in order to provide businesses with a competitive advantage. In this workshop, members of the company will provide an in-depth understanding of sentiment analysis, and how it can identify and categorise opinions from text data in order to understand the attitude of the individual(s) that wrote a piece of text. Full details | Add event |
| 5 December 2018 | 14:00 | Details of Professor Glasius' ressearch interests and work can be found here:
http://www.uva.nl/profiel/g/l/m.e.glasius/m.e.glasius.html. Full details | Add event |
| 5 December 2018 | 13:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 4 December 2018 | 15:30 | Elite communication has the potential to influence public opinion, civil conflict, and diplomatic interactions. However, a comparative study of leaders' public rhetoric has proven elusive due to the difficulties of developing comparable measures across countries and over time. The advent of social media sites, and its widespread adoption by world leaders, offers a unique new source of data to overcome these challenges. Full details | Add event |
| 29 November 2018 | 13:00 | Presenter: Sven Altenburger (University of Gottingen) : “The Constitutional Duties of Citizens". Full details | Add event |
| 28 November 2018 | 18:00 | At a time when multilateralism and the value of international organisations are being questioned, not least by the United States, the nation that did more than any other to establish the global liberal order in the first place, Jamie Shea will examine whether NATO is still fit for purpose. Is the Atlantic Alliance resilient enough to withstand the shocks from within and without that are currently testing its solidarity? Will its current strategy be enough to guarantee Europe security and to rebuild a solid transatlantic partnership?. Full details | Add event |
| 28 November 2018 | 12:45 | Weekly Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 21 November 2018 | 13:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 21 November 2018 | 13:00 | Parties under pressure: Organization, Factionalism, and Adaptability of Western European Christian Democracy. Full details | Add event |
| 21 November 2018 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 19 November 2018 | 15:30 | To speak to people involved in linking Government datasets is to enter a world that at times seems so ludicrous as to be Kafkaesque. Stories abound of Departments putting up arcane barriers to sharing their data with other parts of Government; and of researchers waiting so long to get access to data that their funding runs out before they can start work. Full details | Add event |
| 14 November 2018 | 19:00 | Join Tony Juniper, campaigner, writer, sustainability adviser and well known British environmentalist as he delivers this public talk to raise awareness about the pressures faced by our natural environment, the current state of nature and how new laws can help us to restore it.
The event will be chaired by Professor Matt Lobley of the Centre for Rural Policy Research, Department of Politics and will include Q&A. Come along to have your say and shape the future of the environment. It is hosted by the University of Exeter and Devon Wildlife Trust.
The event starts at 7pm. Drinks from 6.30pm.
Read more at https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/crpr/events/#Rjrux09liSA4IRwm.99. Full details | Add event |
| 14 November 2018 | 18:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 14 November 2018 | 15:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 14 November 2018 | 15:30 | Exeter Centre for Latin American Studies Seminar.. Full details | Add event |
| 14 November 2018 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 7 November 2018 | 13:00 | ‘Bringing a gun to a knife fight? Utilising 'triggers' to maximise membership potential’ (Draft Paper). Full details | Add event |
| 7 November 2018 | 13:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 7 November 2018 | 13:00 | Building upon the basic introduction offered to Python in workshop 1, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data in Python. It will also provide an introduction to the major Python packages used in data analysis; including NumPy, Pandas, and Seaborn. Full details | Add event |
| 7 November 2018 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 31 October 2018 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 24 October 2018 | 15:00 | This event has been postponed until further notice. Full details | Add event |
| 24 October 2018 | 13:00 | Draft Consolidator Grant to the Irish Research Council. Full details | Add event |
| 17 October 2018 | 13:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 17 October 2018 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 15 October 2018 | 11:00 | This is the first in a series of Q-Step Seminar talks for Autumn 2018.
The talk will address the growing sense that U.S. military effectiveness has been on the wane in recent years. Is this the case? If so, what are the reasons for the decay in American combat performance?. Full details | Add event |
| 10 October 2018 | 16:00 | Come celebrate the launch of two new books from the colleagues in the Politics department: Trumping the Mainstream: The Conquest of Democratic Politics by the Populist Radical Right, edited by Lise Herman and James Muldoon and Council Democracy: Toward a Democratic Socialist Politics by James Muldoon.. Full details | Add event |
| 10 October 2018 | 13:00 | Python is increasingly used by social scientists to collect, process and analyse new types of unstructured or semi-structured data, such as online text and social media data. It is an accessible, yet versatile programming language which is also broadly used for data science and machine learning tasks, combining multiple types of data, simulation and visualization. This workshop provides an introduction to basic programming notions in Python, and introduces some of the most useful packages used in social science research. No previous programming experience is required.. Full details | Add event |
| 10 October 2018 | 13:00 | For Dr Herman's research interests, see here:
http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/politics/staff/herman/. Full details | Add event |
| 10 October 2018 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
| 3 October 2018 | 13:00 | Python is increasingly used by social scientists to collect, process and analyse new types of unstructured or semi-structured data, such as online text and social media data. It is an accessible, yet versatile programming language which is also broadly used for data science and machine learning tasks, combining multiple types of data, simulation and visualization. This workshop provides an introduction to basic programming notions in Python, and introduces some of the most useful packages used in social science research. No previous programming experience is required.. Full details | Add event |
| 3 October 2018 | 13:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 3 October 2018 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group Meeting. Full details | Add event |
| 27 September 2018 | 18:30 | Come along to our Speed Networking evening and speak to a number of Exeter graduates who have taken different career routes with their Politics and IR degrees!
This will be a fantastic opportunity to network with a number of prestigious Politics and IR Alumni, find out about their careers, and learn about what steps you can take to follow a similar path. All graduates are from within the last six years, so they will be able to provide perspectives and advice on translating an Exeter Politics or IR degree into a successful career. Full details | Add event |
| 18 - 25 July 2018 | | The ninth annual ECPR Summer School on Interest Group Politics is an eight-day intensive workshop held at the University of Exeter in southwest England. The school will provide graduate students with a firm understanding of the development, mobilization, agenda-setting role, advocacy efforts, and political success of interest groups and those that lobby for them.. Full details | Add event |
| 6 June 2018 | 12:00 | Oliver James, Professor in Political Science: The Data Revolution in Government Performance Reporting: Evidence from Experiments with Citizens and Users.
Duncan Russel, Associate Professor in Environmental Policy: The idea of valuing nature in policy making: reflections on 10 years of research. Full details | Add event |
| 24 May 2018 | 9:00 | The German Revolution and the Radical Democratic Imaginary
This workshop aims to rejuvenate interest in the theorists and actors of the German Revolution and to place them in dialogue with conversations in radical democratic theory. The workshop will include panels on left-wing communism, radical democracy, Rosa Luxemburg and historiographies of the German Revolution. All interested scholars are welcome to attend. A preliminary draft schedule is included below:
Panel 1: 9:30 – 10:45 - Rosa Luxemburg’s Radical Democracy
Panel 2: 11:15 – 12:45 - Left-Wing Communism
Panel 3: 2:00 – 3:30 - Revisiting the German Revolution: Berlin, Bremen and Beyond
Panel 4: 4:00 – 5:30 - Radical Democracy and its Discontents
Participants include:
Mayra Cotta (NSSR), Thomas Jeffrey Miley (QMUL), Paulina Tambakaki (Westminster), Albert Dikovich (Konstanz), Clive Gabay (QMUL), Paul Mazzocchi (York), Jamie Melrose (Bristol), Merylin Moos, Donny Gluckstein (Edinburgh), Gaard Kets (Radboud), Joern Janssen, Regina Cochrane (Calgary), Felix Petersen (Jerusalem), Benjamin Popp-Madsen (Copenhagen), Olivier Ruchet (Zurich).. Full details | Add event |
| 22 May 2018 | 9:00 | Feminist theory is an increasingly plural field, but it remains united by a commitment to challenging what passes for universal or impartial knowledge. This workshop seeks to map connections between feminist methods in political science and political theory in order to share resources for questioning dominant methods across the discipline of politics. We welcome papers that investigate feminist methods in a variety of approaches to politics, including democratic theory, international relations, quantitative measurement, environmental politics, public policy, and normative political philosophy. Submissions may be works-in-progress, finished papers, or even past work. Participants are encouraged to read their own work through the lens of the question “how is this work feminist?” We hope the workshop will address questions such as: What are feminist methods? How do dominant methods marginalize women’s experience? How have technological advancements in quantitative methods reproduced gendered relations of power? How might feminist methods or practices open up interdisciplinary pathways between political science and political theory? How can methods in political science and political theory be intersectional? How does work on gender differ from feminist work? Must feminist projects deploy feminist methods?
The workshop will be divided into four sessions: 1) International Relations, 2) Political Theory, 3) Governance and Policy, and 4) Quantitative Analysis. We hope that conference attendees will commit to the whole day in the interest of making connections across different aspects of Politics as a discipline. Each session will culminate in a keynote from a senior scholar in the subfield. Full details | Add event |
| 16 May 2018 | 14:30 | Political theorists have long argued that a well-functioning democracy requires a degree of mutual respect and willingness to talk across difficult political divides. Yet these normative standards for political dialogue are difficult to meet when the public is deeply divided. Numerous empirical studies have documented that electorates, especially in America, are polarized along partisan lines, and this manifests itself as animus towards opposing party members. We extend this work by examining the emergence of affective polarization along lines drawn not by partisan loyalties but instead by identification with opinion-based groups formed in the wake of Britain's 2016 referendum on European Union membership.. Full details | Add event |
| 16 - 17 May 2018 | 14:00 | The Workshop’s main focus is on the interaction between European and Chinese political languages and traditions. Its main aims are to assess processes of transculturation between Chinese and European, or more broadly Western, political discourses, and to investigate the different ways in which key political themes and ideas are conceptualised in Chinese and European languages and political experience. Full details | Add event |
| 10 - 11 May 2018 | | Graduate students in a changing world. Full details | Add event |
| 9 May 2018 | 10:15 | The Western-based world order is in crisis. Or so is relentlessly claimed from a growing range of quarters. Yet, what constitutes the Western-based world order and what its defining features are is generally poorly understood. Full details | Add event |
| 27 April 2018 | 16:30 | Adrian Colston, ‘Stakeholder attitudes to the narratives of the Dartmoor Commons: tradition and the search for consensus in a time of change’. Full details | Add event |
| 20 April 2018 | 16:30 | Rebecca Baker - Measuring democratic quality? Youth participation in Plymouth. Full details | Add event |
| 17 April 2018 | 13:00 | The Personalization of Political Parties: Opportunities for Participatory Renewal. Full details | Add event |
| 11 April 2018 | 13:00 | ESRC Draft Grant Application: Designing and Testing Interventions to Enhance Electoral Registration in Under-Represented Groups. Full details | Add event |
| 29 March 2018 | 16:00 | In this tutorial, we introduce multilevel models as extensions of regression-type models suited to analyse hierarchical or nested data, such as children's SATs test scores nested within classes or schools, individual survey responses nested within interviewers, or, potentially, any measure taken repeatedly over time. I’ll demonstrate code on the spot in R, so you might find it helpful to bring your laptops (but it’s optional). Full details | Add event |
| 23 March 2018 | 16:30 | Francesca Farmer, ‘Cybercrime vs hacktivism: do we need a differentiated regulatory approach?’
Torill Stavenes, 'Money and members: An analysis of the influence of state funding on centralisation in new minor parties in Italy'. Full details | Add event |
| 21 March 2018 | 14:00 | From Trump supporters to Brexiteers, last few years have seen a rise of ‘sovereigntism’, a renewed defence of the principle of sovereign statehood as a principle of governance. This has been surprising for many analysts and practitioners of politics as they had increasingly come to the view that the principle of sovereignty had either waned in its classical (Westphalian) meaning or had transformed into something new, at best a qualified, fragmented, externally-conditioned kind of sovereign principle. Yet, precisely this expectation reveals the lack of attention paid by analysts and political practitioners to a series of deep, and long-running, battle-battalions of the classical principle of sovereignty in global politics. These battle-battalions have remained ‘hidden’ and their defence of sovereignty has been by and large ‘implicit’; yet, they have been powerful and sustained in their efforts to stamp down on political struggles for forms of governance not premised on sovereignty. Focused on one such battle-battalion – the policy practice of democracy support and the attached agendas of development – this article seeks to both a. convey the intensity of hidden battles over sovereignty over the last three decades and b. the role seemingly innocuous, liberal, seemingly non-sovereigntist policy tools in elimination of actors and activities advocating non-or 'extra'-sovereign political imaginations. I argue that to understand the centrality of the defence of sovereignty for these efforts helps us understand the surprising resilience of sovereign political form. Furthermore, highlighting the role of the long-running battle-battalions for sovereignty ‘hidden in plain sight’ also helps us to grapple with the limits of global political imagination and democratic politics in 21st century international politics.. Full details | Add event |
| 21 March 2018 | 13:30 | The Family Regulation and Society Network and the Gender Research Network are jointly running this interdisciplinary event entitled “Rethinking Marriage: Theoretical and Policy Challenges”. Following presentations from the four speakers, see below, the discussion will centre around theoretical and policy challenges to traditional conceptions of marriage, with speakers from Law, Sociology and Theology whose research interests include feminist and queer theory, gender studies, sexuality and marriage, civil and formalised partnerships, polygamy and the implications of intersex and transgender for theologies of marriage. Full details | Add event |
| 21 March 2018 | 13:00 | Title tbc (draft article). Full details | Add event |
| 21 March 2018 | 12:30 | The Data Revolution in Government Performance Reporting: Evidence from Experiments with Citizens and Users. Full details | Add event |
| 21 March 2018 | 12:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 20 March 2018 | 18:30 | Question Time session with students from all years on 'War and Peace in the 21st Century', with Patrick Porter, Irene Fernandez-Molina, David Blagden, John Heathershaw and Doug Stokes.. Full details | Add event |
| 19 March 2018 | 18:00 | In this lecture, Dr Chris Phillips will provide an analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles foreign powers have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil war.. Full details | Add event |
| 9 March 2018 | 16:30 | ‘Professionalised but yet participatory? Membership involvement across parties, advocacy groups and service providing organisations in the UK and Norway’ (co-authored with Torill Stavenes). Full details | Add event |
| 8 March 2018 | 15:30 | tbc. Full details | Add event |
| 7 March 2018 | 12:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 6 March 2018 | 11:30 | Though models sit at the centre of lines of social inquiry as diverse as game theory, statistical analysis, qualitative analysis, and political philosophy, all involve an attempt to describe core elements of the world in a way that helps us to understand, value, and predict that world. With Agent Based Models, computer simulations of the behaviours of many agents work deductively from simplified assumptions to create dynamic interactions that can be examined over a range of conditions to make inductive arguments about the nature of the world. In this generative reasoning approach, agents with very simple micromotives can lead to complex adaptive systems in which qualitatively different macrobehaviours emerge. How do very simple assumptions about drivers, city dwellers, and voters lead to complex emergent phenomena like traffic jams, housing segregation, and party realignment? In this lecture, I’ll introduce answers to these questions by building models of these problems and highlight tools you can use to develop your own agent based models. Full details | Add event |
| 1 March 2018 | 17:30 | Join Danny Kushlick (Founder and Head of External Affairs at Transform Drug Policy Foundation) for a workshop focusing on a career in lobbying and advocacy. Transform is a charitable think tank that campaigns for the legal regulation of drugs both in the UK and internationally. Transform aims to educate and inspire policymakers to explore and implement the effective legal regulation of drug markets. Danny will speak about his diverse career and experiences, give an in-depth look into the work of organisations such as Transform, and give his tips on being successful in the industry.
There will be a Q&A after the talk, and a drinks reception where you will have the chance to speak to Danny further.
Danny Kushlick bio:
Danny is the founder of Transform Drug Policy Foundation, which he started in 1996, after working in a variety of jobs in the drugs field. It was his clients' experience that led him to the understanding that prohibition is a social policy catastrophe. He worked for Bristol Drugs Project, the Big Issue Foundation, Bath Area Drugs Advisory Service and the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO). He is now an internationally recognised commentator on drug and drug policy issues, with a unique combination of personal experience and broad, global view.
Please ensure that you arrive promptly for the start of this event and that you have your University ID card (UniCard) with you.
Your attendance at this appointment/event will be recorded. If you are recorded as absent your ability to book further events and appointments may be temporarily revoked. If you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking as soon as possible. Please see attendance policy at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/exeter/aboutus/policies/. Full details | Add event |
| 27 February 2018 | 11:30 | The workshop provides an introduction for beginners to Social Network Analysis. It gives an overview of key concepts needed to design research that looks at social relations (networks) that connect individual units (actors), so that students can apply social network analysis to their own research. The workshop focuses on the description and visualisation of social network data, looking at structural properties of a network, as well as ideas of centrality in the network. To understand the SNA perspective, practical examples are given from academic literature, illustrative graphics from the media, and source material visualised through R. Experience in R is expected although not required. We will use a combination of slides and R code exercise. Full details | Add event |
| 23 February 2018 | 16:30 | Parliamentarians and their Regulators: dilemmas of accountability, legitimacy and credibility inside ‘the regulatory state within Westminster’ in the UK and Australia. Full details | Add event |
| 21 February 2018 | 12:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 20 February 2018 | 17:00 | In this workshop you will learn about the principles of longitudinal data analysis, when it should be used and the advantages and disadvantages of longitudinal methods. You will also be introduced to event history analysis and learn how to construct a person-year data file. Finally, you will learn to run common hazard models and create a survival curve. The workshop will be taught using STATA software with examples from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Please note that a prior experience with regression analysis is required. Full details | Add event |
| 20 February 2018 | 9:30 | This conference is the closing event for VOTEADVICE, a four-year research project funded by the European Commission to investigate the impact of new technologies on political behaviour. The scientific objectives of VOTEADVICE have been to produce research related to how new technologies and social media influence political and social behaviour. In order to achieve this aim the Research Network developed and applied techniques for the analysis of non-probability samples, online surveys and experiments and eye tracking tools.. Full details | Add event |
| 14 February 2018 | 12:30 | Agriculture and the Environment in Uncertain Times: Competing Positions in the Brexit Debate. Full details | Add event |
| 9 February 2018 | 16:30 | Regulatory Decision-making: parameters of good regulation.
Tracing the coordinates of a comprehensive theory on regulation, investigating substantive and procedural parameters of good regulation. Full details | Add event |
| 8 February 2018 | 18:30 | A Public Engagement Event
Chair: Valentina Todino, Italian Cultural Association
Guest Speakers: Gregorio Bettiza, Claudio Radaelli, and Claudia Zucca (Politics, University of Exeter)
Italy goes to the polls on 4 March 2018. In the current stage of European integration and with the process of Brexit-ing under way, these elections are relevant for a large audience: the Italian citizens of course, but also the Italians living in Britain, and the citizens and leaders of the EU countries. The purpose of this event is twofold. First, to provide plain information on the new electoral system, how Italians living abroad can exercise their right to vote, and the options available. Second, to discuss the Italian elections from the perspective of their European and international salience. Populism, anti-politics, and at the same time the possible re-launch of the European ideal: these are not just issues underlying the politics of the Italian elections, they resonate with deeper political changes across the European Union and the UK. To look at the Italian elections in 2018 is also a way to raise more general questions about our identity and international politics. Hence our title: What is at stake in the 2018 Italian elections? Come and join us to find out more. We asked three university lecturers to kick off the evening with plain-language presentations, and to share with us their perspective (including why not fears, doubts and hopes!) on these forthcoming elections, as seen from Exeter, UK. Their introduction will be followed by Q&A from the public. We invite all university students, staff and citizens.. Full details | Add event |
| 7 February 2018 | 13:00 | ‘Electoral strength and internal party asymmetry in the Spanish Popular Party’ (draft article). Full details | Add event |
| 7 February 2018 | 12:30 | The Legitimacy of the Brexit Referendum. Full details | Add event |
| 7 February 2018 | 12:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 6 February 2018 | 11:30 | TBC. Full details | Add event |
| 31 January 2018 | 12:45 | Workshop organised jointly by the Centre for Political Thought, The Centre for European Governance and the Centre for Rural Policy Research. Full details | Add event |
| 31 January 2018 | 11:30 | Please note special time. BREXIT workshop begins at 1PM Reed Hall that day). Full details | Add event |
| 30 January 2018 | 11:30 | At the workshop we will consider basic principles of designing field and survey experiments. We will start with discussing the idea of causal inference and randomisation. Then we will review several experimental designs: completely randomised, stratified, paired, cluster randomised, factorial. Next, we will discuss statistical power in experiments and conclude with a review of the methods for the analysis of experimental data, such as ANOVA and linear model. The workshop will be useful for Q-Step undergraduate students planning to use experiments for their dissertations, as well as for postgraduate students.. Full details | Add event |
| 24 January 2018 | 13:00 | ‘Parliamentary Ethics Regulation in Europe: Studying the Evolution of Complex Regulatory Regimes’ (draft article). Full details | Add event |
| 19 January 2018 | 13:30 | Join Exeter alum Simon Vigar (Royal Correspondent for 5 News) for a workshop focusing on delivering a news story, analysing different scenarios and practical ways of dealing with them. There will also be time for a Q&A with Simon about careers in broadcast journalism. Full details | Add event |
| 17 January 2018 | 12:30 | State Steer and IPR Policy in Standard Developing Organisations. Full details | Add event |
| 17 January 2018 | 12:30 | Contemporary urbanization has become a global political problem, not least through its claimed transformation of the spatial and temporal configurations of world politics. Full details | Add event |
| 15 December 2017 | 16:30 | The Risk of Statelessness and Identity Disappearance: Tuvalu's Oscillation Between Rising Sea Levels and a Ramshackle Habitat. Full details | Add event |
| 8 December 2017 | 16:30 | ‘A Comparative Study of the ‘Yes’ vote for the 2011 AV Referendum and the same areas for the 2016 EU Referendum’. Full details | Add event |
| 7 December 2017 | 16:30 | This workshop provides an introduction to the main methods used to access, download and store social media data. You will learn how to use Twitter's APIs to collect tweets and user details, and how to collect Facebook posts and comments. Basic knowledge of programming in Python is required, and participants are required to attend the "Intro to Python" workshop first.. Full details | Add event |
| 6 December 2017 | 14:30 | My talk focuses on public governance in turbulent times and how to deal with it. I aim to suggest the contours of a design approach in political science with the backing of organization theory. The ambition is to use insights from my latest work on governing turbulence and then to set out design implications from an organizational approach to public governance. Arguably, even in turbulent times research(ers) might specify and advice on how governance processes might be deliberately designed organizationally. I hereby draw a middle-ground in an old turf-war in organization studies and public administration between ‘science’ and ‘craft’. Insights into how organizational factors affect public governance is a necessary precondition for using organization theory to meta-govern. I will advocate that organization theory as ‘craft’ requires organization theory as ‘science’. ‘’Science’ and ‘craft’, or understanding and design, are thus complementary and not opposing as too often assumed.. Full details | Add event |
| 6 December 2017 | 13:00 | Towards effectiveness of food safety regulation across Europe. Full details | Add event |
| 6 December 2017 | 12:45 | “The tragedy of Imperial Republics”. Full details | Add event |
| 6 December 2017 | 12:00 | CAIS Brownbag seminar. Full details | Add event |
| 30 November 2017 | 14:30 | At the workshop we will consider basic principles of designing field and survey experiments. We will start with discussing the idea of causal inference and randomisation. Then we will review several experimental designs: completely randomised, stratified, paired, cluster randomised, factorial. Next, we will discuss statistical power in experiments and conclude with a review of the methods for the analysis of experimental data, such as ANOVA and linear model. The workshop will be useful for Q-Step undergraduate students planning to use experiments for their dissertations, as well as for postgraduate students. Full details | Add event |
| 29 November 2017 | 12:45 | This workshop places an emphasis on the relationship between democratic processes and political cohesion that goes beyond the simplistic formula of competitive democrats. Political cohesion, or the commitment to a common political project, is a matter of degree and processes leading to the peaceful resolution of conflict are just one way of contributing to this phenomenon. Indeed, political processes can embody values and produce norms that may legitimate the political system in one way or another and lead to much deeper forms of political cohesion among members of a political community than that which is allowed for by the mere avoidance of violent conflict. On the one hand, we consider the circumstances under which competitive elections can do more than peacefully resolve conflict by contributing in a deeper sense to citizens’ commitment to democratic values. On the other hand, as procedural and substantive democrats recognise, there is much more to democracy than free and fair elections. We therefore expand our inquiry beyond election to understand how other democratic values and activities may contribute towards political cohesion.. Full details | Add event |
| 24 November 2017 | 16:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 22 November 2017 | 13:00 | Article Draft Title TBC. Full details | Add event |
| 22 November 2017 | 12:45 | Conal Condren’s Political Vocabularies. Full details | Add event |
| 22 November 2017 | 12:30 | What's Nonviolence to do with the European Union?. Full details | Add event |
| 22 November 2017 | 12:00 | CAIS Brown bag seminar. Full details | Add event |
| 20 November 2017 | 11:30 | Python is increasingly used by social scientists to collect, process and analyse new types of unstructured or semi-structured data, such as online text and social media data. It is a an accessible, yet versatile programming language which is also broadly used for data science and machine learning tasks, combining multiple types of data, simulation and visualization. This workshop provides an introduction to basic programming notions in Python, and introduces some of the most useful packages used in social science research. No previous programming experience is required.
NOTE: This workshop is a prerequisite for the following Q-Step workshops (to be offered this and next term): Collecting Social Media Data, Data Analysis in Python, Text Analysis.. Full details | Add event |
| 15 November 2017 | 17:30 | Carne Ross, diplomat, author and now filmmaker, will be in Exeter on the 15th of November to introduce a screening of his new film Accidental Anarchist for staff and students.
Carne Ross will take part in a Q&A afterwards, chaired by Dr Alex Prichard, senior lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Politics. The event is supported by the Security and Strategy Institute, Center for Advanced International Studies, and the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter.
'Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all. But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives. He felt at first hand the corruption of power. After the Iraq war Carne became disillusioned, quit his job and started searching for answers. This film traces his journey across the globe as he tries to find an answer to the question so many people today are asking themselves - isn't there a better way? For Carne there is. Anarchism offers a solution to the brutalities of Capitalism and the dishonesties of Democracy. It offers a world where people have control over their own lives. From the protesters of Occupy Wall Street, to an anarchist collective in Spain, to Noam Chomsky, the grand old man of anarchism himself, Carne finds people who are putting the theory into practice. His journey eventually takes him to one of the most dangerous places on earth - Syria, eight kilometers from the front line with Isis, where a remarkable anarchist state has risen phoenix like from the flames. A powerful film about one man's epic journey from government insider to anarchist.'. Full details | Add event |
| 15 November 2017 | 17:30 | Carne Ross, diplomat, author and now filmmaker, will be in Exeter on the 15th of November to introduce a free screening of his new film Accidental Anarchist for staff and students. Full details | Add event |
| 15 November 2017 | 12:30 | Evaluating the Stages Heuristic in Policy Teaching: An Experimental Analysis. Full details | Add event |
| 14 November 2017 | 12:45 | TBD - please note this is a Tuesday. Full details | Add event |
| 10 November 2017 | 16:30 | Since the 1990's, the number of actors working in the field of migration management in Europe has rapidly grown and diversified. This does not only refer to state actors- such as central governments, local governments, and street-level bureaucrats- whose roles and responsibilities in the management of migration have become increasingly confused and disparate; but also to the growing number of non-state actors involved in managing migration, such as private security companies, civil society organisations, and NGOs. This paper frames the diversification and growth of actors in the terms of New Public Management, suggesting that the management of migration has been increasingly dominated by a 'businesslike' approach, characterized by a focus on costs/expenditures and a demand for increased efficiency- thus rendering the management of migration into a complex 'industry'. Through mapping the types of actors involved in this migration industry, and comparing the specific actors involved in three EU states (Italy, Germany and the UK) we show how- despite the different forms of government and types of actors working in each context- this diffuse and monetised approach to managing migration has led to common structural problems, including a lack of clarity concerning who is responsible and accountable for decisions; a lack of consistency in the implementation of policies; and, often, a lack of consideration of the justice of decision-making and the wellbeing of migrants. We therefore conclude that the current, dominant approach to managing migration in Europe is inherently flawed, on account of both its lack of clear organisation and accountability, and it's inability to adequately meet the needs of migrants.. Full details | Add event |
| 9 November 2017 | 16:30 | We will introduce the common approaches to data visualisation in R, including line / bar charts, scatterplots, histogram and density plots in base R and using the ggplot2 package. We will also discuss the aesthetics, geoms and faceting systems in ggplot2. Please bring your own laptop with R, RStudio, and the following packages installed: "tidyverse", "titanic". Full details | Add event |
| 8 November 2017 | 13:00 | “Corbyn's Cornish Comrades. A preliminary exploration of a survey of rally participants” (draft article). Full details | Add event |
| 8 November 2017 | 12:45 | TBD. Full details | Add event |
| 8 November 2017 | 12:00 | Cais Brownbag seminar. Full details | Add event |
| 1 November 2017 | 12:00 | CAIS Brownbag seminar. Full details | Add event |
| 26 October 2017 | 16:30 | In this workshop, we introduce some of the most popular functions and packages for data management/manipulation including fast data cleaning, recording a number of variables simultaneously, aggregating or summarising data by groups, merging tables, reshaping tables. Using an example data set provided on the spot, we will go through (s/t)apply functions, and functions provided by the dplyr package and the data.table package. Participants will be able to use their own laptops during this workshop and receive support with software installation. Full details | Add event |
| 25 October 2017 | 13:00 | Europeanized solutions to common problems? The customization, outputs and outcomes of EU food safety directives (chapter draft). Full details | Add event |
| 25 October 2017 | 12:45 | Full details | Add event |
| 25 October 2017 | 12:30 | History Repeating (Itself?) Badgers, Bovine TB and Long Term Environmental Controversies. Full details | Add event |
| 18 October 2017 | 12:45 | Migration event. Full details | Add event |
| 18 October 2017 | 12:30 | The necessity of discretion: a behavioral evaluation of bottom-up implementation theory. Joint paper by Eva Thomann (Exeter), Nadine van Engen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Lars Tummers (Utrecht University). Full details | Add event |
| 18 October 2017 | 12:00 | CAIS Brownbag seminar. Full details | Add event |
| 11 October 2017 | 13:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 11 October 2017 | 12:45 | Linda Zerilli on Political Judgment. Full details | Add event |
| 10 October 2017 | 14:30 | The Ecology of Government, Law and Polity. Full details | Add event |
| 4 October 2017 | 12:45 | Marx. Full details | Add event |
| 3 October 2017 | 14:00 | Science’s Credibility Crisis: Why we have to change our publication practices. Full details | Add event |
| 27 September 2017 | 13:00 | ESRC Grant Proposal: 'Not Free and not Fair: The impact of elections and appointment on legislative behaviour'. Full details | Add event |
| 27 September 2017 | 12:45 | Complexity Theory and Health Care [Exact title TBC]. Full details | Add event |
| 25 July 2017 | 13:00 | We will discuss Nena Oana's (CEU Budapest) Marie Curie Fellowship Grant Proposal on "Dynamic Representation: Collective Mobilization and Party Support". Full details | Add event |
| 13 July 2017 | 10:30 | An Informal Discussion with Prof Zhiqin SHI, Dr Jiahan CAO and Dr Bin MA.
See event flyer for more information. Full details | Add event |
| 30 June 2017 | 9:15 | This workshop, taught by Prof. Robert Ackland (ANU and Uberlink), provides an introduction to social media analysis using the R package SocialMediaLab. The package provides an easy way to collect text and network data across multiple popular social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram). You will learn how to collect the data, analyse and visualize it, and generate different types of networks for analysis.. Full details | Add event |
| 27 June 2017 | | Full details | Add event |
| 12 June 2017 | 11:00 | PROGRAMME:
11:00 – 12:30 PANEL 1: CIVIL SOCIETY RESPONSES IN THE UK
1. Nick Kirsop-Taylor, Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute
Diversify, Specialize, Reform, Avoid, or Co-operate: Analysis of the Strategic Responses From Environmental Voluntary Sector Organisations Living under the shadow of austerity
2. Joshua Garland, Department of Politics
The Mobilisation of Anti-Fracking Campaigns: Experiences from the United Kingdom
3. Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska, Departement of Politics
The Impact of State benefits on Membership Involvement and Political Activities: A Study of Voluntary Membership Organizations in the UK
12:40- 14:10 PANEL 2: DEMOCRATIC POLITICS AND REPRSENTATION
1.Nick Dickinson, Department of Politics
Independent Regulation of Political Actors: Symptom or Solution to the Problem of Public distrust in the ‘Political class’
2.Keith Sutherland, Department of Politics
Deliberation and Representation: Squaring the Circle
3.Andreas Karoutas, Department of Politics
(TBA)
14:50 – 15:50 PANEL 3: TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS
1. Gertjan Hoetjes, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Information Technology and Transnational Political Activism in the GCC states
2. Sidan Wang, Department of Politics
The Rise of China in the Global Governance of Climate Change
16:00-17:00 ACADEMIC CAREERS EVENT
“Life after a PhD: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask”
Talks by Director of Doctoral Studies prof. Duncan Russel and lecturer Dr. Irene Fernandez-Molina followed by a Q&A-session. Full details | Add event |
| 23 May 2017 | 16:00 | The department will celebrate its publication with a seminar featuring John in conversation withguest speakers, an open discussion/Q&A, followed by a wine reception. Full details | Add event |
| 22 May 2017 | 14:00 | Professor Suzanne J. Piotrowski , School Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University. Full details | Add event |
| 16 May 2017 | 11:00 | Professor Travis Ridout is Thomas S. Foley Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Policy in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington State University. He is also co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political advertising. Ridout's research on political campaigns and political advertising has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Communication, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Annual Review of Political Science, and in several book chapters. Full details | Add event |
| 11 May 2017 | 14:00 | Workshop on Democracy in China organised by Centre of Political Thought. Full details | Add event |
| 4 May 2017 | 17:00 | Abstract:
The paper evaluates the functioning of global standards arrangements in an autocratic context. Through the case of an international governance initiative the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the paper investigates how the standardised practices of global governance arrangements are implemented in post-Soviet state autocratic state of Kazakhstan. In doing so the present paper analysis the transnational character of the initiative and how it operates within the recipient country. The findings of the EITI in Kazakhstan illustrate, that domestic context and regime type influence the operationalisation of the initiative. The paper argues that the adoption of EITI standardised requirements follow a specific internal logic that disconnects from its initial purpose. The paper as such urges scholars and policy advisers to further investigate on how global governance arrangements transcend at domestic levels this particularly within autocratic regimes. The paper draws its analytical findings from interviews and survey analysis conducted in Kazakhstan in 2015.. Full details | Add event |
| 22 March 2017 | 15:30 | On behalf of the International Law Forum at Exeter Law School and Department of Politics, we are pleased to invite you to an expert panel on careers in International Justice and Human Rights, with drinks reception. Event open to students in the College of Social Sciences and International Studies. Full details | Add event |
| 20 March 2017 | 13:00 | Open to students and staff from all departments on the Penryn Campus. Full details | Add event |
| 17 March 2017 | 15:00 | Guest lecture with Professor Mike Savage from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Full details | Add event |
| 16 March 2017 | 17:00 | Abstract for presentation: Post-election socialisation has frequently been identified as a source of parliamentarians’ disposition towards party loyalty. Yet a recent study of the socialisation experiences of new members in the British Parliament, using tenure as proxy for socialisation, found little evidence of an effect on party loyalty (Rush and Giddings, 2011). This paper develops a new model of parliamentary socialisation and uses the same data to demonstrate that post-entry socialisation did in fact change legislators reported likeliness to behave in accordance with their party leadership’s wishes. Specifically, a framework based on information exchange (advice giving) is used to show that positive interactions with party actors are associated with increased loyalty. Controlling for initial levels of loyalty, members who received more useful advice from party actors were more likely to rate themselves as highly influenced by the party leadership. Full details | Add event |
| 7 March 2017 | 11:30 | The seminar will cover the story of some new approaches developed in the mid 1990s to address habitat and species loss in England.. Full details | Add event |
| 3 March 2017 | 11:30 | Gordon Bennett is a human rights lawyer who works closely with Survival International. He recently published an article in the Guardian on the rights of tribal people to hunt. In this talk, Gordon will reflect on his work as a barrister and how his role interacts with other agencies involved in supporting the human rights of indigenous people.
This event is designed to give you a flavour of some of the roles and activities involved in working in human rights with indiginous communities.
Students from all disciplines are welcome to come and hear Gordon speak and discuss issues of tribal human rights. Full details | Add event |
| 3 March 2017 | 9:30 | The workshop provides an introduction for beginners to Social Network Analysis. Full details | Add event |
| 3 March 2017 | | Do you run a bakery or dairy business? Attend our free event examining food and the circular economy in the South West. Full details | Add event |
| 24 February 2017 | 9:30 | The workshop will introduce and provide hands on applications of various techniques of content analysis especially focusing on the analysis of texts.. Full details | Add event |
| 17 February 2017 | 9:30 | In this workshop we will introduce you to data visualisation in R with two popular packages, dplyr and ggplot2. We will cover most main types of statistical graphics. Full details | Add event |
| 13 - 17 February 2017 | 10:30 | If you are in Politics, International Relations, Law, Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, Philosophy or Arabic & Islamic Studies, you will find the SSIS Careers Week events and drop-ins designed to help at all stages of your career planning. Full details | Add event |
| 10 February 2017 | 9:30 | This workshop introduces various ways of automating regression output from Stata and R.. Full details | Add event |
| 10 February 2017 | | Do you run a bakery or dairy business? Attend our free event examining food and the circular economy in the South West. Full details | Add event |
| 9 February 2017 | 17:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 7 February 2017 | 11:30 | The contemporary history of bovine TB (bTB) in the UK. Full details | Add event |
| 3 February 2017 | 9:30 | Building upon the 'Introduction to Programming in R' and the 'Data Visualisation in R' sessions, this workshop provides a brief introduction to major data analysis topics and their implementation in R. Covered topics include: probability distributions, regression analysis, models for binary and categorical data. Full details | Add event |
| 20 January 2017 | 14:00 | An afternoon to experience and learn more about what Social Sciences and International Studies Postgraduate Research in Exeter can offer. Full details | Add event |
| 20 January 2017 | 9:30 | This workshop provides an introduction to basic programming notions and their application in R.. Full details | Add event |
| 13 January 2017 | 1:30 | Simon Vigar, Politics alumnus and Royal correspondent for 5 News, will be running a journalism workshop focused on delivering a news story. Through analysing different scenarios, you will have the opportunity to look at practical ways of dealing with them. The workshop will finish with a Q&A session. Full details | Add event |
| 9 December 2016 | 12:30 | Students and research staff in the College of Social Sciences and International Studies now have access to the online survey platform Qualtrics. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Qualtrics to design customized surveys and survey experiments, distribute them, collect the data and report the results. Full details | Add event |
| 6 December 2016 | 11:30 | The presentation outlines some of the main physical and financial characteristics of Exmoor farming and explores some of the consequences of policy intervention in this context. Full details | Add event |
| 21 November 2016 | 12:00 | Come along to hear from two alumni from the Politics Department about the variety of things you can do with your degree. This informal event is open to all Politics students.
12.00– 2.00pm
Discussion and Q&A with tips on applications, internships, career decision making and more.
Networking lunch: time to speak individually to our panel and have some lunch.
Due to catering for lunch, booking is essential. Full details | Add event |
| 17 November 2016 | 10:30 | This workshop introduces you to the basics of statistical analysis using SPSS focusing on cross-tabulations and correlations in particular. The workshop is taught at the intermediate level and requires basic knowledge of SPSS or the attendance of SPSS Beginners Workshop. For materials and further information visit Q-Step's ELE page. Full details | Add event |
| 9 November 2016 | 10:30 | This Q-Step workshop offers a brief guidance on how to get started with SPSS. It reflects on the drawbacks and benefits of the software and explains how to prepare your data to use in SPSS. The workshop then moves on to demonstrate how you can describe the data in SPSS. There are no pre-requisites for taking the workshop, and no prior knowledge of data analysis is assumed. For materials and further information visit Q-Step's ELE page. Full details | Add event |
| 8 November 2016 | 13:30 | The National Graduate Development Programme (NGDP) is a two-year graduate management development programme for individuals who want to make a difference. We train high-calibre managers who can influence and implement the huge change programme facing local government. Full details | Add event |
| 1 November 2016 | 11:30 | A highly requested update on the Sustainable Intensification Research Platform (SIP). Full details | Add event |
| 20 October 2016 | 16:00 | Data Analysis in Practice is a series of talks designed to showcase how a range of organisations and industries use data analysis to inform best practice and improve performance. Full details | Add event |
| 13 October 2016 | 17:30 | Our panellists will reflect on their own experiences and share any tips + advice on how you can also get into their career sector. The talk will also include a Q&A session.Please sign up to this event on My Career Zone.
The discussion will last an hour, followed by drinks and networking. Full details | Add event |
| 5 October 2016 | 18:00 | Sir Jon Day - Formerly Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee at the Cabinet Office in March 2012. Prior to his appointment, Sir Jon was 2nd Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence (MOD).. Full details | Add event |
| 4 October 2016 | 12:00 | This paper reports on the development of a recreation demand model for outdoor greenspace in England. Full details | Add event |
| 3 October 2016 | 6:45 | The lecture shows a gradual move away from international treaties agreement to self-regulatory of copyright protection in standard developing organisations (SDOs). Full details | Add event |
| 29 September 2016 | 16:30 | Travers Smith provides data protection advice to clients in a diverse range of sectors, covering retail, financial services, online start- ups, pension funds and insurance. This regularly involves giving advice in relation to data protection audit and policy work, online privacy policies, data collection and exploitation, information security breaches and international data transfers. Recent work includes advising:
Office in relation to a data security incident;
Shazam on obtaining and using geo-tracking data; and
A number of financial institutions and private equity houses on their international transfers of data.
Our speakers will provide insights in to this complex area of work and you will have the opportunity to ask questions about law and data.. Full details | Add event |
| 5 July 2016 | 12:00 | Visiting Lecturer Dr Michael Santhanam-Martin from the University of Melbourne will deliver a seminar for the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute in July. Full details | Add event |
| 29 June 2016 | 12:00 | World-leading researcher Professor Gretchen Daily presents 'Valuing Nature in Decision Making' as a guest of Exeter's new LEEP Institute. Full details | Add event |
| 9 - 10 June 2016 | 14:00 | The workshop is organised by the Centre of Political Thought in collaboration with Chinese scholars from various universities in Beijing. Full details | Add event |
| 8 June 2016 | 13:00 | Draft paper for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: "Public Service Corporations: Estimating the Link between Public Scrutiny and Share Prices". Full details | Add event |
| 6 June 2016 | 12:30 | This interdisciplinary workshop introduces early career researchers to quantitative approaches to the study of gender and politics. There is a long tradition of examining issues such as women's representation, participation and policy outcomes using quantitative methods. Full details | Add event |
| 2 June 2016 | 12:00 | Dr Brendan Fisher, an internationally renowned academic visiting from the University of Vermont, will deliver a seminar for the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute. Full details | Add event |
| 2 June 2016 | 11:30 | This workshop offers an introduction to sequence analysis in social sciences. This type of analysis is applied to longitudinal data to model patterns of transitions between states. The usual applications in social sciences are in life course studies for the analysis of labour market trajectories, family dynamics, and other historical sequences. The workshop use the TraMineR package for R. Full details | Add event |
| 31 May - 1 June 2016 | | Full details | Add event |
| 25 May 2016 | 19:00 | Take the opportunity to ask a leading panel of specialists about possible implications of the EU Referendum. Full details | Add event |
| 25 May 2016 | 13:00 | Joost will talk about research on legal reactions (eg party bans; hate speech prosecution), media reactions (eg silencing; stigmatizing) and political reactions (eg coopting their policy proposals; cordons sanitaires) to anti-immigration parties in Western Europe, and about their electoral effects. Full details | Add event |
| 23 - 24 May 2016 | 9:00 | The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and the Politics Department of the University of Exeter will be holding a conference on 23-24 May 2016 to address the current state of uncertainty in Europe, the Middle East and world, and to understand how we, as researchers, should conduct our work within these complex dynamics. Full details | Add event |
| 19 May 2016 | 14:30 | Global Uncertainties Conflict and Methods Seminar Series. Full details | Add event |
| 18 May 2016 | 13:00 | Draft paper by Catarina Thomson for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series. Full details | Add event |
| 12 May 2016 | 17:00 | The politisation of sectarianism and the institutionalisation of confessionalism as a form of organisation for the political, social and economic life have encouraged the perpetuation of sectarian conflict as a form of interaction in Lebanon. The entrenchment of sectarianism in Lebanese politics and society have drawn a picture of immobile sectarian boundaries and conflict. However, the study of sectarian conflict requires the acknowledgement that sectarianism may not be the only political and social paradigm operating in Lebanon, whilst it is necessary that we study spaces where this paradigm is contested.
Resistance and contestation of the sectarian conflict is an ongoing process in any divided society. Lebanese citizens marrying abroad as a way of avoiding the current Lebanese law by which all citizens have to marry under one of the 18 officially recognised religions represent a community that have made the informed decision of not abiding with the sectarian system. These Lebanese may not have mobilised as a group to claim their right to civil marriage; they do form not a collectivity of actors or a social movement, but through their act they have found the path of least resistance to the imposition of sectarianism upon their lives.
Everyday forms of resistance against sectarianism happen at the bottom of the society as a quiet, invisible and even unintended practice of contestation. The study of this practice may in the first place provide us with a critical approach to sectarianism, while in the second place it advances a new paradigm for the study of peacebuilding as a bottom-up and intrinsic local process.. Full details | Add event |
| 12 May 2016 | 14:30 | Recent research provides increasing theoretical and empirical evidence that the exclusion of ethnic groups increases the risk of armed conflicts. This poses an important puzzle: Why do governments exclude ethnic groups in the first place?. Full details | Add event |
| 11 May 2016 | 13:00 | Draft paper for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: "Conflict and Conflict Regulation in Political Parties". Full details | Add event |
| 5 May 2016 | 17:00 | In an age of globalization, the rise of International Political Theory (IPT) can hardly come as a surprise. Economic, technological, political and social developments act as catalysts for a new set of normative questions. The core task of normative political philosophy is to prescribe desirable forms of politics. On the one hand, this concerns the question what should a political order achieve? The contemporary debate surrounds the concept of justice, often understood in socio-economic terms. On the other hand, political philosophers reflect on the question of political legitimacy. When do subjects have to accept rule over them as authority?[1] The real-world developments that animate IPT, such as climate change or the legitimacy of European integration, require political philosophers to answer these questions in a novel and dynamic environment. My claim is that the dominant methodological approaches to reflect upon these normative questions – ‘idealism’ and ‘empiricism’ – are ill suited for the task at hand. These methods remain largely insensitive to the novel context or rely on a static account thereof. An international political theory that aims to contribute toward solutions should methodologically accommodate the dynamic environment at every stage. In this article, I propose that political realism offers a particularly attractive practice-dependent method to theorize norms in this dynamic context. I will illustrate my claim through an application of this method to a salient political challenge in IPT: the EU’s democratic deficit. Full details | Add event |
| 28 April 2016 | 16:45 | Private military and security companies (PMSCs) are now a familiar presence in complex security environments. Nevertheless, the past decade has illustrated that traditional mechanisms of managing the exercise of armed force, designed with the aim of controlling the uniformed military, were often ill-equipped to hold PMSCs to account. In reaction, diverse stakeholders joined hands to bring this governance framework up-to-date, resulting in several new regulatory initiatives including the Montreux Document and the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers. This paper maps the implications of these initiatives for the norm on the democratic control of armed force. It does so in three steps. First, on the basis of existing literature, it reviews the established ideal-type of democratic control of the military. Secondly, it develops a new ideal-type of regulatory governance of PMSCs, to help us make sense of the values that underlie the aforementioned regulatory initiatives. This ideal-type is tested in three case studies covering a broad spectrum of PMSC clients working in complex security environments, including a government agency, a private corporation and a non-governmental organisation. The paper concludes, thirdly, with comparing these two ideal-types. It reviews the opportunities for the stakeholders and the population to participate in the governance of armed force and maps the impact of the proliferation of PMSCs and of the instruments to govern them on the traditional norm of the democratic control of armed force. On the basis of this comparison, the paper argues that democratic involvement in the governance of PMSCs is no longer founded on a representational basis, as was the case with the military, but on a participatory basis. Since not all stakeholders have an equal opportunity to participate in these governance processes, this might endanger the democratic oversight of armed force. Full details | Add event |
| 25 April 2016 | 19:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 31 March 2016 | 14:00 | Research on symbolic or non-policy effects of gender-balanced legislatures documented 'role model effects', positively impacting women's political engagement as citizens. Yet most of the evidence relies on observational data making it difficult to disentangle whether gender balanced contexts are also cultures where women are simply more politically engaged. Similarly, little has been proposed as to what psychological mechanisms connect women's minority position in politics to citizen disengagement, and the presence of role models to more political engagement.
I am presenting pilot study results of two experiments. Broadly, they propose Stereotype Threat accounting for women's decreased psychological engagement with politics, as well as impaired performance on and confidence about political knowledge tests, under numerical imbalance. The opposite, role model effects, are tested under improved numerical balance setups, ranging from ‘token’ (minimal) presence, ‘critical mass’ presence (roughly a third), and complete parity.
The basic, ‘picture treatment design’ is administered on an online sample. Study 2 is a laboratory experiment which further investigates if ST processes still apply if the negative emotion of approach (anger), rather than avoidance (fear), was induced.
In an attentional bias paradigm, we expose all subjects to image pairs containing one stereotyping and one non-stereotyping political group. With data collected through an eye-tracking device we are able to establish if subjects approach or avoid stereotyping imagery. We further investigate whether the challenge state reverses ST effects, with greater psychological engagement with politics, and improved performance on the political knowledge test. Full details | Add event |
| 22 March 2016 | 10:30 | This workshop introduces various ways of automating regression output from Stata and R. It will start by covering ways how to automate table creation for Latex and Word. It will then proceed to visualizing marginal effects and predicted probabilities from linear and binary dependent variable regressions and finally discuss visualization of interaction effects. If time permits, we will cover R's advanced plotting and data manipulation packages ggplot2 and dplyr/plyr. Full details | Add event |
| 11 March 2016 | 12:30 | The presentation focuses on an ongoing research about statebuilding in Kosovo using life stories, comparing the international and local perspectives of international statebuilding. The first stage of the project included the identification of the international perceptions (NATO, EU, UNMIK & EULEX) in state building and the second stage included the identification of the local perspectives (political elites, ngo's, etc) in state building through life stories. The talk will revolve around the design and objectives of the research project and some preliminary findings. The processes promoted by the international community in Kosovo focus mainly on institutions, and it uncovers the main similarities and differences with the emerging local perspectives. The latter emphasizes more the societal processes rather than institutional ones. Recommendations follow on how to bridge the gap between the international and local perspectives since they seem to differ on some aspects and correspond on others. Full details | Add event |
| 10 March 2016 | 12:30 | The entry and success of new parties has become a regular event in modern
democracies. From the emergence of green to protest parties, new movements
have entered the electoral arena. This paper addresses one of the less studied
aspects of new parties: the dynamic process of party exit and entry into
politics. The paper argues that changes to the party system, produced by
the collapse of a political party, can lead to the successful entrance of new
parties in the next election. The premise is that one party’s loss is a future
one’s gain. The empirical results provide strong evidence that the size of the
collapsed party has a substantive impact on the level of new parties’ success. Full details | Add event |
| 4 March 2016 | 12:30 | Mr King will talk about the nomination contests and the 2016 general election. Full details | Add event |
| 4 March 2016 | 10:30 | Andrew Honnor is the founder and Managing Partner of financial communications firm, Greenbrook. In this talk, Andrew will discuss his career path working in the communications sector and highlight both the opportunities and challenges within this industry. The event will include a Q&A session. Full details | Add event |
| 4 March 2016 | 10:30 | Andrew Honnor (History and Politics, 1992) is the founder and Managing Partner of financial communications firm, Greenbrook. In this talk, Andrew will discuss his career path working in the communications sector and highlight both the opportunities and challenges within this industry. The event will include a Q&A session. Full details | Add event |
| 3 March 2016 | 17:00 | Online participatory instruments are gaining popularity among political parties. After the German Piratenpartei’s temporary electoral success of the between 2011-2013, the interest of party scholars, journalists and practitioners across Europe on the topic has exploded. Online participation is considered, inter alia, to win (back) younger generations for the democratic process and to stop the “decline of party membership". It’s a matter of common knowledge that political parties and the democratic systems themselves in almost the entire Western world are experiencing similar processes such as the dissolution of social classes or religious traditions as well as low interest of citizens in traditional democratic participation.
However, the legal systems in which political parties operate differ widely. Despite the strong international interest in the participatory and deliberative adjustments of the German Piratenpartei, the legal obstacles towards the establishment of a liquid intra-party democracy in Germany have received little attention. Unlike political parties in other jurisdictions, the German political parties are highly regulated by the German Political Parties Act and e.g. the Federal Elections Act. These Acts also include various provisions for the internal decision-making process. This short presentation seeks to explain the possibilities and the limits of modern forms of internet-based participation such as online-voting in leadership elections and candidate selection within German parties. Full details | Add event |
| 3 March 2016 | 16:00 | Mr King will discuss the history of television advertising in American Politics. Full details | Add event |
| 2 March 2016 | 13:00 | Draft paper for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: ‘Comparing Incentives and Party Activism in US and Europe: PSOE, PP and the California Democratic Party’, by Patricia Correa Vila (Research Fellow, Politics) and Juan Rodriguez-Teruel (Politics, Universitat de València).. Full details | Add event |
| 1 March 2016 | | Full details | Add event |
| 25 February 2016 | 17:00 | In this seminar, I discuss some of the theoretical and empirical challenges of studying how political organisations, such as parties, change over time. Reflecting back on a recently completed project on comparative party reform, I address three main questions: first, what is the nature of organisational change, and how can it be measured? Second, what do we mean when we speak of the political party in comparative research? Is it possible to reconcile structure with agency in these organisations? Finally, how can we study organisations that don’t want to be studied? To answer these questions I put forward a three-tiered theoretical framework for evaluating change that captures intra-organisational, competitive and systemic pressures for change, and argue the benefits of adapting heuristics and approaches from related disciplines in furthering our understandings of the internal workings of political parties. I outline a qualitative methodology for the study of parties that triangulates a diverse range of sources of evidence beyond formal rules changes, including interviews, ethnographic observations, and the systematic analysis of party documents and speeches as strategic rhetorical devices. Full details | Add event |
| 24 February 2016 | 13:00 | Draft paper for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: Alexey Bessudnov (Sociology) and Susan Banducci and Dan Stevens (Politics), ‘Childbirths and Political Interest’. Full details | Add event |
| 23 February 2016 | 17:30 | Mr Petts will talk about his advice for getting a career in Politics - whether in America or elsewhere. Full details | Add event |
| 22 February 2016 | 16:30 | Mr Petts will talk about how political polling is conducted and used in American elections. Full details | Add event |
| 18 February 2016 | 17:00 | Abstract:
Theoretically there are many possible reasons for the European Commission to evaluate its legislation, including the desire to improve policy-making and the need to scrutinize implementation by national authorities. While the Commission nowadays has the norm that both spending and non-spending activities should be evaluated, its own data and existing research show that only a minority of major EU legislation is in fact evaluated. My paper tries to explain this variance in the initiation of ex-post legislative evaluations by applying a rational and political model of evaluation. It tests these models with the help of two datasets, one containing all major EU laws from 2000-2004 and one containing all ex-post legislative evaluations from the Commission from 2000-2014. Full details | Add event |
| 17 February 2016 | 12:00 | Draft paper for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: John Maloney (Economics), ‘Are Marginals Different?’. Full details | Add event |
| 12 February 2016 | 14:30 | Building upon the "Introduction to Programming in R" session, this workshop provides a brief introduction to major data analysis topics and their implementation in R. Topics covered include: probability distributions, regression analysis, and models for binary and categorical data. Full details | Add event |
| 10 February 2016 | 14:30 | Governing Through Failure and Denial: The New Resilience Agenda. Full details | Add event |
| 9 February 2016 | 18:00 | This workshop will examine issues of citizenship, democracy and constitutionalism in Europe from legal, political and sociological perspectives. Professor Ulrich Preuss (Hertie) will discuss with us the themes explored in the new collection of his and Professor Claus Offe’s writings on: Citizens of Europe. Essays on Democracy, Constitutionalism and European Integration (ECPR Press, 2016). Full details | Add event |
| 3 February 2016 | 13:00 | Draft grant proposal for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: Katya Kolpinskaya (Q-Step, Politics), ‘Facets of substantive minority representation in Britain: Minority interests and their representatives in political and public debate, 1991-2015’. (Grant proposal for the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship). Full details | Add event |
| 3 February 2016 | 12:30 | Paul Kaye, London Office of the European Commission will be giving a talk on EU careers. He will provide information on where an EU career can lead, why it will be a fulfilling career choice, what involves and who they are looking to employ. He will also provide a very clear outline of the application process and the selection procedure, leading you straight into your career at the EU!. Full details | Add event |
| 2 February 2016 | 12:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 28 January 2016 | 17:00 | The German Greens as Cases Study. Full details | Add event |
| 27 January 2016 | 14:30 | The talk will expose and theorise the crucial role of education in intrastate conflict (in causing or becoming a target of violence), drawing on examples from Yemen to Ukraine, from Somalia to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Full details | Add event |
| 22 January 2016 | 13:30 | This workshop provides an introduction to basic programming notions and their application in R. We will start with an overview of R objects and their attributes. You will then learn how to import data into R and perform simple data manipulations. Finally, we will go over a few simple examples of data analysis and visualization and introduce some of the most commonly used R packages. We will be using RStudio, a user-friendly interface to R. Full details | Add event |
| 21 January 2016 | 17:00 | Have you heard of the ‘impact agenda’? Have you thought about who the audience for your research might be? Have you ever considered ‘public engagement’? Whatever your answers to these questions, please come and share your thoughts with us as we discuss ‘The Engaged Researcher’, and what those words might mean for postgraduate scholars. With Claire Packman, Research Manager (Impact & Engagement) for the College of Social Sciences & International Studies, we’ll consider the merits and the difficulties of involving audiences beyond the academic community with your research. Full details | Add event |
| 20 January 2016 | 14:30 | Separatist Movements’ Logic of Violence. Full details | Add event |
| 14 January 2016 | 17:00 | This paper investigates the viability of alternative policy solutions before the decision-making process. Building on the literature about the Multiple Streams Framework, new conceptual elements are used to explain the lock-in of policy solutions. While policy solutions are generally perceived to be mere ideas, specific organizational elements of the policy network show that concrete initiatives can play the same role. In order to make sense of these engineered solutions, the decision-makers have to act as bricoleurs. They recombine initiatives and ideas to develop a fully fleshed policy.
This paper is designed as a plausibility probe to determine whether the engineers and the bricoleur can be reasonably considered a relevant conceptual addendum in the field of organizational theory in public policy. It aims to reconstruct the process that led to the creation of a European policy for Disease Prevention and Control. More specifically the process tracing developed should lead to a clearer understanding of the formation of policy solutions, by identifying the work done by policy entrepreneurs and by labelling them either advocates or engineers. Then the role of the Bricoleur will be assessed in the light of the policy that was eventually adopted.. Full details | Add event |
| 12 January 2016 | 12:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 10 December 2015 | 17:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 9 December 2015 | 13:00 | Draft paper for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: Claudia Zucca (Q-Step Marie Curie Early Career Researcher), ‘Measuring Party Competition through Network Modelling’.
The discussion will be followed by Christmas drinks, 2-3pm in the same room. Full details | Add event |
| 8 December 2015 | 11:30 | This fifth Q-Step workshop of 2015–16 on Applied Data Analysis introduces and provides hands on applications of various techniques of content analysis especially focusing on the analysis of texts. It starts from outlining the key concepts, defining units of analysis and understanding measurement techniques and theoretical approaches. It then moves on to reviewing applications of content analysis to Social Sciences data (e.g., parliamentary records, political manifestos, policy documents). Finally, participants will be provided with textual data to practice the content analysis techniques.Feel free to bring your own documents (any type of text in digitised, preferably .txt, format) to the workshop. Full details | Add event |
| 2 December 2015 | 14:30 | Deceptive Studies or Deceptive Answers? Competing Global Field and Survey Experiments on Anonymous Incorporation. Full details | Add event |
| 2 December 2015 | 12:00 | Draft paper for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: Travis Coan (Q-Step, Politics), co-authoring with Constantine Boussalis (Trinity College Dublin) and Elias Dinas (University of Oxford), ‘Tracing the Narrative of Hate in the Rising Greek Far-Right'. Full details | Add event |
| 1 December 2015 | 12:30 | This fourth workshop of 2015–16 provides an introduction for beginners to Social Network Analysis. It gives an overview of key concepts needed to design research that looks at social relations (networks) that connect individual units (actors), so that students can apply social network analysis to their own research. The workshop focuses on the description and visualisation of social network data, looking at structural properties of a network, as well as ideas of centrality in the network. To understand the SNA perspective, practical examples are given from academic literature, illustrative graphics from the media, and source material visualised through R. Full details | Add event |
| 1 December 2015 | 12:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 26 November 2015 | 17:00 | Following Sierra Leone’s brutal Rebel War, the British government embarked upon a comprehensive programme of Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone. Central to this was the British-led International Military Advisory and Training Team (IMATT), which sought to transform Sierra Leone’s rag-tag, predatory and coup-prone collection of militias into a cohesive, capable, and accountable armed force. This process sought to address a fundamental tension between civilian control and military potency which lies at the heart of democratic civil-military relations. Scholarly approaches to democratic civil-military relations have accounted for this tension variously; through reference to military demographics, professionalization and training, or direct political control of the armed forces. Instead, this paper argues that by focusing on the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) as a bureaucratic institution, IMATT attempted to underpin both democratic accountability and sustainable military cohesion as mutually supporting facets of the military institution. Yet while the end result may have been a relatively accountable and cohesive armed force, this process fell short of professionalization in the western sense; indeed the process of institutional consolidation in the RSLAF proved to be inherently political. Full details | Add event |
| 24 November 2015 | 17:15 | 5.15-6.15pm – Arrival drinks and nibbles and networking
6.15 – 7.30pm - Panel discussion
7.30 – 8pm - Further networking time following panel discussion
Discussion with panelists from charity, NGO and Public sectors. They will talk about the nature of their roles as well as offer insight into what life in their field is really like; including the opportunities, rewards, but also the challenges. Along with handy hints and tips as well as possible roles that are available within their companies. Between them they work across the spectrum of society to help individuals and communities to work better.
Before the panel there will be an opportunity to speak with panelists and career’s consultants during the networking reception. As well as the discussion will be preceded by drinks and nibbles, and an opportunity to talk to the panelists individually after the event.. Full details | Add event |
| 19 November 2015 | 17:00 | This session will start with a short introduction of the two journaled by its respective editor, followed by a Q&A session on publishing in journals. This is an opportunity for you to ask any questions you have on academic publishing (process, when and how). Full details | Add event |
| 18 November 2015 | 14:30 | Collaborative management initiatives are increasingly being used in environmental policy with the aims of producing more favourable and more sustainable solutions. How this type of policy deliberation is successful in influencing participants, and whether this influence affects the solutions proposed, however, is unknown. This paper examines networks of mental models to understand deliberation and ‘social learning’ in a small group charged with collaboratively managing natural resources. Full details | Add event |
| 12 November 2015 | 17:00 | My dissertation is based on a distinction between plurality as an empirical fact and pluralism as a normatively defined idea of engagement and encounter across differences. I defend the thesis that one of the ways democratic politics can affirm pluralism is to incorporate the normative functions of openness, reflexivity, and agonism as expressed in the works by Iris Young, John Dryzek, and Chantal Mouffe. Full details | Add event |
| 11 November 2015 | 16:30 | This workshop introduces you to the basics of statistical analysis using SPSS focusing on cross-tabulations and correlations in particular. The workshop is taught at the intermediate level and requires basic knowledge of SPSS or the attendance of SPSS Beginners Workshop. Full details | Add event |
| 5 November 2015 | 17:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 4 November 2015 | 16:30 | This Q-Step workshop offers a brief guidance on how to get started with SPSS. It reflects on the drawbacks and benefits of the software and explains how to prepare your data to use in SPSS. The workshop then moves on to demonstrate how you can describe the data in SPSS using the 2010 British Election Study data. There are no pre-requisites for taking the workshop, and no prior knowledge of data analysis is assumed. Full details | Add event |
| 4 November 2015 | 14:30 | How (Not) To Draw Contemporary Insights From The History of Political Thought. Full details | Add event |
| 4 November 2015 | 12:00 | Draft paper for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: Nicole Bolleyer and Raimondas Ibenskas (Politics), 'Political Parties - Just Electoral Vehicles? New Party Survival in Advanced Democracies 1968-2013'. Full details | Add event |
| 3 November 2015 | 12:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 29 October 2015 | 17:00 | Without denying that Arendt’s identity and her indebtedness to Greek antiquity and Heidegger’s critique of modern technology have gained her original perspective on modernity, I will add the relatively marginal Roman factor into the scholarship, and try to prove that Rome is the constructive moment of her political endeavour and her departure from Heidegger.I will trace how Arendt turns to the historical-political situation of the Roman Republic because it faced similar crises to that of modernity in which the thread of ‘tradition, authority and religion’ was broken.. Full details | Add event |
| 29 October 2015 | 12:30 | Lorenzo will talk to us about his own experience with the tools of 'better regulation' in the EU and discuss where the EU is going with the recent Communication on better regulation (the Timmermans communication) and the negotiation of the inter-institutional agreement on better regulation. Full details | Add event |
| 28 October 2015 | 14:30 | Many terrorist groups conduct transnational attacks, some in countries very different from their country of origin. In this context, the presentation will explain what factors influence the rate of terrorist group violence. Using Multiple Membership Random Effects Modeling (MMREM), unique country level predictors are identified that influence the rate of terrorist group violence when transnational contexts are included in the analysis. Full details | Add event |
| 28 October 2015 | 13:00 | Draft paper for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: Nils-Christian Bormann (HASS Fellow, Politics), ‘Internal Conflict Diffusion: Revisiting the Conflict Trap’.
Discussion will be followed by CEMaP Annual Meeting, 2-3pm in the same room. Full details | Add event |
| 27 October 2015 | 10:30 | Come and join us for a screening and discussion of this timely film. Full details | Add event |
| 22 October 2015 | 17:00 | The Nigerian Military changed from its gender position on combat to adopt a policy of inclusion of women in combat training in 2011, 53 years after its creation; with the implication of their deployment in combat roles. This has prompted a series of changes within the institution which are impacting on its gender culture.. Full details | Add event |
| 21 October 2015 | 14:30 | The UK Government recently announced that it will be “building on the work done by the Natural Capital Committee” to formulate a 25 year plan for the natural environment “which benefits people and the economy”. Our new colleagues, some of whom are Natural Capital Committee members/contributors, will showcase various of the methods they developed and applications they conducted for the Committee.. Full details | Add event |
| 20 October 2015 | 12:30 | Reading empirical articles can be intimidating. The new reader may be daunted by technical jargon, complex methodological procedures and statistical analysis. This workshop guides you through a process to make sense of the typical analysis in an empirical study. Full details | Add event |
| 14 October 2015 | 14:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 14 October 2015 | 13:00 | Draft grant proposal for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: Amy McKay (Politics), ‘Distortion: Congruence Among the Policy Agendas of Citizens, Interest Groups, and Governments’. Full details | Add event |
| 9 October 2015 | 17:00 | The presentation clarifies the themes of emancipation from alienation and the comparison of politics and religion in Marx’s ‘On the Jewish Question’. The author argues that ‘species being’ plays two roles in this text: as both an explanatory framework and as teleological conception of human emancipation. Marx thought the human essence the ensemble of social relations (namely, mental conceptions, the body of state institutions, and civil society), and this framed his response to the ‘Jewish question’ as well as yielding an analysis sensitive to the internal relation between these constitutive ‘moments’ of social life. Moorby argues that, rather than a causal account of the relation between civil society, the state, and social consciousness, Marx’s philosophy treats the relation between these elements as mutual and internal.. Full details | Add event |
| 6 October 2015 | 12:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 30 September 2015 | 14:00 | Money, debt and democracy. How the Eurozone crisis management transforms the political economy and representative democracy of member. Full details | Add event |
| 30 September 2015 | 13:00 | Draft journal article for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: Gabriel Katz (Politics) and Katya Kolpinskaya (Politics), ‘The effect of post-electoral communication frames on attitudes towards government: Evidence from a survey experiment after the 2015 British election’. Full details | Add event |
| 16 September 2015 | 13:00 | Draft grant proposal for discussion, in the CEMaP/Q-Step Cake For Comments series: Iulia Cioroianu (Q-Step, Politics), ‘The Role of Images in Online Political Communication: Studying the 2015 Elections Using New Automated Methods for Visual Content Analysis’ (a grant proposal). Full details | Add event |
| 2 September 2015 | 14:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 11 June 2015 | | Interdisciplinary workshop organized by Nicole Bolleyer (Politics) and Thomas Morton (Psychology), funded by a Humanities and Social Sciences Strategy (HASS) Development Fund. Full details | Add event |
| 9 June 2015 | 12:00 | Emma Pilgrim. Full details | Add event |
| 14 May 2015 | 16:00 | We have the pleasure to welcome Claudio Radaelli, co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research, to present “Publishing in political science journals: why, how, when". He will tackle both the process and stages to succeed from writing up a dissertation to publishing. Full details | Add event |
| 7 May 2015 | 16:00 | The presentation aims at understanding the relevance of trust in technological devices for political decision-making.. Full details | Add event |
| 5 May 2015 | 12:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 1 May 2015 | 11:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 1 May 2015 | 8:30 | We are pleased to announce that the SSIS Politics & IR Postgraduate Research Conference will be held this year on Friday 1st May 2015.. Full details | Add event |
| 30 April 2015 | 16:00 | The aim of the paper is to inspect the relationship between institutional design settings and political representation at one hand, and the consequences of representation on European voters’ political behaviour on the other. Full details | Add event |
| 23 April 2015 | 16:00 | Molly Conisbee is the Collaboration Facilitator for the SWDTC. The SWDTC has funding for four key priorities, including placements, academic-led collaboration, student-led collaboration and research co-operation.. Full details | Add event |
| 16 April 2015 | 16:00 | The presentation outlines a series of studies investigating the effects of basic emotions on political cognition. Full details | Add event |
| 7 April 2015 | 12:00 | Paul Brassley. Full details | Add event |
| 26 March 2015 | 16:00 | Much of the discontent with contemporary democracy centres on the belief that Members of Parliament do not represent voters 'descriptively'. This paper argues that descriptive representation could be best achieved by the adoption of 4th century Athenian practice, in which legislative judgment was enacted by large citizen juries, selected by lot. Full details | Add event |
| 19 March 2015 | 16:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 13 March 2015 | 11:00 | EU-funded workshop organized by Raimondas Ibenskas and Nicole Bolleyer (Politics). Full details | Add event |
| 12 March 2015 | 16:00 | The seminar presents a cross-sectional analysis of sustainability, climate change and energy generation. The main focus is on localism and on community renewable energy in particular. Full details | Add event |
| 11 March 2015 | 19:00 | Refugee week runs from the 9th to the 13th of March and there is lots going on in Exeter to raise awareness about refugees this year.
This talk is part of a series of events for refugee week in Exeter which also includes a whole day of ‘craftivism’ to show that we welcome refugees in Exeter on Monday 9th March in the Forum at the University of Exeter, a talk by the British Red Cross on Tuesday 10th March, 6pm, in the Amory Moot room at the University of Exeter entitled ‘Trading in Flesh: human trafficking in the south West’ and other activities planned for the Thursday and Friday.. Full details | Add event |
| 11 March 2015 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 10 March 2015 | 12:00 | Clare Saunders & Stephan Price. Full details | Add event |
| 5 March 2015 | 16:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 4 March 2015 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 3 March 2015 | 12:00 | Keith Howe, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Rural Policy Research, Exeter University, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Veterinary College, London University. Full details | Add event |
| 2 March 2015 | 14:00 | We are delighted to welcome back Dr Theofanis Exadaktylos (University of Surrey). He will explain the recent deal between the new Greek government and the EU in the context of the Greek political economy of the last decade. Fanis is a very knowledgeable scholar of European / comparative politics - and he is often on radio and TV commenting on Greek politics and the EU. Full details | Add event |
| 27 February 2015 | 15:00 | Professor Mick Dumper and Dr Nick Gill will join Professor Mary Bosworth (Oxford) at the RAMM in Exeter to discuss the ongoing international refugee crisis, the reality of immigration detention and domestic asylum law.. Full details | Add event |
| 25 February 2015 | 16:00 | Dr Koop has written on issues of public policy, democratic legitimacy, voting behaviour in the European parliament and electoral politics generally. Full details | Add event |
| 23 February 2015 | 15:45 | Full details | Add event |
| 19 February 2015 | 16:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 12 February 2015 | 16:00 | This paper attempts to identify some relationships between political ideology and the public interpretation of contemporary biology. Full details | Add event |
| 5 February 2015 | 16:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 4 February 2015 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 3 February 2015 | 12:00 | Clare Saunders & Stephan Price. Full details | Add event |
| 29 January 2015 | 16:00 | To illustrate this practical session on conceptualization and operationnalization, Dr. Tina Freyburg accounts for Bourdieu's methodological operationnalization in the form of a questionnaire applying it to her own work on European diplomatic practices and the EU’s understanding of its image in the Arab world. Full details | Add event |
| 28 January 2015 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 27 January 2015 | 13:00 | Come and have a chat over tea and cake with two recent (2012) alumni about working in the charity sector.
The alumni:
1) Grace Brownfield, BA Politics 2012
Public Affairs Assistant, NSPCC
https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/grace-brownfield/59/67...
2) Tom Reynolds
I graduated with a BA in Politics in 2012. While at Exeter I was the RAG Chair and Politics Society Treasurer. I also worked at the RAM and the Lemmy. After graduation I went to work with the PSU - a legal rights charity representing people attending Family and Civil Courts without legal representation - to establish the charity's base in Birmingham. Following on from that I moved to the children's charity Barnardos, tasked with conducting an inquiry into how the charity across the country could work effectively with newly elected Police and Crime Commissioners. After leaving Barnardos, I took up the role of Parliamentary Researcher and Assistant to Andrew Griffiths MP in Westminster. In September last year I moved to the Medical Protection Society as Policy and Public Affairs Officer - an organisation representing, lobbying and defending almost 300,000 medical professionals around the world.. Full details | Add event |
| 22 January 2015 | 16:00 | The project aims to assess how the use of different type of primary rules (who can vote (selectorate) and how can run (candidacy requirements)) affect on party members. Full details | Add event |
| 14 January 2015 | 17:00 | Alan Lee Williams and Sir John Hannam will share their views of politics past and present – both from inside the Westminster bubble and beyond it. They will also talk about the work of the Former MPs Outreach Association. The event will close with questions from the audience, and a wine reception. Full details | Add event |
| 10 December 2014 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 4 December 2014 | 16:00 | The Engaged Researcher Have you heard of the ‘impact agenda’? Have you thought about who the audience for your research might be? Have you ever considered ‘public engagement’? Whatever your answers to these questions, please come and share your thoughts with us as we discuss ‘The Engaged Researcher’, and what those words might mean for postgraduate scholars. With Claire Packman, Research Manager (Impact & Engagement) for the College of Social Sciences & International Studies, we’ll consider the merits and the difficulties of involving audiences beyond the academic community with your research. Full details | Add event |
| 3 December 2014 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 3 December 2014 | 13:00 | Use this link to subscribe to the Religion and World Affairs Seminars newsletter
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| 2 December 2014 | 12:00 | A discussion on the findings so far for the BASE project on climate change adaptation strategies, in particular in the UK, and in 2 case studies, Dartmoor National Park and the South Devon Coast around Dawlish. Full details | Add event |
| 28 November 2014 | | The report on lawmaking and smart regulation, Feitura das Leis, was inspired by ground-breaking research by the Centre for European Governance. Full details | Add event |
| 26 November 2014 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 26 November 2014 | 13:00 | Please subscribe to the Religion and World Affairs Seminars newsletter
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| 19 November 2014 | 15:00 | Politics seminar. Full details | Add event |
| 13 November 2014 | 18:30 | Lisa Dish is Professor of Politics at the University of Michigan in the Departments of Political Science and Women's Studies. Full details | Add event |
| 5 November 2014 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 4 November 2014 | 12:00 | Report on the impact of the Family Business Growth Programme on family farms in Devon and Somerset, and how the findings of this report could be translated into an academic journal article. Full details | Add event |
| 22 October 2014 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 22 October 2014 | 12:15 | A discussion of a case against Hungary brought to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Full details | Add event |
| 8 October 2014 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 7 October 2014 | 12:00 | Experiences and observations with the Naturally Speaking project, which concerns public dialogue on ecosystem services. Full details | Add event |
| 10 September 2014 | 19:00 | The Kenyon Institute and the Educational Bookshop are pleased to invite you to a book launch and lecture on Wednesday 10th September 2014, 7pm.'Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History and the Future of the Holy City' by Michael Dumper (University of Exeter, UK).This is a joint event with the Educational Bookshop, and will be held in the Kenyon Institute garden in Sheikh Jarrah. Please see the attached flyer for more information. Full details | Add event |
| 9 September 2014 | 12:00 | Upcoming ESRC research proposal on 'The significance of cultural ecosystem services for coastal and marine management'.. Full details | Add event |
| 26 - 27 June 2014 | | The concept of anarchy remains under-theorised in International Relations (IR) despite being central to the discipline for over a century. IR has tended to elaborate or reject realist accounts of anarchy. Debate has therefore tended to polarise around the acceptance of the tragic logic of anarchy, attempts to tame its worst effects or to move beyond it altogether. If anarchy has any virtues, following Bull and Waltz most argue that these lie in the defence of the autonomy of states. This stance generates predictable responses that question the ontological and/or normative virtues of both statism and anarchy. But does a rejection of the former necessarily entail a rejection of the latter? Few have taken up Ken Booths challenge to see anarchy as part of the solution to the problems of world politics, rather than the problem itself, and fewer still see anarchy as the constitutive feature of politics as such. This workshop will draw together scholars conducting research that raises challenging questions regarding the virtues of anarchy, from within IR and without. Full details | Add event |
| 20 June 2014 | | Full details | Add event |
| 16 June 2014 | 9:30 | Joint conference of the Comparative Cross National Electoral Research (CCNER) and Media Effects Research projects. Full details | Add event |
| 28 May 2014 | 12:00 | This workshop will examine how practices of citizenship produce forms of exclusion and marginalisation and how marginalised groups contest forms of belonging by claiming and enacting a right to citizenship. Full details | Add event |
| 14 May 2014 | 14:00 | Workshop on: The contractualist approach to democracy and democratic justice A discussion of Albert Weale (UCL) Democratic Justice and the Social Contract (OUP, 2013). Full details | Add event |
| 29 April 2014 | 18:00 | This lecture was hosted by the University of Exeter Politics Department as part of their 50th birthday celebrations. Full details | Add event |
| 20 March 2014 | 18:00 | The University of Exeter Q-Step Centre presents Tim Harford giving a lecture entitled Misinformation is Beautiful. Tim Harford is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of The Undercover Economist Strikes Back and the million-selling The Undercover Economist; a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4s More or Less and Pop Up Ideas. Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House and is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.The lecture starts at 6pm but we invite you to join us for drinks beforehand which will be served outside the lecture theatre from 5pm.. Full details | Add event |
| 20 March 2014 | 10:45 | Over the course of the day there will be an introduction to the Q-Step programme, workshops, employability focused events and a prize draw.. Full details | Add event |
| 20 March 2014 | | This workshop aims to cover key methodological issues such as survey quality (comparability, translation), sampling and questionnaire design, data processing and statistical adjustment (i.e. survey weights). The session seeks to identify the challenges of this type of empirical research, discuss examples in social sciences and provide tools examining data from large N comparative data sets across cultures.
This workshop is supported by the ESRC funded Comparative Cross-National Electoral Research (CCNER) project and the Centre for Elections, Media and Participation (CEMaP). Full details | Add event |
| 19 March 2014 | 17:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 19 March 2014 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 26 February 2014 | 13:00 | Dr Roy Allison is Lecturer in the International Relations of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS), University of Oxford. Full details | Add event |
| 19 February 2014 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 17 February 2014 | 14:00 | Dr Philip Cunliffe's doctoral research, which was funded by the ESRC, examined developing countries personnel contribution to United Nations peacekeeping across 1997-2007. His third book Legions of Peace: UN Peacekeepers from the Global South,which is based on his doctoral research, is published in November 2013. Full details | Add event |
| 12 February 2014 | 12:00 | Room tbc. Full details | Add event |
| 30 January 2014 | 17:15 | Our distinguished panel of guests gather to discuss the themes of the political landscape in Cornwall, including the question of Cornish devolution. Students are encouraged to come with questions to put to the panel.The panel will also talk about how to get involved in local politics and what students can do to enhance their career prospects.Panel Members:Chair: Lord Teverson, LibDem Spokesman for Energy and Climate Change in the House of Lords. Prior to being made a life peer in 2006, Lord Teverson served as an MEP for the Liberal Democrats, between 1994 and 1999 for the constituency of Cornwall and West Plymouth. Lord Teverson is also an Exeter alumnus who graduated in Economics in 1973.Cllr. Dick Cole, Leader of Mebyon Kernow. Cllr. Cole has been leader of Mebyon Kernow since 1997. He was first elected to Restormel Borough Council in 1999. Cllr. Cole currently represents the Parish of St Enoder on Cornwall County Council. He is also MKs spokesman on housing and planning matters. Dr Joanie Willett, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter. Dr Willett has experience in local politics, and has stood for Mebyon Kernow in local elections in the past.Dr Garry Tregidga, Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter. Dr Treggidga has carried out extensive research on the political history of Cornwall, including publishing work on the history of the liberal party in the South West region.Cllr. Rob Nolan, LibDem representative for Truro Redannick. Cllr. Nolan is also Chair of Cornwall Council Strategic Planning Committee. Cllr. Hanna Toms (tbc), Labour representative for Falmouth Penwerris. Cllr. Toms has recently been selected to stand as the Labour Parliamentary candidate for Truro and Falmouth. Full details | Add event |
| 29 January 2014 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 29 January 2014 | 12:30 | There will also be time for questions and discussion. Full details | Add event |
| 27 January 2014 | 14:30 | Trine Flockhart is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). Before joining DIIS she held positions as associate professor at universities in Australia, Denmark and Britain. Her research interests are focused on European Security, especially the EU and NATO, norms transfer and processes of change through intentional agent-led action. Full details | Add event |
| 22 January 2014 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 22 January 2014 | 13:00 | John Evans, London Office of the European Commission will be giving a talk on EU careers. He will provide information on where an EU career can lead, why it will be a fulfilling career choice, what it involves and who they are looking to employ. He will also provide a very clear outline of the application process and the selection procedure, leading you straight into your career at the EU!. Full details | Add event |
| 11 December 2013 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 11 December 2013 | 12:15 | This workshop is part of a series of events for the SWDTC Advanced Training Programme in theoretical and normative-oriented research. The main topic of the series is the study of Democracy, Ideology and the Global Order. This Workshop is organized in collaboration with the the Centre of Political Thought (Exeter). Full details | Add event |
| 5 December 2013 | 14:30 | Sven Biscop is Director of the Europe in the World Programme at the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels, and Visiting Professor at Ghent University and at the College of Europe in Bruges.. Full details | Add event |
| 4 December 2013 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 29 November 2013 | 13:00 | John Helmer was the longest-serving western correspondent in Moscow, starting from 1989 and specializing in the coverage of Russian business for media in London, New York, Hong Kong, Toronto, and Johannesburg. He is visiting professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne, where he lectures on grand strategy.. Full details | Add event |
| 29 November 2013 | 13:00 | John Helmer, University of Melbourne, Russian state strategy on the cheap: case studies of Central Asian corruption to defeat rival Western power plays. Full details | Add event |
| 27 November 2013 | 15:00 | Book Title: Fault Lines of Globalization. Full details | Add event |
| 26 November 2013 | 13:00 | Internal 'occasional seminars' hosted by the Centre for Advanced International Studies, in the Department of Politics. The second paper will be given by Prof. Mick Dumper (Exeter), and is entitled "Securing Sacred Sites: Comparing cultural property protection in the context of negotiations over the policing of holy sites in Jerusalem". Full details | Add event |
| 20 November 2013 | 13:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 19 November 2013 | 13:00 | Internal 'occasional seminars' hosted by the Centre for Advanced International Studies, in the Department of Politics. The first paper will be given by Dr Jess Gifkins, Teaching Associate at the University of Exeter and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. Her paper is entitled, "Agreeing to disagree? The norm of consensus in UN Security Council decision-making. Full details | Add event |
| 14 November 2013 | 15:00 | Professor Joseph Liow is Professor of Comparative and International Politics and Associate Dean at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. He is visiting Exeter for a few weeks and has kindly agreed to interrupt his studies to give an open talk. Full details | Add event |
| 6 November 2013 | 15:00 | Martin Shaw is Research Professor, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Professorial Fellow in International Relations and Human Rights, University of Roehampton, London and Emeritus Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex. His talk will be based around his new book, Genocide and International Relations: Changing Patterns in the Late Modern World, Cambridge University Press, October 2013.. Full details | Add event |
| 30 October 2013 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 29 October 2013 | 21:00 | Screening in collaboration with Politics Society and Department of Politics. Full details | Add event |
| 29 October 2013 | 18:00 | Screening in collaboration with Politics Society and Department of Politics. Full details | Add event |
| 16 October 2013 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 7 October 2013 | 14:30 | Full details | Add event |
| 4 October 2013 | 11:00 | If you are thinking long term about taking a Masters and PhD in international relations, then this talk may give you an idea of where it could lead.The talk will be given by Dr. Stuart Horsman, who is a principle research analyst working on Iran at the Foreign Office. If you are at all interested in working in foreign policy analysis and research, or working for the Foreign Office, or just think it sounds like an interesting topic, then do come along.. Full details | Add event |
| 3 October 2013 | 16:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 12 - 13 September 2013 | | This conference is a collaboration between John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter and Edward Schatz of the University of Toronto.. Full details | Add event |
| 28 August 2013 | 10:00 | This short course provides an introduction to some of the most salient issues in cross-national electoral research and new methodologies that can be used to address them. Full details | Add event |
| 18 June 2013 | 10:00 | The workshop is aimed at providing training and support for postgraduate research students working with cross-national survey data.. Full details | Add event |
| 31 May 2013 | 12:00 | Students are welcome to come along to hear about the experiences of two Exeter Alumni who are currently working as parliamentary assistants. David Hoy graduated in 2012 and completed a Westminster internship in 2011 with the Parliamentary Resources Unit. Murray McKirdle is also a recent graduate who nows works as the Parliamentary Assistant for Ben Bradshaw MP. If you would like to attend the event, please email to register: B.Hill@exeter.ac.uk so that we can ascertain numbers for lunch, which is provided. Full details | Add event |
| 16 May 2013 | 16:00 | Professor Chris Anderson is a pioneer of quantitative football analytics. He has developed econometric models to study team dynamics and algorithms for evaluating player performance. He is passionate about understanding how complex match interactions can be observed and analyzed in a way that helps to optimize team performance in the context of global competition for talent and success. Anderson also is a Political Science professor at Cornell University working on comparative electoral behaviour. He has won a number of scientific awards for his research and is an internationally recognized expert on the application of multilevel statistical models of political behaviour. Full details | Add event |
| 15 May 2013 | 15:00 | Professor Andrew Hindmoor, Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield. Full details | Add event |
| 10 - 11 May 2013 | | On Friday 10th and Saturday 11th May the SSIS Annual Postgraduate Research Conference will be held. The event will bring PGR students from across the college together to discuss their current research. Full details | Add event |
| 9 May 2013 | 13:30 | The Annual College of Social Sciences and International Studies Research Methods Festival has been designed to complement the PGR research seminar training sessions which take place across the academic year. The event aims to introduce delegates to a range of contemporary research projects and methodological issues and to allow students further exploration and discussion of research related issues. Our keynote speaker for the event will be Professor Gaby Weiner, who will be speaking about her recently published text: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Lives. The event will end with a mock viva, which will enable students an insight into this process of examination. A drinks reception will also be held after this session. Full details | Add event |
| 8 May 2013 | 15:00 | Dr Sandra Kroger, Marie Curie Fellow, University of Exeter. Full details | Add event |
| 1 May 2013 | 13:00 | Understanding the co-production of public services by integrating the services management and public administration. Full details | Add event |
| 28 March 2013 | 10:00 | Thursday 28 March at 10.00 in The Constantine Levantis Room, ONE/TR03, Building One, The Business School. Full details | Add event |
| 22 March 2013 | 14:00 | Centre for European Governance's seminar,Designing Research in the Social Sciences (Sage, 2012).. Full details | Add event |
| 20 March 2013 | 15:00 | Dr Yang Cheng is Associate Professor of International Relations, East China Normal University; Visiting International Fellow, University of Exeter (Spring 2013). Full details | Add event |
| 13 March 2013 | 15:00 | Dr Gabriel Katz, Lecturer in Politics, University of Exeter. Full details | Add event |
| 13 March 2013 | | The project aims to explain the reason for and the consequences of the failure of Western approaches to conflict management to gain traction in Post-Soviet Central Asia. It contrasts these approaches with those promoted by Russia and China, both bilaterally and through regional organisations, and it looks at the effects of these rising powers on national conflict management strategies. Full details | Add event |
| 6 March 2013 | 15:00 | Professor Anthony M Bertelli, C.C. Crawford Chair in Management and Performance in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California. Full details | Add event |
| 6 March 2013 | | Natalie Bennett, the leader of the UK Green Party, will visit Tremough on Wednesday 6th March. In the afternoon she will be talking with History and Politics students in a series of workshops and then will give a public lecture 'Creating Sustainable Futures', in the evening on campus.. Full details | Add event |
| 4 March 2013 | 9:30 | The Department of Politics has invited the Liberal-Democrat MEP Graham Watson to run a workshop with our undergraduate students. Full details | Add event |
| 25 February 2013 | 14:00 | The contemporary performance movement has tended to assume that a key to restoringpublic trust in civil servants lies in a focus on outcomes or results. But there is growing evidence from various fields that trust in people and institutions of authority often depends more on process (such as fairness and equity) than on outcomes.. Full details | Add event |
| 9 February 2013 | | Colleagues from the University of Exeter will be attending the EU Studies Fair next month in Brussels. Full details | Add event |
| 30 January 2013 | 15:00 | Professor Rod Rhodes,Professor of Government, University of Southampton. Full details | Add event |
| 30 January 2013 | 14:00 | John Evans, London Office of the European Commission will be giving a talk on EU careers. He will provide information on where an EU career can lead, why it will be a fulfilling career choice, what it involves and who they are looking to employ. He will also provide a very clear outline of the application process and the selection procedure, leading you straight into your career at the EU!. Full details | Add event |
| 23 January 2013 | 15:00 | Dr Chiara Cordelli, Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Exeter will deliver the seminar. Full details | Add event |
| 12 December 2012 | 15:00 | Dr Matthew Eagleton-Pierce, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Exeter. Full details | Add event |
| 10 December 2012 | 18:15 | Professor Susan Banducci, Professor in Politics and Associate Dean of Education, College of Social Sciences and International Studies, will deliver her inaugural lecture on Monday 10 December. Full details | Add event |
| 5 December 2012 | 14:00 | All Welcome. Full details | Add event |
| 28 November 2012 | 15:00 | This event is cancelled due to weather conditions.. Full details | Add event |
| 21 November 2012 | 14:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 15 November 2012 | 13:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 14 November 2012 | 14:00 | Bhavna Dave, School of Oriental and African StudiesAll welcome. Full details | Add event |
| 8 November 2012 | 14:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 7 November 2012 | 12:00 | A Politics department seminar. Full details | Add event |
| 31 October 2012 | 15:00 | Dr Alex Prichard is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. Full details | Add event |
| 31 October 2012 | 13:00 | An Exeter Central Asian Studies research group seminar. Full details | Add event |
| 30 October 2012 | 10:00 | The College of Social Sciences and International Studies is offering an exciting opportunity for Politics and IAIS students who are interested in contemporary approaches to world security. Full details | Add event |
| 29 October 2012 | 15:00 | The College of Social Sciences and International Studies is offering an exciting opportunity for Politics and IAIS students who are interested in contemporary approaches to world security. Full details | Add event |
| 24 October 2012 | 12:00 | Careers consultant Tom McAndrew will talk through how you can find out what your strengths and weaknesses are, what skills and attributes you possess and how you can match them to potential careers. This event is part of a series of talks delivered by the Careers team in the College of Social Sciences and International studies.. Full details | Add event |
| 23 October 2012 | 13:00 | All welcome. Full details | Add event |
| 16 October 2012 | 14:00 | Helena Cook, University of Exeter. Full details | Add event |
| 16 October 2012 | 13:00 | Careers consultant Tom McAndrew will run through some of the ways you can research careers, find out what may suit you. This talk is aimed at penultimate and final year social sciences students - especially if you have no idea what you want to do! Materials will also be available. This event is part of a series of talks delivered by the Careers team in the College of Social Sciences and International studies.. Full details | Add event |
| 11 October 2012 | 17:00 | What is the difference between being involved in a political party and being an active member of a civil society organization or a social movement? What are the things we do when we engage in politics? How does our conventional academic knowledge of participation in politics fit in with the real-world experience of those who are active in Exeter? The Centre for European Governance invites you to share your personal experience at this round table discussion. Full details | Add event |
| 11 October 2012 | 12:00 | Joes talk is a light-hearted look at Joes own story from a Sheffield University undergraduate to founding director of YouGov. Joe will also explain the things everyone should remember when applying for jobs, attending interviews and dealing with prospective employers. Details about the YouGov internship scheme will also be given. Full details | Add event |
| 10 October 2012 | 15:00 | Professor Richard Bellamy is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the European Institute, University College London; Visiting Fellow, University of Exeter. Full details | Add event |
| 9 October 2012 | 14:00 | Whether we take a plane, eat food, or purchase medication in a pharmacy: each time we are affected by European regulatory agencies (ERAs). Full details | Add event |
| 3 October 2012 | 15:00 | Dr John Heathershaw is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Exeter. Full details | Add event |
| 28 June 2012 | 9:00 | Fairness and Responsibility in an Unequal Society. Full details | Add event |
| 28 June 2012 | | The conference marks the end of a four-year project on inequality, responsibility and fairness, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council at the University of Exeter. Four panels composed of prominent policy-leaders and academics will debate the issues, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas between policy and academy. Full details | Add event |
| 27 - 29 June 2012 | | The ECPR Standing Group on Regulation & Governance will be holding its 4th Biennial Conference at the University of Exeter from 27 to 29 June 2012. The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) was founded in 1970 and supports the training, research and cross-national co-operation of political scientists throughout Europe. Full details | Add event |
| 13 June 2012 | 15:00 | Oliver James works on the public policy and politics of public services, citizen-provider relationships, public sector organisation and reform, executive politics (particularly politician-administrator relations) and regulation of the public sector. Full details | Add event |
| 24 - 26 May 2012 | | Sandra Kroeger and Dario Castiglione are organising a Conference on New Trends in Political Representation in the EU at the University of Exeter on 24-26 May 2012, organized with the support of the EU Jean Monnet Programme.. Full details | Add event |
| 16 May 2012 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 2 May 2012 | 9:00 | The workshop will bring together IR staff from Streaatham and Tremough to address the broad research theme of 'activist politics. Full details | Add event |
| 7 March 2012 | 15:00 | Akbert Weale is ESRC Professorial Fellow & Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL. Full details | Add event |
| 6 March 2012 | 12:30 | This will be an opportunity for students to hear at first hand from a group of Politics graduates who have taken different career routes with their Politics degrees. All graduates are from within the last six years, so they will be able to provide perspectives and advice on translating an Exeter Politics degree into a career. There will be plenty of time for students to ask questions of the guests.Panel Members are: Kate Taylor (2007) Foreign and Commonwealth Office Alexandra Crook (2006) Transport for London Alexander Hurley (2011) TV Buyer for John Ayling & Associates Owen Thomas (2009) PhD Student, University of Exeter Daniel Hooper. Full details | Add event |
| 8 February 2012 | 15:00 | Roland Dannreuther is Professor and Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster. Full details | Add event |
| 1 February 2012 | 15:00 | Craig works alongside Professor Mick Dumper in a 5 year ESRC funded project, Conflict in Cities and the Contested State: everyday life and the possibilities of transformation in Belfast, Jerusalem and other divided cities. The project focuses on divided cities as key sites in territorial conflicts over state and national identities, cultures and borders. Full details | Add event |
| 1 February 2012 | 13:30 | Our first Central Asian Studies seminar series of the year will be:'Of national fathers and Russian elder brothers: conspiracy theories and political ideas in post-Soviet Central Asia'. Full details | Add event |
| 18 January 2012 | 15:00 | Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy; Director of Education, Politics. Full details | Add event |
| 11 January 2012 | 15:00 | Dr Robert Lamb is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy. His research and teaching interests are in the history of modern political thought and contemporary political philosophy. Please note room change. Full details | Add event |
| 5 - 7 January 2012 | | Suny Model EU. Full details | Add event |
| 16 December 2011 | 16:30 | The discipline of International Relations has a longstanding relationship with the British academy, and British IR has a distinct self-image. The British tradition, or way of doing IR, is renowned for its pluralism and interdisciplinary nature as well as its connection to a certain body of work that is perceived as distinctly British. Following a one-day workshop exploring emerging trends in postgraduate International Relations (IR) research, this roundtable offers reflections on the impact and influence of the British Academy on the field, and what is at stake in this so-called distinctiveness.Professors Chris Brown, Andrew Linklater and David Armstrong will reflect upon past, present and future trajectories for International Relations in the British Academy; the speakers will discuss how their work has shaped the British discipline of International Relations, future paths open to the field and their reactions to the contemporary academic climate. This roundtable is the culmination of a one-day workshop focussed on what makes British IR distinctive and diverse from other academic communities and what form this diversity takes.This event is a rare opportunity to hear three distinguished professors, renown for their influential contributions to British IR, speaking together. If you would like to attend please RSVP to lgf202@exeter.ac.uk This event is sponsored by the University of Exeter, the British International Studies Association Postgraduate Network and Poststructural Politics Working Group. Full details | Add event |
| 16 December 2011 | 12:00 | Dr Gillian McCormack is Training Coordinator of the EU's Network for Enhanced Electoral and Democratic Support project. She has over ten years' experience in training design and coordination and is a specialist in media frameworks for elections and media monitoring methodologies. She led 12 media monitoring missions for elections in the former Soviet Union for the European Institute of Media and participated in four EU EOMs as Media Expert. Most recently she was Director of Development and Team Leader for an EU technical assistance project for the media in the Russian Federation. Gillian holds a PhD from Glasgow Caledonian University and has published extensively in the field of elections and media. Full details | Add event |
| 15 December 2011 | 17:00 | Professor Cerny will be presenting a recent paper published in the St Antony's International Review (STAIR) and expanding on the themes of the article. The paper looks at the recent financial crisis and argues that the 'financial system constitutes a public good essential to contemporary society'. It seeks to address a range of questions that have arisen following the financial crash, including ideas linked to the concept of efficiency. Full details | Add event |
| 15 December 2011 | 11:00 | John Evans, Permanent Representation of the EU, London Office. Full details | Add event |
| 7 December 2011 | 15:00 | Professor Michael Dumper ia Professor in Middle East Politics. His research interests are the Permanent Status Issues of the Middle East peace process, the Arab-Israeli conflict, religious institutions in the Middle East and the urban politics of the Middle East.. Full details | Add event |
| 7 December 2011 | 14:00 | Robert Scharreborn, Secretariat General of the European Commission. Full details | Add event |
| 1 December 2011 | 11:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 30 November 2011 | 19:30 | Bonnie Honig is the The Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor, Political Science, Northwestern University and Research Professor, American Bar Foundation, Chicago. Full details | Add event |
| 23 November 2011 | 15:00 | Ian Holliday is the Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science, University of Hong Kong. Full details | Add event |
| 2 November 2011 | 15:00 | Dr Matthew Eagleton-Pierce is Lecturer in International Relations. His primary research interests are in the field of international political economy, particularly the politics of world trade. He also have strong interests in the conceptual analysis of power and legitimacy, international relations theory, and political sociology. He has a particular interest in applying the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu to world politics.. Full details | Add event |
| 12 October 2011 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 5 October 2011 | 15:00 | Full details | Add event |
