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Latest news

Since March 2012

• Professor Georgina Waylen has joined Politics
• Professor Oliver Richmond has joined Politics and HCRI
• Professor Roger MacGinty has joined Politics and HCRI

In Summer 2012

• Gabriel Siles-Brügge will join Politics as a Lecturer in Politics
• Richard Child will join Politics as a Lecturer in Political Theory
• Adrienne Roberts will join Politics as a Lecturer in International Politics
• Aoileann Ni Murchu will join Politics as a Lecturer in International Politics
• David Tobin will join Politics as a Lecturer in Chinese Politics

Other News

• Francesca Gains has been promoted to the position of Professor of Public Policy
• David Rhys Birks has been awarded a University Distinguished Achievement Award as Postgraduate Student of the Year. David has recently completed his PhD in Political Theory and is now a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Oxford.
• Andrew Russell has been awarded the PSA's Bernard Crick award for Outstanding Teaching for 2011.
• Bill Callahan has edited a special issue of the journal China Information devoted to the topic ‘China’s Future and the World’s Future’, to appear in July 2012.
• Veronique Pin-Fat has been awarded a University of Manchester Teaching Excellence Award for 2011/12.
• David Miliband led a discussion of current British Politics with an audience of Politics Undergraduate and Postgraduate students - 7th March 2012.
• Claire Annesley is awarded the 2011 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. Awarded by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University, USA. Claire’s research, ‘Gender and Cabinet Recruitment: Pace and profile in gendering government’, is in collaboration with Karen Beckwith (Case Western), Susan Franceschet (Calgary) and Isabelle Engeli (Ottawa).
• Prizes for the best MA dissertations in 2010/11 have been awarded to: Jack Holme (Political Theory) Nick Deal (International Politics) and Jessica Reid (Comparative Politics).
• Dimitris Papadimitriou discussed the Greek political crisis on the BBC4 World News Today (on 7th Nov 2011) the interview can be found 9minutes and 30 seconds into the programme.
• Angelia Wilson has been elected to the Council of the American Political Science Association.
• Dimitris Papadimitriou has been appoionted as Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.
• Alistair Burt MP - Foreign Office minister with responsibility for the Middle East, South Asia and counter terrorism led a discussion of UK Foreign Policy attended by over 100 undergraduate and posgraduate students on 6th October 2011.
• Bill Callahan presented a seminar paper, 'China’s Futures, and their impact on Britain and the World', at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 29 September 2011.
• Angelia Wilson has been appointed as co-editor (with Paul Djupe) of the journal Politics and Religion, published by the Religion and Politics section of APSA. The appointment begins in January 2012 and runs for three years.
• James Pattison has edited and contributed to a Special Issue of the journal Ethics and International Affairs devoted to discussions of Libya, the Responsibility to Protect, and Humanitarian Intervention
• Bill Callahan has been appointed to the Council of the British Association for Chinese Studies, and is organizing a series of six seminars for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Contemporary China.
• Shaun Bevan and Will Jennings have been awarded the Best Comparative Policy Paper award by the Public Policy Section of APSA (joint with International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum/Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis) for their paper, "Opinion-Responsiveness of Governing Agendas in the US and the UK: Institutional Filtering of Issue Priorities of the Public" presented at the 2010 APSA meetings.
• Karen Clarke has been awarded a prize by the journal Critical Policy Studies, for her paper “From 'cycles of disadvantage' to Sure Start: discourses of early intervention in families” judged to be one of the three best papers published in the journal over the period since 2007.
• Hermann Schmitt has been invited to serve as an expert witness to a hearing of the Second Senat of the German Constitutional Court, on the German EP election law, on May 3rd 2011.
• Rosaleen Duffy has been awarded a University Distinguished Achievement Medal as Researcher of the Year 2011.
• Angelia Wilson has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2011-12 on the topic of ‘Constructing social values as a political strategy: what are the strategies and mechanisms by which the US Christian right builds political constituencies?’’
• James Pattison's book, "Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene?" (OUP, 2010), has been awarded a 2011 ‘Notable Book Award’ by the International Studies Association (International Ethics Section).
• Alan Hamlin and Peter John have been elected as Academicians of the Academy of Social Sciences.
• Claire Annesley has been awarded the Political Studies Association's Richard Rose Prize for 2011. This annual prize is awarded to a younger scholar (under 40) who has made a distinctive contribution to the study of British Politics through the publication of books and articles.
• Nicola Phillips has been appointed as a member of the REF 2014 sub-panel for Politics and International Relations. The full membership of the sub-panel.
• Andrew Russell has been awarded a University Teaching Excellence Award for 2010-11.
• Helen Dexter (with Prof. David Miller of Strathclyde University) has been awarded a British Academy Conference Support Grant in relation to a conference marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
• Inderjeet Parmar has been awarded a British Academy Conference Support Grant in relation to a conference on "Smart power, smart philanthropy: hard, soft and smart power in the American Century".
• Claire Annesley (along with colleagues at Case Western, Calgary and Geneva) will lead a Research Session on Gender and Executive Leadership at the ECPR meetings in Florence in May 2011
• Rorden Wilkinson has been appointed to the position of Research Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute and has been awarded a grant from the Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business at Indiana University to study 'China and the World Trade Organization'
• Inderjeet Parmar has been appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of the Review of International Studies.
• The ISA 2011 Annual Convention will include a Venture Workshop 'Memory, trauma and change in world politics' inspired by the work of Maja Zehfuss. For details see the ISA Web page.
• The journal Representation, edited by Andrew Russell and Steve de Wijze, has been adopted as the official journal of the 'Representation and Electoral Systems' section of APSA.
• Ryan Combs, a PhD student in Politics, has been awarded the 2010 Bailey Award by the LGBT Caucus of the American Political Science Association for the best paper on an LGBT topic presented at the 2009 conference. Ryan's paper was "Gender Mainstreaming in the European Union: Not for All? The EU's Role in Healthcare Provision for Trans People".
• Paul Copeland (and co-author Beryl ter Haar ) have been selected to present a paper at the Harvard/Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum in October 2010.
• Rosaleen Duffy's work on wildlife crime and conservation has featured recently in the New Scientist, The Guardian, and on the BBC.
• Shogo Suzuki has been awarded a visiting fellowship at the International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Oct-Dec 2010.
• Inderjeet Parmar has been awarded an AHRC Research Networking grant for a project on The Presidency of Barack Obama, beginning 1 January 2011, and running over two years.
• Bill Callahan has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his project 'New World Order: Chinese Views of the 21st Century' for the 2010-11 Academic year
• Inderjeet Parmar has been appointed as a Visiting Scholr at St. John's College, Oxford, for the summer 2010 to work on his project of Anglo-American wars since Korea.
• James Pattison has won an ESRC  research grant on ‘The Morality of Private War’ to run for two years from Sept 2010.
• Jonathan Quong has been awarded a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowship at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values for the 2010-2011 academic year
• Rorden Wilkinson has been awarded a Nuffield Social Science Grant for a project entitled ‘The forced movement of colonised peoples and its impact on state development in Seychelles’ (to start February 2010 for a year). 
• Dimitris Papadimitriou has been awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the MacMillan Center for European Studies, Yale University in Feb/March 2010, and a National Bank of Greece Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary Greek Studies at the European Institute, London School of Economics March-Sept 2010.
• Michael Moran FBA has been elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Science.
• Nicola Phillips has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, for 3 years from October 2010, for a project on 'Trafficking, Forced Labour and the Contemporary UK Economy'.
• Rachel Gibson has been awarded an ESRC Professorial Fellowship to work on a project on: `The Internet, Electoral Politics and Citizen Participation in Global Perspective' from February 2010 - January 2013.

Conferences

• Bill Callahan hosted a workshop sponsored by the British Inter-University China Centre and the Centre for Chinese Studies at the  University of Manchester on ‘China’s Future and the World’s Future’ on 11th February 2011. More details.
• MANCEPT held a one day conference on 'Problems with Priority?' on 19th November 2010. Speakers included: Martin O'Neill (York), Michael Otsuka (University College London), Thomas Porter (Manchester), Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) and Andrew Williams (I.C.R.E.A. and Pompeu Fabra University). More details.

• The Political Representation of Ethnic Minorities in the UK in Comparative Perspective. An Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series organised by the University of Manchester and the University of Oxford. More information.
• MANCEPT held a One-Day Conference on Terrorism and Dirty Hands on 25th May 2010. The speakers were: C.A.J.
  Coady (Melbourne), Michael Neu (Sheffield), Steve de Wijze (Manchester), and David Rodin (Oxford).
• Manchester hosted 'Shifting Agendas' the PSA Women and Politics Conference in February 2010, with Angelia Wilson the conference organizer.