Articles tagged with 'politics' | University of Manchester

University of Manchester - Archive (politics)

2024
19
December
2024
| 10:33 Europe/London
Al-Kindi completed his PhD in the Politics Department at The University of Manchester in November 2022. His thesis, Toward an Analytical Framework for Authoritarian Reform, was supervised by Angelia Wilson and Vero Pin-Fat. Angie Wilson
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06
December
2024
| 09:00 Europe/London
The University of Manchester hosted a panel discussion comprised of academics and politicians to explore the causes and impact of the civil unrest that gripped swathes of UK towns and cities during the summer of 2024.
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20
November
2024
| 16:24 Europe/London
The School of Social Sciences has seen two of its departments rise in the latest Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) Subject Rankings for 2024. Our Politics department is now ranked in the top 50 globally for universities
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06
November
2024
| 10:46 Europe/London
Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented Labour鈥檚 first budget in 14 years by promising to put an 鈥渆nd to short-termism鈥. British governments typically see budgets as an opportunity to present policies providing short-term gain in terms of public
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08
October
2024
| 16:50 Europe/London
Professor Wilson has been awarded the Distinguished Career Service Award 2024 by the American Political Science Association (APSA) LGBTQ Caucus. The Caucus, which serves as the primary association for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
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19
September
2024
| 15:50 Europe/London
James Pattison, Professor of Politics, co-authors Prioritizing Global Responsibilities with Luke Glanville, Professor at the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. The book considers that 鈥榮tates face
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11
September
2024
| 13:41 Europe/London
Nick Turnbull is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and the project is a collaboration between Politics and Criminology. It aims to contribute to policy theory by discovering how policy workers make interpretations, manage relationships and practice
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10
September
2024
| 07:41 Europe/London
Clara is a Lecturer in Political Theory and the British Academy/Leverhulme project will support her research on how different forms of cross-border and domestic solidarity can be harmonised. The research questions the assumption that solidarity
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04
September
2024
| 11:57 Europe/London
Since 2014, this community hub has also served as the setting for a fruitful collaboration between the University of Manchester and local refugees and asylum seekers, fostering both language skills and community building.The initiative, spearheaded
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23
August
2024
| 14:33 Europe/London
The report sets out strategies for navigating the UK鈥檚 political context on climate change, which were developed during a workshop at 91直播 with academics, practitioners from various political parties, as well as NGOs and social movements.In a
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12
July
2024
| 11:44 Europe/London
After the election, Louise Thompson wrote a piece for The Conversation, focusing on the 鈥榝ragmentation of the British parliament and the rise of smaller parties at the expense of the Conservatives鈥.Robert Ford wrote for the Observer, analysing the
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28
June
2024
| 15:56 Europe/London
It鈥檚 not controversial to say that contemporary affluent societies do a rather poor job of taking the interests of younger generations into account. This is not only because children can鈥檛 vote and the elderly tend to turn up to elections in higher
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24
June
2024
| 12:28 Europe/London
Htet Lynn Oo is a former MA Peace and Conflict Studies student. In addition to the ASEAS prize, Htet was also awarded a special commendation for his MA dissertation in the New Voices in Cultural Relations prize, organised by the British Council
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17
June
2024
| 17:01 Europe/London
The outgoing Head of Department of Politics, Yoram Gorlizki, has been awarded a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship to complete a long-standing book project on A Soviet Rule of Law: Justice and the Constitution in Soviet Russia.Gorlizki is
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04
June
2024
| 13:22 Europe/London
With polls predicting huge losses for the Conservatives and huge gains for Labour, the election campaign so far has focused on the battle between the two biggest parties in Westminster. But the parliamentary dynamics are exceptionally fluid this
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03
June
2024
| 15:30 Europe/London
The team was one of seven awarded a total of 拢1.8 million under the Smart Data Research UK scheme. This project will improve how browser and social media information can be anonymised and linked to survey data responses. Researchers can then
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22
May
2024
| 12:39 Europe/London
Jamie J. Hagen is currently a Lecturer in International Relations at Queen鈥檚 University Belfast, where she is the founding co-director of the Center for Gender in Politics. Her work sits at the intersection of gender, security studies, and queer
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21
May
2024
| 14:21 Europe/London
Dr Luke Bhatia, Lecturer in Global Politics, has won an award at the Student Union awards for 鈥榗reating safe space for global majority student and staff and supporting student-led campaigns to make Politics more diverse鈥.Bhatia has been co-chairing
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10
May
2024
| 11:57 Europe/London
Liu completed his doctoral degree in sociology at the John Hopkins University. His research uses comparative-historical methods to examine the uneven development of capitalism across space and time, as well as its multifold crises. Some of his
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08
May
2024
| 17:29 Europe/London
Dr Hannah Wright joins the Politics Department from Queen Mary University of London, where she holds an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Prior to that, she was Research Officer at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace, and Security.Hannah鈥檚 research
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08
April
2024
| 12:41 Europe/London
Dr Jess Gifkins鈥檚 has co-authored the report Queering Atrocity Prevention in collaboration with the charity Protection Approaches, which works to change how the world views and thereby prevents identity-based violence. During the United Nations
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14
March
2024
| 13:36 Europe/London
Dr Ian Bruff鈥檚 article has become a seminal text in political economy and the social sciences more broadly. The article argued 鈥榯hat we are witnessing the rise of authoritarian neoliberalism, which is rooted in the reconfiguring of the state
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13
March
2024
| 18:06 Europe/London
In a blog for UK in a Changing Europe, Professor Robert Ford analyses the circumstances behind Galloway鈥檚 surprising victory in the Rochdale by-election. Ford argues that the large swing to Galloway must be understood against the unique
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09
February
2024
| 11:54 Europe/London
MacGregor, Paterson and Holmes discuss the Joined-up Sustainability Transformations (JUST) approach, which they have developed at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at 91直播:鈥楯UST entails three core ideas that together enable a shift toward
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06
February
2024
| 11:52 Europe/London
Dr Rosenblatt鈥檚 research focuses on comparative politics, Latin American politics, democratic representation, parties and party systems.He completed his PhD at the Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile and his book Party Vibrancy and Democracy in
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30
January
2024
| 17:33 Europe/London
Both of these new books explore different and usually unscrutinised aspects of academic writing and research, and thereby provide new insights into methodology and global politics.Writing Saved Me: When the International Gets Personal is a
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30
January
2024
| 14:07 Europe/London
Jonathan is currently a Hallsworth Research Fellow at the Department of Politic and will take up his post as Lecturer in January 2025. He completed his PhD at 91直播 and has taught at King鈥檚 College London and Utrecht University. His
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04
January
2024
| 13:49 Europe/London
Almost immediately after being appointed as foreign secretary, David Cameron鈥檚 ties with China generated difficult headlines for Rishi Sunak鈥檚 government.
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2023
20
December
2023
| 18:06 Europe/London
Based on an article published in The American Political Science Review, Benson discusses the dangers of political polarization. He explains that the main threat isn鈥檛 that people come to accept misinformation or falsehoods, but that it narrows our
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12
December
2023
| 23:26 Europe/London
There is a growing field in practice and research dedicated to investigating the distinctive contribution of design to policymaking. Whilst the UK is a leader in the use of design in government and policy, this leading position could be enhanced
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