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We are delighted to announce that @arturnadiiev.bsky.social has been awarded the @nottspolitics.bsky.social's Best PGR Thesis Prize 2025 🏆 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field for his work on 'Ukraine's national identity and foreign policy, 2004-2014'
Poster with a photo of Artur and thesis title
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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'Disinformation exploits gaps in Western alliances and domestic politics, often making countermeasures difficult'

Read @rorycormac.bsky.social and Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social's written evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee on disinformation diplomacy ⬇️

tinyurl.com/eb3za49c
Excerpt from report
December 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Congratulations to @nottspolitics.bsky.social doctoral researcher David Stanton on being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to expedition medicine and field-based cartography

ℹ️ More details here 🔗 tinyurl.com/m5z9baw8
Poster with text 'David Stanton appointed as Fellow to the Royal Geographical Society' with photo of David
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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The Green, the Blue, the Grey: Hybrid Threats and Taiwan’s Security

The Taiwan Research Hub collaborate with the Centre for the Study of Subversion, Unconventional Interventions and Terrorism for this in-person event with
@marclanteigne.bsky.social

📅 Weds 12 Nov 12pm
ℹ️ tinyurl.com/mtyrnmdb
Poster detailing the talk's title -The Green, the Blue, the Grey: Hybrid Threats and Taiwan’s Security - and event time Wednesday 12 Nov, 12-2pm, LG106 Hallward Library, University Park
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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“Propaganda operations in the Cold War were designed to undermine authority, chip away at orthodox ideas, and encourage questioning"

@rorycormac.bsky.social reveals to @telegraphnews.bsky.social how the CIA once tried to recruit Sir Winston Churchill 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/mvp47n4h

Image cc: The Telegraph
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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📢 Are you interested in applying for a postdoc? We are delighted to be inviting expressions of interest for the @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship Scheme

Full details can be found here 🔗 tinyurl.com/4huyxc2f

🗓️EOI to be submitted by 03.12.2025 (full details in 🔗)
Poster featuring University logo and text Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Scheme
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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📚 Congratulations to Dr Chun-yi Lee, director of the University of Nottingham Taiwan Research Hub, on the publication of her new co-edited book 'Changing Dynamics in Geopolitics: Implications for Taiwan'

ℹ️ Read more here tinyurl.com/3zmtv7mp
Poster reading 'New publication for Dr Chun-yi Lee' and a copy of the book cover
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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📷The Rachel Carson Center @lmumuenchen.bsky.social has launched the new virtual exhibition 'Wetland Times', based on a BA funded project exploring the dynamic temporalities of wetlands and their complex relationships, co-led by @nottspolitics.bsky.social's Dr Blake Ewing

Info🔗 tinyurl.com/48ucabak
River view of a wetland
October 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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📚 Congratulations to @rorycormac.bsky.social on the publication of his new co-edited book 'Covert Action: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention'

📖 Read more here🔗 tinyurl.com/3cdbynaa

ℹ️ Find out more about Rory and his research 🔗 nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/rory.cormac
Book cover for 'Covert Action'
October 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Congratulations to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social's Taiwan Research Hub director Dr Chun-yi Lee on her appointment as Senior Advisor to the UC Berkley Institute of East Asian Studies' 'US-Taiwan-European Next Generation Working Group' 🌏

ℹ️ More info here 🔗 tinyurl.com/596svjzh
Poster with image of Dr Chun-yi Lee and caption ' Dr Chun-yi Lee Appointed to the US-Taiwan-European Next Generation Working Group'
September 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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📣 We are delighted to announce that the School of Politics and International Relations' Professor Jan Meyer-Sahling has been awarded the prestigious Sir Francis Hill Chair 🎉

Find out more here 🔗 tinyurl.com/2f7zb85w

@uniofnottingham.bsky.social @uonresearch.bsky.social
Poster with photo of Jan Meyer-Sahling and text 'Professor Jan Meyer-Sahling appointed the Sir Francis Hill Professor of Political Science'
September 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Congratulations to doctoral researcher Tusharika Deka on recently passing her PhD 🎉

ℹ️ Read more about Tusharika's thesis 'Shifting identities: Kashmiri youth and the drivers of conflict' here 👉 tinyurl.com/bdeccs9j
Poster reading School of Politics and International Relations - PhD Success - Tusharika Deka - 'Shifting identities: Kashmiri youth and the drivers of conflict'
August 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Congratulations to doctoral researcher Oliver Mihell-Hale on recently passing his PhD 🎉

ℹ️ Read more about Oliver's thesis 'Calibrated Killing: Examining the Relationship between Strategies of Terrorism and Types of Violence' here 👉 tinyurl.com/ycyy3d86
Poster featuring image of Oliver Mihell-Hale and thesis title 'Calibrated Killing: Examining the Relationship between Strategies of Terrorism and Types of Violence'
August 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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"The book is a social history of how attitudes to sexuality and race have shaped Whitehall and have unintended consequences today"

📚 @sandbaggerone.bsky.social on his new publication 'The Secret History of UK Security Vetting from 1909 to the Present'

ℹ️ tinyurl.com/ms3vn6b8
Poster with caption 'New publication from Dan Lomas' and book cover image
July 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Fantastic to see a Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy letter to the security minister and chair of the defending democracy taskforce cites evidence from @nottspolitics.bsky.social's @rorycormac.bsky.social

Read the letter in full here ➡️ tinyurl.com/ynxs3txs
Photo of Rory and quote from Joint Committee National Security Strategy letter - "the bigger threat is not whether an election outcome was affected by foreign interference, but 'the perceived legitimacy of those elections and the trust people have in the outcome' "
July 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Great to see research centre SUIT's written evidence to the Defence Committee has been cited in the 'Defence in the Grey Zone' report, suggesting there needed to be greater coordination of counter grey-zone activity

Read more about the report here ➡️ tinyurl.com/ey3wrn9e
Cover of report 'Defence in the Grey Zone'
July 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Dr Chun-yi Lee, Director of Taiwan Research Hub was recently invited as an expert guest for the Inquiry programme on the
BBC World Service

'Does Trump care about Taiwan?' with Presenter Tanya Beckett is available to listen to now 🎧 bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029399x
Logo for Taiwan Research Hub
July 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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📢 Celebrating recent grant successes in @NottsPolitics

🎉 Prof. David Stevens has won a British Academy Pump-Priming Award

🎉 Dr Ben Holland has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship

Read the details here ➡️ tinyurl.com/5bkz9n5y

@uonresearch.bsky.social @uoninstitute.bsky.social
title quote - Countering the 'Epistocratic' Challenge to Democracy: Cultivating Political Knowledge through Citizenship Education - Professor David Stevens, British Academy Pump Priming Collaboration Award Second quote - Politics and the Holy Trinity: From Augustine to Agamben - Dr Ben Holland - Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
July 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Congratulations to @nottspolitics.bsky.social' @arturnadiiev.bsky.social who recently passed his PhD Viva 🎉

Read about Artur's thesis 'Ukraine’s national identity and foreign policy, 2004–2014' here ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdm9sts2
Image of Artur Nadiiev with text 'viva success - Artur Nadiiev'
June 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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🟣 Research with Impact series 🟣

Jan Meyer-Sahling is driving civil service reform in the Global South.

His pioneering ethics training programmes in Bangladesh & Nepal have been rolled out across police forces and administration services.

Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/mr4ytbbm
School of Politics and International Relations - Research with Impact Series - Professor Jan Meyer-Sahling - Anti-corruption, ethics and integrity management in the Global South
June 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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The Spending Review – Making Britain safer?

As the Chancellor prepares to announce how much money each government department will get in this week’s Spending Review, Dr Daniel Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social looks at what may be announced

🔗 tinyurl.com/mv6ky6ck
Image of plaque reading 'Ministry of Defence'
June 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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🗣️"I hope my research on anti-tech radicalism will help people anticipate and understand new forms of political violence—the terrorism of the future"

In our Inspiring People post Sean Fleming explains his current research and the inspiration behind it

🔗 tinyurl.com/4yht8f3k
Image of Sean Fleming with title Dr Sean Fleming
June 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📢📢Less than two weeks away!📢📢

Here is the list of speakers for this year's annual CRISPI Conference...

Register for the day here:
➡️https://forms.office.com/e/AvWmXeCaGL⬅️
Poster for CRISPI Conference 2025 On the backdrop is a rainbow gradient at the top of the page, fading to black. To the left of the page is a mural of a woman wearing a Sari, reaching for a hand. The speakers for the programme are: Todd Landman "Freedom and Modern Slavery: Challenges of Concept Formation" Eric Schliesser "On the Modern Origins of Modern Slavery" Gulshan Khan "Slavery as Control" Mollie Gerver "Why Ranking Based Theories of Consent Fail" Diana Popescu-Sarry "Liberty's Unfulfilled Promise: Survivor Anti-Discrimination" Juliana Rinaldi-Semione "Bound and Unbound: Unpacking the Concept of Freedom from Modern Slavery" Joshua Preiss "Freedom and Slavery in Global Value Chains" Nicola Mulkeen "From Structure to Accountability: A Graded Responsibility Model for Tackling Modern Slavery"
June 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Continuing our Research with Impact Series, we explore how @jaklocek.bsky.social works to advance evidence-based policies on religion, peace and conflict globally 🌎

Read in full 🔗 tinyurl.com/4dbb8syw
School of Politics and International Relations - Research with Impact Series - Dr Jason Klocek - Evidence- based policies to address religious discrimination and conflict
May 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Thanks to all @nottspolitics.bsky.social postgrad researchers and staff who joined us for our PGR Research Day

It was a great opportunity for some of our fantastic PGR students to showcase their work and receive valuable feedback from their peers and wider school community 🤝
Attendees at Research Day Attendees at Research Day
May 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM