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Professor Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni has co-authored a book which asks, "How do climate advocacy organizations use digital technologies to campaign for climate action?"This book examines how technology influences the formation, scope, and organizational structures of climate organizations, the goals they strive for, and their choice of strategies a…

Professor Ayşe Zarakol was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on 8 November 2024. The prestigious honour was conferred during the Annual Commemoration ceremony, an event attended by Her Majesty Queen Mary of Denmark.Professor Zarakol was recognized for her career achievement and significant contributions to the field of…

The Department of Politics and International Studies is excited to announce the publication of After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh’s Rohingya Refugee Camps by Farhana Afrin Rahman. This powerful book delves into the experiences of Rohingya women who fled violence and persecution in Myanmar, seeking refuge in Bangladesh.Based on 14 …

Mary Onoŋokpono is a Nigerian-British writer with a POLIS MPhil in African Studies. Her short story 'Firewater', about a child's perspective of the Atlantic slave trade, has been awarded first prize by a competition for emerging African writers.

Dr Ilias Alami's newest book, The Spectre of State Capitalism, has just been published by Oxford University Press. Co-written with Prof. Adam D. Dixon, Dr Alami's new book provides a comprehensive study of the material, discursive, and ideological dimensions of the ongoing reconfiguration of the state's role as promoter, supervisor, shareholder-inv…

Dr Ella McPherson Reflects on her Experience as ICA 2024 Theme Co-ChairCGHR Co-Director, Dr Ella McPherson was delighted to serve as Co-Chair of the International Communication Association’s 74th conference theme, ‘Communication and Global Human Rights’. The 5000-member International Communication Association (ICA) convenes one of the biggest annua…

The Department of Politics and International Studies is delighted to announce that Dr Alina Utrata as the 2024 Lisa Smirl PhD Prize winner.Every year, the Department of Politics and International Studies offers a prize of £200 for the best PhD thesis completed in the previous academic year. The Prize is named in memory of Lisa Smirl, who gained her…

Every year The Department of Politics and International Studies holds a competition to find the best photographs taken by our PhD students during their fieldwork. The photographs submitted to the PhD Fieldwork Photography Competition showcase images which represent the diversity and depth with which our students interact with their subjects and the…

Dr Marthe Achtnich has been awarded the BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize for her outstanding book Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press). The Susan Strange Book Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book published in any field of International Studies.…

The Department of Politics and International Studies is delighted to announce the 2024 Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize for excellence in teaching has been awarded to Dr James Wood. This is the second time Dr Wood has been awarded a teaching prize from the Department. He was jointly awarded the POLIS Teaching Prize in 2019, but this year he accepts the…

Dr Marthe Achtnich has recently published a book with Cambridge University Press: ‘Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean.’The arrival of unauthorized migrants at the shores of southern Europe has been sensationalized into a migration ‘crisis’ in recent years. Yet these depictions fail to …

On 28 November 2023, Professor Ayşe Zarakol was presented with the Koç University Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science in the fields of ‘Administrative Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law’ for her research at the intersection of historical sociology and international relations, focusing on East-West relations in the international system, the hi…

The R.A. Butler Prize for essays in politics and international studies is an annual competition open to students in Year 12 or the Lower 6th. Established in memory of the former Master of Trinity College, Lord Butler, who most famously served as Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and who was responsible for the introduction of free sec…

The Department of Politics and International Studies is delighted to announce that Dr Niyousha Bastani as the 2023 Lisa Smirl PhD Prize winner.Every year, the Department of Politics and International Studies offers a prize of £200 for the best PhD completed in the previous academic year. The Prize is named in memory of Lisa Smirl, who gained her Ph…

The Department of Politics and International Studies is delighted to announce the 2023 Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize for excellence in teaching has been awarded to Professor Dennis C Grube. Every year, the Department of Politics and International Studies awards a prize based on student feedback to the individual who has best informed student's educa…