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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…

The Department of Politics and International Studies is delighted to announce the 2022 Aaron Rapport Prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching has been awarded to Dr Devon Curtis.Dr Curtis is a Fellow of Emmanuel College and an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies teaching 'Politics of Conflict and Peace'…

The Department of Politics and International Studies is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 PhD Fieldwork Photography Competition.These photographs showcase images taken by our PhD students whilst carrying out their fieldwork.  We received some fantastic entries, but the judges decided on the following 3 winning images (please click on the …

The Department of Politics and International Studies is delighted to announce the award of the 2021 Aaron Rapport Prize for excellent undergraduate teaching to Dr Evaleila Pesaran of Murray Edwards College.