Placement Partnerships

The School of Politics and International Relations is looking to develop ‘Placement Partnerships’ with internal University […]

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Tags: employment, placement, Placement Partnerships, School of Politics and International Relations, Work experience

Norms, values and morality: the comparative politics of human rights

Please join the Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice at The University of Nottingham for a special lecture by Professor Todd Landman, a world-leading expert on human rights. He will discuss the evolution of the international human rights regime, different kinds of human rights measures, and systematic ways in which to map, explain, and understand the variation in human rights abuse around the world.

Tags: human rights, Research Priority Area, Rights and Justice, RPA, School of Politics and International Relations, social sciences, Todd Landman

LGBT rights are human rights

Join the Centre for Research in Race and Rights and The University of Nottingham Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice for a discussion focusing on LGBT rights around the world. Part of our LGBT History Month celebrations 2016.

Tags: Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Emma Long, Ibtisam Ahmed, Juan Anzola, law, LBET History Month, LGBT, LGBT History Month 2016, politics, rights, Rights and Justice, School of Politics and International Relations, School of Sociology and Social Policy

Free online course – ‘Shale Gas and Fracking: the Politics and Science’

Led by Professor Sarah O’Hara from the School of Geography and Mathew Humphry, Head of the […]

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Tags: course, fracking, Mathew Humphrey, MOOC, online, politics, Sarah O'Hara, School of Geography, School of Politics and International Relations

A state of play: representing politics in popular fiction

Steven Fielding, School of Politics and International Relations, delivers the lecture ‘A state of play: representing politics in popular fiction’. Part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series. Art by César Moreno.

Tags: politics, Popular Culture Lecture Series, School of Politics and International Relations, science fiction, Steven Fielding

Picturing Politics

The School of Politics and International Relations has launched a new blog.

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Tags: Ballots & Bullets, Chris Burgess, Map of the Island of Utopia, People’s History Museum, Picturing Politics, Politics in 60 Seconds, Professor of Political History, School of Politics and International Relations, Steven Fielding

Bulletin board

Veteran political film-maker focuses on life of Boris The BBC’s Michael Cockerell told the behind-the scenes story […]

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Tags: BBC, Boris Johnson, Business Leaders Series, Business School, Dunkirk Week of Action, Jon McGregor, Lincolnshire Landscapes, Manager Off-Campus Student Affairs, Mayor of London, Melanie Futer, Michael Cockerell, School of Politics and International Relations, Sir Paul Smith, Sophie Hollinshead, The Centre for Regional Literature and Culture

Conflict ‘inevitable’: far right supporters

Far right supporters in the UK believe violent conflict between different religious, racial and ethnic groups is largely inevitable, according to a new survey on political extremism.

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Tags: British National Party, Dr Matthew Goodwin, English Defence League, extremism, From Voting to Violence? Far Right Extremism in Britain, Professor Jocelyn Evans, School of Politics and International Relations, UK Independence Party, University of Salford

Worrying legacy of Britain’s riots

The recent riots in the UK have left many people feeling that their safety — and the wider British society — is under threat, say experts at The University of Nottingham.

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Tags: Academic Omnibus Project, Dr Eline de Rooij, Dr Mark Pickup, Dr Matthew Goodwin, Integrating Global Society, School of Politics and International Relations, YouGov-Cambridge

Sowing seeds for the future

An expert from The University of Nottingham has been studying the role of women as peace-keepers in former war zones — and found international aid agencies are increasingly supporting handicraft schemes as a way of restoring peace.

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Tags: Dr Vanessa Pupavac, Fairtrade, International Alert, Kathleen Herbert, NGOs, School of Politics and International Relations