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CONTENTS People 2
Awards, Fellowships & Prizes
New staff and visitors
Profile: Marwa Daoudy
Profile: Sam Daws
News and Views 6
Administration Bulletin Board
Publications
Rothermere American Institute
Blog: Politics in Spires
Research Bulletin Board 10
Research Centre updates
Research funding deadlines
New Look Newswire 13
I am sure I speak for all of us in
thanking Neil Macfarlane for
everything he did as Head of
Department over the last five
years. He has left us in excellent
shape in all respects. Not a
single skeleton has been found
yet in any closet – or at least,
none that you need to worry
about. We are in sound fiscal
order, well administered, and
most important of all,
academically vibrant - as
reflected in every external merit indicator, by the demand for places
on our courses, by the continued growth in our research funding, and
– dare I say it – by the impact that we have on the world. My first duty
as the new Head of Department therefore is not to make a mess of
things!
I’d like to welcome all newcomers to the Department. It is a great
pleasure and relief to see the arrival of Duncan Snidal, Reader in
International Relations, who joins us from the University of Chicago.
Duncan has provided us with great insight into the new work visa
regime, which caused a few sleepless nights for us and for him too,
now happily resolved. Jeremy Waldron joins us as the new Chichele
Professor of Social and Political Theory, though he will be with us only
50% of the time for this academic year starting in Hilary. We also
welcome Marwa Daoudy, Departmental Lecturer in International
Relations and Politics of the Middle East, and Yekaterina Chzen, Post-
Doctoral Fellow in Quantitative Methods in Political and Social Science.
Of course, the university as a whole is facing some major and – at time of writing – unquantified financial challenges which will no doubt impact on us in negative ways. Research and doctoral training funding via HEFCE and the funding councils looks likely to be reduced and
F r o m t h e H e a d o f D e p a r t m e n t
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competition to get it may well grow. That is one reason why we will miss Esther Byrom as she moves on to become a Research Support Officer in the Social Sciences Division. Everyone who has applied for a grant over the last seven years or so will be aware of how helpful Esther is in putting together our applications. Without her I am sure we would have had less overall success. We wish her well and hope to benefit from her expertise in her new position. Of course, we will soon need to think about replacing her.
We are going to need to be thoughtful and nimble to find new sources of external funding. Those of us with college associations know how vital development is to fiscal balance. But departments generally have paid less attention to fundraising. We are going to have to do more here. I am very pleased therefore that David Hine – with great experience of development at Christ Church – has agreed to continue as our Development Director, supported by myself and very ably by Janice French. It is early days but we will soon be circulating for discussion a Development Strategy paper; Janice and Kate Candy
are working actively on understanding our alumni base; we plan an alumni newsletter and will participate in the alumni weekend next year; and we have our eye on some specific prospects. Development, however, is something that benefits from the involvement of everyone. So, if you have ideas in general or see specific opportunities, please talk to David or to me.
Finally, looking forward a bit. We have advertised and will soon shortlist for the post vice Michael Freeden at Mansfield (specified in political theory, including the history of political thought and the study of political ideology) with the hope to appoint this term. We will of course be sure to honour Michael before his retirement at the end of this academic year for his contributions to the Department, and in particular for his huge input in founding and building the Centre for Political Ideologies (CPI). Stephen Whitefield, Head of Department
Awards, Fellowships and Prizes
Congratulations to:
Dr Jonathan Floyd who was awarded a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship for ‘From Was to Ought? A philosophical study in historical lessons’, from 1 September 2010 to 31 August 2013.
Dr David Hine and Dr Mark Philp, who were awarded a John Fell OUP Research Fund Main Award grant for ‘Political Conduct Strategies of First-time MPs’, from 1 July 2010 to 31 December 2010.
Dr Sara Hobolt, who was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for ‘The Emotional Voter. An Experimental Test of the Impact of Emotions on British Electoral
Behaviour’, from 1 September 2010 to 31 January 2012.
Professor Christopher Hood, who was awarded an ESRC Professorial Fellowship for ‘When the Party’s Over: The Politics of Austerity in Public Services’, from 1 August 2011 to 31 July 2014.
Dr Seth Lazar, who was awarded a John Fell OUP Research Fund Small Grant for a conference entitled ‘Why we fight: the purposes of military force in the twenty-first century’ on 7-8 October 2010.
RISJ, led by Dr David Levy, which was awarded funding for several programmes of research:
o £25,039 from France 24 and £20,000 in extra funding from the BBC for ‘International News: Provision, Trust and Consumption in a Rapidly
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Changing Broadcasting Environment’, a project already funded by the BBC and the Carnegie Corporation.
o $198,670 by the Open Society Institute to continue the ‘Threats and Opportunities to the Business of Journalism and its role in Democracy’ a project already funded by Green Templeton College, from 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2012. RISJ post-doctoral research fellow Rasmus Kleis Nielsen will take the lead on the project.
o Funding from the Italian research institute, Isimm Ricerche, for research into ‘Coverage of Major Infrastructure Projects in Britain and France’, between July and December 2010.
Dr Philip Roessler, who was awarded a British Academy Research Development Award for ‘Identity, Citizenship and Trust in a Dividing State: The Case of Sudan’, from 26 July 2010 to 25 July 2011.
Dr Meredith Rolfe, who was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for ‘Measuring Social Networks and Political Influence’, from 1 August 2010 to 31 July 2012.
Dr Gwendolyn Sasse who was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for 'Understanding Political Voices from Abroad: Polish Migrants in the UK'. The project will run from July 2010 to June 2012. She was also awarded a grant from the John Fell OUP Research Fund Small Awards Scheme for the project 'Engaging with the Homeland: A Survey of Ukrainian Migrants', from October 2010 to September 2011.
Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, in conjunction with Nikia Clarke and the Oxford University China-Africa Network, who was awarded an ESRC Knowledge Exchange Small Grant for ‘Business to the Beat of the Drum: Chinese Agency and African Investment’ from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011.
Dr Marc Stears, who was awarded an AHRC Fellowship for ‘Festivals of Freedom: Culture, Democracy, and the Making of the Free World’, from 1 January to 31 March 2011.
Dr Adam Swift, who was awarded an AHRC Fellowship for ‘Family Values: A Liberal Egalitarian Theory of the Family’, from 1 January to 30 June 2011. His book Family Values, co-authored with Harry Brighouse, is forthcoming (Princeton University Press).
Dr Adam Ziegfeld, who was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for ‘Understanding Vote Choice in India: A new dataset on candidates for legislative office’, from 15 September 2010 to 14 March 2011.
Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth Frazer and Dr Scot Peterson, who have won an Oxford Teaching Award, to acknowledge their use of WebLearn to support a course or programme of study. In developing 'WebLearn for teaching politics' they have experimented with different tools to see what works best for communication, feedback and interaction. The chat room in particular proved very popular on the night of the recent general election and for the protracted discussions which followed.
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The Department would like to welcome the following new members:
Academic staff:
Duncan Snidal, Reader in International Relations (Nuffield)
Jeremy Waldron, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory (All Souls)
Yekaterina Chzhen, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Quantitative Methods in Political and Social Science
Marwa Daoudy, Departmental Lecturer in the Politics of the Middle East (joint appointment with Oriental Studies)
Research Staff:
Reem Abou Fahl, Jarvis Doctorow Fellow (St Edmund Hall)
Jonathan Floyd, BA Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ousseni Illy, Global Leaders Fellow
Avril Keating, Anglo-German Post-Doctoral Fellow
Heike Kluver, Anglo-German Post-Doctoral Fellow
Omobojaji Olarinmoye, Global Leaders Fellow
Hongsheng Ren, Global Leaders Fellow
Valeria Silva, Global Leaders Fellow
Shuxi Yin, Global Leaders Fellow
Administrative Staff:
Nicola Froggatt will be joining the Research
Support Team in late October as Sarah Travis’s maternity cover.
The Department would like to welcome the following new visitors:
Pencheng He
Tomila Lankina
Ike Okonta
Mikkel Runge Olesen
Agnieszka Walczak
Tongjin Yang
Research centre visitors are listed under each centre.
Congratulations to the parents of new babies! David O'Shaughnessy - baby Luke Gemma Roche and family - baby Lawrence William Roche Sara Hobolt and family - baby Noah Hobolt Mattmann Maya Tudor and family – baby Theodore Kurtz Griffith
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Marwa Daoudy
Marwa Daoudy lectures on the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East at the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Faculty of Oriental Studies (St Antony’s College), at the University of Oxford. From 2004 to 2009, she was a lecturer at the Political Science department of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), and a visiting professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the University of Geneva (HEC, IOMBA program). She was also a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania and a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London and the Centre for International Studies and Research in Paris (CERI, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, CNRS). In parallel to
her academic work, she provides strategic advice to the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) on Middle East peace negotiations. She is also a consultant in international affairs for international organizations (UNESCO, UNDP, ILO, WCC) and the private sector (finance, legal), and offers training sessions to worldwide professionals in the field of international negotiation, water and security. Her research interests and teaching experience include resource-based conflicts, negotiation theory, security and conflict-resolution in the Middle East, as well as Islam in world politics. She has published a book on water negotiations in the Middle East (recipient of the 2005 Ernest Lémonon Prize, Academy of Moral And Social Sciences, Institute of France), co-authored a book on benefit-sharing and water conflict resolution (2006), recently contributed a chapter to a book on Post-Conflict Peace Building published by Oxford University Press (2009), and published articles in The Economics of Peace and Security Journal (2007), The Journal of International Affairs (2008), Water Policy (2009), and International Negotiation (2009). Her book chapter on “The Geopolitics of Water in the Middle East: Turkey as a Regional Power” is forthcoming in Tvedt, Hagen & Chapman, eds., I.B. Tauris, (2010).
Sam Daws Sam Daws has recently joined the Department as a Senior Research Associate in the Centre for International Studies where he is directing a project on UN governance and reform. He hopes, by the end of 2013, to establish a UK-based policy research centre on the United Nations, with a focus on partnering with practitioners and scholars in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Sam has served as a senior policy advisor on UN issues for over 20 years. Before moving to Oxford he spent six years as Executive Director of the United Nations Association of the UK. Prior to that he
served as First Officer to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He previously worked in various roles in New York, Geneva, Calcutta and London including on working attachment to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and on FCO recruitment, policy advisory and evaluation panels. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation in Washington DC, and as the Foundation’s Representative in the UK. He is also managing director of 3D Strategy, a strategic communications company that provides services to international organisations, governments and foundations.
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Sam Daws, continued from previous page Sam has been a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge and Yale Universities, and has taught at UCL (UN law) and at the UN University in Tokyo. He undertook doctoral studies in International Relations at New College, Oxford under Professor Sir Adam Roberts in the early 1990s, before joining the UN Secretary-General's Office. He has a BA (Hons) in Social Anthropology with African and Asian Studies and an MA in International Conflict Analysis. He also has a postgraduate qualification from CASS Business School in Grantmaking, Philanthropy and Social Investment, and is an alumnus of the Prime Minister's Top Management Programme of the National School of Government. He has served as a trustee of a number of international foundations and NGOs and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the UN System. Sam has written or co-edited six books on the United Nations, including the Oxford Handbook on the United Nations. He is currently writing a book for OUP on the history, law and politics of UN Security Council reform.
Department Research Allowance
The administration of the Department Research Allowances has transferred from the Research Support Team to the Finance Team. A revised policy and application form can be found in the Staff Handbook under Finance on the DPIR WebLearn site: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/socsci/politics/staff_only
Please remember to allow two weeks for processing of applications. The funding year is 1 September 2010 to 31 August 2011, but any applications to use funds during this period need to be received by 15 July 2011. Any queries to [email protected]
New DPIR Website
During 2nd week, we will be switching over the new DPIR website. Prior to this, you can view the new website at http://beta.politics.ox.ac.uk/. Please notify the Manor Road Building Web Team, [email protected], of any technical problems. We will be further enhancing the site during the forthcoming months, so please contact Janice French with any suggestions for further improvements.
Teaching Review
The Social Sciences Division is undertaking a review of teaching that will cover department teaching capacity, patterns of teaching and supervision provision for each degree programme, and patterns of take-up of this provision by students. As part of this exercise, we will be contacting Department members around 5th week asking you to check the information we hold on your teaching for 2010-11.
Photo: Sam Daws served as First Officer to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2000 to 2003.
News and Views: Administration Bulletin board
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Publications
Rosemary Foot (Oxford) and Andrew Walter (LSE), China, the United States, and Global Order (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011). Preorder book
The United States and China are the two most important states in the international system and are crucial to the evolution of global order. Both recognize each other as vital players in a range of issues of global significance, including the use of force, macroeconomic policy surveillance, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, climate change, and financial regulation. In this book, Rosemary Foot and Andrew Walter, both experts in the fields of International Relations and the East Asian region, explore the relationship of the two countries to these global order issues since 1945. They ask whether the behaviour of each country is consistent with global order norms, and which domestic and international factors shape this behaviour. They investigate how the bilateral relationship of the United States and China influences the stances that each country takes. They also assess the global implications of national decisions, coming to the sobering conclusion that China and the United States tend to constrain rather than encourage more cooperative solutions to key global challenges.
The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies Giovanni Capoccia (Oxford) and Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard) A special double issue of Comparative Political Studies, August-September 2010
The volume lays the theoretical and methodological foundations of a new historically-minded approach to the comparative study of democratization, centered on the analysis of the creation, development and interaction of democratic institutions. Historically, democracy did not emerge as a singular coherent whole but rather as a set of different institutions, which resulted from conflicts across multiple lines of social and political cleavage that took place at different moments in time. The theoretical advantage of this approach is illustrated by highlighting the range of new variables that come into focus in explaining democracy’s emergence. Rather than class being the single variable that explains how and why democracy came about, we can see how religious conflict, ethnic cleavages, and the diffusion of ideas played a much greater role in Europe’s democratization than has typically been appreciated. Above all, the volume argues that political parties were decisive players in how and why democracy emerged in Europe and should be at the center of future analyses. The volume includes several examples of important case studies of the construction of democratic institutions, ranging from the early 19th century to the 1970s.
News and Views
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Publications, continued
Award An earlier version of the introduction to the special issue, entitled “The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: A New Research Agenda and Evidence from Europe”, by Giovanni Capoccia and Daniel Ziblatt, won the Award for the Best Paper in Comparative Democratization presented at the 2009 American Political Science Association Annual Convention.
Roundtable The special issue of Comparative Political Studies will be the object of a roundtable at the Department of Politics and International Relations on November 11, 2010 at 5pm in the Lecture Theatre. Speakers will include Nancy Bermeo (Oxford), Giovanni Capoccia (Oxford), Peter Hall (Harvard), Laurence Whitehead (Oxford) and Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard).
The roundtable will be the first event of a series of lectures, organized jointly by Nancy Bermeo and Giovanni Capoccia, entitled “The Historical Turn in the Study of Democracy” The series aims to discuss and develop further the themes of the CPS special issue in the context of European and non-European democracies. Speakers will include in MT Peter Hall (Harvard), in HT Jason Wittenberg (Berkeley) and Kathleen Thelen (MIT), in TT Dan Slater (Chicago) and Eduardo Posada Carbo (Oxford).
Lands without Promise Financial Times, 28 August 2010 Review by Avi Shlaim In Ishmael’s House: A History of the Jews in Muslim Lands, by Martin Gilbert, Yale University Press RRP£25, 320 pages
The Rothermere American Institute (RAI) is Oxford’s hub for teaching and research in American politics, history, and literature. Colleagues and students from within Oxford and beyond in the 2009-2010 academic year gave exceptional support to the RAI in its hosting of more than one hundred academic events. We have held twenty-five history doctoral workshops; twenty-two history research seminars for invited speakers; ten American literature research seminars; four American literature graduate
seminars; twelve American Politics research seminars; eighteen other seminars in American politics; and nine international academic conferences. Most of these events are open to all members of the University. Many are open to members of the public, and some (such as the Congress to Campus event in which former members of Congress visit the RAI) are specifically designed to advance the Institute’s public outreach to schools in the Oxford area.
News and Views
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Rothermere American Institute, continued Among our objectives in 2010-2011 is the establishment of further and deeper collaborations with sister institutions within Oxford, in the United States and Canada, and in continental Europe. The RAI enjoys extraordinary backing from its donors and supporters to whom my gratitude is greater than I can express. Through the generosity of an anonymous donor, the RAI has created a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in American History or Politics; a three-year graduate studentship; two one-year graduate studentships; and a series of travel awards which will permit undergraduates and graduates to travel to the United States to undertake primary research in connection with their dissertations and theses.
Another anonymous donor has most generously given more than half a million pounds to pay the salary for five years of a full-time Director from the beginning of the 2011-2012 academic year. A major challenge for the appointee will be to sustain and develop strongly the work of the Institute at the centre of the University’s teaching and research in American history, politics, literature and culture, whilst maintaining commitment not only to public and academic outreach but to the donors and supporters upon whom the RAI depends. Much is going on at the RAI. Our term-card is available at our web-site http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/: please come to see what we are doing. You can find us at one of Oxford’s best modern buildings: 1a South Parks Road, between the Chemistry Research Laboratory and Rhodes House. by Nigel Bowles Director, Rothermere American Institute
The new DPIR - POLIS Cambridge joint blog is an exciting new initiative which will shortly be up and running at http://politicsinspires.org. The blog is named Politics in Spires with a strapline ‘A thoroughfare for all
thoughts on politics and international relations’ using a quotation from Keats. The Department and POLIS have created Politics in Spires with the intent to share, amongst ourselves and with a wider community, thoughts on politics and international relations from scholars at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The blog aims to promote and disseminate our research, to engage in scholarly debate on current affairs, addressing topical issues in a timely fashion. We hope the blog will generate a lot of interest, raising the Department's profile and that of the academics and students who contribute to it. It will be run on a trial basis, to be reviewed in Hilary Term 2011. Oxford University Computing Services have been awarded JISC funding for the ‘triton’ project, and this blog will be a case study in promoting open educational resource. A lot of work will be done to classify material thematically and to provide easy access to linkages (‘learning pathways), ensuring the usefulness of the blog for the learning community and enhancing our profile accordingly. Please consider contributing, either now in the initial phase or when the blog is more established. We are not intending to be prescriptive in our approach to the blog content, and are hoping that it will find its own flavour/voice. Please see the editorial guidelines for contributors. If you have any questions, or wish to sign up to the blog as a contributor, please email Kate Candy, [email protected]
News and Views
Blog: Politics in Spires
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Research Centre Announcements
Centre for International Studies (CIS) http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk/
CIS Events
CIS welcomes the following visitors: Katharina Coleman, Zhaoyu Huang, Muhammad Arshad Khan, Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Global Economic Governance Programme (GEG) http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/
GEG Events
Oxford Princeton Global Leaders Governance Programme http://glf.politics.ox.ac.uk/
Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk/
ELAC Events
ELAC welcomes the following visitors: Laurence Lustgarten, Damien Scalia
Centre for Political Ideologies (CPI) http://cpi.politics.ox.ac.uk
CPI Events
CPI welcomes the following visitors: Simon Griffiths, Mason C Meiringer
Centre for Research Methods in the Social Sciences (ReMiss) http://remiss.politics.ox.ac.uk/
ReMiSS Events
Research Bulletin Board
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Research Centre Announcements, continued ESRC Spring School in Quantitative Methods for Social Research http://springschool.politics.ox.ac.uk/
Spring School Courses
Oxford Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy (OCSID) http://ocsid.politics.ox.ac.uk/
OCSID Events
Public Policy Unit (PPU) http://ppu.politics.ox.ac.uk/
PPU Events
PPU welcomes the following visitor: Sophie Moullin
Centre for the Study of Social Justice (CSSJ)
http://social-justice.politics.ox.ac.uk/
CSSJ Events
CSSJ welcomes the following visitor: Andrew Lister
Oxford-Sciences Po Research Group in the Social Sciences (OXPO) http://oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk/
OXPO Events
OXPO welcomes the following visitor: Daniel Benamouzig
Oxford Research Network on Government in Africa (OReNGA) http://orenga.politics.ox.ac.uk/
OReNGA Events
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/
RISJ welcomes the following visitors: Nicholas Fraser, Anton Harber, Nic Newman, Johanna Vehkoo
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RISJ is pleased to announce the creation of a new post within its core team. The Director of
Research will work closely with the Director to identify key research areas, develop grant proposals and lead fundraising strategy. The half time post has been made possible by the increased annual funding from the Thomson Reuters Foundation as part of the new settlement starting in January 2011.
This year’s Reuters Memorial Lecture, “Opportunities and Limits of Journalism in China” will be
given by Hu Shuli, Editor-in-Chief of Caixin Media and Dean of the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University. The lecture will take place at St Anne’s College on Monday 29 November, at 17.30.
All RISJ Events RISJ Working Paper on social media launched at Google HQ, London:
Written by RISJ Visiting Fellow Nic Newman, #UKelection2010, mainstream media and the role of the internet: how social and digital media affected the business of politics and journalism examines how methods of electioneering and political reporting in the UK have changed because of Facebook and Twitter. The London launch was hosted by Google, with the Guardian’s Emily Bell and Google’s Peter Barron speaking on the panel.
The report has been widely cited in the press, notably by the Guardian, Press Gazette, Economic Times of India and Newsline. See RISJ website here for more details. The report can be downloaded from the RISJ website here
Forthcoming RISJ publications:
Summoned by Science: Reporting climate change at Copenhagen and beyond by James Painter (publication date – November 2010) The Changing Business of Journalism and its Implications for Democracy Edited by David A. L. Levy and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (publication date – November 2010) Are Foreign Correspondents Redundant? The changing face of international news by Richard Sambrook (publication date – December 2010)
Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (MDCEE) http://mde.politics.ox.ac.uk/
MDCEE Events
MDCEE, jointly with RISJ, welcomes the following visitor: Paolo Mancini
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Research Funding deadlines Research funding opportunities are listed on the website at: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/support/deadlines.asp. If you would like to apply for any of the schemes, please contact Esther Byrom ([email protected]) by the dates given in the 'Contact RST by' column at the latest.
New look Newswire
As a result of an ongoing review of Department publicity and communications, the content of Newswire has changed to focus on internal communications. In future, the newsletter will only be available online, in a streamlined interactive format, fully integrated with the new Department website. This issue of Newswire is in an interim pdf format, however, as the website is currently undergoing its final stages of development. We should be up and running for the Hilary 2011 issue. We hope Newswire will be of interest to all members of the Department. If you would like to contribute in any way, with either a short bulletin style announcement or longer editorial piece, please contact Kate Candy, [email protected]
