This week the Pol IR team joined more than 300 educators around the UK who pledged to teach about the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the third annual #SDGTeachIN. […]
Semester 1 In Review
The academic year 2019/20 has been incredibly busy thus far. As Semester 2 begins we are taking a moment to take stock of the highlights of semester 1. At the […]
MOVEMENT² ESRC Festival of Social Science
People craned out of windows and gathered on corners to watch as nearly a hundred young people chanted, danced and demanded their right to freedom from fear. On Tuesday 6th of […]
Careers Conference 2019
Our Careers Conference, held jointly with the sociology programme, on 4 December had extremely positive feedback from students once again. Using a ‘speed dating’ format, students moved between tables hosted […]
Professor Sir John Curtice visits Parliamentary Studies class
One of the highlights of semester one was the visit of Professor Sir John Curtice to our Level 6 Parliamentary Studies module. As Professor of Politics at the University of […]
Brussels Trip December 2019
On the 9th and 10th of December 2019, 35 students from our 2nd and 3rd year, together with our MSc students, went to Brussels to speak to representatives from the UK Representation in Brussels, […]
Making Politics Matter Public Lectures – A Review of Semester 1
To say that this has been a busy year with regards to public events and extra-curricular activities would be an understatement. Over the last semester, Politics and International Relations in […]
This is What Art Looks Like!
High in a tower on London’s Southbank, a secret collective gathered on a grassy corner to plot insurrection – or at least, ban packaging and overturn the sugar tax. On the […]
A Very Special Europe Day
The 9th of May is celebrated across the European Union (EU) as “Europe Day” – a day to celebrate European unity, peace and the coming together of former enemies to […]