Politics at Bristol

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Politics at Bristol

• October 2006

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The Department

• The Department is one of the UK's leading
  research-driven centres for politics and
  international relations.
• In the last official review of research in all
  political science departments in the UK (Research
  Assessment Exercise, 2001), Bristol was judged to
  be 'outstanding by international standards' (5A)

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• In the October 2000 Quality Assurance Agency
  Subject Review, it scored an 'excellent' 23 out
  of a possible 24.
• The Times Good University Guide 2007 ranked
  politics and international relations at Bristol
  4th best in the UK.

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• Politics at Bristol was established as a separate
  department in 1964.
• We now have 370 undergraduates, 130 Diploma and
  Masters Students and 45 MPhil/PhD students.
• We have 25 permanent academic staff, five
  researchers, six support staff and thirteen
  honorary/visiting staff.

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Students

• UG/Undergraduates SH Politics, JH with
  Economics, Philosophy, Sociology, Social Policy,
  Modern Languages and Theology
• PGT/Diploma and Masters International Relations,
  International Development, International
  Security, Development and Security, Gender and
  International Relations
• PGR/Mphil/PhD focused on research themes of
  security, development, gender and Europe.

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Academic Staff

• 10 Priory Road Terrell Carver, Richard Little,
  Judith Squires, Michelle Cini, Jutta Weldes, Eric
  Herring, Fiona Ross, Donald Shell, Mark
  Wickham-Jones, Andrew Wyatt, Nieves
  Perez-Solorzano Borragan
• 34 Tyndalls Park Road Mark Duffield, Geoffrey
  Pridham, George Sanford, Sarah Childs, Timothy
  Edmunds, Vernon Hewitt, Paul Higate, Elke
  Krahmann, Martin Gainsborough, Marsha Henry
  Adrian Flint, Gaston Fornes, Alvaro Mendez, Steve
  Webber.

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Support Staff

• Elaine GriffithsDepartmental Administrator, Beth
  Hammond Undergraduate Co-ordinator, Daniel
  Hemings Department Secretary, Harriet Lee
  Graduate Studies Co-ordinator, Susan Pirrie
  Graduate Research Co-ordinator, Jean Pretlove
  Research Secretary

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Governance Research Centre

• Established in October 2002, the GRC undertakes
  research related to four key aspects of
  governance security, development, gender and
  Europe.
• The GRC co-ordinates and promotes the research of
  these four research groups.
• In the past five years we have attracted 1.5m of
  income from funders for our research.

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Security and Governance

• Staff in this research group include Tim Edmunds,
  Marsha Henry, Eric Herring, Paul Higate, Elke
  Krahmann, Steve Webber and Jutta Weldes.
• Recent projects include Security and Governance
  in an uncertain world, which examined the
  relevance and the extent to which the
  multifaceted concept of 'governance' explains
  contemporary security problems and new security
  challenges in the world. Papers were published in
  a special issue of Conflict Security and
  Development, 52 and an ESRC funded project on
  Muslim media and the war on terror.

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Development and Governance

• Staff in this research group include Mark
  Duffield, Vernon Hewitt, Andrew Wyatt, Martin
  Gainsborough.
• Recent projects include The Bristol-Vietnam
  Project, founded in 2005 to provide high quality
  research tailored to the needs of international
  business and the donor aid community Mapping the
  Sovereign Frontier, an interdisciplinary
  workshop held 29/9/06.

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Gender and Governance

• Staff in this research group include Terrell
  Carver, Sarah Childs, Marsha Henry, Paul Higate,
  Judith Squires and Jutta Weldes
• Research projects include The Hansard Societys
  Women at the Top Report co-authored by Sarah
  Childs, 2005 and participation in the Womens
  Hour anniversary programmes a special issue of
  the British Journal of International Relations on
  Gender and International Relations edited by
  Squires and Weldes, 2007 Engendering Security in
  Peacekeeping Missions

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European Governance

• Staff in this research group include Michelle
  Cini, Geoffrey Pridham, George Sanford, Nieves
  Perez-Solorzano Borragan
• Recent projects include Public Service Ethics
  in the European Commission funded by the
  Nuffield Foundation Europeanising
  Democratisation? EU Accession and Regime Change
  in Post-Communist Countries an ESRC Fellowship
  project 2004-7, Geoffrey Pridham.

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The Profession

• Political Studies Association
• European Consortium of Political Research
• British International Studies Association

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Publications

• The Department aims to produce research of
  international excellence. All academic staff are
  research active.
• All staff publish in top-ranking academic
  journals, and are producing research monographs
  as well as key textbooks.

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Departmental Seminars

• Wednesdays 100 -200
• 25 October - Dan Conway
• 1 November - Nataliya Danilova
• 15 November - Ann-Dorte Christensen
• 6 December - Richard Little

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Invited Speakers

• Wednesdays 400-530
• 18 October Dr Eric Herring, University of
  Bristol, Book Launch sponsored by the Department
  of Politics and the International Affairs
  Society. 'Iraq in Fragments The Occupation and
  Its Legacy' by Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala.
  Followed by drinks reception. Venue TBA
• 8 November, 2006 Dr Nicola Smith, University of
  Birmingham Mapping Discourses of Globalisation
  and European Integration Empirically in the UK
  and Ireland
• 29 November, 2006 Prof. Justin Fisher, Brunel
  University 'Modelling Stages of Development in
  Constituency Campaigning'
• 14 February, 2007 Dr Stephen Hopgood, SOAS,
  Moral and political authority, or Why Amnesty
  International is a Church
• 28 February, 2007 Prof. Mike Saward, Open
  University, Representation
• 30 May, 2007 Prof. Richard Neb Lebow, Dartmouth
  College, USA and Univ. of Cambridge,
  Recognition, Standing and Honour A Paradigm of
  International Relation.

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Events

• 11 October 400
• Reception, Victoria Rooms
• 11 October 600
• Social, Joe Public's (near Habitat on Queen's
  Road)
• IAS and Politics Society are hosting a joint
  social after the Department of Politics
  Reception. Discounts will be available on food
  and drinks purchased.

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Events

• 21 October 2006 22.00
• Booom Club night
• Venue Casablanca, Stokes Croft
• Eric Herring will be DJing house music
• Reduced rates for students and IAS members
• See http//wegotttickets/com/event/13097