EVENT: The Politics of Labour Relations and Work in the 21st Century

We are delighted to welcome speakers Prof Jane Holgate and Dr Kate Bronfenbrenner to this event co-hosted with American_Politics

More info and booking here:
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This is fabulous: one of the best spoof videos I’ve ever seen. Done with such a straight face it could almost be real. Comedy gold. Bravo!

Bye, then.

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Students and staff at US universities are patently not safe in the hands of (most) university administrators, and police and government seem ever ready to intervene with force on campuses.

Meanwhile, all universities in Gaza have been destroyed.

Very bad times for HE.

Calling all directors of research - we are hosting another forum to share ideas and offer support to each other in an informal online meeting space. 😊 Simon Rushton GeorgeKarekwaivanane Laura Routley

America.

I'm also super proud it features a paper I co-authored with Simon Rushton⬇️
We're looking at health securitisation and how the Commission legitimated the creation of HERA + what this means for #EUintegration in #health
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Finally...

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF151/lec… P&IR Edinburgh FTGS Gendering IR Working Group , a three year IR lectureship at Edinburgh.

The most ‘hostile’ state for UK universities is the UK state. The current government have been determined to inflict maximum damage on HE at every turn.

Tickets still available for the 2nd Annual Kurdish Studies Conference at The University of Sheffield 22–23 May! Hear from acclaimed scholar and poet Dr. Choman Hardi who will deliver the keynote on feminist Kurdish studies. Tickets and programme here: lse.ac.uk/middle-east-ce…

Wonderful to be here in Oslo to spend a month at SUM – Centre for Development and the Environment and to have the chance to collaborate with amazing colleagues and friends here. Looking forward to getting started!

Sheffield friends, don't miss Justine's talk today! Ping Beastly Business Project ShARC Rosaleen Duffy Prof. Charlie Burns Simon Rushton

Next week I’ll be talking in Oslo (hybrid event - details for online joining below) about some of the findings of the Federalisation&Health_Nepal team’s work on the health system impacts of constitutional change in #Nepal .

V. happy to share that w. Prof. Simon Rushton & our wonderful Federalisation&Health_Nepal team & colleagues, we have been awarded funding from Medical Research Foundation to enhance impact of our work in #Nepal

PHASE Nepal Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences Canterbury Christ Church University SAPHP@CCCU Sheffield Politics and International Relations University of Huddersfield Research @ Bournemouth University

Final call for nominations to serve on our Executive Committee! 🔊

4 trustee positions are up for election!

Nomination deadline TODAY
Read more: bisa.ac.uk/news/call-nomi…
Juliet Dryden / BISA Kyle Grayson prof toni haastrup Nick Caddick Juanita Elias Prof Ilan Zvi Baron Lee Jarvis Andrew Mumford

Lovely to see the amazing Jennifer Greenburg’s great book shortlisted here. 🌟 Sheffield Politics and International Relations

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for this year’s Susan Strange Best Book Prize!

- Marthe Achtnich (Cambridge University Press)
- Jennifer Greenburg (@CornellPress)
- Benjamin Meiches (@UMinnPress)

Read more about their books here: bisa.ac.uk/news/susan-str…

Important ⁦The BMJ⁩ Opinion: ‘Investing in the public’s health is not a cost but an investment in a more productive society. However, fixing public health also means reforming our broken political & public policy system.’ ⁦Martin McKee 🇺🇦⁩ bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Good illustration for students: how *not* to anonymise your research data.
(Via Kieran Maguire)

The call for nominations to serve on our Executive Committee is OPEN! 🔊

4 trustee positions are up for election!

Nomination deadline 12 April
Read more here: bisa.ac.uk/news/call-nomi…
Lee Jarvis Andrew Mumford Simon Rushton Prof. Ruth Blakeley 'Ndidi Olibamoyo The Political Studies Association ISA