Articles tagged with 'Politics' | University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is one of 23 universities to be awarded the right to deliver the unique and highly regarded Parliamentary Studies Module from the academic year 2024/25 for another 5-year term.Parliamentary Studies is the only higher educ...

Throughout November, Toni Haastrup, Professor and Chair of Global Politics, took part in several European policy events on Feminist Foreign policy.First, she contributed to a panel organised by Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) at the Shapin...

In the interview as new EDI Officer, Laura McLeod, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, explains why she wanted to take on the role:“I believe that it is important to serve the profession: throughout our careers we ask a lot of others (to organ...

The Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and his wife Katherine have visited The University of Manchester to speak to students about the war in his country, after attending events in Ireland to mark 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement....

Dr Carl Death, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, recommends five stories in African climate fiction, published in African Arguments. Death explains that:"Through novels and short stories, African climate fiction authors are imaginin...

Rob Ford, Professor of Political Science, told the New York Times that the Conservative party conference was important for Rishi Sunak to define himself as a leader. Commenting on the presence of the previous leaders Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, Ford...

“Talking about freedom, sat in Margaret Thatcher’s old Rover” read the UK prime minister’s tweet in July 2023. Earlier that day in an interview with The Telegraph newspaper, Rishi Sunak had declared that the Conservative Party he leads are “on the si...

The University of Manchester has appointed the first-ever Professor of Comparative and Ukrainian Politics in the UK and the wider English-speaking world, in a move that demonstrates the leading role of the University when it comes to the study of con...

The United Kingdom is vulnerable to global events and over reliant on other countries for essential resources - but there are policy choices which could significantly lessen this exposure, a new report makes clear....

The European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) has awarded Manchester China Institute (MCI) research fellow Dr Tao Wang, a former PhD student at the Department of Politics, the 2023 Taiwan Studies Young Scholar Award (1st Prize).The winning paper,...

A project involving experts from The University of Manchester which created a live ‘early alarm’ system of major displacement, human rights abuses, humanitarian needs and civilian resistance in Ukraine has been recognised by the OECD’s Observatory of...

On June 5-6, 15 Chinese and American diplomats met in La Jolla, California for the 13th annual US-China Young Diplomats Dialogue, co-hosted by Professor Peter Gries of the Manchester China Institute.The retreat involved formal sit-down discussions of...

The University of Manchester is to launch a groundbreaking new course on Ukrainian politics in the Autumn, strengthening its place as a key institution in the UK for students studying Ukrainian politics and society....

An inspirational student who graduated from her degree at The University of Manchester despite having incurable brain cancer has sadly passed away.

The British Election Study (BES) is managed via a consortium of the University of Manchester and the University of Oxford. The prize was awarded the BES team, including Dr Jack Bailey who completed his PhD in Manchester last year and will be joining ...

Freedom House highlights how Onuch and Hale document the story of how Zelensky came to be a key defender of the free world. They write that ‘the authors make a compelling argument that he was indeed the right Ukrainian, in the right place, at the rig...

The Department of Politics is honoured to have the support of The Petro Jacyk Foundation for extra costs associated with a new Politics undergraduate course: ‘Ukraine Rises: Democracy, Protest, Identity and War in Comparative Perspective’. The course...

This year’s MacDougall Trust Prize for Elections, Electoral Systems and Representation, awarded by the Political Studies Association, was shared between Dr Ceri Fowler, who completed her PhD at Manchester last year, and Dr Lotte Hargrave, who is join...

Dr Jack Bailey and Dr Lotte Hargrave are joining Politics as permanent Lecturers in Quantitative Political Science.Jack Bailey is currently a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, where he works on the British Election Study. He complet...

New research led by experts from The University of Manchester, the University of St Andrews, the University of Essex and the University of Nottingham suggests that people from ethnic and religious minority groups are more likely to be interested in p...

Dr Jess Gifkins’s has co-authored the report Queering Atrocity Prvention in collaboration with the charity Protection Approaches, which works to change how the world views and thereby prevents identity-based violence. During the United Nations Securi...

Professor Toni Haastrup will join the Department of Politics as Chair in Global Politics. She is currently a professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Stirling. Over the last decade Haastrup has established a formidable rep...

As an expert on international trade, Dr Silke Trommer has been part of a project funded by UniPID Development Policy Studies (UniPID DPS), funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA) and managed by the Finnish University Partnership f...

Before joining Manchester in August 2023, Michael Magcamit was a Lecturer in Security Studies at the University of Leicester (2021-2023) and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Queen Mary University of London (2019-2021). Prior to moving to the UK...

Jacqueline Best is a Full Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is currently Visting Hallsworth professor, primarily affiliated with the Global Political Economy research cluster.Her research is at the intersec...

A research paper written by University of Manchester experts in public policy and economics is among the top cited articles for The Political Quarterly in 2022. The article explores the question of devolution in England in light of the Covid-19 pande...

New research from experts based at The University of Manchester and Edinburgh Napier University has found evidence which suggests that MPs who are heavily embedded in corporate networks outside Westminster may be too busy to effectively perform their...

Dr Elena Barabantsvena is part of a successful British Academy Global Governing Programmes 2023-2026 grant on ‘Chinese Global Orders’, led by Leigh Jenco (LSE) and Hasan Karrar (Lahore University of Management Sciences).China today is widely acknowle...

Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy MP has welcomed a report by experts from The University of Manchester which highlighted the issue of racial bias in the justice system, after a meeting to discuss the findings with the academics and co-authors who...

Professor Rob Ford from The University of Manchester has been appointed as a Senior Fellow by Brexit research network UK in a Changing Europe.