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Dr Peter Allen awarded ESRC and British Academy grants 21 December 2015
Dr Robbie Shilliam talks about his public engagement work 14 December 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Cameron's 'Brexit' riddle: Row with EU or row with Eurosceptics? 13 December 2015
Dr Rainbow Murray, The future of French politics 13 December 2015
Dr Lee Jones, Critics line up on role of graduate outcomes in TEF 6 December 2015
UACES 46th Annual Conference 2016 | Call for Panels and Papers 4 December 2015
Jennifer Thomson, A court just made a landmark ruling for abortion rights in Northern Ireland 3 December 2015
Dr Christopher Phillips, Britain must not escalate the conflict in Syria 2 December 2015
Professor Michael Kenny awarded WJM MacKenzie Prize for best book 2 December 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Vote on airstrikes reveals rift in Labour Party 1 December 2015
Professor Tim Bale, New women’s political party in Britain demands faster equality 27 November 2015
Dr Christopher Phillips, Cameron plans to extend UK’s military role against ISIS 26 November 2015
Dr Sarah Wolff, Migration and refugee crisis in the Mediterranean 26 November 2015
Professor Kimberly Hutchings speaks about gendered rhetorics at Trent University 25 November 2015
UK has worst October deficit since 2009 in blow to Osborne 20 November 2015
Dr Patrick Diamond, Does everybody need a winter fuel allowance? 20 November 2015
Dr Lee Jones, Naïve use of economic sanctions is ‘irresponsible’ 13 November 2015
Meet TJ Stubbs, BA International Relations student, and Founder of Stubbs Coffee 29 October 2015
TJ tells how he got started, and how his love of coffee merges with being a QMUL student as well as his programme of study. Get your own Stubbs Coffee at QMUL Makers Market, today at QM Students' Union.
Adam Fagan discusses EU policy in the Western Balkans at UK House of Lords 29 October 2015
Expressions of Interest - Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 27 October 2015
Professor James Dunkerley, Bolivian president Evo Morales: Man of the people 26 October 2015
Professor Michael Kenny, UK reviews powers of House of Lords after tax vote 26 October 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Book Review, Margaret Thatcher: the Authorised Biography. Volume Two: Everything She Wants 24 October 2015
Dr Lee Jones, Headlines from Asia 21 October 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Notes from the Tory fringe, where everyone is playing nicely – for now 6 October 2015
Professor Tim Bale, How split are Britain’s political parties over Europe? 6 October 2015
QMUL Student Zoe Ballantyne awarded internship at the World Health Organization 1 October 2015
Zoe Ballantyne is a student on the MSc Global Health, Law and Governance programme. As part of her studies, she took the module ‘Global Politics of Health’ offered at the School of Politics and International Relations. She is currently an Intern at the World Health Organization:WHO. Here she explains more about her experience.
Dr Sophie Harman, Bill Gates and UN Say Malaria Could Be Eradicated by 2040 28 September 2015
Dr Sarah Wolff, Refugee crisis: is the EU moving forward? 25 September 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Tory party members are more right-wing than Ukip members 23 September 2015
Professor Tim Bale, The PM, the pig, the tax status and the donor 21 September 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Leftist Jeremy Corbyn elected leader of Labour Party 12 September 2015
Professor Michael Kenny, Seismic events in Labour pivotal in the battle over the territorial soul of the UK state 12 September 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Meet the man shaking up Britain’s political establishment 4 September 2015
Dr Lee Jones, The headlines in Asia 31 August 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Vital lessons for Labour from Miliband’s failure 28 August 2015
Professor Michael Kenny, Charisma: Pinning down the butterfly 24 August 2015
Dr Lee Jones, Thai junta turning tragedy to farce 21 August 2015
Dr Lee Jones, Bangkok bombing blame game speaks volumes about the state of Thai politics 19 August 2015
Dr Lee Jones, Who could be behind the Bangkok bombing? 19 August 2015
Dr Lee Jones, Explosion in central Bangkok kills at least 20 18 August 2015
New Publication: Europeanization of the Western Balkans, Environmental Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia 17 August 2015
Politics and International Relations first in the Russell Group for Student Satisfaction 12 August 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Labour urgently needs more women members to avoid 'all male meetings' 10 August 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Transatlantic political twins? Trump and Corbyn defy centrist wisdom 6 August 2015
Dr Lee Jones, The latest headlines from Asia 4 August 2015
Dr Patrick Diamond, Don’t rejoice at Labour’s meltdown: One pro-business party is not enough 30 July 2015
Dr Lee Jones, Looking at Asia’s latest headlines 28 July 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Britain's Landslide 1945 Election 24 July 2015
Dr Lee Jones, The perpetual financial crisis of UK higher education 23 July 2015
Professor Tim Bale, A Corbyn-inspired split would be a Labour catastrophe – just look across the Channel 23 July 2015
Professor Kimberly Hutchings awarded BISA’s Distinguished Contribution Prize 20 July 2015
Dr Patrick Diamond, The risk for Labour is permanent irrelevance 19 July 2015
Professor Michael Kenny, Labour on wrong side of argument as far as English votes for English laws are concerned 15 July 2015
Dr Patrick Diamond, Haves and have-nots are Labour’s path back to power 13 July 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Chancellor Osborne tests new powers with eye on leadership 7 July 2015
Dr Sophie Harman, Big infrastructure: getting gender and the needs of women wrong 6 July 2015
Professor Tim Bale, "Three-thirds of Conservative MPs are Eurosceptic" 2 July 2015
Daniel Gover, Evel row as Tories accused of giving up on the Union 2 July 2015
Dr Paul Copeland, The real reason Cameron is outlining his EU plans over dinner in Brussels 25 June 2015
East London Politics Partnership Teachers Conference 2015 24 June 2015
Dr Patrick Diamond, Look behind you: how Labour can avoid the threat of Ukip 24 June 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Who will win the Labour leadership election? It's a little early to tell 22 June 2015
Dr Patrick Diamond, Europe’s flagging centre-left must get to grips with the politics of national identity 19 June 2015
Dr Lee Jones, North Korea drought increases famine fears 17 June 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Cameron risks losing grassroots support if EU plan fails 17 June 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Heir to Blair? Britain’s defeated Labour Party seeks a new leader to restore its fortunes 17 June 2015
Dr Lee Jones, How is the Magna Carta relevant today? 15 June 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Four Labour contenders search for a winning formula 15 June 2015
Professor Tim Bale, EU in/out referendum: Just 15 per cent of Tories want UK to leave 12 June 2015
Dr Anne Kershen, Time when England said ‘welcome' 12 June 2015
Dr Sophie Harman, The media loves the Gates Foundation but some experts are more sceptical 10 June 2015
Dr Emma Sanderson-Nash, Sparkling and inspiring: Charles Kennedy was a rare politician 2 June 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Fight or flight: On rationality and resilience in the Labour party 1 June 2015
Alex Challis, The role of a Research Manager 1 June 2015
Dr Lee Jones, A look at the headlines in Asia 27 May 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Labour’s Tom Watson steps into limelight 26 May 2015
Dr Lee Jones, Rohingya migrant crisis 21 May 2015
Professor Michael Kenny, UKIP didn’t invent English nationalism – it’s been brewing for years 21 May 2015
Dr Sophie Harman, Visit to Freetown, Sierra Leone to research Civil-Military co-operation in the Ebola response 18 May 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Trade unions and the Labour Party 18 May 2015
Dr Patrick Diamond, Turmoil in UK's Labour Party after election loss 18 May 2015
Professor Michael Kenny, Britain faces crucial choices 12 May 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Where did it go wrong for Ed Miliband? 12 May 2015
Dr Patrick Diamond, It was the 35% strategy that lost Labour the general election 12 May 2015
Dr Paul Copeland, David Cameron has promised too much on Europe – and that could mean a Brexit 12 May 2015
Dr Rainbow Murray, Best-ever election for women gives Britain a more balanced cabinet 12 May 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Cameron Names Record Number of Women to Post-Election Cabinet 11 May 2015
Dr Françoise Boucek, Cameron is an easier situation than Major was in 1992 8 May 2015
Professor Tim Bale, UK braces for battle over Europe after Cameron’s victory 8 May 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Substance or Style? Labour Leader Banks on Geek Appeal 7 May 2015
Dr Rainbow Murray, Nicola Sturgeon has triumphed over Britain’s sexist press – and that’s good for all women 6 May 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Chaos to the Left, Chaos to the Right: Britain’s Ominous Choice 6 May 2015
Professor Tim Bale, In British election campaign, the centre cannot hold 4 May 2015
Dr Rainbow Murray, How the major UK parties are trying to court women’s votes 3 May 2015
Professor Tim Bale, App suggests parties may have less room for manoeuvre on coalition options than they’d like 29 April 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Want to get your research noticed by politicians? Work with a think tank 27 April 2015
Professor Tim Bale, How Labour lost Scotland to the SNP 27 April 2015
Dr Lee Jones, Disaster diplomacy in Nepal 27 April 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Cameron looks more like a captive than a captain of his party 26 April 2015
Professor Michael Kenny, Talk of a divided union does not reflect English opinion 23 April 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Noticing Nicola: SNP leader makes mark in race 23 April 2015
Dr Patrick Diamond, What’s wrong with political manifestos, and how to fix them 22 April 2015
Dr Sarah Wolff, Deaths at sea: scant hope for the future from Europe’s history of failure on migrants 22 April 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Tories overplay the Scottish peril 20 April 2015
Dr Judith Bara, Reality Check: Do parties keep manifesto pledges? 17 April 2015
Dr Sarah Wolff, What can Europe do to avoid migrant boat tragedies? 16 April 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Nick Clegg, a star of Britain’s 2010 Election, faces a tough fight 15 April 2015
Dr Rainbow Murray, The Women’s Vote: Can a single gender really be grouped as one? 15 April 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Curb your cynicism: politicians do keep their manifesto promises 14 April 2015
Professor Michael Kenny granted fellowship with the Centre on Constitutional Change 14 April 2015
Dr Rainbow Murray, UKIP uses women’s rights as a trojan horse to attack minorities 13 April 2015
Professor Tim Bale, UK general election: ‘Happy Warrior’ confronts bomber pilot 10 April 2015
Dr Rainbow Murray, What’s behind the shortage of women in politics? 10 April 2015
Researchers at QMUL launch app to match voters with parties 8 April 2015
Dr Patrick Diamond, What will the three main party’s manifestos tell us? 7 April 2015
Professor Tim Bale,The Napoleonic truth about coalitions: getting most seats doesn’t mean you win 6 April 2015
SPIR academic staff recognised at annual Education Awards 6 April 2015
Dr Françoise Boucek, Sarkozy’s French local election victory sets the stage for the run up to the next presidential election 2 April 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Chillaxed David Cameron drops a bombshell 24 March 2015
Dr Sophie Harman, Global health institutions ignore misery for women in Ebola-affected regions 21 March 2015
Dr Sarah Wolff, Tunisia terror attack threatens fledgling democracy 19 March 2015
Professor Tim Professor Tim Bale, It’s difficult to respond well to a Budget – but that’s what Labour must do todayBale, Can the ‘Lizard of Oz’ win the election for the Conservatives? 18 March 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Can the ‘Lizard of Oz’ win the election for the Conservatives? 17 March 2015
Professor Tim Bale, David Cameron's interview with Buzzfeed is nothing new 16 March 2015
Dr Peter Allen, Osborne seeking to swing election with final budget 10 March 2015
Professor Tim Bale, What kind of PM would Miliband Make? 6 March 2015
Future of the UK hangs in the balance, according to experts at Mile End Institute launch event 2 March 2015
Dr Robbie Shilliam, Racial discrimination still exists in top universities 26 February 2015
Dr Sophie Harman, Three words of advice for WHO Africa's new chief 25 February 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Cameron's glitzy ties to rich donors hurt him before UK election 24 February 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Two party political system is under unprecedented pressure 23 February 2015
Professor Tim Bale, ESRC Grant Success 19 February 2015
Professor Tim Bale, We still haven’t had ‘the first internet election’ 19 February 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Alan Johnson interview 12 February 2015
Professor Michael Kenny, The rise of the Anglosphere 6 February 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Fringe parties thrive as UK voters cut old ties 2 February 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Are voters interested in the deficit? 28 January 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Britain braces for election that could herald EU exit 27 January 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Would Britain accept a Jewish Prime Minister? 23 January 2015
Dr Sarah Wolff, Managing borders in the world’s deadliest migration destination 23 January 2015
SPIR Celebrates Excellent Research Rankings in REF2014 22 January 2015
Professor Tim Bale, European far right fuelled by Paris terrorist attacks 15 January 2015
Professor Michael Kenny, What does it mean to be English? 14 January 2015
Professor Tim Bale, Does ‘effortless’ Cameron lack belief 12 January 2015