{"id":5015,"date":"2022-09-02T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2022-09-02T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T15:44:11","slug":"august-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/09\/02\/august-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"August News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>New Soviet Era<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Richard Sakwa has been awarded the status of Emeritus Professor. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/08\/31\/dr-richard-sakwa-has-been-awarded-the-status-of-emeritus-professor\/\">His colleagues pay tribute to him on his retirement<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Shaking Things Up<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Matthew Goodwin has been appointed a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=5022&amp;action=edit\">Social Mobility Commissioner<\/a><\/strong> by the UK Government where he hopes to bring about real change. Read his recent piece about the next Prime Minister in The Spectator that begins &#8216;The wheels are coming off the Conservative party&#8217;<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/can-the-next-tory-leader-avoid-john-major-s-fate-\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Transcontinental Express<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>From the cobbles of Flanders, to the shores of the Black Sea; via rock hewn tunnels, bald mountain tops <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/504\/ansorg-nadine\">Dr Nadine Ansorg<\/a> has spent her summer break on this rigorous bike ride across Europe. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/08\/15\/head-of-school-completes-the-transcontinental-race-across-europe\/\"><strong>Read about her triumph here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>&#8220;Everything always works out&#8221;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Recent graduate Jada Spence found a place to study with us through clearing. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/08\/03\/everything-happens-for-a-reason\/\"><strong>Read her story here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Measuring Nuances<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/509\/dardanelli-paolo\">Dr Paolo Dardanelli<\/a>&#8216;s latest study he develops a metric for assessing how far power is decentralised across different scales. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/08\/23\/devometrics-measuring-decentralisation\/\"><strong>Read here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>International News<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/4451\/yimenu-bizuneh\">Bizuneh Getachew Yimenu<\/a> joins <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> to discuss the famine in Tigray. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FGFGh7wZM_c\"><strong>Watch here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Following recent Israel-Gaza conflict, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2595\/voller-yaniv\">Dr Yaniv Voller<\/a> comments on the background of this round of violence and Hamas\u2019s role in limiting its severity. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/08\/06\/how-does-latest-israel-gaza-violence-vary-from-past-conflicts\/\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Red Pill or Blue Pill?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Enter the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/cyber\/\">Institute of Cyber Security for Society<\/a>&#8216;s photo competition all about society&#8217;s increasing reliance on technology and the infrastructures that lay hidden beneath the surface. The myriad miles of fibreoptic cables, the banks of servers, the lofty data centres, and the ever-encircling satellites, are forever making sure that we can scroll on TikTok at 4am. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/08\/16\/living-learning-and-connecting-in-cyberspace-the-icss-photography-competition-2022\/\"><strong>Enter the competition by September 30th<\/strong><\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\">Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Politics and International Relations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Soviet Era Professor Richard Sakwa has been awarded the status of Emeritus Professor. His colleagues pay tribute to him on his retirement.\u00a0 Shaking Things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/09\/02\/august-news-roundup\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78674,"featured_media":5037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5038,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}