{"id":5129,"date":"2022-10-03T10:41:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T10:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2022-10-03T16:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T16:04:57","slug":"september-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/10\/03\/september-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"September News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">With a new monarch and a new Prime-Minister over the last month alone in the UK, it&#8217;s really been blink-and-you&#8217;ll-have-to-completely-re-write-the-syllabus times around here. But having welcomed a new cohort of students with a Pussy Riot Masterclass in Activism, we&#8217;re ready for the very dynamic academic year ahead. <\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;You can do your own riots, you can make your own change&#8221;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Pussy Riot, the Russian Art-Performance Putin-Opposing collective, kicked off our school year kicked off with some riotous energy with their immersive show \u2018Riot Days\u2019 here on campus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5121\/riot-days-pussy-riots-kent-masterclass-in-activism\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Is this Lady for turning?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cI can\u2019t think in my lifetime of any British prime minister who has mismanaged her first few weeks in office like Liz Truss.\u201d Professor Matt Goodwin doesn&#8217;t take any prisoners in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/30\/world\/europe\/truss-bbc-interviews-tax-cuts.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fasten Your Seatbelts: Welcome Week 2022<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Right now the Political landscape turns in a moment! Are you ready for an academic syllabus that is going to be as fast-paced as current political events? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5088\/fasten-your-seatbelts-welcome-week-2022\"><strong>Buckle up<\/strong><\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Calling Occupants of International Craft<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Millar publishes his first title, Hostile Forces: How the Chinese Communist Party Resists International Pressure on Human Rights, based on research conducted while studying for his MRes here at Kent. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5065\/the-peacekeeping-failure-in-south-sudan\"><strong>Read about it here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This new publication by Jamie Gruffydd-Jones has important policy implications for international pressure that is most likely to engender backlash, illustrating how support for nationalist policies might grow in spite of a presence of a liberal international system. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5050\/hostile-forces-how-the-chinese-communist-party-resists-international-pressure-on-human-rights\"><strong>Read about it here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>We celebrate our First Inter-Disciplinary HSS Research<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Royal Society awarded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/555\/roberts-david\">Dr David Roberts<\/a> (conservation biologist) an Apex Award for his project \u2018<em>A transdisciplinary approach to inferring the end of political violence<\/em>\u2019. David will explore the application of extinction models from conservation in a political violence context with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2275\/toros-harmonie\">Dr Harmonie Toros<\/a> (political scientist), and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/sci-tech\/about-us\/people\/rachel-mccrea\">Professor Rachel McCrea<\/a> (statistician). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5123\/human-and-social-sciences-awarded-funding-for-interdisciplinary-research\"><strong>Read here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a new monarch and a new Prime-Minister over the last month alone in the UK, it&#8217;s really been blink-and-you&#8217;ll-have-to-completely-re-write-the-syllabus times around here. 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