{"id":5669,"date":"2023-01-31T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2023-01-31T16:29:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T16:29:45","slug":"january-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/01\/31\/january-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"January News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">We welcomed a VIP MP back to PolIR, reflected on strikes, and predicted the events to occur in 2023&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Become an MP they said<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Politics &amp; International Relations alumna <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5673\/in-conversation-with-abena-oppong-asare\">Abena Oppong-Asare<\/a>,<\/strong> Labour MP for Thames and Erith came back to campus to Spill the T&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">Predictable Predicaments<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article__title\">As we enter a new year, we looked at what political events are scheduled to take place. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5581\/predictable-predicaments-what-to-look-out-for-in-2023\"><strong>what to look out for in 2023<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The UK on Strike<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Third Year Politics and International Relations student, Ben van Broeckhuijsen, writes about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5655\/nhs-in-freefall\"><strong>NHS on the picket lines<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">Security and Defence Post Brexit<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine, sent the European security order\u00a0 into a state of flux. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5608\/examining-european-security-and-defence-relationships-developed-in-a-post-brexit-uk\"><strong>Professor Richard Whitman<\/strong><\/a> will be exploring Britain&#8217;s security position with this In a Changing Europe\/ESRC Senior Fellowship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>You shared, we listened<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We looked back at academic year highlights so far and changes that were implemented as a direct result of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5598\/we-are-listening-to-you\"><strong>student feedback<\/strong><\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Coming up&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The first of our HSS Inaugural Lecture Series! Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/219\/cichocka-aleksandra\">Aleksandra Cichocka<\/a> kicks it off with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/5679\/hss-inaugural-lecture-series-2023\"><strong><em>Making the Personal Political<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We welcomed a VIP MP back to PolIR, reflected on strikes, and predicted the events to occur in 2023&#8230; Become an MP they said Politics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2023\/01\/31\/january-news-roundup-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78674,"featured_media":5700,"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\/5669"}],"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=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5702,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions\/5702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}