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PhD student Viktoria Eriksson attending Zurich Summer School
Out of more than 300 applicants, PhD student Viktoria is part of the 5% accepted to the one-week Zurich Summer School for Women in Political Methodology. She also organised a student-led symposium, funded by the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences, at University of Dundee in May 2019.
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Museum Studies student, Iratxe Arribillaga Trebolazabala, to participate in Guggenheim Internship
Iratxe Arribillaga Trebolazabala, a student on the M.Litt programme in Museum Studies, will be spending the summer in New York, having been awarded a prestigious Basque Internship, part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Internship Program. Only four candidates are selected each year to participate in this scheme, which offers...
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Dr Samantha May wins Teaching Award
Dr Samantha May has won an AUSA and University of Aberdeen Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr May won in the category for 'Best Undergraduate Supervisor'. There were record numbers of nominations across all of the categories for the Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2018-19, giving the judging panel a difficult task in...
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Dr Ilia Xypolia interviewed by Indus TV
Dr Ilia Xypolia appeared twice as a guest on the Indus News programme Scope to discuss human rights reports on the Syrian conflict and Asylum Seekers' Mistreatment in Europe. The full programmes videos are available here: https://youtu.be/1KcE1LjT_kY https://youtu.be/rM7jnFH56bY
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Dr Andrea Teti elected to the governing Council of the British Society for Middle East Studies
Dr Andrea Teti has been elected to the governing Council of the British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES). He was elected by the Fellows of BRISMES and will hold the post for three years.
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New PhD by Distance Programmes
All our postgraduate research degrees may be studied by distance learning, either full-time or part-time: PhD in Museum Studies, PhD & MPhil in Politics & International Relations, and PhD & MPhil in Sociology. Distance Learning students receive the same level of supervision as on-campus students, with supervision meetings normally conducted online or by telephone. Distance...
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PhD student presents at SLAS conference in Leicester
The School of Social Science would like to congratulate Gabriela Garcia on her presentation at the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) conference in Leicester. The conference also coincided with the 20th anniversary of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Leicester. Her paper was entitled:...