📰 The third article that Özlem Atikcan has co-written as part of the Journal of Common Market Studies special issue we're featuring this week applies the conceptual work done in the previous piece to the European "refugee crisis".

📰 The second article we're featuring this week from Özlem Atikcan's co-edited special issue of the Journal of Common Market Studies is the conceptual article she co-authored with Anna Holzscheiter, "Discourse Networks and Contentious Global Public Policy".

📰 The first article we're featuring from Özlem Atikcan's co-edited special issue of the Journal of Common Market Studies is the introduction article, "Tracing Frame Trajectories in Policy Debates: Placing the EU in Global Discourse Networks"

PAIS's Özlem Atikcan has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Common Market Studies "Tracing Frame Trajectories in Policy Debates: Placing the EU in Global Discourse Networks" with Anna Holzscheiter, Jean-Frédéric Morin and Tim Henrichsen.

Our student's outstanding learning experience is not limited to the classroom: 94.1% of PAIS students who completed this year's NSS responded positively to questions about teaching staff supporting learning and contacting teaching staff 👩‍🏫 👨‍🏫

Not that there's any bias from the teaching fellow on our social media team but it comes as no surprise that students love our teaching 😊

The NSS results are in and Justin's promotion efforts paid off with a 79.3% response rate 🎉

📰 PAIS's Kerem Öge and co-authors cut through the noise on AI in this insightful study of AI adoption in Higher Education, published recently in Education Sciences 🎓️ 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.3390/educ...

Interested in interdisciplinary approaches to democracy? PAIS's Mike Saward published an article in Design Issues earlier this year proposing exactly that 📰 ✏️ 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1162/DESI...

📢 New publication alert!📢 Mareike Beck has a new article "Everyday Asset Struggles: Debt work, social reproduction and the (new) logics of inequality" out in New Political Economy 📰 👓 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1356...

📢 Call for participants 📢 PhD researcher Paola Medina-Gonzalez is seeking PGRs and ECRs to participate in an interdisciplinary workshop on war, conflicts and colonisation in the non-English-speaking Caribbean.

Today Ankara in Turkey will host the 2026 NATO Summit. If your interested in studying NATO and similar international organisations please visit our website to find out more!

The United States marks its 250th anniversary this weekend. At PAIS, our academics and researchers are leading work on key themes in US politics. Interested? Explore our UG & PG courses. We're top 50 globally + scholarships available. buff.ly/v2RbXTj

New for 2026/27: the MA Work Placement Module at PAIS Warwick. Apply your research skills to real-world policy and practice challenges, work with PAIS academics, build professional experience, and strengthen your employability. #WarwickPAIS #PostgraduateStudy #Policy #ResearchImpact

This heatwave is a reminder: climate change is already shaping everyday life. Study the politics behind global responses on Warwick’s MA in the Politics of Climate Change 🌿 (Image Credit: Alisdare Hickson) warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/ma-politics-climate-change/

This week, PAIS PhD candidate Raymond Hyma accepted the Artful Integrators Award at the 2026 Participatory Design Conference in Milan, Italy. The award recognises groups that have developed exceptionally creative new forms of participation and collaboration in design.

PAIS hosted its annual Policy Hackathon (19 June), bringing together 42 students to tackle “greenlash” Brilliant ideas, strong teamwork, and invaluable real-world skills in action. 👏 Thanks to our judges & to Warwick Enterprise for their support #WeArePAIS #Warwick

On 1 July, Professor Tom Long will speak at online event on the state of inter-American cooperation, hosted by Young Professionals in Foreign Policy and Pan American Strategic Advisors.

Warwick rises to 68th globally in QS rankings At PAIS, we’re proud to contribute - top global Politics department + top 2 in the Russell Group for 10 years for student experience.

Congrats to PAIS PGR student Alba Priewe 🎉 Awarded the Postgraduate Excellence in Teaching International Studies Prize at #BISA2026 in Brighton. Recognised for inclusive, engaging teaching and a strong contribution to pedagogical culture 🌍👏

📢 Calling PhD researchers in PAIS and related disciplines 📢 Warwick has recently become one of the co-organisers of the DoingIPS PhD Seminar Series (congratulations to Manjima Anjana, the PAIS doctoral student organiser!) which has just opened its call for papers for the coming academic year.

Hannah Owens is running various events during Refugee Week from 15-20 June in both Coventry and Norwich.

PAIS academics and PhD researchers will be out in force at this week’s @mybisa.bsky.social conference in Brighton, showcasing the breadth, depth and cutting-edge quality of research taking place across the department. #BISA2026

Happy times at the recent Warwick-@utoronto.ca workshop on the BIG open questions in wellbeing science. The Hackathon style really worked! No paper presentations, just furiously brainstorming ideas and developing a paper (stay tuned!)

All Warwick graduates progressing to a PAIS MA programme are eligible for a 20% tuition-fee discount. This financial support enables our students to continue their studies in a global Top 50 Politics and International Studies department (QS 2026 rankings).

📢 New publication! PAIS's @ashaherten.bsky.social has a new article out in @jcms-eu.bsky.social "Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade". 📰

All prospective students who receive an offer for one of our MA programmes and exhibit strong academic potential are eligible for one of our new scholarships. The international MA student scholarship is £3,000 towards your study in global Top 50 Politics and International Studies department.

All prospective students who receive an offer for one of our MA programmes and exhibit strong academic potential are eligible for one of our new scholarships. The Home Excellence Scholarship is worth £2,000 towards your study at a global Top 50 Politics and International Studies department.

PAIS's David Connolly will be giving this year's WICID Annual Lecture on the topic of "Reimagining Impact: Peace and Development in the Polycrisis Era" 👨‍🏫 Join us in person or online to hear how impact assessments can adapt to our rapidly changing world.

Our wonderful MA International Security Student, Sophie, attended the BISA ‘Policy Lab’ on AI recently, bringing together academics and policy makers from government and key think tanks. She reflects on her experience in BISA's blog, and drafted a great policy brief. www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/eve...