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16/10/2026

Congratulations to our colleague Dr Lucy Taylor, who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship!

14/10/2026

The first International Politics Research Seminar of the academic year was led by PhD student Daniel Bryant, who presented his work on the politics of second homes, with case studies on the UK and Spain.

14/10/2026

Last week Dr Elin Royles gave evidence to the Senedd that was informed by her research into intergovernmental relations and Welsh sub-state diplomacy. She spoke as part of the Senedd’s Constitution, Justice and External Affairs Committee Review of the 2021 Inter-institutional Relations Agreement. This agreement outlines the agreed position of the Senedd and Welsh Government on the information that the Welsh Government will provide to the Senedd on its participation in formal, ministerial-level intergovernmental meetings and agreements in the UK.

13/10/2026

The guest speaker series in the first year module Behind the Headlines continued this week with Christopher Miller, who reports from Ukraine for the Financial Times. Chris joined us online from Kyiv and shared insights from some of the stories he has covered during the war, including his recent interview with Ukrainian President Zelensky.

12/10/2026

On Saturday we welcomed visitors to the Aberystwyth University Open Day. Academic staff and student ambassadors were based at the department's stand in MedRus, along with the other departments in the humanities faculty. We also offered several events in the department throughout the day, including subject talks in English and Welsh, and a Question Time panel where visitors asked questions about topical political issues and received instant (and, of course, very well-informed) analysis. It was a good day, full of great conversations and we will be ready to do it all again at the next Open Day on 7 November!

09/10/2026

Last night Professor Tereza Capelos delivered a truly memorable EH Carr Memorial Lecture, sharing insights from her research into emotions and politics. She gave a fascinating talk about the factors that can turn grievance in a direction that undermines democracy, and possible pathways back from the cycle of envy, resentment and hatred. She then responded very thoughtfully to the many questions asked by staff, students and members of the local community who attended.

08/10/2026

Welcome to Dr Oliver Dodd, who is starting an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department, working on a project titled "The International Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia: Conflict Persistence and Negotiated Settlement". Oliver did his undergraduate degree here in the Department, so this is really a welcome back! He completed his PhD at the University of Nottingham and was a Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University. His postdoctoral project will develop findings from his PhD, using Colombia's experiences to explore the relationship between world order, state formation, and the changing political-economic conditions of conflict and peacebuilding.

06/10/2026

The first year module Behind the Headlines got off to a great start yesterday, with our own Dr Gillian McFadyen as the first in the module's guest speaker series, offering thoughtful and thought-provoking comments on refugees, asylum seekers and migrants and the way that they are framed by UK media.

06/10/2026

Colin McInnes, Emeritus Professor in the Department and Research Lead for Academi Heddwch Cymru, spoke on ‘Wales as a Nation of Peace’ at a fringe event organised by Oxfam at the Plaid Cymru Annual Conference in Llandudno over the weekend.

02/10/2026

New publication! Our colleague Hannah Hughes is a co-author on this recently published paper, which quantifies the engagement of different governments in the IPCC approval process, considering carbon management (abatement technologies, CDR, BECCS, etc.) and nature based solutions. These are both topics that would land in the outcome of the first global stocktake at

We introduce a text-as-data approach from natural language processing that allows mapping and quantifying topic-level variation in engagement levels of member governments in intergovernmental meetings. Building on research that characterizes the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) appro...