🚨 Deadline approaching! Apply by 11 April to be an RSC Visiting Fellow in Hilary term 2026. More info: rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/visiting…

This year, we are hosting the 2025 British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR), the UK's largest conference dedicated to undergraduate research, be it their dissertations, research projects or more! 📚 Here's BCUR 2025's schedule 👉 bit.ly/4i5B1WX #WeAreNCL

We’re hiring - a permanent Lecturer in Geopolitics in the Department of Geography at King’s College London Full info here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ723/lec…

📚Call for Book Proposals 💡Do you have a cutting-edge research in migration studies? The @imiscoe- Springer series is seeking book proposals for its April Competitive Call 🗓Deadline: 15 April 2025 📥Submit via the IMISCOE website: imiscoe.org/publications/h…

🚨 EVENT TODAY! 🚨 Don’t miss out! 🙌🏻 We’re hosting a panel on the Future of Higher Education later today! 🤓 ✅ The event is free and online via Zoom at 4pm (UK Time). Registration is quick and easy using this link 👇🏽 forms.gle/bF8XD7T1XCVDgy…

Interesting for those of us working on memory, history and emotions

Stephen Wilkinson and Nicola Williams from PPR @ Lancaster co-author an article in the Conversation about why the “First UK birth after womb transplant is a medical breakthrough – but raises important ethical questions” theconversation.com/first-uk-birth…

Professional Development Training at Lancaster University, aimed at helping you better deliver your role as an elected councillor in local government. The day will run from 10.00 - 4.00 on Thurs 22 May. Fee for attendance: £90. Register your interest here: lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/events/loc…

Less than 4 weeks to go, before this one day course runs. Please sign up as soon as possible, if it's something you are interested in, and we will look forward to welcoming you to Lancaster University.

🚨PhD studentship now open! 🚨 Come and join our research group in Oxford to work on Slavery and the European Encounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580–1700) starting October 2025. You will be supervised by myself and be based at Exeter College 👇🏻 orinst.web.ox.ac.uk/ames-dphil#tab…

One month left to apply! The application period for APSA’s Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants closes June 1st. Check out our website for more information on eligibility, application materials, and answers to FAQs here: buff.ly/v8T5WvY #DDRIG

Four new schools to launch at Lancaster University on 1st August 2025, as part of the FASS Envision Project to streamline its operations. Further details will be available over the summer.

New Link to our 'PPR Continuing Professional Development Courses', for local government staff, starting soon:- lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/continuing… We look forward to welcoming participants to our beautiful campus, here at Lancaster University.

Congratulations to our PhD student, Muhammad Waqas Haider, on his recent research paper which was published in the 'World Affairs' journal. See link below... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… M Waqas Haider LinkedIn: M Waqas Haider

Eighteen year old Lancaster University First Year Law and Politics student, Wilson Colley, becomes a new Green Party Councillor in Lancaster. Congratulations Wilson! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The PPR Annual PGR Conference is taking place in Lancaster University Library Exhibition and Events Space, on 4th & 5th June 2025. All Welcome.

Thanks to all involved in organising and running this two day event last week. The event was well attended and included a presentation by the Richardson Institute interns, who presented their posters in the lunch break on day 1 of the conference. Well done everyone!

Congratulations to Maxwell Green (PhD student in PPR) on completion of his IEP Ambassador Program, this month.

Royal Institute of Philosophy Funded, Public Lecture Speaker: Tasia Scrutton (Leeds) Topic - Scrupulosity: Religious OCD and spiritual perfectionism Thursday June 19th, 6-7pm at the Lecture Theatre, Storey Institute, Lancaster (City Centre) Free public lecture. All welcome.

Congratulations to Musa Akgul who has successfully defended his PhD entitled, “War-Making and State-Making in Northeast Syria: Understanding Quasi--State Activities of the Democratic Union Party” . Professor Rachel Cooper, Director of PG Research Studies in PPR.