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1 August 2013 – 31 July 2014ANNUAL REPORT

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1 August 2013 – 31 July 2014

Annual Report

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Cover images courtesy of: Susan Taylor, [email protected]; Helmand PRT Lashkar Gah/Flickr; David G. Mills/Flickr; Colin Smith, www.geograph.org.uk and Sergey/Flickr.

Introduction: Dr Elizabeth Frazer, Head of Department … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 3

Teaching … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 4

Graduate Studentships & Bursaries … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 7

Appointments, Prizes & Awards … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 8

Research … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 9

Staff … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 17

Academic Visitors … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 19

Finance … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 20

Office Holders … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 22

Acknowledgements … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 23

DURING THE FIRST TERM of the academic year much effort was focussed on finalising the department’s

submission for the Research Excellence Framework (REF). We are confident we have made a strong submission reflecting the quality and depth of our research, and are most grateful to our REF Coordinator, Petra Schleiter, and to all members of the department who contributed to its preparation.

Another major endeavour for the year has been preparations for the Oxford Q-Step Centre under the Directorship of Catherine De Vries. The department was delighted to receive funding of £1.2m for a five year programme to create a step-change in the quantitative methods training for our undergraduates. Michaelmas term 2014 will see the first cohort of undergraduates participate in the new programme of training and in preparation for this two new academic appointments - Andrew Eggers and Andrea Ruggeri - were made in Summer 2014. Moreover, a new teaching lab has been created in the building and our undergraduate curriculum has been reformed to accommodate the embedding of the Q-Step training.

During this academic year we welcomed five new faculty members: Ben Ansell (Comparative Democratisation), Daniel Butt (Political Theory), Elias Dinas (Comparative Politics), Jane Gingrich (Comparative Political Economy), and Todd Hall (International Relations of China), who have all in their

first year made positive contributions to the teaching and research of the department. During the year, we also have sadly had to say goodbye to three outstanding colleagues – Christopher Hood, the Gladstone Professor of Government, on his retirement and two colleagues on their move to other institutions: Mark Philp, a former Head of Department, who has taken up a Chair at the University of Warwick, and Jeremy Waldron who returned to New York University.

In January 2014, I took over the Headship of the department from Stephen Whitefield. Stephen held the position for three and a half years and the department is most grateful to him for his stewardship and leadership during his tenure. During my first two terms I focussed with colleagues on a number of underpinning themes: communications to both internal and external audiences, including as a first phase project the redevelopment of our external website due Autumn 2014; the strengthening of our management information systems; and beginning a revitalisation of the research organisation of the department. All of these are preconditions for our work on development of the department, strengthening our links with our alumni, seeking a solid and enduring financial basis for our doctoral education, and building up our establishment of research projects. I am grateful for the support of our academic officers and our administrative team in this work.

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IntroductionDr Elizabeth Frazer, Head of Department


UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING

Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) continues to be the department’s largest undergraduate joint degree, popular with both UK and international students. 24 nationalities were represented in the Michaelmas term 2013 intake of 265 students. The applicant entry success rate for the year was 16.04% and this stiff competition ensured that PPE continues to secure high calibre students. Approximately 86% of PPE Finals students took at least one Politics paper as part of their summer 2013 exams, highlighting that Politics remains the most popular discipline within the joint degree.

Moreover the department’s second joint undergraduate degree, History and Politics, continues to prove popular. The course had an intake of 40 in Michaelmas term 2013.

GRADUATE TEACHING

GRADUATE INTAKE 2013-14

Research Intake

DPhil International Relations 18

DPhil Politics 30

Taught Intake

MPhil International Relations 24

MPhil Politics (Comparative Government) 14

MPhil Politics (European Politics & Society) 8

MPhil Politics (Political Theory) 10

MSc (Politics Research) 3

MSc (Political Theory Research) 3

Titles of successful DPhil International Relations theses in 2013-14 included:• Urvashi Aneja (Trinity College), Contesting the

Humanitarian Regime in Political Emergencies: International NGO Policies and Practices in Sri Lanka & Afghanistan, 1990-2010

• Chelsea Clinton (University College), The Global Fund: An Experiment in Global Governance

• Ross Edelman (University College), Cyberattacks in International Relations

• Mishana Hosseinioun (University College), The Globalisation of Universal Human Rights and the Middle East

• Emily Jones (St Antony’s College), The Weak vs. The Strong: African, Carribbean and Pacific countries negotiating free trade agreements with the European Union

• Sarah Kleinman (St Antony’s College), Dysfunction as a Function of Authority: Understanding the Power and Performance of International Non-Governmental Organizations

• Michael Manulak (St Antony’s College), Continuity and Change in International Institutions: The Case of the United Nations Environment Regime

• Sarah Miller (St Antony’s College), IO Power from Within? UNHCR’s Surrogate Statehood in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda

• Linn Normand (Nuffield College), Demonisation in International Politics: The Case of Israel-Palestine

• Sean Richmond (Linacre College), At the Vanishing Point of Law? International Law and the Use of Force by Britain and Canada in the Korean War and Afghanistan Conflict

• Sandeep Sengupta (Merton College), A Rising Power in a Warming Planet: Explaining India’s behaviour on global climate change

• Henning Tamm (St Antony’s College), The Dynamics of Transnational Alliances in Africa, 1990-2010: Governments, Rebel Groups, and Power Politics

• Alexander Volsky (University College), Tying down Gullivers: Tripartite Strategic Balancing in Unipolar International Systems

• Christian Westerlind Wigstrom (Merton College), Beyond Theatre Regionalism: When Does Formal Economic Integration Work in Africa?

Titles of successful DPhil Politics theses in 2013-14 included:• Francesc Amat (Nuffield College), Redistribution

in Parliamentary Democracies: The Role of Second-Dimensional Identity Politics

• Alice Baderin (St Anne’s College), Political Theory, Public Opinion and Real Politics

• Patrick Barron (Nuffield College), Barriers to the Consolidation of Peace: The Political Economy of Post-Conflict Violence in Indonesia

• Dominic Burbidge (Oriel College), Trust and Social Capital in Urban Kenya and Tanzania

• Nikia Clarke (St Antony’s College), Of People, Politics and Profit: The Political Economy of Chinese Industrial Zone Development in Nigeria

• Angela Cummine (New College), A Citizen’s Stake in Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Management, Investment and Distribution of Sovereign Wealth

Teaching


• May Farid (Merton College), Positive-Sum Reciprocal Engagement between China’s Grassroots NGOs and The Local State

• Iason Gabriel (St John’s College), On Affluence and Poverty: Morality, Motivation and Practice in a Global Age

• Juliette Genevaz (St Antony’s College), The Chinese Revolutionary Army in the Reform Era, 1985-2010

• Ursula Hackett (Harris Manchester College), Explaining Inter-State Variation in Aid for Children at Private Religious Schools in the United States, up to 2012

• Rosine Kelz (Mansfield College), The Non-sovereign Self - Arendt, Butler and Cavell on the subject, community and otherness

• Christopher Kowol (University College), The Lost World of British Conservatism: the Radical Tory Tradition, 1939-1951

• Siu Yau Lee (St Antony’s College), The War On Language: Language Management and Resistance in Contemporary China

• Ana López García (Nuffield College), Social Mobilisation and the Pure Presidential Regimes of Latin America

• Christopher Mahony (Keble College), International Crimes Prosecution Case Selection: the ICC, ICTR, and SCSL

• Zoe Marks (St Cross College), The Internal Dynamics of Rebel Groups: Politics of Material Viability and Organizational Capacity

• Frederic Misrahi (St Antony’s College), The Europeanization of Turkish Policies and Institutions in the Areas of Technical Legislation and Antitrust (1996-2010)

• Scott Moore (Merton College), Dilemmas of Regional Governance: Sub-National Territorial Politics and River Basin Management in the USA, France, China, and India

• Nurseit Niyazbekov (St Antony’s College), Protest Mobilisation and Democratisation in Kazakhstan (1992-2009)

• Ksenia Northmore-Ball (Nuffield College), Explaining Voter Turnout Inequality in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Income Inequality, Institutions, and The Normalization of Voting

• Maria Repnikova (St Antony’s College), Limited Political Liberalisation in Authoritarian Regimes: Critical Journalists and the State in China

• Alison Smith (St Antony’s College), The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Party Membership in Central and East Europe

• Richard Stanley (St Antony’s College), Micro-macro

Paradoxes: The Effects of War and Aid on Child Survival• Joanna Szostek (St Antony’s College), Russia in the

News of its neighbours: Cross-border media influence in Ukraine and Belarus

• Luke Tomlinson (Worcester College), Justice, Governance, and Climate Change: Designing Fair and Effective Climate Change Institutions

• Alisa Voznaya (St Antony’s College), Party System Effects and the Scope for Corruption in Modern Democracies

• Aaron Wendland (Somerville College), Freedom as Response-ability: Agency and Artistic Creativity in the Work of Martin Heidegger

• Caleb Yong (Nuffield College), Justice, Legitimacy and Movement across Borders: A Political Theory of International Migration

Student and Alumni Awards, Fellowships and Prizes have included the following:Dr Daniel Brieba was awarded the Political Studies Association’s 2013 Sir Walter Bagehot Prize for his DPhil thesis entitled Disaggregating State Capacity: Explaining Policy Effectiveness in Latin America, 1996-2006. The Bagehot Prize is awarded by the PSA for the best dissertation in Government and Public Administration.

Ida Danewid was awarded the 2013 Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Thesis Prize for her MPhil thesis entitled Reconstructing Ethics: Judith Butler, Poststructuralism and Ethical Theorising in International Relations. The Winchester Prize is awarded by University of Oxford Social Sciences for the most outstanding thesis on International Relations with particular reference to human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Nicole De Silva, DPhil International Relations student, won the 2014 International Studies Association Lawrence Finkelstein Award for best graduate student paper: How International Courts Promote Compliance. Her paper was selected by the jury from an original list of 137.

Dr Amy King was awarded the 2013 Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Prize for her DPhil thesis entitled Imperialism, Industrialisation and War: The Role of Ideas in China’s Japan Policy, 1949-1965. The Pavry Prize is awarded annually by the Social Sciences Board to an outstanding thesis at the University of Oxford on a subject in the area of international peace and understanding.


Ben Martill was awarded the 2013 Deirdre and Paul Malone Prize in International Relations for his MPhil thesis entitled Agreement through Opposition: Political Ideology and Legislative Constraint in the “Special Relationships” of the United States. The Malone Prize is awarded by University of Oxford Social Sciences Division for outstanding performance in the MPhil in International Relations examinations and thesis.

Tahrat Naushaba Shahid won the prize for best paper at the 28th British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference 2014. Tahrat writes about the politics of Islam through the lens of family law for Muslim women in Bangladesh. Her winning paper was titled Sexual equality in family laws for Muslims in Bangladesh: A fear of change, based on a chapter of her DPhil dissertation.


Graduate Studentships & Bursaries DEPARTMENTAL ‘WRITING UP’ AWARDS

Corinna ArndtDominic BurbidgeJames ChristensenFerdinand EiblDavid HallJohn HalsteadStephen HusseyEmma LocheryIrene Menéndez GonzálezSarah MillerBenjamin NobleNikhil PuriVinícius Rodrigues VieiraCarsten-Andreas SchulzJaemin ShimSilvana TarleaZak TaylorMax ThompsonMichael Urban

DEPARTMENTAL STUDENTSHIPS

James AberStephanie BellRyan BergElad CarmelInyoung ChoAylon CohenJulia Costa LópezChristopher CrokeRoosmarijn de GeusRichard ElliottAlexander EwingChristian FastenrathDaniel FedorowyczElizabeth Finneron-BurnsMaria Luiza GattoGeoffrey GertzSarah GlatteJames HallYuna HanSo Jeong ImNikolas KirbyMatthew Lakin

Erik MagnussonLuigi MariniNathan PinkoskiWilliam van TaackToni WeisJeffrey Wright

JOINT DPIR-COLLEGE STUDENTSHIPS

Mathias Frendem (Nuffield College) Alexander Gard-Murray (Nuffield College)Allison Hartnett (Corpus Christi, A. E. Haigh Scholarship)Raphael Heuwieser (Mansfield College, Elfan Rees Scholarship)Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg (Mansfield, Adam von Trott Scholarship)Gerda Hooijer (Lady Margaret Hall)Johannes Kniess (St Cross College)Ben Martill (University College, Oxford-Radcliffe Studentship)Julia Netter (Christ Church)

AHRC DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIPS

Paul BillinghamPuneet DhaliwalSam KissBruno LeipoldAnthony TaylorKaty Wells

AHRC RESEARCH PREPARATION MASTERS STUDENTSHIPS

Jonathan StanhopeRobert van’t Hoff

ESRC DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIPS

Katharine BrooksMichaela CollordPaul Hansbury

Jessie HronesovaCamilla MacdonaldBarry MaydomDensua MumfordDaniel PagetVerity RobinsJack SeddonOmar ShweikiAriadna TseninaMusab Younis

ESRC RESEARCH MASTERS STUDENTSHIPS

Richard JohnsonKarl KahnArthur LearoydJames McDaidHanna NotteAlexander SheaHuw Thomas

CLARENDON AWARDS

Nicholas GordonBrian Klaas


Professor Simon Caney, University Lecturer in Political Theory, was appointed to join the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. The Council was established by the Nuffield Foundation in 1991, in response to concerns that there was no government-sponsored national body responsible for overseeing developments in biomedicine and biotechnology.

Professor Sir Ivor Crewe AcSS, Master of University College and sub-faculty member of DPIR, was appointed President of the Academy of Social Sciences. The President’s role is to represent the Academy at public meetings and events, and Sir Ivor will serve for three years from 1 January 2014. The Academy comprises more than 900 individual academicians – awarded the title for services to social science – and 46 learned societies, representing nearly 90,000 social scientists.

Dr Rama Mani, CIS Senior Research Associate, with the Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie (Committee for Basic Rights and Democracy, Cologne), received the Peter Becker Prize for Peace and Conflict Research from the Chancellor of Philipps-Universität Marburg. The prize, awarded every two years, is the highest endowed award for peace and conflict research in Germany.

Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, won the American Political Science Association’s 2014 Doris Graber Award for his book Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns, published by Princeton University Press in 2012. The award recognises the best book published on political communication in the last ten years.

A list of research awards can be found on page 9.

Appointments, Prizes and Awards

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RESEARCH FUNDING

During the first part of this year, we focussed on submitting the Research Excellence Framework (REF) return successfully, which was completed in November 2013. Needless to say, this was a hectic time, but we are pleased to have met the REF deadline and look forward to receiving the results in December 2014.

The end of the REF has given us a much needed window of opportunity to revisit and formalise certain internal policy matters with regards to applicants, funding applications, budgets and incentives. In addition, this has been an opportune time to focus on the new website for the department which is currently underway with a dedicated section for knowledge exchange. This will be an excellent opportunity to showcase the results of the department’s research to an internal and external audience whilst simultaneously

providing a platform for further exchange and visibility. The funding applications submitted last year

included a number of applications that focussed on areas of research that are of increasing relevance in the international political arena. These include research areas ranging from ‘The Individualisation of War, Reconfiguring the Ethics, Law and Politics of Armed Conflict’, ‘Support for Democracy in Egypt’ to ‘Nationalism and State Building at a Crucial Turning Point: Authoritarianism and Political Mobilisation in Ukraine and Russia’. We are extremely happy that these applications were successful and that the projects are now underway. We anticipate that more news of these projects will be available on the new website in the autumn.

Research

Principal Investigator Sponsor Project Profile

Giovanni Capoccia The Leverhulme Trust Reshaping Democracy after Authoritarianism: Explaining Responses to Neo-Fascism in Europe

Paul Chaisty John Fell Foundation Nationalism and State-Building at a Crucial Turning Point: Democracy, Authoritarianism and Political Mobilisation in Ukraine and Russia

Nic Cheeseman (Co-I) European Commission Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM)

Nic Cheeseman (Co-I) ESRC The Impact of Elections: Voting, Political Behaviour and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Angela Cummine British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship

Who Owns the State? A Contemporary Theory of Public Ownership

David Doyle John Fell Foundation Ideology, Voting and Implicit Cognition (IVIC)

Elizabeth Frazer John Fell Foundation The Politics Violence Frontier

David Levy ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)

Visualisation of Academic Research

David Levy Google UK, France Television, News Works, Navarra, FinnMedia, Roskilde University, Hans-Bredow Institut

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2014

David Levy Thomson Reuters Foundation

Reuters Institute Funding 2016-2017

James Painter Grantham Research Institute

The Changing Media Ecology for Environmental Journalism

James Painter European Climate Foundation

The Changing Media Ecology for Environmental Journalism

Cristina Parau John Fell Foundation Lawyers in Power: A Cause of Judicialisation of Politics?

Robert Picard John Fell Foundation Political Influence Index Pilot Study

Hugo Slim Oxfam Humanitarian Ethics Project

Our Successes Aug 2013–July 2014


EVENTS

The department hosted and organised over 50 conferences, workshops and seminars covering a number of research interests varying from ‘Opposition Rights and Majority Rule in European Democracies’, ‘Serbia/Kosovo: The Brussels Agreements and Beyond’ to ‘The Political Origins of Global Justice’. These events are a valuable element of the department’s activities, enhancing the profile of the department and providing opportunities for the exchange of knowledge and perspectives between local, national and international academics, graduate students, practitioners and policymakers.

RESEARCH CENTRES & PROGRAMMES

The research centres and programmes continue to showcase the diversity of the department’s research through their seminars, workshops and collaborative projects, as will be seen in the following pages. Please see page 19 for a list of visitors to department research centres and programmes.

Centre for International Studies (CIS)

http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk

Director:Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis

The Centre for International Studies (CIS) was established in 1992 to promote and advance research in International Relations in Oxford. As a focal point for projects and activities in IR, CIS sponsors externally funded research projects, convenes conferences and seminars and hosts visiting scholars. The work of CIS involves close association with four major research programmes (the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict; South East European Studies at Oxford; the Interdepartmental Programme on Justice and Democracy Beyond the State; and the Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme), a range of smaller research projects and the individual research of faculty and postdoctoral fellows.

Highlights of EventsWorkshops and Conferences• CIS Book Manuscript Workshop: ‘Future in the Balance

– up-scaling human consciousness to up-scale our chance of survival’, 15 November 2013, Dr Scilla Elworthy (Oxford Research Group)

• ‘(Economic) Justice beyond the State’, 18 November 2013, Professor Frank Garcia (Boston College Law School)

Hugo Slim CAFOD Humanitarian Ethics Project

Henning Tamm John Fell Foundation Together or Apart: The Cohesion and Fragmentation of Congolese Rebel Groups in Comparative Perspective

Matthew Walton John Fell Foundation Comparative Buddhist Political Thought in the Theravada World

Jennifer Welsh/Hugo Slim

ERC Advanced Grant The Individualisation of War: Reconfiguring the Ethics, Law and Politics of Armed Conflict

Stephen Whitefield ESRC Support for Democracy in Egypt

Grant Applications & Awards (August 2013 – July 2014)

Funding awards received 20 £1,697,446


• ‘The Global Liberal Order and its Future’, 24 January 2014, Professor G. John Ikenberry (Princeton)

• CIS Conversations: ‘Where Are The Wise Women?: Female Scholars of International Relations’, 7 May 2014, Mara Tchalakov (DPIR)

• CIS Book Manuscript Workshop: ‘Letting Down the Guard: Developing Countries, Bounded Rationality, and the Diffusion of Investment Treaties’, 19 May 2014, Dr Lauge Poulsen (DPIR)

• CIS Book Manuscript Workshop: ‘Between Interests and Law: The Politics of Commercial Disputes under Private Institutions and Public Authority’, 21 May 2014, Thomas Hale (Senior Researcher, The Global Economic Governance Programme)

• The Fourth Global Institutional Reform (GIR) Workshop, 6-7 June 2014, Professor Andrew Hurrell (DPIR)

• CIS Conversations: ‘What should the EU do about Ukraine’, 10 June 2014, Nina Kruglikova (doctoral student, Oxford) and Yevgen Lantsuzovskyy (Visiting doctoral student, Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt)

• CIS Book Manuscript Workshop: ‘Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster’, 16 June 2014, Dr Hugo Slim (DPIR)

Lectures• ‘”A torch of fire, a cup of water”: Myanmar between Democratization and Ethnic War’, 21 October 2013, Nbyen Dan Hkung Awng (Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Research Fellow, DPIR)

• ‘Identity and International Security: U.S. Relations with China and India’, 6 November 2013, Dr Jarrod Hayes (Assistant Professor of International Relations, Georgia Institute of Technology)

• ‘Political Economy of Domestic and Global Monetary Institutions: A Developing Country Perspective’, 3 December 2013, Professor Hamza Ali Malik (Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Research Fellow, DPIR)

• ‘Conflict, Intervention and Social (Re)construction’, 4 December 2013, Dr Dana Eyre (Research Associate, CIS) & Whit Mason (Research Associate, CIS)

• ‘Winning friends abroad: Can Britain’s cultural power maintain its influence in the modern world?’, 27 February 2014, Sir Martin Davidson (CEO, British Council)

• ‘The Politics of Foreign Policy After 9/11’, 11 March 2014, James Rubin (Visiting Scholar at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford)

• ‘The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights’, 6 May 2014, Professor Karen Alter (Northwestern University)

• ‘Why Nordic Majoritarian Democracies Have Escaped

the European Court of Justice’, 7 May 2014, Professor Marlene Wind (Copenhagen)

• ‘Conflicts and Post-Conflicts Dynamics (DRC and Rwanda): Occult Beliefs versus Modern Politics, Truth versus Justice and Justice versus Peace’, 14 May 2014, Alex Ntung (author)

• ‘Responding to Conflict in Africa: The United Nations and Regional Organizations’, 16 May 2014, Dr Jane Boulden (Royal Military College of Canada)

• ‘Explaining the Rise of Diaspora Institutions’, 20 May 2014, Dr Alan Gamlen (Victoria University of Wellington)

• ‘Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)’, 26 May 2014, Professor Akeel Bilgrami (Sidney Morgenbesser Professor, Columbia)

• ‘Divided Nations: Why Global Governance is Failing, and What we can do about it’, 02 June 2014, Professor Ian Goldin (Oxford Martin School)

• ‘Does Europe need a Demos to be Truly Democratic?’, 11 June 2014, Professor Daniel Innerarity (Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics (LSE))

• ‘‘The Modi Mandate: An Insider’s View’, 17 June 2014, Swapan Dasgupta (Hindustan Times)

• ‘A Conversation with John Mearsheimer on American Grand Strategy, the state of IR Theory and other topics’, 17 June 2014, Professor John Mearsheimer (Chicago)

Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC)

http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk

Directors:Professor Jennifer WelshDapo AkandeDr David Rodin

Associate Directors:Dr Hugo SlimDr Janina Dill

ELAC is a leading global centre for the interdisciplinary study of the ethics, law, and politics of armed conflict. Its central aim is to strengthen law, norms and institutions to restrain, regulate and prevent armed conflict.


Highlights of EventsWorkshops and Conferences• ‘Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and

Armed Conflict’. In July 2014, ELAC and HRFG hosted a two day transatlantic workshop with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) attended by leading academics, military lawyers and officials from the UK, the US, and the Canadian Governments.

• Conference on the Legal Remedies for Corruptions. In June 2014, ELAC, the Open Societies Foundation, and the Justice Initiative held a conference to discuss how litigation, based on innovative legal approaches, has been useful in challenging, mitigating, remediating and deterring corruption.

• Manuscript Workshop: ‘Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster’. In June 2014, ELAC and CIS co-sponsored a book Workshop on Hugo Slim’s upcoming book on humanitarian ethics.

• Humanitarian Workers: Personal Ethics, Psychology, and Lifestyle. In December 2013, ELAC held a Conference on humanitarian actors as part of its continuing Humanitarian Ethics Project. The interdisciplinary conference involved European researchers and humanitarian practitioners.

Seminars and Other Events• ‘Culture, Religion and Contemporary Geopolitics Seminar Series’. Through Michaelmas and Hilary terms, Dr Slim and Dr Hancock (St Peter’s, Oxford) co-convened a seminar series to enable a discussion of religion in society and international relations today. Speakers included Professor Monica Duffy (Oxford), Baroness Elisabeth Berridge, and Professor Christopher Coker (LSE) among others.

• Book Launch, July 2014. ELAC and HRFG co-convened the launch of Professor Michael Bothe’s book New Rules for Victims of Armed Conflicts. Commentary on the Two 1977 Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Second Edition.

• Lunchtime Seminar, December 2013. ELAC convened a lunchtime seminar on International Relations and the International Criminal Court with Dr Matthew Killingsworth (Tasmania).

Research Highlights:• ‘Military Enhancement: Design for Responsibility and

Combat Systems’. This collaborative project with the 3TU. Centre for Ethics and Technology, (Delft) examines the ethical and legal implications of new military technology.

• ‘Guide to the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief

Operations in Situations of Armed Conflict’. ELAC and the Oxford Martin Programme on (HRFG) undertook a project with the United Nations Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) intended to clarify aspects of laws that regulate relief operations during armed conflicts. The project will develop a comprehensive guide to the law in this area, based on a series of expert meetings held in Oxford.

• Ethics’ special edition on ‘Ending Wars’. The leading journal of moral philosophy Ethics, published in 2014 a special edition on the topic of ‘Ending Wars’ consisting of six papers presented at the 2011 ELAC Annual Workshop. The volume features papers by ELAC affiliated researchers, Dr David Rodin (ELAC, Oxford) and Professor Cécile Fabre (Philosophy, Oxford).

Oxford Spring School in Quantitative Methods for Social Research

http://springschool.politics.ox.ac.uk

Director:Professor Geoffrey Evans

The Oxford Spring School is a week of events targeted at political and social science researchers who already have training in and experience of quantitative research and are seeking to extend and broaden their skills. Other shorter workshops take place at various points throughout the year. The Spring School is linked with the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer School at the University of Michigan. ts reputation attracts faculty, research students and applied professionals from around the globe.

Highlights of EventsAnnual Week of Spring School CoursesThe annual week of Spring School courses took place on 22-25 April 2014, the theme being ‘Multilevel Analysis for the Social Sciences’. Topics included: Hierarchical Linear Models; Extending the HLM; Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models; Multilevel Analysis in Practice.

The course instructor was Professor Marco Steenbergen (University of Zurich), a leading expert


in the field of multi-level modelling. His theoretically oriented teaching programme was accompanied by a well-received, practical application session taught by Dr Sergi Pardos-Prado (Oxford). Dr Pardos-Prado has previously provided Multilevel Modelling courses in several European universities as well as in the graduate training programme in DPIR and the Social Sciences Doctoral Training Centre.

Short Course‘Bayesian Hierarchical Models for Social Research’, 23-25 June 2014, Professor Jeff Gill (Washington University in St. Louis). Topics included: What is Bayesian Inference; Review of Multilevel Model Basics; Specifying Bayesian Regression Models; Running a Simple Model in JAGS; Running a Multilevel Model in JAGS; Nonlinear Multilevel Models, Diagnostics, Convergence, and Summarization.

Public Policy Unit (PPU)

http://ppu.politics.ox.ac.uk

Directors:Dr Stuart WhiteProfessor Iain McLean (Research Director)

The Centre’s aims and objectives are to undertake policy-relevant academic research and, by means of events which bring academics and policymakers into discussion of this research, provide a bridge between academic research and policymaking.

Centre for the Study of Social Justice (CSSJ)

http://social-justice.politics.ox.ac.uk/

Director:Professor Simon Caney

The Centre for the Study of Social Justice (CSSJ) provides a forum that brings together Oxford’s large group of political theorists with an interest in problems of social justice, broadly conceived. Its core membership comes mainly from the Department of Politics and International Relations, but also includes colleagues in Philosophy, Law and Economics. Through its fortnightly lunchtime seminars, it provides a focus and a point of contact for post-doctoral fellows in political theory, as well as for academic visitors to Oxford associated with the Centre. It also sponsors conferences and workshops organised by its members on relevant topics.

Highlights of EventsWorkshop• ‘Duties to Create and Support Just Institutions’, 10-

11 June 2014, Dr Jesse Tomalty, with Dr Elizabeth Ashford and Dr Laura Valentini (funded by Nuffield College and the Society for Applied Philosophy). The speakers were Dr Elizabeth Ashford (St Andrews), Professor Simon Caney (Oxford), Professor Tim Hayward (Edinburgh), Dr Miriam Ronzoni (Manchester), Dr Avia Pasternak (University College London (UCL)), Professor Henry Shue (Oxford), Dr Jesse Tomalty (Oxford), Dr Laura Valentini (LSE), Professor Jeremy Waldron (Oxford) and Professor Leif Wenar (Kings College London (KCL)).

Lecture• ‘Democracy, the Global Economic Crisis, and Economics as a Moral Science?’ Professor Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht).

Seminars• Papers were presented at the fortnightly seminar

series by Dr David Birks (Philosophy, Oxford), Dr Daniel Butt (DPIR, Oxford), Professor Cécile Fabre (Philosophy, Oxford), Dr Keith Hyams (Politics and IR, Reading), Dr Jaakko Kuosmanen (Law, Oxford), Professor David Miller (DPIR, Oxford), Professor Margaret Moore


(Political Studies, Queen’s, Canada), Dr Ambrose Lee (Criminology, Oxford), Dr Jesse Tomalty (DPIR, Oxford), and Dr Stuart White (DPIR, Oxford).

Oxford-Sciences Po Research Group in the Social Sciences (OXPO)

http://oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk/

Director:Dr Florence Faucher

OXPO is an established meeting point for social science scholars in Oxford and at Sciences Po, who work on the comparative analysis of the evolution of political systems and societies, in Europe and beyond. It coordinates various comparative research projects that contribute toward this goal and offers opportunities to develop French-British collaborative projects.

Details of books, journal articles, chapters or papers explicitly supported by OXPO, or completed by their authors thanks to the visit they made under the OXPO exchange framework, can be found at: http://oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk/publications/index.asp

Highlights of EventsOXPO runs a successful and popular visitors programme between Oxford and Sciences Po. In 2013-14, OXPO facilitated two French scholars’ stays at Nuffield College, Dr Charlotte Halpern and Dr Rejane Senac, and sponsored two visiting professorships from Oxford scholars: Professor Andrew Hurrell and Professor Stephen Whitefield. Moreover, students from both institutions spent several months visiting their counterpart institution. Dr Florent Gougou visited Oxford as a postdoctoral student and Bernd Weber spent one year in DPIR. Four Oxford students spent several months in Sciences Po (Quentin Bruneau, Tristen Naylor, Mara Tchalakov and Claire Vergerio).

Workshops and Conferences• Special Anniversary conference and book launch of

Citizens’ Reactions to European Integration Compared: Overlooking Europe (Palgrave, 2013), 28 October 2013, with authors Professor Sophie Duchesne (CNRS/ l’Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique Nanterre),

Dr Elizabeth Frazer (DPIR, Oxford), Professor Florence Haegel (Sciences Po) and Dr Virginie Van Ingelgom (Ispole, Louvain). The book is the product of one of the first OXPO research collaboration schemes. Discussants: Dr Elizabeth Monaghan (Hull) and Professor Chris Rumford (Royal Holloway). Chair: Professor Stephen Whitefield (DPIR, Oxford), at Maison Française d’Oxford.

• ‘Reconceptualizing the State: Restructuring in Europe, the American State and Empirical Trends’, 12-14 December 2013. Convenors: Professor Desmond King (DPIR, Oxford) and Professor Patrick Le Galès (Sciences Po). Sciences Po participants included: Dr Jenny Andersson, Dr Olivier Borraz , Professor Colin Hay , Professor Cornelia Woll , Professor Virginie Guirandon, Professor Tommaso Vitale and Professor Bruno Palier. Oxford participants: Professor Christopher Hood (DPIR) and Dr Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute) at Nuffield College and Maison Française d’Oxford.

• Joint Doctoral Conference, ‘Crossing Borders: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspectives’, 19-20 June 2014. Joint Doctoral Conference, Sciences Po with UCLA, BGSSS (Humboldt+WZB); OXPO. Organisers: Dr Mirna Safi and Professor Adrian Favell (Sciences Po). Oxford participants: Dr Gwendolyn Sasse (DPIR), Nicole Martin (Sociology), Gerda Hooijer (DPIR) and Cecilia Bruzelius (Social Policy and Intervention), at Sciences Po.

• ‘Second Graduate Conference in Political Theory’, 12-14 December 2013, Keynote: Professor Jeremy Waldron (DPIR, Oxford) at Sciences Po.

Doctoral Seminars• ‘Political Theory Graduate Seminar’, 21 September 2013, Professor David Miller (DPIR, Oxford), Discussant: Dr Janie Pelabay (Sciences Po). 21 September 2013 at École Doctorale, Sciences Po.

• ‘African Studies Global Seminar’, January - April 2014 at Sciences Po (Paris School of International A!airs).. Coordinated by Professor Richard Banegas (Sciences Po), Professor Mamadou Diouf (Columbia) and Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (DPIR, Oxford). Oxford participants: Dr Nic Cheeseman (DPIR) and Dr David Pratten (African Studies).

Lectures• ‘Rescaling light rail policies in Europe (UK, Germany, Belgium)’, 26 Feb 2014. Dr Charlotte Halpern (Sciences Po), Discussant: Dr Malek Al-Chalabi (Transport Studies Unit, School of Geography and the Environment), 26 at Maison Française d’Oxford.


• ‘Parity and Diversity in Contemporary France: Equality in Questions’, 30 May 2014, Dr Réjane Sénac (Sciences Po), Discussant: Professor Lois McNay (DPIR, Oxford). Chair: Dr Rainbow Murray (Queen Mary) at Maison Française d’Oxford.

Highlights of Research ProjectsOXPO brings together scholars from the Department of Politics and International Relations, the Department of Sociology and Nuffield College at Oxford University, the Maison Française d’Oxford, and several research centres within Sciences Po (such as CERI, CEVIPOF, OSC) to collaborate on research projects. More details about our research projects can be found at: http://oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk/projects/index.asp.

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ)

http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

Director:Dr David Levy

The Institute marks Oxford University’s commitment to create an international research centre in the comparative study of journalism. It aims to provide a forum for productive engagement between journalists and scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines. It brings the depth and rigour of academic scholarship of the highest standards to major issues of relevance to the world of practice of news media. It is global in its perspective and in the content of its activities.

The Reuters Institute’s core funding comes from the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Institute seeks to match that funding through other research grants and sponsorship.

Key developments in the past year include the expansion of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report and the inaugural Oxford Editor and CEO Forum.

Events Seminars: • Business and Practice of Journalism seminars (Green

Templeton College)• Media Research Seminars (DPIR)• Media and Politics (Nuffield College)

In addition, special events over the past year have included:

Selected Conferences and Workshops• ‘Local Journalism around the World: professional practices, economic foundations, and political implications’, St Anne’s College, Oxford

• ‘30th Anniversary Reunion of the Reuters Journalism Fellowship Programme’, Balliol College, St Anne’s College, Green Templeton College and St John’s College, Oxford

• ‘Oxford Editor and CEO Forum’, RISJ, Oxford• ‘The Changing Nature of Journalistic Work’, Green Templeton College, Oxford

• ‘Harnessing the Power of Big Data for Media’, Microsoft, London

• ‘What future for environment reporting?’, St Anne’s College, Oxford

Selected Lectures, Panels and Launches:• Reuters Memorial Lecture 2013: ‘Paying the Piper:

Rethinking the Economics of Newspaper Journalism’, given by Mark Thompson, CEO, New York Times

• Launch of RISJ publication Political Journalism in Transition, DPIR, Oxford

• Launch of RISJ publication Climate Change and the Media: Reporting Risk and Uncertainty, CCLA, London

• Launch of RISJ publication Media Coverage of Banking and Financial News, Thomson Reuters, London

• Launch of RISJ publication What if there were no BBC Television?, Oxford Media Convention, Saïd Business School, Oxford

• Launch of Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2014, Global Editors Network News Summit, Barcelona and Edelman, London

• Panel discussion ‘Responsible Journalism and National Security in the Age of Big Data’, St Anne’s College, Oxford

Research Projects• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2014 The Reuters Institute Digital Report 2014 reveals

new insights about digital news consumption, made widely available through a publication and dedicated


interactive website. Based on a representative YouGov survey of online news consumers across ten countries – UK, US, Germany, France, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Italy, Japan and Urban Brazil – the report tracks changing digital news behaviour. In its third year the project continues to attract considerable international interest.

• The Role of Media in Democratisation This research, funded by DPIR, is designed to explore

the role of media in democratising countries, particularly in the Middle East. It examines the implications of changing local media landscapes and the impacts of enhanced freedom of expression on democratic socialisation. It focuses on the Middle East after the Arab Spring.

• TV reporting of the IPCC 2013/14 reports This project examines how popular television news

programmes in six countries (Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, and the UK) cover the latest reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It examines the amount of coverage, the type of coverage and the dominant narratives found in evening news bulletins, which are often the most trusted and watched by the public.

Funders: The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics, and Klif (the Climate and Pollution Agency in Norway, a directorate of the Environment Ministry).

• The Euro Crisis, Media Coverage, and Perceptions of Europe within the EU

This project examines how Europeans understand the challenges facing the Euro and the workings of the European Union and European Central Bank through the news media of their countries. It is being undertaken with a network of partners in France, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain.

Funder: John Fell Fund

• The Changing Nature of Journalistic Work and its Implications

This project is designed to explore how entrepreneurial journalism is changing the work of journalism, its norms and practices, the organisation and direction of journalistic labour, perceptions of journalists’ identity, work/life boundaries and the implications of these changes for career and financial planning, expected rewards, and career paths.

Funder: Green Templeton College Small Grant.

• Visualisation of Academic Research This project aims to cultivate awareness of the demand

for visualised research and the ways in which it can improve media coverage and public understanding of complex issues, and use of academic research in practice. A ‘KickStart Award’ in partnership with NESTA and the Alliance for Useful Evidence.

External RelationsPartnerships and Collaborations include: • Events: BBC College of Journalism, BBC World Service,

Global Editors’ Network, Open Government, Alliance for Useful Evidence, NESTA, City University, Media Development Foundation, Panos South Asia, British Deputy High Commission, Chennai and Observer Research Foundation.

• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2014: Google, BBC, Ofcom, Newsworks, Roskilde University, the Hans Bredow Institute Hamburg, University of Navarra Spain, the Media Industry Research Foundation of Finland, Edelman UK, and France Télévisions.

• Research collaborations: Green Templeton College, PRIME Research UK and the European Journalism Observatory.


ACADEMIC STAFFProfessor Ben AnsellProfessor Nancy BermeoProfessor Daniel Butt**Professor Simon CaneyProfessor Richard CaplanProfessor Giovanni CapocciaProfessor Martin CeadelProfessor Paul ChaistyProfessor Nicholas CheesemanDr Janalee Cherneski**Dr Marwa Daoudy*Professor Anne DeightonProfessor Catherine De VriesDr Janina DillProfessor Elias Dinas**Professor David Doyle Professor Andrew Eggers**Dr Gideon Elford**Professor Louise FawcettProfessor Rosemary Foot*Dr Elizabeth FrazerProfessor Jane GingrichProfessor Todd HallDr Michael HartDr Sudhir HazareesinghProfessor David HineProfessor Christopher Hood*Professor Andy HurrellProfessor Dominic JohnsonProfessor Edward Keene Professor Yuen Foong KhongProfessor Desmond KingProfessor David LeopoldDr Jody LaPorte**Professor Neil MacFarlaneDr Shane Mac Giollabhui* Dr Paul MartinProfessor Walter MattliProfessor Daniel McDermottProfessor Lois McNayProfessor Karolina MilewiczProfessor Rana MitterDr Andreas Murr**Dr Karma NabulsiProfessor Ian NearyProfessor Kalypso NicolaïdisDr Nicholas OwenDr Cristina Parau*

Professor Gillian PeeleProfessor Derek PenslarProfessor Timothy PowerProfessor Philip RobinsProfessor David RuedaProfessor Gwendolyn SasseProfessor Petra SchleiterDr Noa SchonmannProfessor Duncan SnidalProfessor Tom Snijders*Professor Ricardo Soares de

OliveiraProfessor Marc StearsProfessor Zofia StemplowskaProfessor Patricia ThorntonProfessor James TilleyProfessor Jeremy Waldron*Professor Jennifer WelshDr Stuart WhiteProfessor Stephen WhitefieldProfessor Jan ZielonkaProfessor Radoslaw Zubek

NUFFIELD OFFICIAL FELLOWSProfessor Raymond DuchProfessor Geoffrey EvansProfessor Iain McLeanProfessor David MillerLaurence Whitehead

EMERITUS PROFESSORSProfessor Archie BrownProfessor Michael FreedenProfessor Sir Adam RobertsProfessor David RobertsonProfessor Avi Shlaim

RESEARCH FELLOWSDr Peter Bajomi-Lazar*Dr Dina Bishara** Dr Hylke Dijkstra* Dr Ruth Dixon*Dr Jonathan Floyd*Dr Ursula Hackett**Dr Nicola HorsburghDr Rozana HimazDr Nael Jebril*Dr Ignacio Jurado*Dr Spyros Kosmidis

Dr Ainius Lasas*Dr Alexander LeveringhausDr David Levy John Lloyd*Dr Beverley Loke**Dr Rasmus NielsenJames PainterDr Scot PetersonDr Robert PicardDr David Rodin*Dr Susana Salgado*Dr Adam Saunders**Dr Meera Selva * Dr Hugo SlimDr Vaclav Stetka*Dr Sukriti Issar **Dr Harry VerhoevenDr Michal Wenzel*

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Dr Faisal AhmedDr Othon AnastasakisAlan AngellProfessor William BeinartDr Alexander BettsDr Scott BlinderDr Samila BoseDr Nigel BowlesDr Andreas BuschDr Christine ChengDr Richard CogginsDr Emanuel ComanDr Ian CooperSam DawsMalcolm DeasJohn DunbabinDr Florence Faucher-KingDr Stephen FisherDr Matthew GibneyDr David Goldey (deceased July

2014)Professor Nandini GooptuProfessor Antony HeathDr William JonesDr Jonathan Leader MaynardDr Jeffrey LenowitzDr Tom LubbockProfessor Margaret MacMillanProfessor Helen Margetts

* Indicates leavers during or at end of 2013-14** Indicates starters during 2013-14

Staff


Dr Hartmut MayerDr Edward MortimerProfessor Raufu MustaphaMarius OstrowskiDr Mark PhilpDr Guillaume PikettySir Ivor RobertsProfessor Henry ShueDr Devi SridharProfessor Hew StrachanDr Jesse TomaltyDr Steve TsangDr Maya TudorDr Ashwini VasanthakumarDr Matthew WaltonDr Suke WoltonProfessor Ngaire Woods

DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATORJanice French

SUPPORT STAFFTara BaileyJames Baldwin Hannah Bond*Katarina Buehling**Kate CandyEmma Anderson*Genevieve J. Garrido Elizabeth GreenhalghSarah Hope**Jason HussainAparajita Kashyap*Matthew KennedyMargo KirkAndrew MellingMaria MorenoJulie Page

Rasangi PrematilakaMargaret PrewittArmando Roman-Zozaya**Wendy Wilkin*

RESEARCH PROGRAMME SUPPORT STAFFLucy Crittenden *Rebecca Edwards*Kate Hanneford-SmithCharles Harper*Alex ReidMonique RickettsTanya Vale*


Academic Visitors 2013-14

THE DEPARTMENT welcomes applications from academics and practitioners in the UK and

overseas, and those with a relevant professional or academic interest, who wish to contribute to, and participate in, the work of the department as visitors or associates.

In the academic year 2013-14 the department hosted the following visitors (grouped by centre or programme affiliation):

CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Visiting Research FellowsProfessor Cecilia Albin (Uppsala University)Dr Hamza Ali Malik (State Bank of Pakistan)Dr Nathalie Brack (Free University of Brussels)Nbyen Dan Hkung Awng (Humanity Institute)

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

Visiting Doctoral StudentsNicole Selame (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

DEPARTMENT

Visiting Research FellowsDr Johannes Becke (Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies)Dr Martin Deleixhe (Free University of Brussels)Dr Martin Segers (Utrecht University)Dr Victor Teo (University of Hong Kong)Dr Luca Tomini (Free University of Brussels)Professor David Weinstein (Wake Forest University)Dr Ke Xu (Xiamen University)

Visiting Doctoral StudentsYevgen Lantsuzovskyy (Catholic University of Eichstatt-Inglostadt)Salome Minesashvili (Tbilisi State University)Alessandra Russo (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)Sari Johanna Sumuvuori (University of HelsinkiChao Xie (Tsinghua University)

OXFORD INSTITUTE FOR ETHICS, LAW AND ARMED CONFLICT

Visiting Research FellowsDr James Alan Astman (Oakwood School)Dr Matthew Killingsworth (University of Tasmania)Dr Bernhard Koch (Goethe University)Vuyelwa Kuuya (Open Societies Foundation)

Visiting Doctoral StudentsLars Christie (University of Oslo)

OXFORD SCIENCES PO RESEARCH GROUP IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (FORMERLY THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH GROUP)

Visiting Doctoral StudentsBernd Weber

Post-Doctoral Visiting Research FellowDr Florent Gougou

REUTERS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF JOURNALISM

Visiting Research FellowsDr Juan Artero (University of Zaragoza)Elisabeth Braw (Metro International Newspapers)Andrew Lee Butters (Freelance Journalist)Dr Maya Even (Freelance Journalist)Ravi Narasimhan (The Hindu)Dr Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi (Monash University)Zehra Sayed (Jonkoping International Business School)


THE DEPARTMENT concluded its financial year 2013-14 with a deficit of £262k. In addition to the deficit,

£61k from reserves was invested in capital projects including infrastructure upgrade and website projects, still leaving the department with a healthy £1.3 million reserves.

This year has been a transition year for DPIR. Several major grants including an ERC grant ended early in the year and an Anglo-German programme jointly run with Bremen University came to its scheduled closure. Both contributed to a decrease in research and overheads income. Other externally funded projects will come on line in 2014-15, including the £1.2m received from the ESRC and Nuffield Foundation for the Oxford

Q-Step Centre. We also saw a dip in our donation and other income line, some of which is due to technical changes involving internal charging mechanisms. The department’s increased investment in its studentship programme is reflected in higher expenditure in the non-pay line compared to last year.

Challenges over the next year include managing the present uncertainty regarding the financial implications of the Research Excellence Framework, continuing with our development programme with the focus of maximising our financial support for doctoral research, and realising our potential with regard to research income.

Finance

2013/14£000

2012/13£000

IncomeJoint Resources Allocation Model (JRAM) 6,046 5,704 Other Fees 632 697 Research Income 1,182 1,384 Research Overheads 225 242 Trust Fund Income 561 424 Donations/Other 372 545 Total Income 9,018 8,996

ExpenditurePay (5,665) (5,342)Non-Pay (1,931) (1,873)Infrastructure & Capital Charges (1,684) (1,638)Total Expenditure (9,280) (8,853)

Surplus/(Deficit) (262) 143

Reserves brought forward 1,643 1,515Reserves adjustment (61) (15)Reserves carry forward* 1,320 1,643

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE SUMMARY Financial Year 1 August 2013 to 31 July 2014

*End of year outturn subject to audit approval and may change slightly.


DPIR Income 2013/14

JRAM & HEFCEGrants 63%

Donation/other6%

Research Overheads

3%Research Income15%

Other Fees8%

Trust Fund

Income5%

DPIR INCOME 2013/14

DPIR Expenditure 2013/14

Pay61%

Non-Pay21%

Infrastructure &Capital Charges

18%

DPIR EXPENDITURE 2013/14


The department would like to thank the following for their valuable contribution to teaching, administration and management over the past year:

Professor Daniel Butt, Course Director, MPhil Political Theory

Professor Martin Ceadel, Harassment Officer

Professor Nicholas Cheeseman, Course Director, MPhil Comparative Government

Professor Catherine De Vries, Director of Research Training (Politics)

Professor Yuen Foong Khong, Director of Graduate Studies (International Relations)

Dr Paul Martin, Deputy Head of Department (Michaelmas term)

Professor Lois McNay, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Dr Nicholas Owen, Deputy Head of Department (Hilary term, Trinity term)

Professor Derek Penslar, Course Director, MPhil International Relations

Professor Timothy Power, Director of Graduate Studies (Politics)

Professor Gwendolyn Sasse, Harassment Officer

Professor Petra Schleiter, REF Co-ordinator (Michaelmas term)

Professor Duncan Snidal, Director of Research Training (International Relations)

Dr Stuart White, Sub-Faculty Chair

Professor Radoslaw Zubek, Course Director, MPhil European Politics and Society

Office Holders


In addition to the Office Holders listed above, the department would like to thank the following:

Professor David Hine for serving as Development Director in 2013-14;

Dr Stuart White for being the Academic Editor of the 2014 edition of Inspires magazine;

All those involved in preparing the department’s REF submission and especially Petra Schleiter, Mark Philp, Elizabeth Greenhalgh, Rasangi Prematilaka and the Impact Case Study authors;

The DPIR graduate students who have during the year supported the work of the department’s administration and faculty by providing administrative, editorial, event and research assistance and by giving their time to participate in focus groups and surveys.

Acknowledgements

The department is deeply grateful for the generosity and support of its donors and sponsors over the past academic year, 2013-14.

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