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The Magazine for Oxford Politics and International Relations Alumni 2012 INS The Magazine for OxfordPIR Politics and InternationalES Relations Alumni A LETTER FROM THE EDITORS CONTENTS 2012: Issue 2 5 Welcome 20 Recent Books Welcome to the second issue of Inspires, the alumni Stephen Whitefield magazine of the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR). 22 Kalypso Nicolaïdis in Conversation 6 From Sheldonian to Shanghai Tom Clarkson In this issue we have sought to bring you a further selection Rana Mitter of articles which we hope convey the scale and breadth of 24 Keeping it Clean – But How Exactly? our teaching and research activity and, more particularly, 8 How the British Vote David Hine, Gillian Peele and Mark Philp the value and impact of this activity as we engage with the world in and outside of the Academy. As with the inaugural James Tilley issue, we hope that the content of Inspires will find 26 Alumni around the World : resonance across the alumni community, both with those 10 Building Peace after War Key to Answers who studied with us as undergraduates and as graduates. Richard Caplan 27 Bookmark: Politics in Spires We were very pleased to receive feedback on the inaugural Inspires, which was on the whole very encouraging! There 12 Alumni around the World Spotlight on Research were a few expressions of surprise that we have taken the initiative now to communicate with our alumni, especially 14 Life after PPE: Focus on Singapore 28 Dates for Your Diary as we have been out of touch for so long. There were responses, positive and negative, to individual articles, 16 Studying Emotions and Politics which we passed on to the relevant authors. By far the most popular feature, if your letters and emails are an accurate Stephen Whitefield reflection, was ‘Life after PPE’. We have followed this up in this issue with ‘Life after PPE: Focus on Singapore’, which 18 Competing with the Best for the Best we hope shows the international scope of the degree. Many of you have sent alumni profiles of your lives ‘after PPE’ (or indeed ‘after DPIR’ if you undertook graduate study with us), which are now online (www.politics.ox.ac.uk): do please keep these coming! The podcast on PPE (More Personal Reflections) has also proved enormously popular on the University’s podcast website, iTunesU (http://itunes. ox.ac.uk), with 5,800 downloads to date. It has been a great pleasure to correspond over the year with alumni, and we do hope you will continue to send us suggestions for future content, as well as perhaps volunteering to contribute to future issues yourselves. There will be an electronic newsletter which will be circulated in Michaelmas term – if you have suggestions for content, including details of your publications, please do send these to us: [email protected]. You are most welcome to join our alumni networks on Facebook and LinkedIn, which are a valuable way of keeping the alumni community in touch throughout the year. We hope to see you in person at the Oxford Alumni Weekend (14-16 September 2012) and at our DPIR Alumni event on 1-2 March 2013. Photo: Sue Srawley We look forward to hearing from you. Kate Candy and David Hine ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In addition to all the excellent contributors, GET IN TOUCH: the editors would like to thank the following for their advice and help of various kinds: Department of Politics and International Relations, James Baldwin University of Oxford, Janice French Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UQ, Ayako Komine United Kingdom David Leopold David Levy David Miller Email: [email protected] Elisabeth Wadge Phone: +44 (0)1865 278700 Jennifer Welsh Design Keiko Ikeuchi (www.keikoikeuchi.co.uk) The opinions expressed in Inspires are Photography Sue Taylor ([email protected]) those of the contributors, and are not Keiko Ikeuchi (www.keikoikeuchi.co.uk) necessarily shared by the DPIR or the Shutterstock University of Oxford. Dmitry Berkut / Shutterstock.com University of Oxford Images Toby Whiting 2 3 WELCOME Head of Department Stephen Whitefieldlooks back on a busy and productive year for the department, and outlines our aims and aspirations for the year to come elcome to the 2nd Edition of The REF is one of the principal sources of students – some need more methods training Inspires, the magazine for all alumni Departmental funding, along with income from than others – and the balance changes over Wof the Department of Politics and fees from graduates and undergraduates, time. So, we have been looking this last year at International Relations. And to all those who what we get from research projects, and what the content of our graduate programmes afresh, read and studied Politics and International we have in trusts and endowments. REF with full consultation with our current students Relations in Oxford even before the foundation income is based upon the Department’s and recent graduates, and aim to make some of the Department in 2000, we still claim you as performance, as judged by a national panel changes in the year ahead. one of us! of our peers, in terms of the excellence of our research and its broader societal impact Finally, we have continued with fund-raising. We have had a busy year running outstanding (hopefully for the better). Oxford Politics and Part of that has involved responding to the academic events open to our alumni. Some of International Relations is among the strongest Oxford University Press challenge fund – known you may have attended the University’s Annual in the UK – and strongest of all on our preferred locally as the Teaching Fund – in which some Alumni Weekend last September and heard the indicator, which is that we have the largest £60 million has been set aside by the University fascinating debate on inter-generational justice group of top-ranked researchers of any Politics to match against private donations to fund between Mark Philp, Adam Swift and Simon department in the country. I have no doubt that existing joint college-university tutorial positions. Caney. You may also have attended a meeting we will perform very strongly again in the 2014 Essentially, if a tutorial post costs £2 million to in London when David Hine and Mark Philp exercise, but to ensure that outcome we have endow, the Teaching Fund will add £800K to spoke on the very topical issue of standards been investing heavily in new appointments a donation of £1.2 million. The Department is in public life, or at least what we might do to and seeking to recruit the strongest academics working with some colleges to leverage the improve them. If you didn’t make either of those in an increasingly competitive environment. Teaching Fund to support tutorial fellowships events – or the brilliant speech by Ambassador We expect to get a financial return on that in Politics and International Relations. And we Thomas Pickering who gave the 2nd Annual investment and of course the strength of our are delighted to have received pledges of £1.2 Fulbright Lecture - you missed out. But you can faculty is a large part of what makes Oxford million from extraordinarily generous donors catch up on Ambassador Pickering’s lecture such an attractive place for students. But the at Christ Church which will trigger Teaching at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/. Do please come REF requires resources upfront and it requires Fund support and will endow the post held by along to the Alumni Weekend next September careful planning of our future staffing. Eddie Keene. Readers will want to know that as well as to our Departmental alumni event in the Department will use the financial benefit March 2013 – details are on the back cover. Hence, the ‘size and shape’ review. The of Teaching Fund success to further support And, of course, keep in touch via our website - takeaway headline from that was that we are our main priority to increase studentships and http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk. roughly the right size and could perhaps be bursaries for our research students! slightly smaller. We were able to identify areas Our energies in the Department over the last of particular staffing need, not only for the So, I hope you will see the various ways in year and in the year ahead are concentrated REF but also for graduate supervision and which we are moving to meet our studentship on a few key strategic concerns. First, we undergraduate teaching, which is informing needs with our own resources. Please consider have been gearing up for the 2014 Research the recruitment we are currently doing. But we helping us to recruit and retain the best Excellence Framework (REF) assessment. also thought that there was some scope for full students with a donation of your own. Second, we have conducted a ‘size and shape’ time staff reduction with retirement and people review of our academic staffing and will move moving to posts elsewhere and, crucially, we forward to implement it. Third, we have finished decided that savings from any reductions a thorough review of our graduate masters should be used, in line with our number one and doctoral programmes which we will also priority, to provide additional resources for be taking forward. Fourth, we have continued graduate studentships. to build our fund-raising and development capacities. Of course, it is not just funding and faculty that attracts the best students but the quality of our I think it is worth reminding you that the programmes as well. Oxford is understandably Department’s number one priority is to increase small-c conservative about its degrees. PPE in the amount of financial assistance that we particular remains a flagship and our MPhils give to our research students.
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