Student Newswire - Department of Politics and International ...

CONTENTS 

1 From the Head of Department 

4 People 

•New Staff and Leavers 

•Academic Office Holders 

•Graduate Student 

Representatives 

•Profile: Kate Brooks 

•Profile: Maximilien von Berg 

•Profile: Shelley Gao 

•Undergraduate Student 


•Graduate Student Web Profiles 

•Ruben Reike: focus on DPhil 

research 

•New DPIR Visitors 

7 News and Views 

•Politics in Spires Blog News 

•Events 

•Interpretive Analysis Network 

•STAIR 

9 Announcements 

11 Copy deadline: third week 

Hilary term 2013 

Dear Students, 

DPIR STUDENT NEWSWIRE, MICHAELMAS TERM 

MICHAELMAS 2012 

DPIR STUDENT 

NEWSWIRE 

Welcome to academic year 2012-13 

It gives me great pleasure as Head of Department to introduce the current issue 

of our Student Newswire. Our hope is that the newsletter will provide a good 

way to let you know more about our events and to update you about department 

administration. As I am sure you are already very aware, there is a lot going on in 

the department and in the university generally! This year will be incredibly busy 

for me and my colleagues as we try to strengthen the faculty with a raft of new 

appointments to add to some of this year’s academic newcomers. There are lots 

of ways in which you too can contribute in extra ways to departmental life. If 

you are not already aware of it, think about contributing to our blog. Join events 

mailing lists and student networks. It isn’t too soon either to join our alumni 

network. Details of how are found within. Remember, finally, that I am always 

available to meet with you if any problems arise or if you have suggestions about 

what we can do better. Just drop me an email. 

Best wishes, 

Stephen 

Stephen Whitefield, Head of Department 

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People 

The Department has welcomed the following new staff: 

Academic Staff: 

•Catherine E. de Vries, University Lecturer in 

Comparative European Politics and Government (including 

the Politics of the European Union) in association with 

Lincoln College (Commenced 1st September) 

•Dominic Johnson, Alastair Buchan Chair in International 

Relations in association with St Antony’s (Commenced 1st 

September but is at Princeton for the academic year 2012- 

13) 

•Karolina Milewicz, University Lecturer in International 

Relations (specialising in International Political Economy) 

in association with University College (Commenced 1st 

September) 

•Zofia Stemplowska, University Lecturer in Political 

Theory in association with Worcester College (Commenced 

1st September) 

•Derek Penslar, Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel 

Studies in association with St Anne’s. Joint post with SIAS 

(Commenced 1st September) 

Fixed term appointments: 

•Walter C Ladwig III, Departmental Lecturer in 

International Relations in the Department of Politics and 

International Relations (Commenced 1st September) 

•Janina Dill, Hedley Bull Research Fellowship in association 

with Merton College (Commenced 1st October) 

We wish the following leavers well: 

Academic Staff: 

•Cindy Skach (leaves 1 Jan 2013) 

•David Robertson (retired 30 Sept 2012) 

Research Staff: 

•David Soskice, Research Professor (left 31 July 2012) 


Research Staff: 

• Nicola Horsburgh, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 

in China and Nuclear Responsibility in the Global Nuclear 

Order (Commenced 1st October) 

•Spyros Kosmidis, Post-doctoral Research Fellow 

in Political Science and Computational Linguistics 


•Hylke Dijkstra, Marie Curie Fellow (Commenced 1st 

September) 

Administrative Staff: 

•Liz Greenhalgh, Knowledge Exchange Officer 

(Commenced 14th May) 

•Matthew Kennedy, Research Support Officer 

(Commenced 13th August) 

•Margaret Prewitt, Personnel Assistant (Commenced 

30th July) 

•Roger Hutchings, Part-time Blog IT Administrator 


Please see profiles of Catherine E. de Vries and 

Zofia Stemplowska on pages 6 and 7 respectively 

in the DPIR Newswire, Michaelmas term 2012. 

Administrative Staff: 

•Christine Raybould, Personnel Assistant 

•Nicola Froggatt, Research Support Officer 

•Sarah Travis, Research Support Officer 

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Academic Office Holders 2012-13 

Office Office Holder 

Deputy Head of Department Paul Martin 

Director Graduate Studies – International Relations Richard Caplan 

Director Graduate Studies - Politics Tim Power 

Director Undergraduate Studies Lois McNay 

Course Director – MPhil Comparative Government Nancy Bermeo 

Course Director – MPhil European Politics and Society 

Course Director – MPhil Political Theory Dan McDermott 


Jan Zielonka (MT); Radek Zubek (HT 

onwards) 

Course Director – MPhil International Relations Yuen Foong Khong 

Director Research Training - Politics 

Director Research Training – International Relations 

Harassment Officers 

REF Co-ordinator 

Research Director 

Sub-Faculty Chair 

Placement Officer 

Catherine de Vries 

Duncan Snidal 

Martin Ceadel, Karma Nabulsi 

Petra Schleiter 

Stephen Whitefield (MT); Mark Philp (HT 

onwards) 

Stuart White 

Desmond King 

Graduate Student Representatives, 2012-13 

In sixth week of every term there are meetings of the Graduate Joint Consultative Committee (GJCC) for Politics and the 

Graduate Joint Consultative Committee (GJCC) for International Relations. All graduate students in Politics and International 

Relations are invited to attend their respective GJCCs . 

The meetings are chaired by the student representatives for the current academic year and are attended by the respective 

DGSs, DRTs and Course Directors as well as members of the Courses Team. The purpose of the GJCCs is to give you an 

opportunity to raise any problems or make suggestions in connection with your graduate programme or to raise any other 

issues which concern you. Times and agendas are circulated to all graduate students in advance of the meetings and you are 

encouraged to contact your student representatives to discuss any issues you would like to be raised. 

Graduate Student Representatives for 2012-13 are: 

•Politics: Maximilien von Berg and Shelley Gao (both MPhil in Comparative Government) 

•International Relations: Megan Braun, Kate Brooks and Claire Vergerio (all MPhil in International Relations) 

Please see profiles of Kate Brooks and Maximilien von Berg on page 4. 

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Kate Brooks 

Hi, I’m Kate and I’m a second year MPhil 

Student based at Wadham College. 

Prior to commencing my studies at 

Oxford, I undertook my undergraduate 

degree in Politics and IR at Bath and 

Currently on the second year of 

an MPhil in Politics (Comparative 

Government), my interests lie in 

French and Middle Eastern politics, as 

well as political economy in advanced 

capitalist democracies. My thesis aims 

to shed light on two central factors 

that influence levels of public debt. 

First, I seek to map the effect of 

specific institutional features on public 

debt in modern democracies (mostly 

OECD countries). In the second phase 

of my research, I shall investigate 

whether interest rates on long-term 

government bonds – also looking 

considering credit default swaps on 

state bonds – fluctuate when markets 

expect/predict a shift from one party 

or coalition from one to another 

party or coalition from the other side 

of the political spectrum. I shall rely 

on the advice of a leading scholar in 

quantitative methods, my supervisor 

Raymond Duch, to bring this project to 

a successful outcome. My hope is that 

some of my findings will ultimately 

have relevance for policy-making. 

Outside the classroom, I nurture 

multiple interests amongst which 


worked both as a researcher in Sudan 

and later as a parliamentary assistant 

for the British Labour Party in the 

European Parliament. 

My current research is based within 

feminist theories of IR and is an 

attempt to critique current feminist 

scholarship on the relationship between 

state belligerence and gender inequality 

through investigation of those states 

that buck the trend of correlation 

between oppression of women and 

state aggression. In my current MPhil 

thesis I am focussing upon Israel as 

my main case study and attempting 

to investigate how the conscription of 

women into the IDF has allowed Israel 

to become an unusually militarised 

society despite also being a relatively 

gender-egalitarian nation. 

Maximilien von Berg 

sports play an important part. I have 

previously competed as a longdistance 

triathlete representing 

Belgium, earning a silver medal at the 

European Championships and gold at 

the World Championships in the 18-24 

age group. At Oxford, my affiliation 

to St Cross College has allowed me 

to row for Wolfson College. I have 

picked up rowing avidly. Last year was 

particularly successful for Wolfson 

rowing as our ‘First Eight’ reached 5th 

position in Torpids and 4th position in 

Summer Eights in Division 1 – a record 

in the boat club’s history. In June I 

joined the ‘Development Squad’ of the 

Oxford University Lightweight Rowing 

Club with which I am now training to 

participate in the 2013 ‘Lightweight 

Boat Race’ against Cambridge, as well 

as a number of regattas. I am also 

leading the Somalia team of a new 

and upcoming NGO called Conflict 

Analysis which provides open-source 

intelligence to promote awareness on 

world affairs. 

The Department of Politics and 

International Relations is one of the 

very best places in the world devoted 

My overall aim is to develop a more 

constructivist understanding of the 

relationship between gender and 

conflict in order to generate a more 

nuanced feminist discourse within IR. 

I have been lucky to find an excellent 

and supportive supervisor in Louise 

Fawcett and am now hoping to stay 

on for the DPhil in order to continue 

my research. 

In addition to my academic 

commitments, I am very involved 

with competitive debating at the 

Oxford Union and have become 

a convert to rowing since joining 

Oxford. Lastly, I am also a deputy 

graduate editor for the Politics in 

Spires blog. 

IR Graduate Representative 

to the study of politics. To make sure 

students feel part of this vibrant 

community of scholars, this year has 

seen the introduction of a ‘buddyscheme’ 

organised by Shelley and I 

to foster exchange amongst MPhil 

students from the first and second 

years, as well as to engage students 

from other degree-concentrations 

within the DPIR. 

Another way for students to interact 

and engage with the community is 

Politics in Spires, which i’ve enjoyed as 

a reader and author 

(www.politicsinspires.org). 

Politics Graduate Representative 

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Undergraduate 

Student 


2012-13 

The Undergraduate Joint Consultative 

Committee (UJCC) for PPE and History 

and Politics students takes place in 5th 

week of every term. 

This meeting gives students the 

chance to raise any issues affecting 

them which will then be fed through 

to relevant panels and committees. 

The meeting is attended by the 

student representatives as well as the 

Deputy Head of Department, Director 

of Undergraduate Studies and the 

Undergraduate Studies Officer. 

The current student representatives 

are Jordan Becker (Chair), Samuel 

Harwin (Secretary) and Giulia Caruso 

(Library Rep). Student Representatives 

are nominated at the Hilary Term 

meeting. The agenda and time of 

the meetings is circulated to all 

undergraduate students who are 

encouraged to report any items they 

would like discussed to their college 

student representative, a list of which 

can be found on WebLearn. 


Shelley Gao 

My name is Shelley Gao and I 

am a second year MPhil Politics: 

Comparative Government at DPIR. I 

was born in China, raised in Australia, 

and educated in the U.S. Before coming 

to Oxford, I studied International 

Relations and History at Stanford 

University. I am primarily interested in 

U.S. foreign policy, particularly postwar 

U.S. - China relations. My MPhil thesis 

seeks to examine the American Right 

and China, 1945-1960. 

Politics Graduate Representative 

The Department welcomed the following new visitors: 

•Mr Ary da Cunha, University of Porto Law School 

•Dr Maria Fanis, Ohio University 

•Dr Li Ying Hao, Independent Researcher 

•Mr Jason Hecht, Cornell University 

•Mr Daniel Honig, Harvard University 

•Dr Cheng-Chwee Kuik, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 

•Mr Phoak Kung, University of Warwick 

Graduate Student Profiles and Job Market Listing 

From next week, starting with the year 3+ DPhil students, the 

DPIR will be emailing graduate students about having a profile 

on the DPIR website. Students will be invited to complete a 

simple template and there will be several opportunities in the 

year to update content. Final year DPhil students will also be 

given the option to be listed as a ‘Job Market’ candidate on 

the DPIR website. The web profiles will appear in a ‘Graduate 

Student’ sub-section under the ‘People’ section on the 

website. 

•Mr Oladapo Opasina, Sant’ Anna School of Advanced 

Studies 

•Mr Lukasz Pawlowski, University of Melbourne/ 

Australian Government 

•Miss Alessandra Russo, Sant’ Anna School of Advanced 

Studies 

Research centre and programme visitors are listed on each 

centre / programme website. 

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Ruben Reike: Focus on Graduate Research 

My name is Ruben Reike and I’m a third 

year DPhil student in International 

Relations. My research project focuses 

on the principle of the Responsibility 

to Protect (R2P). Endorsed by states 

at the UN’s sixtieth anniversary 

summit in 2005, R2P outlines states’ 

responsibilities to prevent and halt 

mass atrocity crimes. My thesis 

aims to clarify the R2P’s element of 

prevention, which is often claimed 

to be its most important dimension. 

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, 

for example, declared 2012 the 

year of prevention. And the element 

of prevention frequently receives 

widespread support among UN 

member-states, for instance during 

the recent R2P debate in the General 

Assembly. However, despite the 

overwhelming rhetorical support 

for the so-called “responsibility to 

prevent”, it seems much less clear 

what exactly prevention means and 


entails in R2P situations. In policy and 

academia, R2P prevention is often 

treated as being synonymous with the 

prevention of armed conflict - a longstanding 

and well-established agenda. 

However, R2P is specifically targeted to 

four specific crimes under international 

law, namely genocide, war crimes, 

ethnic cleansing, and crimes against 

humanity. That means that the 

R2P only deals with the prevention 

of these four atrocity crimes (not 

the prevention of natural disasters, 

deadly diseases, or armed conflict). 

It seems more accurate, therefore, to 

treat the “responsibility to prevent” 

as international crimes prevention. I 

spent most of my first year developing 

a framework for the prevention of 

international crimes and thinking 

through some of the implications of 

such a “crimes prevention lens” for the 

R2P debate on prevention. 

In my second year, I turned to my three 

case studies: Bosnia-Herzegovina 

(1991-95), Kenya (2007/08), and 

Libya (2011). Much of last year I have 

spent researching the international 

prevention efforts in context of the 

2011 Libya crisis to see what the case 

might suggest for the prevention of 

mass atrocity crimes more generally. 

As part of this research I undertook 

multiple trips to New York and Brussels 

to interview diplomats, UN staff, 

NATO officials, and military personnel 

involved in the Libya interventions. 

Some preliminary findings have 

appeared in the Oxford journal STAIR, 

in a piece entitled “Libya and the 

Responsibility to Protect: Lessons for 

the Prevention of Mass Atrocities”. At 

the moment, I’m conducting research 

on the international community’s 

failed prevention efforts in Bosnia- 

Herzegovina in the early 1990s. This is 

quite challenging, as the Bosnia crisis 

is extremely complex, the material and 

secondary literature on Bosnia and 

Yugoslavia is vast, and the mind-sets 

and debates in the early 1990s were 

slightly different from today. 

Please visit the STAIR website to 

download a copy of my article. 

Focus on Graduate Research 

If you are interested in conributing to this section in future issues of Student Newswire, please contact Kate Candy at least 

two weeks ahead of the copy deadline, which is Friday 1 February 2013. 

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Politics in Spires blog 

news 

The Politics in Spires blog is pleased to announce an 

expanded editorial team, a prize winner and two new 

collaborations. 

Two new Graduate Deputy Editors 

•The blog editorial team is delighted to welcome two additional Graduate Deputy 

Editors, Chris Prosser (DPhil Politics) and Rutger Kaput (DPhil Politics), who join 

Kate Brooks (MPhil IR). A. Blake Ewing is Graduate Editor. A full list of blog team 

members can be found on the blog People page. 

Politics in Spires blog prize winner 

•Congratulations to Manuel Muniz, who for the second time has won the prize for the best student 

blog on Politics in Spires! Professor Duncan Snidal, one of the two Oxford academics on the blog 

editorial team said, ‘This blog provides an incisive analysis of one of the toughest policy problems on 

the international agenda-: whether and how to fix the Eurozone. It combines an analysis of both the 

economics and politics with nice insights about the different positions of different states. And it makes 

some bold proposals. A terrific blog!’ The blog The European Dilemma: the Monetary Union and the Road 

Ahead, was co-authored with José Carlos Alcázar, and can be read here. 

US Elections 12 

•The blog is currently collaborating with the Rothermere American Institute in the 

run up to, and for a short while after, the US elections. US Elections 12 is a forum for 

academic discussion and debate surrounding the US Presidential, Congressional and 

local elections, bringing together scholars from a range of different fields -- including 

political science, history, law and literature -- to supplement the horse-race coverage 

provided by political journalism and showcase academic research. Please contact 

Oxbridge.blog@gmail.com to contribute. 

Posts on Elections 2012 are published simultaneously on the RAI website and the 

Politics in Spires blog. Opinions expressed in Elections 2012 are those of the authors 

Deepening Democracy 

•Politics in Spires is also hosting ‘Deepening Democracy’, curated by the Blavatnik 

School of Government. This blog forum will consist of an online series of articles, 

responding to the September 2012 report by the Global Commission on Elections, 

Democracy and Security, on improving the integrity of elections. It will feature 

contributions from students on the Master of Public Policy course at the School; guest 

posts from Oxford and Cambridge scholars in politics and international relations are 

most welcome. Please contact Oxbridge.blog@gmail.com to contribute. 

The series will culminate in a panel event hosted by the School as part of their 

Challenges of Government conference on 7 December 2012, in which BSG students 

debate strategies for supporting democratic integrity with some of the authors of the 

report. 


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How to find out 

about upcoming 

events 

Weekly events mailing list 

Subscribers to this list are circulated 

weekly in term time with a list of 

events for the following week. Please 

contact events@politics.ox.ac.uk to 

subscribe. Please note that we only 

send one email circular per week, 

which duplicates the information on 

the DPIR website. 

Please note it is not DPIR policy to 

circulate events to staff or students 

by email due to the volume of events 

taking place. The DPIR’s research 

centres or programmes have mailing 

lists which are used to publicise 

centre / programme events. To 

subscribe to a list, please contact 

the administrator for the centre / 

programme: details on the individual 

websites. 

”Interesting Talks Oxford” 

The facebook page “Interesting Talks 

Oxford” has been recommended as 

helpful in discovering events across the 

University: 

https://www.facebook.com/ 

oxfordtalks?sk=wall 

There is also a group: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ 

interestingtalksoxford/ 

Undergraduate events and 

announcements mailing list 

There is an undergraduate events 

and announcements mailing list for 

PPE and History & Politics students. 

Join by emailing the Undergraduate 

Studies Officer, Kimberley Adams 

(kimberley.adams@politics.ox.ac.uk) 


A selection of upcoming events 

Please check the website in advance as pre-registration may be 

required. 

•Annual Lecture for the Oxford Changing Character of War Programme: 

General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff 

06.11.2012 17.00 h, Examination Schools 

•EU Careers Presentation in Oxford (link to Facebook page): 

Oxford students from all disciplines and all years are welcome to attend this 

presentation to discover the range of graduate jobs and internship opportunities 

at the EU institutions. 

08.11.2012 19.30 h, The Careers Service (56, Banbury Road OX2 6PA) 

•Politics and Language – Friends or Enemies? Featuring Mark Thompson (former 

Director General of the BBC), Polly Toynbee (The Guardian), David Willetts MP 

and Lord O’Donnell, chaired by Andrew Marr (BBC) 

09.11.2012 17.00 h, St. Peter’s College 

•The Huang Hsing Foundation Lecture: How New and Assertive is China’s New 

Assertiveness? Professor Alastair Iain Johnston (Harvard University) 

16.11.2012 17.00 h - 18.30 h, St. Antony’s College 

•The Taliban at War: Inside the Afghan Insurgency Professor Theo Farrell and 

Visiting Professor Antonio Giustozzi (King’s College, London) 

20.11.2012 13.00 h, Manor Road Building, Seminar Room G 

Interested in what’s on in Oxford? 

Daily Info website 

Oxford is lucky to have www.dailyinfo.co.uk which rightly bills itself as ‘a one-stop 

guide to Oxford life’. Here you can find events listings, classified ads, community 

information and reviews on all the local restaurants, cafes, pubs, clubs and bars, as 

well as theatre performances, art exhibitions and the local music gig scene. If it’s 

not on Daily Info then it probably isn’t happening! You can also find Daily Info on 

Facebook by clicking here. 

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Interpretive Analysis Network 

In Trinity Term 2012, DPIR launched 

the Interpretive Analysis Network 

(IAN). The IAN acts as a forum for 

experience exchange and expertise 

gathering for researchers using 

methods that engage with the 

interpretive analysis of text. The IAN 

is open to graduate, post-doctoral 

and academic members of the 

Department. 

The IAN complements university-wide 

or division-level methods training 

with a more targeted set of resources. 

Students from International Relations, 

Comparative Politics, Political Theory 

and European Politics regularly use 

interpretive methods to process 

data gathered through interviews, 

focus groups, qualitative surveys 

or archival work. Apart from short 

introductory courses offered in the 

MPhil programmes, there is no ongoing 

guidance for students employing this 

particular range of analytic methods. 

It is once students return from the 

field that they most need contact with 

other researchers with experience and 

the practical expertise of ‘having done 

it’. The IAN provides a repository of 

knowledge and a forum for mentoring 

DPIR researchers at all levels of 

experience. 

St Antony’s 

International 

Review 

St Antony’s International Review 

(STAIR) is a peer-reviewed, academic 

journal established by graduate 

members of St Antony’s College at the 

University of Oxford. It is published 

twice a year and features articles on 

international affairs. 


We invite researchers to access the 

IAN through its online forum hosted on 

WEBLEARN. The site is currently being 

updated and will soon contain a library 

of resources exploring theoretical, 

methodological and ethical aspects of 

data gathering and analysis, insights 

from researchers’ practical experience, 

a discussion forum, FAQ section and 

event announcements. The second 

event of this term will take place on 

Tuesday of week eight (27 November). 

It will feature Dr Walter Ladwig sharing 

his expertise on archival work. Please 

consult WEBLEARN and the DPIR notice 

board for further information. 

If you are interested in getting 

involved with the IAN, if you wish to 

contribute resources for inclusion on 

the WEBLEARN site or if you have 

any questions regarding the network, 

please get in contact with Janina Dill, 

Liz Frazer, or Iginio Gagliardone. 

Elizabeth.Frazer@new.ox.ac.uk 

Lecturer in Politics, DPIR 

Iginio.Gagliardone@csls.ox.ac.uk 

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, 

CSLS 

Janina.Dill@politics.ox.ac.uk 

Hedley Bull Fellow, DPIR 

The central aim of STAIR is to reflect 

the cross-disciplinary dialogue 

on global issues of contemporary 

relevance that is a unique feature of life 

at St Antony’s. In recreating the 

College ethos of open, accessible 

and engaged debate, STAIR seeks to 

develop a forum in which emerging 

scholars can publish their work 

alongside established academics and 

policymakers. By drawing on the wide 

range of disciplinary perspectives and 

intellectual resources of St Antony’s, 

we are keen to further raise the 

international profile of the College and 

strengthen the link between alumni and 

current members. 

Please visit the website for further 

information including a call for papers. 

Announcements 

Student Achievements 

There is a student news section on 

the DPIR website. If you have a recent 

publication, or have been in the media, 

won an award, etc., we would like to 

hear from you: news@politics.ox.ac.uk 

OxWip: Oxford Women in Politics 

OxWip has three main aims: to connect 

Oxford’s women students, faculty, 

and alumni engaged in the political 

and corporate spheres; to develop 

the professional and leadership skills 

necessary for a successful career; 

and to inspire the next generation of 

women students. 

[Website] [Facebook page (www. 

facebook.com/oxwip?ref=pb)] 

Facebook page for PPE 

current students: 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/ 

PPE-Philosophy-Politics-and- 

Economics-at-the-University-of- 

Oxford/166860320003657 

Call for Photographers! 

The DPIR is looking for keen DPIR 

photographers to increase our stock 

of images for use on the DPIR website 

and in publicity: any images used will 

of course be credited. We are looking 

for images of groups of students at 

work in libraries, lectures and seminars; 

college shots; and ‘Oxford’ images 

showing bikes, punts etc. We will put 

photos online on a Student Photo 

Gallery. Please contact Kate Candy if 

you are interested. 

Freecycling in Oxford 

Users of the website Freecycle might 

be interested to know that there is an 

Oxford page: groups.freecycle.org/ 

OxfordUK. Here you can pick up or get 

rid of furniture, TVs and radios, musical 

instruments and all sorts – for free! 

Join the DPIR Alumni Groups 

Full details are on the alumni 

networks website. 

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Announcements, 

continued 

Inspires Alumni magazine 

Please click on the image to download 

a copy. Hard copies of all DPIR publicity 

is available on request: please email 

Kate Candy. 

And Finally... 


Showcasing 2012-13 DPIR Research 

This portfolio will be updated in 

September 2013. It is currently online 

with the 2011 DPIR research: please 

click here. 

DPIR Annual Report 2011-12 

A huge thank you to all of you who completed the recent survey on Student Newswire! The winner of the £50 book token is 

Katharine Millar. 

We were very pleased to hear all your suggestions about what you would like to read in the newsletter. The main strands 

were: 

• Job vacancies* and funding opportunities; 

• Listing key upcoming events, and providing a bit of background on the speaker and the subject; 

• News about what’s going on in the Department, particularly any new publications, new research projects and new 

academic appointments; 

• Information on any related student activities and societies. 

*Regarding jobs, we will feature information regularly in the newsletter. In the meantime, on p. 7 of Trinity term 2012 Student 

Newswire we published an article by Dr Mark Philp (Placement Officer 2009-12) on how the DPIR can help you in seeking 

employment. Professor Desmond King is the current DPIR Placement Officer. We also published on p. 8 some detailed advice 

from the University Careers Service. 

We hope to incorporate these suggestions into future issues of this newsletter. If you have any comments, feedback or 

suggestions for future issues please get in touch: kate.candy@politics.ox.ac.uk 

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. 

Thank you for reading this issue of 

Student Newswire - we hope you 

enjoyed it! 

If you have announcements, notices or suggestions for editorial pieces for 

Hilary term’s issue, please contact Kate Candy, kate.candy@politics.ox.ac.uk. 

Copy deadline: Friday 1 February 2013 


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