Departmental Seminar Series

Our Departmental Seminars are open to postgraduate research students and academic staff. They provide a setting for intellectual debate, sharing ideas and collaboration.

We invite world leading academics to attend our Seminar Series as guest speakers, to present their current research and to engage in intellectual debate. The series also provides a forum for academics from within our department to present work in progress and to receive constructive feedback.

The seminars give an opportunity for us to bring in non-academic groups working in politics, so as to broaden our understanding of 'real world' politics as well as to foster potential collaboration. We also welcome expert practitioners to share best practice on topics such as research grant writing, media engagement, creating non-academic impact and on various new innovations in teaching and learning.

Departmental Seminars 2012-13

Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic
October 17, 2012	Daniela Tepe-Belfrage	University of Sheffield	TBC
October 24, 2012	Yoshitaka Nishizawa	Doshisha University, Japan	The Electoral Success and Failure of the Democratic Party of Japan
October 31, 2012	Hans Kundnani	European Council on Foreign Relations	On the 'European Interest'
November 7, 2012	Rachel Gibson	University of Manchester	New Media in Campaigns and Elections
November 14, 2012	Greg Morgan	University of Sheffield	Research Funding Opportunities / Faculty Assistance
November 28, 2012	Theo Farrell	Kings College London	The Taliban at War
December 5, 2012	Athanassios Roussias	University of Sheffield	Electoral Observation and the Promotion of Democracy: Wishful or Reality?
February 27, 2013	Clive Baldwin	Senior Legal Advisor - Human Rights Watch	TBC
April 10, 2013	Media Training	University of Sheffield	Media Training / REF
April 17, 2013	Luis Cabrera	University of Birmingham	TBC
April 24, 2013	Stephanie Mudge	University of California Davis	Leftism in the Neoliberal Era: Explaining the Remaking of a Political Category
May 8, 2013	Jonathan Hopkin	London School of Economics	Cartel Parties and the Crisis: Revisiting Resource Mobilization Theory
May 15, 2013	Owen Parker	University of Sheffield	Whose Free Movement?: Roma Migrants and European Citizenship
May 22, 2013	Preslava Stoeva	American International University London	Cosmopolitan Justice and Reevaluating Global Health Security
May 29, 2013	Lorraine Elliott	Australian National University	TBC

All Seminars take place in Room 215, Elmfield Building, from 13:00-14:15pm.