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The Adult Gaze: Looking Again at Children and Young People in Peace and Conflict

New research by Dr Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli and a team of researchers challenges the ‘Adult Gaze’, arguing that children’s expertise on war and peace is being ignored by a system that only views them as future leaders rather than current experts.
Susan Oman sat amongst others on a long desk in the UK parliament

Dr Susan Oman gives evidence on AI sovereignty to All Party Parliamentary Group

Susan Oman gave evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group on AI about AI sovereignty and the importance of public literacy and engagement, at an event on 18 May.

Matt Flinders poses with a certificate at the PSA awards

Professor Matt Flinders awarded Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize 2026

Congratulations to Professor Matt Flinders, who has been awarded the Political Studies Association’s Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize 2026 for outstanding professional contributions to political studies.

Matthew Flinders outside the Houses of Parliment

Professor Matthew Flinders made a Founding Fellow

Congratulations to Professor Matthew Flinders who is made a Founding Fellow of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.

A small boat crossing the sea, in the background a much larger military or security type vessel can be seen.

New research reveals billions made by companies involved in UK border security

New research from a team of leading UK universities has revealed that over £5 billion in government contracts has been awarded to private companies for managing border security and small boat crossings.
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New Wellcome-funded project to examine humans' relationships with animals

'Multispecies Mutualisms’ has been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of £1.6 million.
Antilockdown protest with banners stating 'The media is the virus'

‘They don’t care about you, me or anyone else’: populist storytelling in anti-lockdown protests

Dr Ozge Ozduzen and co-authors Dr Bogdan Lanosev and Dr Billur Aslan Ozgul have collaborated on a paper recently published in European Politics and Society journal.
Detail of a Brazilian passport with the word Visa

Wall of visas: how race impacts the externalization of (forced) migration control in south-south migration corridors.

This new article by Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli and Natalia Cintra in Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal focuses on Brazil and how it uses humanitarian and family reunification visas as a hidden externalization strategy.