PAIS's Tom Long won the 2026 best article award from the ISA Diplomatic Studies Section for “Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85.” The piece was published in Journal of Global History, with Carsten-Andreas Schulz of Cambridge.
The event was supported by funding from Warwick as well as from the British Institute in Eastern Africa, ICJ, and South African Research Chair in Equality, Law and Social Justice.
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The AJRN seeks to connect researchers working on African judiciaries from around the world, encourage comparative analysis and lesson learning, and facilitate collaboration: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...
The theme,Transformative Equality Jurisprudence, brought together judges, civil society, and academics from numerous African countries including Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, and Uganda.
At the end of last month, The African Judiciaries Research Network (AJRN) (headed by PAIS's Gabrielle Lynch) - together with the International Commission of Jurists, University of Nairobi, and South African Research Chair in Equality, Law and Social Justice - organised a two-day convening in Nairobi
The prize recognises outstanding PGR candidates working across a wide range of topics in Development Studies.
The article is available at doi.org/10.1080/0961....
The work foregrounds how community members narrate perspectives on both methodology and findings from their own standpoints, shaping discourse and directly contributing situated knowledge from within.
Enacting a shift in power within research and knowledge production, the approach puts into practice a method where those with lived experience and at the centre of the study become researchers themselves.
Co-authored by PAIS's Raymond Hyma and @justpolitics-blog.bsky.social alongside five Cambodian participatory researchers, the article has been awarded the 2025 Development Studies Association of Australia / Development in Practice Higher Degree by Research Prize in Development Studies.
🏅 More prize winning for PAIS! 🎉
The article, 'The power in re-telling research: a Cambodian community-based approach generating knowledge by subjects of study', has won an Australian PGR award in Development Studies.
🏆️ In 'Excellent Supervision',
@justpolitics-blog.bsky.social won an award for consistently demonstrating care and compassion in PhD supervision.
🏆️ In 'Research Impact', Charlotte Heath-Kelly won an award for influencing changes to the Prevent Strategy and increasing reputational costs on NHS participation in covert data sharing with pre-emptive counterterrorism structures.
🏆️ In the 'Research Culture' category, the Working Parents and Carers Group leaders (@vickisquire.bsky.social
@justpolitics-blog.bsky.social & Özlem Atikcan) won an award for their work ensuring that carer's and parent's needs are represented in departmental research processes.
Huge congratulations are due to PAIS's winners at the University's Research Celebration Awards 🎉 🎊
The article ultimately argues for reimagining participation in participatory research through a queer theory lens, advocating for the leadership of marginalised communities in knowledge production rather than their inclusion in passive, peripheral, or performative ways.
In doing so, it challenges the traditional researcher-researched nexus and highlights how positionality and shared lived experience can generate forms of insight often overlooked within conventional research paradigms.
Drawing on a case study with the LGBTIQ community in Cambodia, the article proposes queering participation as a way of disrupting normative roles within research relationships by reconfiguring who is positioned as researcher and who becomes the researched.
In his recent article, ‘Queering Participation: Reimagining the Researcher-Researched Nexus’, published in the Journal of Homosexuality, PAIS's Raymond Hyma introduces the concept of ‘queering participation’ to challenge the hierarchical power dynamics often embedded within participatory methods.
If participation is so central to participatory and action-oriented research, how can researchers foster forms of participation that are more meaningful, engaged, and genuine? 🧵
All are welcome to join us in S0.08 from 12:00-13:30 for what should be an exciting discussion 👨🏫 📚️
Next term may still feel a long way off but the events calendar is already filling up!
On May 13th, the International Relations and Security Cluster we will be hosting @palestrinomirko.bsky.social for a talk on his new book Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime.
Register in advance to listen to the panel contributors and join in the Q&A
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Chaired by Sarah Bulmer (University of Exeter), she and Julia will be joined by Kate Millar (LSE), Shirin Rai (SOAS) and @crossdale.bsky.social (University of Bristol) for what promises to be a fascinating discussion, drawing on their rich range of expertise.
The book asks why so many US service members, veterans and military families continue to affectively invest in militarism when the physical and emotional costs are so high.
Join BISA's @girwgbisa.bsky.social and @cmsbisa.bsky.social working groups for a panel discussion of PAIS's Julia Welland’s new book Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism, 2-3:30pm on the 22nd April.
The paper examines how Chinese official media discursively construct and legitimise
(American born and raised) Eileen Gu’s identity as both a Chinese national and a sports hero.
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In Zhang and her co-author, Yiben Ma's, article for @commsportj.bsky.social they investigate the phenomenon of athletic naturalisation and the associated discussion about nationalism and identity within the context of an increasingly globalised yet ethically homogenised China.
🥌 While the Winter Olympics feel long in the past now spring is here, why not revisit those recent glory days where you briefly remembered the rules to curling with PAIS's @chizhang.bsky.social 's recent co-authored article on the most-decorated freestyle skier in Olympic history, Eileen Gu? ⛷️
The BRICS+ bloc is a genuine alternative architecture, not just rhetoric. And the tension between emerging and traditional donors, and what that means for the countries caught in between. Multipolarity does not just give options. It gives leverage."
