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BISA 2020 prize winners announced
We're delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 BISA awards and prizes.
Special discounts to mark #BISA2020
We're happy to be marking the dates of #BISA2020 with a range of discounts, events and more.
Best of the week - 12 June 2020
Juliet Dryden brings you the best podcasts and readings on COVID-19 this week, as well as other news
Open access review - BISA response
UKRI sought views on its proposed open access policy and related considerations via a consultation.
Black Lives Matter – a BISA statement on recent events
We stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and its calls for systematic change.
Call for nominations: BISA PGN Committee elections 2020/21
Nominations are open for our 2020 Committee elections. There are three positions available.
Message from the BISA Chair on Covid-19: we’re open, we’re active and we are adapting to the ‘new normal’
Mark Webber discusses the response to this extraordinary year, and plans to support the IR community
Best of the week - 5 June 2020
Juliet Dryden brings you the best podcasts and readings on COVID-19 this week, as well as other news
Best of the week - 27 May 2020
Juliet Dryden brings you the best podcasts and readings on COVID-19 this week, as well as other news
URGENT APPEAL for support
Professors Ruth Blakeley and Kyle Grayson call on all mid/senior career IR academics to help BISA.
Best of the week - 22 May 2020
Juliet Dryden brings you the best podcasts and readings on COVID-19 this week, as well as other news
Public Sector Web Accessibility legislation - are you ready?
Universities need to 'meet the accessibility requirement' by 23 Sept 2020. Here's a tool to help.
Virtual event recordings now available on YouTube
Have you missed one of our virtual events? You can catch up via our YouTube channel.
Best of the week - 15 May 2020
Juliet Dryden brings you the best podcasts and readings on COVID-19 this week, as well as other news
New British Academy report: Qualified for the Future
The British Academy has published a report on employment among those who have studied AHSS subjects.
The PhD and the Powerful: a BISA Postgraduate Network briefing paper
Today we release a BISA Postgraduate Network briefing paper on networking and power by Peter Finn.
Global Health in IR - a virtual issue from RIS
the Editors of our journal RIS have created a special collection with a focus on Global Health.
Best of the week - 7 May 2020
Juliet Dryden brings you the best podcasts and readings on COVID-19 this week, as well as other news
Consultation on the REF timetable – joint BISA/PSA response
In response to the recent REF consultation exercise, the BISA/PSA joint group agreed on a position.
Best of the week - 1 May 2020
Juliet Dryden brings you the best podcasts and readings on COVID-19 this week, as well as other news
Best of lockdown so far - 17 April
Juliet Dryden brings you the best podcasts, reading and news from the first three weeks of lockdown.
BISA 2020 virtual exhibition hall
A virtual space to explore the partners who had booked early for the #BISA2020 conference
PGN virtual meet up - adapting to lockdown
Find out what happened during our inaugural virtual event, including top tips for research from home
Statement from our journal editorial teams
Statement from RIS and EJIS regarding the impact of COVID-19.
Cancelled - BISA 2020 Conference
In light of the public health situation connected to COVID-19, BISA 2020 has been cancelled.
Cancelled - BISA PGN annual conference 2020
Statement from the PGN on the cancellation of their 2020 conference due to COVID-19
Locations confirmed for #BISA2021 and #BISA2022 conferences
We are delighted to confirm the locations for the BISA conferences in 2021 and 2022.
Joint BISA/PSA call for nominations to REF 2021 Politics and International Relations sub-panel
PSA/BISA REF Sub-Panel Members Nominations Process
Call for papers: Emotions meets ethics
Call for papers for the workshop: Emotions meets Ethics: a conversation on world politics
Introducing the Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group conveners
This group provides a space for International Studies researchers to develop their work on the vario
Nuclear panel at BISA PGN Conference 2020, Aberystwyth - there's still time to apply
Nuclear panel at BISA PGN Conference 2020, Aberystwyth: Still time to submit a paper!
Joint Statement on the termination of Politics and related programmes at the University of Sunderland
Joint statement from BISA, PSA and UACES on the termination of Politics and related programmes
Statement on the violence at Jawaharlal Nehru University
Statement by the BISA Executive Committee on violence at Jawaharlal Nehru University
A New Year message from Juliet Dryden, BISA Director
Juliet Dryden, BISA Director, looks back on 2019 and forward to 2020.
New editorial teams for BISA journals
On 1 January new editorial teams took over at both of the BISA journals - RIS and EJIS
Call for papers - Translation in/of world politics: Language, practices, power
Call for papers: Translation in/of World Politics: Language, Practices, Power
Call for articles - Race and climate change
The CPD Group are looking for articles to fit with a special issue of the journal Politics.
FPWG Event Report: Understanding foreign policy making within Area Studies
FPWG members discussed the relationship between Foreign Policy Analysis and Area Studies.
Call for papers: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Conference 2020
Paper and panel submissions are invited for the BISA Postgraduate and Early Career Research Conference 2020: The unseen of international studies: expanded visions for the ‘second century of IR’.
Call for papers - Postgraduate research workshop
The IPMRD Working Gtoup are calling for proposals for a workshop on international migration politics
Annual workshop and public roundtable on racial capitalism
Join the CPD Working Group for their annual workshop followed by a public roundtable event.
International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group Annual Best Book Award 2019
The first Annual Best Book Award for a monograph in the field of international politics of migration
Other Internationals: world-making projects beyond the state
We're delighted to announce this CPD Working Group satellite event at BISA 2019.
Call for papers - Concepts and post-communist identities: the power of perspective
This workshop aims to explore the methods, benefits and limitations of a perspectivist approach.
FPWG Event Report: Social Movements and Policy Outcomes: How right-wing grassroots groups influence foreign policy
FPWG supported a workshop on how right-wing grassroots groups influence foreign policy.
FPWG Event report: Conceptualising Remote Warfare: The Past, Present, and Future
The FPWG and the Oxford Research Group held a joint workshop aimed at conceptualising remote warfare
Call for papers - The migration–security nexus from a transnational perspective
This IPMRD workshop intends to focus on the global governance of migrants.
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