Video Presentations 

Short-Blogs & Presentation Slides 

These blogs have been categorised by 'themes' to help you navigate to the topic or subject you're looking for!

Populism, Anti-Politics & The Far Right

• Alex Meredith (University of York), "Populism: Here to stay or temporary dissent?'
• Greg Notman (University of Edinburgh), 'Painting Populist Landscapes? How do Right-Wing Populist Parties Frame Environmental Issues?'
• Grazia Ragone (University of Aberdeen), 'Populist Parties and the Burden of Government: The Normalisation of the Italian M5S’ Foreign and Security Policy'
• Florian Sichart, Jacob Chapman, Brooklyn Han, Hasan Younis, Hallamund Meena (London School of Economics), 'The Opioid Crisis and Republican Vote Share'

Climate Change & The Environment 

• Joseph Breen (Manchester Metropolitan University), 'Democratisation V. Centralisation in Regional Environmental Policy-Making'
• Kayleigh Dearstyne-Hulin (University of St Andrews), 'Case Studies for Environmental Constitutionalism and how societal norms influence its implementation'
• Kevin Le Merle (University of Glasgow), 'Reimagining Climate Justice'
• Melvin Ting (University of Bristol), 'The Contentious Politics of Water and Development in Tamil Nadu, South India'

Democracy & Authoritarianism 

• Ciaran Brass (University of York), 'Searching for Pluralism in the Policy Agenda: A Comparative Analysis of States under Authoritarianism or Democratic Backsliding, and the Efficacy of Their Opposition Parties'
• Anastasiya Drobava (Queen Mary University London), 'Review of the mass protests in Belarus after the re-election of Lukashenko based on Rosa Luxemburg theories '
• Vasiliki Poula, Jack Bissett, Maitrai Lapalikar, Maria Soraghan & Antonia Syn (London Schoolof Economics), 'A European Democracy on a Domestic Level'
• Vernon Yian & Cheryl Lau (London School of Economics), 'A Rational Actor Analysis of Authoritarian Consolidation: The Case of Thailand'

Local Governance

• Katya Broomberg, Joshua Challinor, Sarmed Hyder, and Sofia Marchetti (London School of Economics), 'The Legacy Effect: Decentralisation and Local Capacity in COVID-19 Crisis Management'
• Giorgio Collett (Durham University), 'Political Uncertainty in Equity Markets, a New Framework: Evidence from the Scottish and Catalan 2014 Independence Referenda'
• Kate Holliday (University of Edinburgh), '‘Conflict of rights’: An analysis of language and themes used in the Scottish Government 2017/2018 consultation to reform the Gender Recognition Act'

Politics, the Arts & Social Media

• Julia Coulson (University of Sheffield), 'How do previously failed politicians achieve political redemption through reality television?'
• Emily Faux (University of Leeds), 'Trump's Twitter: A Coronavirus Response'
• Eileen Gbago (London School of Economics), 'The Burial of Kojo: Exploring International politics using media and film'
• Jelena Sofronijevic (University of Edinburgh), 'From Head to Tale: Understanding Yugoslav Socialism through Zoomorphism in Contemporary Satire'

Conflict, Peacebuilding & Justice

• Noah Ergen (University of Greenwich), 'Unstoppable Weapons? Hypersonic Missiles in the Context of the Revolution in Military Affairs'
• Audrey Goh (University of Bristol), 'Twitter: a Tool for Information Warfare' Please also check out Source 1 & Source 2.
• Bettina Latuff Hualde (University of Exeter), '“No más dictadura”: the prospect of transitional justice in Venezuela'
• Madushvi Sooriyakumar, Lukas Rasmussen, Rosalie Röchert, and Abid Zaidi (London School of Economics), 'The Integration of Criminological Tools in Profiling Architects of Genocide'
• Sophia Rommel (University of St Andrews), 'UN-Protected? Rethinking What Explains the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (MONUC’s) Civilian Protection Failures'

Identity, Inequality and Social Policy

• Joe Aitkin (University of York), 'Hauntology and Brexit: Britain’s Lost Future'
• Maryam Dharas (London School of Econmics), 'The Everyday Clash of Civilisations: how the media’s depiction of migrants from the Middle East reifies cultural binaries'
• Lucy Newman (University of Liverpool), 'A Critical Assessment of the Action of Welfare States on Ameliorating Social Divisions.'
• Kimberley Burton (University of East Anglia), 'The Battle of the Sciences: UK government’s STEM vs SHAPE priorities'

Political Theory

• Dante Philp (University of Edinburgh), 'Redeeming Society: Critical Theory and the Re-imagining of Politics.'

International Political Economy and Trade

• Polina Encheva (University of Westminster), The Capability Approach: A Reassessment of the Orthodox Approach to Development
• Julio C. Othon (University of Edinburgh), 'South-South Cooperation in the World Trade Organisation reform? Analysing Brazil, India, and China.'

Undergraduate Dissertation Papers

• Erin Boyle (University of St Andrews), 'Authoritarian Alignment: Turkey's Changing Position in Post-Trump Politics'
• Amy Dwyer (University of Manchester), 'How has Climate Change Impacted Formal and Practical Geopolitics in the Last Century?'
• Desmond Okumbor (University of Glasgow), 'Corruption as a Determinant of Political Participation: A Quantitative Analysis on the Relationship Between Corruption and Participation'
• Elizaveta Zaidman (Potsdam University), 'Modernization of hatred: a comparative analysis of antisemitic political communication strategies in the countries of Western and Eastern Europe'