To Be, or Not to Be: Role Play as Assessment
By Dr Lisa Thorley For many years, assessment in my Gender, Globalisation and Development module looked fairly traditional: a 2,000-word midterm essay followed by a...
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CTIS Members win at ASPIRE Award!
The ASPIRE Networks inaugural awards have seen two wins for CTIS members! Dr Tanay Gandhi has won the 'Teaching Track Rising Star Award' in acknowledgement...
University of Leeds-Adelphi University COIL Exercise
15 Students from the school of Politics and International Studies recently undertook a co-curricular COIL with 20 students from Adelphi University in the USA. Following...
Staff and Students Attend Dubrovnik Summer School
Professor Cristina Stefan was part of the teaching team for the 2025 ATROCITY PREVENTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS Dubrovnik Summer School (DAPS), which takes place annually...
From the Balkans to the Future: A student Journey to the NATO Youth Summit
By Chloé Simpson, 2nd year BA International Relations, School of POLIS This past weekend, I had the immense privilege of being invited to attend the...
Expanding academic horizons: POLIS student at national research conference
This blog is written by final year International Relations student Rosie Evans to detail her experience of presenting her dissertation research at the British Conference...
Student-led research at POLIS: The Far Right and Its Uses of the Past:
Last summer, CTIS member Anna Grimaldi won some internal seed funding from the Leeds Social Science Institute (LSSI) to carry out an international project on...
Transdisciplinary Decolonial Conversations as Pedagogy
Over the past four weeks, CTIS has facilitated a series of workshops between students and visiting Professor Dr Paulo Cesar Teles (University of Campinas, Brazil)....
Disappearing research: a study to help postgraduate research dissemination
Dr Emily Webb, Learning Development Team We have a flaw in our research-led teaching model. We rarely encourage or support taught-postgraduate students to complete the...
PSA T and L Network conference reflection
Guest blog from Maia Almeida- Amir, PhD Student Newcastle University In the week before welcoming students back to campus after a long summer, POLIS hosted...