£800,000 for International Politics

Wednesday 1 March, 2006
£800,000 for International Politics
The Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UWA) has been awarded £808,225 to fund twelve new Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellowships under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and Demonstration.

The programme, which provides Fellowships in Security and Citizenship: European and Global Dimensions, runs for four years from January 2006 and offers studentships for four PhD students and eight Master's students to study in the internationally renowned Department of International Politics.

Marie Curie Host Fellowships are only given to Departments which are outstanding in research terms, and the training programme for Fellows will focus on three interrelated themes: contemporary theories of security and citizenship; EU policy responses to contemporary security and citizenship challenges; and East and West European perspectives on security, citizenship and enlargement. 

The new programme in Security and Citizenship will seek to establish a unique multidisciplinary approach to the above issues, both by utilising diverse ‘in-house’ experience of different sub-fields contained within the discipline of International Relations and by means of a formalised programme of training provided by visiting scholars from universities and other research institutes in Eastern and Western Europe. 

One innovative feature of the scheme is that the Fellows will participate in internships in the areas of European Security, EU enlargement and citizenship at relevant European institutions, intergovernmental bodies, civil society groups, and security organisations. 

Overall, the Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellowships will significantly enhance the capacity of the Department to supply first-class research training in a far reaching and largely unique approach to security and citizenship being developed at Aberystwyth.  For further details on the programme, please contact Professor Nicholas J. Wheeler in the Department.