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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

IRPH Alumni – we’d love to hear from you! We’re looking for IRPH graduates who might be interested in getting involved in one (or both!) of the following: 1) Share your career journey. 2) Share your IRPH experience. If these opportunities sound of interest, please comment below.

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We are delighted to share that IRPH's Güneş Daşlı has published her first monograph, Transitional Justice Without Transition: Grassroots Struggles in the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey, with Palgrave Macmillan. Congratulations, Güneş! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

New from IRPH's Güneş Daşlı: 'Exploring Relational Agency in Collective Mobilisation for Justice: The Saturday Mothers Movement in Turkey' in The Cambridge Handbook of Victim Engagement in Transitional Justice. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

To learn more about PhDs in IRPH, see www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr... We have multiple studentships available right now. For more details, see www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This week, over 150 Part C students presented at the IRPH Dissertation Conference. Attached are just four title slides (from Mia Rose Tanswell, Niam Bhattacharya, Joshua Ryan, and Amelia Henley) giving a tiny sample of the range of topics we explored together.

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Your Voice, Your Impact. These are some of the major changes that we in IRPH have made this year in response to student feedback.

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

IRPH's Prakash Rote recently co-convened a panel at NorDev25 in Oslo, Norway, called Problematising Solidarity, Social Justice and Sustainability. Prakash's paper was 'A vernacular understanding of terrorism from the global south'. A journal special issue is underway; watch this space!

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Congratulations to Anouska Kecojevic, who recently graduated from our International Security MA programme and was awarded a School of Social Sciences and Humanities Community Prize for her contribution to the programme, the department, and the School. Anouska: we wish you the best!

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Huge congratulations to IRPH's Dr Dan Breeze (@danielbreeze.com), who this week passed his PhD viva with no corrections. His thesis, Creeds of Kinship: An Animal-Human History of the Lives and Ideas of Anna Kingsford and Henry Salt, was examined by @janehamlett.bsky.social and @msadams.bsky.social.

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Congratulations to Meghann Swann, who won our International Security Postgraduate Dissertation Prize for her project 'Knowing When to Duck: Situational Awareness and the Embodied Labours of Everyday Security'. Meg recently graduated from IRPH's International Security MA programme.

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Huge congratulations to @peteryeandle.bsky.social and the IRPH admin team who won the two 'Going the Extra Mile' awards at yesterday's School of Social Sciences and Humanities awards. Here in IRPH, we are proud of the support that our staff offer to students and to each other.

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

IRPH's Thoralf Klein recently represented @lborouniversity.bsky.social at the 9th Annual Conference of the UK-China Humanities Alliance for Higher Education at Macau University of Science and Technology. This year’s conference theme was Global Humanities Research and Education in the Age of AI.

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

This week, students from the Part B module Politics of Development (convened by @giuliapiccolino.bsky.social) displayed their work at the module's poster session. Keep your eyes open for some of these posters appearing around the department in the near future!

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

What have you been up to since graduation? If you graduated from IRPH at Loughborough between May and July 2024, we need you! You’ll have received an email about the Graduate Outcomes Survey. Check your inbox and take part by 30th November: make your voice count!

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Yesterday, Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe told us about her 'island obsession' as part of the IRPH Research Seminars. Svalbard (Norway) and Bornholm (Denmark) provide fascinating cases for war studies scholarship, and 2025 geopolitics potentially make them more important than ever.

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Last week, we were very pelased to welcome @maryamaldossari.bsky.social to the department to speak to staff and students. Maryam presented her paper 'Why Palestine Is a Feminist Issue: Breaking the Silence on Genocide'.

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Not your typical research seminar... Earlier this week, Orit Shimoni (@oritshimoni.bsky.social) and Dan Bern discussed the potential for music and art to foster cross-cultural solidarity with the Pacifism and Nonviolence Research Group, complete with live performances.

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Friday saw us welcome over 250 new undergraduate students across our seven programmes. Welcome to Team IRPH! Pictured: one of the induction talks delivered by Guy Aitchison, and some of the winners of our 'IRPH Bingo', which was more fun than it sounds – honestly!

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