Section: Community

Introduction

mark_HoSu_imageA community ethos is very important to us here at PIR. We’re blessed with gifted students and committed staff, and we think it’s vital that their work is visible to others.   In doing this, we strive to nurture a sense of intellectual and social community; above all to make our students feel as if they genuinely share our common endeavor.

We also seek to include the wider Edinburgh community. We organize a terrific range of public seminars and events with leading political and academic figures. Most of these events are open to the public. A good example is our Transatlantic Seminar Series (normally held on Fridays at 1pm in Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 2).

Our research groups(www.pol.ed.ac.uk/research_themes/index) offer an intellectual home to each one of our postgraduate research students.  Research groups are designed to integrate teams of scholars (staff and postgrad) on common academic events and projects in areas of mutual interest.

We work hard, but we also have a good time. We organize student trips and receptions to mark special events, and we also support our student-led Politics Society (http://www.eupolsoc.org.uk/) and IR Society (http://www.ir-society.co.uk/IR_Society/Welcome%21.html), which themselves organize a diverse range of activities. Please come join us!

Mark Aspinwall

Head of Politics and International Relations

 


 

This page was published on 16 August 2010


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