Section: Community
Introduction
One of our top priorities at Edinburgh Politics and IR (PIR) is to nurture a strong sense of intellectual and social community. We are determined to make our students feel as if they are genuinely part of it. We organise a terrific range of public seminars and events with leading political and academic figures to which all members of the Politics/IR community are welcome (students are ESPECIALLY welcome). A good example is our Transatlantic Seminar series, normally held on Fridays at lunch-time (1pm in Chrystal Macmillan Building Seminar Room 2).
Our research groups (http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/research_themes/index) offer an intellectual home to each one of our Postgraduate Research Students. Research Groups are designed truly 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 organise student trips, receptions to mark special events, and support our student-led Politics Society (www.eupolsoc.org.uk) and IR Society (http://www.ir-society.co.uk/IR_Society), which themselves organise a diverse range of activities, as much as we can.
Our main goal under my headship is to establish Edinburgh as one of the world's premier institutions at which to study and do research on Politics and IR. We are determined to enjoy each other's company, and to share within our Community what Plato called ‘an unstinting love of wisdom’. We are committed always to welcoming new members of our academic community.
Hope you can join us.
Best,
John
John Peterson
Head of Politics and International Relations
This page was published on 23 February 2010