As part of the International Sea Power Conference (ISPC) 2025, @aberuni.bsky.social hosts the ISPC 2025 side event “Unconventional Maritime Challenges”, held in partnership with the Council on Geostrategy. The event is free and open to the public. Please register ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/heriau-mor...

We are looking forward to welcoming visitors to tomorrow's @aberuni.bsky.social Open Day. We have several talks scheduled, as well as plenty of opportunities to chat with student ambassadors and staff about what we have to offer and what it is like to be an Interpol student.

With the @aberuni.bsky.social Open Day coming up on Saturday, here is a reminder of some of the many great reasons to choose #Aberystwyth as a place to study youtu.be/zMsiFNzwFy8

🧵This week the Summers Room of the National Library of Wales transformed into a film studio for a documentary being made by @aljazeera.com. Scroll down to the next post in the thread to find out which member of our academic staff was interviewed by the film makers 🎥 1/2

In a new article, Dr Hannah Hughes explains how the Brazilian COP30 presidency has a critical role to play to increase governments' ambition. 🖱 tinyurl.com/4kuu7sum @interpolaber.bsky.social #cop30 #brazil #climatechange #government

Funding opportunity for PhD study! We are part of the Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership) and invite applications for funded PhD research - but note the deadline of 11 December 2025. Full details in the link below ⬇️ www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/...

Just a few more days until Saturday's @aberuni.bsky.social #OpenDay - we have a full programme of talks ready for our visitors, along with opportunities to chat informally with staff and students

Read the latest by @hannahhughes.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com about the upcoming #COP30 in #Brazil, based on her current research project on Brazil's #climate leadership 🌎 theconversation.com/brazils-upco...

Postcard from @aberuni.bsky.social students on exchange in Heidelberg, Germany! In the photo, from left to right, are Jordan (Interpol), Lavia (Law and German), Jacob and Ciel (both Interpol). Study abroad is one of the many opportunities our students have to enrich and broaden their educations 1/2

Russia state media is actively silencing mothers’ opposition to the war in Ukraine, according to a new study by one of our academics. 🖱 tinyurl.com/35fw7p67 #russia #ukraine #media #study @interpolaber.bsky.social @jgmaber.bsky.social

Our very own Lucy Taylor will be speaking at this event on Friday! ⬇️

Congratulations to Evan Wall, a PhD student in the Department who has recently had some of his research published! 🎉 gwerddon.cymru/storfa-erthy...

Would you like to study for a PhD in politics or IR at a friendly, intellectually-vibrant and supportive academic department? Applications are open for @aberuni.bsky.social doctoral scholarships - full info in the link below. Note the application deadline: 9 January www.aber.ac.uk/en/study-wit...

🧵 Aviva Guttmann's new book is making quite a stir. It had a launch in Aberystwyth Waterstones earlier this month, with Jan Ruzicka in the chair, which was well-attended by staff and students from the university as well as members of the local community. 1/8

This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨 Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉 Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0 VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social

Last Friday, some of the MA students taking Catrin Wyn Edwards' module 'Race, (Im)mobility and Incarceration' attended the play, A Visit, at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre with Catrin. A Visit is a powerful play that explores themes such as the imprisonment of mothers, justice, and childcare. 1/2

🎉 Congratulations to our colleague Charalampos Efstathopoulos whose co-edited book Good International Citizenship and Non-Western International Relations has recently been published! 📚 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A few photos from tonight's EH Carr Memorial lecture delivered by Professor Bridget Anderson from @bristoluni.bsky.social. It was a really inspiring talk, encouraging us to think more deeply about what is meant by migrant and citizen and how those boundaries might be transcended.

Tonight! ⬇️

October is Black History Month in the UK, and we are celebrating the contributions of Black thinkers to the way that we understand the world - posters like this one are displayed throughout the department all month - enjoy! #BlackHistoryMonth

We are delighted to welcome Professor Bridget Anderson from Bristol University to the department to deliver the 2025 EH Carr Memorial lecture - join us if you are in Aber on Thursday, 23 October at 6pm in the Main Hall.

🧵 Today is the first day of Diwali - one of the major religious festivals in Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism. Diwali symbolizes the victory of light over darkness and is a time of reflection, renewal, and togetherness. 1/2

Here is an Aber sunset to get your weekend off to a great start, photo courtesy of our head of department @alshepherd.bsky.social

We are delighted to welcome Professor Bridget Anderson from Bristol University to the department to deliver the 2025 EH Carr Memorial lecture - join us if you are in Aber on Thursday, 23 October at 6pm in the Main Hall.

Important policy recommendations based on research by @hannahhughes.bsky.social

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Aviva Guttmann explains how Israel’s spies have a well-deserved reputation for ingenuity and ruthlessness, not so well known is that they often rely on other countries’ intelligence. 🖱 tinyurl.com/uu8pzk62 @interpolaber.bsky.social #Israel #spies #intelligence

Showed "The Price of Truth" to @aberuni.bsky.social @interpolaber.bsky.social first year undergraduates today and was really impressed with the discussion afterwards (and the fact that they came back after a fire drill interruption to watch the second half of the film) www.icij.org/investigatio...

Read the latest by @guttmannaviva.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com where she draws on research for her new book to explain how #Israel relies on its allies for intelligence sharing to make its operations possible ⬇️ theconversation.com/how-israels-...

🧵 This semester @catrineds.bsky.social is offering a brand new module as part of the Department's MA offering: Race, (Im)mobility, and Incarceration, which provides students with an introduction to critical approaches to race, carcerality, policing, bordering, and migration. 1/3

🌎 Happening today! In November, Brazil will host the next climate negotiations - COP30 - in the Amazon city of Belém. The CAMAMAZON project (co-led by @hannahhughes.bsky.social) welcomes our students to a session to share our research and answer their questions on COP30 politics. #COP30

We had a fantastic Open Day on Saturday! Our student ambassadors were amazing as usual...(short 🧵) 1/4

We are looking forward to welcoming visitors to @aberuni.bsky.social during tomorrow's Open Day! The Department has a programme of talks about studying politics and international relations in Aberystwyth, along with plenty of opportunities to chat with staff and our lovely student ambassadors.

Tonight!

This is a great opportunity for our students to expand their knowledge and do some networking! ⬇️

Time is running out to sign up for this! A great gateway to studying local history, heritage policy & full of case studies and real world issues from Wales & beyond. #Heritage #History #WelshHistory #Memorials @aberuni.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @llafur.bsky.social @interpolaber.bsky.social

🧵 Are you interested in the history of Israeli targeted assassinations in Europe and their repercussions until today? Then you won't want to miss the talk that Dr Aviva Guttmann is giving at Waterstones Aberystwyth tomorrow (9 October) at 7 pm. 1/2 (link to register in next post)

Join us this week to celebrate an Asian autumn festival! Drop into the foyer of the department to try a slice of mooncake and write on a post-it note what you are thankful for from the past year or what you hope for in the year ahead.

Here is a recommendation for weekend listening, especially now that the weather has turned and we have some stormy days ahead. @guttmannaviva.bsky.social was interviewed recently on Spycraft 101 about her new book, Operation Wrath of God: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajJ7...

Great opportunity for students looking to pick up some free books, useful for modules, dissertations or just to be better-informed! 📚

Tonight! It's a start of term tradition in the Department - staff weigh in on a topical issue and students are invited to contribute their comments and questions!

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Jenny Mathers from the Department of International Politics explains that Russia's defence industry needs approximately 400,000 more workers than it currently employs. 🖱 tinyurl.com/3x93trbn @interpolaber.bsky.social

🎉 Many congratulations to PhD student Harry Warne, for his success in the Aberystwyth University Student StartUp competition. It awards businesses in the initial stages of set-up that demonstrate the most potential for success. Here he is at yesterday's awards ceremony with the Vice Chancellor. 1/2

Day Four of Welcome Week: First years have a session about using the library resources, second and third years have a welcome back meeting with @alshepherd.bsky.social, second years will meet their personal tutors and in the evening a reception for new and returning postgraduates. Busy day!

Day Three of Welcome Week - today there is an essential know how session for first year undergraduates and registration advising for returning undergraduates and for all of our postgraduates.

Day Two of Welcome Week is full of useful sessions - for first years there is information about registration and advice on what not to miss in year one, while the MA students have a session on academic writing with @guttmannaviva.bsky.social

Encouraging our postgraduate research students to put themselves forward!

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Milja Kurki on her Planetary Fellowship this autumn with the Panel for Planetary Thinking at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Her current research focuses on planetary multispecies politics. www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties...

It's Welcome Week - welcome to all new students and welcome back to those who are returning to continue their degrees! Happening today: postgraduate induction, welcome by the Head of Dept, welcome to international & exchange students, personal tutor meetings for freshers and a freshers' reception!

Freshers' weekend at @aberuni.bsky.social starts here - new students will have a range of induction and welcome activities over the weekend, and then from Monday morning we will start seeing them in the department for personal tutor meetings, orientation talks and social events. #welcomeweek

New publication - Marie Curie fellow @analispolitik.bsky.social has a new article out in the journal Development in Practice that places contemporary issues in the global political economy in the context of recent history, and centres Indonesia's approach. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....