Last chance to sign up and join Critical Military Studies WG at BISA & BISA Gendering IR Working Group for a panel discussion of Julia Welland's new book! 🌟 'Pleasure and depletion in contemporary militarism' 🌍 👉 https://ow.ly/ujUY50YB1Tu Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS)

There is still time to sign up and join us and @cmsbisa.bsky.social tomorrow for our Zoomside chat 📚 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

A little reminder that the deadline for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 is coming up in 5 days! 😊

The @mybisa.bsky.social Gendering IR Working Group is now on Bluesky (and LinkedIn)! 🥳 Follow us here for updates and upcoming events.

Morning #BISA2025, if you’re looking for some critical war studies and military technologies research, come to the 9:00 Critical Drone Scholarship after GWOT. Stellar presentations on drones and gender & feminism, disability studies, and cultural urban studies. See you there!

An academic in our department gave a "trans-sceptical" talk on campus today. We have written an open letter to the Principal and University Secretary expressing our opposition to transphobia on our campus - we hope others in the RHUL community will sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Some PhD joy from last week, when after 3+ years of campaigning, we got to inaugurate the new PhD office at @rhulpir.bsky.social. We have windows!!!! The whole school of Law and Social Sciences came together (the pizza helped) and this blue plaque was put on the wall. PGR solidarity forever ✊🏼

A few shots of our PhD students in action at the Gender Institute and HARI lightning talks yesterday. They were joined by MRes student Josephine Carr and Dr Lyn Johnstone from our department as well as fantastic scholars from across the college. A great start to the term!

We're kicking off the new year with five members of our department presenting at the Gender Institute and HARI's lightning talks on 14th Jan at 12 in EWD-1-04! Please join us to hear from them alongside networking and lunch 👩‍🏫🥪

Start pack of Royal Holloway Politics & International Relations academic staff and PhD students! go.bsky.app/EyuS68d

In what honestly feels like a huge victory for PhD student organising, after 3 years we finally just received an email saying that we'll be moving to an office with windows next month!!! 🌞😎☀️ being relentless pains in everyone's neck works!! 🪟🪟🪟🪟