Parent institution | Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science |
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Affiliation | University of Cambridge |
Head | Jude Browne (2021-) |
Undergraduates | 560 |
Postgraduates | 190 |
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Location | , England |
Website | www |
The Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge (abbreviated POLIS) is the department at the University of Cambridge responsible for research and instruction in political science, international relations and public policy. It is part of the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science.
POLIS, formed in 2009 by the merger of the former Department of Politics and the Centre for International Studies, is administratively housed at the university's Alison Richard Building on the Sidgwick Site and is part of the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science. [1] Its primary predecessor, the Department of Politics, was formed in 2004, prior to which political science had been fragmented across other departments. [2]
Notable current research staff include [3] professors Brendan Simms, Marc Weller, Duncan Bell, Baroness Smith of Newnham, Dame Diane Coyle, and Helen Thompson. David Runciman (resigned), Lucia A. Reisch, Andrew Gamble (retired), Peter Nolan (retired), John Dunn (emeritus), Christopher Hill (emeritus) and Geoffrey Hawthorn (retired) were some of the previous notable members of the department. [4]
Twelve specialised programmes and research centres are housed within the department: the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, the YouGov-Cambridge Centre for Public Opinion Research, the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought, the Centre of Development Studies, the European Centre at POLIS, the Centre for Geopolitics, the Centre for Gender Studies, the Centre of South Asian Studies, the Centre of Latin American Studies, the Centre of African Studies, the Centre for the Future of Democracy and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. The department also publishes the Cambridge Review of International Affairs . [1]
POLIS grants a Bachelor of Arts degree (as part of either History and Politics [5] or Human, Social and Political Sciences [6] ). At the postgraduate level, the department offers a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in public policy [7] , an MPhil degree in politics and international studies, a Master of Studies degree in international relations, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in politics and international studies.[ citation needed ]
The 2022 edition of the Complete University Guide [8] ranked the department second in its league table and the Guardian ranked Cambridge University third best in the UK for Politics. QS World University Rankings named the department the seventh best in the world in its subject area. [9] The 2014 "Ivory Tower Survey", published by Foreign Policy , rated the department's master's programme 18th in the world for quality, and its doctoral programme 16th in the world. [10] In 2011 POLIS' master's degree programmes were ranked 16th in the world for study in international relations by The Christian Science Monitor . [11]
The department is particularly known for its preference towards historical and theoretical approaches to the study of politics. Since 2021 there has been a wave of departures from scholars working in other research subfields, notably development economists Ha-Joon Chang and Lucia A. Reisch, Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development William Hurst, and Professor of Politics David Runciman, who previously led the department from 2014 to 2018. In the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise the department fell from 6th to 21st place in the UK, [12] ranking lower than nearby institutions such as the University of Essex or the University of East Anglia. [13]
In 2016, POLIS PhD student Giulio Regeni was killed while carrying out research in Cairo, Egypt, [14] and the following year a second student died, in a terror attack in Burkina Faso. [15] This resulted in widespread accusations of failure to uphold duty of care towards early career scholars, which became reinforced following the department's alleged failure to cooperate with investigators. [16] Subsequently the department was accused of paying junior academics less than national minimum wage for examination work and supervision, following a report conducted by the Cambridge branch of the University and College Union. [17]
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