Dr Luca Mavelli speaks to NPR Boston on the refugee crisis whilst Dee Goddard asks 'Who holds the power in Corbyn’s majority-female shadow cabinet?'
Dr Mavelli is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations with research interests on questions of religion, secularity, postsecularity, security and political violence in international relations.
His contribution to NPR Boston’s The Politics of the Refugee Crisis can be heard here.
Dee Goddard is a PhD student in Comparative Politics, investigating the representation of women in ministerial positions across Europe. She is collecting an original dataset of the women appointed to ministerial posts across Europe since 1945, and seeks to develop an understanding of when and why women are appointed to the cabinet. She is also an active member of the Global Europe Centre and Comparative Politics Workshop at Kent.
Her article on newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s cabinet is available at The Conversation.
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