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Department of International Politics and History and Welsh History Building

'Drone Violence as Wild Justice: Administrative Executions on the Terror Frontier’

The controversial use of military drones, an issue that has risen prominently to the forefront of international politics since the start of the war on terror, will be addressed at the latest Department of International Politics’ Centenary Speakers Series lecture.

Aberystwyth University hosts debate on the Constitution Reform Group’s Act of Union Bill

With Halloween and Britain’s impending departure from the EU looming, and with it a potential constitutional crisis between the four nations of the UK, a proposed new constitutional settlement for the UK will be the focus for debate at Aberystwyth University on Thursday 24 October 2019.

Kicking the Bar as Aberystwyth University celebrates Founders’ Day.

Aberystwyth University celebrates Founders’ Day

Staff, students, alumni and members of the local community braved the elements for a brisk walk along the Promenade at Aberystwyth on Friday 11 October 2019, as part of the University’s annual Founders Day celebrations.

The 2019 Peter Hancock scholars (left to right) are Chiara Faini, Elizabeth Harrison, Wiktor Gawronski, Amy-Anne Williams, and Fatima Orujova.

Peter Hancock Scholarship awards presented

The latest recipients of a scholarship that bears the name of a former student who was supported financially by Aberystwyth University over half a century ago, have been announced.

Half Boy and Half Sister by Stuart Pearson Wright [Oil, sheep’s wool, zebra wood, wire, and mixed media on linen, 2018]

Exhibition: Stuart Pearson Wright - HALFBOY

HALFBOY, a touring exhibition by Stuart Pearson Wright opens at the School of Art Gallery.

University partners with NatWest to give entrepreneurs a boost

Aberystwyth University and AberInnovation have joined forces with NatWest to help aspiring local entrepreneurs, by launching a satellite version of the bank’s Pre-Accelerator programme.

Speed networking event takes the search out of research

A ‘speed networking’ event was recently held between academics from Aberystwyth University and staff from the Hywel Dda University Health Board who were seeking their perfect research partner.

The first BBC television transmissions, September 1929. Science Museum

How public TV broadcasting was born

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Jamie Medhurst (Reader in Television and Media History) discusses the first public television broadcast which took place on 30 September 1929, and how the world would never be the same again.

Professor William Wohlforth

Public lecture: 'Subversion as Statecraft: Russia and the United States’

Professor William Wohlforth will deliver the annual EH Carr Memorial Lecture on Thursday 3 October 2019 as part of the Department of International Politics’ Centenary Speakers Series.

Sustainable Futures: developing environmental, economic and social sustainability

Aberystwyth Business School conference brings together academics from across the University and key environmental and rural policy stakeholders to explore opportunities to develop research projects that will contribute towards environmental, social and economic sustainability in Wales, UK and internationally.

Dr Elin Royles from the Department of International Politics will chair the session at the Senedd on Saturday 28 September 2019.

Promoting Minority Languages: Evaluating the work of Regional Governments

As part of the celebrations marking 20 years of devolution, Aberystwyth University’s Centre for Welsh Politics and Society in collaboration with the National Assembly will host a discussion on ‘Promoting Minority Languages: Evaluating the work of Regional Governments’ on Saturday 28 September between 11.00 and 12.30pm.

Pictured at the opening of the Living Wales exhibition at Old College are (left to right) Dr Sarah Davies, Head of the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth; Claire Horton, Geospatial and Earth Observation Manager, Welsh Government; Professor Elizabeth Treasure, Vice-Chancellor Aberystwyth University; Amanda Smith from the Centre for Alternative Technology and Professor Richard Lucas, Sêr Cymru Chair, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences.

New exhibition reveals Wales’ changing landscape

Satellite images that reveal how the global environment has changed over the past 35 years and the impacts on the Welsh landscape are at the heart of a new exhibition at Aberystwyth University’s Old College.

Open Learning Festival

Would you be interested to try something different, learn something stimulating, enhance your skills, meet new friends and improve your wellbeing? If so, Aberystwyth University’s Open Learning Festival may be just what you need.

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Toxoplasma 'cat poo' parasite infects billions – so why is it so hard to study?

Writing in The Conversation, Justyna Anna Nalepa-Grajcar a PhD student at IBERS looks at why Toxoplasma 'cat poo' parsite, which infects billions is so hard to study?

Aberystwyth named Welsh University of the Year

Aberystwyth University has been named Welsh University of the Year for 2020 by The Times / The Sunday Times Good University Guide.