Welcome to the online pages of the Politics and International Relations (PIR) academic subject group within Aston's School of Languages and Social Sciences.
Highlights of the subject group include:
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Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching and research in all areas of politics and international relations, including European integration, conflict resolution, leadership, regions, religion & politics and immigration
- PIR is home to the Aston Centre for Europe and therefore has one of the largest concentration of expertise on Europe in the UK
- A score of 22 out of a possible 24 in the recent Teaching Quality Assessment exercise - demonstrating our outstanding reputation for teaching quality
- All undergraduate programmes feature an integrated Year Abroad
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First-class facilities featuring recently refurbished teaching rooms.
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Double MA in Europe and the World - an exciting Postgraduate programme, jointly run with the Institut d’Etudes Politiques Lille, offering students an exceptional opportunity to pursue a Double Masters in the area of European Studies with a vocational focus on the EU
- We have just launched a new MA in Global Governance and International Relations
- Our students benefit from extensive teaching hours.
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