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In the World shares the latest news from ITPIR, the Institute for the Theory & Practice of International Relations at William & Mary.
This summer ITPIR's Scotland Street House has been buzzing with activity -- we held a data training boot camp for 23 AidData Summer Fellows, we sponsored numerous seminars from visiting scholars, the lobby doubled as a theater for dozens of World Cup soccer games, and we employed more than 100 William & Mary students who served as research assistants and collaborators on six different faculty led projects.
Highlights include the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), a White House backed initiative to bring African leaders to leading universities in the United States, the Reform Efforts Survey in more than 100 countries, co-authored and solo-authored academic articles by students, and much more. ITPIR's scholarly projects foster student-faculty collaboration, leveraging the energy and acumen of undergraduates to conduct research, create knowledge and make recommendations to practitioners and policymakers for addressing the world's challenges.
Thank you for your interest in and support of our work to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of international relations. We hope you can join us for our Homecoming BBQ October 18 (see details below) or whenever you may be in the area!
Sincerely,
Mike Tierney, Director
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Teaching, Research & International Policy (TRIP) to Launch Global IR Poll
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The Teaching, Research & International Policy (TRIP) Project will launch two major initiatives near the end of August aimed at bridging the gap between academics and policymakers. The first is a survey of international relations (IR) faculty in some30 countries designed to examine teaching and research trends and foreign policy views in the IR discipline. Now in its fifth edition, the survey expands to include scholars in rising powers such as India, Brazil and China; more than 10,000 will be invited to participate. Read more.
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AidData Welcomes African Leaders
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Five hundred Washington Fellows visited the U.S. for six weeks this summer for the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). For two of the weeks 25 fellows enjoyed sessions at William & Mary and AidData. Read more. Also, see the recent post about the YALIparticipants while in Williamsburg on the AidData blog First Tranche "Can Open Data Transform the Future of Africa's Development?" |
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Reform Efforts Survey Exceeds Goals
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 The Making Reform Incentives Work for Developing Countries project has successfully completed the 2014 Reform Efforts Survey, a first-of-its-kind survey of development policymakers and practitioners from 121 low- and lower-middle income countries and five semi-autonomous regions. The combination of depth and breadth in survey responses will provide researchers with an opportunity to study the determinants and effects of reform in a uniquely comparative and detailed context. Read more. |
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AidData Fellows Empower African Organizations
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 This past June, 21 student researchers from seven universities traveled to Nepal,Uganda, Timor-Leste, Senegal and Mexico to serve as AidData Summer Fellows. The fellows worked with 12 local organizations including universities, think tanks, government line ministries and civil society groups to equip them to leverage geocoded data to solve development challenges in their own communities, through program planning, advocacy, and research. Read more. |
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W&M Student Research Takes on Jeff Sachs and Bill Easterly
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Recently Rob Marty, a teaching assistant for advanced geographic
information systems (GIS) for biologists, examined the impact of health aid in Malawi using sub-nationally geocoded development data produced by AidData. Marty has found that while aid is inconsistently given to disadvantaged areas of the country, health aid is significantly associated with reducing disease burdens. The results stand in contrast to macro-level results and highlight the importance of examining aid impact from the sub-national level.
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| ITPIR Homecoming BBQ for Alumni and Friends |
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Please join us for a homecoming reception for ITPIR alumni and friends that will include lunch and a chance to catch up with friends, meet new people, and learn about the latest achievements of the ITPIR projects: AidData, TRIP, Reform Incentives, PIPS, VIPCAT and CAD. Saturday, October 18, 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. at the Scotland Street House. We hope you can stop by.
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| 2014 Reform Efforts Survey | Tabulating results ongoing | | 2014 TRIP Global IR Poll | August through October | | TRIP Project Workshop | August 26 Conference D.C. | Daniel Drezner: IR Zombies
| September 4 at 5 p.m. | | Homecoming BBQ | October 18 11:30-1:30 | | AidData Research Consortium | January 2015 | | TRIP Conference on Strengthening the Links | January 2015 |
events are in Williamsburg unless otherwise noted
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If you missed the previous edition featuring the ITPIR Annual Report, click here to read it now.
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Philip Lavely, '14.
PIPS intern now faculty and research assistant to Professors Eric Werker and Akshay Mangla in Business, Government, and International Economy at Harvard Business School.
Ellie Kaufman '13.
Former Communications Associate for AidData now a social impact fellow at the Huffington Post
Sneha Raghavan, '12.
AidData research assistant, now a research assistant at the Center for Global Development.
Scott Johnson, '05.
Former PLAID (AidData) researcher now at Bloomberg in London.
Wenxia Tang.
Former AidData consultant now at the World Bank.
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