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Professor Colin McInnes from the Department of International Politics has been appointed the new Professor of Research, Impact and Excellence at Aberystwyth University. The new role will involve promoting research excellence across the University and specifically monitoring, advising and preparing Institutes and Departments at Aberystwyth for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2020. REF is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions (HEIs). The REF 2014 submission was completed last year and the assessment is conducted by expert panels on behalf of the four UK higher education funding bodies, including the Higher Education Funding Council of Wales (HEFCW). The results are due to be published on Thursday 18 December 2014. Professor McInnes joined the Department of International Politics in 1986. He is the UNESCO Professor of HIV/AIDS, Education and Health Security in Africa and is also Director of the Centre for Health and Internat...

Researchers from the Centre for Health and International Relations, Aberystwyth University, will review and discuss how globalisation is changing global patterns of health and disease at Chatham House in London this Friday (11 May).  The Chatham House meeting will be in front of a prestigious academic and policy-oriented audience from the UK, Europe, US and Africa. This will be the first in a series of dissemination events presenting the findings of a four year European Research Council-funded project which has taken an innovative approach to the study of global health governance and the ways in which competing ideas about health impact upon policy making. The project team has been led by Professor Colin McInnes from Aberystwyth University and Professor Kelley Lee at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr Simon Rushton and Dr Owain Williams, both from Aberystwyth, have also been heavily involved in researching the project. Professor McInnes explains, “W...