Prof Jeremy Jennings has won the Enid McCleod Book Prize. The prize is awarded by the Franco-British Society for the book judged to have best contributed to Franco-British understanding. The prize will be presented to Prof Jennings at a ceremony to be held at the Foreign Office in the presence of His Excellency the Ambassador of France on May 14.

Prof Mike Kenny has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship of £99,227 over two years for his study of the Politics of English Nationhood. His project will analyse the political implications of the English nation's growing and shifting sense of national self-awareness and the causes underlying it.

Dr Lee Jones has been awarded £120,557 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for his project entitled 'How Do International Economic Sanctions (Not) Work?'.  The project will closely analyse how sanctions affects the power resources and strategies of domestic forces in targeted countries, and how they work to reshape the state, economy and society in response to this external pressure. The study is likely to be of interest and relevance to policy-makers and officials in major sanctioning states, as well as domestic and international non-governmental organisations like Burma Campaign UK, who are often at the forefront of calling for sanctions to be applied to 'rogue' states.  It will provide the opportunity to shift the basis of policymaking away from a 'naive theory' of sanctions to a realistic and detailed assessment of the capacity of external intervention to reshape target societies and states.

Professor James Dunkerley has been awarded an OBE in the 2010 Queens Birthday Honours List for services to Latin American studies and UK/Latin American
relations

 Dr Adam Fagan has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project entitled 'Building Kosovo: an evaluation of EU intervention.'

 Dr Rainbow Murray has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship of £45,000 for a project entitled 'The Impact of Gender Quotas on Parliament.'

Prof Montserrat Guibernau has been awarded the 2009 EINES Essay Prize for a book length manuscript. This prize is awarded by the Irla Foundation and it is the most important essay prize on Catalan Studies (Diploma and 6000 euros). A Jury of 7 academics made the decision to give the prize to the manuscript: 'For a Cosmopolitan Catalanism' which will be published shortly.

Prof Ray Kiely was awarded the the Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2009 for his paper, " 'Poverty's Fall'/ China 's Rise: Global Convergence or New Forms of Uneven Development?" which appeared in Vol. 38, No. 3.

Professor Wayne Parsons has been elected to the position of ‘distinguished visiting professor' by the academic council of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and awarded a major grant to support his research on public policy in Latin America . In 2009 he will be involved in coordinating the establishment of an ‘observatory of public policy in Latin America' and will be working with FLACSO in Mexico and with a variety of universities, government agencies and NGOs in the region. Professor Parsons has developed a close relationship with FLACSO over the past few years. One of the outcomes of this collaboration was the recent publication of a Latin American edition of his book Public Policy ( Políticas Públicas) which was produced with the assistance of a team of researchers and translators. FLACSO was established through the initiative of UNESCO in 1957 and currently maintains operations in thirteen Latin American countries. FLACSO's objectives are to promote teaching, research, and scientific cooperation in the social sciences throughout Latin American and the Caribbean . FLACSO's faculty members research in all fields of the social sciences, especially political science, and are frequently consulted by governments and international organizations throughout Latin America.

Prof Jeremy Jennings has been awarded the Arts and Humanities Research Council Sabbatical Leave Scheme: £36,500. The French Government has made him a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques for "services rendered to French culture".

Dr Bryan Mabee has been awarded British Academy grant of £3750 to fund a research workshop in May 2008.

Dr Adam Fagan has been awarded (with Prof. Janet Dine, CCLS) a grant of £203,000 from the AHRC to research "EU compliance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia".

has won the 11th annual prize for 'The Study of Spontaneous Orders' issued by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, USA. The prize is worth $10,000 and was awarded for his work in the Austrian school of economics, for his book Liberating the Land, and for a series of journal articles which apply Hayek's notion of spontaneous order to the understanding of land use and environmental policy issues.