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Student Life

SGIA is a large, vibrant department. It offers teaching that covers the full range of this tremendously diverse discipline including comparative politics, international relations and political theory incorporating quantitative, qualitative, and normative approaches. 

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

A core aspect of our commitment to issues of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is our important EDI committee, a main focus of which is our work with the Athena Swan initiativeWe have more information on our EDI pages and you can hear more from our EDI chair, Dr Beth Kahn.

SGIA also has an active First-Generation Scholars group, as part of our deep commitment to widening participation in higher education. 

You can find the department respect video here which features students and staff from across the SGIA community.  It shows our committment to developing an inclusive learning and working environment.

 

 

 

Students

See below for testimonies from a diverse selection of our brilliant final year students speaking about their experiences with us. These include students who studied with us through a number of different programmes.

 

Student Videos

  • Basanth Sedavistian

    Hear from Basanth one of our students in Combined Honours in Social Science
  • Mob Rahman

    Mob a PPE student and 1st generation scholar talks about his SGIA journey
    Mob Rahman
  • Erin Hanson

    Erin speaks about her student experience as a student of History and Politics and 1st generation scholar
    erin-hanson

Basanth Sedavistian

Hear from Basanth one of our students in Combined Honours in Social Science

Mob Rahman

Mob a PPE student and 1st generation scholar talks about his SGIA journey
Mob Rahman

Erin Hanson

Erin speaks about her student experience as a student of History and Politics and 1st generation scholar
erin-hanson

Student Videos

  • Sean Hannigan

    Sean describes his time in SGIA as a PPE and 1st generation scholar
    Sean Hannigan
  • Zainah El-Harain

    Zainah speaks about her experience studying in SGIA - Alumni Testimonial
    Zainah-El-Harain
  • Sean Hannigan

    Video combining all of the student testimonies can be viewed here
    A group of students discussing their thoughts

Sean Hannigan

Sean describes his time in SGIA as a PPE and 1st generation scholar
Sean Hannigan

Zainah El-Harain

Zainah speaks about her experience studying in SGIA - Alumni Testimonial
Zainah-El-Harain

Collated Video Content

Video combining all of the student testimonies can be viewed here
A group of students discussing their thoughts