Dr Pier-Luc Dupont Picard

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  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Alan Collins

• PO-131 Introduction to Politics

  This module introduces students to the core concepts, and intellectual and practical skills essential to the successful study of Politics and offers an opportunity to develop them by wrestling with big Politics questions. It primarily aims to give a grounding in the topics at the core of Politics, and equips students to navigate successfully within the field. The module also aims to improve students¿ practical academic skills, including how to find and use sources, read texts critically, and write to scholarly academic standards.

• PO-131A Introduction to Politics

  This module introduces students to the core concepts, and intellectual and practical skills essential to the successful study of Politics and offers an opportunity to develop them by wrestling with big Politics questions. It primarily aims to give a grounding in the topics at the core of Politics, and equips students to navigate successfully within the field. The module also aims to improve students¿ practical academic skills, including how to find and use sources, read texts critically, and write to scholarly academic standards.

• PO-245 The History of Political Thought

  This module examines the history of political thought in the West, as it has developed through key political thinkers. In so doing, it traces the development of core political concepts and values, such as democracy, freedom and rights. The course thus has two main aims. First, to provide students with an understanding of pivotal political thinkers and their works. Second, to equip students with an appreciation of how the history of political thought has shaped the current political landscape. The module is designed to enrich the topics covered in the first-year module Political Philosophy by placing them within a historical context.

• PO-246 The History of Political Thought

  This module examines the history of political thought in the West, as it has developed through key political thinkers. In so doing, it traces the development of core political concepts and values, such as democracy, freedom and rights. The module thus has two main aims. First, to provide students with an understanding of pivotal political thinkers and their works. Second, to equip students with an appreciation of how the history of political thought has shaped the current political landscape. The module is designed to enrich the topics covered in the first-year module Political Philosophy by placing them within a historical context.

• PO-3319 Researching Politics 1

  Researching Politics (RP) provides students with the skills that underlie the process of conducting and communicating cutting-edge research in Politics and International Relations. RP works by creating topic groups, each comprised of 8-10 students. Each group will follow a bespoke course set out by their topic tutor, guiding them through the literature in a substantive research area. Students are invited to select a list of preferred options in the first teaching week of the term. This list is then used to assign students to topics and group sessions run from the second week of teaching onwards. Alongside the topic-specific teaching, there is a general lecture series focusing on discovering, analysing and presenting complex information. The lecture series also focuses on dealing with the ups and downs of working as part of a team.

• PO-3320 Researching Politics 2

  Researching Politics 2 (RP2) is the follow-on module from RP1 and it acts as the culmination for the subject knowledge and transferable skills developed in that module. RP2 puts the creative emphasis in the hands of the students, with the module convenor and topic tutors giving guidance and feedback to facilitate the realisation of research conceived, developed, executed and presented by students. In this way, it tries to approximate the worlds of further study and work into which students will be progressing following the completion of their degree schemes. It is a module where all of the summative assessments are comprised of group work, although individual marks can be varied depending on each student¿s performance. Students are also required to submit an individual self-assessment, detailing what they have learned about their own strengths and weaknesses on the basis of the sustained group work. In RP2, you will extend and deepen the research undertaken in RP1 and continue to meet regularly in order to share ideas, opinions and sources in your groups. These meetings will include several where the topic tutor provides guidance and feedback as well as those where the meetings are student-led.

Pier-Luc has organised a number of stakeholder events involving local, national and international activists, trade union representatives, policymakers and legal practitioners. He has provided snapshots of his research findings in the context of parliamentary calls for evidence on human rights at work (2023) and young people’s experience of the built environment (2024), small group meetings with Thangam Debonnaire MP and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, a workshop with refugee charity ACH and an interview with Wired magazine. He also debated religious diversity and education with the Church of England Chief Education Officer at the 2023 Schools and Academies Show in London.

• From the national curriculum to school inspections? Rethinking the decolonisation of history learning in England

  April 2024

  Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism: Nationalism and Memory, University of Edinburgh

• The anti-racist critique of multiculturalism after neoliberalism

  March 2024

  74th Annual International Conference of the Political Studies Association. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

• Exploring ethno-religious segregation and mixing in urban spaces through participatory photography

  December 2023

  Social Sciences Community Seminar Series, Swansea University.

• How space shapes adolescents’ contact with ethno-cultural ‘others’

  September 2023

  Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association, Aston University, Birmingham.

• An intergroup model of place identity and contact

  August 2023

  17th International Symposium of the International Network for Peace Psychology, University of Pécs (Hungary).

• Conceptions of (in)equality in minority religious organisations’ political claims

  July 2023

  Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association Study Group on the Sociology of Religion. University of Bristol.

• Understanding the facilitators and inhibitors of youth intergroup contact in divided societies

  June 2023

  Small Group Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Queen’s University Belfast

• Diversity politics in the UK: Combining multiculturalism, interculturalism and cosmopolitanism

  April 2023

  32nd Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. University of Loughborough.