SPAIS – the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies –  is an interdisciplinary research and teaching environment with close to sixty academic staff, where prominent scholars of sociology and politics and international relations teach and research on pressing theoretical questions and engage in cutting-edge empirical research.  SPAIS staff are internationally renowned in their fields; their ideas are published in academic books and journal papers, policy reports, blogs and newspaper articles, and are discussed in lively debate across the School through events organised by our Research Centres, as well as in lectures, seminars, round-tables and small group or one-to-one meetings.