The department is looking for a candidate with research and teaching interests in any of a variety of sub-areas including, but not necessarily limited to: security/conflict studies and roots of terrorism; international public policy (encompassing issues such as genocide, human rights, trade and finance, nuclear proliferation, role of NGOs); the politics of Africa and/or East/South Asia and/or the Middle East.

The Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit scholars to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large.

The Home Office has asked to see BBC undercover evidence of alleged racism and violence by security staff at an asylum seeker detention centre. The BBC heard evidence of detainees being physically and racially abused while officers made sure violence was not captured on CCTV. The BBC's Simon Boazman said most of the officers he met at Oakington did try their best to treat the detainees with dignity and respect. But there were a significant minority who were racist.

The Botswana High Court ruled on Monday that Australian-born academic Kenneth Good may stay in the country while his lawyers challenge the constitutionality of a deportation order. President Festus Mogae gave Professor Good, a political analyst at the University of Botswana, 48 hours to leave Botswana two weeks ago for lambasting Mogae's decision to handpick Vice-President Lieutenant-General Ian Khama as his successor.