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Inspiring Ideas for Europe Video Series - Episode 1
Marie Le Conte
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In the first episode of our 'Inspiring Ideas for Europe' video series, Marie Le Conte, a freelance journalist and renowned political commentator shares her thoughts on what she argues to be an often unnoticed shortcoming of the current European integration project, and provides some ideas as to how it may be tackled.
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After eight years of austerity, Greece is finally done with programmes of economic adjustments. The Greek experience has shown that since the eruption of the Eurozone crisis in 2009, the relationship between policy advice and reform processes in Europe has become quite paradoxical. Governments are facing an increasing need for expertise because of the complexity of policy problems and of reduced resources given the prevailing austerity dogma. At the same time, citizens’ trust towards national and EU institutions and technocratic experts has declined. In this episode of the Debating Europe Series podcast Dr Stella Ladi (CER) and Professor Kevin Featherstone (LSE) share their views on the issue.
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CER Inaugural 2018 -Reforming the EU: Why and How the Union Needs to Hand Power to its Citizens
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The 2018 inaugural event of our Centre, titled ‘Reforming the EU: Why and How the Union Needs to Hand Power to its Citizens’ took place on 8 October and hosted Professor Ulrike Guérot, a Berlin-based political activist, founder of the think tank Democracy Lab, and Professor of European Politics at the Danube University in Austria, as well as Ms Marie Le Conte, a freelance journalist and renowned political commentator. The event was chaired by CER Director, Dr Sarah Wolff and was followed by a Q&A session involving the audience.
Click here for more info on Professor Guérot's European Balcony Project.
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CER Debating Europe Seminar Series
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The CER blog offers analyses of significant events and pressing developments in Europe. Our latest blog posts include:
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- We are delighted to announce that Dr Sarah Wolff has been successfully awarded a UACES small event grant. We will provide more information on the planned event – which will take place at the University of London Institute in Paris in March 2019 – as soon as the programme has been finalised.
- Accessing Asylum in Europe: Extraterritorial Border Controls and Refugee Rights under EU Law is the latest monograph of CER member Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax. It is now available for purchase online.
- Our former PhD candidate, Dr Koen Slootmaeckers has won the 2018 UACES Best Thesis Prize. In a new video, he talks about his PhD on Serbia's EU accession and LGBT politics and activism.
- Dr Stella Ladi's latest article “Analysing Crisis Parliamentary Discourse: Who should we Blame?” (co-authored with Tsagroni, V.) has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Common Market Studies.
- Dr Sarah Wolff gave a presentation at the workshop 'The Future of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in Times of Populism and Political Uncertainty' at the the University of Bamberg, Germany on 14 December with the title 'Building Core State Power? Frontex as an Object and Agent of Politicization'.
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Research in the Spotlight
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This new Jean Monnet Network investigates the interactions between the Chinese and the European Union (EU) legal and judicial systems and promotes excellence in teaching and research on EU-China legal and judicial cooperation. EUPLANT initiators include CER members Dr Matthieu Burnay, Dr Sarah Wolff and Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas.
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Dr Javier Sajuria is lecturer at QMUL where his research focuses on comparative political behaviour, particularly on the interaction between voters and elites, internal party politics, social media and political action, and quantitative methods.
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Mr Antonio Astolfi has recently started an internship with us. He has an MA in public policy (QMUL) and in political science (Urbino), and previously gained work experience with the Italian National Confederation of SMEs in Brussels.
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The latest issue (23:4) includes articles on Palestinian state-building, elections in Egypt, ethnographic-biograpical responses to interventions, and the political economy of the Portuguese immigration policy
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The latest issue (34:4) focuses on the opposition in Russia, the conflict in Crimea, coalitions in Central and Eastern Europe, the constitutional court in Bulgaria, Euroscepticism, and the online supporter base of parties
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Get involved!
We welcome applications from graduate students and post-doctoral candidates who wish to study and research various aspects of European politics and policy (find more info in the box below).
We are also delighted to receive applications from external junior and senior scholars who wish to become visiting fellows at CER.
In addition, applications from non-academic professionals engaged in aspects of European politics and policy who wish to spend time in a scholarly environment are also warmly welcome.
For any applications or enquiry please contact our Director, Dr. Sarah Wolff s.wolff@qmul.ac.uk
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Interested in doing a PhD or a post-doc fellowship with us?
PhD
The School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR) encourages applications for PhD projects in European Politics and Policy.
The CER, based in the School of Politics and Inernational Relations, can offer expertise and supervision to students interested in Comparative European politics, British politics, EU internal and external policies with a special focus on relations between Europe and the Mediterranean as well as the Western Balkans, EU migration policies, EU Justice and Home Affairs, EU environmental policies, EU economic and social policies, EU-Islam relations, Euroscepticism and populism.
If you are interested in doing a PhD with us, you can contact our Director, Dr Sarah Wolff (s.wolff@qmul.ac.uk) or any other relevant member of CER’s staff. Please make sure to attach your CV and a draft research proposal to your email.
Funding:
Open Studentship Competition: We accept proposals directly from prospective students, for either a 1+3 award (1 year Masters + 3 year PhD) or +3 award (PhD only). You can find detailed information about eligibility criteria and the application process on the following two webpages:
https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/
https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/studentship-competition-the-application-process/
The application deadline is 31 January 2019, 17:00 GMT for studentships to start 1 October 2019.
Collaborative (CASE) Studentship Competition: this competition initially seeks proposals from academics based in one of our three partner institutions for 1+3 or +3 format studentship research projects which involve significant collaboration with a non-HEI partner, in the public, private or third sectors.
Full details about submitting a proposal (as an academic) are available here: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/collaborative-case-studentships/ The deadline for proposals for studentships to start 1 October 2019 is 12 November 2018, 23:59 GMT. To see details of currently-funded CASE studentships, please see this webpage: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/case-studentships-student-applicants/
Postdoctoral fellowships
The London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS DTP) is offering seven ESRC-funded postdoctoral fellowships to commence from 1st October 2019. The fellowships are available for one year full-time or two years part-time to be held at King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London, or Imperial College London.
The call specification, a frequently asked questions document and application form will be available on the LISS DTP website: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-pdf/. The deadline for applications is at 16.00 on 22nd March 2019.
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