Studentships
Business School
Regional Policy and Cultural Resource in Peripheral Europe
Professor Mike Danson and Dr Kathryn Burnett
mike.danson@uws.ac.uk / kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk
This studentship will be located in the Centre for Contemporary European Studies. The Centre (RAE graded 4 in 2001) has a particularly strong and well-established research interests in the EU and EU policy process. The Centre wishes to expand and deepen its research activity concerned with economic policy and enterprise in relation to socio-cultural resources and representational practice within regional Europe. The focus of this studentship is particularly on 'marginal regions' and Ultra-Peripheral Europe, and an interest in island regions would be especially welcome. European collaboration and networking are important to the Centre and this studentship will benefit from involvement with the Regional Studies Association international working group on 'Peripheral, Marginal and Border regional issues in Europe' co-organised by Professor Mike Danson of CCES and Visiting Professor Peter de Souza, from the University College of Hedmark, Norway. The growing Scottish and EC research and policy interest in peripherality is encouraging the establishment of island studies within this framework and the Centre is well connected into global and European island networks.
CCES is multi- and inter-disciplinary and an active research culture is supported by 8 PhD students within a School of 30 research students, active membership of the prestigious CRCEES (Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies) and SIRE (Scottish Institute of Economic Research), and a seminar series which brings first-class scholars and leading practitioners from around the world to stimulate and support research and teaching.
The studentship will be supervised by Professor Mike Danson, UWS Business School and Dr Kathryn A Burnett, School of Media, Language and Music who are both active participants across these networks and centres and Research Council grant holders. Applicants should have at least a good 2.1 in a business or social science discipline. Postgraduate training in research methods is highly desirable but full training and support will be provided.