Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)
Recent Successes
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:52:00 BST
CEISR has been successful in securing an European Commission FP7 Grant for a project on digitising the humanities. The Grant which is worth €744,000 (£631,000) over three years will support a project (KEEP) to facilitate universal access to our cultural heritage by developing flexible tools for accessing and storing a wide range of static and dynamic digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, videogames etc.
The Portsmouth team comprises of Dan Pinchbeck and CEISR members David Anderson and Janet Delve.
Natalya Vince has won one of the very prestigious British Academy UK-Africa Academic Partnership awards. The grant of £28,000 will fund a three-year partnership between Portsmouth, Dakar and Algiers universities. It will enable us to consolodate our research links with Francophone Africa and will serve as a launch pad for further research initiatives. It is the first ever UK Africa Academic Partnership outside Anglophone Africa to be funded by the British Academy.
Lee Sartain has been elected as a member of the Royal Historical Society.
Wolfram Kaiser has won an EU Marie Curie grant of 161,000 Euro for two years for postdoctoral research fellow Jan-Henrik Meyer, for a research project on the role of networks in the origins of European environmental policy in the 1970s.
Together with Stefan Krankenhagen from the University of Trondheim, Wolfram Kaiser has won a major research grant from the Norwegian Research Council for a project of three years on the representation of EU history in exhibitions and museums across Europe. As part of this research grant, he will receive 81.800 pounds Sterling for replacement teaching.
Susanne Marten-Finnis has been awarded a grant by the Leverhulme Trust for a interdisciplinary research network on Russian-Jewish diasporic culture, based on conferences and workshops in Bath, Portsmouth and London (UCL). It was an application jointly submitted by the Dept. of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at UCL, the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages at Bath, and ourselves. The title of the network is: 'Cultural Continuity in the Diaspora. Paris and Berlin 1917-1937: The Experience of Russian Jews in an Era of Social Change'.
Tony Chafer was awarded a BA Large Research Grant of 74k for 30 months for his research project 'Towards a new policy partnership? France and Britain in Africa since Saint-Malo'. Tony's article 'Forgotten Soldiers' has been recently published in History Today, November 2008, Volume: 58, Issue: 11, pp.35-37.
PhD Completions
The following students have completed their PhD in the past few months -
Charlotte Ball - The day of German unity, 1990 - 2005: Redefining the past, present and future
Katja Seidel - Administering Europe.Community Officials and the Bureaucratic Integration of Europe (1952-1967).
Brigitte Leucht - Transatlantic Policy Networks in the Formation of the European Coal and Steel Community, 1950-51
Malte Brosig - Diffusing Human Rights Standards - Minority Rights in Estonia and Slovakia.
Kathryn Priest - Attitudes in Languedoc-Roussillon concerning the principle of regional languages and the practice of Occitan
MA in and and
The taught MA course in European Studies involves the advanced study of major issues affecting contemporary Europe. As well as the study of specific area of Europe the course strives to invite cross-national comparative analysis and consideration of the global issues that affect Europe's development.
The MA International Relations and European Studies involves the study of themes in international relations such as global governance and the changing nature of security. Students also study the institutions and policymaking of the EU. In addition a wide range of options are on offer such as Democratisation and Transition in Eurasia, External Relations of the EU and Europe and The Middle East.
The MA European Law and Policy degrees are aimed at those from a variety of backgrounds who need a knowledge of EU Law, institutions and policymaking. There are two routes. Students can either spend the first semester in The Hague and the second semester in Portsmouth or both semesters in Portsmouth.
The Centre for European and International Studies Research at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Portsmouth invites applications to its MAs in European Studies and European Law and Policy from citizens of European Neighbourhood Policy countries or Russia, who possess a first academic degree in either the social sciences or humanities, and are in command of the English language.
Interested students should contact the Humanities Admissions Centre for details of the application procedure, or they may contact the course leader Dr Paul Flenley before applying. The Centre for European and International Studies Research will then recommend to the European Commission successful applicants to our Masters programmes who also fulfil the scholarship criteria. The European Commission will make the ultimate decision on the distribution of scholarships.
Prospective students not receiving a scholarship are free to either withdraw their application for the Masters programme of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, or seek alternative sources of funding.