[Poland] Processes of Europeanisation- University of Glasgow
The Summer School is open to postgraduate research students, especially PhD students, and taught postgraduate students who are planning to embark upon a research degree next year. The fees for the Summer School will be waived for students from Central and Eastern Europe but these students will have to find their own sources of funding for accommodation. The Summer School aims to attract up to 20 students from UK universities and up to 10 students from Poland and other post-socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (e.g. Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan).
Objectives:
The summer school programme, which will be prepared by the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES), UK, will incorporate a comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach in addressing theoretical and methodological aspects of the research process in relation to the theme of Processes of Europeanisation. Note: The Summer School will NOT provide language training.
Courses:
The Krakow Summer School will consist of seminars/workshops which will aim to bring together students with similar research interests but whose research is conducted across a range of geographical locations and from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. Cultural activities and visits from guest speakers have been built into the Summer School programme. The following sub-themes will be incorporated into the programme: Historical Analyses; Economic Transformation; Sociology of Central and Eastern Europe; Democratisation and Civil Society; The International Relations of Central and Eastern Europe; History of Memory and Identity; The role of the Media in Democratic Transformation; and Using literature to analyse Central and East European societies.Cultural activities and visits from guest speakers have been built into the Summer School programme. The emphasis is firmly upon developing the research skills of postgraduate students and providing these students with both an academic and social environment in which to exchange discuss their own research and use of research methodologies. These students will also have the opportunity to acquire other key transferable skills as the second week of the Summer School will be mainly devoted to individual student research projects closely supervised by an academic member of staff. The last day of the Summer School will be given over to the oral presentation of student projects which will be evaluated by academic staff and students will be presented with a special certificate upon completion of the Summer School.
Application deadline:30 March 2007
Fees:
20 funded places are available for CRCEES postgraduate research student (i.e. students from the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Nottingham, Paisley, Strathclyde and St. Andrews). Tuition fees have been waived for students studying at universities in the post-socialist region but they will have to seek funding for accommodation/travel. Other non-CRCEES students will have to pay a fee of 400 to cover the costs of the following: 1) 2 weeks’ accommodation (bed and breakfast) in Hotel im. St. Pigonia on ulica Garbarska from 7 -21 July; 2) cost of tuition; 3) invitations to the official opening dinner and closing ceremony; 4) excursions to Auschwitz, Salt Mines and Polish Mountains.
Quantity of Scholarships:
20 funded places are available for CRCEES postgraduate research student (i.e. students from the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Nottingham, Paisley, Strathclyde and St. Andrews). Tuition fees have been waived for students studying at universities in the post-socialist region but they will have to seek funding for accommodation/travel.
Value of Scholarships: 1,000 each
Contact:
Dr Clare McManus-Czubinska,
c/o Department of Central and East European Studies University of Glasgow,
8 Lilybank Gardens,
Glasgow G12 8RZ Scotland, UK
Telephone: +[44] 141 330 8539
Fax: +[44] 141 330 5594
Email: c.mcmanus@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Web page: http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/crcees/
