The François Duchêne Bursaries The Bursaries set up in memory of François Duchêne aim to provide a contribution to travel and research expenses for Research Students of the University of Sussex in any discipline to:
This bursary has been set up with funding from Sussex European Institute, friends of François Duchêne and from members of the Sussex branch of the European Movement. It is administered by the Sussex European Institute.
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The 2009 awards
John Fitzgibbon
University of Sussex – Sussex European Institute, Department of Contemporary European Studies
Graduate, Limerick University – History and Politics; MSc Sussex – Social Research Methods
Research area: investigation of protest movements against the EU project in Ireland, UK, Estonia and Denmark; why opponents of the EU project tend to by-pass the established party political system
Bursary to undertake fieldwork and interviews in Denmark
Ariadna Ripoli-Servent
University of Sussex – Sussex European Institute, Department of Contemporary European Studies
Graduate Barcelona University – Political and Administrative Sciences; Diplomas Sciences Po Paris; Masters College of Europe Bruges
Research area: respective roles of the European Council and the European Parliament, with particular focus on the balance between security and civil liberties, in the policy decisions of the EU’s Justice and Home Affairs committee
Bursary to undertake interviews of relevant players in Brussels, including MEPs both pre- and post the 2009 EP elections.
Giuseppe De Marco
University of Sussex – Chemistry Division, Sussex School of Life Sciences
Graduate, MA Naples University – Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Research area: theoretical chemistry – establishing new techniques, with important applications, at the boundary of molecular biology and nanotechnology
Bursary to access specialist facilities in spectroscopy, unavailable in Sussex, at a prominent French research laboratory (ICSN).
Reports on the 2008 awards At the European Movement (Sussex branch) seminar held on Europe Day, 9 May 2009, Professor Jim Rollo opened by explaining that the François Duchêne bursaries remembered the work of a great European. The bursaries were not restricted to European Studies, but also to allow other disciplines to develop intra-European co-operation. He pointed out that the past year’s bursaries had covered a wide range of interests and helped postgraduates of three different nationalities. Each of the three bursary holders from the past years gave a short account of the work they had been able to undertake. | ||
John Crossland was working for a professional doctorate in social work. It had become obvious during the past year that the current financial crisis made it difficult to anticipate what future social work policies could be affordable. His own work focused on case management (which had been renamed “care management” in the United States). He had undertaken fieldwork in Berlin, observing how the Federal government had launched proposals for revised social care. | ||
His François Duchêne travel bursary had allowed for three visits to Germany and this had helped to establish a network of contacts. From this it should be possible to assess what the UK could learn from other welfare state policies. His work would shortly be published in the European Journal of Social Work. | ||
Ezel Tabur had focused on policy-making in the context of the EU European Neighbourhood Policy. She had set out to assess how EU institutions influence the policy, which was largely oriented towards eastern neighbour states. | ||
Individual states had given differing emphasis to the neighbourhood policy. For instance, France had taken initiatives focussed on the Mediterranean, while Poland had led the drive towards eastern European neighbours. Her research had mainly been looking at migration related to the expanded borders of the EU. | ||
The travel bursary had allowed interviews with EU agencies in Brussels – the External Relations directorate, the Justice, Freedom and Security directorate and the representations in Brussels of several states. Her interviews had set out to assess the way ‘coalitions’ worked between the various directorates, often starting from an informal consensus. | ||
Malgorzata Sulimierska has been working towards a doctorate in economics. Her PhD topic focussed on the impact of state productivity policies at the level of the individual firm. One interest has been in the converted command economies of the states which joined the EU in 2004. The travel bursary had allowed her to visit Belgium to get access to a large database for analysis, and had also provided the opportunity to build a network of contacts in the same area of research. Amadeus is a comprehensive, pan-European database containing invaluable financial information on over 11 million public and private companies in 41 European countries. |