November 2nd, 2010
The EURECIA team met early last month (October) in Manchester to share its progress – now that our research fieldwork has begun to generate some initial findings.
Over two days the team also updated each other with feedback and learning about our methods and research instruments. We also talked at some length about the ongoing integration of our various ‘work packages’ – including cross-cutting themes.
The project has recently been granted an extension. EURECIA’s project head, Dr Maria Nedeva, discussed this with the team in light of our planned final conference. News about this – and other relevant dissemination events – will be shared via the EURECIA website as soon as the appropriate details are confirmed.
In the meantime, here is a photo of most of the members of the EURECIA team, pictured within the research centre building occupied by the Manchester team (the MBS Manchester Institute of Innovation Research):
Dr Duncan Thomas
June 17th, 2010
A new paper on The European Research Council in the European Research Area is now available for download from our website. This document is one of the public deliverables from the EURECIA project.
Dr Terttu Luukkonen addresses in this paper the evolution, concept and mechanisms of the European Research Area (ERA), including how the new European Research Council (ERC) and its programme fits into the ERA concept and was justified in ERA documents.
She explores how the debate on an ERC changed the ERA agenda. In her paper, Dr Luukkonen also highlights the fact that the ERC is in many ways a unique funding scheme, differing a great deal from other new funding instruments introduced at the same time.
You can access the paper via our Official Documents page or by using this direct link.
Dr Duncan Thomas
March 29th, 2010
Dr Terttu Luukkonen and Dr Maria Nedeva have been awarded a small research grant by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. This is to carry out a project on ‘Peer Review practices and the legitimacy of the European Research Council‘ (PEERS).
The project builds on the premise that the legitimacy of a research funding agency depends on the legitimacy of its core procedures and mechanisms. Core procedures are those applied in the process of distributing resources where more often than not some form of peer review is used.
There is also a comparative element to this study. This will involve examining peer review practices by research funding agencies both in European countries and in the United States.
Dr Duncan Thomas
December 9th, 2009
The first EURECIA Working Paper has recently been uploaded to the site. It’s accessible via our Resource Centre or using this direct link. The paper is by our team member Dr Maria Nedeva and is called ‘Public Sciences and Change: Science Dynamics Revisited’.
A very early version of Maria’s paper was originally presented at the EGOS Colloquium held in Amsterdam during 10-12 July 2008. Later a more developed version of the paper was presented at the 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) in Lisbon during September of this year.
Intellectually, the ideas in the paper helped shape the EURECIA proposal. They are also currently informing an imminent research proposal to the ESRC to study the change of the UK’s public system. This work is in conjunction with Prof. Rebecca Boden and Prof. Rosemary Deem and will be submitted shortly.
Please remember if you have any comments about our EURECIA papers do feel free to contact us.
Dr Duncan Thomas
November 25th, 2009
We’ve just uploaded the first EURECIA conference paper into our Resource Centre. It’s a paper that was written by our team member, Dr Terttu Luukkonen. It’s entitled ‘Will the European Research Council become an integrative mechanism for European research?’ and was originally presented by Terttu at the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, back in early October this year. You can access the paper directly here.
Dr Duncan Thomas
