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
November 16th, 2009
Just over two weeks ago the EURECIA team met in Lausanne to discuss the project’s methodology, conceptualisation and upcoming fieldwork. The two-day meeting turned out to be a successful, productive and pleasant event. Although the team members are approaching the challenges of the project from different academic backgrounds and traditions, there has been a discernible integration of everyone’s views since our last team meeting in Manchester back in April 2009.
The meeting importantly also provided all the team members with a clear and shared understanding of the cases, countries and organisations we plan to address and approach within our research fieldwork. Everyone in the coming months will be finalising their research instruments then coordinating across the team to undertake the work so as to make the best and most efficient use of our travel and human resources, in line with our original plans in the project’s description of work.
We should also mention that we were very fortunate to have remarkably fine and sunny weather in Lausanne! We had a very busy schedule over the two days but managed to find a moment to gather the team together for a quick outdoor group photo in the sunshine. We’ve posted this below.
Dr Duncan Thomas
October 24th, 2009
The EURECIA team will be meeting on Monday 26th October in Lausanne. We aim to discuss and integrate many challenging aspects of our conceptual and methodological work so far. This is before we shortly all embark on our first main stages of fieldwork.
We’ll post a short report back about the meeting here on our blog.
Please remember that you can also subscribe to our news feed to make sure you don’t miss any of our updates about the EURECIA project.
Dr Duncan Thomas
October 24th, 2009
We are very happy to announce the official launch of our website for the EURECIA academic research project. On our site you can read all about our project, about the sponsorship and funding of our work, and about the people who make up our expert team.
In the coming weeks and months we’ll also be adding new content to our resource centre including working papers and conference papers from the EURECIA team. We’ll be posting on our news blog when new items are added and we’ll also use the blog for updates about various other developments within the EURECIA project.
We firmly believe our research project is highly topical and intellectually challenging and may have significant implications for the ways in which academics and policy-makers think about the funding and assessment of European science and research. We are very much looking forward to sharing our debates and progress through the blog. We warmly invite your comments and open discussion about our ideas and findings.
We also hope to post details here soon about the EURECIA project’s final conference. You can sign up to email alerts from us about the conference on our contact page. You will then receive the first details as soon as they are announced.
Dr Duncan Thomas
