ECPR Graduate Network

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ECPR Graduate Network Launch Friday 9th September
2005
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The Graduate Community

• At least 2500 graduate students across all ECPR
  member institutions
• Disparate yet linked
• Some existing ECPR activities (e.g. PhD prize)

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Graduate issues

• Design and execution of research
• Supervision
• Writing
• Articles and conferences
• Pursuing an academic career
• Moving beyond the academia
• Getting published
• Getting that first academic position

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A spark to a flame

• The idea for a Graduate Conference
• The realisation of the size of the graduate
  community
• An appreciation of the common graduate
  experience across Europe
• A will to link graduate students
• A few willing representatives

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The ECPR Graduate Network Committee

• A few individuals known to ECPR Central Services
• Invited to an initial meeting in Essex in June
  2004
• Began the process of working out the structure,
  role and activities of the GN
• A co-ordinating committee

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ECPR Graduate Network Committee Structure

• Committee roles
• No chair
• Reports to Central Services via the committee
  Secretary
• Constitution in development
• Elections

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ECPR GN Activities and outputs

• Graduate membership database
• The Graduate Conference
• Representation and presence at all ECPR events
  (Bi-annual conference joint sessions)
• Electronic newsletter
• Web-pages
• Opt-in email list
• Graduate Official Representatives at ECPR member
  institutions
• ECPR PhD prize

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ECPR GN Co-ordination period

• Establish committee roles
• Establish the constitution
• Establish regular GN activities and outputs
• Launch (Budapest 2005)
• Develop the membership database
• Liaise and co-ordinate with ECPR Central
  Services, Executive Committee, and standing
  groups and appropriate external bodies

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Introducing the ECPR Graduate Network Committee
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Irina Stefuriuc

• Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
• Membership and Publications

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Katja Fettelschoss

• University of Lüneburg
• Membership and Publications

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Erol Kulahci

• Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
• External Relations
• Constitution for the ECPR GN
• Input from graduates are expected at
  constitution_ecprgn_at_yahoo.fr

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Rainbow Murray

• Birkbeck College, University of London
• Conference Co-ordinator (Other conferences)
• Our first professional development panel

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Niklas Wilhelmsson

• University of Helsinki
• Treasurer

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Jerry Johnson

• University of Manchester
• Website Editor
• http//www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/graduates/index.asp

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Jennifer Sands

• University of Leeds
• Conference Co-ordinator (Graduate Conference)

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The Inaugural ECPR Graduate Conference

• University of Essex
• 7-9 September 2006

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The 1st ECPR Graduate Conference on Contentious
Politics

• The first ever ECPR Graduate Conference will take
  place between 7-9 September 2006, at the
  University of Essex, UK
• It will comprise a mixture of panels and round
  tables
• The key note lecture will be delivered by
  Professor Charles Tilly of Columbia University
• The academic convenors of the conference are
• Erik Neveu (IEP de Rennes) erik.neveu_at_rennes.iep.
  fr
• Jennifer Sands (University of Leeds)
  j.m.sands_at_leeds.ac.uk
• All information about the conference can be found
  on the ECPR website http//www.essex.ac.uk/ECPR/e
  vents/graduateconference/index.asp
• Further information is available from the
  academic convenors or ECPR Central Services
  ecpr_at_essex.ac.uk
• Subsequent Graduate Conferences will take place
  every two years

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What the Graduate Conference can offer you

• An excellent opportunity to present your work in
  a relaxed, yet academic, setting
• A chance to meet other like-minded graduates and
  post-docs from all over Europe to make contacts
  and network
• Book exhibitions and social events
• You dont have to present a paper to attend or
  participate everyone is welcome!

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Proposing a paper or panel

• You can propose an individual paper or you can
  propose a whole panel
• Paper or panel proposals are encouraged from
  across the whole spectrum of political science
  and its related disciplines all topics will be
  considered!
• Paper proposal and panel proposal forms can be
  downloaded from the ECPR website
• All proposals must be sent to ECPR Central
  Services by 1st March 2006
• Full papers will be posted on the ECPR website as
  they are received

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Important dates
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Join us for a late breakfast!