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Annual Report 2013 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 The Europe Institute is a multi-disciplinary research institute that brings together researchers from a large number of different departments and faculties, including Accounting and Finance, Anthropology, Art History, International Business and Management, Economics, Education, Engineering, European Languages and Literatures, Film, Media and TV Studies, Law, Medical and Health Sciences and Political Studies. The mission of the Institute is to promote research, scholarship and teaching on contemporary Europe and EU-related issues, including social and economic relations, political processes, trade and investment, security, human rights, education, culture and collaboration on shared Europe-New Zealand concerns. The goals of the Institute are to: • Initiate and organise a programme of research activities at the University of Auckland and in New Zealand • Build and sustain our network of expertise on contemporary European issues • Initiate and coordinate new research projects • Provide support and advice for developing research programmes • Support seminars, public lectures and other events on contemporary Europe Contents Staff of the Institute ................................................................................................................................ 2 Message from the Director ..................................................................................................................... 4 Major Projects ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Activities during the Year ........................................................................................................................ 7 Visitors .................................................................................................................................................. 14 Research Grants .................................................................................................................................... 16 Grant-Generated Publications .............................................................................................................. 16 Publications ........................................................................................................................................... 18 Staff Reports ......................................................................................................................................... 19 1 Staff of the Institute Director Professor David Mayes ([email protected]) Deputy Director Associate Professor Elsabe Schoeman Research Fellow Dr Ioanna Karamichailidou Honorary Research Fellows Dr Anna Michalski Mark Thomson Research Series Editor: Europe–New Zealand Research Series Dr Hannah Brodsky ([email protected]) Administrator (part-time): Mutsumi Kanazawa ([email protected]) Management Group: Professor Christine Arkinstall (Department of Spanish) till March 2013 Professor James Bade (Department of German and Slavonic Studies) Dr Maureen Benson-Rea (Department of Management and International Business) Dr Hannah Brodsky (Research Series Editor) Professor Jean-Jacques Courtine (Department of French) Associate Professor Enrico Haemmerle (Faculty of Engineering) till August 2013 Associate Professor Simon Kitson (Department of French) from March 2014 Associate Professor Bernadette Luciano (Department of Italian) Professor David Mayes (Director, Business School) (Chair) Dr Lynette Read (Faculty of Arts Research Office) Dr Elsabe Schoeman (Deputy Director, Faculty of Law) Professor Cris Shore (Department of Anthropology) Dr Peter Zámborský (Department of Management and International Business) External Advisory Board: Hon Simon Bridges MP - Tauranga Mr Stig Ehnbom (Company Director and Business Consultant) Ms Carole Glynn (Director. FRENZ: Facilitating Research Co-operation between Europe and New Zealand) Mr Peter Kiely (Honorary Consul for Slovakia, NZEBC) (Chair) Professor Peter Morgan (University of Sydney) Mr Allan Murdoch Spence (MNZM, JP) Ms Patricia Thake (Honorary Consul General for Malta, NZEBC) Affiliated Staff: Professor Christine Arkinstall (Department of Spanish) Professor James Bade (Department of German and Slavonic Studies) Dr Maureen Benson-Rea (Department of Management and International Business) Professor Klaus Bosselmann (Faculty of Law) Dr James Braund (Department of German and Slavonic Studies) Professor Jean-Jacques Courtine (Department of French) Associate Professor Ken Jackson (Development Studies) Associate Professor Simon Kitson (Department of French) Associate Professor Bernadette Luciano (Department of Italian) Dr Elizabeth Rata (Faculty of Education) Professor Cris Shore (Department of Anthropology) Dr Mark Swift (Department of German and Slavonic Studies) Dr Susanna Trnka (Department of Anthropology) Dr Peter Zámborský (Department of Management and International Business) 3 Message from the Director 2013 has been a watershed year. The Institute’s first two large projects have come to an end. The RECON (Reconstituting Democracy) project on welfare systems in Europe has completed its final three publications, one of which has been published as an issue of the Institute’s Journal and the other two ‘The Costs of Children’ and ‘The Changing Welfare State in Europe’ have been published by Edward Elgar, although copies of the second book will not be available in New Zealand until March 2014. URGE (University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanisation), which has been developed with Aarhus and Bristol universities has also had its final conference. However, these are replaced by two new collaborative research projects. The first, UNIKE (Universities in the Knowledge Economy) is a direct follow on to URGE but with a larger consortium run by Aarhus. The second, ‘The Future of Monetary and Financial Integration in Europe’, is an exciting collaboration in the University of Auckland between researchers in the Business School, the Department of Anthropology and the Division of European Languages and Literatures in the Faculty of Arts. This latter will look not just at the practical implications for the future but also at the social and cultural implications and in particular at the anxieties that what have been labelled as ‘austerity’ programmes have on people. This year saw ‘Europe Day’ come to Auckland. At the behest of the EU delegation in Wellington, the Institute organised an afternoon of European films, music, opera, presentations, displays and a wine tasting and reception, all complemented with some stalls manned by local European cultural societies. This provided a welcome opportunity to present various aspects of the University’s work to a wider audience. The Institute continued to receive a stream of distinguished guests. This time it was the turn of EU Commissioner Andris Piebalgs to visit us again and the EU Ambassador, David Daly, also came over from Canberra towards the end of the year. A particular highlight was the donation of a plaque commemorating the work Maria Sklodowska-Curie on the occasion of the 40-year celebration of Polish-New Zealand diplomatic relations. The plaque was unveiled by the Polish Ambassador, Beata Stoczyńska, just one of the interesting opportunities the Ambassador has brought to the University during her term of office. We also benefitted from another new initiative. The EU Centres Network (EUCN) enabled us to bring Anatol Dutta from Hamburg to prepare and deliver a new course on European Commercial Litigation. This course, which is modular form, will be available to students in future years and illustrates how it is possible to draw on expertise from European scholars. As always, finance remains a problem for the Institute. We had hoped to persuade the University that research relationship with Europe should be put on a parallel footing with that with Asia but we were not successful. We had hoped that the next five years would enable us to ratchet up our activity to a new level, with higher engagement not just with the academic community in Europe but with European business and cultural groups here in Auckland. As this annual report reveals, my colleagues continue to undertake valuable research on Europe and have ambitious plans for its development. Hannah Brodsky has retired and Enrico Haemmerle has become Dean of Engineering at AUT—we wish them well. Major Projects RECON (Reconstituting Democracy in Europe) While the research programme has come to an end, the three remaining publications have appeared in 2013. Our part of RECON related to welfare. The first was a specific study illustrating the detail of the issues by David Mayes and Mark Thomson. We focused on the handling of the problems of balancing childcare and a career with a limited income in a book entitled ‘The Costs of Children’, discussed below. Second, several of the component studies for the project were published in an issue of the Europe Institute Journal, the titles of which are shown in the list of Institute’s publications. These involved almost all of the members of the team: Tess Altman, Christine Cheyne (Massey), Kate Lyons (Massey), David Mayes, Zaidah Mustaffa, Cris Shore and Mark Thomson. The final publication ‘The Changing Welfare State in Europe’ by the remaining member of the team, Anna Michalski, who is now at Uppsala University in Sweden, and David Mayes brings together all the themes of the programme of research. Since this book was only published on 27 December in the UK and will not
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