Erasmus Mundus Funding Category A deadline: 17 December 2010

Erasmus Mundus Funding Category B deadline: 29 April 2011

IMESS Bursary deadline: 29 April 2011

Non-scholarship deadline: 29 April 2011

Visiting Scholars deadline: 31 January 2011

 

 

 

The IMESS Research Dissertation

The IMESS Research Dissertation forms an essential part of the overall degree and much of the research training students undertake facilitates the production of a substantive research-based dissertation of 20-25,000 words. The dissertation is the largest component of the second year of the programme and the single most important piece of work produced during the Masters.

The dissertation will: provide students with an opportunity to pursue independent research on a subject related to their study pathway; allow students to undertake some original research; allow students to illustrate their achievements during the IMESS programme, including their knowledge of appropriate research methods and, if appropriate, language; prepare students for further study in the form of an MPhil/PhD and for employment in high level public and private sector institutions.

Currently students are undertaking dissertations on subjects including: ‘Regional Economic Integration and FDI’; ‘Health Systems in Transition: Priorities, Policies and Health Outcomes’; ‘Does wind energy have a future in Estonia?’; ‘European Security at the beginning of the 21st century – at the crossroads of the US and Russian foreign policies’; ‘The development of discourse on well-being: A rhetorical comparison of Finland and Thailand’; ‘Do FDI and Financial Development Exert a Complementary Effect on Economic Growth?' ; 'Private Savings in the EU'; 'Income tax reform and the Polish labour market'; 'Determinants of Stock Market Reforms'; 'Sino-Finnish Relations, 1950s'; 'Salvation Thinking in Vladimir Solovyov: A Utopian Perspective' and; ’Push and Pull Factors of Return Migration: A Case study of Polish Emigrants to Britain (2004-08)' .

The particular supervision expertise of the IMESS partners varies greatly. Most relevant interests can be catered for, though each university has particular specialisms that are summarised below:

Economics and Business Dissertations
Charles University, Czech Republic: Oil, Gas and Energy Flows Between Eurasia and Europe; Banking in Russia.
Corvinus University, Hungary: Nominal and real convergence in transition countries; EMU and Euro Adoption; The Stability and Growth Pact: A Hungarian Perspective; Financing development - Regional and Structural Policy; Political Economy of Transformation; FDI and Transnational Corporations; Macroeconomic Management of Transformation and Integration; Banking and Development; The Developmental State; Political Institutions and Economic Growth.
Helsinki University, Finland: State companies and privatisation policies in Finland and ‘another’; Transformations in the Finnish model of capitalism; Structural change within manufacturing industries: the context for the rise of Nokia and the ICT sector; Finland’s national innovation strategy, R & D expenditures and the success of new industries; Transformations in the Finnish managerial profile; Labour markets and labour policies in Finland; Finnish foreign trade policies and Finland in the International Political Economy (GATT/WTO etc).
Jagiellonian University, Poland: Economic Aspects of EU Enlargement; Regional Economic Integration in Europe; EU Financial Systems; EU in the Global Economic System; Mechanisms of the Internal Market; EU Economic Policy; Entrepreneurship and SME Development in CEE; Health care sector.
Tartu University, Estonia: Economic restructuring; Economic growth; FDI; Integration; Regional competitiveness; Sectoral analyses (e.g. Banking, Energy Transport); Economic policies (e.g. fiscal policies, Monetary policies)

Politics and Security Dissertations
Charles University, Czech Republic: Nuclear (Non)proliferation in the Post-Soviet Area; Ethnic Conflicts in Eurasia.
Corvinus University, Hungary: Foreign Policy; Politics of Transformation; Comparative Political Economy of Transformation; The Developmental State; Integration and Transformation in CEE; The Varieties of Capitalism; Political Institutions and Growth.
Helsinki University, Finland: Finnish foreign policy 1917–2008; International politics and the Baltic sea region; The Significance of the Nordic/Scandinavian Connection to Finland; Non-alignment as a pattern of Finnish security policy; Cold War and Post-Cold War international relations in North-East Europe; Finnish-Russian Relations; Finnish communism and the Soviet Union; Political Mobilization in Finland; Finland and EU Integration; 'Finlandisation' as national 'trauma'; Present day politics of history, historical conciousness and historical culture.
Jagiellonian University, Poland: Nation, Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Europe; Transatlantic Relations in post-Cold War; International Security in post-Cold War Europe; EU on the Global Political Stage; Germany in Europe after the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Tartu University, Estonia: Political Developments in the BSR; Parties and politics; Russian-EU Relations; Foreign Policy; EU integration; Social Policies; Institutional development

Nation, History and Society Dissertations
Charles University, Czech Republic: Migration Between Eurasia and Europe; Churches in the History of East-Central and Eastern Europe.
Corvinus University, Hungary: Minorities, Ethnicities; Human Rights; Migration and Society; EU integration; Foreign Policy in CEE and Hungary; Globalisation and Transformation; Hungarian and Central European History; Hungarian and Central European Culture; Minorities in CEE; Gender issues in CEE; Economic History; The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; Modernisation and Transformation in CEE in a historical perspective (1800-2000).
Helsinki University, Finland: Finnish nation and nationalism; Finnish communism and the Soviet Union; Nationalism in pre-1917 Russian Empire; The making of the welfare state in Finland; Voluntary associations and social movements; Interdependence between state and civic society in Finland; Political mobilization in Finland; Presence of history in contemporary Finland: history politics, historical consciousness and historical culture; ‘Finlandisation’ as national ‘trauma’; Gender relations in history; History of design and the material culture of everyday life; Minorities and marginal groups in history; Baltic sea region environmental history; Baltic cities and urban history; Theory of history and historical thought.
Jagiellonian University, Poland: Cultural Anthropology of Central Europe; Human Rights and Idea of Tolerance in Europe; Migration and Identity in Europe; Philosophy, Politics and Central Europe; History of Central & Eastern Europe; European Culture; Cultural Polices in Europe; Classical Russian Thought; Contemporary Political Philosophy.
Tartu University, Estonia: History of the Baltic Sea Region; Social developments; Baltic Transition; Politics of Memory; Social Capital; Nationalism and Nation-Building; Majorities and Minorities; Religion; Civil Society; Gender Issues

Further details can be found in the IMESS Student Handbook.

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