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MEMORANDUM

 

To:  ECPR standing group convenors

 

From:  Clare Dekker, ECPR Central Services

 

 

Graduate student network:

 

You may know that the ECPR has recently set up a graduate network.  We hope that this network will be able to operate along the same lines as ECPR standing groups, that is, relatively independently, but coordinated by a small group or committee.  We hope that this will become a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences and that the network will in future play an important part of ECPR activities and initiatives.  All that has been done until now is to set up a database of names and email addresses which have been sent to us by the students themselves or official representatives of member institutions.  There are nearly 2,500 names on the database and it is growing every day.

 

The next stage is to try to set up a coordinating committee and we hope this can be done by asking existing standing groups to circulate their graduate members to see whether anyone would be interested in putting themselves forward for this.  The group will thus be made up of students who are already familiar with the ECPR and the way its standing groups work.

 

Would you please, therefore, circulate your standing group members and ask them to inform Louise Hawkridge at the Central Services ([log in to unmask]) if they are interested in (a) joining the network and/or (b) putting themselves forward for the coordinating committee.  Further information can be found on the ECPR web site at http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/graduates/index.asp. We would appreciate it if responses could be received within the next month.  Many thanks for your help with this.

 

3rd ECPR Conference, Budapest, September 2005

 

This is just to give you advance notice that the call for section chairs for the 3rd ECPR conference will be publicised within the next couple of months and as with the last two conferences, ECPR standing groups will be encouraged to organise sections.  Smaller standing groups who do not feel able to organise a section (which will consist of between 4 and 10 panels) are able to organise stand-alone panels.  Further information about the conference will be available on the ECPR web site and announcements will be made in the monthly email bulletins.

 

Publications

 

The ECPR publications board would like to build up a picture of all the publications – books and journals - which are supported by or published under the auspices of standing groups.  Not only is it interesting to have this information, but it will also be good for the ECPR, the standing groups and the authors themselves if we can first be informed about publications and second if we can publicise them more widely – on the web site, on the email bulletin and at conferences.  For example, the ECPR will have its own stand at APSA this year, where we will display books and journals that are published directly by the ECPR.  We would also like to be able to display publications associated with ECPR standing groups.

 

Please, therefore, can you send a short report to Rebecca Knappett at the Central Services ([log in to unmask]) listing any publications and, if possible, also send copies of the publications themselves.  Please can you respond one way or the other – either to say that your group has no associated publications or to provide details – by the end of February.  If you wish to report on any other matter concerning your standing group, you are welcome to include this too and any issues you wish to raise with the ECPR Executive Committee will be forwarded to them in time for their next meeting in April.

 

 

 

CJD

13 January 2004