Alumni news & careers

Roodal Moonilal appointed as Minister

ISS is proud to announce that our former student Roodal Moonilal has been appointed Minister of Housing and the Environment of Trinidad and Tobago. Roodal Moonilal studied MA Labour and Development in 1991/1992 when he was also president of Scholas. Roodal Moonilal returend to ISS for his PhD from 1995 to 1998. He graduated with a distinction. In 1997/1998 Moonilal worked also as a Teaching and Research Assitant at ISS. We wish him a lot of wisdom and good luck in his new job.

Ximena Echeverria Magariños (MA International Political Economy and Development 2004/2005) visited ISS while in Europe for visits to Care in Switzerland and Care in the Netherlands. Ximena works for Care in La Paz, Bolivia.

ISS alumna Manorama Dei from India (MA Governance & Democracy 2007/2008), now works as Program Director with God Action, a Delhi-based organization working in seven states of India. Her working paper ' Challenges of Accountability', supervised by Helen Hintjens, has been published by VDM Publishing House Ltd. Mauritius. Congratulations!

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ISS news

New Diploma Programmes

Alumni can apply now for Diploma Programmes in 2011. For more information, please check http://www.iss.nl/Diploma-Programmes. The deadline for applications for an NFP fellowship is 1 September 2010.

Free scholarly resources

Under the heading Information resources on the Library section of the ISS website is a link to free scholarly resources. This selection aims to provide access to scholarlary resources for students, researchers and practioners around the world who may have no or limited access to affordable resources.

Staff news

Wim Geppaart started on May 1, 2010 as head of financial administration (ORM)
Inge van Verschuer, Frances Morris, Faroel Ibrahim, Maureen Koster and Bea Tabink have left the ISS in the past months. Kristin Komives left ISS at the end of June.

Your contact details!

Are you sure that ISS has the right email address and your current address? As we are planning a mailing for all alumni later this year, we would very much appreciate to receive your updated details. Please send it to alumni@iss.nl

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Alumni meetings

Lusaka, Zambia

On Monday 2 August 2010 an ISS alumni meeting in Lusaka will be held. For more information, please check http://www.iss.nl/Alumni/Alumni-meetings/Upcoming-meetings

Nairobi, Kenya

The planned alumni meeting for the end of July has to be postponed. ISS is making efforts to have an ISS alumni meeting organised in Nairobi later this year.

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Alumni networks

Alumni network China

The Netherlands Alumni Network in China (NANC) is planning to organise a big Dutch alumni reunion in September at the Dutch pavilion at Shanghai World EXPO. All alumni are very welcome to come!
For more information on the NANC:

Virtual Holland Alumni Network

Nuffic has launched a virtual Holland Alumni Network - join now
Find your connections in the Holland Alumni Directory, get in contact and start building your personal Holland Alumni network online through www.hollandalumni.nl

The Holland Alumni network links all international alumni from Dutch institutes for higher education (incl. ISS) to:
- fellow Holland Alumni
- alumni offices at your former institution in the Netherlands
- Holland Alumni networks in your home country
- Nuffic’s overseas representative offices (NESOs)
- specific information for NFP alumni and HSP alumni
- news and events

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Vacancies and grants

Job opportunities in International Relations at ISS partner university in Kyoto, Japan

Ritsumeikan University's College of International Relations is currently recruiting for seven positions in the field of international relations, to which ISS alumni are explicitly invited to apply.
Ritsumeikan intends to recruit two permanent faculty members (one in International Politics and one in International Organizarions), and wishes to make five fixed-term (five year) appointments in: international political economy, global sociology, international law, peace studies and area studies.
More information can be obtained from Ritsumeikan's website: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/Employment_Opportunities.html

European Commission Grant

ISS alumni working in the area of child labour may be interested to know about new grant from the European Commission: EC Grant Investing in People, Children, Fighting Child Labour (http://www.iss.nl/Alumni/Alumni-news/EC-Grant-Investing-in-People-Children-Fighting-Child-Labour)

IHEU-HIVOS grants

Working for a Humanist Organization? You may be eligible for a grant of the IHEU-HIVOS Human Network and Development programme for 2010. IHEU and HIVOS have been collaborating since 1988 to promote a Humanist oriented development, through human rights and Humanist networking oriented projects.IHEU invites applications for 2010. The deadline for applications is 1 September 2010. For further information, conditions and application form, please check http://www.iheu.org/funding2010

Research prize

The CEDIMES Institute of Economic Research in Paris, will degree four International Prizes for research in the following topic: Processes of development in the world. The topic concerns all the questions regarding the fields of both the traditional and the sustainable development in all parts of the world.
The deadline for applications is July 15th, 2010.
For more information please check http://cedimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=10&id=34&Itemid=78

Global Development Network Awards 2011

The Global Development Network (GDN) is an International Organization of researchers, policy and research institutes promoting the generation, sharing and application to policy of multidisciplinary knowledge for the purpose of development. One of GDN’s biggest annual activities is the Global Development Awards and Medals Competition - an innovative award scheme that encourages original research coming out of developing and transition economies. Since its inception in 2000, GDN has awarded roughly US$ 2 million in research and travel grants to finalists and winners. Winners are chosen by an eminent jury at the final event. This event is also GDN’s Annual Conference, with an audience of over 500 practitioners in the field of development to whom the finalists present. This year, the Twelfth Annual Global Development Conference will be held in Bogotá, Columbia in January 2011.

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New publications

A selection of recent staff and alumni publications can be found here

Working Paper No 501: Does Inequality in health impede growth M. Grimm

Working Paper No 503: Cultivating humanity? Education and capabilities for a global ‘great transition’. D.R. Gasper and S. George

Working Paper No 504: Socio-economic determinants of road traffic accident fatalities in low and middle income countries. M Grimm and C. Treibich

Working Paper No 505: Climate change and the language of human security. D.R. Gasper

Working Paper No 506: Interactions between states and markets in a global context of change: contribution for building a research agenda on stakeholders’ social responsibility.P. Almeida Ashley

Working Paper No 507: Determinants of urban job attainment in Kenya across time: education and quality of jobs by gender. W.R. Wamuthenya

You can also subscribe to the free email notification service for the ISS Working Paper Series. Just supply your email address and you will receive a message each time a new issue is published, including the abstract and the link to the online version.

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Doctoral defences

On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Le Tan Nghiem defended his thesis entitled Activity and Income Diversification: trends, determinants and effects on poverty reduction. The case of the Mekong River Delta

On Monday 26 April 2010, Husnul Amin defended his thesis entitled: From Islamism to Post-Islamism. A Study of a New Intellectual Discourse on Islam and Modernity in Pakistan

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