Alumni news & careers

Umme Busra Fateha Sultana from Bangladesh has been awarded with a prestigious and highly competitive Commonwealth Scholarship to study a Dphil in Gender, Media and Sexualities at Sussex Research Centre for Cultural Studies (SCCS) at the University of Sussex.

Ms Sultana graduated from ISS in 2009 with an MA in Women, Gender, Development. She is a lecturer in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

ISS alumna Karen Gabriel (India, PhD in Development, Gender, Media, Culture, 1996 – 2001) was awarded with the European Union's Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship for Senior Researchers.

Subhasish Dey has been awarded the prestigious ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council of UK) scholarship of UK to pursue his PhD in Development Economics at the University of Manchester, UK.

He starts his PhD study in September 2011. Subhasish who followed the specialization Poverty Studies and Policy Analysis graduated in 2009 with distinction and best research paper award.

Vacancies in development

Do you think it is time for a next step in your career? ISS has listed several databases and websites with national and international positions in development.

ISS alumnus honoured

Dr. Vasant Moharir, ISS alumnus and former staff member

was honoured recently at the annual conference of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Public Administration (IASIA) in Rome.He received a lifetime service award for services to the association and to the international network of public administrators (e.g. the sister association IIAS).

Vasant Moharir studied at ISS from 1967 to 1969 and was a staff member here from 1970 to 1999.

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ISS news

Passing away Karel Jansen

Karel Jansen, Associate Professor in Macro Economics at ISS, has unexpectely passed away in April 2011. The news arrived at ISS when staff was in the midst of preparing for Karel's festive farewell from the Institute on the occasion of his impending retirement. Both as a professional and as a person, he was a man with outstanding qualities, always with an open ear for his students and colleagues and always prepared to give his own, highly original views. And always with a good sense of humour. We will all miss him sorely and our thoughts are with his wife and family.

Veni subsidy for Dr. Bram Büscher

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded the prestigious Veni grant to Dr. Bram Büscher, lecturer in Environment and Sustainable Development at ISS. Büscher receives this grant for his project 'Nature 2.0: the political economy of conservation in online and Southern African environments'.You can read more about this here.

Refresher Course

ISS refresher courses will take place in Ecuador and the Philippines. Application for the refresher course in the Philippines is possible until 20th of August 2011. Theme: Gender and Generation in Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights: the new agenda of Population and Development Research and Policymaking. ISS alumni can also apply for IHS Refresher courses.

2 ISS students present papers at prestigious conference

Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor presented a paper (with Peter van Bergeijk) entitled Multi membership and effectiveness of RTAs in Western and Southern Africa: A comparative study of ECOWAS and SADC in which he estimates the impact of regional trade agreements in Africa (in particular ECOWAS and SADC) and compares this to the a benchmark of North South trade integration. Sylvanus graduated from ISS in 2010 with an MA in Development Studies.

Djalita Fialho presented a paper entitled Aiming high, falling short: the Least Developed Country (LDC) category at 40 in which she analyses the motivation behind the UN decision to establish the LDC category in 1971. Djalita is a PhD fellow at ISS.

They presented papers at the Seventh Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik Research Committee Development Economics hosted by KfW and DIW in Berlin, Germany on 24-25 June.

Opening Academic Year

The new academic year opens on Thursday 8 September at 15.00 hours. More information will be on our website in the near future.

Help us to promote ISS

As our ambassadors across the globe, you are one of the most important sources of information about what ISS has to offer. If you would like to help us promote ISS and attract new students and research we are happy to send you a set of PR materials including some brochures, posters and small gifts. This can be handed out to embassies, universities, NGOs, research institutes, ministries and anyone else interested in ISS

Please send your name and details to info@remove-this.iss.nl with promoting ISS in the subject line.

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Alumni meetings

An alumni meeting was held in Mexico City on 19 July 2011 hosted by Rosalba Icaza.

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Alumni Associations

The Holland Alumni Network (HAN) in Brazil has recently launched a new website. This is the newest feature of HAN to facilitate the communication among Brazillian Holland Alumni.

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PhD defences

Public Defence by Antonio Pedro Jose Machohe, Mozambique

On 28 June 2011, Antonio Pedro Jose Machohe, successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled Limits to Decentralization in Mozambique: Leadership, Politics and Local Government Capacities for Service Delivery

Watch the video of the whole event which was chaired by ISS rector, Professor Leo de Haan

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Other News

Bentham Open

Over 230 peer-reviewed open access journals are published by Bentham Open. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, technology, medicine and social sciences. You can view the journals by title or subject.
One of the journals is The Open Area Studies Journal
The editorial of special issue #001 (2011) was written by Wil Hout, Henry Kifordu and Pedro Goulart Governance, Conflict and Dispute Resolution: Introduction

Palgrave Mamillan: free articles from Contemporary Political Theory

To mark the occasion of its 10th volume the editorial team of Contemporary Political Theory has selected 10 of the most significant papers that the journal has published, which Palgrave is making available to download for FREE throughout the year at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cpt/editors_choice.html

Robert Chambers Archive

The British Library for Development Studies (BLDS) launched an archive of the publications of [ www.ids.ac.uk/index.cfm ]Robert Chambers, spanning four decades of research on participatory development. It currently includes citations to more than 400 documents, nearly 80% of which are available in full-text. All material is also searchable via Google and Google Scholar.

The recently launched archive can be found at www.ids.ac.uk/go/robertchambers.

Handbook for Social Scientists

The London School of Economics, Public Policy Group has brought out a handbook on Maximizing the Impacts of your Research: A Handbook for Social Scientists. Even though currently it is in the draft version, the handbook covers various aspects of research impacts and will help researchers in achieving a more professional and focused approach to their research. Some of the topics covered include, citing of publications, citation tracking systems, key measures for academic influence, how better cited etc.

Full text of the handbook (draft) can be accessed at:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/research/resgroups/LSEPublicPolicy/Docs/LSE_Impact_Handbook_April_2011.pdf

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New Publications

Religion and Development: Ways of Transforming the World.

Edited by Gerrie Ter Haar Foreword by James D. Wolfensohn, Former President of the World Bank.

Special offer: 20% discount if you order the book using the order form on this flyer

South-South Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Developmen

Edited by Murshed, Goulart and Serino and published by Routledge. More information

Working papers

Solidarity economy in Brazil: movement, discourse and practice. Analysis through a Polanyian understanding of the economyHelmsing, A.H.J.International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS) ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 524, (2011)

Local economic development and migrant remittances in rural Zimbabwe: building on sand or solid ground?Ncube, G. ‧ Gomez, G.M.International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS) ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 523, (2011)

Laos: a state coordinated frontier economyAndriesse, E.International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS) ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 522, (2011)

One is not enough! Understanding world trade collapsesBergeijk, P.A.G. vanInternational Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS) ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 521, (2011)

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