Alumni news & careers |
After 18 years working for the Twins Master Program In Economics Development (MDE) held by National Economics University, Hanoi and Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Vu Hung Phuong has taken the position of Vice Rector at the Vinacomin Business School which belongs to Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Ltd. His contact details are:
Vu Hung Phuong, PhD
Vice Rector
Vinacomin Business School (VBS); www.vbs.edu.vn
Add: ngo 12, pho An Hoa, phuong Mo Lao, quan Ha Dong, Ha Noi
Mobile: 0904 215 148 |
 Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan (MA Politics of Alternative Development 1990/1991) wrote a book Growing Up And Away, Narratives of Indian Childhoods which was published last winter by Oxford University Press. More information is available through www.growingupandaway.in
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 Silvia Hernandez (MA 2003/2004)has been appointed Vice Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy of Costa Rica.
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Saeed Ghani (Globalisation and Labour Rights, 2004/2005) has been elected Senator in the Upper House of Parliament in Pakistan. Ghani is the labour leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). |
Michael Büsgen (MA Rural Livelihoods and Global Change, 2004/2005) has been working as Country Director for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Beijing, China since January 2012. |
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ISS news |
Message from Deputy Rector for Education: Dear colleagues in the field of Development Studies,
On our website is an announcement of our MA in Development Studies. Maybe you would be interested yourself or know students, colleagues, friends or relatives who are looking for an MA programme. I would appreciate your cooperation in forwarding this flyer to anyone interested.
Dr Jos Mooij
Deputy Rector for Educational Affairs |
 Lustrum 2012
ISS will celebrate its 60th anniversary in the period September 2012 - July 2013. Most lustrum activities are scheduled in the week of 8 - 12 October 2012. On Friday 12 October special alumni activities are on the agenda. If you have any plans to visit The Hague during this period, please put this date into your schedule and register for the alumni day online: http://www.iss.nl/forms/lustum_alumni_day/ |
 In March, Ria Brouwers, Senior Lecturer in International Development Policy left ISS
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 ISS colleagues pay tribute to Karel Jansen
Liber Amicorum edited by Peter van Bergeijk and Annet van Geen entitled 'Do we ever learn?' The book was written in commemoration of Karel Jansen. It was originally planned as a Liber Amicorum for his retirement in 2011 to honour a valued and productive colleague, teacher and researcher. After Karel’s sudden death the contributors decided to do just that and go on with the production of this volume of short essays. |
Your MA paper online? We offer all alumni the possibility to receive a digital version of their MA paper. If you fill in this form, we will send you the PDF file. If you agree, we are also glad to include your MA paper in the online Thesis Repository. |
 Specialization blogs
For debate, discussion and news More and more of ISS' MA specializations have their own blogs to engage in debate and discussion on topics linked to the specialization. So far there are blogs for the Human Rights, Conflict and Peace Studies specializations and more are on the way - keep an eye on the teaching pages of our website. |
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Alumni meetings |
Upcoming meetings |
Kampala, Uganda - 20 July 2012 ISS alumni meeting, hosted by dr Kristen Cheney Date: Friday, 20 July 2012 Time: 18.30 – approx. 21.30 hrs Venue: Haandi Restaurant, Commercial Plaza 7 Kampala Road, Kampala Tel: 006 414 346283/4 To register www.iss.nl/kampala2012 |
Recent meetings |
 Barcelona, Spain 26 June 2012 Alumni dinner in Barcelona - a good time was had by all
Bangalore, India 18 June 2012 Alumni gathering in Bangalore, India, with prospective students Montreal, Canada 18 May 2012 Alumni gathering in Montreal with prospective students Bogota, Colombia 12 May 2012 Alumni dinner / meeting in Bogota- a very good time was had by all, alumni and prospective students Washington DC, USA 7 April 2012 Spring ISS Washington DC alumni event very happy get-together Accra, Ghana, 20 March 2012 Alumni meeting in Ghana a great success Chennai, India, 28 February 2012 Alumni dinner in Chennai with a positive exchange of ideas and experiences Nairobi, Kenya, 2 February 2012 Alumni gathering in Nairobi very happy and successful
Jakarta, Indonesia, 11 January 2012 Alumni event in Jakarta great success |
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Alumni associations |
 Holland Alumni network
The Nuffic (ISS’ neighbour in The Hague and promoting Dutch higher education) invests a lot of time and money in the Holland Alumni network. This networks aims to set up and facilitate an international network of Holland alumni, alumni-to-be, and relevant organizations. Why not have a look on their website where you find information on: And last but not least, find fellow alumni through the Holland Alumni Directory of Nuffic. The person you want to contact receives an e-mail form the Holland Alumni network displaying your message and can decide whether he or she wants to contact you. |
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PhD defences |
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 Christina Kayoza Integrated Infrastructure for Sustainable Improvement of Movement and Safety in Urban Road Corridors. The Case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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 Lucienne Maas A time to enroll, a time to stop: policies, perceptions and practices influencing the right to basic education in Yemen
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 Alexander Blandón López Economic restructuring and value chains: The search for regional competitivenessin Colombia CD-ROM (Case Studies)
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 Donald Mmari Institutional Innovations and Competitiveness of Smallholders in Tanzania
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New publications |
Top 25 ISS Working Papers for January 2012 Find out the top 25 ISS Working Papers by file downloads for the month of January 2012 at: http://logec.repec.org/scripts/seritemstat.pl?h=RePEc:dgr:euriss Research Papers in Economics - RePEc is a public-access database of economics and finance research, including working papers from universities/institutions across the world. Most working papers can be downloaded for free. Please note that RePEc does not contain full-text journal articles; in most case you will find a link, but you may need a personal or institutional subscription to follow those links. |
Some recent publications by ISS staff - Determinants of road traffic crash fatalities across Indian States Michael Grimm and Carole Treibich; ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 531, p1-28(2012)
- Universal Jurisdiction: State of Affairs and Ways Ahead Liesbeth Zegveld and Jeff Handmaker;ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 532/532, p1-17 (2012)
- Visible and invisible walls: world trade patterns and the end of the Cold War, Peter A.G.van Bergeijk, ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 533, p1-21 (2012)
- Land title to the tiller. Why it’s not enough and how it’s sometimes worse Rosselynn Jaye Garcia de la Cruz. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 534, p1-46 (2012)
- Exports, government size and economic growth (Evidence from Iran as a developing oil-export based economy) Sajjad Faraji Dizaji. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 535, p1-41 (2012)
- Child malnutrition and antenatal care: Evidence from three Latin American countries Nohora F. Ramirez, Luis F. Gamboa, Arjun S. Bedi and Robert Sparrow. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 536, p1-28 (2012)
- Constrained gazelles. High potentials in West Africa’s informal economy Michael Grimm, Peter Knorringa, and Jann Lay. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 537, p1-35 (2012)
- It takes two to quango: post-Soviet fiscal relations, political entrepreneurship and agencification from below Barbara Lehmbruch. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 538, p1-26 (2012)
- Commodity Conservation. The restructuring of community conservation in South Africa and the Philippines. Büscher and Wolfram Dressler
- A perverse ‘Net’ effect? Health insurance and Ex-ante moral hazard in Ghana. Zelalem Yilma Debebe with Luuk van Kempen and Thomas de Hoop
- Human Autonomy Effectiveness and Development Projects Mirtha R. Muniz Castillo and Des Gasper
- Environmental Studies in Turkey: Critical Perspectives in a Time of Neo-liberal Developmentalism, Murat Arsel
- The Marks Race. India's dominant education regime and new segmentation Jos Mooij and Manabi Majumdar
- The Geo-politics of politico-religious protest in Eastern Tibet Andrew Fischer
- Neoliberal Conservation, Uneven Geographical Development and the Dynamics of Contemporary Capitalism Bram Buscher and Murat Arsel
Video interviews - new publications Authors talk about their new books |
 Bram Büscher and Murat Arsel guest edit Journal for Economic and Social Geography
Special issue on Neoliberal Conservation 'Neoliberal Conservation, Uneven Geographical Development and the Dynamics of Contemporary Capitalism'. In their editorial Bram Büscher and Murat Arsel critically reflect on the connection between the ongoing financial crisis and the crises in the sphere of environment and development. |
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Open access and free resources |
 OSSREA: Gender Issues Research Report Series
Abstracts and executive summaries of the latest issue of Gender Issues Research Report Series ( No. 25) are now available at http://publications.ossrea.net/index.php? You can freely view or download the complete series at: http://publications.ossrea.net/index.php?option=com_sobi2&catid=12&Itemid=0 Full text is available for issues 1 – 23 (1997 – 2006). Abstracts and summaries only are available for issues 24 and 25 (2009, 2012) |
 EconStor is a subject-based repository for economics and business administration maintained by the German National Library of Economics / Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW). It provides free access to all kinds of scholarly publications, including working and discussion papers, conference papers, journal articles, research reports, and dissertations.
Go to EconStor at http://www.econstor.eu/ |
 ISS is a prominent member of EADI (European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes). Through the EADI website a lot of research reports, working papers and publications are available online (free). It is also possible to subscribe to a free monthly research newsletter full of information. http://www.eadi.org/research
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 UNRISD has just published the first papers in a new series on the Social Dimensions of Green Economy and Sustainable Development. This Occasional Paper series, produced in collaboration with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) for Rio+20, aims to stimulate debate around the social dimensions of green economy and sustainable development.
The papers in this series are drawn from a conference, Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing Back the Social Dimension, that UNRISD held in October 2011. To download the free publications, you first have to register. More details on http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BE6B5/%28httpNews%29/085D009581F5FAA8C1257976005E8DB2?OpenDocument
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 Twitter for academics
A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities This guide was published by the Impact of Social Sciences blog, which is run by the LSE Public Policy Group. The blog is a hub for researchers, administrative staff, students, think-tanks, government, and anyone else interested in maximising the impact of academic work in the social sciences and other disciplines. The blog can be accessed at http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/ |
Other News |
Refresher courses IHS ISS alumni are cordially invited for the two Refresher courses of IHS (like ISS part of Erasmus University) that are organized this year in Uganda and the Philippines. Please check the IHS website for more information: http://www.ihs.nl/prospective_students/ihs_programmes/refresher_courses/ |
Refresher courses ITC ITC, a similar institute as ISS but focusing on Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, is offering eight Refresher courses this year to NFP alumni. ISS alumni are more than welcome to apply for one of these courses if they are eligible. Courses on offer are in the area of a.o. health, natural resources, planning and transport, climate change and environment. http://www.itc.nl/Pub/alumni/alumni-refresher-courses/Refresher-Courses-2012.html |
 The Cheetah Challenge thesis competition
A thesis competition about development, equity and citizenship Win €1,000 & attend the Prince Claus Chair lustrum dinner with all 10 holders of the Prince Claus Chair and other distinguished guests. Read more |
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