PhD reserachers
Through an active policy to attract new PhD researchers, PER aims to have 3-4 PhD researchers per sub-theme on a yearly basis (together with 2-3 post-docs).
The PhD researchers will become members of the Research Programme (RP) , and there will be regular meetings, seminars and Research in Progress presentations held within the RP (some open to the public), in order to promote their full embedding, and to look for opportunities of joint publishing, grant writing, and other forms of involvement in research projects.
PhD researchers: in-house and virtual presence
The PER programme will also spearhead tailor-made mini training workshops for our PhD researchers in order to train them to get published on their own in world-class journals even while completing their PhD research.
There will be an active policy to attract promising PhD students through various channels (NFP, Projects, and Self-Finance), with a variety of status, whether resident or non-resident but closely linked to the RP. In this way the RP will have staff members, post-docs and PhDs as members, whether they are physically present (or close by) or connected through cyber-space (as in a 'virtual research environment').
The latter will be particularly important as quite a number of PhD researchers are non-resident or at most will stay shorter periods at ISS. Various forms of virtual research environments (for example the use of a PhD Forum for the Research Group) will therefore be developed.
The PhD students will be linked through their supervisory team to the respective research sub-themes, although this means in a number of cases to both, as the current and future supervisory teams are (and will) consist of staff members that are active in one or both sub-themes.
PhD researchers and their supervisors will jointly develop publication strategies (which can include single authored papers, as well as jointly written with one or more supervisors), and the planning of participation in strategic conferences in which papers can be presented and exposure to peer groups can be further developed.
Current PhD researchers (starting in...)
2013
Shigehara Kasahara, ISS/UNCTAD, A Critical Appraisal of the Flying Geese Paradigm of East Asian Development (Promotor Spoor, Co-promotor Andrew Fischer).
Cevahir Özgüler, ISS/MEU: ‘Gendered Experiences in Environmental Movements: The Case Study of Bergama Movement in Turkey’. (Promotor Spoor, co-promotors Arsel and Harcourt).
Clara Mi-young Park, ISS/FAO: ‘Land Enclosures, Gender and Trajectories of Agrarian Change - The gender impacts of corporate land deals on land rights, labour and income generating opportunities’ (Promotor Spoor, co-promotor Borras; White, member of supervisory team).
2012
Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, ISS: ‘Negotiating identity: a study on ethnic identity in the Context of development and mining exploitation in the Shuar territory, in the Amazon Region of Ecuador’ (Promotor Spoor, co-promotors Arsel and Pellegrini).
Michela Marcatelli, ISS: ‘Contested Waters: Competing demands on and power struggles over productive and domestic uses of water in post-apartheid South Africa’ (Promotor Spoor, co-promotor Büscher)
Natalia Mamonova, ISS: ‘Land Grabbing and Rural Social Movements in Russia and Ukraine’ (Promotor Spoor, co-promotores Visser and Borras).
Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, ISS: ‘Land Grabbing in Guatemala’ (Promotor Spoor, co-promotor Borras).
Benedict McKay, ISS: ‘Competing models of and strategies for socially-inclusive and environmentally sustainable rural development: Brazil and Bolivia compared’, (Promotor Spoor, co-promotor Borras)
Alonso Ramírez Cover, ‘Conservation as boundless processes of border-making. Neoliberal territorialization in trans-frontier conservation: the case of La Amistad Biosphere Reserve’ (Promotor Spoor, co-promotor Büscher)
2011
Ward Warmerdam, ISS: ‘A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese and Dutch Models of Development Cooperation’ (Joint Promotor Salih and Spoor, with co-promotor de Haan). (Joint PhD with GGSJ)
Tsegaye Morade Shegro, ISS: ‘Rural Livelihoods and Food Security in the Gondar Region, Ethiopia’ (Promotor Spoor, co-promotores Büscher and Borras)
Koen Voorend, ISS: ‘Blessing or Curse? Immigration and social policy in Costa Rica’s “exceptional” welfare regime’ (Joint Promotor Spoor, with Bedi); (Joint PhD with EDEM)
2009
Angelica Maria Ocampo Talero, ISS: ‘Young People, Development and the Construction of the Public in a Rural Conflict Region in Colombia’ (Promotor White, co-promotor Truong)
Duygu Avci, ISS: ‘Politics of resistance against mining: a comparative study of conflicts in Ecuador and Turkey’ (Promotor White, co-promotor Arsel)
To finish in 2013
In total 10 researchers are in the final stages of their PhD (to be promoted by Professors Saith [1] and White [9]).
Deniz Aksin, Hannington Odame, PK Vijayan, Atsushi Sano, Martua Thomas Sirait, Richard Ameyan Ampadu, Rosella Riviera, Runa Laila, Rekopantswe Mate, Christina Sathyamala.
How they fit in
Early 2013 there are in total 24 PhD researchers supervised by PER Professors and Emeritus Professors and two co-supervised by Professor Spoor with Professors in other Research Programs, such as Economics of Development and Emerging Markets (EDEM) and Global Governance and Social Justice (GGSJ), in close cooperation with other RP staff, who are often co-promoters.
Many of the PhDs supervised by Professors Saith, White and Wuyts (13 in total) are in the final stage of their PhD study and are expected to finish in 2013-14.They will continue to receive support to finalize their theses, although most of them will not be physically at ISS.
There is a relatively new group of PhD researchers (started during the 2011-13 period) which will be fully embedded in PER, having been selected precisely because of their potential contribution to the emerging Research Programme and because of the support that the RP academic staff can provide to them.
At the moment this group contains 11 students, while there is 1 in the pipeline for approval, with 2 of these jointly promoted with Professors of GGSJ and EDEM. This means that early 2013, the RP has in total 24 PhDs. Next to this, senior RP staff is also involved in a large number of external PhD supervisions (see below).
