Centres of Excellence in European Studies: The ERI Experience

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Centres of Excellence in European Studies The
ERI Experience

• Anand Menon

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Outline

• Some basic facts
• Birmingham as a University
• European Studies and Disciplines
• European Studies and Students
• Management Issues
• External Funding

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Basics

• Established 2001
• JIF Funding
• Previously existing units
• Budgetary self-sufficiency

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Birmingham

• Russell Group
• Second tier
• Regional with aspirations
• Parallel New York
• Entrepreneurship over brand
• Geography

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European Studies and the Disciplines

• Overlaps with POLSIS
• Structural Disputes
• The intellectual case?

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Students

• Again, overlaps and competition
• Ownership of resources
• Fluctuating demand
• Core discipline?
• The place of language

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Management

• Audience policy or academe?
• Central university and small centres
• Co-basing in discipline departments?
• Rivalries within?

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External Funding

• FEC
• Core funding and Centres
• Limits of private funding
• FP7 shortcomings
• Networks, collaboration and British problems

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Conclusion

• What future for European Studies?