LATEST CIBR RESEARCH PROJECTS

2006-2009 - Liam O’Dowd, Bohdana Dimitrovova and James Anderson are involved in the EU Sixth Framework Project: EU Dimensions, Civil Society Co-operation across external borders of EU. CIBR is one of ten European partners in the project co-ordinated by James Scott, IRS, Berlin. CIBR’s share of the total grant is €120,000 euros.

RECENT CIBR RESEARCH PROJECTS

Mapping Frontiers, Plotting Pathways: Routes to Co-operation on a Divided Island

Social and Cultural Life on the Irish Border

CIBR VISITING FELLOWS

CIBR provides places for a maximum of two Visiting Fellows per year. Fellows may either be senior scholars or have post-doctoral or advanced doctoral status. Fellows will be expected to give one CIBR seminar while at Queen’s, contribute one Working Paper to the CIBR series, and lodge hard copies of their ‘borders-related’ publications in the CIBR archive. If appropriate, and mutually agreeable, Fellows may contribute to CIBR’s research programme. Visiting Fellows will be provided with a desk, library facilities and a networked computer.

Fellows must arrange their own travel and residential accommodation, though CIBR may be able to offer some assistance in this regard. CIBR Visiting Fellows have normally been sponsored by their national governments, but funding for travel and subsistence may also be sought from the major research councils.

Applications consisting of a brief statement (single A4 sheet) of work to be undertaken while a CIBR Research Fellow, a CV, and one piece of written work should be sent to:

Professor Liam O'Dowd, Director, CIBR, School of Sociology and Social Policy, Queen’s University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland.

Electronic applications are acceptable and can be e-mailed to: l.odowd@qub.ac.uk

Closing date for applications: 31st May annually.

The Mediterranean divide. Satelite picture of the Spanish-Moroccan Border. Peninsula on which the Spanish enclave of Melilla is situated is circled.

The Ceuta-Morocco border at the Spanish side

The Ceuta-Morocco border fence

RECENT CIBR VISITING FELLOWS

CIBR had two Visiting Fellows in position during 2004-2005.

Xavier Ferrer from the University of Barcelona is preparing doctoral research on the reshaping of the Spanish-Moroccan Border in Ceuta (one of the two Spanish enclaves in Morocco). He is interested in the geopolitical meaning of the border and its changing significance within the EU reterritorialization process, in its symbolic dimension as a dual instrument for Spanish and (EU)ropean identity formation and in its role as regulator of flows between the EU and Morocco. Xavier is attached to the School of Sociology and Social Policy.

Ivo Nienhuis from the University of Nijmegen was a CIBR intern, attached to the School of Geography, and working with James Anderson, Ian Shuttleworth and Judit Molnar on a survey of cross-border interaction in Ireland. He is preparing his Master's dissertation entitled 'Border(ed) identities'. He is interested in the (Irish) border as a consequence of (post)modern state thinking, recognising borders as an arena in which to explore the struggle over space. His study involves the critical examination of questions on democracy, economics and the nation, and in employing a constructivist approach, he draws upon the work of Kenneth Gergen, Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Manuel Castells and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

PREVIOUS CIBR RESEARCH PROJECTS

2004-2006 - Liam O'Dowd and Cathal McCall, as members of the CIBR, are conducting research, in collaboration with the Centre for British-Irish Studies at University College, Dublin, on the project Mapping Frontiers, Plotting Pathways: Routes to North-South Cooperation in a Divided Island (funded by the Higher Education Authority through the EU Peace programme. Their specific area of concentration is in-depth case studies in cross-border co-operation.

2003 - O’Dowd, L. (with C.McCall) From Peace I to Peace II: EU-sponsored Third Sector Co-operation across the Irish Border (Funder: Third Sector Programme of Royal Irish Academy, value: €45,000).

2002-5 - Wilson, T. M. European Union Fifth Framework Support Grant [Project acronym EUBORDCONF], to support a three year research project in Northern Ireland, on policy-makers and conflict resolution at the Northern Ireland border, as part of a six-country comparative project, on The European Union and Border Conflict: The Impact of Integration and Association. Coordinators of the Ireland research: Dr. Antje Wiener and Dr. Thomas M. Wilson [Project funding share, Northern Ireland, €90,000, out of a Total Project Fund of €990,000. Project Director: Dr. Thomas Diez, University of Birmingham].

2001-3 - Donnan, H. Sports Council of Northern Ireland, £77,000 to work on border crossing sports migrants and their impact on sport in Northern Ireland

2001 - Wilson, T. M. Leverhulme Research Fellowship, (Reference RF&G/7/RFG/2000/0323), to support one year field research on Europeanization at the Northern Ireland Border.

2001 - Wilson, T. M. The British Academy Research Grant [Reference SG-31933], for project Europeanization in the Northern Ireland Borderlands, May to December 2001.

2001 Wilson, T. M. The Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, Program on Sociocultural Research on MERCOSUR, awarded by the Institute of Social and Economic Development, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May to June 2001.

1997-2001 Donnan, H. European Union, Framework Four, €315,000 to work on borders and social exclusion, with universities of Aegean, Lisbon, Trieste, Corsica and Malaga, 1997 to June 2001

2000 Svašek, M. Dynamics of Politics and Emotions in Border Areas: Discourses of 'home' and 'homeland' among migrants and expellees.

2000 Svašek, M. Property, Power and Politics: Changing Property Relations in West Bohemia.

1997-1999 Svašek, M. Post-doctoral research in the Czech Republic and Germany entitled Social Differentiation, Euregional Integration, and the Impact of Globalising Forces on Identity Formation in the Czech-German Euregion Egrensis.