Sir Menzies Campbell resigns: text of announcement

Last Updated: 7:29pm BST 15/10/2007

Here is the full text of the resignation announcement given by party president Simon Hughes outside the Liberal Democrat headquarters in London. Mr Hughes said: “Ming Campbell has this evening submitted his resignation as the leader of the Liberal Democrats with immediate effect. “For the last two years Ming has given huge purpose and stability to our party. “He has led the professionalisation of the party and he has led the very successful preparations for the general election whenever it comes. “Throughout all his political life Ming has taken all his decisions – and this decision is one of them – in the interests of our party and of liberal democracy throughout Great Britain and every Liberal Democrat and many other people owe him a huge debt of gratitude. “Vince Cable, who is our deputy leader, takes over as acting leader with immediate effect until a new leader is elected and a timetable for that will be announced tomorrow.”

The Body Beautiful Show

3 – 4 November 2007, Business Design Centre, Islington, London

Don’t miss the all-new BODY BEAUTIFUL SHOW 2007 at London’s Business Design Centre – the one-stop shop for all your health and beauty needs.

This year’s show offers the perfect opportunity for some pre-Christmas party pampering, bringing the widest-ever range of exhibitors and the UK’s leading health and beauty practitioners together under one roof.

Whether you want a quick fix at the beauty bar, expert advice on make-up, nutrition and skin care or fancy indulging yourself with luxurious natural beauty treatments, the show will have a fantastic range on offer. For those who want to find out more about assisted beauty techniques, you can consult the professionals for advice on everything from the latest micro-dermabrasion and laser treatments right through to transforming anti-aging techniques such as dental and cosmetic surgery, making this the ultimate beauty show for every woman who wants to look their best.

THE BODY BEAUTIFUL SHOW offers a fantastic day out with a packed programme of talks and seminars by leading beauty and fitness professionals, a hair and make-up zone, the Beauty Boulevard where you can buy the latest must-have products at discount prices and catwalk shows where you can pick up the latest fashion trends. Browse the aisles to discover hundreds of new beauty ideas, learn how to get your body in shape in the fitness arena or book yourself in for a treatment at one of the on-site private treatment rooms – and discover a whole new you. And, for the first time in 2007, THE SPA SHOW will share the venue space, showcasing the ultimate in spa holidays and resorts, luxury travel, healthy living, pampering and holistic therapies. 2

Exhibitors include:

SK:N – the national network of specialist skin and body clinics, offering innovative cosmetic and laser treatments, together with dermatologically proven skincare products, to enhance natural beauty.

RESTYLANE – Swedish specialists in natural beauty lifts for long-lasting, natural enhancement which is gentle and safe for your skin.

FINISHING TOUCHES – the market leaders in micro-pigmentation.

THE CONSULTING ROOM – the UK’s largest independent on-line resource for unbiased information on surgical and non-surgical cosmetic enhancement.

TRANSFORM – specialists in surgical and non-surgical cosmetic treatments and weight-loss surgery.

HARLEY MEDICAL GROUP – market leaders in cosmetic surgery and non-surgical procedures.

KI HEALTH INTERNATIONAL – dedicated to helping people attain a state of inner and outer harmony with Ki Energy – acupress and energy treatment.

Notes to editors:

The Body Beautiful Show 2007 at the Business Design Centre, Islington, is open Saturday 3^{rd November, 10am-6pm and Sunday 4th November, 10am – 4pm. Nearest tube: Angel or Highbury & Islington.}

Advance tickets to The Body Beautiful Show including entry to The Spa Show are available from http://www.bodybeautifulshow.co.uk. Tickets cost £10 in advance and £15 on the door.

For further information please contact Margot Weale at Midas Public Relations on 020 7590 0814 or email margot.weale@midaspr.co.uk

http://www.bodybeautifulshow.co.uk

Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 88 – October 2007

Contents

  1 Introduction
  2 My travels
  3 Hands on Knowledge Co-creation and Sharing
  4 KM in the 60s
  5 Study of developing true expertise
  6 Will Facebook displace LinkedIn?
  7 Lotus Symphony
  8 Do we really need schools?
  9 KM Event Highlights
10 Subscribing and Unsubscribing
11 The Gurteen Knowledge Letter

Introduction

Each month I add almost 100 pages to my website: KM events; new books; jobs; quotations; links to interesting sites; quotations; articles; videos; blog entries; KM tools and more.

It would not make sense to visit my site everyday to see what was new but you can subscribe to my site and read all the new pages in your RSS Reader.

The RSS Feed for my site is http://feeds.feedburner.com/GurteenKnowledgeUpdate and if you do not have a Reader – try Google Reader – its on-line – nothing to download – its fast, slick and its free.

I also publish several other more focused RSS Feeds such as ones for regional events, jobs and new books.

My travels

On Friday 19th October I am off on my travels. To remind you – this is my itinerary:

• actKM Conference, Canberra, 23 – 24 Oct.
• Sydney Knowledge Cafe, Sydney, 25 Oct.
• KM Asia, Singapore, 29 – 31 Oct.
• KM Singapore, Singapore, 1 Nov.
• KM World, San Jose, 5 – 8 Nov.

The big bit of news since last month is the Knowledge Cafe in Sydney. Annalie Killian of AMP offered me a great venue overlooking the waterfront that I just could not refuse and we now have over 100 people signed up and unfortunately have had to close registration!

I am spending a little extra time in all these places and if you would like to meet-up just drop me a line.

Hands on Knowledge Co-creation and Sharing

Ed Mitchell has informed me of a new book from the KnowledgeBoard community. Here is what Sami the book?s editor has to say about it:

This book presents thirty different hands-on methods and techniques for knowledge co-creation and sharing within collaborative settings. It showcases a wide range of moderation, facilitation, collaboration, and interaction mechanisms through the use of different face to face and online methods and techniques.

Each presented method/technique is augmented with real-life cases on its use; provides directions on what needs to be done before, during, and after the use of each method/technique to achieve tangible and measurable results; provides a set of tips and tricks on the use and adaptation of the method/technique for different contexts and settings; and provides a list of potholes to avoid when using the method/technique.

You can download a free zipped version here.

KM in the 60s

This industrial film made around 1960 clearly demonstrates that knowledge management was being touted as a management philosophy a whole generation before Karl Wiigs work.

Take a look – its about 6 minutes long and I think you may enjoy it but not for the reason you may be expecting! Patrick Lambe brought it to my attention which may give you a clue! <!–

You can see many more KM videos from Patrick here.

–>

Study of developing true expertise

Richard McDermott is conducting some interesting research with the Henley Knowledge Management Forum.

Is your organization good at:

• sharing the real expertise of senior staff before they retire?
• developing young professionals who move rapidly between organizational units?
• managing handovers when overlap between staff is not possible?
• creating a culture that integrates learning into everyday work?
• integrating the expertise of seasoned practitioners with talent development programs?

Would you like to ?compare notes? with other organizations that have cutting edge approaches to these issues?

I am conducting a study in conjunction with Henley Management College?s KM Forum on how to deepen and develop real expertise. The sponsors are quite sophisticated about KM, so we are looking beyond the traditional KM tools to examples of effective and/or innovative approaches specifically geared to deepening expertise.

Participating organizations will receive a copy of our report and will be able to participate in a set of virtual discussion sessions with other innovators to compare ideas and approaches.

So if you are good at this or you know an organization, profession or discipline that is, please write. Thanks!

Richard McDermott  Richard@McDermottConsulting.com

Could anyone help?

Will Facebook displace LinkedIn?

I have posted a new poll on my website.

“Will Facebook displace LinkedIn as “the social network for business?”

If you have not looked at FaceBook yet – I suggest you do – even just to see what all the fuss is about! You will find my profile here and also a group for the Gurteen Knowledge Community. It has grown to 156 members but I am still not sure what to do with it. But take a look and join – if nothing else right now you can get to learn more about felllow members.

I ran the last poll for a little longer than most (almost 10 months!)

“What primarily drives your engagement at work?”

you can find the the results here. Not too surprising that that “Self-actualization & personal development” came out top!

Lotus Symphony

Back in 1983 I was the software development manager responsible for localizing Lotus Symphony into French, German and Italian. It was the beginning of a ten year career at Lotus that took me for 3 years to the then HQ in Cambridge Mass. as International Czar and changed my life for ever!

So imagine my delight when IBM recently re-released Symphony. Well not quite – they re-used the name – a first I think for a software product. The original Symphony was an integrated software application for DOS and the new Lotus Symphony is a free desktop productivity suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software. So you can see the similarity.

It supports the OpenDocument format (ODF), as well as Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite formats, but not Microsoft’s Office Open XML format, which is used by Microsoft Office 2007. It can also export PDF files. If you are looking for a free alternative to Microsoft office that supports open standards it could be worth a look.

Do we really need schools?

There is a great article on education on Robin Goods website by John Taylor Gatto posing the question “Education: Do We Really Need Schools Or Do We Need To Better Understand What Education Should Really Be?”

In the article, the author quotes from H. L. Mencken, who wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that

“… the aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The aim is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

That is its aim in the United States and that is its aim everywhere else”

Whether this is the intent or not I often feel it is the result of education world-wide!

KM Event Highlights

This section highlights some of the major KM events taking place around the world in the coming months and ones in which I am actively involved. You will find a full list on my website where you can also subscribe to both regional e-mail alerts and RSS feeds which will keep you informed of new and upcoming events.

KM Brazil 2007
22 – 24 Oct 2007, Sao Paulo, Brasil
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-brazil-2007
I was invited to speak at this conference but could not make it because of KM Asia. Dave Snowden will be giving the keynote.

KM LatinAmerica 2007
22 – 26 Oct 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-la-2007

actKM Conference 2007
22 – 23 Oct 2007, Canberra, Australia
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/actkm-2007
I will be giving a keynote and running a Knowledge Cafe at this conference.

AKEA Conference
27 – 28 Oct 2007, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/akea-07
I wish I was attending this but will be in Singapore. Leif Edvinnson will be there.

KM Asia 2007 29 – 31 Oct 2007, Singapore City, Singapore
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-asia-2007
I will be running a Knowldege Cafe and a workshop at KM Asia this year.

KMWorld & Intranets 2007
06 – 08 Nov 2007, San Jose, United States
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/kmworld-200
I wil be running a Knowledge Cafe, a workshop and giving a talk. This will be my first time at KM World!

KM India 2007
14 – 16 Nov 2007, New Delhi, India
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-india-2007< /a>

KnowTech 2007
28 – 29 Nov 2007, Frankfurt, Germany
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/knowtech-2007< /a>

9th Asia Pacific Knowledge Management Conference
28 – 29 Nov 2007, Hong Kong, China
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/S714335/

Online Information 2007
04 – 06 Dec 2007, London, United Kingdom
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/online-informa tion-2007
I will be giving a talk and running a Knowledge Cafe at this event.

McMaster World Congress
16 Jan 2008 – 18 Jan 2007, Hamilton, Canada
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/mwc-2007

Special Libraries Association Annual Conference
15 – 18 Jun 2008, Seattle, United States
http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2008/index.cf m I am hoping to get to this event.

Subscribing and Unsubscribing

You may subscribe to this newsletter on my website. Or if you no longer wish to receive this newsletter or if you wish to modify your e-mail address or make other changes to your membership profile then please go to this page on my website.

The Gurteen Knowledge Letter

The Gurteen Knowledge-Letter is a free monthly e-mail based knowledge management newsletter for Knowledge Workers. Its purpose is to help you better manage your knowledge and to stimulate thought and interest in such subjects as Knowledge Management, Learning, Creativity and the effective use of Internet technology. Archiv e copies are held on-line where you can register to receive the newsletter.

It is sponsored by the Knowledge Management Forum of Henley Management College, Oxfordshire, England.

You may copy, reprint or forward all or part of this newsletter to friends, colleagues or customers, so long as any use is not for resale or profit and I am attributed. And if you have any queries please contact me.

David Gurteen
Gurteen Knowledge

Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 88 – October 2007

Contents

  1 Introduction
  2 My travels
  3 Hands on Knowledge Co-creation and Sharing
  4 KM in the 60s
  5 Study of developing true expertise
  6 Will Facebook displace LinkedIn?
  7 Lotus Symphony
  8 Do we really need schools?
  9 KM Event Highlights
10 Subscribing and Unsubscribing
11 The Gurteen Knowledge Letter

Introduction

Each month I add almost 100 pages to my website: KM events; new books; jobs; quotations; links to interesting sites; quotations; articles; videos; blog entries; KM tools and more.

It would not make sense to visit my site everyday to see what was new but you can subscribe to my site and read all the new pages in your RSS Reader.

The RSS Feed for my site is http://feeds.feedburner.com/GurteenKnowledgeUpdate and if you do not have a Reader – try Google Reader – its on-line – nothing to download – its fast, slick and its free.

I also publish several other more focused RSS Feeds such as ones for regional events, jobs and new books.

My travels

On Friday 19th October I am off on my travels. To remind you – this is my itinerary:

• actKM Conference, Canberra, 23 – 24 Oct.
• Sydney Knowledge Cafe, Sydney, 25 Oct.
• KM Asia, Singapore, 29 – 31 Oct.
• KM Singapore, Singapore, 1 Nov.
• KM World, San Jose, 5 – 8 Nov.

The big bit of news since last month is the Knowledge Cafe in Sydney. Annalie Killian of AMP offered me a great venue overlooking the waterfront that I just could not refuse and we now have over 100 people signed up and unfortunately have had to close registration!

I am spending a little extra time in all these places and if you would like to meet-up just drop me a line.

Hands on Knowledge Co-creation and Sharing

Ed Mitchell has informed me of a new book from the KnowledgeBoard community. Here is what Sami the book?s editor has to say about it:

This book presents thirty different hands-on methods and techniques for knowledge co-creation and sharing within collaborative settings. It showcases a wide range of moderation, facilitation, collaboration, and interaction mechanisms through the use of different face to face and online methods and techniques.

Each presented method/technique is augmented with real-life cases on its use; provides directions on what needs to be done before, during, and after the use of each method/technique to achieve tangible and measurable results; provides a set of tips and tricks on the use and adaptation of the method/technique for different contexts and settings; and provides a list of potholes to avoid when using the method/technique.

You can download a free zipped version here.

KM in the 60s

This industrial film made around 1960 clearly demonstrates that knowledge management was being touted as a management philosophy a whole generation before Karl Wiigs work.

Take a look – its about 6 minutes long and I think you may enjoy it but not for the reason you may be expecting! Patrick Lambe brought it to my attention which may give you a clue! <!–

You can see many more KM videos from Patrick here.

–>

Study of developing true expertise

Richard McDermott is conducting some interesting research with the Henley Knowledge Management Forum.

Is your organization good at:

• sharing the real expertise of senior staff before they retire?
• developing young professionals who move rapidly between organizational units?
• managing handovers when overlap between staff is not possible?
• creating a culture that integrates learning into everyday work?
• integrating the expertise of seasoned practitioners with talent development programs?

Would you like to ?compare notes? with other organizations that have cutting edge approaches to these issues?

I am conducting a study in conjunction with Henley Management College?s KM Forum on how to deepen and develop real expertise. The sponsors are quite sophisticated about KM, so we are looking beyond the traditional KM tools to examples of effective and/or innovative approaches specifically geared to deepening expertise.

Participating organizations will receive a copy of our report and will be able to participate in a set of virtual discussion sessions with other innovators to compare ideas and approaches.

So if you are good at this or you know an organization, profession or discipline that is, please write. Thanks!

Richard McDermott  Richard@McDermottConsulting.com

Could anyone help?

Will Facebook displace LinkedIn?

I have posted a new poll on my website.

“Will Facebook displace LinkedIn as “the social network for business?”

If you have not looked at FaceBook yet – I suggest you do – even just to see what all the fuss is about! You will find my profile here and also a group for the Gurteen Knowledge Community. It has grown to 156 members but I am still not sure what to do with it. But take a look and join – if nothing else right now you can get to learn more about felllow members.

I ran the last poll for a little longer than most (almost 10 months!)

“What primarily drives your engagement at work?”

you can find the the results here. Not too surprising that that “Self-actualization & personal development” came out top!

Lotus Symphony

Back in 1983 I was the software development manager responsible for localizing Lotus Symphony into French, German and Italian. It was the beginning of a ten year career at Lotus that took me for 3 years to the then HQ in Cambridge Mass. as International Czar and changed my life for ever!

So imagine my delight when IBM recently re-released Symphony. Well not quite – they re-used the name – a first I think for a software product. The original Symphony was an integrated software application for DOS and the new Lotus Symphony is a free desktop productivity suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software. So you can see the similarity.

It supports the OpenDocument format (ODF), as well as Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite formats, but not Microsoft’s Office Open XML format, which is used by Microsoft Office 2007. It can also export PDF files. If you are looking for a free alternative to Microsoft office that supports open standards it could be worth a look.

Do we really need schools?

There is a great article on education on Robin Goods website by John Taylor Gatto posing the question “Education: Do We Really Need Schools Or Do We Need To Better Understand What Education Should Really Be?”

In the article, the author quotes from H. L. Mencken, who wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that

“… the aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The aim is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

That is its aim in the United States and that is its aim everywhere else”

Whether this is the intent or not I often feel it is the result of education world-wide!

KM Event Highlights

This section highlights some of the major KM events taking place around the world in the coming months and ones in which I am actively involved. You will find a full list on my website where you can also subscribe to both regional e-mail alerts and RSS feeds which will keep you informed of new and upcoming events.

KM Brazil 2007
22 – 24 Oct 2007, Sao Paulo, Brasil
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-brazil-2007
I was invited to speak at this conference but could not make it because of KM Asia. Dave Snowden will be giving the keynote.

KM LatinAmerica 2007
22 – 26 Oct 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-la-2007

actKM Conference 2007
22 – 23 Oct 2007, Canberra, Australia
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/actkm-2007
I will be giving a keynote and running a Knowledge Cafe at this conference.

AKEA Conference
27 – 28 Oct 2007, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/akea-07
I wish I was attending this but will be in Singapore. Leif Edvinnson will be there.

KM Asia 2007 29 – 31 Oct 2007, Singapore City, Singapore
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-asia-2007
I will be running a Knowldege Cafe and a workshop at KM Asia this year.

KMWorld & Intranets 2007
06 – 08 Nov 2007, San Jose, United States
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/kmworld-200
I wil be running a Knowledge Cafe, a workshop and giving a talk. This will be my first time at KM World!

KM India 2007
14 – 16 Nov 2007, New Delhi, India
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-india-2007< /a>

KnowTech 2007
28 – 29 Nov 2007, Frankfurt, Germany
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/knowtech-2007< /a>

9th Asia Pacific Knowledge Management Conference
28 – 29 Nov 2007, Hong Kong, China
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/S714335/

Online Information 2007
04 – 06 Dec 2007, London, United Kingdom
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/online-informa tion-2007
I will be giving a talk and running a Knowledge Cafe at this event.

McMaster World Congress
16 Jan 2008 – 18 Jan 2007, Hamilton, Canada
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/mwc-2007

Special Libraries Association Annual Conference
15 – 18 Jun 2008, Seattle, United States
http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2008/index.cf m I am hoping to get to this event.

Subscribing and Unsubscribing

You may subscribe to this newsletter on my website. Or if you no longer wish to receive this newsletter or if you wish to modify your e-mail address or make other changes to your membership profile then please go to this page on my website.

The Gurteen Knowledge Letter

The Gurteen Knowledge-Letter is a free monthly e-mail based knowledge management newsletter for Knowledge Workers. Its purpose is to help you better manage your knowledge and to stimulate thought and interest in such subjects as Knowledge Management, Learning, Creativity and the effective use of Internet technology. Archiv e copies are held on-line where you can register to receive the newsletter.

It is sponsored by the Knowledge Management Forum of Henley Management College, Oxfordshire, England.

You may copy, reprint or forward all or part of this newsletter to friends, colleagues or customers, so long as any use is not for resale or profit and I am attributed. And if you have any queries please contact me.

David Gurteen
Gurteen Knowledge

‘Europe’s Unfinished Political and Economic Transitions? The Convergence-Divergence Debate Revisited’

European Studies Centre Call for papers:

Workshop, 24-25 January 2008

• European Studies Centre (ESC), Oxford University

• South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

• Supported by: the Economic and Social Research Council

General

Almost two decades since the wave of political and economic transitions that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the landscape of transition outcomes among post-communist countries appears much clearer. Now, then, is a good time to revisit, evaluate, update and expand the debate that started and peaked in the 1990s on the question of the endpoint of political and economic change primarily in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) but also more generally in the post-communist world, in short the convergence-divergence debate. That debate centred on the issue of whether countries in transition converged towards a, more or less, common model of market-based liberal democracies or whether change was much more country- or region-specific, thus leading to diverging (or non-converging) patterns of transformation.

 

From an empirical point of view, it is a fact that democratization and marketization within the post-communist world have developed unevenly in the years since 1989, thus leading to a broad pattern of two ‘orbits’ of change. The first ‘orbit’ is followed by a group of ten CEE countries and is characterized by an accelerated domestic transformation that has led to their accession to major Western institutional structures, including the EU and NATO. The second trajectory is defined by transitions in Europe’s ‘near neighbourhood’, i.e. Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus – but also Georgia and Armenia) and South-eastern Europe (or Western Balkans), that are still largely viewed as unfinished. But within that second group variation is remarkably strong indeed. Two, then, are the key attributes of this second group: lagged yet diverse transitions. Understanding the causes behind the two key attributes of this broad pattern of variation within the second group sets the background for the theme of this workshop. Do these lags reflect different stages of the same type of transition or different types of transition altogether?

 

Workshop’s aims

The workshop aims to update and expand the convergence-divergence debate beyond the 1990s and the CEECs, by taking stock of the differential patterns of transition in Europe’s ‘near neighbourhood’ and by exploring the interplay between external and domestic causal factors that underlie and determine these patterns.

 

An indicative list of areas where the organizers would welcome contributions includes:

1. EU’s impact on South-eastern Europe.

2. EU’s Neighbourhood Policy towards Eastern Europe.

3. Russia’s influence on its European neighbours.

4. The impact of (NATO-, EU-, or UN-led) international administrations on domestic transitions.

5. The salience of the effects of conflict, state-building, corruption and criminal networks – domestic challenges all too commonly encountered in unfinished transitions – and ways in which existing domestic formal and informal institutions accommodate or oppose change.

6. The functioning of domestic democratic institutions, such as political parties and systems, and civil society.

This is a research question-driven workshop, designed to attract and, if possible, synthesize different perspectives on the causes and consequences of Europe’s lagged and diverse transitions. Thus, a great degree of flexibility in terms of approaches and methods is possible.

 

Of equal interest to the workshop are qualitative or quantitative approaches, and comparative or case studies on the topic. Comparative studies may be country-, sector-, or issue-based. Policy-relevant academic papers as well as empirically informed accounts from policy makers and practitioners that focus on lessons learned from the past and on future pathways to transition in Eastern and South-eastern Europe are particularly welcome.

 

Contact

Interested paper-givers should forward by Friday 15 November an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short bio to

julie.adams@sant.ox.ac.uk or george.georgiadis@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

 

• Papers from advanced doctoral students are welcome.

• Paper-givers have the obligation to prepare and forward their papers to the organizers at least two weeks before the event.

• A selection of accepted papers will likely form an edited book volume.

• Subsistence (lunch, dinner, coffee breaks) will be provided by the organizers. Contributions towards travel and/or accommodation expenses will be made to paper-givers who do not expect to receive financial support from their departments or institutions. If you think you are eligible, please indicate so in your letter of interest.