What research agenda(s) for post-Brexit and post-Covid EU studies

The NEXTEUK PhD Summer School offers a free of charge, intensive, multidisciplinary (political science, international relations, law, business and management etc.) and participatory programme at an advanced academic level, in which PhD students and early career researchers interested in European studies will be provided with a stimulating environment for intellectual exchange and academic training. 
 

Participants will revisit the impact of Covid and Brexit on the EU. Debates on methodologies, theoretical challenges and empirical data will be addressed in order to fulfil what new research agendas emerge in the field of European studies and will shape research in the field.

Participants will benefit from a two-day academic retreat at the Jean Monnet House (Bazoches-sur-Guyonne) followed by a two-day programme at Queen Mary Paris (rue de Constantine). They will enjoy an interactive learning experience based on: live lectures and debate sessions with leading scholars and key policy-makers; individual presentations and collective discussions on participants' research project; one-to-one sessions with leading scholars; skills-training sessions; and recreative community-building.

The Summer School is mainly designed for PhD students and early career researchers in the field of EU studies. We are also able to consider some Master students or MRes who are intending to pursue a PhD. 

Interested PhD students and early career researchers can apply until March 23th, 23.59 on https://qmul.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/application-for-the-2022-nexteuk-summer-school. A short presentation of the research proposal and motivation is expected.

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Any question can be sent to a.piquet@qmul.ac.uk

What to expect from the NEXTEUK Virtual Summer School?

From June 14th to June 17th the participants will benefit from a two-day academic retreat at the Jean Monnet House (Bazoches-sur-Guyonne) followed by a two-day programme at Queen Mary in Paris (rue de Constantine).

They will enjoy an interactive learning experience based on:

• Live lectures and debate sessions with leading scholars and key policy-makers (examples from the 2021 NEXTEUK Summer School: Brigid Laffan (EUI), Frédéric Mérand (Montreal University), Philip Rycroft (former Permanent Secretary of the Department for Exiting the EU), Anand Menon (KCL and UK in a changing Europe), Tim Bale (QMUL), Elvire Fabry (Institut Jacques Delors), Agnès Alexandre-Collier (Univ. of Bourgogne) etc.).
• Individual presentations and collective discussions on participants' research project
• One-to-one sessions with leading scholars
• Skills training sessions
• Recreative community-building 

Why should you apply? 

The NEXTEUK PhD Virtual Summer School offers a free of charge, intensive, multidisciplinary (political science, international relations, law, business and management etc.) and participatory programme at an advanced academic level, in which PhD students and early career researchers interested in European studies will be provided a stimulating environment for intellectual exchange and academic training.

Participants will:

• Engage with key policymakers and leading international scholars to gain expertise on a diversity of content related to EU studies.
• Learn and discuss about the variety of theorical and methodological tools that can be used to understand EU integration.
• Benefit from a benevolent environment to present their own research and receive individual and collective feedback from scholars and fellow students.
• Acquire and deepen academic skills among others how to write, present and publish a research paper, how to write their thesis, how to disseminate their research, how to discuss a research paper.
• Become part of a unique and long-lasting multicultural and multidisciplinary network of young scholars and senior researchers interested in the same topics 
• Will have their accommodation and travel costs (up to a set limit) covered.

Who can apply?

The Summer School is mainly designed for PhD students and early career researchers in the field of EU studies. We are also able to consider some Master students or MRes who are intending to pursue a PhD.

The 13 successful applicants will demonstrate the following characteristics:

• Master’s degree and research interest in the field of European integration and EU-UK relations
• Good working knowledge of English
• Availability throughout the entire programme
• Availability to submit a research proposal/article 3 weeks before the start of the Summer School and to participate in the different activities