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Visitor Programme

The IIIS runs a visitor programme that allows leading international researchers to spend periods of time at the IIIS ranging from one week to one year. This programme expands the research capability of the IIIS and encourages the development of collaborative projects between local and external researchers.

The visitor programme is intended to help build the research capacity of the IIIS and its associated Schools by promoting interaction between the visitors and IIIS researchers. This is done by the presentation of work in seminars, collaborating with IIIS researchers, being available to talk to IIIS postgraduate students, participating in IIIS conference & seminars as well as other informal activities.

The nomination process for IIIS Visitors involves completing a nomination form [MS Word 57.5Kb] and returning it to Colette Keleher

IIIS would like to welcome the following visitors to the Institute

Heinrich Amadeus Wolff
September 2012-March 2013
Heinrich Amadeus Wolff is a full professor for public law in Germany since August 2000, the first 6 years in Munich and now at the Europa Universitat Viadriana Frankfurt (Oder)
http://www.rewi.europa-uni.de/de/lehrstuhl/or/staatsrecht/index.html
He will spend his sabbatical term at the TCD at the IIIC and at the Law School. He works and researches in the field of public law with focus areas in constitutional law, administrative law, law of civil services, data protection law, law of public securities and foreign law. His effort runs to accent the juridical method of rule interpretation, the separation of legal and political argumentation, in order to strengthen an objective view of the legal rules. The theoretical and the philosophical view do not play a big role in his work, his books and novels are rather characterised by the close connection between practice and research. Also, he advises the federal and state parliaments and the governments from time to time. He would like to use his time at the IIIS for the following topics: The amendments to the Constitutional Law under the influence of the EU law and the law on private data protectionn - with regards to national and European law as well as other legal systems and research fields.

Luis Cesar Herrero
August 2012-October 2012
Luis Cesar Herrero is an Associate Professor in Applied Economics at the University of Valladolid, Spain. He is Director of the Research Group in Cultural Economics (www.emp.uva.es/giec ) and Coordinator of the University Master’s Degree in Cultural Economics and Cultural Management (www.emp.uva.es/mastergestioncultural )at the University of Valladolid. Although part of his research career has been in the area of regional an urban economics, at the current time his main field of specialization is cultural economics. The topics on which he has been focusing particularly are valuation of cultural heritage, evaluation of cultural policies, efficiency analysis of cultural institutions and relations between culture and economic development. He has published in international journals such as Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Cultural Heritage, European Urban and Regional Studies, International Journal of Tourism Research, Journal of Applied Economics, etc. At this particular moment he is engaged in coordinating a research project addressing “Efficiency analysis and guidelines for good practices in the national museums system” (Reg. Research Plan ref. no. VA006A10-1). The basic aims are the application of non-parametric evaluation techniques to Spanish museums and estimating the influence of contextual variables in the scores of efficiency. One second topic on which he is also studying concerns building territorial indicators for cultural consumption and provision, in order to ascertain cultural and economic disparities between spatial units. We have carried out applications to the case of Nuts III level (Spanish provinces) and countries (Latin-America), and our intention is to create and develop a research project to analyze economic and cultural disparities at a European scale with a Nuts II disaggregation (regions).

Professor Marcial Sanchez Mosquera
June 2012 - September 2012
Professor Marcial Sanchez Mosquera, Department of Economics and Economic History, University of Seville.My current research is focused on Regional Social Partnership (Social Partnership), the Regional Social Concertation. I have studied the Social Concertation of the Andalusian Region (South of Spain), establishing a comparative research study with other European Regions of similar characteristics. This line of research is related to the National Social Partnership and the EU Development Policy. I’m actually analyzing how Regional Social Pacts affect to the regional development.

From a financial point of view, the EU Development Policy is therefore the second most important policy behind the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The EU Development Policy is a key part of the European Integration. The current economic crisis has confirmed that is impossible to achieve a stable growth without a similar level of regional development in the EU.

This policy and the Structural Funds have conditioned the Regional Economic Policy and the Social Concertation, mainly in those regions recipient of these funds, essentially in Objective 1 or Convergence Regions. In relation to this, it is therefore essential to study the governance of EU as well as the EU members and European Regions.

Juan Prieto-Rodriguez is a Full Professor of Economics at the University of Oviedo.
Feb 2012 - July 2012
Juan Prieto-Rodriguez is a Full Professor of Economics at the University of Oviedo. His fields of specialization are cultural, public and labor economics. He has published in international journals such as Applied Economics, Economics Letters, Fiscal Studies, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, International Journal of Forecasting and Journal of Economic Psychology. His papers and personal interests can be found at his personal web page: http://www.unioviedo.es/juanprieto/index_e.html e-mail address: juanprieto@uniovi.es

Professor Maria Jose Sanzo Perez, University of Oviedo
Feb 2012 - July 2012
Cooperation agreements between firms and foundations as a means to improve the foundations' resources and capabilities
The aim of this research is to analyze the effects of partnerships between firms and private nonprofit organizations (specifically foundations) on the development of foundations' human, financial, technological and marketing resources. The study combines nonprofit organization management, relationship marketing and the Resource Based View of the Firm (RBV) literature to formulate the various hypotheses of the research. Considering the fact that one of the problems faced by nonprofit organizations is the lack of professionalism of their management, the general hypothesis of this research is that the better the firm-foundation relationship in terms of higher perceived value, improved communication, less conflict, greater satisfaction, trust and commitment; the greater the foundations' willingness to adopt business management practices, and also the larger the know-how transfer from the firm to the foundation (and therefore the foundations' development of the resources needed to achieve a competitive advantage). The process of information gathering combines two main data sources. Firstly, a survey based on a representative sample of 350 Spanish foundations. The questionnaire includes information about the characteristics of the foundation-firm relationship. Secondly, information provided by the Institute for Strategic Analysis of Foundations, INAEF (the INAEF is an applied research initiative launched in late 2009 by the Spanish Association of Foundations). This Institute collects regularly information about variables such as the size and age of the foundation, the type of founders, activity areas, beneficiaries, human resources (volunteers/employees), basic economic data (assets, total revenues and total expenditures) and sources of funding. At the present moment, we have just begun to work on analyzing all this information.

Dr Patrick Holden, Politics & International Relations, University of Plymouth
Feb 2012 - April 2012

Patrick Holden is researching the politics of the global ‘Aid for Trade’ agenda. In his time at the IIIS he will be concentrating on how the European Union and other European donors have adopted the global Aid for Trade norms. This involves a study of their policy discourse, as well as policy implementation in a more concrete sense. Aid for Trade is an increasingly important element of international development policy. It came to prominence due to disagreements between developed and developing countries in the WTO on the merits of further trade liberalization. It embodies different forms of aid, which reflect different perspectives on international development (in relation to the responsibility of the developed towards the developing world, and the degree of intervention in the market system that is deemed appropriate). As such ‘the politics of AfT’ is a microcosm of broader debates regarding the future of global capitalism and global governance. Patrick will also be using his time at the IIIS to do work on temporality and the crisis of the European Union.

This research agenda is building on previous work he has done on international aid and trade. (His work is grounded in political science/international relations theory combined with concepts from political economy, organisational theory and other cognate disciplines).
www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/pholden1

Eduardo Martin Puebla, Profesor Titular de Derecho del Trabajo, Universidad de Salamanca (Espana)
Sept 2011 - Feb 2012
The research tries to explore the emergence of a common policy on immigration in the European Union. Since the Treaty of Amsterdam came into force in 1999 several programs have been adopted dealing immigration issues (Tampere in 1999, The Hague in 2004, Stockholm in 2009), as well as an important number of Directives. The European Commission has published a huge amount of communications and a green paper on economic migration has tried to launch a process of discussion in Europe on the most appropriate form of managing economic immigration in order to identify the main issues at stake and possible options for a common legislation, and a European Pact on immigration and Asylum was signed in 2008. But the main legislative instrument to manage economic o labour immigration at a European level, laying down criteria and admission procedures of economic immigrants, is still to come. The aim of this research is analyse the work done so far in this field and to explore the road ahead to achieve a true common policy on immigration in the EU.

Dr Lori Foster Thompson
June-July 2011
Improving Aid Delivery Through Information Technology and I-O Psychology
This work within the domain of Humanitarian Work Psychology focuses on how the science and practice of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology can operate in tandem with emerging information and communication technologies to accomplish humanitarian aims. It addresses how I-O psychology and technology (e.g., social media; online volunteerism) may be combined to improve international development and the lives of local populations in resource-constrained environments by enhancing the effectiveness of aid workers volunteering abroad – including so-called “voluntourists” assisting with disaster relief and global poverty reduction initiatives.  The overarching intent is to assist and infuse the global arenas of online and onsite volunteerism, as well as traditional aid agency operations, with the benefits of I-O psychology and modern knowledge management technologies as they manifest in the 21st century. An example of a recent publication in this area is: Thompson, L. F., & Atkins, S. G. (2010). Technology, mobility, and poverty reduction. In S. C. Carr (Ed.), The psychology of mobility in a global era (301-322). NY: Springer.

Professor Philomena Murray
June 2011 and April 2012
Research Associate, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Research Associate, United Nations University - Comparative Regional Integration Studies. 
Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges.
Adjunct Senior Fellow of the University of Canterbury.

Philomena Murray is Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences. She was the Director of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre at the University of Melbourne from 2000 to 2009. She was educated at the European University Institute in Florence, the College of Europe in Bruges and the National University of Ireland (University College Dublin). She has worked as a diplomat in Dublin and Paris and has also worked in Brussels and Ravenna. She was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in 2001 and a Personal Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) in 2006. Her research interests are in European Integration analysis; EU-Australia relations; EU-Asia relations; EU governance and comparative regional integration. Recent books include Australia and the European Superpower, (Melbourne University Press, 2005) and P. Murray ed. Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan, 2008. please read more

Recent Publications

• Regional integration: Comparing European and Asian transformations
• Model Europe? Reflections on the EU as a Model of Regional Integration
• Uses and Abuses of the Concept of Integration
• Comparative regional integration in the EU and East Asia: Moving beyond integration snobbery
• East Asian Regionalism and EU Studies

Mr Julio Revuelta López, Department of Economics, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
IIIS February - April 2011
The impact of Multilatinas’ Foreign Direct Investment in the European Union
One of the recent trends in Foreign Direct Investment is the significant and growing weight of investment from emerging countries. Among these, the aim of the research is focused on analyzing Foreign Direct Investment by Latin American multinationals, also called Multilatinas, in the European Union. For their study, it is crucial to know the sectoral and geographical structures and the chronological pattern. After that, the analysis is focused on the different impact of this Foreign Direct Investment in the European economies and the search for possible future trends that can be related to economic policies at European level.

Dr Maria Devesa-Fernández, Department of Economics, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
IIIS September - December 2010
The research focuses on Cultural Economics and more specifically on the economics of cinema. The main objective of the study is to assess the characteristics of the cinema industry, with particular reference to Europe and Spain, and to characterise it from the territorial viewpoint through an analysis of conglomerates. The goal is thus to explore supply and demand in the cinema, analysing synergies between the industry’s various sub-sectors (production, distribution and exhibition), addressing possible synergies with other cultural sectors, and seeking to gain an insight into indicators of creativity and innovation in this sector to reflect the reality of the cinema. In sum, the aim is to examine the link between culture, innovation and territorial development.

Mr Domingo Sanchez, Nebrija University Madrid
IIIS September - June 2011
Inter-systemic mixed techno-networks1 effect on “glocal” 2 sustainability and innovation in Europe: Cases of Commercial relationships between Ireland and Spain
This research explores complex social networks focusing on Irish and Spanish Commercial Relationships by examining how technological-social innovation factors and network creation generate sustainable relationships between both countries companies.

1. Considering the wide range of networks (from personal unreliable people to the intersystem mixed techno-networks), related to the Social Capital concept  
2. Glocal: is a portmanteau word of globalization and localization. By definition, the term “glocal” refers to the individual, group, division, unit, organisation, and community which are willing and able to “think globally and act locally.” The term has been used to show the human capacity to bridge scales (local and global) and to help overcome meso-scale, bounded, "little-box" thinking.
   

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Professor Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Depart ment of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
IIIS September 2010 - June 2011
My current research extends my interests in globalization, transnationalism, race and mixed race. The research entitled, The Globalization of Love, examines the emotional basis of transnational links by analyzing the love practices of international families to contribute to the growing literature on transnationalism and love. It considers global conceptions of love and examines how they are the basis of intimate transnational networks between and across cultural differences and settings.  The role of love in the formation of migration networks and international families is a significant factor in shaping transnationalism with considerable corresponding effects that deepen transnationalism through networks of children, in laws, and intimate relations. read more

Wendy Chen, Postgraduate Student, College of Business Administration, Hunan University, Hunan
IIIS September 2010 - September 2011
It is widely accepted that innovation would provide competitive advantage for company. And as the importance of environment are being recognized by more and more people, firms are facing increasing environmental pressure, which may act as a driving force or potential for some green innovation. My main focus is explore the facotors that may influence the green innovation in China.

Congratulations to Ms. Wenjie Chen on winning the Best Paper Prize at the 2011 Irish Academy of Management conference held on September 01-02, 2011. Wenjie has been a visiting doctoral student from Hunan University in China at the Institute over the past academic year under the supervision of Professor Louis Brennan. The title of Wenjie’s paper was “Modelling Supply Chain Collaborative Innovation – A System Dynamics Approach” and it was co-authored with Professor Brennan and Professor Deming Zeng from the College of Business Administration at Hunan University. We wish Wenjie continued success as she returns to China this week to continue her studies there.

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