Diffuse Authority and Contestation in the EU Energy Transition: Workshop Report Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University 19-20 April 2018 Organizers: Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Jenny Fairbrass, Israel Solorio (convenors of the UACES Collaborative Research Network on European Energy Policy)       Scholars and practitioners assembled at the University of Maastricht on the 19th […]

UACES and JCER are delighted to announce the winner of the 2018 Luke Foster Prize for the Best JCER Article, dedicated to the memory of our late Executive Director. The prize rewards the best article published in 2017 by a PhD student or an academic within 5 years of completing their PhD: First Prize The […]

To mark International Women’s Day, we’re bringing you a round-up of work from UACES members, journals and blogs, on issues related to gender in European Studies or in academia more generally. We’re also including memories from UACES events and activities that celebrate the women of the association. This post will be regularly updated on 8th […]

A one-day international academic conference, financially supported by UACES, CERIM, SWOL, and The Centre for European Policy Studies, was hosted by Maastricht University Campus Brussels on 25 September 2017. The event was followed by a policy event organised under the auspices of the Maastricht European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity.   Our guests The conference […]

The international conference “Civil society in Ukraine: Building on Euromaidan legacy and dealing with conflict” took place on 21 November 2017 at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Kyiv, Ukraine) with the financial support of the UACES Small Event Grant, Ukrainian European Studies Association and Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Studies at the […]

Helen Drake, Loughborough University 9 November 2017 Fifty years ago on 1 December 1967 a small group of UK academics gathered in Chatham House, London, to address a pressing question: how to support the study, in the UK, of what was happening ‘on the continent’, namely, European integration? Within a year the group had named […]

*Formerly known as the UACES Student Forum “A fascinating and challenging debate” – Chi Onwurah MP On 3-4 July 2017, thirty postgraduate and early career researchers gathered at the Newcastle University Politics Department to hear and discuss each other’s work on the current challenges facing Europe, the historical developments which have led to these challenges, […]