CRIEFF
encourages and facilitates collaborative activities with other research
organisations and institutions, and their members. It can provide facilities
for academic visitors and co-workers in all areas of CRIEFF’s
research interest: broadly speaking, the theory and practice of the
organization of industry, which includes all sectors from the extractive
industries to financial services and banking. Such research can be theoretical,
empirical, quantitative or qualitative.
Amongst
the purposes of research visits or collaboration are: completing a project
report or article draft (solo or collaborative); initiating a new research
project; presenting completed papers to a range of Scottish (or more generally
UK) universities; re-positioning one’s personal research agenda; seeking advice
and input on research funding acquisition; seeking access to the field for primary
source data collection; scoping the suitability of local (including University)
resources for holding future research conferences or seminars
Past
visitors to CRIEFF have included Lowell Jacobsen, Ian Wooton,
John Strudwick, Duncan Reekie,
Leonard Mirman, Duncan Foley, Partha
Sen, Fernando Vega-Redondo, David De Jong, Curtis Eberwein, Zoltan Acs, Michael Funke, Paul Oslington, Jonathan
Thomas, Bruno Versael, James Jordan, Julia Smith,
Anna Paterson, Scott Vande Linde,
Bernadette Power, Kornelius Kraft, Atanas Christex, Harmut Lehman, Mike Nolan, Andrew Burke, Ingrid Verhuel, Mikel Larreina, Marco Cucculelli, Yannis Salavrakos.
For
example, Ingrid Verheul, of Erasmus University
Rotterdam, visited for two weeks in 2005 on a post-doctoral fellowship. Her aim
was to discuss her current research with members of staff here, and to present
a paper to our Staff seminar, reporting on a cross country econometric analysis
of the determinants of male versus female entrepreneurial participation rates.
In 2007, Mikel Larreina
visited CRIEFF for six months, from the
Those
desiring to be visitors, or seeking any form of collaboration, should contact
the Director of CRIEFF, Gavin Reid, in the first instance. It would be
appreciated, on initial contact, if the purpose and duration of the visiting
period or proposed collaboration were made clear; and the enquiry should be
accompanied by academic CVs that make clear the research experience and
standing of the enquirer(s). Depending on the status of the visitor, the
duration of the stay, and the facilities required, it may be necessary, in some
cases, to raise a small fee on the visit (e.g. to cover office, library and
computing costs). It is common to agree research goals with visitors, like the
completion of a research paper for inclusion in the CRIEFF discussion paper
series, and the presentation of the research ideas therein to a Staff Seminar
or lunch time Brown Bag Seminar.
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