Beatrix Futak-Campbell
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Biography
Self, identity and the other are my primary research interests, theoretically as well as empirically. My current research study focuses on the European Union relations with its Eastern neighbours, namely Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, as well as on the social practices of EU practitioners in the way they negotiate the European as oppose to the other, and the normative and moral functions of the EU in the region. My research project is funded by the ESRC (3+).
I am also interested in the use of interactions in institutional settings as well as the analytical methods of conversation and discourse analysis. I am trained in different discursive methods and I am currently training as a conversation analyst at the University of York.
I am a co-founder and convener of the conversation and discourse analysis research group based at the University of Edinburgh, and Scottish Ethnomethdology Discourse Interaction and Talk, aka SEDIT, organization which has recently developed from the former.
I previously worked for at the Berlin office of The German Marshall Fund of the US and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna. I am currently employed by the Scottish Government as a survey analyst.
Thesis Title
Constructing a common EU policy vis-à-vis the East: Managing identity, morality and normativity in talk
Submitted: 1 August 2010
Viva held and passed: 3 November 2010
Examiners: External - Professor Ben Rosamond (formerly University of Warwick, currently University of Copenhagen); Internal - Professor John Anderson (University of St Andrews)
Supervisor
Dr Rick Fawn & Professor Karin Fierke
Research Interests
European Union; EU Institutions; EU Foreign and Security Policy and European Neighbourhood Policy; EU relations with its Eastern neighbours; EU collective security, theories of IR; EU integration theories; post-structuralism; social constructivism; methodology, qualitative methods: discursive frameworks (trained in conversation analysis) and quantitative methods: questionnaire design.
Publications
2011 (in press) Book Review in the journal titled: Europe-Asia Studies of Woell, A and Wydra, H (2008) Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe, Routledge
2010 Scottish House Condition Survey: Key Findings for 2009 – ISBN 978 0 7559 9812 8
2010 The Scottish Diaspora – Scottish Government Social Research
2004 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime – Strategic Programme Framework for the Russian Federation and Belarus
Refereed Articles
2011/12 (forthcoming) Moral concerns for EU practitioners on policy vis-à-vis the eastern neighbours in Journal of Contemporary European Politics Special Issue titled: EU-Russia Relations and the International Society (under peer review)
2011 (in press) ‘Tilting at Windmills? Using Discourse Analysis to Understand the Attitude-Behaviour Gap in Renewable Energy Conflicts’ in the journal Mechanism of Economic Regulation (co-authored with Dr Claire Haggett) – ISSN 1726-8699
Papers
2010
SGIR Pan-European Conference, Stockholm panel on EU-Russia Relationship through International Society Theory
‘Moral concerns for EU practitioners when constructing policy vis-à-vis the Eastern neighbours’ will be presented at the Thinking (With)Out Borders II: The St Andrews International Political Theory Conference
‘Unclenching Fists: Dialogue and Diversity in Diplomatic Interaction’ Symposium at the University of Hamburg
2009
Constructions of the ‘European’ – paper presented at the CRCEES 3rd Annual Research Forum, University of Glasgow
2008
'The Category of the European: Institutional Rhetoric on the Eastern neighbours' - paper presented at Neighbours, but not Neighbourly? The EU's relations with the Neighbourhood Conference, Leiden University, Campus Den Haag, Department of EU Studies, Montesquieu Institute
'EU/Ukraine relations: the New Enhanced Agreement' - paper presented at the External Effects on Internal Security: Challenges for the Enlarged Europe Conference, OIIP Austrian Institute for Foreign Affairs, Vienna
'Europe's neighbours vs. European neighbours: EU institutional rhetoric on the Eastern neighbours' - paper will presented at the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEESS) Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
'The added value of analysing the social practices of foreign policy formulators: European foreign policy as a case study' - paper will presented at the annual International Studies Associations (ISA) Convention, San Francisco
2007
EU-CONSENT Annual Plenary Conference: Enlargement and the ENP - discussant along with Prof. Hill; Prof. Lipert; Dr. Luif and Joost Lagendijk MEP
'Is there a common discourse on the European Neighbourhood Policy amongst MEPs?' - paper presented at the EUSA Annual Conference, Montreal
2004
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Strategic Programme Framework for the Russian Federation and Belarus
Conference Organisation
2008 (May 5–6) Contemporary Discourse Analysis Workshop, University of St. Andrews
2006 (August 13) Round Table Discussion: with Prof. Francis Fukuyama on his recent publication: After the Neocon
Grants
2010 Knowledge Exchange Grant – University of Edinburgh – for the Symposium on Continuing Professional Development titled: Interactional issues in health care providers: developing a model of knowledge exchange between conversation analysis and service providers
2009 GRADskills Innovation Grant University of St Andrews – to support Contemporary Discourse and Conversation Analysis Workshop
2008 GRADskills Innovation Grant University of St Andrews – to support Contemporary Discourse Analysis Workshop
Scholarships
2009 University of York Department of Sociology Bursary
2008 Professional and Personal Development (PPD) Fund University of St Andrews
2008 CRCEES scholarship for St Petersburg Summer School
2007 Russell Trust Award – University of St Andrews
2006–2010 ESRC Scholarship for PhD Research
2006 Lady Monica Cockfield Scholarship in Contemporary European Studies – Sussex European Institute (declined)
2005–2006 The University of Edinburgh UK/EU Master’s Scholarship
2004 The University of Edinburgh Branson Bequest Scholarship
2003–2004 ERASMUS Scholarship for Humboldt and Freie Universität Berlin and The UK ERASMUS Prize - finalist
2003 DAAD Scholarship for Summer University at the Freie Universität, Berlin
2002 DAAD Scholarship for Summer University at the University of Dresden
1994–1995 Youth for Understanding (YFU) Scholarship to study in the USA
Teaching
University of St Andrews
Undergraduate sub-honours courses: IR1005 and IR1006
University of Edinburgh
Undergraduate sub-honours courses: European Social Policy; Social and Political Enquiry (senior tutor); Social, Political Geography, Politics of the Welfare State, Qualitative Methods
Undergraduate honours courses: Contemporary Russian Politics
Postgraduate core research courses (ESRC accredited): Data Collection and Research Design (senior tutor)
