Happy New Year to all of you. I hope 2016 has started well and I wish you all the very best for the rest of the year. While you may not be thinking much about the upcoming term yet, I wanted to draw your attention to a couple of changes.
1. Lecturers: An overview of the changes, of which several have been communicated earlier:
-Prof. Richard Whitman will not be able to teach ‘European Foreign and Security Policy’ this year, because he was granted a prestigious ESRC Fellowship for 2016. We are glad we have been able to replace him by another leading expert in the field, Dr. Amelia Hadfield (Canterbury Christchurch), https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/social-and-applied-sciences/psychology-politics-and-sociology/Staff/Profile.aspx?staff=0109c1dd7a7bb570
-‘Security and Liberties’ will be taught by Shubranshu Mishra (BSIS), https://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels/staff/profiles/research/mishra.html
-‘Corporate Governance’ will be taught by Paige Morrow (Frank Bold Society), http://en.frankbold.org/about-us/lawyers/paige-morrow
-‘Transitional Justice’ will be taught by Valerie Arnould (Egmont Institute / University of East London), http://www.egmontinstitute.be/expert-author/valerie-arnould/
-‘International Migration Law’ will be taught by Sian Lewis-Anthony (from the Kent Law School),
2. Timetable: There have been some changes to the timetable. In general we have tried to offer all modules on the basis of a regular weekly pattern. As we prefer to work with excellent experts and as this sometimes requires engaging external lecturers, this has not been possible in a couple of cases (Political Strategy, EFSP and Development Economics). Overall, we have tried to avoid a concentration of classes as much as possible. The timetable you find online now, is the final one.
3. Syllabi: New syllabi for the January term are posted on the BSIS local website. We hope to have all of them online by the beginning of next week, when we will welcome the new January intake.
4. BSIS Office: As you know, Inez Summers has left the university. Awaiting the recruitment of new colleagues, the BSIS office will be reinforced by Kimberley Attard-Owen and Dora Perera, who will stay with us for a couple of months on secondment from Canterbury. They will help us to assure that the necessary services can be provided.
Do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any further questions. And… good luck with your papers.