Dr Kazimierz Musiał - Kazimierz Musial

Dr Kazimierz Musiał
Extended Curriculum Vitae
Work:
University of Gdansk, Department of Scandinavian Studies
Wita Stwosza 55, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland
Phone: +48 58 524 40 38; Fax: +48 58 524 40 40
E-mail: musial@univ.gda.pl
EDUCATION:
1987 – 1992 Five-year-study leading to MA-Degree at the Department of Scandinavian
Studies at the University of Poznań, Poland. During this period I undertook
numerous study tours in Scandinavia.
1991 – 1992 Awarded Tempus scholarship to study Political Science at the
Universiy of Copenhagen. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bertel Heurlin.
1992 – MA Thesis (in Danish) Denmark and the EC. Historical background and the
review of issues decisive for the Danish attitude towards the cooperation within the
EC.
1993 – 1994 PhD-scholarship at the University of Copenhagen,
Study of Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science.
1997 – 1999 PhD student on the research project The Cultural Construction of Communities in
the Process of Modernisation: Sweden and Germany in Comparison led by Prof. Dr.
Bernd Henningsen at the Institute for Northern European Studies, Humboldt
University Berlin.
2000 Dr. phil. – Defended Doctoral thesis Roots of the Scandinavian Model. Image of
Progress in the Era of Modernisation in Political Science at the Philosophische
Fakultät III, Humboldt University Berlin.
TEACHING INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE:
1992 – 1997 Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland - Department of
Scandinavian Studies. Asystent - Teaching and Research Assistant.
Conducted undergraduate seminars on the Life and Institutions of the Nordic
countries and American and British Political Systems. This included modular
courses on Small States in International Politics, Scandinavian Party Systems
and Political Culture in Scandinavia. Courses were taught in Danish, English
and Polish. In addition I have taught these courses for graduate students of
Scandinavian Studies.
1997 – 1999 Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Northern European Studies.
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter – Lecturer. Conducted seminars in Danish,
English and German on the following themes:
1997 - The Challenge of Scandinavia. Norden set gennem den engelsksprogede kulturs
øjne. (Perspectives on Northern Europe from the English-speaking world)
1997 - Den danske, den svenske eller den skandinaviske model? (Danish, Swedish or
the Scandinavian Model?)
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1998 - Lektürekurs: Skandinavische Verfassungen, (Reading and understanding
Scandinavian Consitutions)
1998 - Ideologi i Norden i det 20. århundrede. (Ideology in Scandinavia in the 20 th
century)
1999 - Das Skandinavienbild aus fremder Sicht. (Foreign images of Scandinavia)
2000 – University of Gdańsk, Department of Scandinavian Studies.
present Adiunkt – Assistant Professor. Conducted seminars for the students of
Scandinavian Studies.
Undergraduate Courses: Life and Institutions of Denmark, Political Ideas and
Political Institutions, Theory and Practice of Political Organisations, Integration and
Transformation in the Baltic Sea Region. Introduction to regional studies.
Graduate courses: Higher Education in Northern Europe
MA seminar for Scandinavian Studies – Theory and Practice of the Social Science
Research.
Supervision of MA-theses on: Norwegian-Russian relations, Baltic Sea
regionalism, Swedish-EU relations, Denmark’s strategies of European
Integration, Scandinavian welfare state, Higher Education Management in
Denmark.
2002-2004 Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study Greifswald,
Germany. Research Fellowship / Together with Dr. Paul Holtom (currently
University of Glamorgan) I developed and taught a course on Integration and
Transformation in the Baltic Sea Region to the students of political science,
geography and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Greifswald.
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE:
Small states in international politics: Scandinavian Studies at the University of Poznan
equipped me with interdisciplinary awareness and a very good command of foreign
languages. This provided the necessary foundation for my appreciation of area studies in
Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea region. Studying in Copenhagen and writing my MAthesis
on the topic of Danish membership in the EC led me to pursue an in-depth
investigation of Danish foreign and domestic policies. To this end, I utilised the theoretical
framework concerning the role of small states in international politics. (MA-thesis in Danish):
Danmark og EF. Historisk baggrund og gennemgang af faktorer bestemmende for dansk stillingtagen
til EF-samarbejde (Denmark and the EC. Historical background and the review of issues decisive for
the Danish attitude towards the cooperation within the EC. Unpublished Manuscript, University
of Poznań 1992.
Welfare State and the Scandinavian Model: My interest in this sphere arose during periods
of study in Denmark, but has developed in Germany under the supervision of Prof. Dr.
Bernd Henningsen. I am particularly interested in the idiosyncrasies of inter-Scandinavian
affinity and the influence exerted on Scandinavia by the outside world. I have also
conducted extensive research on international relations between Great Britain, the USA and
Scandinavia in the interwar period. My doctoral thesis Roots of the Scandinavian Model. Images
of Progress in the Era of Modernisation. (Baden Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002), bears
witness to this research interest, and was also pursued through my work on the research
project Cultural Construction of Communities in the Process of Modernisation: Sweden and
Germany in Comparison at the Humboldt University Berlin (1997-1999). My other publications
in this sphere can be found on the List of Publications linked to this document.
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Cultural, Political and Economic relations in the Baltic Sea region: This research interest
was triggered by my involvement in the FP5 Research Training Network Baltic Sea Area
Studies – Northern Dimension of Europe (BaltSeaNet). I joined the network as a part time
research administrator (project co-ordinator in Berlin) and as an associated research fellow at
a partner site in Gdansk. My main research themes included the role of Poland in the Baltic
Sea region and the development of a knowledge-based society as a prerequisite for the
modernisation, security and sustainability of the region. In 2001 and 2002, my research was
supported by an individual research grant from the University of Gdansk (value 24.500 PLN,
i.e. app. ₤4000), awarded for the project Baltic Sea Region Studies in which I acted as principal
researcher. My main publications from research interests in this sphere are:
- "Puola, Euroopan Unionin Suuring Tulokas" (Poland, the largest new member of the
European Union). In: Heino Nyssönen: Itäinen Keski-Eurooppa vuonna 2004. Helsinki:
Kikimora Publications, 2003, pp. 23-50.
- “Poland as a Baltic Sea State in the Process of Joining the EU”. In: Helmut Hubel (ed.): EU
Enlargement and Beyond: The Baltic States and Russia. Berlin: Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz GmbH,
2002, pp. 289-307.
My other publications pertaining to this research interest can also be found on the linked List
of Publications.
Regional integration and the role of universities in development and the knowledgebased
society: This represents my most recent set of research interests, resulting from
practical research experience with different academic centres in the highly diversified Baltic
Sea region. Questions relating to the modernisation of regional governance and the
development of a regional civil society through educational exchanges were the main focus.
In 2003 I was awarded a Polish research contract (worth 10.000 PLN, app. ₤1600) to prepare a
set of recommendations for the strategic development of the University of Gdansk. In
January 2004, in recognition of my expertise in regionalisation and the role of higher
education institutions in regional development, a decision was made to extend the contract
for my Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Greifswald until June
2004. Apart from the research reports delivered in Gdansk, the main publications
demonstrating this research interest are:
- “Østersøregionen og videnssamfundets udfordringer” (The Baltic Sea region and the
challenges of the knowledge-based society). Vindue mod Øst. - No. 2 (2003), 31-36.
- “University Exchange and Post-modern Transfer of Civicness”. In: Norbert Götz and Jörg
Hackmann (eds.): Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, 175-186.
This research interest can also be witnessed in other publications on the List of Publications.
Higher Education in Northern Europe:
Current and future research plans are connected with further academic qualification, which
in the Polish system means gaining a ‘habilitiation’. These plans take their point of departure
in my previous interest concerning the role of universities in society and include research
concerning higher education policy, management in higher education and reforms of higher
education systems in Northern Europe. The working title of my project is Changing Higher
Education in the Nordic countries - University management reforms between market and the public
good. So far my work has been manifested in publications concerning universities and their
strategies in the Baltic Sea region:
- “Regional universities in the Baltic Sea region: higher education and regional
development”, David Bridges et al.: Higher education and national development: systems in
transition, London: RoutledgeFalmer (forthcoming).
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- “Regional Universities in the Baltic Sea Region Facing Globalization in the Knowledge-
Based Society”, Arild Tjedvoll et al. (eds.): Higher Education Facing Globalization and
Europeanization, Kaunas: Technologija, 2005, 96-113.
Other Research Plans:
Another planned research framework focus upon the relationship between regionalisation
and globalisation in general, and are connected with the issue of regional governance in the
Baltic Sea region and East-Central Europe in particular. The continuation and further
development of my recently developed research themes are envisaged, although with a more
intensive focus on the relationship between regional integration and the changing national
and international environment. This perspective seems particularly interesting because
regions, having achieved a high degree of integration and institutionalisation, may be
viewed as action units, and not only as actions spaces, and as such their capacity to learn
new modes of behaviour on the international arena may be analysed. Here the concept of a
learning region, originally developed in economic geography and economics may be applied
to the domain of international relations for addressing the ability of a regional regime to
change and adjust in a flexible way to its external settings. Studying the learning capacity of
a region, within the international relations context, opens up a range of possible criteria
analysis. It also reaches out to other disciplines, thus providing a possible meeting ground
for an interdisciplinary study of regions and regional integration.
ADMINISTRATIVE INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE:
In recent years, I have become more and more involved in conceptualising, administrating
and coordinating projects developed within the EU’s FP5 and FP6. These activities were
closely connected with raising supplementary funds to support research and training for
young researchers.
2000 – 2002 While pursuing my own research at the Nordeuropa-Institut of the Humboldt
University Berlin, I also acted as a project co-ordinator for the FP5 research training network
The Baltic Sea Area Studies – Northern Dimension of Europe (BaltSeaNet) (HPRN-CT-2000-0073).
Coordinated by Prof. Dr. Bernd Henningsen, the project involves eight partner universities,
among which a lively exchange of young researchers takes place. Regular workshops,
summer schools and seminars are also organized. To enhance the research capacity of the
project, and to spread excellence to a larger audience, I co-authored a successful application
within the High Level Scientific Conferences series of the European Communities, which
enabled the organization of a series of four conferences under the common heading The Baltic
Sea Region 2010 (HPCF-CT-2002-00459).
2002 – 2004 During my work at the Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald, I
organized a network and coordinated writing the proposal for a network of excellence
within FP6. The network Northern European Knowledge Network of Excellence (NEKON) has
been planned to include some 60 senior researchers and 30 young researchers coming from
18 different universities and research institutions across Europe, including the United
Kingdom. NEKON will carry out interdisciplinary research on societal trends in the
knowledge based society and their implications for the quality of life
Since 2001 I have also carried out a series of analyses towards the implementation of a new
graduate study programme entitled ‘The Baltic Sea Region Studies’ at the University of
Gdansk. As a continuation of this activity, I have recently got involved in an initiative
establishing the Baltic Institute for Advanced Study in Gdansk.
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MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS:
• Research Group on Northern European Politics (FOR:N), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
10099 Berlin, Germany
• EU-RA (European Research Associates) Société Anonyme Network, http://www.eu-ra.lu
• The Central and East European International Studies Association
LANGUAGES:
Polish: mother tongue
English: proficiency in speech and writing – Long and intensive study in high school and
university. Daily use at work in international networks and as the main language of
my publications, including the doctoral thesis. Several seminars conducted in English
at the universities in Poznan, Berlin, Gdansk and Greifswald. Numerous papers and
lectures given in English at conferences.
Danish: proficiency in speech and writing – Five-year-study leading to MA-Degree at the
Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Poznań and in Copenhagen.
MA in Danish Philology. MA thesis written in Danish.
German: good in speech and writing – Starting from scratch in 1996 I managed to achieve
quickly a reasonable command of German. In 1998 and 1999 I taught my first
university courses in German at the Humboldt University Berlin. Since then I have
remained in the German academic milieu teaching and coordinating research projects,
thus enhancing my competencies further and bringing it to the level of fluency in
speech and close to fluency in writing.
Russian: good in reading and writing – Compulsory instruction in primary school and in
the high school (eight years). Oral communication needs practice.
Swedish, Norwegian: good understanding and ability to read and communicate.
REFEREES:
Prof. Dr. Andrzej Ceynowa
Rector of the University of Gdansk
Bażyńskiego 1a
PL-80-952 Gdańsk
Tel: +48 58 552 90 43
Fax: +48 58 552 03 11
E-mail: rekug@univ.gda.pl
Professor Uffe Jakobsen, Ph.D.
University of Copenhagen
Department of Political Science
Rosenborgade 15,
DK-1130 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel: +45 35 32 34 04/35 32 34 06
E-mail: UJ@ifs.ku.dk
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Prof. Dr. Bernd Henningsen
Institute for Northern European Studies,
Humboldt University Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 30 79 66 333, Fax: +49 30 79 66 446
E-mail: bernd.henningsen@rz.hu-berlin.de