Dr Kazimierz Musiał - Kazimierz Musial

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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 <strong>Dr</strong>. 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 Unpublished Manuscript, University of Poznań 1992.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. <strong>Dr</strong>. 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. - 2 -
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). - 3 -
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