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Reports on awards
Feedback on the EU Canada study tour -
September 2011
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I was absolutely delighted to have been
offered a place on the EU Canada study tour 2011. I applied to the tour in
order to enhance my postgraduate studies at Master's level at the University of
Stirling. My initial motivation in the
application was "To explore the possibility of examining how Multi Level
Governance works in Canada, particularly in regard to the political
issues of federalism, regionalism, and the role of government,
as well as considering the importance of issues of cultural diversity and
identity".
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Presentation:
January 2012
Introduction:
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students from 23 countries- apart from Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Luxemburg.
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We
visited major private and public institutions, government bodies, think tanks
and NGOs.
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After spending four days in Brussels we travelled to Ottawa, Québec, Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver
and Victoria.
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“Thinking Canada” 2011 – Strengthening
EU-Canada Links
The EU-Canada Study Tour and Internship
Programme “Thinking Canada” offers students from European Union Member States a
unique in-depth experience of Canada
and of EU-Canada relations. This is achieved through an intensive four-week programme that begins in
Brussels at the European Institutions and then moves to Canada, with study
visits in Ottawa, Québec, Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria. Selected students remain in Canada to
undertake internships in different institutions.
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By Dr Gillian Roberts, University of Nottingham
The Eccles Centre
Visiting Fellowship in North American Studies has been of enormous help to me
during my current research project, Discrepant
Parallels: Cultural Implications of the Canada-US Border. Although I was
fortunate to receive a year of teaching relief from my institution in 2011,
this time would not have been as productive without the support of the
fellowship and the access it afforded me to the British Library’s superb
collection of materials relating to North American culture. My access to the
British Library during this period provided me with the necessary research to
complete three chapters of my monograph, my introduction, and to make important
progress with my fourth chapter as well. I cannot imagine anywhere in the UK
providing access to such varied materials as a nineteenth-century edition of
Anna Brownell Jameson’s North American travel narrative Winter Studies and Summer Rambles, Indigenous legal studies and
scholarship on the impact of the Canadian Constitution on Indigenous groups,
criticism on African-Canadian drama, and US-Mexico border studies. When I first
devised my project, I did not quite anticipate the depth of specialised
research that each of my chapters would require, and I have been incredibly
fortunate that the British Library has met my research needs so thoroughly.
Finally, the working space afforded by the British Library has been invaluable
to my research and writing, including the rapid access to material as well as
simply the quiet of the reading rooms which is so effective in facilitating
scholarly endeavour. I am immensely grateful to the Eccles Centre for the
Visiting Fellowship in North American Studies, and can say without hesitation
that my period of the study at the British Library has been the most productive
of my project as a whole.
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Research trip to Victoria/Saanich, British Columbia
Claire K. Turner, University of Surrey, June 2009
I am currently working on a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Surrey, looking at tense and other parts of grammar which encode time. The language I am focussing on is SENĆOŦEN, an indigenous (First Nations) language of the Salish language family spoken on the Saanich Peninsula of Vancouver Island, just north of Victoria. SENĆOŦEN is highly endangered and there is still much that has not been documented. As such, my study of the language relies heavily on firsthand fieldwork with native speakers, who are all based in the Saanich area.
Through the assistance of a BACS travel grant, I was able to travel to Victoria this April and May. While there, I worked 10 hours a week with two elders in the Saanich community, recording hundreds of sentences and conversations in SENĆOŦEN. This work was funded by two research grants from North American bodies: the Jacobs Fund and the Phillips Fund. The language recorded in these sessions has already begun to enrich my understanding of SENĆOŦEN in general, and my thesis topic in particular, and will also contribute to the growing corpus of recorded SENĆOŦEN material which can inform future research and/or language learning.
Another really important benefit of spending time in the area was that I was able to pick up contact with other people in the Saanich community involved in language work, to ensure that the recordings I have made previously were shared with community members, and to make plans to upload the materials I have recorded onto FirstVoices, a web-based learning tool for First Nations languages.
Finally, the trip also gave me an opportunity to meet with some of the other linguists working on Salish languages at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia. This allowed for the continuation and beginning of a few research and study collaborations.
In short, the trip was highly successful, from an academic point of view and from the point of view of setting up and strengthening working relationships with community members and researchers in southwestern British Columbia. I am very grateful to the BACS, along with the other funding bodies involved, for making this trip possible.
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