Research
JMEUCE Research
For 2019-2022, the JMEUCE is focusing on two timely and pressing policy themes:
- Gender and migration in the European Union;
- EU-Canada economic relations in a global perspective, building on the success of the recent EU-funded CETA Implementation and Implications Project led by JMEUCE Deputy Director, Robert Finbow. This two-year initiative brought together academics and stakeholders from both sides of the Atlantic to focus on investment, intellectual property and agricultural trade, as well as the environmental and labour elements and impact.
Covid has hampered activities and the planned workshops relating to these research projects have been postponed. However, details will be added here when circumstances permit.
The Centre is also associated with other important Jean Monnet research initiatives based at Dalhousie with EU funding:
- The JMEUCE Director's Jean Monnet Chair in Border Control, following his JM Chair in Public Diplomacy (2018-2021).
- Health Law and Policy Network headed by JMEUCE Associate Katherine Fierlbeck. This project builds capacity in the study of EU Health Policy by fostering collaboration between scholars across regions, disciplines and generations. Its website acts as a hub for the network and provides a directory of researchers with expertise on a range of health policy topics.
- GEAP3 Network, directed by JMEUCE Associate Matthew Schnurr. This international consortium of scholars studies the domestic and international ramifications of the EU’s approach to genome editing. Its main goal is to generate new information and convene a scientifically informed public dialogue around three core dimensions of genome editing and the EU: policy, practice and public perception.
Student Research
Students’ experience of the EU is enhanced through the Centre's support for academic exchanges and the granting of scholarships and awards for research related to the EU. The 2021 annual Student Essay Prize was awarded to Patricia Porto de Barros Ayaz, PhD student in Political Science, for her paper on The European Union’s Migration Management: Border Externalization and the Negligence to Human Rights.