Elections to the Co-ordinating Committee of the ECPR Graduate Network will be organised before the Second ECPR Graduate Conference in Barcelona (25-27 August 2008).

Elections to the Co-ordinating Committee of the Graduate Network

Call for Candidates
 
These are the second elections to the Committee. According to the Network's rules set in the Constitution, for the sake of continuity only part of the committee will be renewed through elections every two years. This year six new members to the committee will be elected . Nominations are now officially open.

We would like to invite potential candidates to send in an expression of interest to Katja Fettelschoss (fettelschoss@uni.leuphana.de). In order to be eligible, candidates need to be enrolled in graduate or post-doctoral studies at any ECPR member institution. No candidate holding a Ph.D. received earlier than within the past three years will be eligible. We especially encourage applications from students who have recently embarked on their Ph.D. and who are thus likely to be able to actively serve on the committee for one or two full mandates.

Here is a brief description of what the co-ordinating committee does:
 
It maintains a membership database which can be browsed online. Its aim is to provide our members with a handy tool to find other graduate students with shared research interests and working on related topics;
It regularly publishes a newsletter which is distributed to members informing them about the Network's activities, academic conferences, summer schools and general calls for papers;
It provides graduate events at other ECPR occasions such as the general conference;
It co-organizes the ECPR Graduate Conference to be held every two years

Further information and NOMINATION DEADLINE
 
Candidates are expected to commit to the general objectives of the Network and be ready to contribute to its further development. There is no financial retribution for sitting on the committee. The committee position is unpaid, although expenses for travelling to meetings are covered.

Elections will be held on the basis of self-nominations. Candidates are invited to nominate themselves for election. If interested, you are thus invited to contact Katja Fettelschoss and she will provide you with more information as well as a form that you will need to send back on which you will need to briefly state your interest and motivation for becoming a committee member. The deadline for receiving nominations is June 27, 2008. Voting will then be open to all graduate network members and the new committee will be presented at the Graduate Conference in Barcelona in August.

For more information on the committee and the distribution of portfolios please visit http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/graduates/committee.htm or write to Katja Fettelschoss (fettelschoss@uni.leuphana.de). Candidates should not put themselves forward for a particular portfolio; all roles and duties of committee members will be allocated at the first meeting of the newly convened committee.