About PEEER
Origins
PEEER (Political Economy of Energy in Europea and Russia) was established in April 2009. It is an ESRC funded energy network which brings together an inter-disciplinary group of academics from across Europe and Russia to research energy with an emphasis on energy governance, relations and issues associated with energy transition within Europe and Russia, and beyond. The network aims to produce research which is both policy relevant and theoretically informed. For details of the PEEER Steering Committee please click on the relevant tab.
Future Conferences
PEEER is the co-host of a conference in April 2012 in association with the Higher School of Economics, Moscow and CEPMLP, Dundee. This conference is entitled 'Sustainability in the Russian Energy Sector', and will take place in Perm, Russia. For details please follow this link: http://www.buyat.dundee.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=2&catid=5&modid=2&prodid=170&deptid=3&prodvarid=0 .
12 bursaries are being offered to early career researchers (PhD students, or researchers within 3 years of award of PhD). Bursaries will cover accommodation and internal transfer costs, but not international travel costs. They will be allocated by the PEEER Steering Committee based on consideration of abstracts received (which should be sent to belyiand@hotmail.com). For further details see 'Perm 2012 Call for Papers' under 'Links' below.
Past Conferences
In September 2010 PEEER, in association with the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), hosted a conference at the University of Warwick. The conference theme was 'Governing Energy in Europe and Russia' and was opened by Professor Richard Higgott, CSGR, Professor Tim Shaw, University of the West Indies, and Dr Cho Khong, Shell's Chief Political Analyst. Each gave presentations which put energy governance into a wider context, global governance, development and corporate, respectively. The conference was attended by academics from Russian, French, Dutch, Hungarian, Norwegian, Ukrainian, West Indian, and UK institutions from legal, IPE, IR, business and economics backgrounds. Please click on the tab marked 'Warwick 2010' for a copy of the agenda and for access to conference papers.
In February 2010 PEEER organised a small interim workshop, hosted by University College Oxford, which brought together early career and established researchers in the field of energy. The workshop was opened by Professor Mike Bradshaw, University of Leicester, and Dr Amelia Hadfield, Kent Univeristy. Some doctoral candidates took the opportunity to update the group on their research programmes, and the Steering Committee also met to decide on the research direction for the planned Warwick 2010 conference.
In September 2009 PEEER organised its first workshop, hosted by the Higher School of Economics, in Moscow. The workshop was attended by 35 academics from varying disciplinary and geographic backgrounds, and was opened with presentations by two eminent Russian energy academics: Professor Nodar Simonia and Professor Valery Krykov. Please click on the tab marked 'Moscow 2009' for more details.
Early Career Bursaries
PEEER awarded bursaries to 10 'early career' researchers from UK universities to attend both the 2009 Moscow and 2010 Warwick Conferences.
PEEER has also had the pleasure of offering 3 travel bursaries, each for £750, to facilitate early career energy research abroad. A brief report of a research trip is available here.
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Recent News
The next PEEER conference, 'Sustainabllity in the Russian Energy Sector', is hosted together with HSE, Moscow; and CEPMLP, Dundee. It will take place in Perm from the 17th to 19th of April 2012.
The PEEER network are happy to announce a forthcoming book: 'The Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia', to be published as part of Palgrave MacMillan's IPE series early in 2012.
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