Dr Clare Mcmanus
- Senior Lecturer (Central and East European Studies)
- College International Lead (Social Sciences College Senior Management)
telephone: 01413302849
email: Clare.McManus@glasgow.ac.uk
Research Interests
- Civil societies and states in Central and Eastern Europe
- Impact of European Union enlargement upon Poland
- Regionalism and governance issues in Central and Eastern Europe
- Policy-making within the European Union in the aftermath of EU enlargement
- Democratic consolidation
- Reform of higher education (Poland)
Erasmus Mundus IMRCEES Academic Director
Postgraduate Programme Leader (Admissions)
Research Projects
2001 - 2003 - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) award Poland's Third Transition: Beyond 2001 (R/000/22/3685) with Professor William L Miller, Professor Rados?aw Markowski and Professor Jacek Wasilewski.
Current PhD students
- Amy Watson, Every day gendered experiences of welfare and neoliberalism in the Czech Republic (with Professor Rebecca Kay)
I have successfully supervised these former PhD students:
- Laura Cashman, Integrating Romani communities in the Czech Republic: an analysis of policy implementation at the local level (with Dr Jan Culik)
- Dae Soon Kim, A Political Biography of Arpad Gonz: Hungary's First Post-Communist President (with Professor Terry Cox)
- Jackie Kirkham, Sexual and reproductive health services in Romania and the Republic of Moldova: contexts, actors, challenges (with Professor Rebecca Kay)
- Olga Mausch-Dębowska, Local government and civil society in a post-socialist city: a case study of Poznań (with Professor Ronan Paddison, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences)
- Kinga Komorowska, The Impact of EU Membership on Domestic Regional Policy (with Professor Richard Berry)
Undergraduate Teaching
- Convenor: Civil Society and the State in Central and Eastern Europe (1945-1989) (Honours option, Semester 1)
- Convenor: Post-Communist Transformation and European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe (Honours option, Semester 2)
- Contributor: Social Science and Humanities Research in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe: Theory & Practice (Semesters 1 and 2)
- Contributor: Central and East European Studies Level 1
- Contributor: Central and East European Studies Level 2
Postgraduate Teaching
I contribute to 3 taught postgraduate programmes:
- International Masters in Russian, Central and East European Studies (double & single degrees)
- MSc in Russian, Central and East European Studies
- MRes in Russian, Central and East European Studies
Specifically, I teach the following postgraduate modules:
- Convenor: Changing State and Society in Central Europe - Masters option (Semester 2)
- Contributor: State and Society under Communism in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe (IM/MSc core, Semester 1)
- Contributor: Research Methods for Studying Russia, Central and Eastern Europe (MRes core, Semester 2)
Other Roles
Within Central and East European Studies:
Postgraduate Programme Leader (Admissions/Internationalisation)
- International Masters in Russian, Central and East European Studies (Erasmus Mundus double degree & single degree)
- MSc in Russian, Central and East European Studies
- MRes in Russian, Central and East European Studies
Beyond Central and East European Studies:
- Co-Director, Language Based Area Studies Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES)
- Reviews Editor, Europe-Asia Studies journal
- Representative on the University's Europe Regional Working Group
- Member of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
- Member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies
- Member of the Assessing Accession - Central and Eastern Europe in the EU collaborative research network
Additional Information
Able to comment for the media on:
- Polish politics and society
- Poland in the European Union
- Higher education reform in Poland