Faculty Activity Report
Name Natalie Pearl
Faculty/Rank: Associate Professor
Department: School of Public Administration and Urban Studies
College Professional Studies and Fine Arts
Office phone x41948
Other phone: 619. 582-1799
E mail address: Pearl @mail.sdsu.edu
Proposal title: Reciprocity: The Key to International Success
Country/ies visited: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK) and Galway, Republic of Ireland
Institution visited: Queens University Belfast and National University of Ireland at Galway
Dates of travel June 16 – 24, 2001
Number of student participants: None
Previous IP proposals submitted and grants awarded
(list titles, countries and dates):
Title |
Country |
Travel Dates |
|
Ulster University Exchange |
Northern Ireland |
May 2000 |
|
Peace and Policing: International Perspectives on Criminal Justice |
Northern Ireland |
September 2000 |
Have all required reports been submitted? Yes
Other funding for this activity available/applied for:
Hansen Mini-Grant 2001-2002 (related research linking police practices in Northern Ireland to those in South Africa)
Proposal Abstract (75 word maximum):
The original proposal was a request for funding to recruit students from Ulster University to come to SDSU. Because of the difficulty in finalizing the contract with Ulster University before my arrival in Northern Ireland, I sought to make contact with Queens University Belfast and the National University of Ireland in Galway. Through my contact with both universities I have learned that there are systemic barriers to the type of student exchange program that SDSU has tried to initiate. For these reasons, alternative routes of collaboration are being explored.
Travel report:
I.
Opening/overview
of intentions/activity
Through my visits to and communication with key international liaisons at both Ulster University and Queens University Belfast (QUB) I have confidence that the following observations are correct:
1. Neither of these universities is willing to enter into a blanket agreement with SDSU to host or send exchange students.
2. Funding is such in the UK that un-funded student exchange programs are of little interest to students and their families.
3. Any collaboration with either of these universities will require specific activities for students and or faculty and will be more successful if they are funded through a specific grant. – This avenue will be discussed under “Next steps” below
II. In
preparation for the trip abroad
Preparation for the trip was conducted via e-mail with Queens University Belfast International Liaison – Dr. Judith Eve.
- While at Queens University Belfast I meet with the following lead people in each of the areas specified
- Dr R Miller, Director of Centre for Social Research
- Professor J Jackson, Director, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Judith Eve, Head of International Liaison Office
At the National University of Ireland, Galway, I met with representatives of the Admissions office and the student information office and collected relevant information about courses of study and International Student information
In Galway I met with Beverly and Fred Bazler Directors of the Galway Language Centre
The most fruitful avenue for follow up in my opinion is the connection with the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Queens University Belfast and its director Professor J. Jackson. Because of the difficulty in gaining cooperation for blanket exchange agreements, Dr. Jackson and I discussed the possibility of a graduate student exchange (Master of Criminal Justice and Criminology and Master of Public Administration) centered around a specific project. For this to be possible there would need to be a funded project that this could be linked to.
We have arranged for graduate
students and faculty to meet at the annual meetings of the American Society of
Criminology in Atlanta in November 2001 to continue discussions.