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The geographical spread of our members in the UK means that we can hold national events only a few times a year. We are therefore in the process of setting up a network of local groups that can maintain more regular contacts among alumni in their areas. So far, five such groups have been established. If you would like to get involved in them, do contact the local coordinators. If you would like to help set up a group in your own area, please contact the UK coordinator, Jana Lamb jana.lamb@com-box.com.
 

• Essex 

Local coordinator: Marina Popescu (Pol. Sci. 1997 and South-East European Studies 1998). Contact: mpope@essex.ac.uk

Marina is currently doing her PhD in the Department of Government at the University of Essex where she is also working on the ESRC project "Elections and the Political Transformation in Post-communist Europe" (http://www2.essex.ac.uk/elect). As part of the project, she does research on electoral systems in Eastern Europe, currently mostly on their genesis. A big part of her work went into the new Database of Elections in Central and Eastern Europe, an on-line collection of election results and electorally-relevant legislation that intends to be a key reference for those interested in Post-communist electoral politics (http://www.essex.ac.uk/elections). Otherwise, there are no major changes in her interests and life, still studying media effects, mass political attitudes and electoral behaviour; still trying to find time for her first love - painting - and for trips to Budapest.

• Lancaster

Local coordinator: Sergey Khrychikov (Sociology 1997)
Contact: sergeik_1@excite.com
 
• London

Local coordinator: Nadia Solovieva (Environmental Sciences and Policy 1994)
Contact: nsolovie@geog.ucl.ac.uk
Nadia writes:
I graduated from the Summer School of CEU, Department of Environmental Science and Policy in 1993.  After securing a CEU research grant I joined Department of Geography, University College London in 1994 and started my PhD there. After completing my PhD thesis I am continuing my research at UCL as a research fellow.  Although I graduated from the Biological Faculty in Moscow State University, my speciality is now geography, more specifically - palaeoecology.  My research focuses on environmental changes in upland lakes in Russia, and it mostly concerns Russian Arctic (e.g. Kola Peninsula, Polar Urals).   My current contract will expire at the end of 2001 and after that I'll try to find a job in  Moscow because this was always my intention.

• Oxford

Local coordinator: Alan Renwick (Political Science 1997 and 1998)
Contact: alan.renwick@merton.ox.ac.uk
Alan writes:
Since leaving the CEU in 1998, I’ve been the CEU’s alumni affairs coordinator for the UK. In my spare time, I also study a little for a D.Phil. (i.e. PhD) on the choice of political institutions in Hungary and Poland in 1989-90. We have a group of a dozen former CEU students in Oxford that is part of a large community of people coming from or interested in Central and Eastern Europe. By the time you read these words, we will hopefully have held our first event - and who knows what will happen after that. If you’d like to get involved or if you happen to be passing through Oxford any time, do get it touch. Watch this space for more info coming soon!

 

• Scotland

Local coordinator: Allan Wardrop (formerly Allan Simpson; Legal Studies 1998)
Contact: ACSimpson@compuserve.com

Allan writes:
I am a graduate/survivor of the Master of Laws degree (97/98), or, more accurately, the intellectual flogging liberally dished out by Professor Sajo every day. Having staggered out alive but very much more humble, I promptly signed away my soul for two years and am now a trainee solicitor, undergoing another flogging but this time of a different kind. Having spent a most enjoyable weekend in Edinburgh last December with four other CEU alumni, I would like to repeat the experience. As such, I would like to try to bring together the Scottish resident CEU Alumni on a more regular basis so that we may form a closer community and enjoy ourselves whilst indulging in that most Scottish of pursuits: drinking. So come on! Let's keep in touch, broaden our networks, and draw on that invaluable training we gained in Central Europe!
 

• Manchester

Local coordinator: Jennet Gummadova (Environmental Sciences & Policy 1998)
Contact: jennet.o.gummadova@stud.man.ac.uk