ANTICORRP/CEPSI Seminar Series: Opening seminar on innovations in Corruption Studies

Talk by Professor Paul Heywood (University of Nottingham)

On 14^th October 2015 Professor Paul M Heywood will open the seminar series ‘Innovation Studies in Europe and beyond’ with a talk on the state of innovations and the state of the art in corruption research.

The series is presented jointly by FP7 ANTICORRP, the SSEES Centre for European Politics, Security and Integration (CEPSI) and the Slavonic and East European Review (SEER). It will prepare for the launch of the SEER special issue on innovations in corruption studies edited by Professor Alena Ledeneva in 2017 and showcases research undertaken as part of ANTICORRP, a large-scale research project funded by the European Commission’s 7^th Framework Programme in which UCL SSEES is a leading partner.

Paul Heywood is Sir Francis Hill Professor of European Politics and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on political corruption, institutional design and state capacity in contemporary Europe. He is editor of the Routledge Handbook for Political Corruption (2015) and was the UK Local Research Correspondent on Corruption (2012-14) for the European Commission's DG Home Affairs.

The seminar will be followed by an informal discussion over coffee/tea in the Masaryk Senior Common Room.

All students, staff and visitors are welcome. No registration required.

For more information, please contact Dr Philipp Köker (p.koeker@ucl.ac.uk).