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Peter Szyszlo's profile
Affiliation: School of International Development & Global Studies University of Ottawa
Full title: PhD candidate
Address: Faculty of Social Sciences, 120 University Drive, Room 8005, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 CANADA
E-mail: pszys008@uOttawa.ca
Main scientific activities
Peter Szyszlo is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa’s School of International Development and Global Studies (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Prachi Srivastava, DPhil, Oxon). His doctoral research aims to address the changing nature of higher education in Ukraine, against a backdrop of broader political transition and macro-political dynamics of globalization and the knowledge society/economy. His project aims to analyze the place of the university as an institution that not only produces and disseminates knowledge, but assimilates and adapts global knowledge to national needs. It also examines the role that Ukrainian national research universities may play as arbiters of knowledge and as actors of change. Peter Szyszlo is a member of the EUREDOCS Network (Sciences Po Paris) and the European Research Area Collaborative Research Network. His doctoral research is receiving financial support from the Shevchenko Foundation (Stephen and Olga Kuzyk Doctoral Bursary) and the J.D. Hearnshaw Memorial Scholarship.
Peter Szyszlo was a visiting scholar at the University of Bologna under the Erasmus Mundus (Nova Domus) program during the summer of 2016. During that time, he gained first-hand exposure to European knowledge policies and studied their impacts on institutional capacity building efforts and curricular innovation on universities in Eastern Neighbouring States.
Books and other main pubblications
- Fine, J. C. & Szyszlo, P. “Academic Partnerships and Exchanges between Canada and Africa” in Canada and Africa: From Aid to Engagement – Looking Back, Looking Ahead. R.P. Medhora & Y. Sammy (eds.) Waterloo/Ottawa: Centre for International Governance Innovation & NPSIA (2013).
Edited Books
- Eastern Views on European Enlargement: An Axiological Perspective – A Compilation of Essays. B.F. Taylor; P. Szyszlo and A. Polese (eds). Odessa: Astro Print (2006)
Main recent articles
- Szyszlo, P. “Reframing European Knowledge Policies: Reconciling the (post-)Soviet with the Global” Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe Paper Series. (forthcoming 2016).
- Bradwejn, J.; Szyszlo, P. & Wang, Y. “Transformational Internationalization in Practice: The Ottawa-Shanghai Joint School of Medicine” Canadian Medical Education Journal. (forthcoming 2016).
- Szyszlo, P. “Internationalization Strategies for the Global Knowledge Society” CBIE PhD Research Series. Ottawa: CBIE (2016).
- Fine, J. C. & Szyszlo, P. Higher Education in Africa Network Study New York: The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (October 2008).
- Szyszlo, P. Countering NATO Expansion: A Case Study of Belarus-Russia Rapprochement. Brussels: NATO Academic Affairs Unit (July 2003).
Other pubblications
- Szyszlo, P. “Ottawa to lead team of Canadian universities in academic reform program for senior university administrators in Haiti” 16 February 2012. University of Ottawa Media Release.
- Szyszlo, P. “Europe Endless?” Central Europe Review. Vol. 2, No. 2. 17 January 2000.
- Szyszlo, P. “Chernobyl in Slow Motion: Radioactive Mismanagement in the Soviet Union” Central Europe Review. Vol. 1, Nos. 20-22. 8-22 November 1999.
- Szyszlo, P. “Belarusian Paradoxes” Central Europe Review. Vol. 1, No. 7. 9 August 1999.
Projects
INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGIES FOR THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
UNIVIA TRAINING WORKSHOP | UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
BOLOGNA, ITALY (13 June 2016)
Developed and instructed a seminar on internationalization strategies for the UNIVIA project (Development and Improvement of the University Administration on International Affairs); an EU-sponsored TEMPUS structural measurement program for building capacity and advancing higher education reform efforts in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine.
IMAGINING CANADA’S FUTURE NATIONAL FORUM – FUTURE CHALLENGES
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
OTTAWA, ON (16 November 2015)
Rapporteur: SSHRC National Forum: Leveraging knowledge for 21st century teaching and learning
84TH ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA (1 June 2015)
Conference Panelist: Key future challenges and new ways of learning – globalization and emerging technologies, hosted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) & the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies (CAGS)
IMAGINING CANADA’S FUTURE
FACULTY OF GRADUATE & POST-DOCTORAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA (1 April 2015)
Consultative roundtable on Canada’s higher education challenges global higher education, an initiative of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
9TH ANNUAL EUREDOCS CONFERENCE
SCIENCES PO PARIS
PARIS, FRANCE (16-18 May 2014)
Presentation: “International Responses to the Global Knowledge Society Discourse”
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