Tomasz Marek Mickiewicz Born 24 December 1960 Nationality ...

ENABLING ACTIVITYIn addition to the contributions to teaching covered in the previous section, other keyenabling roles played within and outside the department include the following:• Director of the ‘Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in Europe’. TheCentre was launched in 2002 to create a focus for research, for SSEES and beyond. Wecombine internal funding with external funding (a recent example: sponsorship receivedfrom BICEPS (Latvia), which not only led to a successful two-day workshop 2005). As aresult, we were able to run a successful series of seminars, workshops and conferences,which helped to make SSEES a leading U.K. based institution conducting economicresearch on ‘wider’ Europe and considerably raise our profile on the eve of the RAE. TheCentre’s activities include the electronic publication of a working paper series, thatattracts contributions not only from our own staff, but also from leading researchers fromoutside SSEES and is regularly referred to by some leading sources of researchinformation on our area, including the World Bank ‘Beyond Transition’ / ‘Transition’newsletter.• Co-ordinator of the ‘Managing Economic Transition’ Network. Launched in 1999 jointlywith colleagues from Manchester, the network now includes over one hundred researchersfrom the U.K. and continental Europe, and so far has organised 17 research seminars inBrighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Kingston, Manchester, Northampton, UCL andWolverhampton. It became a regular platform for discussing research focused on theprocess of economic and institutional change in Europe, and has attracted key speakersfrom the U.K. and continental Europe.In addition, I served on a number of committees, with two of them directly linked to policymakingand enabling:• Member of the Senior Management Group, SSEES UCL• Member of the Research and Funding Committee• MA Programme Director: Political Economy of Eastern Europe and Russia since 2001;Comparative Business Economics since 2006.• Member of the Postgraduate Teaching Committeeand performed two additional tasks related to enabling:• Chair of the Examination Board, Social Sciences 2003-2005• Admissions tutor and programme director for BA Economic and Business with EastEuropean Studies (EBEES), 1999-2002RESEARCH ACTIVITYI have had the opportunity to observe directly the functioning of the command economy, itscrisis, and finally, the transition process to the market economy. This fortunate (from theintellectual development point of view) conjuncture of historical events in part resulted in myinterest in comparative economic systems analysis.My research (MA and PhD) originated with the analysis of the command economy, and I hadthe privilege of having one of the most lucid analysts of the old system as my supervisor(Prof. Kurowski). At the time I was a research student, and later a lecturer in the economicsTomasz Marek Mickiewicz, page 7