Dear colleagues
This year’s UP away day will be different
It will be a real ‘away day’
The place: Buurtboederij Ons Genoegen
The date: 11th June
The time: 9:45 for a start at 10 am for us, the core group meeting
13:00 lunch . the Doctoral students post docs and UP masters students will join us
14:00 onwards UP general meeting (Including doctoral students, post docs, and masters UP students)
We shall send an agenda later on
Please send us items for it
If we cannot have a core meeting in between, we shall start with Jochem’s analysis of our teaching
Looking very much forward to it
Maria and Luca
Prof. Dr Maria Kaika
(DPhil, Oxon, MArch NTUA)
Chair in Urban Regional and Environmental Planning
New Open Access:
Between the frog and the
eagle: claiming a ‘Scholarship of Presence’ for the Anthropocene
Publications:
https://independent.academia.edu/mariakaika
Web page:
https://tinyurl.com/http-mariakaika-uva
Address: Prof Maria Kaika | c/o GPIO Secretary | University of Amsterdam
Roeterseilandcampus C4.08 | PO Box 15629 | Nieuwe Achtergracht
166 | Amsterdam 1001 NC | The Netherlands
From: Kaika, Maria <M.Kaika@uva.nl>
Sent: 29 January 2019 14:52
To: Bertolini, Luca <L.Bertolini@uva.nl>; Verloo, Nanke <N.Verloo@uva.nl>; Giezen, Mendel <M.Giezen@uva.nl>; Savini, Federico <f.savini@uva.nl>; Vries, Jochem de <J.deVries1@uva.nl>; Brommelstroet, Marco te <M.C.G.teBrommelstroet@uva.nl>; Ronald, Richard
<R.Ronald@uva.nl>; Hissink Muller, Bas <B.M.HissinkMuller@uva.nl>; Tasan-Kok, Tuna <M.T.TasanKok@uva.nl>; Evers, David <D.V.H.Evers@uva.nl>; Hemel, Zef <J.J.M.hemel@uva.nl>; Kaika, Maria <M.Kaika@uva.nl>
Subject: next core group meeting: Tuesday February 5th, 10:00-12:00 hrs
Importance: High
Dear Planners
Just a reminder that our next core group meeting is on Tuesday 5th February 10-12. We shall squat as usual Mendel, Fede and Nanke’s room (with their permission!)
There are currently three main items for the agenda which I copy below
Please let me have any other items if you wish. We shall take them on board if time permits
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This year’s research projects and research plans - each one gives us an overview of what they are engaged with (research wise) at the moment. We want to hear about
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concrete projects that are already running,
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publications already in the pipeline (draft form or submitted or out)
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proposals already submitted, or about to be submitted.
Please refrain from talking about ideas that are still vague. We shall have another time for this one perhaps
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How do we develop a culture of better sharing our research with each other? We need concrete suggestions here For example:
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Taking 10 mins at the beginning of each one of these meetings to talk about a current paper/project (two people each time, 5+5 minutes)
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Having an ‘away’ day of presentations of our own work only – with our PhDs and our research masters present?
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Any other ideas?
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sharing teaching assessment and classroom best practices; what works for you and what does nt how can we learn from each other?
Looking forward to it
All the best
maria
Maria Kaika
Professor of Urban Regional and Environmental Planning
Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development (GPIO)
http://www.uva.nl/en/profile/k/a/m.kaika/m.kaika.html
New Publications
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Kaika, M. (2018). Between the frog and the eagle: claiming a ‘Scholarship of Presence’ for the Anthropocene.
European Planning Studies, 26(9), 1714-1727. doi: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1484893
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Luke, N., & Kaika, M. (2018). Ripping the Heart out of Ancoats: Collective Action to Defend Infrastructures of Social Reproduction against Gentrification.
Antipode. doi: 10.1111/anti.12468; first published early online 21 November 2018
Postal address
Prof. Maria Kaika
University of Amsterdam
Att: Secretariaat GPIO
REC C,
kamer C 4.08
Valckenierstraat 65-67
1018 XE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Visiting address
Roeterseilandcampus C 4.017 Nieuwe Achtergracht 166 | 1018 WV Amsterdam | The Netherlands
Web page:
https://tinyurl.com/http-mariakaika-uva
Publications:
https://independent.academia.edu/mariakaika
From: Bertolini, Luca
Sent: 23 October 2018 17:38
To: Verloo, Nanke; Giezen, Mendel; Savini, Federico; Vries, Jochem de; Brommelstroet, Marco te; Ronald, Richard; Hissink Muller, Bas; Tasan-Kok, Tuna
Cc: Kaika, Maria
Subject: Research workloads document
Importance: High
Dear all,
Thanks you for your comments and suggestions on the first draft of the document on reducing research workloads. Attached you find a revised version where we tried to incorporate them. Let us say that the exchange showed,
once again, that we are faced with a paradoxical task, and the document is now much more explicit about that. Before you read the revision, please be reminded of the function of this document. This will be the input of the urban planning group leaders to the
‘grote vierhoek’ meeting of 13 November, where proposals to reduce workloads that can be taken at the level of the department will be discussed (so not proposals requiring decisions by the Faculty, the University, or the Ministry). In particular, the program
group leaders have been asked for proposals to reduce research workloads (the education program directors have been asked for proposals to reduce workloads in teaching – that is why we decided to not go beyond principles and illustrative examples in the teaching
sections, even more so than in the previous version).
The way that, already in the first draft, we chose to interpret this task is to express a number of principles on also teaching workloads and budgets, and on research budgets, as we felt these are all interrelated. With
respect to the question of how to reduce research workloads, we chose to show what, with the research time presently available, can be humanly expected of individual research
efforts (so, not ‘output’). As several of you demanded, in this version we tried to make clearer that we are against any further cuts in research budgets, and rather demand more investment, because increasing investments is the only credible way of increasing
research efforts without risking destroying people (and loosing, well, everything in the process). So, we think that the message, thanks to your comments and suggestions, has much gained in clarity. Whether it will achieve anything substantial is a different
matter. It feels, anyway, as a meaningful step.
With this goal and context in mind, we would like now to ask you to choose,
by the end of the week, one of the following options:
-Accept the document as it is
-Accept, conditional to minor amendments of the text; please suggest these amendments
-Not accept the document, as you feel there are fundamental issues that still need discussion within the group before it can be submitted to the ‘grote vierhoek’. This discussion will have to take place sometimes next
week, face to face ( we don't think an online discussion would be appropriate in this case). Please mention the fundamental issues that require discussion (but please no amendments to the document if you choose this option).
-Accept the document for the present purpose, but at the same time request that fundamental issues be discussed in the group at a later, but close enough moment (for example at the next urban planning core group meeting
of 20 November). Please, if you choose this option, mention the issues that require discussion.
Best,
Luca (also on behalf of Maria)
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