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Prof. Martin Holland
Dr Natalia Chaban,
Project Leaders
+64 3 364 2348
NCRE
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
Dr
Natalia Chaban
Deputy Director
Senior Lecturer
Post Graduate Coordinator
NCRE
Room 442 Commerce
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 4912
Fax: +64 3 364 2634
natalia.chaban@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
National Centre for Research on Europe
Level 4 Commerce Building
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
A native of Ukraine, Dr. Natalia Chaban was educated in Cherkasy State University, Ukraine, New York University, USA, and Kyiv State Linguistic University, Ukraine, where she earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics (focus on political discourse analysis). She has held research and teaching positions at Cherkasy State University, Ukraine, Lund University, Sweden, and at the University of Maryland at College Park, USA. Her interdisciplinary expertise has been engaged in designing cross-cultural learning activities for the US Peace Corps, Ukraine.
Dr. Natalia Chaban was chosen from more than a dozen high quality applicants from around the world and took up the position at the NCRE in early March 2002. At present she is a Lecturer and Deputy Director at the Centre. She is currently coordinating multi-national research project “Public, Elite and Media Perceptions of the EU in Asia Pacific Region”. She is actively pursuing her research interests in cognitive and semiotic aspects of political and mass media discourses, image studies and national identity studies in the EU context.
EURO
101 Rediscovering Europe
Euro
201 European Union Identity and Culture
EURO
312 EU Research Training and Methods
EURO
401 The Idea of Europe
EURO
416 EU Research Training and Methods
Natalia initiated, developed and won the UCTL Teaching Development Grant for 2007 (5,000 NZD). The grant aims to reconfigure the teaching portfolio of the EURO programme at the NCRE to improve both undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum and bring it to the level of the best international practices in the field of EU studies.
The Asia-Pacific Perceptions Project: Public, Elite and Media Perceptions of the European Union in the Asia-Pacific Region
Radical changes on the European continent put the question "What makes Europeans European?" at the centre of a heated internal debate. However, when self-identification is obscure, demarcation of the Other is necessary. Arguably, reflective compositioning of Self can happen for Europe from the outside, in the mirror of non-Europe.
Addressing the problems of a striking absence of data on perceptions towards the EU in third countries, the National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE) is the first to offer the EU external perceptions analysis in Asia-Pacific region. The research project “Public, Elite and Media Perceptions of the EU in Asia Pacific Region” aims to adress this omission by identifying, measuring and raising public awareness and extending knowledge of the European Union within the Asia-Pacific region.
Natalia Chaban is currently coordinating the work of several multi-national
research projects under the umbrella of the “Perceptions Project”:
• “Public, Elite and Media Perceptions of the EU in Asia Pacific
Region: Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand: a comparative
study” (2004-2005). Sponsored by the European Commission, Directorate
General for Education and Culture, Jean Monnet Programme. For more
information, head to the APPP
Homepage.
• “The European Union in the Eyes of Asia: Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Singapore” (2006-2007). Sponsored by the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF). It is ASEF’s inaugural project in the category “European Studies in Asia”. For more information, head to the
• “The Visibility of the European Union as a Development Actor in the South Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific: an analysis of media representations, public opinion and policy-makers attitudes” (2006-2008). Sponsored by the EU Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture, Jean Monnet Programme.
• “The Visibility of the European Union as a Development Actor in the Pacific Media Pilot Study” (2006). Sponsored by the NZ European Union Centers Network grant.
• “NZ Public Opinion of the EU: longitudinal perspective” (2006-7). Sponsored by the NZ European Union Centers Network.
Natalia is also a member of the research team “The External Image(s) of the European Union: A global survey” (2006) Sponsored by GARNET Network of Excellence and administered at the Forum on the Problems of Peace and War, Florence, Italy. For more information, head to phttp://www.garnet-eu.org/index.php?id=27
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