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NEWSLETTER 1998 |
THE ARKLETON TRUST and THE ARKLETON CENTRE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH |
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Keith Abercrombie AwardFollowing the sad death of Keith Abercrombie in 1996 a small fund was set up in his memory. We anticipate that we will be able to make four/five awards from this Fund and students will be chosen whose research most closely follows the aims of Keiths work.The first award was made to Michael Taylor during 1997. Michael has spent the last year living in several Khwe settlements in Botswana studying how the people living there understand their position in the modern state of Botswana, what the impacts of government development programmes have been and how, if possible, they can shape their own future. Michaels research will be written up in the form of a thesis on his return to this country. The 1998 award was made to Gustav Nemes, a Hungarian student who is studying for his MSc at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Gustav will be analysing the EU's rural development policy from the Central European point of view; what can be learnt from the current practice of the Structural Funds, what sort of interactions can be expected between the present and the candidate EU countries and how both groups of countries should prepare themselves for when these countries join the EU.
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