2007 Press Releases
Appointment for UCC Academic
15.08.2007
Dr Peter Herrmann has been invited as Academic Advisor of the Social Policy Research Centre, National Taiwan University.
15.08.2007
Dr Peter Herrmann has been invited as Academic Advisor of the Social Policy Research Centre, National Taiwan University.
Dr Peter Herrmann is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Applied Social Studies, UCC and Director of the Independent Research Institute European Social, Organisational and Science Consultancy (ESOSC).
Herrmann is currently resident research fellow on the invitation of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Studies, National Taiwan University. The IHS runs four programs, namely the Program for East Asian Classics and Cultures, the Program for Globalization Studies, the Program for the Formation of rule and Law in East Asia and the Program for East Asia Democratic Studies, the latter is a program under the auspice of the University "Academic Excellence" Development Projects funded by the Ministry of Education. As a program aims to promote research capacity and to reach academic excellence, the Asian Barometer Survey (formerly the East Asia Barometer Survey, founded in year 2000) is the pillar of the whole program in which over 2 billion Asians have been surveyed since December 2003. Then the East Asia Barometer co-operated with the South Asia Barometer Survey and merged the two networks to become the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS).
In year 2006, the ABS began its second wave survey across the East Asia region. Besides providing financial and technical support to the country surveys (12 countries in East and Southeast Asia), the ABS is also responsible for holding various academic seminars and symposiums to display survey results to the general public. The theme of the 2006 survey is "Democracy, Governance and Development" for which the ABS will conduct surveys regularly to investigate the citizens' attitudes and value changes regarding democracy, governance and development. The ABS has gained a high reputation in the academic world over the years, and in 2003 the ABS became a member of the Network of Democracy Research Institute. Moreover, the International Social Science Council of UNESCO lists the ABS as one of the large-scale survey programs in the world, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has included the ABS in its publication of "Governance Indicator: A User's Guide."
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Herrmann is currently resident research fellow on the invitation of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Studies, National Taiwan University. The IHS runs four programs, namely the Program for East Asian Classics and Cultures, the Program for Globalization Studies, the Program for the Formation of rule and Law in East Asia and the Program for East Asia Democratic Studies, the latter is a program under the auspice of the University "Academic Excellence" Development Projects funded by the Ministry of Education. As a program aims to promote research capacity and to reach academic excellence, the Asian Barometer Survey (formerly the East Asia Barometer Survey, founded in year 2000) is the pillar of the whole program in which over 2 billion Asians have been surveyed since December 2003. Then the East Asia Barometer co-operated with the South Asia Barometer Survey and merged the two networks to become the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS).
In year 2006, the ABS began its second wave survey across the East Asia region. Besides providing financial and technical support to the country surveys (12 countries in East and Southeast Asia), the ABS is also responsible for holding various academic seminars and symposiums to display survey results to the general public. The theme of the 2006 survey is "Democracy, Governance and Development" for which the ABS will conduct surveys regularly to investigate the citizens' attitudes and value changes regarding democracy, governance and development. The ABS has gained a high reputation in the academic world over the years, and in 2003 the ABS became a member of the Network of Democracy Research Institute. Moreover, the International Social Science Council of UNESCO lists the ABS as one of the large-scale survey programs in the world, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has included the ABS in its publication of "Governance Indicator: A User's Guide."
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