Peter Szyszlo's profile

Peter Szyszlo is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa’s School of International Development and Global Studies (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Prachi Srivastava, DPhil, Oxon).  His doctoral research aims to address the changing nature of higher education in Ukraine, against a backdrop of broader political transition and macro-political dynamics of globalization and the knowledge society/economy. His project aims to analyze the place of the university as an institution that not only produces and disseminates knowledge, but assimilates and adapts global knowledge to national needs.  It also examines the role that Ukrainian national research universities may play as arbiters of knowledge and as actors of change.  Peter Szyszlo is a member of the EUREDOCS Network (Sciences Po Paris) and the European Research Area Collaborative Research Network.  His doctoral research is receiving financial support from the Shevchenko Foundation (Stephen and Olga Kuzyk Doctoral Bursary) and the J.D. Hearnshaw Memorial Scholarship.
Peter Szyszlo was a visiting scholar at the University of Bologna under the Erasmus Mundus (Nova Domus) program during the summer of 2016.  During that time, he gained first-hand exposure to European knowledge policies and studied their impacts on institutional capacity building efforts and curricular innovation on universities in Eastern Neighbouring States.

INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGIES FOR THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
UNIVIA TRAINING WORKSHOP | UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
BOLOGNA, ITALY (13 June 2016)
Developed and instructed a seminar on internationalization strategies for the UNIVIA project (Development and Improvement of the University Administration on International Affairs); an EU-sponsored TEMPUS structural measurement program for building capacity and advancing higher education reform efforts in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine.

IMAGINING CANADA’S FUTURE NATIONAL FORUM – FUTURE CHALLENGES
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
OTTAWA, ON (16 November 2015)
Rapporteur: SSHRC National Forum: Leveraging knowledge for 21st century teaching and learning

84TH ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA (1 June 2015)
Conference Panelist: Key future challenges and new ways of learning – globalization and emerging technologies, hosted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) & the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies (CAGS)

IMAGINING CANADA’S FUTURE
FACULTY OF GRADUATE & POST-DOCTORAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA (1 April 2015)
Consultative roundtable on Canada’s higher education challenges global higher education, an initiative of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

9TH ANNUAL EUREDOCS CONFERENCE
SCIENCES PO PARIS
PARIS, FRANCE (16-18 May 2014)
Presentation: “International Responses to the Global Knowledge Society Discourse”