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Research The JMECE has wide-ranging research interests and participates in a number of projects funded under the Union's 6th and 7th Framework Programmes, as well as projects funded from other sources
Justice and internal security	Challenge: The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security - Work Package 6 'Accountability, responsibility and transparency in an enlarged Europe'
eGovernance and eParticipation	R4eGov aims to work with public administrations from across the EU to help them become more efficient. eJustice aims to improve the efficiency of the judicial process through providing secure means of transmitting automatically information across borders.
We are also involved in projects funded under the Union's 7th Framework Programme EU constitutional reform - Communicating Europe - Migration, identity and Culture	See pages of Dr Katharine Sarikakis and Dr Julie Firmstone 7th Framework Programme project: Media & Citizenship: Transnational Television Cultures: Reshaping Political Identities in the European Union (See page of Dr Myria Georgiou). The project Media & Citizenship studies the ways transnational media, in particular Arabic language television, reshape the political landscapes of citizenship in the European Union. It provides the first European wide empirical research on the use of Arabic language television and its effect on integration in multicultural societies. Economic and Social Research Council project: The Impact of EU 'Constitutionalisation' on Public Claims-Making over Europe (run as part of the EurPolCom Centre - see page of Dr Julie Firmstone) British Academy project (Ref no: LRG-45511): Political Communication in New Democracies. Government-Media Relationships in Transition. The project investigates how after regime changes from autocratic to democratic rule political communication elites re-negotiate the power balance between governments and the media. Based on semi-structured interviews with journalists and politicians the project explores the role expectations of these two sets of actors, their mutual expectations and the norms that guide their relationship. The project includes eight countries from so-called third-wave democracies: Bulgaria, Poland, Brazil, Chile, Korea, Taiwan, Namibia and South Africa. See page of Dr Katrin Voltmer
- Citizenship
- Euro-elections
- Environmental policy	See page of Dr Angela Carpenter
- International trade	Leeds University Business School ljc@lubs.leeds.ac.uk

Also of interest: the Breaking Barriers to eGovernment study - an EC funded project on the major barriers to expanding effective eGovernment services, which will define possible initiatives to overcome obstacles and make recommendations for good practice.