2005 - 2006 Annual Report
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GREENWICH MARITIME INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2005 – 2006 ACADEMIC YEAR
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The Advisory CommitteeThe Members of the Advisory Committee in September 2005 were: Rear Admiral Nick Wilkinson (Chair), Mr Ronald Bradbeer, Professor Alastair Couper, Mr Jeff Drake, Mr Michael Everard, Commodore Ian Gibb, Mr Alan Graveson, Dr Karl Laubstein, Dr Margarette Lincoln, Captain Rodger MacDonald, Commander Mike Mason, Mr Alan Peake, Mr Gwyn Prosser MP, Commander Michael Ranken, Mr Keith Read CBE, Professor Nicholas Rodger, Miss Olwen Williams. The Advisory Committee met in November 2005, when it was chaired by Commodore Gibb, and in June 2006. Mr Paul Russell represented Captain Rodger MacDonald at both meetings.
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StaffingFull-time staff were the Director, Professor Sarah Palmer, the Assistant Director, Dr Minghua Zhao, Dr Emma Hanna (Mahoney) - Maritime Communities Research Fellow (from November 2005) - Dr Martin Wilcox – Leverhulme Research Fellow (from May 2006) and Miss Suzanne Bowles, Administrator. Part-time teaching staff were Visiting Professors Alastair Couper and Roger Knight, Commander Mike Mason, Dr Reza Mirmiran, Dr Roger Morriss and Mr Christopher Ware. Dr Selina Goulbourne and Mr Edward Phillips, of the University of Greenwich School of Humanities & Social Sciences, taught Public Shipping Law. The Director taught three of the MA in Maritime History courses, while the Assistant Director, in addition to acting as Student Personal Tutor, taught two of the Maritime Policy courses. Dr Zhao also led the ‘Chinese Seafarers on Foreign Ships’ research project, completed in April. In May, Professor Knight commenced direction of a three year research project ‘Sustaining the Empire: War, the Navy and the Warfare State 1793-1815’ funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Dr Zhao and Professors Couper, Knight and Palmer supervised MPhil and PhD students. Professor Gordon Cook and Miss Patricia Crimmin continued as Honorary Research Associates and the GMI also benefited from the support of Dr David Hilling MBE as Research Adviser. Captain Yaofang Fu, Associate Professor Wuhan University of Technology, People’s Republic of China, was GMI Honorary Visiting Research Fellow. Dr David Williams, University of Leicester, and Dr Hance Smith, University of Cardiff served as External Examiners.
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Postgraduate ProgrammesNine part-time postgraduate students continued into their second year of taught courses. The 2005 -2006 intake consisted of thirteen students studying full-time and three part-time. In addition there were eleven students registered for MPhil/PhD degrees. The total postgraduate membership of the GMI, including MA students completing dissertations and research students, was fifty-one. As in the past most were mature, several combining their studies with senior posts in the maritime or governmental sectors. British students predominated, but the group included students from Australia, Canada, China, Georgia, Greece, India, Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Venezuela and North Vietnam. Several students benefited from the exemptions allowed for certain GMI courses by the Chartered Institute of Shipbrokers in achieving CIS qualifications. Visiting lectures were given by Commander Steven Haines, Royal Holloway College, London; Dr David Hilling MBE, GMI; Captain Jock Mawson, CP Ships; Dr Lewis Johnman, University of Westminster. The Case Studies in Maritime Policy course gives students a chance to have first-hand accounts of policy-making issues from experts within the field. In Term Two 2006 those who contributed were: Mr Tom Allan, UK Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO); Mr Mark Brownrigg, Chamber of Shipping; Mr Peter Dymond, Marine and Coastguard Agency; Mr Michael Everard CBE, F.T. Everard & Sons; Mr Michael Grey, Lloyd’s List; Mr Rossen Karavatchev, International Transport Workers Federation; Mr Roger Lankester, Friends of the Earth International; Canon Kenneth Peters, Mission to Seafarers; Mr Keith Read, IMarEST; Mr John Taverner, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping; Mr David Whitehead, British Ports Association. The GMI wishes to record its appreciation of their support, and also thanks the IMO for permitting students to attend a Sub-Committee Session. The Case Studies in Maritime History course enables students to hear established scholars speak about their research methodology. Among those who contributed were Professor John Armstrong, Thames Valley University; Miss Patricia Crimmin, GMI; Professor Peter Davies, University of Liverpool; Dr Roy Fenton; Dr Douglas Hamilton, National Maritime Museum; Dr Jane Longmore, University of Greenwich; Professor Richard Harding, University of Westminster; Dr Adrian Jarvis, Merseyside Maritime Museum; Dr Alston Kennerley, University of Plymouth; Mr Chris Ware, GMI; Professor Glyn Williams, Queen Mary London. The GMI wishes to record its thanks for their help. Recruitment initiatives included mail-outs to British and overseas universities, to a number of professional organisations within the industry, to the IMO, to Embassies and High Commissions, to local libraries, and to appropriate voluntary societies. The GMI advertised in BBC History, Marex Bulletin, Mariner’s Mirror, Maritime London Directory, NUMAST Telegraph, Seagull, SeaTrade and Seaways.
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Student AwardsThe Admiral Sir John Chambers White Bursary, endowed by GMI graduate Mr Charles Consolvo, to assist maritime history students in meeting the costs of research trips and conference attendance was awarded to doctoral student Miss Cathryn Pearce. The Marine Society & Sea Cadets Prize, for Outstanding Achievement in Maritime History, was awarded to Miss Hannah Cunliffe and presented to her at its Annual Court. The GMI wishes to record its thanks. Mr Brian Arthur was awarded a John Carter Brown Library Fellowship, together with a Caird Travelling /National Maritime Museum Research Fellowship, to enable him to undertake research in the United States towards his doctorate.
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The LibraryA substantial bequest of maritime history books for the University Library was received under the terms of the Will of the Late Mr Alan Pearsall. The GMI wishes to record its thanks to the Executors of his estate for the Alan Pearsall Bequest. The library also benefited from gifts by Ocean Shipping Consultants Ltd, Mr Brian James, Professor Roger Knight, Professor Sarah Palmer, Professor Glyn Williams, Mr Bob Williams and Dr Minghua Zhao.
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Research and Enterprise
The Leverhulme Trust awarded to the GMI a three year major grant, commencing May 2006 for research on 'Sustaining the Empire: Ware, the Navy and the contractor State 1793-1815'. The project, led by Professor Roger Knight with the assistance of Dr Douglas Hamilton and Professor Sarah palmer, is undertaken in collaboration with the National Maritime Museum. Dr Martin Wilcox was appointed as Research Fellow. The GMI, jointly with the School of Humanities, also received a grant from the University of Greenwich Research and Enterprise Fund for an investigation into South Eastern Maritime Communities. Dr Emma Hanna (Mahoney) was appointed as Research Fellow.
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Conferences and SymposiumsIn November, as a joint initiative with the International Transport Workers Federation, the GMI organised a symposium for invited participants on ‘Seafarers’ Rights: Reform’. In February the Institute hosted the ‘Shipbuilding and Ships on the Thames’ Conference. In May, with European Union INTERREG funding and in association with the School of Humanities, it held a symposium on ‘New Approaches to Community History: Anglo-French Experiences'. Attendees included local historians and archivists from Northern France and Southern England.From October to March the GMI held a monthly series of open seminars on themes related to its research and teaching interests. The speakers and subjects were Professor John Ramsden, Queen Mary London, ‘Nelson. Film and Invasion Scares: That Hamilton Woman’; Dr Minghua Zhao, GMI, ‘Women Seafarers: Global Employment Policy and Practices’; Professor Poul Holm, University of Southern Denmark, ‘The Last Fish? A Historical Perspective on the Exploitation of the North Sea’; Ms Susan Hawker, London Metropolitan University’, ‘Piracy – Legal Suppression or Political Tolerance?’; Dr Don Eliseo Lucero Prisno, SIRC, University of Cardiff, ‘Health and Welfare of Seafarers: An Analysis of Problems, Issues and Prospects’; Associate Professor Captain Yaofang Fu, Wuhan University of Technology, ‘Establishment of the Fund for Compensation of Oil Damage in China’. The GMI wishes to thank these speakers and to record its gratitude to CP Ships and Lloyd’s List for their generous sponsorship of the series.
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External LinksIn April, the GMI signed a partnership agreement with the Wuhan University of Technology. The GMI received a delegation from the All China Federation of Trade Unions (AFCTU), China Institute of Industrial Relations. The delegation was led by Professor Shen Chin-Chin and Ms Zhu Bin. It also met with representatives of Fort Hare University, South Africa and Mr Janis Brunavs, Rector of the Latvian Maritime Academy. Other overseas visitors included Professor Lewis Fischer, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Dame Anne Salmond, University of Auckland; Dr W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns FRIN, Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam; Captain and Mrs Rajan Vir, Indian Maritime Foundation. The GMI also hosted a visit by staff and students from the Business College of Athens. The GMI remained a member of Maritime London and supported SeaVision UK.
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GMI Student and Graduate ActivitiesMr Robert Forrester and Mr Peter Skidmore both spoke at the ‘New Researchers in Maritime History Conference’ hosted by the Historic Dockyard, Chatham. Mr Richard Bateman, Ms Victorian Carolan and Mrs Joan Ryan gave papers in the International Commission for Maritime History 2005-6 King’s Seminars series, while Miss Virginia Preston addressed the British Maritime History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research. Mr Robert Forrester and Mr Brian Arthur presented their research at the National Maritime Museum Staff Research Seminar. Miss Cathryn Pearce gave a lecture at the ‘Shipwreck in the Long Eighteenth Century Conference’ conference at the National Maritime Museum.
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Staff ActivitiesProfessor Alastair Couper gave a series of lectures as part of the BBC History team on board HMS Discovery cruising the South Pacific in February/March 2006. He gave a paper Adriatic Tankers - What has changed? at the GMI/ITF Seafarers’ Rights: Reform symposium and wrote a paper with Dr C.F. Woodridge for the International Conference ‘Shipping in the Era of Social Responsibility’ which was held in Cephalonia, Greece in September 2006. He also continued to supervise GMI research students. Dr Emma Hanna (Mahoney) joined the University in November 2005 as GMI/Humanities Research Fellow for the South Eastern Maritime Communities project. She submitted her University of Kent PhD thesis on The Great War on the Small Screen: A Cultural History of the First World War on British Television, 1946-2005. She presented papers to the Western Front Association, at a study day for the Centre for the First World War Studies, University of Birmingham and at the Imperial War Museum, on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Professor Roger Knight served as senior Vice-President of the Navy Records Society and was a member of the British Commission for Maritime History. He was a member of the editorial boards of the Mariner's Mirror and the Journal for Maritime Research and a consulting editor for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History. His book The Pursuit of Victory: the life and achievement of Horatio Nelson was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial prize for biography, and won the Mountbatten Maritime Prize for 2005 (awarded by the British Maritime Charitable Foundation), the Duke of Westminster's medal for military literature for 2006 (Royal United Services Institute) and the Anderson Medal for 2006 (Society for Nautical Research). He also published 'The Fleets at Trafalgar: the Margin of Superiority' in David Cannadine (ed.) Trafalgar in History: a Battle and its Afterlife (London, 2006), 61-77. Professor Sarah Palmer continued to serve as a Trustee of the National Museums Liverpool. She was Chair of the British Commission for Maritime History. She was a Vice-President of the Marine Society & Sea Cadets. She was a member of the Chamber of Shipping ‘Sea Vision UK’ core group, of the Greenwich Forum, and on the Council of the Friends of the National Maritime Museum. She was Chair of the University of Greenwich Research Ethics Committee. She served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Maritime History, The Mariner’s Mirror, the Journal for Maritime Research, The Great Circle and Northern Mariner. She attended by invitation the Ministry of Defence Academic Briefing Day. She gave the Sevenoaks Historical Society Gardiner Lecture on ‘Kent and Sea’, and spoke on a similar theme to the South East Cruising Association. She published ‘Leaders and Followers: The Development of International Maritime Policy in the Nineteenth Century’, International Journal of Maritime History, (XVII 2005) and ‘Afterword’ in Freda Harcourt & Edward Harcourt, Flagships of Imperialism: the P&O Company and the Politics of Empire (Manchester 2006). She also spoke at the British Maritime History Seminar of the Institute of Historical Research. Dr Martin Wilcox joined GMI at the beginning of May as Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow on the ‘Sustaining the Empire’ project. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Hull for his thesis on Apprentice Labour in the English Fishing Industry 1850-1914. Between May and August he participated in workshops and conferences at the University of Leicester, University of Exeter and the National Maritime Museum. Dr Minghua Zhao completed her research on Chinese Seafarers on Foreign Ships: Employment and Welfare Conditions and submitted the final report to the funding body. She also undertook field work in Wuhan, China, in connection with an ESRC funded project on ‘Women’s Prospects in China’. She presented a paper on the ‘Seafarers Labour Market in China: Trends & Patterns’ at the Department of Trade & Industry conference on China: Opportunities and Challenges, and on ‘Globalisation and Women’s Labour on Cruise Ships’ to the Economic History Society Annual Conference held at the University of Reading. She served as a core member of the University’s Chinese Studies Working Group. She published a chapter, ‘Ships and Men: Labour on the ‘Floating Motherland’: Chinese seafarers on PRC merchant vessels’, in Jacob Eyeferth (ed.), Workers and Workplaces in Transition in the People’s Republic of China (London, 2006) and was a joint author of Chinese Seafarers (Shanghai, 2005)
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Student ResearchThe following dissertations were submitted by students awarded the degree of MBA in Maritime Management: Sanjeev Bhandari * The Inter-relationship between bunker hedging and freight derivatives market Rahul Kulkarni * Analysis of vulnerability and resilience in the midstream of Liquefield Natural Gas supply chains The following dissertations were submitted by students awarded the degree of MA in Maritime Policy: Saleh Alaidarous The Impact of ISM code on ship management business Christopher Lambert The criminalisation of seafarers Christopher Parry The maritime defence of UK PLC: A current terrorist threat an vulnerability analysis to shipping within UK territorial waters in particular the problems and some potential solutions concerning non-SOLAS vessels and shipping not under lawful command. The following dissertations were submitted by students awarded the degree of MA in Maritime History: Michael Clark Bound of for Callao! The Pacific coal trade 1876-1896 selling coal or selling lives? Coriamm Convertito Tattooing in the Victorian Navy Kenneth Cozens Politics, Patronage and Profit: A case study of three 18th Century London merchants Hannah Cunliffe * The training of Marine Society Boy9s 1820-1880 Geoffrey Vale James Nourse Ltd. From India to the West Indies 1861-1930
* Awarded the degree with Distinction |