Back from King’s
What a ride, after one week in sunny (yes, no jokes) London
I am just back to good old rainy and SNOWY Bergen (yes, it snowed today, 3rd
of May!!!). The London trip was a success in both professional and personal
levels (tip to all out there: do not mix travelling with family and work unless
there is no other way because you cannot do any of them properly!).
The purpose of the trip was to visit King’s College of
London http://www.kcl.ac.uk/index.aspx
and meet the group of scholars and students working on Competition Law (some
very big names there, eh?) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/law/research/centres/european/programmes/eucompetition.aspx.
We had the chance to meet Richard Whish, Christopher Townley, David Bailey,
among others.
At King’s we visited the research facilities, the Maughan
Library (a very impressive building with beautiful architecture), and had the
chance to present for about 20 mins our projects at the University of Bergen
and receive some feedback and suggestions.
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| The Maughan Library |
I did a short presentation on my PhD research project
entitled: “Buyer power, public procurement and public undertakings”. The
presentation allowed me to introduce my research interests for the first time
to an external group of specialists and to get some interesting comments from
them. I have taken duly notice of their remarks and plan to use the suggestions
well. As a side note, I am very happy that the remarks were all positive and
not the sort of: “this PhD research project has no future or it is too
ambitious or not novel”.
But I also went to London for personal reasons and it was a
lot of fun. The food was amazing (we ate everyday a different kind of food) and
the beer was plenty, cheap and great. Intensive sightseeing (Tower of London, outrageously expensive Westminster Abbey, Strand, Picadilly Circus, you name it....) Also, it was my first time in London as an
adult and I enjoyed the vibrant city a lot, although it is not my favorite city
in Europe. I’d rather visit Paris or Rome before a trip to London, but that is
just a matter of personal taste.
Now I am back in Bergen, with not so great weather but
plenty of things to do!
