Research projects

Exploring the Role of the EU in Domestic Change in the Post-Soviet States (2011 - 13)

Description
The project seeks to answer the following question: 'What role does the European Union (EU) play in domestic change in the post-Soviet states'?

Innovative Teaching and Research through Academic Partnership (2010 - 13)

Description
The project will seek to develop innovative educational and research links between The University of Birmingham and the Kazakh-British Technical University.

Negotiating worker identity under post-socialism: an ethnographic approach (2010 - 11)

Description
The project will theorise, and provide a basis for comparative evaluation of, the impact of neoliberalism on the working class outside the normal.

The future of political opposition in Russia's managed democracy (2009 - 11)

Description
The research adds to the existing academic debate on democratisation and will be of direct interest to Western policy-makers at a time of worsening relations between the West and Russia and growing Western concern with the nature of Russian democracy.
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