Recent Conferences/Workshops
‘Managing creativity in different creative sectors’ Creativity and
the Creative Value Chain seminar series, Business School and CURS, University
of Birmingham, 30 November 2007.
http://www.curs.bham.ac.uk/whatsnew/
Creative_seminar_series/creative.htm
Invited participant, Workshop on INTAS Young Scientists’ Programme:
Results, Lessons and Prospects, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
27-29 June 2007.
‘Media Images of Power in Contemporary Russia’ Centre for Russian Studies
Seminar series on Representations of Power in Russia, School of Slavonic
and East European Studies, London, 19 March 2007.
‘Thinking (through) interactivity’ AHRC Creativity Network Workshop,
Bournemouth University, 2 March 2007.
‘Visual representations of the Russian presidency: power and identity
in
the post Soviet press’ (joint paper with A Sosnovskaya) The Mass Media
in Post-Soviet Russia, International Conference, University of Surrey
6-8 April 2006.
Invited panel chair: ‘Tatarstan’s Transformation as a ‘Cultural Turn’’
VII World Congress for Central and East European Studies, Berlin 25-30
July 2005
‘The changing shape of the social sciences: can there be harmonization
without standardization?’ Proceedings of the international conference
on Russia and European Higher Education: General Bologna Strategies
and Regional Practices’ Kazan State University, 15-17 November 2004.
International links
Erasmus Exchange Co-ordinator for the School of Social Sciences
Supervised EU INTAS Young Scientist fellow from St Petersburg State
University, 2005-2007
Visiting professor and co-supervisor of students on the international
PhD programme in Sociology at the Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan.
Awarded honorary doctorate by Kazan State University, 2004. http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/Kazan.php.en