Graduate Research Profiles

• Current research students

• Recently defended doctoral theses

Current research students

Follow the links below to find out about the work being done by some of the students currently engaged in Research Degrees at SSEES.

Economics and Business

History

Languages and Culture

Politics and Sociology

Recently defended doctoral theses

• Blacker, U. (2011)
  Representations of space in contemporary Ukrainian literature.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Burrai, V. (2012)
  Towards a symmetrical minority citizenship: group equality in Croatia 1990-2007.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Cârstocea, A.E. (2012)
  'Ethno-business': the unexpected consequence of post-1989 policies for the political representation of national minorities in Romania.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Cârstocea, R.M. (2011)
  The role of anti-Semitism in the ideology of the 'Legion of the Archangel Michael' (1927-1938).
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Chojnacki, P. (2009)
  The making of Polish London through everyday life, 1956-1976.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Ezrahi, C.F. (2009)
  Artistic autonomy and the Soviet Cultural project: the Kirov and Bolshoi Ballet companies, 1953-1968.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Fazio, G. (2010)
  Competition and entrepreneurship as engines of growth.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Gray, R.W.B. (2010)
  Land reform and the Hungarian peasantry c. 1700-1848.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London). Restricted access.

• Haluzik, R. (2011)
  How war was hatched from peace: political aesthetics, mass performance and ecstasy at the beginning of the post-communist ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and in the Caucasus.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Jackson, T. (2012)
  Migrants as knowledge carriers: international mobility and the highly skilled in Serbia.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Khromeychuk, O. (2011)
  Tracing the end of a war: a micro-historical approach to the Waffen SS "Galicia" division's journey from capitulation to civilianisation, 1945-1950.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Klinke, I.T. (2011)
  Rethinking critical geopolitics in the context of EUrope/East: temporality and chronopolitics.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Kocourek, K. (2009)
  Patriots and Renegades: Andrej Hlinka and Rudolf Medek as Case Studies of Right-Wing Czechoslovakism.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Kravchenko, E. (2011)
  The prose of Sasha Sokolov: reflections on/of the real.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Madaj, B.N. (2011)
  The migration of medical doctors from Poland to the United Kingdom following the expansion of the European Union in May 2004.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Marin, I. (2009)
  The formation and allegiance of the Romanian military elite originating from the Banat military border.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London). Restricted access.

• Markesinis, E.F. (2010)
  Andrei Siniavskii. A hero of his time?
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Mayer-Rieckh, C.M. (2011)
  Memory and wholeness in the work of Andrei Platonov, Valentin Rasputin and Andrei Tarkovskii.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London). Restricted access.

• McArthur, S.G. (2010)
  Being European: Russian travel writing and the Balkans, 1804-1877.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Morley, R.A.L. (2011)
  Performing femininity in an age of change: representations of woman as performer in the cinema of late Imperial Russia.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Muşat, R. (2011)
  Sociologists and the transformation of the peasantry in Romania, 1925-1940.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London). Restricted access.

• Nikoloski, Z. (2011)
  Institutions, financial crises and welfare.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Nilsson, R. (2010)
  Revanchist Russia? Russian perceptions of Belarusian and Ukrainian sovereignty, 1990-2008.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Noble, O. (2009)
  Subjective well-being: a Ukrainian case study.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Obradović, D. (2009)
  Writing in war, writing on war: the dissolution of Yugoslavia in literary discourse.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Oldman, D.K. (2009)
  Elite decision making in 1968 Czechoslovakia: a case for Irving Janis "groupthink" theory?
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Osipovic, D. (2010)
  Social citizenship of Polish migrants in London: engagement and non-engagement with the British welfare state.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Parutis, V.A. (2009)
  'At home' in migration: the social practices of constructing 'home' among Polish and Lithuanian migrants in London.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Richters, R. (2009)
  The Russian Orthodox Church's Relations with the Post-Soviet State: a Study in Political Culture.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Roberts, J. (2009)
  The city of Bucharest, 1918-1940.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Robertson, F.M. (2009)
  A study of youth political participation in Poland and Romania.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Shaw, C.L. (2011)
  Deaf in the USSR: 'defect' and the New Soviet Person, 1917-1991.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London). Restricted access.

• Smith, O. (2009)
  Vladimir Solov'ev and the spiritualization of matter.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Toropova, A. (2011)
  'Educating the emotions': affect, genre film and ideology under Stalin.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Ure, A.A. (2009)
  Vasilii Rozanov and the Creation.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Voronina, O.G. (2011)
  Narrative strategies for representing the divine in the 1930s: Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Brüder and Mikhail Bulgakov's Мастер и Маргарита.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).

• Wojnowski, Z. (2011)
  Patriotism and the Soviet Empire: Ukraine views the socialist states of Eastern Europe, 1956-1985.
  Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London). Restricted access.

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