About Us

What is CRCEES?

CRCEES is an inter-institutional Centre of Excellence in Russian, Central and East European Language-Based Area Studies. We are consortium of UK universities led by University of Glasgow and composed of the Universities of: Aberdeen, Durham, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Nottingham, St. Andrews and Strathclyde.   

We also have a range of renowned international partner universities: [list all our international partners here].

CRCEES offers events, including:

• academic and practitioner knowledge exchange conferences
• regular research seminars;
• internships for students and researchers
• public policy days for the wider community
• cultural festivals
• summer schools in the region.

The main areas of research interest within the Centre are:

• aspects of identity and culture and their social, political and economic implications;
• economic and social transformation;
• political transformation and international relations;
• literary, cinematic and cultural developments; and
• the politics of language.

Countries covered include: Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, amongst others.