Visiting Fellows 2006-07
Natalya Goncharova
Dalglish Visiting Fellow, 15 April-15 May 2007
Natalya won the Dalglish Fellowship competition 2007 and visited CEES/CRCEES and the Adam Smith Research Foundation 15 April - 15 May 2007. Dr Goncharova is Deputy Director and Senior Researcher at 'Region' Research Centre, Ulyanovsk State University. During the period of the fellowship, Dr Goncharova gave a paper on 'Xenophobic Youth Cultures' at the Annual Research Forum of the Department of Central and East European Studies and the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) 11-12 May 2007. She also presented a seminar on 'Young People, Health, Risk and Bodily Practices' within the Adam Smith Research Foundation and offered a research methods master class on 'triangulation of methods' for postgraduate students within CEES.
Natalya Goncharova's thoughts on her stay at CEES:
It is hard for me to find words to express all my feelings after my stay in Glasgow! The department is just so impressive!!! Everything was magnificent! Thank you so much for giving me such a warm reception.
You did everything possible to involve me in the life of the department. Everything was interesting: the seminars which I took part in and the very full informal programs. I admire all that you do, and I really value the way in which you all actively aspire to develop your research.
During my fellowship I was able to further my understanding of frameworks for my current study, and I wish to thank you for facilitating this success. I very much hope that my presentations to the Department, the Centre and the Faculty were interesting and useful.
I enjoyed every minute I spent at your department, right to the very end.
I look forward to our future collaboration with great pleasure.
With gratitude and admiration!
Goncharova Natalia
Professor Julia Szalai
Visiting Fellow in CEES/CRCEES and ASRF 6-20 May 2007
Professor Szalai is Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social History at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at ELTE University, Budapest. She is also Chair of the Max Weber Foundation of the Study of Social Initiatives (Budapest) and advisor to the Hungarian Ministry of Welfare. Her main research interests are: the history of social policy in East Central Europe; "old" and "new" poverty in Central Europe; the changing situation of women in the labour market in post-1989 Hungary; and "recognition struggles" of the Roma in Central European societies. During the period of the fellowship, Profesor Szalai gave a paper on 'EU accession and social policy issues', during a plenary session on 'The Impact of EU Accession on the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe', at the Annual Research Forum of the Department of Central and East European Studies and the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) 11-12 May 2007. In addition she gave a seminar 'Is the East-West divide fading away?: The post-communist welfare state' open to all staff within the Faculty of Law Business and Social Sciences.
Dr Julia Lajus
Visiting fellow at CEES/CRCEES and ASRF 7-13 May 2007
Julia Lajus is a senior researcher at the St. Petersburg's Branch of the Institute of History of Science and Technology and researcher and project coordinator at the Center for Environmental and Technological history at the European University at St. Petersburg. Her research interests are in the history of fisheries science and marine environmental history. She participates in the interdisciplinary international program "History of Marine Animal Populations" within the "Census of Marine Life" initiative." She has begun work together with Jon Oldfield and Dr Denis Shaw (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham) on issues to do with Russian science/history of science (her speciality is in the area of marine science/environmental history). During her stay Dr Lajus gave a seminar "Mastering the space and resources of the Russian North in historical perspective" within the Adam Smith Research Foundation and attended the Annual Research Forum of the Department of Central and East European Studies and the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) 11-12 May 2007.