Professor Rebecca Kay

  • Affiliate Professor (School of Social & Political Sciences)

email: Rebecca.Kay@glasgow.ac.uk

R405 Level 4, Cees, 9 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574

Biography

I joined the University of Glasgow in 1999 as Lecturer in Central and East European Studies. I was promoted to my current position of Professor of Russian Gender Studies in 2006. 

In 2006-09 I was head of Central and East European Studies and in 2010-2015 I was co-founder and co-convenor of the Glasgow Refugee, Migration and Asylum Network (GRAMNet). I currently convene the Migration and Mobilities research group

I have written extensively on issues of migration, social security, care, welfare and gender in Russia and Scotland and offer undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and PhD supervision in all these areas.

I am a member of the Scottish Government's Expert Advisory Group on Migration and Population

I am Senior Researcher at Migration Policy Scotland

Research interests

Research Interests

  • Migration, especially from Central and Eastern Europe to Scotland
  • Care, Welfare and Social Security 
  • Ethnographic and participatory research
  • Gender politics and identity 
  • Russian culture and society

Research Biography

Language Learning and Migrant Integration in Scotland:

I am currently working on this British Academy funded research project led by Dr Francesca Stella (sociology). 

Through a a qualitative study of ESOL provision in Scotland this project aims to answer the following questions:

  • What is the relationship between language learning and migrant ‘integration’?
  • Is it understood in the same ways by the different stakeholders involved: learners, teachers, providers and policy-makers?
  • How are migrants’ needs and experiences of language learning shaped by location, migrant status and/or gender? 

Multi-sited fieldwork in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire in 2019-2021 involved semi-structured interviews with learners, teachers and policy-makers.

The project will provide new insights into the complex landscape of ESOL provision in Scotland, at a point when it is undergoing significant changes in terms of governance, funding and co-ordination. The project findings will be of interest to academic audiences, policy makers and practitioners in Scotland, other parts of the UK, and wider European contexts.

Social Support and Migration in Scotland:
I recently led a large ESRC funded research project exploring Social Support and Migration in Scotland (SSAMIS) which ran between November 2013 and November 2018. The project studied perspectives and experiences of 'social security' amongst migrants from Central Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in Scotland, and how experiences of 'social security' (used in a holistic sense to mean the ways migrants make themselves socially, economically, personally and culturally secure in a new environment) impact upon longer term intentions regarding settlement in Scotland. Through its long-term and deep engagement with migrant communities, to deliver new and original empirical data the project aimed to provide insights of benefit not only in terms of its academic contribution, but also through its practical and policy relevance. A key part of the project was its participatory action research element. This has led to a range of community based initiatives, policy engagements and reports for policy and practice. See the Project Website for further details, like us on Facebook: ssamisproject, or follow us on Twitter @ssamisproject.

Social Security, Care and the Withdrawing State in Rural Russia:

My most recent previous project explored intersecting issues of care, welfare and social security in the context of a Siberian village. This was funded in 2009-10 by a grant from the British Academy. The project involved a detailed study of the gendered nature of experiences and practices of care, welfare and social security in contemporary Russia, and the ways in which people draw on a variety of state/non-state, formal/informal resources in order to create forms of material and social security for themselves and others. For more details please visit the project page

Gender, Identity and Socio-Economic Transformations:
I have been interested in studying gendered experiences of socio-economic, cultural and political transformation in contemporary Russia since the early 1990s. My doctoral research focused on women's experiences in the early years of post-Soviet transformation and considered women's engagement with grassroots women's organisations as a means of negotiating these gendered transformations. Perhaps inevitably, questions emerged from this research regarding the impacts of gender on men's lives and experiences. My first externally funded project considered the lives and concerns of men in provincial Russia. For more details visit the project page. 

Publications

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2023

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435 (2023) Fit for purpose? Insights on the present and future of ESOL and migration in Scotland. ESOL Matters, pp. 18-21.

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435 and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2023) Language learning and migrant 'integration' in Scotland: exploring infrastructure, provision and experiences. Executive summary: Key findings and recommendations. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7886010).

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435 and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2023) Language Learning and Migrant ‘Integration’ In Scotland: Exploring Infrastructure, Provision and Experiences. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7885964).

2021

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Trevena, Paulina (2021) (Not) a good place to stay! – East European migrants’ experiences of settlement in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Scotland. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(15), pp. 3492-3510. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1886061)

Expert Advisory Group on Migration and Population, . ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2021) Family Migration: Understanding the Drivers, Impacts and Support Needs of Migrant Families. Documentation. The Scottish Government.

Boswell, Christina, Bell, David, Copus, Andrew, Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Kulu, Hill (2021) Designing a Pilot Remote and Rural Migration Scheme for Scotland: Analysis and Policy Options. Other. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

2020

Boswell, Christina, Bell, David, Copus, Andrew, Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Kulu, Hill (2020) Internal Migration in Scotland and the UK: Trends and Policy Lessons. Documentation. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2020) ‘You get a better life here’: social in/security and migration in a time of geopolitical transformations. Scottish Affairs, 29(3), pp. 305-320. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2020.0325)

2019

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Trevena, Paulina (2019) ‘New’ migrations transforming the city: Central and East European settlement in Glasgow. In: Kintrea, Keith and Madgin, Rebecca (eds.) Transforming Glasgow: Beyond the Post-Industrial City. Policy Press: Bristol. ISBN 9781447349778

Boswell, Christina, Bell, David, Copus, Andrew, Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Kulu, Hill (2019) UK Immigration Policy After Leaving the EU: Impacts on Scotland's Economy, Population and Society. Other. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

2018

Kyambi, Sarah, Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574, Boswell, Christina, Taggart, Kyle and Porteous, Holly (2018) Choices Ahead: Approaches to Lower Skilled Labour Migration After Brexit. Project Report. Centre on Constitutional Change.

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Flynn, Moya (2018) Introduction: migrant experiences of emotional and material (in)security: post-socialist perspectives. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 7(1), pp. 5-15. (doi: 10.17467/ceemr.2018.06)

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Trevena, Paulina (2018) (In)security, family and settlement: migration decisions amongst Central and East European families in Scotland. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 7(1), pp. 17-33. (doi: 10.17467/ceemr.2017.17)

2017

Flynn, Moya and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2017) Migrants’ experiences of material and emotional security in rural Scotland: implications for longer-term settlement. Journal of Rural Studies, 52, pp. 56-65. (doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.03.010)

2016

Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207 and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (Eds.) (2016) Languages in Migratory Settings: Place, Politics, and Aesthetics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138911970

2014

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2014) Relationships, practices, and images of the local state in rural Russia. Social Analysis, 58(3), pp. 56-72. (doi: 10.3167/sa.2014.580305)

Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207 and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2014) Languages in migratory settings: place, politics and aesthetics. Language and Intercultural Communication, 14(3), pp. 273-286. (doi: 10.1080/14708477.2014.936228)

Varyzgina, Alla and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2014) Perceptions of poverty in small-town Russia. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 22(3), pp. 269-287. (doi: 10.1080/0965156X.2014.988498)

Varyzgina, Alla and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2014) Vospriiatie bednosti v malom gorode Rossii = Perceptions of Poverty in Small-town Russia. Zhurnal issledovanii sotsial'noi politiki, 12(4), pp. 555-568.

2013

Ivashinenko, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5242-169X, Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574, Korchagina, I., Kulikova, A., Migranova, L., Prokofeva, L., Soldatkin, A., Satre, A.-M., Teodorovich, M. and Varyzgina, A. (2013) Partisipatornyi podkhod v povyshenii kachestva zhizni naseleniia = Партисипаторный подход в повышении качества жизни населения. Nizhny Novgorod University Press: Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow.

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2013) 'She's like a daughter to me': insights into care, work and kinship from rural Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, 65(6), pp. 1136-1153. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2013.778566)

2012

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2012) Managing everyday (in)securities: normative values, emotional security and symbolic recognition in the lives of Russian rural elders. Journal of Rural Studies, 28(2), pp. 63-71. (doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.01.018)

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574, Shubin, S. and Thelen, T. (2012) Rural realities in the post-socialist space. Journal of Rural Studies, 28(2), pp. 55-62. (doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.03.001)

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Morrison, A. (2012) Evidencing the social and cultural benefits and costs of migration in Scotland. Project Report. COSLA Strategic Migration Partnership, Glasgow.

2011

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2011) (Un)caring communities: processes of marginalisation and access to formal and informal care and assistance in rural Russia. Journal of Rural Studies, 27(1), pp. 45-53. (doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2010.11.002)

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2011) Kto znaet chto takoe bednost: vzaimoponimanie kak pervyi etap razvitiia effektivnogo participatornogo podkhoda [Who knows what it means to be poor: mutual understanding as the first step in developing an effective participatory approach]. Vestnik Nizhegorodskogo Universiteta im. N.I. Lobachevskogo, 21(1), pp. 39-44.

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2011) Social security, care and the "withdrawing state" in rural Russia. In: Jäppinen, M., Kulmala, M. and Saarinen, A. (eds.) Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-socialist Countries. Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 145-169. ISBN 9781443825818

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Oldfield, J. (2011) Emotional engagements with the field: a view from Area Studies. Europe-Asia Studies, 63(7), pp. 1275-1293. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2011.592283)

2008

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Kostenko, M. (2008) Men in crisis or in critical need of support? Insights from Russia and the UK. In: Flynn, M., Kay, R. and Oldfield, J. (eds.) Trans-National Issues, Local Concerns and Meanings of Post-Socialism: Insights from Russia, Central Eastern Europe and Beyond. University Press of America: Lanham, MD., pp. 101-123. ISBN 978-0-7618-4055-8

2007

Kay, R. (2007) Caring for men in contemporary Russia: gendered constructions of need and hybrid forms of social security. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology, 50, pp. 51-65. (doi: 10.3167/foc.2007.500105)

Kay, R. (2007) "In our society it's as if the man is just some kind of stud": men's experiences of fatherhood and fathers' rights in contemporary Russia. In: Kay, R. (ed.) Gender, Equality and Difference During and After State Socialism. Series: Studies in central and eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 125-145. ISBN 9780230524842

Kay, R. (2007) Introduction: gender, equality and the state from Socialism to Democracy. In: Kay, R. (ed.) Gender, Equality and Difference During and After State Socialism. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9780230524842

2006

Kay, R. (2006) Men in contemporary Russia: the fallen heroes of post-Soviet change? Ashgate: London. ISBN 0754644855

Kay, R. (2006) Men in crisis or in critical need of support? insights from Russia and the UK. Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 22(1), pp. 90-114. (doi: 10.1080/13523270500508510)

2005

Kay, R. (2005) Grassroots women's activism in post-Soviet Russia: surviving social change together? In: Mikula, M. (ed.) Women, Activism and Social Change. Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society. Routledge (Part of Taylor and Francis): London, pp. 99-116. ISBN 9780415479837

2004

Kay, R. (2004) Grassroots women. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 1(1),

Kay, R. (2004) Meeting the challenge together? Russian grassroots women's organisations and the shortcomings of Western aid. In: Kuehnast, K. and Nechemias, C. (eds.) Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition: Nation Building, Economic Survival, and Civic Activism. Woodrow Wilson Center Press: Washington DC, USA, pp. 241-261. ISBN 0801879183

Kay, R. (2004) "...Takie sportivnye devchonki - kak malchiki!" o vospitanii detei v postsovetskoi Rossii. In: Ushakin, S. (ed.) Semeinye Uzy: Modeli Dlia Sborki. Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie: Moscow, Russia, pp. 146-170. ISBN 5867932818

Kay, R. (2004) Working with single fathers in Western Siberia: a new departure in Russian social provision. Europe-Asia Studies, 56(7), pp. 941-961. (doi: 10.1080/1465342042000294310)

2002

Kay, R. (2002) A liberation from emancipation? changing discourses on women's employment in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 18(1), pp. 51-72. (doi: 10.1080/13523270209696368)

Kay, R. (2002) A liberation from emancipation? Changing discourses on women's employment in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. In: Fawn, R. and White, S. (eds.) Russia After Communism. Frank Cass: London, pp. 51-72. ISBN 0714652938

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Articles

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435 (2023) Fit for purpose? Insights on the present and future of ESOL and migration in Scotland. ESOL Matters, pp. 18-21.

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Trevena, Paulina (2021) (Not) a good place to stay! – East European migrants’ experiences of settlement in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Scotland. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(15), pp. 3492-3510. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1886061)

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2020) ‘You get a better life here’: social in/security and migration in a time of geopolitical transformations. Scottish Affairs, 29(3), pp. 305-320. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2020.0325)

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Flynn, Moya (2018) Introduction: migrant experiences of emotional and material (in)security: post-socialist perspectives. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 7(1), pp. 5-15. (doi: 10.17467/ceemr.2018.06)

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Trevena, Paulina (2018) (In)security, family and settlement: migration decisions amongst Central and East European families in Scotland. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 7(1), pp. 17-33. (doi: 10.17467/ceemr.2017.17)

Flynn, Moya and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2017) Migrants’ experiences of material and emotional security in rural Scotland: implications for longer-term settlement. Journal of Rural Studies, 52, pp. 56-65. (doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.03.010)

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2014) Relationships, practices, and images of the local state in rural Russia. Social Analysis, 58(3), pp. 56-72. (doi: 10.3167/sa.2014.580305)

Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207 and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2014) Languages in migratory settings: place, politics and aesthetics. Language and Intercultural Communication, 14(3), pp. 273-286. (doi: 10.1080/14708477.2014.936228)

Varyzgina, Alla and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2014) Perceptions of poverty in small-town Russia. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 22(3), pp. 269-287. (doi: 10.1080/0965156X.2014.988498)

Varyzgina, Alla and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2014) Vospriiatie bednosti v malom gorode Rossii = Perceptions of Poverty in Small-town Russia. Zhurnal issledovanii sotsial'noi politiki, 12(4), pp. 555-568.

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2013) 'She's like a daughter to me': insights into care, work and kinship from rural Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, 65(6), pp. 1136-1153. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2013.778566)

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2012) Managing everyday (in)securities: normative values, emotional security and symbolic recognition in the lives of Russian rural elders. Journal of Rural Studies, 28(2), pp. 63-71. (doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.01.018)

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574, Shubin, S. and Thelen, T. (2012) Rural realities in the post-socialist space. Journal of Rural Studies, 28(2), pp. 55-62. (doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.03.001)

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2011) (Un)caring communities: processes of marginalisation and access to formal and informal care and assistance in rural Russia. Journal of Rural Studies, 27(1), pp. 45-53. (doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2010.11.002)

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2011) Kto znaet chto takoe bednost: vzaimoponimanie kak pervyi etap razvitiia effektivnogo participatornogo podkhoda [Who knows what it means to be poor: mutual understanding as the first step in developing an effective participatory approach]. Vestnik Nizhegorodskogo Universiteta im. N.I. Lobachevskogo, 21(1), pp. 39-44.

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Oldfield, J. (2011) Emotional engagements with the field: a view from Area Studies. Europe-Asia Studies, 63(7), pp. 1275-1293. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2011.592283)

Kay, R. (2007) Caring for men in contemporary Russia: gendered constructions of need and hybrid forms of social security. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology, 50, pp. 51-65. (doi: 10.3167/foc.2007.500105)

Kay, R. (2006) Men in crisis or in critical need of support? insights from Russia and the UK. Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 22(1), pp. 90-114. (doi: 10.1080/13523270500508510)

Kay, R. (2004) Grassroots women. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 1(1),

Kay, R. (2004) Working with single fathers in Western Siberia: a new departure in Russian social provision. Europe-Asia Studies, 56(7), pp. 941-961. (doi: 10.1080/1465342042000294310)

Kay, R. (2002) A liberation from emancipation? changing discourses on women's employment in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 18(1), pp. 51-72. (doi: 10.1080/13523270209696368)

Books

Ivashinenko, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5242-169X, Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574, Korchagina, I., Kulikova, A., Migranova, L., Prokofeva, L., Soldatkin, A., Satre, A.-M., Teodorovich, M. and Varyzgina, A. (2013) Partisipatornyi podkhod v povyshenii kachestva zhizni naseleniia = Партисипаторный подход в повышении качества жизни населения. Nizhny Novgorod University Press: Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow.

Kay, R. (2006) Men in contemporary Russia: the fallen heroes of post-Soviet change? Ashgate: London. ISBN 0754644855

Book Sections

Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Trevena, Paulina (2019) ‘New’ migrations transforming the city: Central and East European settlement in Glasgow. In: Kintrea, Keith and Madgin, Rebecca (eds.) Transforming Glasgow: Beyond the Post-Industrial City. Policy Press: Bristol. ISBN 9781447349778

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2011) Social security, care and the "withdrawing state" in rural Russia. In: Jäppinen, M., Kulmala, M. and Saarinen, A. (eds.) Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-socialist Countries. Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 145-169. ISBN 9781443825818

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Kostenko, M. (2008) Men in crisis or in critical need of support? Insights from Russia and the UK. In: Flynn, M., Kay, R. and Oldfield, J. (eds.) Trans-National Issues, Local Concerns and Meanings of Post-Socialism: Insights from Russia, Central Eastern Europe and Beyond. University Press of America: Lanham, MD., pp. 101-123. ISBN 978-0-7618-4055-8

Kay, R. (2007) "In our society it's as if the man is just some kind of stud": men's experiences of fatherhood and fathers' rights in contemporary Russia. In: Kay, R. (ed.) Gender, Equality and Difference During and After State Socialism. Series: Studies in central and eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 125-145. ISBN 9780230524842

Kay, R. (2007) Introduction: gender, equality and the state from Socialism to Democracy. In: Kay, R. (ed.) Gender, Equality and Difference During and After State Socialism. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9780230524842

Kay, R. (2005) Grassroots women's activism in post-Soviet Russia: surviving social change together? In: Mikula, M. (ed.) Women, Activism and Social Change. Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society. Routledge (Part of Taylor and Francis): London, pp. 99-116. ISBN 9780415479837

Kay, R. (2004) Meeting the challenge together? Russian grassroots women's organisations and the shortcomings of Western aid. In: Kuehnast, K. and Nechemias, C. (eds.) Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition: Nation Building, Economic Survival, and Civic Activism. Woodrow Wilson Center Press: Washington DC, USA, pp. 241-261. ISBN 0801879183

Kay, R. (2004) "...Takie sportivnye devchonki - kak malchiki!" o vospitanii detei v postsovetskoi Rossii. In: Ushakin, S. (ed.) Semeinye Uzy: Modeli Dlia Sborki. Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie: Moscow, Russia, pp. 146-170. ISBN 5867932818

Kay, R. (2002) A liberation from emancipation? Changing discourses on women's employment in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. In: Fawn, R. and White, S. (eds.) Russia After Communism. Frank Cass: London, pp. 51-72. ISBN 0714652938

Edited Books

Phipps, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1207 and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (Eds.) (2016) Languages in Migratory Settings: Place, Politics, and Aesthetics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138911970

Research Reports or Papers

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435 and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2023) Language learning and migrant 'integration' in Scotland: exploring infrastructure, provision and experiences. Executive summary: Key findings and recommendations. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7886010).

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435 and Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2023) Language Learning and Migrant ‘Integration’ In Scotland: Exploring Infrastructure, Provision and Experiences. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7885964).

Expert Advisory Group on Migration and Population, . ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 (2021) Family Migration: Understanding the Drivers, Impacts and Support Needs of Migrant Families. Documentation. The Scottish Government.

Boswell, Christina, Bell, David, Copus, Andrew, Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Kulu, Hill (2021) Designing a Pilot Remote and Rural Migration Scheme for Scotland: Analysis and Policy Options. Other. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Boswell, Christina, Bell, David, Copus, Andrew, Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Kulu, Hill (2020) Internal Migration in Scotland and the UK: Trends and Policy Lessons. Documentation. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Boswell, Christina, Bell, David, Copus, Andrew, Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Kulu, Hill (2019) UK Immigration Policy After Leaving the EU: Impacts on Scotland's Economy, Population and Society. Other. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Kyambi, Sarah, Kay, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574, Boswell, Christina, Taggart, Kyle and Porteous, Holly (2018) Choices Ahead: Approaches to Lower Skilled Labour Migration After Brexit. Project Report. Centre on Constitutional Change.

Kay, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4324-3574 and Morrison, A. (2012) Evidencing the social and cultural benefits and costs of migration in Scotland. Project Report. COSLA Strategic Migration Partnership, Glasgow.

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Grants

Current Awards

 

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant ‘Language learning and migrant 'integration' in Scotland: exploring infrastructure, provision and experiences’ (2019-22). Dr Francesca Stella (Principal Investigator), with Professor Rebecca Kay (co-I)

 

Previous externally funded projects

 SSAMIS logo

I led a large ESRC funded research project exploring Social Support and Migration in Scotland (SSAMIS) which ran between November 2013 and November 2018.

The project studied perspectives and experiences of 'social security' amongst migrants from Central Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in Scotland, and how experiences of 'social security' (used in a holistic sense to mean the ways migrants make themselves socially, economically, personally and culturally secure in a new environment) impact upon longer term intentions regarding settlement in Scotland.

Through its long-term and deep engagement with migrant communities, to deliver new and original empirical data the project aimed to provide insights of benefit not only in terms of its academic contribution, but also through its practical and policy relevance. A key part of the project was its participatory action research element. This has led to a range of community based initiatives, policy engagements and reports for policy and practice. 

See the Project Website for further details.‌

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Social Secuirty, Care and the 'Withdrawing State' in Rural Russia: A Case Study from Altai Krai (British Academy 2009-2010)

Understanding Men, Masculinity and Identity In Post-Soviet Russia (Leverhulme Trust 2002-2004)

 

Supervision

Postgraduate Supervision

I greatly enjoy postgraduate supervision and will be happy to consider proposals from students interested in pursuing postgraduate research related to any of my areas of experience. The department of Central and East European Studies has a policy of joint supervision and I am pleased to be involved in the supervision of students where I can offer either methodological or thematic insight in collaboration with colleagues. I am currently supervisor to 4 PhD students.


Currently supervised PhD topics include:

  • Who cares for the carers? Health and ageing among Ukrainian care workers in Italy, Maria Izzo (co-supervised with Alistair Hunter, School of Interdisciplinary Studies)
  • Becoming a queer migrant in Kazakhstan:choices, pathways and identities, Elliot Napier (co-supervised with Francesca Stella, Sociology)
  • The experience of fathers in Immigration detention in the UK, Kate Alexander (co-supervised with Maria Fletcher, School of Law)
  • Feminist Historiography of Philosophy: The Case of Ukraine, Veronika Puhach (visiting PhD researcher, Kiev Mohyla University)

PhD theses successfully defended:

  • Katy Turton , Forgotten Lives: The role of Ana, Ol'ga and Mariia Ul'ianova in the Russian Revolution, 1864-1937. 2004
  • Courtney Bain, Entrepreneurship in Russia: Patterns and Problems of its Development in the Post-Soviet Period. 2006
  • Vikki Turbine, Women's perceptions of human rights and rights-based approaches in everyday life: a case study from provincial Russia. 2007
  • Francesca Stella , Lesbian identities and everyday spaces in contemporary urban Russia. 2009
  • Jackie Kirkham, A Comparative Study of Voluntary/Non-Governmental Sector Provision of Health Services in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. 2010
  • Rebecca Reynolds, Natural Resources, Ethnicity and Conflict in the Ferghana Valley, Kyrghyzstan. 2011
  • Eleanor Bindman, The European Union and Human Rights NGOs in Russia during Putin's Second Term. 2012
  • Holly Porteous, Representations of Women in Contemporary Russian Culture. 2014
  • Taulant Guma, Negotiations of social security welfare and risk amongst migrant populations from former socialist countries residing in Glasgow. 2015
  • Poppy Kohner, Performing Violent Identities: challenging the script of victims and perpetrators of violence. 2016
  • Amy Watson, Gendered Everyday Experiences of Welfare and Neoliberalism in the Czech Republic. 2016
  • Ruth McKenna, Russia in Scottish media and popular discourse: the impact on Russian migrants in Scotland. 2018
  • Anne McShane, Liberating the Eastern Slave’ - the role of the Zhenotdel (Women’s Bureau) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Central Asia of the 1920s’. 2019
  • Nina Ivashinenko, Language Preservation and Social Integration amongst Russian-Speaking Families in Scotland. 2019
  • Natalia Khalymonchik, The Influence of Japanese Popular Culture on Russian Youth Subcutural Communities. 2019
  • Fanni Gyurko, Exploring the socio-legal aspects of low-level corruption: A study of informal economic transactions of long-term local residents and migrants in Scotland and Hungary.  2021
  • Blair Biggar, Understanding ‘lived citizenship’: A study of Roma in Scotland. 2022
  • Sonja Ruottunen, National scripts of family life and state action in the context of post-socialist migration.  2022
  • Sopio Davituri, Gender Inequality and Women’s Negotiation of Public and Private Spaces in Contemporary Georgia.  2022
  • Gareth Storrie, African and Czech Perspectives on African Identity: The influence of multimedia depictions and portrayals of sub-Saharan Africans on social cohesion in the Czech Republic. 2022

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

This year I will be teaching and/or contributing to the following undergraduate courses

Research datasets

Jump to: 2018
Number of items: 1.

2018

Kay, R., Flynn, M., Shubin, S., Trevena, P., Porteous, H., Needler, C. and Tkach, O. (2018) Experiences of social security and prospects for long term settlement in Scotland amongst migrants from Central Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union 2014-2016. [Data Collection]

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