CEELBAS is developing multi-disciplinary, language-based research capacity around a number of key research themes through a programme of conferences, workshops and language projects, postgraduate scholarships, postdoctoral fellowships, mid-career training, as well as engagement with the user community and international networks.

The Centre aims to integrate the scholarly capacities of the universities involved in order to generate a sustainable flow of highly trained area expertise, and its vision is to set the research agenda for study of its region and inform policy making, nationally and internationally. The unparalleled strength of the Centre will give the UK a leading global presence in the study of Central and Eastern Europe.

CEELBAS Publications

Research Workshops and Language Projects

The Centre is organising, across its Network, regular thematic and/or (inter-)disciplinary workshops and language projects to take forward the research agenda and engage with the user community. Since its creation, CEELBAS has funded over 50 diverse and inovative projects and workshops, including participation by international scholars and non-area specialists. leading UK-based academics, new scholars, doctoral students and representatives from business and the media. 

• Forthcoming Projects & Workshops
  
• Previously Funded Projects & Workshops: 2007/8
• Previously Funded Projects & Workshops: 2008/9
• Previously Funded Projects & Workshops: 2009/10
• Language Project and Workshop Reources

Research themes

The key research priorities identified by the Centre include the following: 

• Cities (e.g. urban development and urban experiences)
• Health, Wealth, Welfare and Demography
• Migration and Diasporic Citizenship
• New Dimensions of Social Inequality
• Contemporary Cultural Processes (e.g. film, mass media and cultural consumption, youth cultures)
• Polish Foreign Policy
• Knowledge-based Economies and Societies (e.g. R&D, E-government)
• International Relations, Security and Energy Politics
• Identities and Solidarities (e.g. regional, national and transnational, religion, gender, ethnicity, sexualities, the dynamics of trust)
• Political and Economic Processes (e.g. democratisation and integration)

The Centre encourages:

• Disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and comparative research
• Contemporary as well as historical approaches to the above themes

CEELBAS Research Posters

CEELBAS has created Research Posters displaying various aspects of its Postdoctoral Research and Research Network activity. Please click here for more examples. 

PhD research

The Centre provides a number of studentships each year to fund doctoral research relating to its key research themes, or combinations thereof, as they relate to the region specified above. Study can be undertaken at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), or Russian and East European Studies (REES) at Oxford University, or the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Postdoctoral research

Seven Postdoctoral Fellowships have been appointed by the Centre to develop key research themes. A specific focus of these Fellowships is the development of, and reflection on, new approaches across and between disciplines.  Thus, the remit of these Fellows is to advance the Centre’s specific research objectives and, just as important, to contribute to the development of multi- and interdisciplinary area studies in general. These appointments covered the following themes:

UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies:

• Cities and Urban Experience in Eastern Europe from 1 January 2007
• Health and Welfare in Eastern Europe from 1 April 2007
• Migration and Diasporic Citizenship from 1 January 2009 

University of Oxford, Russian and East European Studies:

• Social Inequality in Eastern Europe from 1 April 2007
• Cultural Processes in Eastern Europe from 1 April 2007

University of Birmingham, Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the European Research Institute:

• Polish Foreign Policy from 1 April 2007
• Economies of Central and Eastern Europe from 1 March 2009

Knowledge Exchange Partnerships and Events

CEELBAS has Knowledge Exchange partnerships in place with:

- The BEARR Trust - The British-Polish Chamber of Commerce - Chatham House - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - Russian Media House - The Russo-British Chamber of Commerce - The Wider Europe Network

Together we organise various user-focussed roundtables and conferences to share and disseminate CEELBAS expertise.

Region

The region studied by the Centre covers the following countries:

Albania - Armenia - Azerbaijan - Belarus - Bosnia-Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia - Czech Republic - Estonia - Georgia -  Hungary - Latvia - Lithuania - Macedonia - Moldova - Montenegro - Poland - Romania - Russia - Serbia - Slovakia - Slovenia - Ukraine

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