Resources
| Communications Toolkit: documents and templates to facilitate research proposals, project reports, press releases and other publicity |
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Language Resources:
NEW! open-access digital repository
of teaching and self-study materials for Slavonic and East European languages |
| Area Methods Research Guide: ideas and tips for postgraduate students undertaking area methods research |
| Related Research: major research projects with which CEELBAS has interacted or which CEELBAS has helped to generate |
| Useful Links: related websites and internet resources |
Communications Toolkit
The Centre’s objectives and activities are summarized in our Launch Statement and user-focused brochure; in addition, a briefing letter (updated in June 2011) outlines some of our key achievements in aiming to lead research in an inter-connected world.
CEELBAS has also produced templates for Powerpoint presentations and Research Posters, incorporating the Centre’s branding and logos. To use the templates first click on the links below and save the files on your computer (rather than opening them directly from the website). The saved files can then be opened and edited as needed.
Organisers of current or forthcoming CEELBAS Network Workshops and Projects are invited to download the Events Evaluation Form and the Report Form for Network Activities.
Please visit the About CEELBAS – Press and Publicity section for links to CEELBAS-related articles in
the UK
and international press.
CEELBAS Brochure |
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CEELBAS– Leading Research in an Inter-Connected World |
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CEELBAS Launch Statement |
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Powerpoint Template |
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Research Poster Template |
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Network Activity Report Form |
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Events Evaluation Form |
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Language Resources
The CEELBAS Language Repository is a newly-created open access
resource for teachers and students of the languages of Central and Eastern
Europe and Russia. It has the twin objectives of advancing the availability of
specially designed teaching and self-study materials, targeting the specific
requirements of research-focused language training, and of promoting pedagogic
reflection on language learning.
Additional CEELBAS Language Workshop reports and materials:
- Using Moodle and Hot Potatoes to create
computer-based language exercises
15 February 2011, UCL - Cognitive Linguistic Methods in Cultural Analysis: Interdisciplinary
Perspective
30 June 2011, University of Oxford
Area Methods Research Guide: Reflections on Fieldwork In Eastern Europe and Russia
An online guide has been produced by CEELBAS Postdoctoral Fellows to
assist postgraduate students in their research projects on Central and Eastern
Europe and Russia. This is a Learning Space in which the Fellows draw on their
own experiences to offer ideas and possible approaches to some of the common
challenges encountered during the research process in the CEELBAS region.
CEELBAS has also supported the Russian Archives Training Scheme: a week-long doctoral archive-training workshop in Russia. A detailed guide to USING ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, produced by previous participants on this training scheme can be accessed via the Language Repository.
See also: CEELBAS Research Ethics Workshops
Related Research Projects
Since 2006 CEELBAS has played a key role in the articulation and conceptualisation of the research agenda and in the development of new lines of collaborative, individual and interdisciplinary research. The Centre continues to interact with several related external research projects and programmes, including:
Pot-Socialist
Punk: Beyond the Double Irony of Self-Abasement
Hilary Pilkington, University of Warwick,
2009-13
Interacting substantially with the series of
interdisciplinary CEELBAS workshops under the themes of ‘Doing Culture’ (Jan – Oct 2008) and ‘Situating Culture’
(Dec 2009 – May 2010) and the academic-practitioner workshop on the contemporary Russian artistic underground, 'RottenBeat' (May 2011).
INSPIRE: International Strategic Partnership in Research and Education
Galina Yemelianova, University of Birmingham, 2010-13
A joint project to develop research links between the University of Birmingham and the Kazakh-British
Technical University (Kazakhstan), drawing on networks fostered through the CEELBAS workshop 'The Caucasus and Central Asia: Theoretical, Cultural and Political Challenges' (July 2009).
Mediating Post-Soviet Difference: An Analysis of
Russian Television Representations of Inter-Ethnic Cohesion Issues
Stephen
Hutchings, University of Manchester, 2010-13
Drawing on collaboration
fostered through the CEELBAS network workshop and online discussion forum on
‘Post-Soviet Media Research Methodologies’ (October 2007 – April 2008)
Memory
at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia, and
Ukraine
Alexander
Etkind, University of Cambridge, 2009-12
The CEELBAS Network
workshop on ‘Methods of Memory Studies’ (December 2008) played a key role in
the planning of this successful major EU grant application.
Russian
National Identity since 1961
Catriona Kelly, University of Oxford, 2007-2010
This series of projects included a CEELBAS workshop on National Identity in
Eurasia: Migrancy and Diaspora (July 2009)
Poland’s
Influence in the EU: the Case of Its Easter Neighbours
Nathaniel
Copsey, University of Birmingham / University of Aston,
2008 -10
Drawing on Dr
Copsey’s research project as CEELBAS Postdoctoral Fellow (April 2007 – October 2009) on Polish Foreign Policy
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Latest CEELBAS-related research news: CEELBAS Co-Director Julian Cooper and Postdoctoral Fellow Richard Connolly (University of Birmingham) will both be involved
in a three year project, Modernising the
Russian North: Polices and Practice, funded by the Norwegian Research
Council (c.600,000 euros). The project, led by Dr Elana Wilson Rowe, will be based
at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) Meike Wulf, lecturer in Politics at Maastricht
and former CEELBAS Postdoctoral Fellow, participates in a major
collaborative European Research Council project, led by Iván Zoltán Dénes, entitled Overcoming European
Civil Wars: Patterns of Consolidation in Divided Societies, 2011–1800. Meike’s workpackage for this collaborative project is on The Baltic States: Trauma and
Ethnic Division. Christopher Gerry (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, jointly with Dr Yulia Vymyatnina, European University St Petersburg) has received Open Society Foundations (Soros) funding for a three-year Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching (ReSET) project (2011-13) to promote the development of Health Economics within universities across post-communist countries. Hilary Pilkington (University of Warwick) leads a major €8 million FP7 EU grant for an integrated project exploring how young people’s social participation is shaped by the shadows (past, present and future) of totalitarianism and populism in Europe: MYPLACE - Memory, Youth, Political Legacy And Civic Engagement |
Useful Links
CEELBAS Workshops and Projects: External Webistes and Materials
- Recent Developments in the Post-Soviet Media Landscape: Ukraine, Belarus and Russia (University of Oxford, July 2010)
- CEELBAS Midlands Russia Seminar Series (University of Warwick and University of Birmingham, November 2009 – May 2010)
- New Media in Europe and Asia (University of Birmingham, March 2010, and UCL, May 2010)
- CEELBAS post-Soviet Media Project (University of Manchester and University of Birmingham, October 2007 – May 2008)
Other Area-related Internet Resources
- Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
- Russian and East European Studies, University of Oxford
- UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Subject Centres and Associations
- BASEES (The British Association for Slavic and East European Studies)
- Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (University of Southampton)
- UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies)
Research Networks and Centres based at CEELBAS universities
- Cambridge Ukrainian Studies
- Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (University of Manchester)
- Environmental Energy Analysis Group (University of Kent)
- European Theatre Research Network (University of Kent)
- Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network (University of Manchester)
- Political Economy of Energy in Eastern Europe and Russia (University of Warwick)
- Polish Migration Website (University of Bath)
- Russian and Eurasian Studies (St Antony's College, Oxford)
- SOAS Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
- South-East European Studies at Oxford
- The Bakhtin Centre (University of Sheffield)
- The Oxford Society for the Caspian and Central Asia
- UCL European Institute
- UCL SSEES Research Centres and Seminars
Other Research Networks and Centres
- BASEES Study Groups
- European Union Migrant Integration Policy Index
- L’viv Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe
- European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy: Research Area on Structural and Institutional Change in Eastern Europe
Online Journals
- Women's Writing Online
- Digital Icons Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
- Russian Analytical Digest
Newsletters
- BEARR Trust bulletin (January 2012)
- Chatham House: The World Today (Russia and Eurasia-related articles)
- East European Memory Studies newsletter (Latest issue: December 2011)
- SEE Spotlight: news, research and analysis on south-eastern Europe from the EBRD
Blogs
- Dr Sean's Diary (by Sean Hanley, UCL SSEES)
- Sarah J. Young (UCL SSEES)
- Memory at War
- Oli Johnson (University of Sheffield)
- Russian History Blog: An experiment in digital Russian history (bloggers include Miriam Dobson, University of Sheffield)
- Languages Linguistics and Area Studies News Blog
- The Cynical Challenge (sports blog by former CEELBAS-funded M.Phil. student James Dawson, with covergae of Russian and East European sport)
- MYPLACE (blog site for MYPLACE, a European Commission funded project: Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement)
Cultural Institutes and Associations
- Czech Cultural Centre
- Hungarian Cultural Centre
- Polish Cultural Institute
- Pushkin House
- Romanian Cultural Centre
- Romanian Cultural Institute
- Slovak Centre London
- Ukrainian Institute
Other Language-based Aarea
Sstudies Centres
CEELBAS is part
of the Language-Based Area Studies
(LBAS) initiative, a joint strategic investment between the Economic
& Social Research Council (ESRC), the Arts & Humanities Research
Council (AHRC) and the Higher Education Funding Councils for England (HEFCE)
and Scotland (SFC) to build knowledge and expertise in
areas of the world vital to the UK
national interest. Our LBAS partner Centres are:
| Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) |
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| Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW) |
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| White Rose East Asia Centre (WREAC) |
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| British Inter-university China Centre (BIIC) |
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CEELBAS is a partnership of UCL, University of Oxford and University of Birmingham with a network of partners at the Universities of Bath, Cambridge, Kent, Manchester, Sheffield, Warwick and SOAS |
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- Job vacancy: Programme Coordinator, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
- CEELBAS scholars share their expertise on Russia
- Former CEELBAS Co-Director Professor Julian Cooper awarded OBE in New Year's Honours
- The Parliament, the Presidency and Elections in Russia: CEELBAS / Chatham House seminar summary now available
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