AREA METHODS VIRTUAL TOUR:
REFLECTIONS ON FIELDWORK IN EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA
This guide is designed to assist postgraduate students in their research
projects on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. This is a Learning Space
where you can find ideas and possible approaches to challenges you encounter
during the research process. We were convinced that postgraduate students need
easy-to-access sources that bridge the gap between research methods textbooks
and the ‘realities’ of the research process.
WHO WE ARE / OUR CASE STUDIES & METHODS
We are or were CEELBAS postdoctoral research fellows
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Ulrike Ziemer spent eight months in Krasnodar
(Russia) for her doctoral
research on the complex processes of identity formation and cultural
experiences amongst young people from ethnic minorities in contemporary Russia.
As postdoctoral research fellow she spent two months in Rostov
(Russia)
and one month in Nagorno Karabakh conducting research on
transnationalism and diasporic youth. Read More...
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Charles Walker spent six months in Ul’ianovsk (Russia) for his doctoral research
on the changing nature of working-class youth transitions in the post-Soviet
context. He followed up this study with two additional case studies in Saint Petersburg, Russia
(2 months) and in Vilnius, Lithuania (2 months). Read more...
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Richard Connolly spent two months between Moscow
(Russia), Tartu
(Estonia) and Tallinn (Estonia)
conducting research on the relationship between economic structure and
institutional development. This research involved a number of interviews with
leading figures from government, the Estonian Central Bank, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), political parties and business organisations. Read more...
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Robert Pyrah has conducted extensive historical, archive-based
research in Poland, Ukraine and Austria. Robert spent twelve
months in Vienna (for earlier doctoral work),
and subsequently spent several months in total in Warsaw
and L’viv, with additional research visits to manuscript collections in Katowice and Wrocław,
Poland. Read more..
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Nat Copsey conducted extensive field research using qualitative
methods (primarily interviews and focus groups) for political science in Poland
(Warsaw and Lublin) in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008; and in Ukraine (Kyiv and
Lviv) in 2004, 2005 and 2006. In an initial research project in both Poland and Ukraine,
he was investigating the question of the relationship between informed public
opinion and the making of foreign policy, and, in a subsequent project he
looked at Poland's
capacity to influence the EU policy agenda. Read more...
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