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Dr Irina Isaakyan

Research Fellow

Email: Irina.Isaakyan@ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6249
Fax: +44 (0)131 651 6239

 

Biographical details

Irina comes from Russia, and holds MA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (2000) and PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2008). She joined CES in October 2007 as a member of the research team on the FP6 research project “Knowledge and Policy”. From November 2008 she has been working on her ESRC post-doctoral fellowship Exploring Academic Migration: Academic Mobility and Europeanisation with Professor Martin Lawn as mentor. She is the coordinator of the CES lunchtime seminar series.

 

Research Interests

Europeanisation, academic mobility, immigration, national identity, narrative biographic research, symbolic interaction.

 

Current and Recent Research

2008-2009: Exploring Academic Migration: Academic Mobility and Europeanisation (ESRC) – with Professor Martin Lawn
2007-2008: Knowledge and Policy (FP6) – with Professor Jenny Ozga, Professor Martin Lawn and Dr. Sotiria Grek
2004-2008: Russian Academic Emigrants: Academic Lives Disrupted and Reconnected (PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Professor Jenny Ozga)

 

Teaching

2005-2008: Tutor (including MSc thesis supervision): MTD/Master of Training and Development Programme, Department of Higher and Community Education, University of Edinburgh

 

Selected papers and publications

Forthcoming
Isaakyan, I.L. (Forthcoming). ‘Cyclops’ Cave’ Symbolic Interaction.
2008
Isaakyan, I.L. (2008) Blood-and-soil of the Soviet Academy: Anti-Semitism in Moscow elite Universities of the Brezhnev era through life stories of Russian academic emigrants,Nationalities Papers 36(5), pp.833-859.
2007
Issakyan I.L. (2007) Memories of the Nation in Exile and Collective Belonging to Homeland: Sovietishness and Nostalgia, Working paper submitted December 2007 to the website of RN3-ESA http://blogit.helsinki.fi/biography)

Isaakyan, I.L. (2007) Russian Academics in Emigration, Working Paper.
URL: http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/9129/Molodikova.pdf.
2006
Isaakyan, I.L. (2006) The Steering of Educational Research in Post-Soviet Russia: Tradition and Challenge, in J. Ozga, T. Popkewitz and T.Seddon (eds) Education Research and Policy: Steering the Knowledge-Based Economy. World Yearbook of Education 2006, London/New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, pp.135-146.