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As a UCL Mellon Fellow was researching Identities and Culture in Europe with a particular focus on national, regional and individual identities in the modern European context, and based in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Richard was born in Scotland and educated in the UK, USSR and Austria.

• 2003: PhD in International Relations, London School of Economics & Political Science
  Thesis: National Identity and Foreign Policy: Perceptions of Self and Other in the Post-Soviet International Relations of the Baltic States [ abstract ]
• 1992: MPhil International Relations, Cambridge University
• 1991: BA (Hons) German and Russian, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Awards and Fellowship

• 2003: Research grant, Solomon Asch Center, University of Pennsylvania
• 2003: Summer Fellowship, Solomon Asch Center, University of Pennsylvania
• 2000: British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies travel grant to conduct research in Latvia
• 2000: TEMPUS grant to conduct research at the European University, St Petersburg
• 1994: European University Institute PhD grant (declined)
• 1988: British Council studentship to study at the University of Debrecen, Hungary

Research interests

• The influence of national identity on foreign and security policy
• The creation of social reality and its use in foreign and security policy
• The impact of discourse on attitudes towards outgroups in ethnically divided societies
• The Europeanisation of identities in EU candidate countries
• The relationship between national and sexual identities

Teaching

• Politics and Government in Eastern Europe: undergraduate lecture series.
• Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union: postgraduate seminar series.
• Theory and Practice of Social Research: postgraduate seminar series.
• Russian Studies (External Moderator for the London School of Economics)
• Introduction to International Relations: seminar teaching and occasional lectures
• Russian Government: occasional lectures.
• Soviet and Russian Foreign Policy: seminar teaching.

Papers and presentations

• 'Migration in and into Europe: Material and Psychological Factors', Europe 2021: Shaping the Future, British Council Seminar, Krakow, May 2004
• 'Talking Security? The Discourse of European Identity in the Baltic States', Nation, Identity and Conflict, Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 2004
• 'Sexuality, Ideology and Politics in Russia: Between the National Self and the Western Other', Representations of Gender in a Cross-Cultural Context, SOAS/UCL, February 2004'
• 'Security/Insecurity as Self/Other: the Case of the Baltic States', The Baltic States: New Europe or Old?, University of Glasgow, January 2004
• Language, Identity and Citizenship in Estonia and Latvia', Roundtable on Language and Citizenship, London School of Economics, October 2001
• 'National Identity and Foreign Policy', Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 2000
• 'Perceptions of Self and Other in Lithuanian-Polish Relations, 1991-1994', British International Studies Association Research Group on Identity, University of Oxford, December 1999

Publications and working papers

• 'National States and National Identity' (with J. Penrose) in Cox, K., Low, M. and Robinson, J. (eds), Handbook of Political Geography, Sage, London, (forthcoming 2005)
• 'Latvia's Transition to the EU', in Craveri, P., Morelli U., and Quagliariello, G. (eds), Dizionario dell'Integrazione Europea, Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli, Rome (forthcoming 2005)
• 'National Identity and Foreign Policy in Post-Soviet Lithuania' (in process)
• 'Statehood, Ethnic Relations and Citizenship' (with G. Smith and A. Aasland). in Smith, G. E. (ed.), The Baltic States. National Self-Determination in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Macmillan, London, 1994
• Nationality and Citizenship in the Baltic States (with G. Smith and A. Aasland), Report to the Institute of Peace Studies, Washington D.C., and the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, 1994
• 'Lithuania's Transition to Independence: Ethno-Political Perspectives', Working Paper no. 5, 1993, Institute of Peace Studies, Washington D.C., and the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (with G. Smith)
• 'The Citizenship Debates in the Baltic States'(with G. Smith), Working Paper no. 6, 1993, Institute of Peace Studies, Washington D.C., and the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
• 'The Russian Minorities in the Baltic States: Results of a Survey of Ethnic Attitudes in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania' (with G. Smith and A. Aasland),Working Paper no. 7, 1993, Institute of Peace Studies, Washington D.C., and the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

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