VIRTUAL EVENT: University research capacity in post-Soviet countries

The Soviet Union was the first country to build an atomic power plant, to launch the artificial satellite, and to send the first human into space.

The Soviet research community was part of an enormous centralised machinery of Soviet science that severely restricted academic freedom, was highly politicised, and entirely state-driven.

Universities played a minor role in the development of the Soviet science, as universities were seen as educational institutions. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the mission of universities has expanded. Most former Soviet countries started to recognise the importance of research for the international legitimisation of their universities.

In this online event, the panel will discuss the country case studies of Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Russia. They will explore the multi-disciplinary analysis of how, and in what ways, universities in former Soviet countries internalised their research mission and developed the capacity to carry out this mission.

The research project 'University Research Capacity in Post-Soviet Eurasia' was co-led by Maia Chankseliani, Igor Fedyukin, and Isak Froumin.

Speakers

• Maia Chankseliani, University of Oxford
• Sona Balasanyan, Yerevan State University
• Armenia Olga Mun, University of Oxford 
• Gulzhanat Gafu, UCL Institute of Education 
• Igor Fedyukin, HSE University
• Isak Froumin, HSE University

Links

• Centre for Global Higher Education
• Department of Education, Practice and Society

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