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Aston Achievment Award for Excellent Research

2016-Present: Member of the Association for Study of Nationalities (ASN)

2012-2014: CEELBAS representative (board member) in the University of Warwick

2008-2014: Expert of the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS)

Dramatising Cultural Diversity: Youth Theatre as a Performance of Local Memory and Identity in a Multiethnic Environment

Normative Multiculturalism and the Limits of Inclusion in School Lives: Qualitative Insights from Three Secondary Schools in England

Re-visiting the Past and Shaping the Future in the Cultural Practices of Young People

Dr Popov is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Policy in the School of Languages and Social Sciences of Aston University. 

He graduated from the Department of Ethnology, Archaeology, Ancient and Medieval History, the Kuban State University in Krasnodar, Russia. 

Then he studied social anthropology in the Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology (Moscow, Russia), cultural studies and Russian and East European studies in the University of Birmingham (UK). 

He received his PhD from Birmingham University based on the study of the cultural production of identity among Greeks in southern Russia and the North Caucasus. His research interests are in social anthropology (with a particular focus on postsocialist societies); identity and transnationalism; violence, ethnicity and (non-Western forms of) civil society; youth culture; qualitative research methods (ethnography, life story and family history); history, social memory and cultural heritage. 

Anton conducted ethnographic research on nativist and ethno-cultural revivalist movements, migrant and ethnic minority communities in southern Russia, the South Caucasus, north-eastern Turkey and Britaine. 

His past research includes a study of enacted social memory among the Cossack youth; an investigation of ethnicity and cultural heritage in a provincial Georgian town; an exploration the impact of collective memory on the youth activism in the UK. 

Currently Anton Popov is co-ordinating the EU-funded project ‘Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe’s Future’ (CHIEF; www.chiefproject.eu ).

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Postsocialist Societies

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Podcast: Russia could suffer economic collapse and civil war over Ukraine

CORE Talk on youth, culture and identities with Dr. Anton Popov

Decolonisation of the curriculum from the sidelines? Responsibility transfer and neo-nationalism

Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Policy

In this CORE Talk, expert on social anthropology Dr. Anton Popov is interviewed by UPF professor Dr. Roger Soler i Martí on youth, culture and identities.

Dr. Anton Popov is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Policy in the School of Languages and Social Sciences of Aston University (Birmingham, UK). He has conducted ethnographic research on nativist and ethnocultural revivals movements, migrant and ethnic minority communities in southern Russia, the South Caucasus, north-eastern Turkey and Britain. His research interests are social anthropology; identity and transnationalism; violence, ethnicity and civil society; youth culture; and social memory and cultural heritage. Furthermore, he is currently co-coordinating the EU-funded project “Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe’s Future” (CHIEF; www.chiefproject.eu), which aims to build dialogue between young people, education practitioners, civil society activists, community leaders and policymakers with regards to cultural heritage and cultural identity.

Dr. Roger Soler i Martí is a postdoctoral researcher in the Research Group on Youth, Society and Communication (JOVIScom) of the UPF. He is a Doctor of Political Science from the UAB and his research interests are the relationship between young citizens, politics and democracy. He worked at the Catalan Youth Observatory promoting research in the youth field and transferring knowledge from research to public policies. As part of the CHIEF project, he is co-coordinator of the WP3 survey at consortium level and participates in other WPs such as WP3 and WP7.

CORE, an initiative of the Communication Department of Pompeu Fabra University, is a cycle of sessions (CORE Sessions) and interviews (CORE Talks) that facilitate knowledge transfer and the encounter between the disciplines associated with communication and the social sciences to strengthen local, national and international research.

More information: www.upf.edu/web/core

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