OXFORD XXI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director
- Senior Research Associate
- Professor
Professor Barrie Axford is Professor of Politics and the Director of the Centre for Global Politics, Economy and Society at Oxford Brookes University, and a Senior Research Associate at Oxford XXI. Professor Axford serves as a member of the International Editorial Boards of the journals Telematics and Informatics, The International Journal of Electronic Governance and Globalizations, and is in addition a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Studies Association.
Barrie was recently a member of the project team for a programme of collaborative pedagogic research funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (with Coventry and Warwick Universities) entitled "The Scholarship of Engagement for Politics" (politicsinaction.ac.uk), based on engaging students of politics and international relations with the real world of politics. Barrie recently completed the book Theories of Globalization (Polity, 2013), and editing Oxford Brookes' conference proceedings into the book Cultures and/of Globalization (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011). Barrie began his career at Stanford University between 1970 and 1973 as Tutor and then Assistant Adjunct Professor on the Overseas Studies Programme, before becoming Lecturer in Political Sociology at the University of Southampton. At Oxford Brookes University, Barrie was the Director of Research for the School of Social Sciences and Law and the Head of the Department of International Relations, Politics, and Sociology before he took up his present position.
Barrie's online profile can be seen here
Job Titles:
- Chairman in Sociology
- Director of the New Europe Centre
- Professor
Professor Claire Wallace is a Chair in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen and Director of the New Europe Centre at the University. Claire was President of the European Sociological Association from 2007 to 2009.
Claire is also a former editor of the major international sociological journal European Societies, the official journal of the European Sociological Association.
Claire was Director of Research for the College of Arts and Social Sciences between 2008 and 2011 and then became Vice Principal for Research and Knowledge Exchange for the University in 2011.
After graduating with first a Bachelors and then a Doctoral degree from the University of Kent, Claire taught at Plymouth and then at Lancaster Universities. During the early 1990s she helped to set up the Sociology Department at the Central European University in Prague (now in Budapest) with famous social anthropologist Ernest Gellner before moving to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, where she later became Head of Sociology. Claire's primary research interests are migration, citizenship, youth, households and work relations, and the rural digital economy.
Claire's online profile can be seen here and her Wikipedia page here
Job Titles:
- Associate
- CEO of Music Mind Spirit Trust
Dr Chika Robertson is a CEO of Music Mind Spirit Trust, UK . With her background as a multiple prize-winner solo violinist, Chika Robertson was awarded fellowships to work with distinguished conductors including Ozawa and Bernstein for prestigious music festivals including Aspen, Tanglewood and the Mozarteum.
Dr Hancock was Director of the Institute for Religion and Society in Asia until 2010, and until 2009 was the Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in China. Since 2004, Chris has travelled widely in China and taught extensively in Chinese universities and in other parts of the world. Dr Hancock has taught theology in the USA, Romania, Switzerland, Israel, Argentina, and, most recently, Myanmar.
Job Titles:
- Professor Emeritus at the Department of Minority Studies
Dr Endre Sik is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Minority Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, the largest university in Hungary, and senior researcher at social science research institute TARKI.
He is also the Director of the Centre for Refugee and Migration Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Endre has previously served as served as director of the National Focal Point of the European Union Centre for Monitoring Race and Xenophobia, as chairman of Refugee Association for Helping Migrants, and as the president of the Hungarian Sociological Association.
Endre's main fields of research are culture and history of ethnic minorities; migration; xenophobia; labour market; informal economy; households' economic behaviour; and social network capital. Endre's research projects under the European Commission FP7 research framework alone include ENRI-East (2008-2011), at http://www.enri-east.net/en/) Concordia Discors (2010-2012, at http://www.concordiadiscors.eu/), EUBORDERREGIONS (ongoing, at http://www.euborderregions.eu/), and STYLE (ongoing, at http://www.style-research.eu/).
Endre's online profile can be seen by clicking here.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Senior Researcher, Head of the Department of the Sociology
Dr. Zdenka Mansfeldová is a senior researcher, head of the Department of the Sociology of Politics and 1st Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences.
Her research focuses on political institutionalization and representation of interests in both political terms (parties and parliament) and the non-political meso-structures of social interests as well as on emerging security treats and dilemma between security and civil liberties.She has been involved in a wide variety of national and international academic research projects aimed at
She has been involved in a wide variety of national and international academic research projects aimed at formation of new political elites in the Czech Republic and other post-communist countries, social dialogue as well as at democratization and participation of civil society in new modes of governance.
She participated in several international projects including the Integrated Projects New Modes of Governance (NEWGOV), Integrated and United: a Quest for Citizenship in an "ever closer Europe" INTUNE, Reconstituting Democracy in Europe (RECON), and Socio-Economics meets Security (SECONOMICS) which were funded by the European Union under the Sixth and Seventh Framework Programme.
Lyudmila Nurse has over 25 years of international experience of research into social institutions, education, culture and identities, cultural policies and comparative quantitative, qualitative and biographical studies.
She holds a PhD diploma in Sociology from the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia. She has also studied Modern Sociology on a post-doctoral Sociological course at the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK in 1989. Lyudmila Nurse has been a visiting research fellow at various Universities: Edinburgh, Warwick, City (London) and the Institute of Education (UCL).
She is currently an external associate at the New Europe Centre of the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University.
Lyudmila Nurse is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Research network 03 "Biographical perspectives on European societies" of the European Sociological Association (ESA).http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/
She has been a member of the European Cultural Parliament (ECP) since 2011