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Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES)

The University of Glasgow is the hub for a new inter-institutional Centre of Excellence under the Language-Based Area Studies initiative. CRCEES has been awarded initial funding of £4.7m over five years, and brings together distinguished national and international partners.

The Centre offers postgraduate training in the form of language diplomas, taught and research masters degrees (in total 40 awards), and PhD scholarships (20 awards). A total of 8 post-doctoral fellowships will also be awarded.

CRCEES also offers events, including:
  • summer schools in the region;
  • regular research seminars;
  • public policy days for the wider community;
  • Slavic Winter Festival.
The main areas of research interest within the Centre are:
  • aspects of identity and culture and their social, political and economic implications;
  • economic and social transformation;
  • political transformation and international relations;
  • literary, cinematic and cultural developments; and
  • the politics of language.

Funding bodies:

  • ESRC, The Economic and Social Research Council
  • AHRC, The Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • SFC, The Scottish Funding Council
  • HEFCE, Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Member Institutions:

The hub of CRCEES is the School of Slavonic, Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow which includes the Department of Central and East European Studies and the Slavonic Studies section of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures as well as staff from Politics, History and Art History.

Partners are drawn from the universities of

International Partners: