Dr Elena Minina
Lecturer in International and Comparative Education
Contact details
Biography
Dr. Elena Minina is a comparative education researcher, cultural sociologist and computational linguist.
Elena has over 20 years of experience in academic research, teaching, research consultancy and education policy development across various cultural settings, including the UK, the US, Scandinavia, Sub-Saharan Africa and post-Soviet countries.
Dr. Minina's current research combines in-depth intercultural analysis of educational policies and practices with computational methodologies.
Research interests
- International Comparative Education
- Cultural Sociology
- Critical Public Policy
- Computational social sciences
- Bit Qualitative Data
- Corpus Linguistics
- Discourse Analysis
Supervision
Dr. Minina is happy to supervise MA and PhD theses on a wide range of comparative education and cultural sociology topics, including, for example, neoliberal expansion in education worldwide, post-socialist and post-colonial educational transformation, ideological underpinnings of education and grassroots cultural interpretations of education reforms.
Elena is particularly interested in working with students who have an interest and skills in computational social sciences, big qualitative data and corpus research.
Teaching
At King’s, Elena contributes to teaching, module coordination and programme administration in a range of modules across MA education programmes in the School of Education, Communication & Society, including:
- International and Comparative Education.
- Education and International Development.
- Research Methods for International Education.
Research
Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)
The Centre for Public Policy Research is an interdisciplinary research centre research developing critical analyses of social change and social in/justice in education and other policy arenas, sectors and contexts to inform national and international policy debate, social activism, and personal, professional and organisational learning.
Events
Computational tools in social sciences: a beginner's guide
In this webinar, Elena Minina will offer an introduction to the emerging field of computational social sciences.
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‘Choosing the Lesser of Evils’: Cultural narrative and career decision-making in post-Soviet Russia
In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Elena Minina will deconstruct the dominant cultural narrative of a university degree in post-Soviet Russia and examine the...
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Research
Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)
The Centre for Public Policy Research is an interdisciplinary research centre research developing critical analyses of social change and social in/justice in education and other policy arenas, sectors and contexts to inform national and international policy debate, social activism, and personal, professional and organisational learning.
Events
Computational tools in social sciences: a beginner's guide
In this webinar, Elena Minina will offer an introduction to the emerging field of computational social sciences.
Please note: this event has passed.
‘Choosing the Lesser of Evils’: Cultural narrative and career decision-making in post-Soviet Russia
In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Elena Minina will deconstruct the dominant cultural narrative of a university degree in post-Soviet Russia and examine the...
Please note: this event has passed.