Investigating the media’s role in shaping the transnational post-Soviet Russian-speaking community.

Studying the role of 'Russian' as a language of transnational interethnic communication.

Examining the impact of digital media on contemporary language revitalisation movements among ethnic minorities.

Studying interactions between policies of Estonia, Finland and Hungary directed at promoting Finno-Ugric minorities.

Studying articulations of transnationalism in the Soviet and post-Soviet space, focusing on the cinemas.

Investigating the transnational rise and transformations of ‘New Drama’ across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Exploring the construction, articulation and commodification of ‘global Russian’ identities.

A critical examination of ‘ultra-peripheral’ insularity in the transnational, diasporic and postcolonial Atlantic.

Tracing the complexities of socio-cultural change at times of political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa.

Tracing the production and reception of cancer discourses across Arab national and transnational contexts.

Exploring how audio-visual texts in the digital age impact on the expression of 'subaltern’ cultural identities.

Examining how Western ideas of 'modernity' were ‘translated' in China in the late 19th and early 20th century.