I am an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History. My research interests are mainly focused on the twentieth century European history, post-socialist and transnational memory dynamics. My PhD was devoted to the material and symbolic legacies of socialism, explored through the study of the afterlives of the V.I.Lenin monument in post-Soviet Riga.

Since 2023, I am a co-convenor of the Study Group on the Baltic States within the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies.

I also wear a hat of Conference Research Executive within the Manchester Convention Bureau, the official tourist board for Greater Manchester. The role of the Manchester Convention Bureau team is to support professional societies and local academics in hosting successful conferences in Manchester.

Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (Regular Member)

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (Associate Member/ co-convenor of the Study Group on the Baltic States)

Memory Studies Association (Post-Doc Member/ Member of the Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies (PoSoCoMeS) Working Group)

My current research collaborations include:

A chapter on Eastern Europe and the Sports Mega-Events with Dr Vitaly Kazakov (University of Iceland/ University of Manchester);

An article on the socialist-era statue of Friedrich Engels in Manchester with Dr Anna Glew (University of Liverpool).