Dr Sean Roberts

Senior Lecturer

School of Psychology and Social Sciences

Sean.Roberts@winchester.ac.uk

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Biography

Dr Sean Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. Sean holds a BA in Politics from the University of Bath (UK) and an MA and PhD in Politics from the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES), University of Birmingham (UK). Prior to joining the University of �鶹��ý in Sept. 2018, Sean worked as Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, and held research and teaching posts at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), the Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki) and the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Sean was Senior Research Fellow on the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), 2012-2014.

Higher Education Teaching Qualification: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Areas of expertise

Russian foreign and security policy
Russian domestic politics
Authoritarian regime dynamics
Regional integration in the post-Soviet space

Publications

Monographs

Roberts, S. (2012) Putin’s United Russia Party. Routledge (ISBN-10: 0415669022, reprinted in paperback in October 2013)

Edited volumes

Ziemer, U. & Roberts, S. (eds) (2012) East European Diasporas, Migration and Cosmopolitanism, Routledge (ISBN-10: 0415517028)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Book reviews

Refereed expert papers (in chronological order)

Roberts, S. (June 2013) Russia’s Old-New Foreign Policy, The Finnish Journal of Foreign Affairs (Ulkopolitiikka-lehti), issue 2/2013.

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Selected conference presentations, seminars and round tables

Putin’s Agenda: Looking beyond the headlines. CEISR research talk, University of Portsmouth, 11.02.2015, Portsmouth, UK

The Eurasian Economic Union: will it fly? Talk given at the Finnish Embassy in Brussels to selected EU representatives, 08.10.2014, Brussels, Belgium

Have Putin’s reforms fixed the problem? Seminar: Russian politics and society: Two years after the protests, 9.12.2013, FIIA, Helsinki, Finland

Trends in Russian domestic politics and foreign policy. Presentation to journalists at FIIA, 08.08.2013, Helsinki, Finland

Towards a converging view? How European and US analysts see Russia. Closed expert meeting organised by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 23.04.2013, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA

A policy of fear? Putin 3.0 and political repression. Conference: Putin 3.0 One Year on: What has changed in Russia? 15.04.2013, Finnish Parliament Annex, Helsinki, Finland

Towards a converging view? How European analysts see Russia. Closed expert meeting organised by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 17.01.2013, Mustio, Finland

Another election victory: but how much longer will United Russia remain a dominant force? Russian Elections Parties, Parliament and Power, NUPI Annual Conference, 23.11.2011, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo

Elite and expert interviewing: How political context complicates the textbook research ideal. CERES network Roots of Research Seminar, 28.10.2011, Stockholm, Sweden

Old dogs, new tricks? Assessing the effectiveness of party leaders on the political internet. Virtual Russia: digital space and post-Soviet political culture, Future of Russia Project, 20.10.2011, St. Petersburg, Russia

Russian regime stability in 2011. Presentation to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), 01.06.2011 Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway

Verticals and horizontals: The role of United Russia as a ‘management tool’ in the emerging post-Yeltsin regime. BASEES Annual Conference, 29.03.2010, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK

The Influence of research context on the process of research. CEELBAS workshop on ethics, 23.09.2009, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, London, UK

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