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Biography

Ulrike is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences. In 2012, she joined the University of �鶹��ý from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London, where she was Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2009-2011) in Migration and Diasporic Citizenship in Russia and Eastern Europe at the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS). Prior to this, Ulrike received her PhD from the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the European Research Institute, University of Birmingham in 2008.��

She teaches Sociology modules on gender and sexualities, youth and social change, ideology, conflict and terrorism and is Programme Leader for the BA Sociology.��

In February 2017, she won the Student-Led Teaching Award for Best Delivered Module of the Year for her Gender and Sexualities Module.

In August and September 2017, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.

In August 2018, she assumed the role of Faculty Postgraduate Research Students Coordinator.

Higher Education Teaching Qualification:��Higher Education Academy Fellowship (FHEA).

Areas of expertise

?Youth, women, gender and diasporas in Russia, Southern Caucasus and Eastern Europe.

Publications

Articles in journals

• Hall, T. & Ziemer, U., 2024, Online Deviance in Post-Soviet Space: Victimisation, Perceptions and Social Attitudes Amongst Young People, an Armenian Case Study.��Digital Geography and Society 7,
• Ziemer, U., & Roberts, S. P. (2024). Populist political masculinities, gender equality, and norm contestation in Armenia and Georgia.��International Feminist Journal of Politics, 1–24.
• Hall, T. and Ziemer, U. (2023) ‘Exploring the interactions between poverty, IT development and cybercrime: an Armenia case study’, Journal of Cyber Policy, 7, 3: 353-374.
• Hall, T. and Ziemer, U. (2023) ‘Cybercrime in Commonwealth West Africa and the regional cyber-criminogenic framework’, The Commonwealth Cybercrime Journal, 1, 1: 5-27.����

• Ziemer, U.��(2018)��“The waiting and not knowing can be agonizing”: tracing the power of emotions in a prolonged conflict in the South Caucasus,��International Feminist Journal of Politics..

• Roberts, S. and Ziemer, U. (2018). Explaining the pattern of Russian authoritarian diffusion in Armenia. East European Politics. 34(2), 152-172��

• Shahnazarian, N. and Ziemer, U. (2018). Women confronting death: war widows’ experiences in the South Caucasus.��Journal of International Women's Studies, 19(2), 29-43.��.��

• Ziemer, U. and Popov, A. (2014) 'Research Ethics and Moral Dilemmas of Social Research in Eastern Europe and Beyond' Special Section in Sociological Research Online 19(4).��.

• Shahnazarian, N. & Ziemer, U. (2014) 'Emotions, Loss and Change: Armenian Women and Post-Socialist Transformations in Nagorny Karabakh', Caucasus Survey, Vol 2(1-2).��

• Shahnazarian, N. & Ziemer, U. (2012) 'Young Soldiers' Tales of War in Nagorno Karabakh', in a special issue on 'The Many Different Faces of the Caucasus', Europe-Asia Studies, 64(9): 1675-91.��

• Ziemer, U. (2011) 'Minority Youth, Everyday Racism and Public Spaces in Contemporary Russia', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(2), 229-42.��.

• Ziemer, U. (2010) 'Belonging and Longing: Armenian Youth and Diasporic Long-Distance Nationalism in Contemporary Russia', Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 10(2), 290-303.��

• Ziemer, U. (2010) 'Tackling Tensions and Ambivalences: Armenian Girls' Diasporic Identities in Russia, Nationalities Papers, 38(5), 689-703.��.

• Ziemer, U. (2009) 'Narratives of Translocation, Dislocation and Location: Armenian Youth Cultural Identities in Southern Russia', Europe-Asia Studies, 61(3), 409-33.��

Books

• Ziemer, U. (2011) Ethnic Belonging, Gender and Cultural Practices: Youth Identities in Contemporary Russia. Stuttgart: ibidem Verlag.

Edited volumes

• Ziemer, U. (ed.) (2019) Women's Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus. London: Palgrave.������

• Ziemer, U. and Roberts, S.P. (eds) (2012) East European Diasporas, Migration and Cosmopolitanism. London: Routledge.

Book chapters

• Ziemer, U. (2019) ‘Women Against Authoritarianism: Women’s Agency and Political Protest in Armenia’, in Ziemer, U. (ed.) Women’s Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus. London: Palgrave, pp. 71-100.��

• Shahnazarian, N. & Ziemer, U. (2019) 'The Politics of Widowhood in Nagorny Karabakh', in Ziemer, U. (ed.) Women’s Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus.��London: Palgrave, pp.179-201.����

• Ziemer, U. (2018) ‘Opportunities for self-realisation? Young women’s experiences of higher education in Russia’, in M.Ilic (ed.) The Palgrave handbook of women and gender in twentieth-century Russia and the Soviet Union. (pp.479-494). London: Palgrave.

• Ziemer, U. (2016) 'Unsettled Identity Negotiations: The Armenian Diaspora in Krasnodar Krai', In K. Siekierski and S. Troebst (eds), Armenians in Post-Socialist Europe, Amsterdam: Boehlau Verlag.

• Shahnazarian, N. & Ziemer, U. (2014) 'Young Soldiers' Tales of War in Nagorno Karabakh', in N. Kemoklidze, C.Moore, J.Smith and G. Yemelianova, Many Faces of the Caucasus, London: Routledge.

• Ziemer, U. (2010) 'Krosskul'turnoe Polevoe Issledovanie: Etnograficheskaya Rabota i ee Vyzovy' ('Doing Cross-Cultural Fieldwork: Ethnography and Its Challenges'). In E. Omelchenko and G. Sabirova (eds) (2010), Peremena Mest: Poputnaya Sotsiologiya ('Changing Places: Sociology on the Way'), pp 69-80. Ul'yanovsk, Russia: Izdatelstvo Ul'yanovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta.

Book reviews

• Ziemer, U. (2016) Stella, F. (2015) Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post-Socialism and Gendered Sexualities. London, Palgrave Macmillan, in Europe-Asia Studies, 68 (6).��.
• Ziemer, U. (2016) Zakharov, N. (2015) Race and Racism in Russia. London: Palgrave, in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Vol 2 No. 4, 593-94.��.
• Ziemer, U (2014) Ja¨ppinen, M., Kulmala, M. & Saarinen, A. (eds) (2011) Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-Socialist Countries. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, in Europe-Asia Studies, 66:1, 173-17.��
• Ziemer, U (2012) Companjen, L., Maracz, L. & L. Versteegh (eds) (2010) Exploring the Caucasus in the 21st Century. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, in Europe-Asia Studies, 64(10).��.
• Ziemer, U. (2010) Buckley, C.J., Blair A. Ruble & Erin Trouth Hofman (eds) (2008) Migration, Homeland and Belonging in Eurasia, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, in Europe-Asia Studies, 62 (2).

Online media publications

• Roberts, S. And Ziemer U. (2025) , Australian Institute of International Affairs, 20th September
• Roberts, S. and Ziemer U. (2025) I, University of �鶹��ý, 25^th��September
• Ziemer, U. (October 2020)
• Ziemer, U. (October 2016) Women in Nagorno-Karabakh: Empowered for a Better Future?, University of �鶹��ý Blog post
• Ziemer, U. & Laycock, J. (July 2016) How is ordinary life experienced in extraordinary times?, University of �鶹��ý Blog post