Irina
Antoshchuk 
Bio:
Irina Antoshchuk is currently a PhD candidate in Cultural Sociology at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam, studying diaspora knowledge networks of Russian computer scientists in the UK. Before joining UvA she completed PhD programme in Sociology at European University at St Petersburg. She got a specialist diploma in Social Work and then her Master’s degree from Saint-Petersburg State University, graduating from multidisciplinary programme “Studies in European Societies”. Irina has a diverse research experience: she explored various topics, ranging from protest activities of factory workers in Russia to serious leisure of young people in big European cities, implemented different methodologies and conducting investigations across various national contexts (Russia, UK, Germany). Having started her career as an industrial sociologist at “Veda-Pak” plant, Irina continued as a junior researcher at Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and worked as a research assistant in STS Center, European University at Saint Petersburg, being involved in mega-grant project “Russian computer scientists at home and abroad”. Recently she finished RFBR grant project on migration of young scholars from Russia, working in Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Irina’s professional experience also includes fundraising, when Irina was a member of sponsor relations team at British charity organization “EveryChild”, and marketing, when Irina worked as a manager in international education organization “INTO University Partnerships”.
