Curriculum vitae Dr. Inna Kotchetkova

Curriculum vitae

Dr. Inna Kotchetkova

Address	Qualiti, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WT
Telephone	02920 875 123
Email	[e-mail]
Date of birth	13^th August 1974
Nationality	Russian

Research Interests:

My research interests are rapidly expanding as a result of exciting research projects I work on at Quality

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  Role of intellectuals in contemporary societies
  
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  Sociology of knowledge and expertise
  
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  Public participation in governance of science and technology
  
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  Qualitative research methods (visual research, multimodality)
  
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Work experience:

2005-	Research Associate, QUALITI, Cardiff School of Social Sciences Currently I work on a research project Talking treatments – involving citizens in deliberations about innovative medical treatments, as well as organise conferences, seminars and training workshops on various aspects of qualitative research methodology. In our research we are particularly interested in experimenting with various ways of organising deliberative meetings and evaluating the impact of face-to-face interaction between people with different kinds of expertise on decision making
March 2004 – June 2005	Social Policy Research Unit, University of York (SPRU). Research Assistant on the projects ‘Carers aspirations and decisions around work and retirement’ (commissioned by DWP) and ‘Knowledge review on outcomes-focused services for older people and their carers’ (commissioned by SCIE).
April 2003 – April 2004	Sociology Department, University of York. Graduate teaching assistant
July – Nov 2001	International Institute of Marketing Research GfK RUS (Moscow). Senior qualitative research consultant.
Jan 2000 – July 2001	MTM Research (Moscow). Qualitative Research project manager

Education:

Nov 2001- March 2005	PhD in Sociology, University of York Thesis: ‘The intelligentsia myth in Post-Soviet Russia: the Sixtiers and others in biographical discourse’ Scholarships: Overseas Research Students Award, The York University Grant and British Federation of Women Graduates Charitable Foundation Scholarship.
1998-1999	MA in Sociology. Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (degree validated by the University of Manchester).
1993-1998	BA in Sociology. Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship. Moscow

Conference and seminar presentations

March 2003	British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Annual Conference, Cambridge. ‘The non-Soviet generation or a story of a happy man’
March 2004	BASEES Annual Conference, Cambridge. ‘The discursive massacre or the mass suicide of post-Soviet intelligentsia’.
May 2004	Departmental Seminar. Sociology Department, University of York. ‘The construction of the media discourse about the 1960s generation’.
June 2006	COMET Conference (Communication, medicine&Ethics) Cardiff, Contribution to the session on Qualitative research methods in health care.
July 2006	ESRC Research Methods Festival, Oxford ‘Developing deliberative qualitative research methods’ (with Rob Evans and Susanne Langer)
Aug 2006	European Association of Science and Technology Studies, Lausanne. ‘Just around the corner: rhetorics of progress and promise in genetic research’.
Aug 2006	10^th Meeting of Postgraduate Forum in genetics and Society (PFGS), York ‘Talking treatments: deliberations about therapeutic pathways for T1 diabetes’

Forthcoming:

September 2006 Let’s talk about GOLD. Vienna. Poster presentation.

November 2006 – 4S- Society for Social Studies of Science annual conference, Vancouver. ‘Talking Treatments: lay and expert deliberations medical science’. Joint presentation with Robert Evans.

December 2006 – ESA Biographical Perspectives on Post-Soviet societies Conference in St. Petersburg. ‘Demystifying the myth: the cultural story of the Russian intelligentsia through the Sixtiers biographical accounts’.
Teaching:
July 2006 – NVivo 2: software analysis of qualitative data. Workshop for National Public Health Service for Wales
September, 2006 ‘SharingQualitative research and multimodality: an Interactive Training Workshop’. at British Educational Research Association Conference, Warwick
I also regularly contribute to teaching qualitative research methods within the postgraduate module at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
Previously taught following undergraduate modules: Contemporary Social theory, Individual and Society, Foundations of Social research methodology courses.
Publications

Kotchetkova, I. (2004) Dead or Alive: The Discursive Massacre or the Mass-suicide of Post-Soviet Intelligentsia? Sociological research Online, Vol.9, Issue 4

Arksey, H., P. Kemp, C. Glendinning, I. Kotchetkova and R. Tozer (2005) Carers’ aspirations and decisions around work and Retirement. Department for Work and Pensions, Research Report No 290.
Kotchetkova I. (under review) The myth as a resource for identity politics: Russian intelligentsia and the 1960s generation. Submitted for publication in Narrative Inquiry

Robert Evans, Inna Kotchetkova and Susanne Langer (under review) Just Around the Corner:

Rhetorics of Progress and Promise in Genetic Research. Submitted to Public Understanding of Science.
Organised/contributed to organising events:

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  Innovation in qualitative research methods –Cardiff, October, 2005; York, November 2005,
  

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  Talking treatments – research seminar presentation Cardiff University, Qualiti research centre team November 2005
  

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  Combining methods, data and analyses – Surrey, February, 2006
  

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  Qualitative research in the technological age – half-day seminar event at Cardiff University,
  

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  Visual Approaches to Qualitative Research – half-day seminar event at Cardiff University, July 2006.
  

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  Participation, Public Engagement and Qualitative Research half-day seminar event at Cardiff University, September 2006