Professor Rebecca Kay
Nationality: United Kingdom
Year: 1995
Subject Area: Social Sciences
Website: Visit (opens in a new window)My Wingate scholarship funded six months fieldwork in Russia in 1995-6, during which I interviewed approximately 100 women and studied the work of 12 grassroots women's organisations in Moscow, Saratov, Tver' and Tarusa (a small district town in Kaluga Region). This fieldwork provided the backbone for my PhD thesis 'On Their Own Terms: Gender, Discrimination and the Role of Grassroots Women's Organisations in Contemporary Russian Society', (University of Bradford, 1997). This work was published by Macmillan in 2000 as ‘Russian Women and their Organizations’. Since 1998 I have been employed as a lecturer, first at CREES, University of Birmingham, then at the Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, where I am now Head of Department. I have recently been promoted to Professor of Russian Gender Studies. My most recent research has been into the impacts of post-Soviet transformations on Russian men.