Dr Anna Pechurina
Anna gained her PhD in 2010 and is now Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Research Methods) at Teeside University.
PhD Thesis
Anna's thesis was entitled 'Creating a Home from Home: Russian Communities in the UK' and it examines the post-Soviet Russian migration to Britain, focusing on how Russian migrants negotiate a sense of connectedness with their national culture through the organisation of their home environment and domestic life abroad.
It emphasises the importance of material culture, namely possessions that help Russian migrants maintain a sense of ‘being at home’ in their new social and cultural environment.
Anna's supervisors were Carol Smart and Penny Tinkler.
Research Interests
- Material culture and Home Studies
- Gender, Sexuality and Culture
- New Media and Society
- Visual and Sensory Methods
- Russian Studies
Conference Papers
March 2010, ‘Objects as Documents: Visualization of Different Waves of Migrants’ presented at BASEES conference, University of Cambridge
January 2010, ‘Researching Russian-ness’ presented at CEELBAS workshop “Situating Culture: Home/Culture”, University of Sheffield