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Nigel Swain

Dr Nigel Swain
PhD

Contact

Swainnj@liverpool.ac.uk

+44 (0)151 794 2422

Professional Activities

Conference Roles

  • Paper giver (Fate of Peasant Parties during Socialist Transformation) & Session organiser (N6), by Invitation (International Economic History Association, 2009)
  • 1989 and its aftermath, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Liverpool Hope University, 2009)
  • 1989 and its aftermath: some reflections, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, 2009)
  • Keynote speech, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Dept of Central and Eastern European Studies, 2009)
  • The Fate of Peasant Parties during Socialist Transformation, by Invitation (Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Research Council & Research Centre for East Central European Social and Economic History, Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder), 2009)
  • Transcending Ethnic Conceptions of Cross-Border Space, by Invitation (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University & Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan, 2009)
  • Reform of Land Property Rights in Eastern European Transitional Countries: Problems and Prospects, by Invitation (Rural Development Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2008)
  • Collectivisations compared, by Invitation (Central European University, Berlin College for the Comparative History of Europe, , 2008)
  • From Kolkhoz to Holding Company: the Transformation of a Hungarian TVE?, by Invitation (Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, 2004)
  • Socialist Legacies and Transition, by Invitation (College of Economics, Ritsumeikan University, Kyōto, 2004)
  • The Past in the Post-Socialist Present, by Invitation (Kansai Hungarian Society, the Association of Comparative Economic Studies (Japan), 2003)

Editorships

  • Europe-Asia Studies (Peer reviewer)
  • Journal of Rural Studies (Peer reviewer)
  • Gender, Place and Culture: a Journal of Feminist Geography (Peer reviewer)
  • Social History (Peer reviewer)
  • Gazdasag & Tarsadalom (Advisory Board Member, 2010 - present)
  • Central European Journal of Public Policy (Advisory Board Member, 2010 - present)
  • Eastern European Countryside (Editorial Board Member, 1997 - present)

Examination Roles

  • University of Glasgow, PhD (2010)
  • University of Gloucestershire, PhD (2009)
  • University of Edinburgh, PhD (2007)
  • University of Aberdeen, PhD (2005)

Professional Body Memberships

  • British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (Member)
  • European Society for Rural Sociology (Member)

Other Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Director of the MA in Twentieth Century History, School Socrates Co-ordinator and Director of the Centre for Central and Eastern European Studies