Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova is a social scientist interested in disability, inclusion, professions, gender and public sphere issues. She got her Doctor in Sociology degree in 1997 in Saratov, Russia and PhD in Social Work in Goteborg, Sweden in 2011. In 1996-2012 she was a co-director of an independent Center for Social Policy and Gender Studies, and since 2003 is editing the Journal of Social Policy Studies. Since 1989 she has been working at the Saratov State Technical University, and since 2008 at the University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Currently she is a head of an International Lab for Social Integration Research at HSE, Moscow, Russia. More information can be found here https://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/4013457#sci
Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova
Professor of Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Head, International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies