Material cultures, homemaking practices, and the meaning of home

I am a sociologist based at the Department of Social and Psychological Studies (Karlstad University).

My research revolves around the meanings of home possessions and homemaking practices within different cultural and social contexts, including Homemaking and sharing economy and Material cultures, and migrant/diasporic homemaking.

My recent research has focused on themes related to Ageing, migration, and digital technologies.

I studied Sociology at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and received a Magister degree from the Higher School of Economics (Russia) and an MA in Sociology from the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (“Shanika”)/ the University of Manchester. My PhD on the topic of migrant homemaking is from the University of Manchester (UK).
I have worked as a Sociology Lecturer in the UK at Teesside University (2010-2013) and Leeds Beckett University (2013-2020) with a specific focus on research methods.