Curriculum Vitae

Education

2008-2012
PhD programme in Social Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Dissertation title “Mining postsocialim: work, class and ethnicity in an Estonian mine

2005-2006
MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Thesis defended on Ethnic Identity of New Zealand Estonians

2000-2004
BA in Sociology University of Tartu, Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Employment

2012
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Research fellow at the research Group “Industry and Inequality across Eurasia

2011-2012
Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, UL. Visiting tutor for BA course Politics, Economics and Social Change

2007-2008
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Tallinn University, Tallinn. Lecturer. Teaching courses on Theory of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Academic Writing. Co-supervision of two BA thesis

2006-2008
Centre of Educational Research, Tallinn University, Tallinn. Main researcher of project on Biographies of Estonian Teachers (2009). Coordinator for International Survey of Learning and Teaching (TALIS) (2006-2008). Researcher for Leonardo project Improving the Utilisation of Quality Assurance Information in European Vocational Education and Training (2006-2008)

2004-2005
Statistics New Zealand, Wellington. Questionnaire developer for the Household Labour Force Survey