Dr. Roman Smirnov

(a) Authored monographs

1. Smirnov, R. (2020). Institutional determinants of social mobility: Comparison of social mobility of doctoral students in Austria and Russia. PhD-Thesis. University of Graz, Austria.

(b) Chapters in refereed collective volumes and edited books

1. Smirnov, R. (2024). “About the Age Boundaries of the Online Generation of Modern Youth.” In: The Fields of Digital Research: theoretical, methodological and application challenges. Ed. Maiello, G., Masullo, G. McGraw-Hill Education.

2. Smirnov, R. (2017). “The 1917 Revolution: Generational Memory and Unconsciousness.” In: Russia in 1917: Institutional Resource, Social Risks and Civilizational Collapse. Ed. Orlov, M., Nauka.

(c) Refereed articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals

1. Smirnov, R. (2023). “Social Mobility of Graduate Students (Doctoral Students) in Russia and Austria: A Comparative Analysis.” Economics of Education. 5(138).

2. Smirnov, R. (2022). “Influence of the Parental Family on the Trajectories of Professional Mobility of Postgraduate Students.” Higher Education in Russia. 12.

3. Smirnov, R. (2021). “Indices of post-graduate students’ social mobility.” Sociological Research. 9.

4. Smirnov, R., Smirnova, T. (2020). “Institutional Elderly Care: Obstacles to Acceptance (the Case of Private Boarding Houses).” Sociological Research. 4.

5. Smirnov, R. (2020). “Attitude and evaluation by the Moscow city youth of the system of medical institutions (on the example of clinics).” Vestnik Universiteta. 5.

6. Smirnov, R. (2019). “Operationalization of the “Online Generation” phenomenon.” Digital Sociology. 4.

7. Smirnov, R. (2025). Forced meritocracy as a way of democratization: How to (re)build the higher education in Russia? In Scuola democratica: Education and/for social justice.

(d) Unrefereed professional articles and publications

1. Smirnov, R. (2025). “Inside the University Teaching Book of Russian Ideology.” Abstract Book of 16th ESA Conference “Tension, Trust and Transformation”. ISBN 978-2-9598317-0-6

2. Smirnov, R. (2024). “Forced Meritocracy as a Way of Democratization: How to (re)build the higher education in Russia?” In: SCUOLA DEMOCRATICA (Eds.). Book of Abstracts of the International Conference of the journal Scuola Democratica. Reinventing Education, Rome, Associazione “Per Scuola Democratica”

3. Smirnov, R. (2023). “Silence of the Labs: Adaptation Strategies of Russian Scholars during the Russian-Ukrainian War.” Abstract Book of the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology.

4. Smirnov, R. (2023). “Online Generation as a Social Group: To the Question of Age Boundaries.” Abstract Book IV International conference Lab for Innovative Social Research. Rethinking social theories and methods in a digital society. Prague, University of Finance and Administration. SCIENCEpress.

5. Smirnov, R. (2022). “Pandemic related changes of individual migrant strategies of international PhD students.” Abstract Book. Social Dynamics in the Post-COVID age. Inequalities, integration, migration in regional, urban, and rural context.

6. Smirnov, R. (2021). “Social Mobility of Young Scientists in the Pandemic- and Post-Pandemic-Era.” 15^th Conference of European Sociological Association.

a) Chair of Session
2024    Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association (Basel, Switzerland)
“To trust, or not to trust, that is the question”. Vulnerability to information as a risk of modern society

2023    Congress of Austrian Sociological Society (Vienna, Austria)
Der russisch-ukrainische Krieg und Europa: Risiken zu überdenken

2021    15th Conference of European Sociological Association
Covid-19: Generational and Transnational Perspectives

b) Presentations
2024
    Russian citizens since 24 February 2022: forming, expressing, and embodying stances on the war in Ukraine (Paris, France)
Topic: How easy it was to just... let go. How Russian scholars endure politicization and isolation

2024    Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association (Basel, Switzerland)
Topic: Russian Authoritarianism, War and Vulnerability to Information on example of Russian Academics

2024    16th Conference of European Sociological Association (Porto, Portugal)
Topic: Inside the University Teaching Book of Russian Ideology

2024    International Conference of Scuola Democratica (Cagliari, Italy)
Topic: Forced Meritocracy as a Way of Democratization: How to (re)build the higher education in Russia?

2023    XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (Melbourne, Australia)
Topic: Silence of the Labs: Adaptation Strategies of Russian Scholars during the Russian-Ukrainian War

2023    Conference “Education as Commons. Democratic Values, Social Justice, and Inclusion in Education”, Association of Italian Sociology (Palermo, Italy)
Topic: Inclusion and Equality in Adult Education: Influence of the parental family on educational and professional trajectories of graduate student

2022    Universities at the crossroads: academic freedom in a changing world, Center of Independent Social Research & Georgian American University
Topic: Free to be silent: strategies of communicational adaptation of Russian scholars

2021    15th Conference of European Sociological Association
Topic: Social Mobility of Young Scientists in the Pandemic- and Post-Pandemic-Era

2020    Society. Trust. Risks, State University of Management
Topic: Distant learning: Alternative and Challenge of Modern Higher Education

October 2020 Doctorate in Social and Economic Sciences, University of Graz (Austria)

2017 Master's degree in Sociology, Saratov State University (Russia)

2015 Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Russia)