Expertise
Research, teaching and supervision across technology, policy and society.
My work combines academic research, qualitative inquiry, policy analysis and university teaching. Over more than fifteen years, I have worked across Europe, Asia and Africa on questions of technological change, innovation, digital governance, sustainability and interdisciplinary research.
This page presents selected publications, teaching, curriculum development and research supervision. Rather than providing a complete academic CV, it offers an overview of the areas in which I work and the experience that informs my mentoring, research design and policy advisory practice.
Selected Publications
The following publications reflect the main themes and methodological breadth of my research.
- 2026
From AI Diffusion to AI Capacity: A Framework, Diagnostic Tool, and Research Agenda for the Global South
SSRN Working Paper
Develops a framework for assessing the institutional, infrastructural and policy capacities required to shape AI development rather than simply adopt imported systems.
- 2025
Architectural Agency in the Global Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure: The Case of India
Spatial Economics, 21(3), 102–141
Examines how India seeks to shape its position within global AI infrastructure through policy, computing capacity and institutional choices.
- 2025
Imagining the Digital University: Infrastructural Logics and Institutional Futures in the Global South
Foresight and STI Governance, 19(4), 81–99
Explores how digital infrastructure and institutional choices shape possible futures for universities in the Global South.
- 2025
Shaping Digital Sovereignty in Russia: Actors and Debates
Problems of Post-Communism, 72(1), 76–87
Olga Ustyuzhantseva and Evgeniya Popova
Analyses how state and non-state actors participate in constructing digital sovereignty and how the concept is used across political and technological debates.
- 2021
Ontological Revision of Grassroots Innovation: Conceptualizing the Phenomenon
Innovation and Development, 15(3), 605–620
Develops a conceptual basis for understanding grassroots innovation beyond conventional Global North and Global South framings.
- 2022
Citizen Agency and Ecology in Krasnoyarsk
Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia, 59(3–4), 200–225
Examines how residents interpret environmental problems and develop forms of civic and ecological agency.
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- Years in research and higher education
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- University courses designed and taught
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- Research projects supervised
- International
- Research and policy projects across Europe, Asia and Africa
Teaching & Curriculum Development
Over more than a decade I have designed, taught and supervised courses across innovation studies, technology governance, environmental humanities, qualitative methods and science policy. My teaching combines research, policy and practice, helping students understand complex technological and societal change through interdisciplinary perspectives.
Technology, Policy & Innovation
- Policy, Politics and Institutions: Technological Development in Global Context
- Technological Foresight and Trajectories for Technological Development
- Innovation Policy of Asian Countries
- Technological Markets, Policy and Regulation
Innovation & Society
- Innovation Management from a Social Perspective
- Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Innovation for Health and Society
Environment & Socio-technical Systems
- Anthropology of Large Technological Systems
- Environmental Anthropology
Research Methods
- Qualitative Methods in Environmental Studies
Curriculum Development
I contributed to the development of the Master's programme “Innovation and Society: Science, Technology, and Medicine,” created in collaboration with Maastricht University, and developed courses across innovation studies, technology governance and public health.
I also contributed to the Master's programme “Environmental Humanities and Social Studies,” developed methodological materials for an online school for university endowments, and initiated a Research and Training Accelerator for the Social and Humanitarian Study of Emerging Technologies.
Winner of the Best Educational Practices Competition, National Research Tomsk State University, 2018.
Examples of Supervised Research
I have supervised undergraduate, Master's and doctoral researchers across sociology, anthropology, international relations, regional studies, innovation studies and science and technology studies.
AI, Technology & Digital Society
- artificial intelligence in schools and changing teaching practices
- voice assistants in young people’s everyday lives
- news algorithms in the routine work of media organisations
- gamification of work and employee adaptation
- digital mediation of memory and cemetery practices
- the transition to 5G in the European Union
Innovation, Organisations & Regional Development
- innovation and economic resilience in the Tomsk region
- innovation activities of Russian oil and gas corporations
- internationalisation of regional technology companies
- innovation, tradition and new markets in South Korea
- financial literacy and economic behaviour
- regional and corporate innovation strategies
Environment, Mobility & Everyday Life
- socio-technical agency in responding to environmental problems
- carbon markets in China and the European Union
- mobility practices and the role of cars in everyday life
- urban mourning practices and adaptation
- the social organisation of work and embodied professional practices
International & Comparative Research
- China’s industrial and innovation policy
- development of electric transport in China
- modernisation of the Chinese economy
- Japanese technology foresight
- comparative family and gender practices in India and Russia
- international technology markets and policy transitions
Research Interests & Expertise
I particularly work with research in the following areas:
- qualitative research design and methodology
- interview-based and ethnographic research
- technology, innovation and society
- digital governance and digital sovereignty
- artificial intelligence in institutions and everyday life
- innovation policy and emerging technologies
- sustainability, climate policy and just transition
- environmental and urban anthropology
- international and comparative research
- academic writing and publication strategy
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