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Dr Ekaterina Braginskaia

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Dr Ekaterina Braginskaia

Position

Digital Learning Lead and Researcher

Department

Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies

Email

e.braginskaia (@gold.ac.uk)

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Ekaterina's work engages with religion and society, minority faith activism, hospitality and refugee welfare

Dr Ekaterina Braginskaia is Researcher at the Faiths and Civil Society Unit at Goldsmiths. She is also Digital Learning Lead at the William Temple Foundation, engaged in developing online short courses and events about the role of religion in public life. Her research focuses on comparative approaches to the study of religion, society and migration, including multiculturalism and minority faith activism, hospitality and representation of refugees and religious minorities.

Ekaterina has completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Before coming to Goldsmiths, she was Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol. Her postdoctoral project examined Muslim and Jewish approaches to supporting refugees in the context of devolved social policies, local mobilisation and community support in England and Scotland. Prior to that she was involved in developing the AHRC-funded Connected Communities Forum about co-creating urban living for universities, cities and communities.

Featured publications

2023: Religious and Non-religious Forms of Hospitality: Muslim and Jewish Engagement in Welcoming Newcomers in Britain
Article in Journal of Church and State, 65(4), pp. 439-449

2017: Universities, cities & communities: co-creating urban living
Report from the Connected Communities Programme

2016: Public Faith and Finance: Faith responses to the financial crisis
Report co-written with Dr Therese O'Toole, University of Bristol

2012: Domestication’ or ‘Representation’? Russia and the Institutionalisation of Islam in Comparative Perspective’
Article in Europe-Asia Studies, 64(3), pp. 597-620

Publications and research outputs