Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- Paper giver (Fate of Peasant Parties during Socialist Transformation) & Session organiser (N6), by Invitation (International Economic History Association, 2009)
- 1989 and its aftermath, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Liverpool Hope University, 2009)
- 1989 and its aftermath: some reflections, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, 2009)
- Keynote speech, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Dept of Central and Eastern European Studies, 2009)
- The Fate of Peasant Parties during Socialist Transformation, by Invitation (Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Research Council & Research Centre for East Central European Social and Economic History, Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder), 2009)
- Transcending Ethnic Conceptions of Cross-Border Space, by Invitation (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University & Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan, 2009)
- Reform of Land Property Rights in Eastern European Transitional Countries: Problems and Prospects, by Invitation (Rural Development Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2008)
- Collectivisations compared, by Invitation (Central European University, Berlin College for the Comparative History of Europe, , 2008)
- From Kolkhoz to Holding Company: the Transformation of a Hungarian TVE?, by Invitation (Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, 2004)
- Socialist Legacies and Transition, by Invitation (College of Economics, Ritsumeikan University, Kyōto, 2004)
- The Past in the Post-Socialist Present, by Invitation (Kansai Hungarian Society, the Association of Comparative Economic Studies (Japan), 2003)
Editorships
- Europe-Asia Studies (Peer reviewer)
- Journal of Rural Studies (Peer reviewer)
- Gender, Place and Culture: a Journal of Feminist Geography (Peer reviewer)
- Social History (Peer reviewer)
- Gazdasag & Tarsadalom (Advisory Board Member, 2010 - present)
- Central European Journal of Public Policy (Advisory Board Member, 2010 - present)
- Eastern European Countryside (Editorial Board Member, 1997 - present)
Examination Roles
- University of Glasgow, PhD (2010)
- University of Gloucestershire, PhD (2009)
- University of Edinburgh, PhD (2007)
- University of Aberdeen, PhD (2005)
Professional Body Memberships
- British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (Member)
- European Society for Rural Sociology (Member)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
- Director of the MA in Twentieth Century History, School Socrates Co-ordinator and Director of the Centre for Central and Eastern European Studies