Building Research Capacity at Universities [electronic resource] : Insights from Post-Soviet Countries / edited by Maia Chankseliani, Igor Fedyukin, Isak Frumin.

1.Introduction -- 2. Separation Between Higher Education and Research in the USSR: Myth or Reality? -- University Research Capacity in Eastern Europe and Russia -- 3. University Research Capacity in the Republic of Belarus (1990-2020): Effects of the Education Policy of "Resovietization" -- 4. Democracy, Knowledge Economy, and Global Excellence: Mapping the Controlling Narratives of Latvian Research Reforms, 1990-2020 -- 5. Research Capacity in Lithuania since Independence -- 6. Internalising Research Capacity at Moldovan Universities: An Unfinished and Contested Project -- 7. Russia: The Rise of Research Universities -- 8. Ukrainian Universities and the Challenge of Research Capacity Development -- University Research Capacity in the Caucasus -- 9. University Research in Armenia: The Aftermath of Independence -- 10. Defining the Research University in Azerbaijan: Imported Global Trends or Rebranded Soviet Legacy? -- 11. University-based Research and Development in Georgia -- University Research Capacity in Central Asia -- 12. Thirty Years of Research Capacity Development in Kazakhstani Higher Education -- 13. Evolution of Research Capacity at Higher Education Institutions in Kyrgyz Republic -- 14. From Policy Design to Lived Experiences: Developing University Research Capacity in Tajikistan since 1991 -- 15. Building University Research Capacity in Uzbekistan -- 16. Building Research Capacity at Universities: Imagining, Strategizing, and Ordering.

This edited volume represents a collective contribution to the current debates on developing university research capacity. The chapters in this volume offer empirical case studies from post-Soviet countries which share a common history, common policies and practices of higher education. These commonalities make the regional focus meaningful and analytically valid. At the same time, the case studies demonstrate divergence from the shared Soviet tradition and offer historical, sociological, and political analyses of how and in what ways universities in former Soviet countries internalised their research mission and developed the capacity to carry out this mission. This volume is the first of its kind to examine national and institutional resources, political will, and individual agency to understand how these influenced universities' motivation, expertise, and opportunities of undertaking research since the early 1990s, and how universities changed their structures and practices under these influences. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of education, sociology, political science, and economics. Maia Chankseliani is Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Oxford, UK. She investigates societal, institutional, and policy forces that shape tertiary education and the potential of tertiary education and research for transforming societies. Igor Fedyukin is Associate Professor of History at the HSE University in Moscow, Russia. He is the author of numerous publications and served as Vice-Minister of Education and Science of Russia in 2012-2013. Isak Frumin is Head of Observatory of Innovations in Higher Education at Jacobs University Bremen and distinguished professor at the HSE University in Moscow, Russia. He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Education and promotes the study of post-socialist education as a source of new theory of education development. .