Qualifications
Certificate in Enhancing Programme Leadership. 2023. Advance HE, UK.
Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PgCE). 2017–2018. University of Glasgow.
DPhil in Criminology St. Antony’s College & Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, Oct 2007-April 2011.
MSc with Distinction Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Sept 2006-Sept 2007
MA with Distinction Political Science. Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Sept 2004–June 2005.
BA with First Class Joint Honours, History and Philosophy. University of Wales, Lampeter, (UWL) Oct 1998-July 2001.
Current Employment
Associate Professor of Sociology, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan August 2018-Present.
Chair of Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Nazarbayev University, School of Sciences and Humanities August 2019-2023.
Post-PhD Employment
Lecturer in Central, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Glasgow; Dec 2015-August 2018.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Dahlem Research School, Freie Universitat, Berlin. July 2014-December 2015.
Assistant Professor in Criminology (limited-term), Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, University of Toronto. July 2013-July 2014.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, University of Toronto, Canada Sept 2012-July 2013.
Publications
Books
Slade G. 2013. Reorganizing Crime: Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
In Russian: Слейд Г. 2021. Реорганизованная преступность: мафия и антимафия в постсоветской Грузии (Boston: Academic Studies Press).
Edited Collections
Slade G., Le Huerou A., & Sieca-Kozlowski E. eds. 2018. The Evolution of Prisons and Penality in the Former Soviet Union. Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies [Online], Issue 19 | 2018, Online since 13 July 2019, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/5242; DOI : 10.4000/pipss.5242.
Slade G. & Light M. eds. 2015. Crime and Criminal Justice in the Post-Soviet Region. Theoretical Criminology: Special Issue.
Peer-reviewed articles
Kravtsova, A., & Slade, G. (2024). A Sense of Stalinism: Emotion, Authenticity, and Memory in Visitor Experiences of Gulag Museums in Russia. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 1-21.
Slade, Gavin, and Olga Zeveleva. „The pains of prison reform: Informal prisoner governance and penal subjectivities in Estonia and Lithuania.” Punishment & Society (2024): 14624745241248930.
Slade, G., Piacentini, L., & Kravtsova, A. (2024). Ghosts of the Gulag: negotiating spectres of the penal past in Northern Russia. The British Journal of Criminology, 64(1), 17-33.
Slade, G., & Trochev, A. (2024). Our zona: the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan. Post-Soviet Affairs, 1-17.
Slade, G., Turlubekova, Z., & Piacentini, L. (2024). Who recounts the Stalinist past? Mnemonic roles, acts of remembering and life-scripts in Russian families. Current Sociology, 00113921241238431.
Piacentini, Laura, and Gavin Slade. „East is east? Beyond the global north and global south in criminology.” The British Journal of Criminology 64.3 (2024): 521-537.
Slade, G., Trochev, A., & Piacentini, L. (2023). Unlikely downsizers: The prison service’s role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan. Theoretical Criminology, 27(4), 573-596.
Slade, G., & Azbel, L. (2022). Managing drugs in the prisoner society: heroin and social order in Kyrgyzstan’s prisons. Punishment & Society, 24(1), 26-45.
Slade, Gavin, Alexei Trochev, and Malika Talgatova (2021). „The Limits of Authoritarian Modernisation: Zero Tolerance Policing in Kazakhstan.” Europe-Asia Studies 73.1: 178-199.
Kekoshvili, V., & Slade, G. (2020). Prisoner games children play: Youth socialization and criminal subcultures in the Republic of Georgia. Problems of Post-Communism, 67(3), 277-287.
Butler, M., Slade, G., & Dias, C. N. (2018). Self-governing prisons: Prison gangs in an international perspective. Trends in Organized Crime, (ahead of print) 1-16.
Slade, G. (2018) Unpacking Prison Reform in the Former Soviet Union, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies [Online], Issue 19 | 2018, Online since 13 July 2019, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/5242; DOI : 10.4000/pipss.5242.
Slade, G., & Vaičiūnienė, R. (2018). In comparative perspective: The effects of incarceration abroad on penal subjectivity among prisoners in Lithuania. European journal of criminology, 15(2), 217-234.
Slade G. & Kupatadze A. 2017. ‘Popular Punitiveness? Punishment and Attitudes to Law in Post-Soviet Georgia’ Europe-Asia Studies 69(6), pp. 879-896.
Slade G. 2017. Informality as Illegality in Georgia’s War on Crime Caucasus Survey 5(1), pp. 51-64.
Slade G. 2016. ‘Violence as Information during Prison Reform: Evidence from the Post-Soviet Region’ British Journal of Criminology. 56(5), pp. 937-955.
Piacentini L. & Slade G. 2015. ‘Architecture and Attachment: Carceral Collectivism and the Problem of Prison Reform in Russia and Georgia.’ Theoretical Criminology. 19: 179-197.
Slade G. & Light M. 2015. ‘Crime and Criminal Justice after Communism: Why Study the Post-Soviet Region?’ Theoretical Criminology: Special Edition. 19: 147-158.
Bosworth M. & Slade G. 2014. ‘In Search of Recognition: Gender and Staff-Detainee Relationships in an British Immigration Removal Centre’ Punishment & Society 16/2: 169-186.
Tangiashvili N. & Slade G. 2014. ‘Zero Tolerance Schooling: Education Policy, Crime and Democracy in Post-Soviet Georgia’ Post-Soviet Affairs 30/5 416-440.
Slade G. 2012. ‘No Country for Made Men: the Decline of the Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia.’ Law and Society Review 46/3 623-649.
Slade, G. 2012. ‘Georgia’s War on Crime: Creating Security in a post-Revolutionary Context.’ European Security 21/1 37-56.
Slade, G. 2007 ‘The Threat of the Thief. Who has Normative Influence in Georgian Society?’ in Global Crime 8/2.
Slade, G. 2007 ‘Georgia and Thieves-in-Law: Review Article’ in Global Crime, 8/3.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Slade G. 2022. ‘Who are you in Life: The Gulag Reputation System and its Legacies Today’ in Barenberg A and Johnson E. (eds.) Rethinking the Gulag: Sources, Identities and Legacies (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press).
Dias C., Butler M. and Slade G. 2020. Prison Gangs. In Birch P and Sicard L. eds. Prisons and Community Corrections: Critical Issues and Emerging Controversies (London: Routledge).
Trochev A. & Slade G. 2019. Trials and Tribulations: Kazakhstan’s Criminal Justice Reforms. In Caron J-F. ed. Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy: Between Continuity and Rupture (Palgrave MacMillan).
Slade G. 2017 ‘A Return to Gulags? The Use of Prison in the former Soviet Union.’ Sozzo M. & Melossi D (eds). The Political Economy of Punishment Today: Visions, Debates and Challenges (Routledge).
Slade G. 2017 ‘Punishment and State-Building in Post-Soviet Georgia.’ In Schatz E. & Heathershaw J. (eds). Logics of State Strength in Eurasia (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press).
Slade G. 2017. ‘Remembering and Forgetting the Gulag: Prison Tourism in the former Soviet Union.’ In Walby K. et al. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism. (Palgrave Macmillan).
Slade, G., 2015. ‘Criminology of Mafias.’ In: James D. Wright.
(ed), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 14. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 429–434.
Consultancy and Expert Work
Member of the International Council of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan 2021-present.
Global Organized Crime Index. Consultant for Central Asia and the Caucasus 2022-present.
United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, invited expert on the problem of religious extremism in prisons in Kazakhstan and Central Asia Dec 2018-2022.
Penal Reform International. Expert on project: Monitoring of the Georgian government’s commitments promoting penal reforms through engagement of CSOs. 2020.
Council of Europe, invited expert on the CoE program Support to Criminal Justice Reform in the Republic of Moldova. Dec 2016-June 2018.
European Union program ‘Enhancing Criminal Justice in Kazakhstan’. Invited expert. Training police and prosecutors in modern scientific criminological research methods. Design and analysis of nationally representative victimization survey. 2016-2018.
Open Society Georgia Foundation. Invited researcher on the project: On the Prevalence and Causes of Human Rights Abuse in Georgia’s Prisons. May 2013-Dec 2015.
Lighthouse Solicitors LLP. Expert testimony for a number of asylum cases involving citizens of the former Soviet Union claiming asylum in the UK. Jan 2017-present.
International Refugee Rights Initiative’s Rights in Exile Programme, expert for former Soviet Union; have provided expert testimony in asylum cases: 2015-2018.
Wilson’s Solicitors LLP. Expert testimony for a number of asylum cases involving citizens of the former Soviet Union claiming asylum in the UK. March 2015-2018.
Freedom House: Reviewer 2011, 2012, & 2013: Nations in Transition Country Reports on Georgia.
Grants and Awards
Collaborative Research Project. 2024-2026. Nazarbayev University. PI. Central Asia’s Gulag: Mapping and Managing Penal Heritage in Kazakhstan. 250,000 USD.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). 2023-2024. Co-I. Situating the Global East in Southernizing and Decolonizing Movements in Socio-Legal Studies. 35,000 CDN. PI: Matthew Light, University of Toronto.
University of Helsinki, Visiting Fellowship, Aleksanteri Institute. Jan-March 2023. 6,500 Euro.
University of Liverpool, Virtual Visiting Fellowship. 2022-2023. 1,000 Euro.
European Commission. March 2020: External Co-I. Monitoring of the Georgian government’s commitments promoting penal reforms through engagement of CSOs. 6,000 Euro. PI: Tsira Chanturia Penal Reform International South Caucasus Office.
Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) Research Seed Fund (UK). June 2020: External Co-I: Alzhir Gulag: Difficult Heritage, Memorialization and Multilingualism. £9582. (PI Anna Saunders, University of Liverpool).
Strathwide, University of Strathclyde internal funding. August 2020: External Co-I. Integrating satellite imagery and subsurface detection methods for exploration of historical sites of internment in the Kazakh steppe. £2100. PI: Daniel Horn, University of Strathclyde.
Social Policy Research Grant, Nazarbayev University, Sept. 2019 $10,000 USD.
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Open Call Grant. May 2018-September 2023. Joint PI. In the Gulag’s Shadow: Producing, Consuming and Perceiving Prisons in the former Soviet Union. £730,000 GBP.
Early Career Researcher Mobility Award, Glasgow University to McGill, Montreal, Nov, 2017. £1,630 GBP.
Erasumus + two staff mobility grants with partner universities Glasgow University to Ilia State University, Georgia and Kyiv Mohyla Academy, June and October 2017, £4,000 GBP.
Theoretical Criminology Best Article Prize for 2015: ‘Architecture & Attachment: Carceral Collectivism and the Problem of Prison Reform in Russia and Georgia’ (with Laura Piacentini) £100 GBP.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Dahlem Research School, Freie Universitat, Berlin, July 2014-Dec 2015 60,000 Euro.
Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Sep 2012 to Sep 2013 $32,500 CDN.
Visiting Scholarship, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Sept 2011-Dec 2011 $3000.
Roger Hood Prize from Oxford Criminology Centre. October 2007. £250.
Economic and Social Research Council four year doctoral scholarship Sept 2006. £50,000.
Tuition fee waiver from CEU, Political Science Dept. Sept. 2004 $10,000.
Bursary from UWL Philosophy Dept. for performance on Joint Honours BA. Sept 1999. £300.
Lecturing
Undergraduate
‘Organized Crime and Corruption’. Elective course, Nazarbayev University, Aug-Dec 2018-to present.
‘Classical Sociological Theory’. Mandatory course, Nazarbayev University, Jan-April 2019-to present.
‘Sociology of Punishment’. Elective Course, Nazarbayev University, Spring 2024.
‘Crime and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union’. Honours elective course, University of Glasgow, Jan-Mar 2016 & Sept-Dec 2016.
‘Post-communist Russia and the Former Soviet Union’. Level 2, elective course, University of Glasgow. Sept-Dec 2016; Sep-Dec 2017.
‘Organized Crime and Corruption’. Elective course, University of Toronto, Woodsworth College. Jan-May 2014.
‘Policing’. Elective course, University of Toronto, Woodsworth College. Jan-May 2014.
‘Understanding Criminological Research’. Elective course, University of Toronto, Woodsworth College. Sept-Dec 2013.
‘Immigration & Crime’. Elective course, University of Toronto, Woodsworth College. Sept-Dec 2013.
Graduate
‘Informal Practices and Social Order in Eurasia’. Elective course, Nazarbayev University, Jan-April 2019.
‘Contested States: The South Caucasus since 1991’. University of Glasgow. Jan-April 2017; Jan-April 2018.
‘Organized Crime and Corruption’. Elective course, University of Toronto, Centre for Criminology, Jan-May 2013 and Jan-May 2014.
‘Crime and Punishment During Economic and Political Transition’. Elective course, Ilia Chavchavadze State University, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Tbilisi, Georgia, Sep-Dec 2011.
‘Criminological Problems and Research Questions in the Post-Soviet Space’ Georgian Institute for Public Affairs, Tbilisi, Georgia, Sept-Oct 2011.
Languages
English (native ).
Russian (advanced speaking, reading, listening and writing).
Modern Greek (intermediate speaking, reading, and listening; pre-intermediate writing).
Georgian (pre-intermediate reading and listening; basic speaking and writing).