{"id":21318,"date":"2026-01-26T14:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teise.org\/?post_type=darbuotojai&p=21318"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:08:39","slug":"dr-gavin-victor-slade","status":"publish","type":"darbuotojai","link":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/darbuotojai\/dr-gavin-victor-slade\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Gavin Victor Slade<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Qualifications<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certificate in Enhancing Programme Leadership.<\/em> 2023. Advance HE, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PgCE).<\/em> 2017–<\/strong>2018. University of Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DPhil in Criminology<\/em> St. Antony\u2019s College & Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, Oct 2007-April 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MSc with Distinction Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice.<\/em> Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Sept 2006-Sept 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MA with Distinction Political Science.<\/em> Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Sept 2004\u2013June 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BA with First Class Joint Honours, History and Philosophy.<\/em> University of Wales, Lampeter, (UWL) Oct 1998-July 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Employment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor of Sociology,<\/em> Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan August 2018-Present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair of Department of Sociology and Anthropology,<\/em> Nazarbayev University, School of Sciences and Humanities August 2019-2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post-PhD Employment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecturer in Central, East European and Eurasian Studies, <\/em>University of Glasgow; Dec 2015-August 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow,<\/em> Dahlem Research School, Freie Universitat, Berlin. July 2014-December 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor in Criminology (limited-term),<\/em> Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, University of Toronto. July 2013-July 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow,<\/em> Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, University of Toronto, Canada Sept 2012-July 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade G. 2013. Reorganizing Crime: Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia <\/em>(Oxford: Oxford University Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edited Collections<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 <\/em>[Online], Issue 19 | 2018, Online since 13 July 2019, URL : http:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/pipss\/5242<\/a>; DOI : 10.4000\/pipss.5242.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade G. & Light M. eds. 2015. Crime and Criminal Justice in the Post-Soviet Region. Theoretical Criminology: Special Issue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peer-reviewed articles<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>, 1-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade, Gavin, and Olga Zeveleva. „The pains of prison reform: Informal prisoner governance and penal subjectivities in Estonia and Lithuania.” Punishment & Society<\/em> (2024): 14624745241248930.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>, 64<\/em>(1), 17-33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade, G., & Trochev, A. (2024). Our zona<\/em>: the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan. Post-Soviet Affairs<\/em>, 1-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>, 00113921241238431.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piacentini, Laura, and Gavin Slade. „East is east? Beyond the global north and global south in criminology.” The British Journal of Criminology<\/em> 64.3 (2024): 521-537.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade, G., Trochev, A., & Piacentini, L. (2023). Unlikely downsizers: The prison service’s role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan. Theoretical Criminology<\/em>, 27<\/em>(4), 573-596.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade, G., & Azbel, L. (2022). Managing drugs in the prisoner society: heroin and social order in Kyrgyzstan\u2019s prisons. Punishment & Society<\/em>, 24<\/em>(1), 26-45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade, Gavin, Alexei Trochev, and Malika Talgatova (2021). „The Limits of Authoritarian Modernisation: Zero Tolerance Policing in Kazakhstan.” Europe-Asia Studies<\/em> 73.1: 178-199.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kekoshvili, V., & Slade, G. (2020). Prisoner games children play: Youth socialization and criminal subcultures in the Republic of Georgia. Problems of Post-Communism<\/em>, 67<\/em>(3), 277-287.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butler, M., Slade, G., & Dias, C. N. (2018). Self-governing prisons: Prison gangs in an international perspective. Trends in Organized Crime<\/em>, (ahead of print) 1-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade, G. (2018) Unpacking Prison Reform in the Former Soviet Union, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies<\/em> [Online], Issue 19 | 2018, Online since 13 July 2019, URL : http:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/pipss\/5242<\/a>; DOI : 10.4000\/pipss.5242.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade, G., & Vai\u010di\u016bnien\u0117, R. (2018). In comparative perspective: The effects of incarceration abroad on penal subjectivity among prisoners in Lithuania. European journal of criminology<\/em>, 15<\/em>(2), 217-234.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade G. & Kupatadze A. 2017. \u2018Popular Punitiveness? Punishment and Attitudes to Law in Post-Soviet Georgia\u2019 Europe-Asia Studies<\/em> 69(6), pp. 879-896.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade G. 2017. Informality as Illegality in Georgia\u2019s War on Crime Caucasus Survey<\/em> 5(1), pp. 51-64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade G. 2016. \u2018Violence as Information during Prison Reform: Evidence from the Post-Soviet Region\u2019 British Journal of Criminology. <\/em>56(5), pp. 937-955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piacentini L. & Slade G. 2015. \u2018Architecture and Attachment: Carceral Collectivism and the Problem of Prison Reform in Russia and Georgia.\u2019 Theoretical Criminology. <\/em>19: 179-197.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade G. & Light M. 2015. \u2018Crime and Criminal Justice after Communism: Why Study the Post-Soviet Region?\u2019 Theoretical Criminology: Special Edition.<\/em> 19: 147-158.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bosworth M. & Slade G. 2014. \u2018In Search of Recognition: Gender and Staff-Detainee Relationships in an British Immigration Removal Centre\u2019 Punishment & Society <\/em>16\/2: 169-186.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tangiashvili N. & Slade G. 2014. \u2018Zero Tolerance Schooling: Education Policy, Crime and Democracy in Post-Soviet Georgia\u2019 Post-Soviet Affairs<\/em> 30\/5 416-440.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade G. 2012. \u2018No Country for Made Men: the Decline of the Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia.\u2019 Law and Society Review <\/em>46\/3 623-649.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade, G. 2012. \u2018Georgia\u2019s War on Crime: Creating Security in a post-Revolutionary Context.\u2019 European Security<\/em> 21\/1 37-56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade, G. 2007 \u2018The Threat of the Thief. Who has Normative Influence in Georgian Society?\u2019 in Global Crime<\/em> 8\/2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade, G. 2007 \u2018Georgia and Thieves-in-Law: Review Article\u2019 in Global Crime<\/em>, 8\/3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P<\/em>eer-Reviewed Book Chapters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade G. 2022. \u2018Who are you in Life: The Gulag Reputation System and its Legacies Today\u2019 in Barenberg A and Johnson E. (eds.) Rethinking the Gulag: Sources, Identities and Legacies <\/em>(Bloomington: University of Indiana Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 <\/em>(London: Routledge).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trochev A. & Slade G. 2019. Trials and Tribulations: Kazakhstan\u2019s Criminal Justice Reforms. In Caron J-F. ed. Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy: Between Continuity and Rupture<\/em> (Palgrave MacMillan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade G. 2017 \u2018A Return to Gulags? The Use of Prison in the former Soviet Union.\u2019 Sozzo M. & Melossi D (eds). The Political Economy of Punishment Today: Visions, Debates and Challenges <\/em>(Routledge).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade G. 2017 \u2018Punishment and State-Building in Post-Soviet Georgia.\u2019 In Schatz E. & Heathershaw J. (eds). Logics of State Strength in Eurasia <\/em>(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade G. 2017. \u2018Remembering and Forgetting the Gulag: Prison Tourism in the former Soviet Union.\u2019 In Walby K. et al. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism. <\/em>(Palgrave Macmillan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slade, G., 2015. \u2018Criminology of Ma\ufb01as.\u2019 In: James D. Wright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(ed), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences<\/em>, 2nd edition, Vol 14. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 429\u2013434.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consultancy and Expert Work<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member of the International Council of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan 2021-present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Organized Crime Index. Consultant for Central Asia and the Caucasus 2022-present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penal Reform International. Expert on project: Monitoring of the Georgian government’s commitments promoting penal reforms through engagement of CSOs<\/em>. 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Council of Europe, invited expert on the CoE program Support to Criminal Justice Reform in the Republic of Moldova. Dec 2016-June 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European Union program \u2018Enhancing Criminal Justice in Kazakhstan\u2019. Invited expert. Training police and prosecutors in modern scientific criminological research methods. Design and analysis of nationally representative victimization survey. 2016-2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Society Georgia Foundation. Invited researcher on the project: On the Prevalence and Causes of Human Rights Abuse in Georgia\u2019s Prisons. May 2013-Dec 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Refugee Rights Initiative’s Rights in Exile Programme, expert for former Soviet Union; have provided expert testimony in asylum cases: 2015-2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freedom House: Reviewer 2011, 2012, & 2013: Nations in Transition Country Reports on Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grants and Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collaborative Research Project. 2024-2026. Nazarbayev University. PI. Central Asia\u2019s Gulag: Mapping and Managing Penal Heritage in Kazakhstan.<\/em> 250,000 USD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/em> 35,000 CDN. PI: Matthew Light, University of Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Helsinki, Visiting Fellowship, Aleksanteri Institute. Jan-March 2023. 6,500 Euro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Liverpool, Virtual Visiting Fellowship. 2022-2023. 1,000 Euro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European Commission. March 2020: External Co-I. Monitoring of the Georgian government’s commitments promoting penal reforms through engagement of CSOs<\/em>. 6,000 Euro. PI: Tsira Chanturia Penal Reform International South Caucasus Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) Research Seed Fund (UK). June 2020: External Co-I: Alzhir Gulag: Difficult Heritage, Memorialization and Multilingualism.<\/em> \u00a39582. (PI Anna Saunders, University of Liverpool).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/em> \u00a32100. PI: Daniel Horn, University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Policy Research Grant, Nazarbayev University, Sept. 2019 $10,000 USD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Open Call Grant. May 2018-September 2023. Joint PI. In the Gulag\u2019s Shadow: Producing, Consuming and Perceiving Prisons in the former Soviet Union.<\/em> \u00a3730,000 GBP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early Career Researcher Mobility Award, Glasgow University to McGill, Montreal, Nov, 2017. \u00a31,630 GBP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erasumus + two staff mobility grants with partner universities Glasgow University to Ilia State University, Georgia and Kyiv Mohyla Academy, June and October 2017, \u00a34,000 GBP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theoretical Criminology Best Article Prize for 2015: \u2018Architecture & Attachment: Carceral Collectivism and the Problem of Prison Reform in Russia and Georgia\u2019 (with Laura Piacentini) \u00a3100 GBP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Dahlem Research School, Freie Universitat, Berlin, July 2014-Dec 2015 60,000 Euro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Sep 2012 to Sep 2013 $32,500 CDN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visiting Scholarship, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Sept 2011-Dec 2011 $3000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger Hood Prize from Oxford Criminology Centre. October 2007. \u00a3250.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic and Social Research Council four year doctoral scholarship Sept 2006. \u00a350,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuition fee waiver from CEU, Political Science Dept. Sept. 2004 $10,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bursary from UWL Philosophy Dept. for performance on Joint Honours BA. Sept 1999. \u00a3300.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecturing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Organized Crime and Corruption\u2019. Elective course, Nazarbayev University, Aug-Dec 2018-to present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Classical Sociological Theory\u2019. Mandatory course, Nazarbayev University, Jan-April 2019-to present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Sociology of Punishment\u2019. Elective Course, Nazarbayev University, Spring 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Crime and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union\u2019. Honours elective course, University of Glasgow, Jan-Mar 2016 & Sept-Dec 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Post-communist Russia and the Former Soviet Union\u2019. Level 2, elective course, University of Glasgow. Sept-Dec 2016; Sep-Dec 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Organized Crime and Corruption\u2019. Elective course, University of Toronto, Woodsworth College. Jan-May 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Policing\u2019. Elective course, University of Toronto, Woodsworth College. Jan-May 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Understanding Criminological Research\u2019. Elective course, University of Toronto, Woodsworth College. Sept-Dec 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Immigration & Crime\u2019. Elective course, University of Toronto, Woodsworth College. Sept-Dec 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Informal Practices and Social Order in Eurasia\u2019. Elective course, Nazarbayev University, Jan-April 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Contested States: The South Caucasus since 1991\u2019. University of Glasgow. Jan-April 2017; Jan-April 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Organized Crime and Corruption\u2019. Elective course, University of Toronto, Centre for Criminology, Jan-May 2013 and Jan-May 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Crime and Punishment During Economic and Political Transition\u2019. Elective course, Ilia Chavchavadze State University, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Tbilisi, Georgia, Sep-Dec 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Criminological Problems and Research Questions in the Post-Soviet Space\u2019 Georgian Institute for Public Affairs, Tbilisi, Georgia, Sept-Oct 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Languages<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

English (native ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian (advanced speaking, reading, listening and writing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern Greek (intermediate speaking, reading, and listening; pre-intermediate writing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgian (pre-intermediate reading and listening; basic speaking and writing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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