Gordana Uzelac

I am Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Sociology. I joined London Metropolitan University in 2002 after completing my PhD studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism at the London School of Economics.

I am teaching various modules on research methods, especially quantitative methods, sociological theory and ethnicity and nationalism at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

However, my main research areas include the formation of ethnic and national identities, the process of nation-formation and collective memory of the nation.

Since 2002 I am also a member of Editorial Board of the journal Nations and Nationalism.

Education and Academic Qualifications:

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) European Institute, London School of Economics;
• Master of Arts (MA) Degree in Sociology, Central European University, Prague;
• Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree in Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Current teaching Undergraduate Courses:

• Surveys: Making Sense of Data
• Investigating the Social
• Ethnicity and Nationalism
• Sociological Imagination

Postgraduate Courses:

• Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis
• Survey Design and Data Analysis

Short Courses:

• Applied Quantitative Analysis 1: Introduction to SPSS
• Applied Quantitative Analysis 2: Advanced SPSS methods

Administrative roles:

• PAA Sociology and Social Policy

Publications

• Malesevic, S. and Uzelac, G. (forthcoming) Montenegrin National Identity, Nations and Nationalism
• Uzelac, G. (2006) The Development of the Croatian Nation: An Historical and Sociological Analysis. Caredigion: The Edwin Mellen Press.
• Ichijo, A. & Uzelac, G. /Eds/ (2005) When is the Nation?, London: Routledge.
• Stephenson, S. and Uzelac, G. (2003) Students' Attitudes towards Group Presentation Assessment: A Survey at London Metropolitan University, Investigations in University Teaching and Learning, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 71-78.
• Uzelac, G. (2002) Morphogenesis of Nation, in Malesevic, S. and Haugaard, M. /eds/ Making Sense of Collectivity, London: Pluto Press, pp. 138-166.
• Uzelac, G. (2002) When is the Nation? Constituent Elements and Processes, Geopolitics, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 33-52.
• Uzelac, G. (1999) Perceptions of the Nation: The Example of Croatian Students in 1993, Canadian Review of the Studies in Nationalism, Vol. XXVI, No. 1-2, 123-138.
• Uzelac, G. (1998) Franjo Tudjman's Nationalist Ideology. East European Quarterly, Vol. XXXI, No.4, pp. 449-472.
• Uzelac, G. and Malesevic, S. (1997) Ethnic Distance, Power and War: The Case of Croatian Students, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 291-298.

Current Research Projects:

• 2007-2008 - International Human Rights and Fact Finding, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, based at Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute, London Metropolitan University.
• 2006-2007 - Rape in the 21st Century: Old Behaviors, New Contexts and Emerging Patterns, ESRC funded, based at Child & Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University.