Dr Helen Hardman has BA in Russian, an MA in Slavonic and East European Studies and defended her PhD in Politics at St Anthony's College, Oxford University, in 2006. Her doctoral thesis, on democratization in Central and Eastern Europe between 1988 and 1991, was supported by archival research in Russia and Hungary and interviews conducted in Moscow, Budapest abd Belgrade.
This work is currently being edited for monograph publication. Between 2005 and 2007 Helen taught the computer-assisted textual analysis software QSR N6 graduate course for the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford. From 2007 to 2008 she taught courses on Russian in East and Central European Politics for the Political Science and EURUS departments at Carleton University, Ottawa. Her current research interests include media freedoms and religion and politics in Central and Eastern Europe.
Stephen Coleman, Elizabeth Frazer, Helen Hardman (2004) "Democratic culture and the Internet" in Krzysztof Piech (ed) The Knowledge Based Economy in Transition Countries, SSEES-UCL Press, London, 141-174
Censorship of the Internet in Russia' presented in the panel 'Experiences of self & co-regulation at conference 'Safety and Security in a Networked World: Balancing Cyber-Rights and Responsibilities', Oxford Internet Institute in September 2005
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/cybersafety/extensions/pdfs/papers/helen_hardman.pdf
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