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Dr. Vainius Bartasevičius

Lecturer

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Vainius received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Sussex in 2020, with a thesis on the politics of citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe. During his PhD years, Vainius taught courses on Migration Policy and the Far Right and Research Methods. In addition, Vainius teaches courses on Migration and Citizenship (elective), Quantitative Research Methods (Global Challenges in Politics programme) and Causal Analysis: Quantitative and Mixed Methods Research (MSc in Public Policy Analysis programme) at VU TSPMI. Vainius also has more than seven years of experience working on public policy evaluations (mainly quantitative) commissioned by institutions in Lithuania, the United Kingdom and the European Union.

Membership of working groups, councils, etc. within Vilnius University and IIRPS VU

Research projects and grants, your position in the projects
Postdoctoral Fellow in the research project “How do deeply rooted cultural attitudes shape citizens’ attitudes towards immigration in Europe? The role of notions of national identity” (December 2022 – December 2024)
Selected conference papers

In the article “Can’t trust outsiders? Accounting for immigration attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe” to be presented at the ECPR Conference in Prague, September 2023.

Presentation at the 25th International Conference of Europeanists (Chicago), organised by Council for European Studies, March 2018. Presentation title: The imprint of national minority issues on citizenship policies

Presentation at the 15th Biennial International Postgraduate Conference on CEE and the FSU (London), organised by UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, February 2018. Presentation title: The Role of National Minorities in the Development of Citizenship Policies in CEE

Courses taught

Migration and citizenship

Quantitative Research Methods

Causal analysis: quantitative and mixed-methods studies

Research interests

Migration

Citizenship

Nationalism studies

Research methods

Comparative politics

Publications

Bartasevičius, V. (2023). Popular understandings of national identity in Europe: Still a gulf between West and East? Nations and Nationalism, 29(3), 939-957. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12917

Bartasevičius, V. (2022). Popular understandings of national identity in Europe: Still a gulf between West and East? Nations and Nationalism, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12917

Bartasevičius, V. (2021). Explaining Access to Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 54 (3), pp. 27–50. https://doi.org/10.1525/j.postcomstud.2021.54.3.27

Bartasevičius, V. (2013). Politinė parama Vidurio ir Rytų Europoje: partinės sistemos ir koalicijos dydžio poveikis. Politologija, 71(3), 78-105. https://doi.org/10.15388/Polit.2013.3.1731