Dr Egle Rindzeviciute

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Egle Rindzeviciute
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About

I joined the Department in September 2015 from Sciences Po, the Paris Institute of Political Studies. Following my PhD I taught and did research at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Linköping in Sweden as well as Sciences Po, France. In addition to this, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, the University of Cambridge, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Bremen University, the Humboldt University of Berlin and Gothenburg University.

I maintain my links with the Nordic academic community as an Honorary Research Fellow at Gothenburg Research Institute, Gothenburg University, and an Associate Professor in Culture Studies (docent) at the Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Linköping University, Sweden.

My last book "The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science" (Cornell University Press, 2023) explores the politics and epistemology of scientific predictions and their use in public policy in the long twentieth century, thus extending the research agenda presented in my previous book, entitled 'The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World' (Cornell University Press, 2016), that focused on the role of systems thinking and computer modelling as they were deployed to construct global governance.

My next book with a preliminary title 'Beyond Containment: The Making of Nuclear Cultural Heritage' will present a pioneering study of the shaping of nuclearity in museums and heritage sites in the Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.

Academic responsibilities

Associate Professor of Criminology and Sociology

Qualifications

  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy, the UK, 2017
  • PhD in Culture Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, 2008
  • MA, Nationalism Studies, Central European University, Hungary, 2001
  • MSc, Management of Culture, Moscow School of Social & Economic Sciences, Russia, 2000
  • BA, Art History and Theory, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, 1999

Teaching and learning

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

My research interests revolve around the sociology of scientific expertise and public policy and sociology of culture, particularly cultural policy, heritage and creative industries. Over the years, I gave more than 100 invited talks and lectures in such universities as Harvard, Cornell, NYU, Cambridge, Oxford, Zurich ETH, Copenhagen Business School, EHESS and ENS. 

I link my research to practice through collaborations with arts and cultural organisations, such as Science Museum in London, National Museums Scotland, Serpentine Gallery and the Architectural Association in London, Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre and the Baltic and Lithuanian pavilions for the Venice Biennial of Architecture, which resulted in public events and major exhibitions. 

I am P.I. of Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage (NuSPACES), an international research project funded by the AHRC and consortium as part of the EU JPICH programme (499,075 Euro, 2021-2024), and Co-I of Artrepreneurs on the Edge: Artistic Autonomy, Marketization and the Organization of Creative Practice in the Baltic Sea Region (ArtR), led by Dr Ann-Sofie Koping (Sodertorn University) and funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation (5,999,000 SEK, 2024-2026).

Previously I convened a research networking project Nuclear Cultural Heritage: From Knowledge to Practice, funded by the AHRC (2018-2021) and was a Co-Investigator at the international research project Atomic Heritage Goes Critical, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (2018-2021), where I explored the construction of nuclear cultural heritage in Russia and the UK.

I sit on the advisory boards of "Materialising the Cold War," a research project lead by P.I. Prof Sam Alberti, National Museums Scotland, and Prof Holger Nehring, University of Stirling, which will culminate in a major exhibition about Scotland and the Cold War. 

I am a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), an editorial board member of The History of Social Science, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, an Associate Editor of Culture Unbound and an advisory board member of Sapiens. 

As of 2022, I am a member of the AHRC Peer Review College. In 2016-2022, I served as a member of the Executive Group of the National Research Programme "Modernity in Lithuania," the Lithuanian National Research Council. At Kingston, I was a member of Senate (2019-2022). 

I serve as Postgraduate Research Coordinator at the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology. 

PhD supervision:

Ms Lavinia Tinelli, Phd student in Sociology, KU. Dissertation: "Lolita subcultures in London and Tokyo." Funded by a KU PhD studentship and Techne AHRC Doctoral Partnership.

Mr Paul Robert Maskall, PhD student in Criminology, KU. Dissertation: "Fraud is not an emotional problem, until it is: A cognitive heuristic and systems thinking approach to protecting the public from fraud." Funded by Finance UK.

Mr Richard Donnelly, PhD student in Social Sciences, KU. Dissertation: "Comparing the British and German corona-sceptic conspiracy theory movements and their relationships to the far right, political violence and terrorism." Funded by the KU studentship.

Mr Ajay Hothi, PhD student in Design, KU. Dissertation on branding and community in association football clubs. Funded by Techne AHRC Doctoral Partnership.

Ms Virginija Januskeviciute, PhD student in Art History, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. Dissertation: "The futures of artworks, or the futurity of artworks in the contemporary art field in Lithuania after 1990." Funded by the Academy's studentship.

I have served internationally as an external examiner of PhD theses (e.g. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Lausanne, IMT Institute of Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, Vilnius University, and Oslo University).

I welcome ambitious PhD students interested in the cultural and political sociology.

Research student supervision

Professional practice, knowledge exchange and impact

Professional and scholarly affiliations

  • International Association of Art Critics
  • British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies
  • The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

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