Dr Tatsiana Chulitskaya is a fellow researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) where she is involved in the project related to civil society in Belarus. Previously she was a senior researcher at the Faculty of Diplomacy and Political Science, Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) (Lithuania) and she is continuing online teaching at VMU. She got her PhD from the Vilnius University in 2014 and the topic of her thesis is ‘Narratives of Social Justice in Non-Democratic Regime: Analysis of Belarusian case". Since 2011, Tatsiana also cooperates with the Belarusian informal educational project and think tank SYMPA/BIPART (Belarus) where she is in position of an academic director and expert. Her research interests are civil society and civic participation in non-democratic regimes, Belarusian studies, public policy analysis and public administration reforms in post-Soviet countries. She has a number of publications in different academic journals and she is also an author of policy-papers related to Belarusian issues. Tatsiana has been involved intoseveral international research projects including EU-STRAT project focused on Eastern Partnership (EaP) program analysis. Since 2020, Tatsiana cooperates with Belarus Oxford Observatory (OBO).
E-mail: T.Chulitskaya@mmu.ac.uk