Tatiana Chalaya | Social Sciences | Best Researcher Award

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Mrs Tatiana Chalaya | Social Sciences | Best Researcher Award

Comms Director at  Environmental Association “Nature Protection”, Russia

Tatiana Chalaya is a highly educated professional with a background in Biochemistry and a Master’s degree in Political Analysis and Public Policy from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She has honed her skills through various additional courses, including data analysis by R and Python, statistics, sociology, and social psychology.

Publication Profile:

Education:

  • 🎓 2022: Master’s Program in Political Analysis and Public Policy, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
  • 🎓 2003: Degree in Biochemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Work Experiences:

  • 🌳 Since 2023: Communication/Engagement Director, Association “Nature Protection”
  • 🌍 2018 – 2023: Communication/Engagement Director, Greenpeace Russia
  • 🌿 2015 – 2018: Head of Volunteer Unit, Greenpeace Russia
  • 🌍 2008 – 2014: Project Manager, Greenpeace Russia
  • 🌲 2005 – 2007: Forest Unit Assistant, Greenpeace Russia
  • 🧪 2003 – 2004: Junior Research Scientist, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry

Skills:

  • 🎙️ Interviews
  • 📊 Surveys, Experimental Research Design
  • 📊 Quantitative and Qualitative Content Analysis
  • 📈 Statistical Analysis in R, SPSS, and Python (Regression, Classification, Clustering)

Research Focus:

Tatiana Chalaya’s research encompasses diverse areas. In her latest work, “Avoiding the blame game,” co-authored with A. Uldanov (2024), she delves into the landscape fire policy debates in Russia, analyzing NGO and government narrative strategies. In collaboration with researchers Schlaufer, Pilkina, Khaynatskaya, Voronova, and Pozhivotko (2022), Chalaya explores how civil society organizations navigate communication in authoritarian settings, focusing on the Russian waste management debate. Additionally, her early contributions include investigating tissue specificity of methylation in human chromosome 19 (2006) and enhancing the specificity of DNA hybridization-based methods (2004). Tatiana’s research spans environmental policy, civil society dynamics, and molecular biology.

 

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