Eriks Varpahovskis

Korean Government Scholarship Program, 2015-2019, Ph.D.

Korea Foundation policy-oriented research, 2019, ''Realizing the Public Diplomacy Potential of Korean Government Scholarship - A Mixed Study of Alumni and Current Students"

Korea Foundation policy-oriented research, 2018, ''Korean Government Scholarship Program (KGSP) as a Public Diplomacy Tool''

Associate Professor (Docent)

Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

2023/9 – now

Postdoctoral research fellow

Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

2020/9 – 2023/8

Research assistant to Dr. Nancy Snow, Dr. Kadir Jun Ayhan & Dr. Moamen Gouda.

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea

The research project “Realizing the Public Diplomacy Potential of Korean Government Scholarship - A Mixed Study of Alumni and Current Students”.

2019/1 – 2020/1

Research assistant to Dr. Nancy Snow & Dr. Kadir Jun Ayhan.

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea

The research project “Korean Government Scholarship Program (KGSP) as a Public Diplomacy Tool”.

2018/1 – 2019/1

Account manager for Russia/CIS

Ve Interactive, London, the UK

2014/2 – 2015/7

Client Relations Manager/Market Researcher

Profi Online Research, Moscow, Russia

2012/10 – 2013/11

Various positions 

European Youth Parliament – Russia (EYP-Russia)

2009 – 2016 (7 years)

- Challenges and Opportunities of Sino-Nordic Science Diplomacy

- Comparison of South Korean and Japanese Arctic Diplomacy

- Nation branding and soft power through transnational higher education in Asia (select countries)

- Evaluation of Memory Wars in East Asia through the concept of cultural security

- Comparison of South Korean and Japanese ODA diplomacy in Africa/ASEAN/Central Asia/ Latin America (select region)

- City diplomacy in Asia (select cities)

- Science diplomacy (select case study, e.g., ITER)

- Youth diplomacy as a driver of country image promotion (select case study, e.g., GKS, MEXT, OIC youth forum, BRICS youth forum, etc.)

- Country branding/ nation bradning/nationalism in Games (e.g. FIFA, Genshin Impact)

- MOOC platforms from perspective of country branding/ nation bradning

- Informal relations between businesspeople (e.g. Guanxi)

- Evaluation of mega-events as a country branding instrument (select a case study in Asia, e.g., Olympics, EXPO, hosting headquarters, etc.)

- Chinese museum diplomacy as public diplomacy and soft power tool 

- Video products (Series, Movies, Mukbang, etc.) as a driver of purchase behavior (Experimental study)

- Evolution of South Korean migration policy

- Diaspora diplomacy in Asia (select case study, e.g., the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia)

- Development of migration policies in Asia

- Museum diplomacy

Feel free to come up with your topic, we can discuss it.