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Elena Minina is a researcher in comparative education, cultural sociology, and computational linguistics with over 20 years of experience in academic research, teaching, research consultancy, education policy development across various cultural settings including the UK, Scandinavia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and post-Soviet countries. Her current research combines in-depth intercultural analysis with educational policies and practices through computational methodologies. Elena's research interests include International Comparative Education, Cultural Sociology, Critical Public Policy, Computational Social Sciences, Big Qualitative Data, Corpus Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis. She is keen to supervise MA and PhD theses on a wide range of topics within comparative education and cultural sociology, focusing on themes such as the neoliberal expansion of education worldwide, and post-socialist and post-colonial educational transformations. Additionally, she is particularly interested in working with students who have an interest in skills related to computational social sciences and big qualitative data corpus research. At King’s College London, Elena contributes to teaching, module coordination, and program administration across a range of MA education programs.
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