Professor Dr. Kristina Pikovskaia

Biography

Kristina Pikovskaia is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science. She is the principal investigator on the project 'Lived Citizenship in the Informal Economy' in Urban Zambia. Kristina completed her master's in 2017 and her doctorate in 2021 at the University of Oxford, where her thesis, titled ‘Vendors Keep the Economy Running’: Economic Informalisation and Citizenship in Harare, Zimbabwe, examined the impact of profound economic informalisation on people's ideas and practices of citizenship. Parts of her research have been published in various journals including the Journal of Southern African Studies and Nations and Nationalism. Kristina is passionate about teaching and has taught several courses at Oxford and Edinburgh, focusing on topics such as Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa and Governance, Development and Poverty in Africa. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and received a SEDA Professional Development Award in 2019.

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