Rate My Professor Alexey Bessudnov

Bessudnov’s research examines ethnic groups, categories, immigration, and inequalities in education and the labour market in Russia and the UK, utilizing quantitative methods on diverse data sources including surveys, administrative records, social media, and experiments. He has been Principal Investigator on the British Academy grant “Ethnic groups in the Russian labour market” (2016-2019) and Co-Investigator on ESRC and Nuffield Foundation projects evaluating school inclusion and reading interventions (2015-2018). Notable publications include “Ethnic hierarchy and public attitudes towards immigrants in Russia” (European Sociological Review, 2016), “The myth about universal higher education: Russia in the international context” (Educational Studies, 2017), “Ethnic Discrimination in Multi-ethnic Societies: Evidence from Russia” (European Sociological Review, 2020), “Ethnic and regional inequalities in Russian military fatalities in Ukraine: Preliminary findings from crowdsourced data” (Demographic Research, 2023), and “Predicting perceived ethnicity with data on personal names in Russia” (Journal of Computational Social Science, 2023). At Exeter, he teaches social analysis, immigration, and statistical data analysis, and supervises PhD students researching ethnic inequalities in education. He also serves as a reviewer for journals such as the American Sociological Review, European Sociological Review, and Social Forces.