Gregory Simons

Education/Qualifications

2015                 named Docent (Associate Professor) in Political Science at Uppsala University on 11 September.

2001 – 2004       PhD French and Russian Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Title of the thesis – Ideology, Image-making and the Media in Putin’s Russia. On exchange at Department of East European Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden since April 2002. Successfully defended at the Russian Union of Journalists on Zubovsky Boulevard, Moscow on August 3, 2004. Opponent was the Executive Secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists.

2000 – 2001      Master’s thesis with the Department of French and Russian, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Thesis title is The Impact of Political and Business Interests on the Contemporary Russian Media. Received Masters with Distinction grade

1998 – 1999      Russian Government Scholarship to the Russian University of Friendship Peoples in Moscow Russia for intensive language training

1998                 Bachelor of Arts with Honours with the Department of French and Russian, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Received B. A. Honours (First Class).

1995 – 1997      Bachelor of Arts with the Department of French and Russian, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

1988 – 1990      Bachelor of Arts with the Department History, University of Canterbury, New Zealand