Sergey S. Shirin

PHD in political sciences

Education:
Specialist in international relations. Graduated from the School of international relations of St. Petersburg State University.

Certified in "Advanced Networking Technologies" at the National Institute of Information Technologies (New Delhi, India).

Certified in "Innovative Educational Technologies" at the St. Petersburg State University (Russia).

Certified in "Innovative Technologies in Higher Education" at CHEPS (Center for Higher Education Policy Studies), University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Took the program "Introduction to HTML"
at Internet University of Computer Science.

Completed the training program "The Use of Information Technologies in Management and Teaching at Stanford University" at CREEES, Stanford University, USA.

Upheld PhD thesis "Role of foreign policy factors in forming of academic concepts of American culture in the UK and in Germany".

Current position and background professional experience:
Since 2004 till now lecturer of the Chair of international humanitarian contacts, School of international relations, St. Petersburg State University.

Scientific interests:
Humanitarian aspects of global distribution of new information technologies: intercultural communication in new information environment, international cooperation in IT sphere, innovations in international educational activities, technical progress and international protection of intellectual property.

International activity and participation in academic societies:
Member of international social movement "United Professionals for a New Social Web", member of the World Association of International Studies (http://wais.stanford.edu). One of the founders of Internetional Communist Network.

Foreign languages:
English, German

Additional information:
Participated in different international academic conferences, a.o. at Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, U.K., and at Slaviani Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Homepage: sergeyshirin.info

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