This is a list of research projects I’ve been implementing while affiliated with Tbilisi State University. For CRRC-Georgia’s complete research portfolio refer here

• [Co-investigator, project lead Prof. Jeff Sahaeo, Carleton University] 2022: ”Displacement in Wartime: Routes and Destinations, Space, Place and Pluralism: Russia’s Invasion, Ukrainian Actions and Consequences for Europe and Eurasia,” funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC, €38,000)
• [Co-applicant in Georgia, project lead Dr. Lela Rekhviashvili, Leibnitz Institute for Regional Geography] 2019-2020: ”Green Mobilisations in the cities of Central Asia and the South Caucasus,” funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (€39,000)
• [Principal Investigator] 2019-2021: ”Examining the Social Impacts of Large, Private Sector Urban Development in Batumi and Tbilisi, Georgia,” funded by the Georgian National Science Foundation (€32,000). Project webiste
• [Principal Investigator] 2018: ”Elites, Historical Legacies, and Electoral Behavior in Georgia,” funded by the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Tbilisi State University (€4,000)
• [Senior Researcher] 2015: ”Spatial Aspects of Urban Development of Tbilisi: The Influence of Mobility on Change of Social Environment,” funded by the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Tbilisi State University (€5,000)
• [Project Lead] 2014-2016: ”Social Contents of Changing Housing Landscapes of the Capital Metropolises of Armenia and Georgia: Institutions, Stakeholders, Policies” in collaboration with the Department of Human Geography at Tbilisi State University and Yerevan State University, funded by the Academic Swiss Caucasus Network (€88,000)
• [Senior Researcher] ”Coping with Marginality and Exclusion: Can IDP (Internally Displaced Person) Communities Successfully Integrate into Mainstream Urban Societies in Georgia?” funded by the Academic Swiss Caucasus Network (€43,000)