YULIA NESTEROVA, Ph.D.
Impact Activities
Building on my professional career, I engage with a wide range of actors and stakeholders for mutual learning and support. Throughout the years, I've engaged with beneficiaries ranging from government officials to international organisations, civil society, youth organisations, and schools. This page shows examples of such work.
Organisation of events
04.2024
Stepping up to the SDGs - Building partnerships between academia and NGOs to further the Sustainable Development Goals
1-day event for academics, social enterprises, and INGOs at the University of Glasgow
Co-led with Scotland's International Development Alliance
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04.2023
Global Challenges, Local Imperatives: Cities at the Forefront to Achieve Education 2030
Technical webinar with Manila city authorities.
Co-led with UNESCO IIEP, Mario De Los Reyes (University of the Philippines)
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03.2023
Youth-inclusive Peace Mediation
1-day workshop for key peacebuilding partners at the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Folke Bernadette Academy, EEAS, Search for Common Ground, Berghof Foundation, swisspeace).
Funded via ESRC Impact Acceleration Account. Co-led with Asli Ozcelik Olcay
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10.2022
‘Visions of Peace’: Arts-based Workshop for Youth and Community Members
4 workshops, peace wall, and peace data walk with youth ages 12-18 in Glasgow ESRC Festival of Social Sciences. Co-led with Sarah Anderson (Glasgow)
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10.2022
Global Challenges, Local Imperatives: Cities at the Forefront to Achieve Education 2030
Technical webinar with Kigali city authorities
Co-led with UNESCO IIEP, Vincent Manirakiza (University of Rwanda)
09.2022
‘Visions of Peace’: Arts-based Workshop for Youth and Community Members
2 workshops, peace wall, and peace data walk with youth ages 12-18 in Glasgow. School of Education – A Celebration of Learning for Life @ ARCadia. Co-led with Sarah Anderson (Glasgow)
10.2021
Developing Inclusive Lifelong Learning Policies and Practices in the Global South
3-day virtual symposium at University of Glasgow for policymakers, educators, NGOs working on lifelong learning in Africa. Funded via GCRF Small Grants. Co-led with Queralt Capsada-Munsech (Glasgow) in partnership with Mount Kenya University, University of Rwanda, Université d’Abomey Calavi, Benin
10.2020
Youth-led Peace: Inclusion of Youth in Peace Processes
2-day virtual symposium at University of Glasgow for UNDP, UNESCO, youth and other organisations in partnership with OSGEY and Beyond Borders Scotland. Funded via ESRC Impact Acceleration Account. Co-led with Asli Ozcelik Olcay, Graeme Young (Glasgow)
10.2020
Neighbourhood Matters - An Interactive Virtual Exhibition, University of Glasgow
ESRC Festival of Social Sciences. Co-led with Sohail Ahmad (Glasgow)
Workshops
- Anderson, S. and Nesterova, Y. (2024) Using arts-based methods to engage with youth and other vulnerable populations. Open Lectures in Educational Research Methods, Glasgow, UK, 20 Mar 2024.
- “Belonging” and UNESCO MGIEP’s #YouthWagingPeace – Youth-led guide on prevention of violent extremism through education [with W.Y. Alice Chan]. World Anti-Bullying Forum, Ireland, June 2019.
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- It’s not enough to counter violent extremism, we need to prevent it. DefenceIQ’s 17th Annual Countering Violent Extremism Global Event, London, May 2018.
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- Workshop for human rights teachers, scholars, and activists: UNESCO MGIEP Youth-led Guide on Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education [with Carolyn Nash]. 8th International Conference on Human Rights Education, Canada, December 2017.
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- Training for teachers and school administrators: Exploring Push and Pull factors of Violent Extremism. UNESCO MGIEP Capacity Building Workshop for Teachers on Preventing Violence Extremism, India, August 2017.
- Training for teachers and school administrators: Key Interventions in Prevention of Violent Extremism. UNESCO MGIEP Capacity Building Workshop for Teachers on Preventing Violence Extremism, India, August 2017.
Data Visualisation
2022, 2D Animation “Educational inequalities across neighbourhoods”
for the GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods. Co-led with Michele Schweisfurth (Glasgow) and Chocolate Films.
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Interviews
2022, Interview for Voice of Islam’s breakfast show 30-03-2022: “Young people play an important role in maintaining peace.”
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2022, Discussing healthy learning cities: an interview with Prof Mike Osborne and Dr Yulia Nesterova, University of Glasgow.
Media articles and blog posts (check reports and policy briefs in the Publications section)
Nesterova, Y. and Ozcelik, A. (2021) Youth has a key role in peace processes. Impakter, 27 Jul.
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Nesterova, Y. (2018) Women and violent extremism. Impakter, 28 May.
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Nesterova, Y. and Macaluso, A. (2017) Building safe resilient urban spaces : a discussion with Hague Institute researcher Agnese Macaluso. Impakter, 16 May.
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Educational inequalities:
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Nesterova, Y. (2020) Schools out forever? : supporting resilient learning in the face of COVID-19. Impakter, 9 Apr.
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Nesterova, Y. and Jackson, L. (2018) Gender inequality in universities. Impakter, 2 Nov.
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Nesterova, Y. (2024) Decolonisation of multicultural Taiwan. Taiwan Insight.
Nesterova, Y. (2017) Indigenous peoples : key trends that affect their development. Impakter, 28 Sep.
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Nesterova, Y. (2017) Indigenous peoples and their rights : how they started, why they matter. Impakter, 28 Aug.
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Partnerships:
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Nesterova, Y. Knowledge Exchange During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Studies from Low- and Middle-income Countries. University of Glasgow Low and Middle Income Countries Research Network (LMIC), Glasgow.
Nesterova, Y. (2021) Engaging community in research, knowledge co-creation, and knowledge dissemination. GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods Blog.
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Bhandari, R. and Nesterova, Y. (2020) Support thy neighbour : why a strong local response will help beat COVID-19. GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods Blog.