Charlie Walker

Charlie Walker is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK. His primary research interests concern the impact of postsocialist transformation on different social groups in Russia and the former Soviet Union, with a focus on the changing shape of identities and inequalities surrounding class and gender. Charlie is author of a number of books and peer-reviewed articles addressing these themes, including Learning to Labour in post-Soviet Russia: Vocational Youth in Transition (2011); Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (2013) and Masculinity, Labour and Neoliberalism: Working-Class Men in International Perspective (2018). Alongside his research and writing, Charlie is a trustee of the BEARR Trust (UK), which supports civil society organisations working with vulnerable people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.