Alexandra Nenko

Research Associate at the Centre for German and European Studies

Assosiate Professor, Institute of Design and Urban Studies, ITMO

Foreign languages:

• English
• Ukranian

Research areas:

• Urban studies
• Interdisciplinary research in the study of emotions, art and knowledge
• Analysis of communicative and semantic networks

Education:

• 2007-2010 Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Faculty of  Sociology (Ukraine), Ph.D. in Sociology
• 2002-2007 Kharkiv National University, Faculty of Sociology (Ukraine), MA Sociology (Honours)

Research experience:

• 2015-present  Arts for the City
• Jan 2014-present 'Co-evolution of Knowledge and Communication Networks: Structural Dynamics of Creative Collectives in European Cultural Capitals' (2014-2017) (CGES) (supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities)
• Jan 2014-Dec 2014 'Analysis of Creative Industries in St.Petersburg and Kaliningrad' (National Research University Higher School of Economics in Saint-Petersburg, Laboratory of Economics of Culture, Nordic Council of Ministers, Information Office in Saint-Petersburg)
• Jan 2012-Dec 2014 ‘City SAGA. Public Spaces in Transformation’ (Nordic Council of Ministers, Information Office in Saint-Petersburg, the International Centre for Social and Economic Research Centre ‘Leontief Centre’, Centre for Independent Sociological Research, Open Urban Lab (Saint-Petersburg)
• Jan 2013-Jan 2014 'Creative City' (National Research University Higher School of Economics in Saint-Petersburg)
• Jan 2011-Dec 2012 'Knowledge Creation in Intellectual Networks' (Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Sociology)
• Jan 2011-Dec 2012 'Communicative Practices of Knowledge Creation in Social Space of a Modern City' (St. Petersburg State University)
• Jan 2013-present International workshops on the topics of creativity, creative city, and creative networks. (Saint-Petersburg State University, CGES, National Research University Higher School of Economics in Saint-Petersburg, University of Barcelona, Free University of Berlin, King’s College London, University of Amsterdam)
• 2009-2011 International Educational Project HESP / OSI ReSET 'Comparative Studies for Advances in Teaching Sociology' (Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, University of Aberdeen) 

Selected publications:

• Nenko, A., Belyakova, N., & Koniukhov, A. (2020). Evaluating a City’s Public Service Infrastructure Based on Online Data. In Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 1242. Springer, Cham. 
• Nenko, A. E., Kurilova, M. A., & Podkorytova, M. I. (2020). Analysis of emotional perception of urban spaces and ‘Smart city’ development. International Journal of Open Information Technologies, 8(11), 128-136.
• Basov, N., De Nooy, W., Nenko, A. (2019). Local Meaning Structures: A Socio-Semantic Network Analysis of Artistic Collectives. American Journal of Cultural Sociology.  
• Nenko, A., Koniukhov, A., & Petrova, M. (2019). Areas of Habitation in the City: Improving Urban Management based on Check-in Data and Mental Mapping. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 947, 235-248.
• Yakimuk I., Mityagin S., & Nenko A. (2019). Modelling Behavioral Patterns of Drug Addiction Based on Sociological Data. Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 156, 214-224.
• Nenko A., Petrova M. (2018) Emotional Geography of St. Petersburg: Detecting Emotional Perception of the City Space. In: Alexandrov D., Boukhanovsky A., Chugunov A., Kabanov Y., Koltsova O. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 859. Springer, Cham.
• Petrova M., Nenko A. (2018) Urban Emptiness as a Resource for Sustainable Urban Development. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 29 (3), 388-405.
• Basov, N., Nenko, A., and Khokhlova, A. (2015). Reality of Art: Communication and Knowledge Creation. Sociological Journal, 4(21), 8-33.