I am Associate Professor of Applied Social Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University and Associate Director of the Schottish Graduate School of Social Science. In my research capacity, I am also affiliated with the Centre for Policy Studies at Central European University (Hungary). I received my PhD in Politics from the University of Glasgow and an MA in Human Rights from the Central European University. In 2015 – 2016, I was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bedfordshire, Programme...
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1254
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5781-2953

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Edinburgh Napier University

    University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Associate Professor

  • Migration and Mobilities Research Network

    Other, Edinburgh , United Kingdom
    Convenor

  • Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

    Other, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Associate Director

  • Edinburgh Napier University

    University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Associate Professor

  • University of Bedfordshire

    University, Luton, United Kingdom
    Senior Lecturer

  • Central European University

    University, Budapest, Hungary
    Marie Curie Research Fellow

  • Glasgow Caledonian University

    University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
    Lecturer in Sociology

  • Glasgow Caledonian University

    University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
    Research Fellow

Research

Politics without principle: Potential borders and the ethics of anti-trafficking online

Authors Jonathan Mendel, Kiril Sharapov
Year 2024
Journal Name Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
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1 Journal Article

Editorial: Rethinking Anti-Trafficking Funding: Following the money, again

Authors Kiril Sharapov, Suzanne Hoff, Jonathan Mendel, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Anti-Trafficking Review
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2 Journal Article

Expansion, Fracturing, and Depoliticisation: UK government anti-trafficking funding from 2011 to 2023

Authors Kiril Sharapov, Jonathan Mendel, Kyle Schwartz
Year 2024
Journal Name Anti-Trafficking Review
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3 Journal Article

“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation

Authors Taulant Guma, Yvonne Blake, Gavin Maclean, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
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4 Journal Article

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities: Perspectives from people with disabilities

Authors Kirill Sharapov, David Anderson, Olga Burova, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing
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5 Journal Article

‘Stick Them to the Cross’: Anti-Trafficking Apps and the Production of Ignorance

Authors Jonathan Mendel, Kiril Sharapov
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Human Trafficking
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6 Journal Article

Public Understanding of Trafficking in Human Beings in Great Britain, Hungary and Ukraine

Authors Kiril Sharapov
Year 2019
Journal Name Anti-Trafficking Review
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7 Journal Article

Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths

Authors Kiril Sharapov, Jonathan Mendel
Year 2018
Journal Name Cultural Sociology
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8 Journal Article

‘Traffickers and Their Victims’: Anti-Trafficking Policy in the United Kingdom

Authors Kiril Sharapov
Year 2017
Journal Name Critical Sociology
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9 Journal Article

Human Trafficking and Online Networks: Policy, Analysis, and Ignorance

Authors Jonathan Mendel, Kiril Sharapov
Year 2016
Journal Name Antipode
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10 Journal Article

Giving us the ‘Biggest Bang for the Buck’ (or Not): Anti-trafficking government funding in Ukraine and the United Kingdom

Authors Kiril Sharapov
Year 2014
Journal Name Anti-Trafficking Review
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11 Journal Article

Methodological Approaches to Assessing United Nations Gender Mainstreaming Policies in Kosovo

Authors Kiril Sharapov
Year 2005
Journal Name Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
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12 Journal Article

Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine

Authors Jonathan Mendel, Kiril Sharapov
Year 2024
Journal Name Anti-Trafficking Review
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13 Journal Article

Editorial: Knowledge is Power, Ignorance is Bliss: Public perceptions and responses to human trafficking

Authors Kiril Sharapov, Suzanne Hoff, Borislav Gerasimov
Year 2019
Journal Name Anti-Trafficking Review
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14 Journal Article

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