Dr. Marina Novikova

• Transformative social innovations
• Rural development
• Sustainability transitions

Since 2023
Postdoctoral researcher at IOER

2021-2023
Research assistant at IOER

2017-2021
Research assistant at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute (Portugal)

2017-2023
PhD in Sociology and Public Policy
ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies
Dissertation: The role and the impacts of social innovation on regional development: study of two European rural regions

2015-2017
MA Degree (M.Sc.), Studies in European Societies
Saint Petersburg State University/ Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology
Thesis: Transformation of urban space under the conditions of commercialization: The cases of UNESCO sites in Saint Petersburg and Berlin

2011-2015
BA Degree, Sociology
Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Sociology

RurAction - Social Enterpreneurship in Structurally Weak Rural Regions: Analysing Innovative Troubleshooters in Action, Horizon 2020 (2016-2021)

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (ISSN: 1573-7888)

EIST: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (ISSN:2210-4224)

EMES - International Research Network for Social Enterprise, Co-Leiterin “Rural and regional perspectives on the social and solidarity economy and social innovation (RUR-SE)”

STRN - Sustainability Transitions Research Network,  Ko-Koordinatorin “Justice in Sustainability Transitions (Ju-ST)”

Novikova, M. (2022). Social innovation impacts and their assessment: an exploratory study of a social innovation from a Portuguese rural region. Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11030122

Novikova, M. (2021). Challenges of impact assessment in Social Innovation: A qualitative study from two European rural regions. European Public & Social Innovation Review, 6(2), 35-50.

Ferreiro, M.F., Sousa, C., Fayaz, S., Novikova, M. (2021). Social innovation and rural territories: exploring invisible contexts and actors in Portugal and India. Journal of Rural Studies. DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.013.

Novikova, M. (2021). Promoting Social Innovation Through Neo-Endogenous Development: The Case of the Austrian Region of Muehlviertel. Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais, 59, 7-21. 

Novikova, M. (2021). Transformative social innovation in rural areas: insights from a rural development initiative in the Portuguese region of Baixo Alentejo. European Countryside, 13(1), 71-90, DOI: 10.2478/euco-2021-0005.

Novikova, M., de Fátima Ferreiro, M., Stryjakiewicz, T. (2020). Local Development Initiatives as Promoters of Social Innovation: Evidence from Two European Rural Regions. Quaestiones Geographicae, 39(2), 43-53. DOI: 10.2478/quageo-2020-0012.

Novikova, M. (2017). Transformation of urban space under the conditions of commercialization: The cases of UNESCO sites in Saint Petersburg and Berlin. WP 2017-04, Working Papers, Centre for German and European Studies (CGES).