Research environment

Central and East European Studies (CEES) continues to be a world-leading centre for research into the region’s history as well as contemporary processes of socio-economic, socio-cultural and socio-political transformation. CEES forms the hub of the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES), an inter-institutional Centre of Excellence in Russian, Central and East European Language-Based Area Studies. In the 2014 REF exercise Central and East European Studies at Glasgow was ranked 1st in Scotland for Area Studies.