Viktoriya Dozhdeva
Research Associate
Viktoriya Dozhdeva is a Research Associate at EPRC, joining in early 2016. She is EPRC country expert for Portugal, leading research on domestic regional development issues and implementation of EU Cohesion Policy. Under the EoRPA and IQ-Net networks, Viktoriya leads EPRC research and papers on issues including climate change, support for green transition in Cohesion Policy and domestic regional policies, regional policy support for sustainable tourism, and various aspects of the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Structural Funds programmes. She has also worked on projects examining administrative capacity and the communication of Cohesion Policy to EU citizens, including the EPRC-led EU Horizon 2020 project COHESIFY, studying the impact of Cohesion Policy on European identification. Viktoriya has a particular research interest in the role of regional policy in promoting culture as a driver of territorial development and cohesion, and has worked on projects examining the unfolding of cultural and creative potentials of European territories.
Viktoriya holds a BA in Regional Studies and Foreign Languages from Moscow State Linguistic University, where she studied the influence of European integration processes on Portuguese regional development patterns. She also holds an MSc in Social and Political Sciences of the Environment from Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and an MSc in European Spatial Planning and Regional Development from Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden). Additionally, she has professional experience with EU transnational cooperation activities and projects evaluation at the Secretariat of the INTERREG North West Europe programme.