Ruta Skriptaite

Ruta is a final-stage Doctoral Researcher at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. Her research explores the affinity between Hegemonic masculinity and Political image-making in the post-Soviet spaces, by providing a comparative analysis of Belarusian president Aliaksandr Lukashenka, the resigned Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev, and now deceased Turkmen leader Saparmurat Niyazov-Turkmenbashi.

Prior to starting her PhD research at University of Nottingham in 2019, Ruta completed an MA in Politics, Security and Integration at SSEES, UCL (2017), where her focus included Political image-making, Gender and Visual representation as well as Gender and Politics in the post-Soviet region. Accordingly, the topic of her MA thesis was 'The Use of Gendered Images in post-Soviet Political Image-Making: the Cases of Yulia Tymoshenko and Vladimir Putin'. Before that, she completed her BA(Hons) in International Relations at the University of Essex (2013)a . The undergraduate program included student exchange year, which Ruta spent at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.