• Akademische Integrität
• Korruption
• Informalität
• Interkulturalität
• Osteuropa

Elena Denisova-Schmidt ist Research Associate an der Universität St.Gallen (HSG) (Schweiz) und Research Fellow am Boston College Center for International Higher Education (USA). Zuvor hatte sie Stellen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, am Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, bei der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, an der UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, am Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics an der Harvard University und am Aleksanteri Institut an der Universität von Helsinki inne. Vor Beginn ihrer akademischen Laufbahn arbeitete Elena Denisova-Schmidt für VSMPO-AVISMA in Russland. Ihr aktuelles Forschungsinteresse gilt Korruption und informellen Praktiken. 

Academy of Management (AoM)
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO)
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung (SGBF)
The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)

Do Anti-Corruption Educational Campaigns Reach Students? Some Evidence from Two Cities in Russia and Ukraine.
Voprosy Obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow, 1, 61-83, 2016.
This paper, written together with Martin Huber (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) and Elvira Leontyeva (Pacific National University, Khabarovsk, Russia), received the best paper award from the Russian organization Obchestvo Znanie for contributions to corruption issues.  

Justification of Academic Corruption at Russian Universities: A Student Perspective.
Edmond J. Safra Working Papers, No. 30, 2013. Cambridge: Harvard University. 
This paper was named in TOP-13 as one of the most interesting studies on Russia in 2013 by the Higher School of Economics.

Åbo Akademi (11/2006), American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL) (01/2012, 01/2006), Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) (12/2018, 11/2017), Bologna Process Researchers’ Conference (FOHE-BPRC3) (11/2017), CIHE-Europe Symposium (01/2023), DGO-Congress of Central and East European Studies (10/2022), George Mason University (01/2008), Greenwich University (02/2015), Harvard University (05/2015, 02/2015), Higher School of Economics (10/2018, 10/2015), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (04/2006, 06/2006, 01/2005, 11/2004, 05/2004, 10/2003, 06/2003, 11/2002), IAU 2017 International Conference in Accra (10/2017, video presentation), Indonesien, Campus Integrity Roadshow (02/2023, online presentation), Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center (01/2008), Miami University (03/2012), Pacific National University (05/2014), South Economic Association (11/2016), Technische Universität Dresden (06/2019, 06/2013, 01/2011, 01/2009, 05/2008), University College London (03/2018, 03/2016, 09/2014), Universität Basel (04/2018, 09/2011), Universität Bremen (11/2014, 05/2014, 01/2014, 05/2013, 11/2012, 04/2012), University of Fribourg (11/2013, 11/2010), University of Helsinki (10/2021, 08/2021, 09/2015), Universität Hildesheim (6/2012), Universität Konstanz (12/2010), Universität Lausanne (03/2023), University of Ottawa (11/2016), Universität St.Gallen (HSG) (03/2023,09/2020, 08/2014, 11/2010), Universität Zürich (02/2010), UCLA (06/2012) Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (04/2022, 06/2021, 06/2014, 06/2009, 05/2007, 06/2005, 06/2003).

Editor (2008-2018)
Column: ’Cross-Cultural Communication’ for the AATSEEL Newsletter 
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages) 

Redakteurin (seit 2020)
Slavicum Press, Slavisches Seminar der Universität Zürich

Gutachtertätigkeit für Applied Economics; British Educational Research Journal; China Economic Review; Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization; Eastern European Economics; Educational Researcher; Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies Collection; Employee Relations; Eurasian Geography and Economics; Europe-Asia Studies; European Journal of Higher Education; Global Change, Peace and Security; Health Economics, Policy and Law; Higher Education; Higher Education Research & Development; Higher Education Quarterly; International Journal of African Higher Education; International Journal of Comparative Sociology; International Journal of Cross Cultural Management; International Journal of Educational Development; International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education; International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society; Journal of Academic Ethics; Journal of Business Research; Journal of Language Contact; Journal of Language and Education; Learning and Individual Differences; Mir Rossii; Problems of Post-Communism; Science and Public Policy; South African Journal of Science.