Advanced certificate program | Applied data science 2020 – 2021

European University at Saint-Petersburg & Yandex, Санкт-Петербург, Ресей

M. A. Sociology 2018 – 2020

European University at Saint-Petersburg, Санкт-Петербург, Ресей

B. A. | Russian History 2013 – 2017

Novosibirsk State University, Новосибирск, Ресей

Co-Director of School of Sociology 2024

Maqsut Narikbayev Institute for Network and Development , Астана, Қазақстан

Зерттеуші 2020 – 2024

Institute for the Rule of Law at European University at Saint-Petersburg, Санкт-Петербург, Ресей

• I study the spread of new technologies in Russian law enforcement agencies using quantitative and qualitative methods. I focus on surveillance cameras and various related technologies (like facial recognition). On these topics I publish academic papers, speak at conferences, write pieces and give comments to media.

Scientific Supervisor 2023 – 2024

Kazakhstan Sociology Lab , Астана, Қазақстан

Visiting Scholar 2022

Nazarbayev University. School of Sciences and Humanities, Астана, Қазақстан

Course Instructor: ”Machine Learning for Social Scientists“ 2023

MA program: Data Analytics for Politics and Society. Higher School of Economics Санкт-Петербург, Ресей

Course Instructor: ”Data visualization in R“ 2022 – 2023

Advanced certificate program: Biostatistics & medical data analysis. Bioinformatics Institute Санкт-Петербург, Ресей

Course Instructor: ”R Programming“ 2021 – 2023

MA program: Applied data science. European University at Saint-Petersburg & Yandex Санкт-Петербург, Ресей

Course Instructor: ”Sociological Theory“ 2022

MA program: Empirical Legal Studies. European University at Saint-Petersburg Санкт-Петербург, Ресей

Cognitive Sociology

Computational Social Science

Security & Surveillance Studies

Knowledge & Technologies in Law

GIS анализ

• Serebrennikov D. 2023

Gaze Ex Machina: Brief History of the Police CCTV Surveillance in Russia and Western Countries

Urban Studies and Practices (орысша)

• Serebrennikov D. 2023

From Call to Emergency Card: Seeking ”112” Operator Discretion

Forum for Anthropology and Culture (орысша)

• Serebrennikov D. 2023

Infrastructure as a Camera Obscura of Social Classifications: Urban Video Surveillance Systems in Small Cities

Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes (орысша)

• Verkeev A., Serebrennikov D. 2023

Victims of Their Own Fear: Perceived Safety and Crime Victim Experience in Russia.

The Russian Sociological Review (орысша)

• Serebrennikov D., Khodjaeva E., Shepeleva O. 2023

“Street-Level Algorithm”: Two Styles of Automated Law Enforcement in the “Social Monitor” Application.

The Journal of Social Policy Studies (орысша)

• Serebrennikov D., Skougarevskiy D. 2022

A Tale of Four Cities: Exploring Environmental Characteristics of CCTV Equipment Placement.

Available at SSRN.

• Serebrennikov D., Kuzmina Yu. 2021

Field Experiments and the Rubin Causal Model: Review of Approaches and Current Research.

Journal of Economic Sociology. 22. 4. 117–139. (орысша)

• Serebrennikov D.. 2020

[Rev.] Ehrlich E. Fundamental Principles of the Sociology of Law. [Russ. ed.: Erlikh O. Osnovopolozhenie sociologii prava. Transl. from Germ. by M.V. Antonov; Ed. by V.G. Grafskiy, Yu.I. Grevtsov.

Sotsiologicheskiy Zhurnal. 26. 1. 183–189. (орысша)

Policy Papers

• Serebrennikov D., Kusmanova A. 2024

Crime Place Never Changed (?) A Comprehensive Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Non-Serious Theft and Violent Crime in Astana and Almaty (Kazakhstan) (орысша)

• Serebrennikov D., Bulatov B. 2024

”The Criminal Always Returns to the Scene of Crime“: Testing the Near Repeat Victimization Theory in Astana and Almaty (Kazakhstan) (орысша)

• Kuchakov R., Bobrikov D., Serebrennikov D., Skougarevsky D. 2024

Regulation and Supervision in Kazakhstan, 2023 End of Moratorium. (орысша)

• Serebrennikov D., Titaev K. 2022

Crime and Victimization in Russia. Results of the Second-Wave Russian Crime Victimization Survey (RCVS-2021) (орысша)

• Kudryavtsev V., Kuzmina Yu., Serebrennikov D.. 2019

Is it Necessary to Equate the Weight of a Pure Narcotic Substance to the Weight of its Mixture in Russia? Evidence from Four European Countries. Policy-Memo. (In Russian)

Interview with Dmitrii Serebrennikov 2021

Surveillance cameras in the cities: security and territory.

Nepricosnovennii Zapas Journal. 140. 1. 26-41 (орысша)

• 7th Global Meeting on Law Society July 2022

”Fear of Crime in Russia: Evidence from the Russian Crime Victimization Survey 2021“

Lisbon, Portugal (online)

• Workshop: Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing April 2022

”Shift or assimilation? Changes in the daily Moscow law enforcers practices after its digitalization“

Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway (online)

• PhD Academy: Quantitative Methods in Legal Studies October 2021

”A tale of 3 cities: Exploring environmental characteristics of CCTV equipment placement“

Venice International University, Italy

• Legal Diversity and Regional Encounters: Plural Understandings of Law in Localised October 2021 Contexts

”Plural security: using urban security infrastructure in Russian small cities“

University of Helsinki, Finland (online)

• Research Committee 21 October 2021

”Who secures this corner? Spatial analysis of street CCTV location as a tool for understanding splinter of the Moscow city“

Rotterdam, Belgium (online)

• RBC (Russian business newspaper) 2023

”Why does Russia create a unified face recognition system?“

• Esli bit’ tochnim (Russian pop-science media) 2022

”Over the past three years, crime in Russia could have grown by 40% — but fell into the ”blind zone” of criminal statistics. We explain what this means“

• N+1 (Russian pop-science media) 2021

”Predict, She Wrote. What crime prediction systems have come to – and why they are criticized? “

• Forbes-Russia 2021

”Watcher error: why smart cameras will not prevent high-profile crimes? “

• Vedomosti (Russian business newspaper) 2020

”Mass video surveillance: its technological and bureaucratic problems“

• Vedomosti (Russian business newspaper) 2020

”Why the police are not happy with new technical means of people’s supervisors? “

Languages: Russian (Native), English (B2), Spanish (A2) Programming: R, Python (data analytics stack), QGiS, Stata (basic), Git Document Creation: Microsoft Office, Tableau, Markdown, LATEX

Qualitative methods: In-depth interviews (100+), participant observation, archival work, NVivo, ThinkMate

Potanins’s Scholarship 2019 – 2020

Магистратура студенттеріне арналған құрметті грант

EUSP R-meetup group organizer 2020 – 2022

European University at Saint-Petersburg, Санкт-Петербург, Ресей

University student council president 2018 – 2019

European University at Saint-Petersburg, Санкт-Петербург, Ресей