Since 04/2018
Research Associate (postdoc) in the DFG-project "Variations of Governance in Hybrid Systems. Enterprises, state and civil society in today's Russia", Project manager: Prof. Dr. Sabine Kropp (FU Berlin), in cooperation with the Institut for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. More information on the project

2016– 2018
Editor at the Institute for European Studies, University of Bremen.

2014 – 2016
Research Associate (postdoc) in the project "Third Sector Impact" at the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) and Senior Researcher at the International Laboratory for Non-profit Sector Studies, Higher School of Economics in Moscow (Russia).

2012 – 2014
Research Associate (postdoc) at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

2012
PhD at the University of Groningen, Department of International Relations and International Organisation

2004 – 2005
Master in International Humanitarian Action, University of Groningen

1993 – 2002
Master in Slavic Studies, Eastern European History and Political Science at the Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster

1998 – 1999
Study abroad at the University of Brno (Czech Republic)

• Civil society in Europe
• International health and social policy
• Comparative political science
• Russia and Eastern Europe
• Qualitative methods in the Social Sciences

• „Variationen von Governance in hybriden Regimen. Unternehmen, Staat und Zivilgesellschaft im heutigen Russland“; supported by the DFG (research grants)
  Timeframe: 1.04.2018 - 31.03.2021
  Project managers: Prof. Dr. Sabine Kropp, Prof. Dr. Katharina Bluhm, OEI FU Berlin, 
  Prof. Dr. Claudius Wagemann, Uni Frankfurt
  More information on the project

Pape, Ulla (2014). The Politics of HIV/AIDS in Russia (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies), London: Routledge.

Sabine Kropp, Stanislav Klimovich & Ulla Pape (2022): Legitimation strategies of Russian companies. A bricolage of social responsibility. East European Politics, https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2134122.  

Stanislav Klimovich, Sabine Kropp & Ulla Pape (2022) Defending business interests in Russia: collective action and social investments as bargaining chips, Post-Communist Economies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2022.2104505.

Skokova, Yulia, Pape, Ulla & Krasnopolskaya, Irina (2018). The Nonprofit Sector in today’s Russia: Between Confrontation and Co-optation, Europe-Asia Studies, 2018, 1-33, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2018.1447089

Pape, Ulla & Smirnova, Anastassia. Transforming the Public Sphere: The Case of Moscow’s City Libraries”, Cultural Studies, (im Erscheinen).

Pape, Ulla, Chaves Ávila, Rafael, Pahl, Joachim Benedikt, Petrella, Francesca, Pieliński, Bartosz & Savall-Morera, Teresa (2016). Working under Pressure: Economic Recession and Third Sector Development in Europe, International Journal for Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 36, 7/8 (2016), 547-566.

Krasnopolskaya, Irina, Skokova, Yulia & Ulla Pape (2015). Government–Nonprofit Relations in Russia’s Regions: An Exploratory Analysis, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 26/6, 2238-2266.

Brandsen, Taco & Pape, Ulla (2015). The Netherlands: The Paradox of Government–Nonprofit Partnerships, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 26/6 (2015), 2267-2282.

Pape, Ulla (2010). “Rol’ nepravitel’stvennych organizatsii v protivodeistvii VICh/SPIDu v Rossii: politicheskie vozmozhnosti i organizatsionnye strategii [The role of non-governmental organisations in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Russia: political opportunities and organisational strategies]”, Zhurnal issledovanii sotsial’noi politiki [Journal of Social Policy Studies], 8, 203–226.

Pape, Ulla (2018). Warum Russland bei der Bekämpfung von HIV und Aids scheitert”, Russland-Analysen, 349, 9-12.

Pape, Ulla (2017). Russlands Aids-Epidemie und die Russische Orthodoxe Kirche, Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, 10, 20-23.

Pape, Ulla (2017). Germany: Relative Well-Being, in: 2016 Report on the State of Civil Society in the EU and Russia, Berlin 2017: EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, 40-56.

Brandsen, Taco & Pape, Ulla (2017). Identifying External and Internal Barriers to Third Sector Development in the Netherlands”, TSI National Report No.2/2016, Brussels: Third Sector Impact.

Brandsen, Taco & Pape, Ulla (2016). Kormányzati-civil együttműködések Hollandiában, Civil Szemle, Vol. 13(2) (2016), 47-65.

Pape, Ulla (2009). “Gegen soziale Ausgrenzung und Stigma: Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und die Bekämpfung der Aids-Epidemie in Russland”, Russland-Analysen, 188, 6–9.

Pape, Ulla (2008). EU neighbourhood Strategy on HIV/AIDS: Good Intentions, Poor Performance, CGES Working Papers, Bielefeld/Saint Petersburg 2009: Centre for German and European Studies.

Bartelink, Brenda & Pape, Ulla (2009). Political, Social and Religious Dimensions in the Fight against HIV/ AIDS, Groningen: Centre for Development Studies.

Pape, Ulla, Sigwart, Lara, Melse, Jasmijn & Aardema, Bastiaan (2007). Investigating Comprehensive Security in the Humanitarian Context of Georgia, Groningen: Centre for Development Studies.

Pape, Ulla, Chaves Ávila, Rafael, Pahl, Joachim Benedikt, Petrella, Francesca, Pieliński, Bartosz & Savall-Morera, Teresa (2017). Trabajando bajo presión en Europa. Crisis económica y desarrollo del tercer sector en Europa”, in: Rafael Chaves-Avila and Annette Zimmer (Hrsg.), El tercer sector en España y en Europa. Crisis, barreras en su desarrollo y estrategias de resiliencia en los sectores de la acción social, la cultura y el deporte, València 2017: Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 155-182.

Pape, Ulla, Skokova, Yulia & Zverev, Aleksandr (2017). The Politics of Small Steps. Influence Strategies of Social Sector NGOs in Russia, in: E. Yasin (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the 17th April International Conference on Economic and Societal Development, Moscow: Higher School of Economics, 347-352.

Pape, Ulla (2010). Striving for Social Change. NGOs in the Field of HIV/AIDS, Drug policy and Human Rights in the Russian Federation, in: Sabine Fischer und Heiko Pleines (Hrsg.), Civil Society in Eastern Europe. Successes and Failures of Europeanization in Politics and Society, Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 89-99.

Pape, Ulla (2009). NGOs and HIV/AIDS in Russia: A Political Assessment”, in: Sabine Fischer and Heiko Pleines (Hrsg.), The EU and Central & Eastern Europe. Successes and Failures of Europeanization in Politics and Society, Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 143-153.

Bartelink, Brenda & Pape, Ulla (2009). Negotiating Worldviews, Facing Practical Challenges: Political, Social and Religious Dimensions in the Fight against HIV/AIDS, in: Brenda Bartelink und Ulla Pape (Hrsg.), Political, Social and Religious Dimensions in the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Groningen: Centre for Development Studies, 5-6.

Pape, Ulla (2009). Diverging Discourses: Civil Society and the Response to HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation”, in: Brenda Bartelink and Ulla Pape (Hrsg.), Political, Social and Religious Dimensions in the Fight against HIV/ AIDS, Groningen: Centre for Development Studies, 57-77.