2014
- ‘Reorganising and Deconstructing the Balancing Centre of Territorial Government in Estonia: Political Discourses on the Role of County Level Administration‘, co-authored with Prof G. Sootla; EGPA 2014 Annual Conference, Speyer, Germany, 10-12 September 2014. The paper presented at the Permanent Study Group XVII “Sociology of the State: Reforms and Resilience”.
- ‘Local autonomy and State control in the field of Education in Estonia‘ , OLA Symposium on “Local Autonomy in Europe”, Vilnius, Lithuania, 9-10 May 2014.
2013
- ‘Deconstructing the central-local balance in Estonia: discourses and strategies in reshaping the county level authority’, co-authored with Prof. G. Sootla; EGPA 2013 Annual Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 11-13 September 2013. The paper presented at the Permanent Study Group XVII “Sociology of the State: Reforms and Resilience”.
2012
- ‘Historical Comparison of the Role and Powers of the City Mayor in Estonia Between 1918-1940 and Since 1989‘, IPSA XXII World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, Spain, 8-12 July 2012. The paper presented at the panel ‘Mayors in Comparative Perspective’.
- ‘From One Transition to Another: Local Elections in Estonia in 1918-1940’, 9th European Social Science History Conference Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 11 – 14 April 2012
2011
- “The Changing Role and Powers of the Mayor in 1989-1993 in the Context of Local Government Reform in Estonia”, 11th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM 2011), Tallinn, Estonia, 1-4 June 2011. The paper presented at the Public Management General Track.
- “Building an Inclusive Information Society at the Local Level in Estonia”, 4th International Conference on Information Law, Thessaloniki, Greece, 20-21 May 2011
Travel Grants
- POLITU Travel Grant, 2012 (for IPSA World Congress)
- University of Helsinki Chancellor’s Travel Grant Spring 2011 (for EURAM 2011)