Public defense of Lucien Peters’ doctoral dssertation – Department of Economic Sociology, UNWE, 23.06.2022.

The topic of dissertation is „Students’ Social Capital, Social Space and Civic Life in Sofia“.

The author is Mr. Lucien Peters, who was aworded the educational and scientific degree of „Doctor“ in Sociology.

The academic advisor of the doctoral research is Assoc. Prof. Katia Mihailova, PhD, Department of Economic Sociology, UNWE.

The dissertation received five positive reviews from the members of the scientific jury:

Assoc. Prof. Andrey Nonchev, PhD, head of the jury and the Department of Economic Sociology at UNWE;

Prof. Dr. Sc. Dobrinka Peycheva, South-West University „Neofit Rilski“;

Prof. Dr. Sc. Ivanka Mavrodieva, Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridsky“;

Prof. Tatyana Kotseva, Burgas Free University and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;

Assoc. Prof. Alexander Hristov, PhD, University for National and World Economy.

Prof. Deema Kaneff, Birmingham University, said at the defense that the dissertation „has a considerable schoolarly value and makes a significant contribution to the literature on social capital, on urban contemporary Bulgaria and in terms of interdisciplinary social science methodology„.

Congratulations to Dr. Peters! He is my first sucessfully graduated doctoral student. Thank you to the colleagues and friends who helped us to defense that innovative social science research!