Chloe Beechinor-Collins

National Chair

Chloe Beechinor-Collins is a penultimate-year German and Russian student at the University of St Andrews. She is interested in language acquisition and translation. 

You can contact Chloe directly via the UBASEECAS email: ubaseecas@gmail.com 

Michael Ellam is a final-year languages student at Glasgow University. He is interested in Slavic/Romance historical linguistics, especially in Old East Slavic and Old Church Slavonic. 

You can contact Michael directly via the UBASEECAS email: ubaseecas@gmail.com 

Alice Ashcroft

National Secretary 

Webmaster

Alice Ashcroft is a fourth-year student of Russian and History at the University of Edinburgh. Her main interests are post-Soviet identities and ideologies focused in Central Asia, especially expressed through a lens of everyday life studies. 

You can contact Alice directly through the UBASEECAS email: ubaseecas@gmail.com

Mahoro Shiojima is a second-year student of International Relations and Russian at the University of Exeter. She has experience studying ballet in Russia and is deeply interested in Russian art and history. 

Nicole graduated in Russian and Portuguese from the University of Sheffield. She is passionate about architecture and history. 

Lauley Exton is a final-year student at Durham University studying Modern Languages and Cultures, specifically German and Russian. She is interested in Central Asia and the role of memory politics in building national identities in the post-Soviet period. 

You can contact Lauley directly through the UBASEECAS Editors' email: ubaseecas.editors@gmail.com