Research Fellow, Law Program

E-mail Tatyana Novossiolova at: tatyana.novossiolova(at)csd(dot)bg ll Hi-res Photo

Education

PhD in Politics and International Security, University of Bradford, UK; B.A. in International Relations and Security Studies, University of Bradford, UK.

Biography

Tatyana Novossiolova is a Research Fellow with the Law Programme of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Bulgaria. Tatyana completed her PhD on a Wellcome Trust studentship in 2016. She is a co-editor of the Guide to Biological Security Issues and an author of the Biological Security Education Handbook, both funded under the Global Partnership (G-7) against the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Over the past 8 years Tatyana has been actively involved in curricula development in international security, disarmament, and biological security using cutting-edge pedagogy and training methods and active learning techniques. She has also delivered lectures and seminars as part of university courses and conducted specialised continued professional development (CPD) activities for those in the biological sciences. Tatyana has served as a technical/scientific expert to the International Federation of Biosafety Associations, Canada and the Landau Network-Fondazione Volta, Italy; she has held internships at the Bradford Disarmament Research Centre, UK, and the UN Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit in Geneva; and she has collaborated with the Public Health Agency of Canada, the National Centre for Disease Control, Georgia, and the US National Academies of Sciences. She has provided expert advice to the Palladin Institute of Biochemistry in Ukraine on the implementation of a UK Ministry of Defence-funded project, ‘Education and Awareness-Raising in Ukraine’. She has published widely and presented numerous papers at international conferences. Her latest book is Governance of Biotechnology in Post-Soviet Russia.

Selected Publications

Governance of Biotechnology in Post-Soviet Russia, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2017.
Whitby, S., Novossiolova, T., Walther, G., and Dando, M. (eds.) Preventing Biological Threats: What You Can Do, Guide to Biological Security Issues and How to Address Them (Bradford: University of Bradford, 2016). Available at www.bradford.ac.uk/social-sciences/peace-studies/research/publications-and-projects/guide-to-biological-security-issues/.
Biological Security Education Handbook: The Power of Team-Based Learning (Bradford: University of Bradford, 2016). Available at www.bradford.ac.uk/social-sciences/peace-studies/research/publications-and-projects/guide-to-biological-security-issues/.
‘Role of the Non-Governmental Life Science Community in Combatting Development, Proliferation, and Use of Chemical Weapons’ in Crowley, M., Dando, M., and Shang, L. (ed.), Chemical and Biological Weapons Prevention (London: Royal Society of Chemistry, forthcoming).
Martellini, M., Novossiolova, T. and Malizia, A. ‘A Reflection on the Future of the CBRN Security Paradigm’ in Cyber and Chemical, Biological Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN), Explosives Challenges, Springer, 2017.
Novossiolova, T., Dando, M. and Pearson, G. ‘Article IV: National Implementation: Education, Outreach, and Codes of Conduct’, in Pearson, G., Sims, N. and Dando, M. Key Points for the Eighth Review Conference, University of Bradford, August 2016, pp.127-159.
‘Biosecurity as a Normative Challenge’ in Clausen, J. and Levy, N. (ed.), Handbook of Neuroethics, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2015), pp.1813-1825.
Novossiolova, T. and Whitby, S. ‘Biosecurity Training and Competence: Preserving Life Science Research Integrity and Ensuring Compliance’, in Sture, J. (ed.), Yearbook of Biosecurity Education (University of Bradford, 2013), pp.130-136.
‘Comparing Responses between a Natural, Accidental, or Deliberate Biological Event’, in Beckham, T. (ed.), Biological Threat Reduction, OIE Scientific and Technical Review, vol.36:2, 2017, pp.647-654.
Novossiolova, T. and Pearson, G. Effective Biosecurity Education Implementation: The Vital Importance of a Coordinated Approach, Bradford Review Conference Paper No.32, 2016.
‘Enhancing Biosecurity Culture: The Essential Role of Biosecurity Education’, 1540 Compass, Issue 10, 2016, pp.34-38.
Martellini, M. and Novossiolova, T. ‘Toward a Biosecurity Summit: The Nuclear Security Summit as a Model’, 1540 Compass, Issue 7, 2014, pp.37-42.