Elena Korosteleva (Belarusian: Алена Карасцялева;) is a dissident academic researcher and principal investigator focusing on governance, democratisation, complexity and resilience.

Korosteleva, working with Piret Ehin of the Centre for EU-Russia Studies (CEURUS) at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and Professor Stefan Hedlund of the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, received funding from the European Commission for a three-year (2016-2019), €1million, EU Horizon 2020 twinning project entitled UPTAKE (UPpsala, TArtu, KEnt).

[8] The project was designed to increase research productivity and excellence and promote international visibility and integration of the three universities in the field of Russian and East European Studies by creating a dynamic, comprehensive, open and sustainable framework for co-operation and transfer of knowledge.

Specifically, the project included the launch of a new academic conference series, the organisation of four international summer and winter schools, extensive inter-institutional mobility, joint supervision of doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, coordinated promotion of research outputs, joint conceptualisation and launch of new collaborative research projects, as well as extensive dissemination and communication measures.

Korosteleva and her team of doctoral students' evidence, submitted to the United Kingdom House of Lords European Union Committee, was cited in the 2016 report Europe in the world: Towards a more effective EU foreign and security strategy.

Therefore, the future of EU-Russia relations, the security of neighbours such as Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, as well as the long-term alignment of countries such as Azerbaijan and Armenia—neither of which, in the words of Professor Elena Korosteleva, Mr Igor Merheim-Eyre, Ms Eske Van Gils and Ms Irena Mnatsakanyan, Global Europe Centre, University of Kent, “enjoys very close relations with the EU”—remain in the balance.Korosteleva was commissioned by the Slovak Atlantic Commission as principal investigator to undertake a nationwide representative survey in Moldova between 19 October and 7 November 2013 aimed at measuring public knowledge, perceptions and preferences in relation to the EU and its policies.

Professor Elena Korosteleva (University of Kent) has studied Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova, three of the Eastern Partnership countries.

She also advocated a clearer delineation of roles and responsibilities in relation to Member States and efforts to engage with host countries.

Korosteleva with Stephen White and John Lowenhardt (eds) continue the analysis of Belarusian politics in Post Communist Belarus (2005).

[14] Korosteleva has undertaken research, funded by the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP) on emergent learning.