Since September 2016, Elena Marushiakova is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant and works as a research professor in the School of History at the University of St Andrews.
Elena Marushiakova was the president of the Gypsy Lore Society (2010–2020) and the Funding and Scientific Committee member of the European Academic Network on Romani Studies.
Professor Elena Marushiakova received on 7 February 2020 the Doctor Honoris Causa Award of Södertörn University in Stockholm for her great contribution to Romani Studies.
In frames of the RomaInterbellum project (ERC Advanced Grant 2016) led by Elena Marshiakova were published the volumes: "Roma Voices in History: A Source Book.
Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov also published in the fields of Roma folklore and oral history – the Studii Romani Series.
Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov read lecture's courses and hold public lectures at universities and research institutes, and at summer schools in Bulgaria, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Iceland, Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Republic of Moldova, Turkey, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA.