In 1989, after graduating the university he began to work as a research assistant under the direction of Irina M. Kozina in sociological laboratory of Samara State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities.

From 1993 to 1998 he worked in projects "Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Post-Communist Russia" under the direction of Simon Clarke, a professor of University of Warwick, Great Britain.

He also was included in the interregional Institute for Comparative Labour Relations Research, participated in field surveys, probations, scientific seminars and preparations of project's publications.

From 1993 to 1996 in the context of the project Tempus under the direction of professor Simon Clarke and Sergei E. Kukhterin Pavel Romanov developed and then read fundamentally new courses "Sociology of Management" and "Qualitative Studies" in the Center of Sociological Education of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (from 1995 to 2011), "Anthropology of organizations" in Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov (from 2000 to 2011), "Management of projects" in the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (from 2003 to 2007), "Theory of organizations" in the State University "Higher School of Economics" (from 2008 to 2010) and "Corporate Social Politics" in the National Research University - Higher School of Economics (from 2010 to 2014).

During two years since 1995 he was studied in postgraduate course of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the scientific direction of professor Gennady Batygin [ru].

In 1996 in common with Elena R. Iarskaia-Smirnova he established a Center for Gender Studies as network interregional organization in the capacity of the temporary creative group.

In 2000 he researched his doctoral thesis in Sociology on the topic "Management as a form of Social Practice" (Saratov, Yuri Gagarin State Technical University [ru].