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We are excited to tell you that Mirela Ivanova, one of GCA's 2012 triple A* students, has been announced as one of the UK's most exciting early career researchers.

Every year, BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) hold a nationwide search for academics with game changing ideas that will resonate with a wide audience. The New Generation Thinkers are chosen for their ability to communicate complex ideas and change the way we think.

The New Generation Thinkers are given the prestigious opportunity to communicate their research on BBC radio and television. They also have unique access to training and support from AHRC and the BBC.

Mirela graduated from Wadham College Oxford with an MA in history and then completed her DPhil at Balliol before joining University College as a Junior Research Fellow in Medieval History.

Her work explores what tools communities used to define themselves in the past, and how these definitions resonate in the contemporary history of Eastern Europe.

She is particularly interested in moments of transmission and displacement, whether across languages or political cultures, and how such moments can reveal the tensions inherent in communities and their perceptions of themselves.

You can read about Miranda's fascinating research here:

https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/academics/mirela-ivanova/

We are confident we will continue to hear a lot about Mirela's achievements in the field of research.