Radik Sadykov, PhD is a Visiting Scholar at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. He is a sociologist specializing in qualitative research on work, professions, health, and social change in post-Soviet contexts.He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Higher School of Economics (Moscow), where his dissertation examined the professionalization of alternative medicine in Russian healthcare. He previously taught sociology at the Higher School of Economics and participated in a range of Russian and international research projects on work, professions, housing, and social cohesion in post-socialist contexts. He also served as Executive Secretary of the Journal of Social Policy Studies.

Since 2022, he has been based in Finland and has been involved in research at universities in Finland and the United States.At RBIIS, he is working on an ethnographic project on work and industrial change in Russian company towns, based on fieldwork in the automobile manufacturing center of Togliatti.