Vadim Romashov is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland. He holds a Doctor of Social Sciences degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Tampere University.

His research generally focuses on narratives, everyday practices, and spaces of coexistence in diverse communities, as well as the solidarities and tensions among stigmatized people that emerge in response to varied hegemonic socio-political orders. He approaches these topics using ethnographic and participatory research methods, applying critical theory and translating the results into peace praxis.

His current postdoctoral research focuses on rural and semi-rural borderlands with a migration history in Northern Karelia, Eastern Finland. It explores living together within diverse populations affected by wider social and political transformations, such as wars, securitization, and militarization. His doctoral research explored narratives and everyday coexistence practices in Armenian-Azerbaijani rural communities in the southern borderlands of Georgia.

He contributes as a facilitator, educator and editor to dialogues and collaborative multimedia projects among recent migrants from Russia and Belarus, and native locals in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan organized by the Center for Independent Social Research in Berlin.