Ljubica Spaskovska joined the Law School as a junior research fellow on the CITSEE research project.

CITSEE (Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia) is a comparative and contextualised study of the citizenship regimes of the seven successor states of the former Yugoslavia (SFRY). Grounded in the discipline of law, but using methods which look at the evolution of legal and institutional change in its broader social and political context, the project involves the application of the broad approach of constitutional ethnography. It comprises national case studies of the seven states and thematic case studies of key issues which have a transnational dimension: the status of residents of the former SFRY Republics resident in other Republics at the moment of independence, dual and plural nationality, the granting or denial of political rights for resident non-nationals and non-resident nationals, the status of minorities such as the Roma, gender issues arising in a citizenship context, and the impact of citizenship concepts on free movement and travel across borders.

CITSEE involves a team of 8 researchers, with multiple national, disciplinary and linguistic backgrounds. The project is funded by an Advanced Investigator Award of 2.24 million Euro awarded to Professor Jo Shaw, by the European Research Council. The project will run from 1 April 2009 until 31 March 2014.

Ljubica Spaskovska holds an MA degree in Central European History with distinction from the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) and an MA in Human Rights and Democracy from the Universities of Bologna and Sarajevo, within the framework of which has completed two MA theses: "Defeated Demos - on the Anti-Nationalist, Reform and Democratizing Initiatives and Tendencies in Yugoslavia 1989-1991" and "Sretno dijete/Happy Child - from Yugoslavism to Europeanism - on Youth Cultural Identities and Ideology in Former Yugoslavia". As part of the postgraduate studies she has done extensive research on the region of former Yugoslavia. In addition she had studied in Macedonia, USA (Duke University) and the U.K. and had worked as a junior project assistant at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, as a literary translator from French, and in the civil society sector in Kosovo.