Personal statement

I joined the BSU in September 2024 as a Subject Leader in Education with a focus on Partnerships and Employability. My responsibilities include maintaining existing and developing new educational partnerships relevant for the School of Education's strategic objectives and supporting the School's employability agenda and raising students' employment aspirations. 

My research interests focus on improving leadership processes within higher education and between higher education and society. I'm specifically interested in contributing to the professional knowledge and practice focused on the professional responsibility to protect (PR2P) in the context of preventing and reducing mass scale atrocities, raising awareness of collective traumas, trauma driven cycles of violence and the pursuit of collective healing and peacebuilding. 

Academic qualifications

  • PhD in Education from Vanderbilt University, USA
  • MA in Economics from Vanderbilt University, USA
  • BA in Economics from Kharkiv State University of Economics, Ukraine 

Professional qualifications

  • Diploma in Group Practice from the Institute of Group Analysis, UK 

Professional memberships

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK 
  • Member of the Comparative International Educational Society
  • Member of the British Academy of Management 

Courses I teach on

  • Research and the Professional module
  • MA Supervision
  • PhD Supervision

Other external roles

  • A Panel Member for MSCA4Ukraine 2nd Call Fellowship 

Teaching subjects and areas of interest

I teach MA research methods and supervise MA dissertations. 

I am open to supervising PhD students in the following areas:

  • crisis leadership and management in education 
  • digital leadership in education
  • building education's capacity for peacebuilding 
  • addressing collective trauma/pursuing collective healing through education 
  • peace orientated curriculum development in higher education 

Prospective candidates with related research interests are welcome to contact me. 

BSU is a member of the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership. There's more information about postgraduate funding on our postgraduate funding pages or candidates can explore the possibilities of a scholarship on the SWWDTP site. 

Research impact

In the summer of 2023 I collaborated with a Community Interest Company Muse that supports Ukrainian refugees in the South West of England.

I assisted the community leaders with collection of interviews with displaced Ukrainians and their UK hosts. This work resulted in a report outlining the Ukrainian guests' and hosts' lived experiences of the Home for Ukraine Scheme.

Ukrainian community organisers picked up the report and turned it into a play presented at the Chalk Valley History Festival in the Summer of 2024: https://www.chalkefestival.com.

The play portrays the emotional impact of displacement from war as well as the value  and positive impact of the UK families' hospitality.