About

I am a social scientist and an applied statistician currently based at Lancaster University’s Medical School’s Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics, as a Lecturer in Biostatistics (Health Informatics). I am interested in cross-disciplinary research that allows for pushing boundaries of not just a single field but a few. Though my research expertise are mostly in the application and development of methods for big data (routinely collected, longitudinal and time-series data), I have an emerging record of research collaborations and impact in social and health sciences, psychology and statistics . During past five years or so I have been working in areas of mental health, including collaboration with local NHS trust (Lancashire and South Cumbria, LSCFT) to support their efforts to improve care provision using data science and to address inequalities in access to care. As a result of this, I started to expand my research experience towards practices informed by lived experiences and mixed methods research. As part of my work, I also look at patterns of learning in young readers together with researchers in literacy and psychology by exploring big datasets arriving from digital learning supplements to address inequalities related to literacy attainment gap in Western societies. My research has been published in top journals in statistics, social science, psychology and health and has been funded by ESRC, EPSRC, MRF, NWCR and NIHR. You can find more here.

I was born near Moscow in a small town, and grew up between Moscow and Kharkiv where my mother and grandmother lived respectively. I came to the UK to study first for economics degree (City St George, Toulouse School of Economics), then political science (University College London (UCL)), followed by PhD in Computational Social Science (completed in 2019, UCL, funded by ESRC). After that I have taught statistics in psychology (Edinburgh), did research in statistical methods (Edinburgh, Lancaster) that eventually led me to research in mental health where my horizons around what I see research methods and areas of enquiry have expanded. During this time I lived and worked in London, Toulouse, Edinburgh and now, Lancaster. In addition to my core training I always been interested in philosophy, sociology and gender studies, something that I have been focusing on more recently (also as a Dean of Social Science and Gender Studies Department at Svobodny University) in light of growing recognition of importance of not only different lenses but a wide angled approach to knowledge and research in the current challenging political and educational context.

Finally, I also write poetry, essays and short stories in both Russian and English. My first book is expected to be published in mid 2026 with independent publisher shell(f). Some of my poetry and essays are currently under submission but you can view a few pieces here. As a researcher I also look for ways in which science, research and art can speak with each other. Recently I took part at Lancaster Art’s Data Science Artist Residency where I worked together with an artist to translate and challenge research findings obtained using data science.