Research

I have contributed to projects at the University of Nottingham, Oxford Brookes University, and Aston University, undertaking qualitative data collection and analysis, conducting interviews, supporting policy-oriented research, developing grant applications, and producing academic outputs. My methodological expertise lies in qualitative and interpretive approaches, including discourse and narrative analysis, policy document analysis, and the use of multilingual sources in Ukrainian, Russian, English, and Chinese.

Current Research Projects

I am currently working on two projects.

Ukraine Becoming focuses on developing my PhD research into a book manuscript, which I hope to submit to the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) series at Harvard University Press. While publishing with HUP is an ambitious goal for an early career researcher, I believe that ambitious research deserves ambitious aspirations. You never know what is possible if you believe in your work and aim high.

Pedagogies of Exile, funded by the Leverhulme Trust via their ECF scheme, examines how Ukrainian children, tweens, teenagers, and their families navigate the everyday uncertainty of learning what it means to be Ukrainian in exile during wartime while living in the UK on temporary protection visas that offer no pathway to permanent settlement. These families are expected to return to Ukraine once the war ends. While this creates profound uncertainty for adults, young people often face a different set of challenges. Many are now more fluent in English than in Ukrainian, and they are growing up learning to live life the British way rather than in the ways their peers in Ukraine experience. The project explores how these young people negotiate identity, belonging, and the possibility of return under conditions of prolonged uncertainty.