Anastasiia is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Academic Primary Care and the Centre for Public Health at the University of Bristol. She is a mixed-methods researcher focusing on the design and evaluation of health behaviour change interventions. She has been leading multiple projects to improve health outcomes nationwide. These include:
a Youth Endowment Fund-commissioned and funded impact feasibility study of a multi-agency approach to prevent criminal exploitation in children and young people, 2024-present;
GOLIAT (5G expOsure, causaL effects, and rIsk perception through citizen engAgemenT) 2025-present, maternity cover;
a Welsh Government-commissioned and funded quantitative evaluation of a bystander violence prevention programme, 2023-present;
an NIHR-funded project to reduce treatment burden for people with multiple long term health conditions in primary care, 2022-2024; and
an NIHR-funded project to develop a novel family-focused intervention to support physical activity among children with Cystic Fibrosis and their families, 2021-2022.
Her main areas of interest include (but are not limited to) prevention of VAWG and criminal exploitation, and impact on policy and practice. Anastasiia got her PhD in Medical Studies from the University of Exeter, for which she received the International Excellence Scholarship for Postgraduate Research. Her PhD work investigated the effectiveness of violence prevention programmes, VAWG and masculinity, behaviour change processes and bystander decision making. She was the Principal Evaluator of a feminist bystander violence prevention programme for professional athletes. She finished her MSc in Social and Organisational Psychology at the University of Exeter in 2013, where she examined the role of bystanders in violence prevention, analysing their behaviour in CCTV clips provided by the police. She got her BA in Social Work at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2012.