Karina’s academic interests are at the intersection of economic sociology and management. Her work, partly guided by Bourdieu’s logic, contributes to understanding inequality. Karina's empirical work explores the patterns of economic and financial behaviour of occupational classes using large-scale national surveys, with implications for inequality.

The cross-national element of her research contributes to research on professional identity in institutional contexts and career strategy, with implications for business and management. Karina’s interests also include applications of the Bourdiesian logic to issues in business and responsible management through theoretical work.

Karina’s research has been presented at conferences of the British Accounting and Finance Association, European Sociological Association, Academy of International Business (AIB-UKI), and the Annual Conferences of the British Sociological Association in 2021 and 2023.