Anastasiia is a Senior Research Associate at Bristol Medical School. 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: the GOLIAT project, YEF project, and SPELL project at the University of Bristol, and a Welsh-Government-commissioned and funded evaluation of a bystander violence prevention programme at the University of Exeter.
 
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 (more info at Kindling Transformative Interventions).
 
Prior to her PhD, Anastasiia worked on an EU-funded road safety project in Kyiv, Ukraine, working with 10 countries to improve road safety and promote Sustainable Development Goals between 2014 and 2017. 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.