Natalia Lavrushkina
- Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management
- Dorset House D157, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
Natalia is a Lecturer in Strategic Management and former Research Assistant for the Faculty of Management. She is currently writing up her EdD doctorate with the University of Southampton. She holds a Professional Economist degree and an MSc Tourism Management & Marketing, so she is a BU Alumna too. She has also worked on research projects for the University of Winchester and the University of Ulster.
Her research interests are broadly in ‘landscape and wellbeing’ and ‘enterprise and communities’. Within landscape and wellbeing she has looked at green/blue space, rural, peri-urban and urban landscape mapping, utilising GIS, to identify relationships between land type, tranquillity and user wellbeing; and the use of leisure space in migrant/refuge communities. Within enterprise and community she has looked at the role of work experience in prisoner rehabilitation; graduate enterprise motivation; social and community enterprise in rural communities; entrepreneurship in transitional economies... She is currently working with an independent consultant to develop Neural Networks (NN) models capable of classifying audio signal patterns gathered by equipment used in the maintenance of public utility pipe networks. Her research has ranged from the UK, EU, South America and Russia. Within Higher Education she has researched ‘collegiality’, the role of networking within research communities; and peer to peer sexual harassment within university institutions.
She is a practitioner in Mixed Methods Research but is especially a quantitative researcher with expertise in Social Network Analysis (SNA), Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
She originally came from a business rather than purely academic background having co- founded a Russian Tour Operating company dealing mainly with tours and events in Japan and the Russian Far East. She has also been a manager of several branches on a national UK retail chain selling high end clothing. She is a member of Bournemouth University’s Research Ethics panel.
moreResearch
ResNET BU Research Network Project My research is aiming to 1. provide a semi-quantitative picture of the internal network of researchers and related staff across BU’s research community.
2. explore the concept of ‘institutional collegiality’ as a measure of the degree of cooperativeness and collaborative interaction.
https://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2018/07/16/resnet-research-network-project/
Research Assistant BU Faculty of Management: Migrant and Refugee Leisure Wellbeing project
Research Assistant BU Faculty of Management - FoodSMART
Research Assistant BU Faculty of Management - Veg+
Research Assistant ACORN funded project title: “Training prisoners as hospitality workers: The Clink charity case”,
Research Assistant BU WAN funded project title: “Walking as a tourism and leisure activity: constraints for women”.
Research Assistant Ulster University - Serviced & Networked Artificial Intelligence Project for Destination Competitiveness, research project SNAIP-DC
Research Assistant to Professor Denise Hewlett (University of Winchester) working on a number of case study projects for public sector partners, applying GIS to statistical/structural modelling research designs researching the use of leisure/green space by diverse community types.
Research Assistant to Associate Prof Lorraine Brown funded by BU WAN – Sexual Harassment in Higher Education
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:
Decent work and economic growth
"Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all"
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
"Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation"
Responsible consumption and production
"Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns"
