Dr Daria Luchinskaya

Lecturer

Work, Employment and Organisation

Personal statement

I am a lecturer in the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation at Strathclyde Business School. My research interests lie in graduate transitions to employment, skill utilisation and job upgrading, and mixed methods research approaches. I teach across a range of areas related to my interests in Human Resource Management, organisational behaviour and research methods.

My background is in economics, area studies and employment research. Prior to taking up my current role, I was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, and an Early Career Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study. Between 2016 and 2018 I was on part-time secondment as a Research Associate to Wales Public Services 2025 hosted by Cardiff Business School.

I review papers for a range of journals and am associate editor of the Longitudinal and Life Course Studies journal. I co-convene the SRHE Enterprise, Employabiility and Work-based Learning network and am coordinating an international network on graduate transitions to employment.

Expertise

Has expertise in:

    • Graduate transitions to employment
    • The ‘graduate labour market’, including the SME context
    • Skill development and skill utilisation
    • Mixed methods research approaches

Prizes and awards

Visiting Fellowship
Recipient
10/12/2019

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Qualifications

PhD, University of Warwick, Institute for Employment Research, ESRC CASE Studentship, Employment Research

MPhil (Distinction), University of Oxford, St Anne’s College, CEELBAS Studentship, Russian and East European Studies

BA (Honours), University of Oxford, St Anne’s College, Economics and Management

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

ONS Accredited Researcher

Member of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)

Publications

'Virtuous' and 'vicious' circles? Adults' participation in different types of training in the UK and its association with wages
Luchinskaya Daria, Dickinson Peter
Social Inclusion Vol 7, pp. 177-201 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i3.2039
And...action? Gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries
Eikhof Doris Ruth, Newsinger Jack, Luchinskaya Daria, Aidley Daniela
Gender, Work and Organisation Vol 26, pp. 840-859 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12318
The Adult Skills Gap : Is Falling Investment in UK Adults Stalling Social Mobility?
Luchinskaya Daria, Dickinson Peter
(2019)
Skills Utilisation : Definition, Theories, Approaches and Measures
Warhurst Christopher, Luchinskaya Daria
(2018)
Breaking the cycle : what works in reducing intergenerational worklessness and fragile employment
Luchinskaya Daria, Green Anne E
(2016)
Employability programmes and work placements in higher education : a review of published evidence on employability programmes and work placements in UK higher education
Atfield Gaby, Hunt Wil, Luchinskaya Daria
(2021)

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Teaching

At WEO I teach on a range of courses, including Human Resource Management, organisational behaviour and research methods, specialising in skill development and utilisation, transitions to employment, graduate employment, labour markets, research methodology and statistical analysis.

Previously, I have taught introductory mathematical methods and quantitative economics at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, public policy economics, inequality and labour markets, and research methods for the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, and have supervised undergraduate students’ dissertations from the department of Economics, University of Warwick.

Research interests

My main research interests are in graduate transitions to employment, skill utilisation and job upgrading, and mixed methods research approaches. I am especially interested in the inequalities in graduate transitions to employment, and in the role of skill development and skill utilisation in relation to graduate employment.

At present, I am working on a comparative research project on the role of work placements in graduate transitions to employment in the UK and Italy, taking into account national education and labour market contexts. My colleagues and I are exploring similarities and differences in the pathways to employment, who benefits and who is marginalised, and furthering the development of an international research network in this area.

Previously, I worked on a variety of projects related to employment and the labour market while at the Warwick Institute for Employment Research, including adults’ participation in training, wider benefits of higher education and diversity in the British screen industries. During my time at Wales Public Services 2025, I worked on public service financing, focusing on healthcare spend in Wales.

Professional activities

SRHE Employability, Enterprise and Work-based Learning Network: How do different HE institutions address graduate employability?
Organiser
13/9/2019
From Education to Employment: How Internships and Traineeships are Challenging Labour Regulation
Participant
11/7/2019
Unequal opportunities: The role of internships in graduates’ labour market transitions
Speaker
2/5/2019
Educational Choices in Further and Higher Education
Participant
22/6/2015
CGHE Workshop: Unequal Graduate Outcomes: International perspectives over the Long-Term (Event)
Peer reviewer
2023
Evidence based policy and higher education: progress, pitfalls and promise
Participant
31/10/2022

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Projects

Post education job and career choices.
Luchinskaya, Daria (Researcher) Baldauf, Beate (Principal Investigator) Hunt, Wil (Researcher) Brown, Alan (Researcher)
With Peter Dickinson, Beate Baldauf, Wil Hunt and Alan Brown. Funded by Department for Education. Project Start Date: 16/04/2018 - Project End Date: 31/07/2018
16-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2018
Adult skills - who gets invested in and how has this changed over time?
Luchinskaya, Daria (Principal Investigator) Dickinson, Peter (Co-investigator)
With Peter Dickinson. Funded by Social Mobility Commission. Project Start Date: 29/09/2017 - Project End Date: 03/07/2018
29-Jan-2017 - 03-Jan-2018
Diversity in the screen industries
Eikhof, Doris Ruth (Principal Investigator) Newsinger, Jack (Researcher) Aidley, Daniela (Researcher) Luchinskaya, Daria (Researcher) Banks, Mark (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2016
Assessing Policy Initiatives to Address Intergenerational Worklessness / Fragile Employment
Luchinskaya, Daria (Researcher) Green, Anne (Principal Investigator)
Assessing Policy Initiatives to Address Intergenerational Worklessness / Fragile Employment’ (Dec. 2015-Feb. 2016). IER, University of Warwick. Literature review project for the Public Policy Institute for Wales.
01-Jan-2015 - 29-Jan-2016
What works for remote First? Benchmarking best practice to attract, engage and retain talent in FinTech SMEs
Luchinskaya, Daria (Principal Investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Co-investigator) Anderson, Pauline (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Tayler (Co-investigator) Lipenga, Phindu (Researcher) Cardenas Rubio, Jeisson (Researcher)
07-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2023
Virtually the same thing as in-person internships? Mapping out the virtual internship landscape and exploring intern and employer experience in the UK and Italy (Digit Innovation Fund)
Luchinskaya, Daria (Principal Investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023

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Address

Work, Employment and Organisation
Duncan Wing

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