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.
Area of Expertise
- Graduate transitions to employment
- The ‘graduate labour market’, including the SME context
- Skill development and skill utilisation
- Mixed methods research approaches
Prize And Awards
- Visiting Fellowship
- Recipient
- 10/12/2019
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Recipient
- 2015
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
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)
- Financial stress and sustainable start to graduate careers during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Okay-Somerville Belgin, Scholarios Dora, Luchinskaya Daria, Anderson Pauline, Hurrell Scott
- Academy of Management Proceedings Vol 2024 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2024.21561abstract
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
- Virtually the same thing as in-person internships? Mapping the virtual internship landscape and exploring intern and employer experience in the UK and Italy.
- Participant
- 5/6/2024
- Graduate outcomes: Beyond numbers, towards quality?
- Contributor
- 12/4/2024
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-Apr-2018 - 31-Jul-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-Sep-2017 - 03-Jul-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-Jun-2016 - 31-Oct-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-Dec-2015 - 29-Feb-2016
- 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-Sep-2021 - 31-Dec-2023
- 'Graduate employability: Theory, measurement and implications for practice' presented as part of training on labour market analysis
- Luchinskaya, Daria (Principal Investigator)
- Invited to give a KE session to practitioners as part of AlmaLaurea GRADUA (GRaduates Advancement and Development of University capacities in Albania) Project: Training on labour market analysis.
- 06-Jul-2021 - 06-Jul-2021
Contact
Dr
Daria
Luchinskaya
Lecturer
Work, Employment and Organisation
Email: daria.luchinskaya@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 553 6109