Overview

Anastasiia is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Children's Health & Exercise Research Centre, Sport and Health Sciences. In this role she helps develop and refine an intervention to promote physical activity among children with cystic fibrosis and their families.
 
Anastasiia is finishing her PhD in Medical Studies at the University of Exeter, for which she received the International Excellence Scholarship for Postgraduate Research. Her PhD work investigates violence prevention interventions, behaviour change processes and factors influencing bystander decision making. She is the Principal Evaluator of a bystander violence prevention programme among professional athletes.
 
Prior to PhD, Anastasiia completed an MSc in Social and Organisational Psychology at the University of Exeter, where she examined the role of bystanders in violence prevention, analysing their behaviour in CCTV clips.
 
Her areas of expertise include behaviour change interventions, health behaviour change, violence prevention, and feasibility studies.