Natalia Lavrushkina

Natalia Lavrushkina serves as a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management within Bournemouth University's Faculty of Management. She concurrently acts as the Department Research Ethics Champion and contributes to the university's Research Ethics panel, while leading the ResNET research project mapping institutional research networks.

Her educational credentials include a Professional Economist degree, an MSc in Tourism Management & Marketing with Distinction from Bournemouth University (2013), and ongoing EdD doctoral studies at the University of Southampton.

Natalia's research centers on Landscape and Wellbeing—examining green/blue space mapping via GIS, land type-tranquillity relationships, and leisure space utilization in migrant communities—and Enterprise and Communities, investigating prisoner rehabilitation through work experience, graduate enterprise motivation, rural social enterprises, and transitional economy entrepreneurship. A Mixed Methods Research specialist, she applies Social Network Analysis, Structural Equation Modelling, and Geographic Information Systems to examine institutional collegiality, peer sexual harassment in academia, and neural network applications for utility infrastructure analysis.

Her 2020-2024 publications reveal interdisciplinary convergence across tourism management, environmental health, and nutritional behavior. Recent work analyzes post-pandemic protected area management and natural environment wellbeing impacts, while nutrition studies explore vegetable consumption drivers. Quantitative methodologies consistently underpin her research across UK, EU, South American, and Russian contexts.

Natalia actively participates in research funding initiatives including BU's ResNET network project, ACORN-funded prisoner rehabilitation research, BU WAN walking constraint studies, and Ulster University's SNAIP-DC destination competitiveness project. Her external collaborations span University of Winchester GIS applications and University of Ulster artificial intelligence research.

She maintains active roles in the Marie Curie Alumni Association (Fellow), EARLI-JURE, INSNA networks, and Bournemouth University's Women's Academic Network, while contributing to Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur visa panels and academic governance groups.