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Polina Obolenskaya

Polina Obolenskaya

CASE Visiting Fellow and Research Fellow in Sociology

Expertise: disadvantage and social and economic inequalities, impacts of violence and abuse on health and mental health

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City, University of London

Biography

Polina is a social scientist with experience in higher education, charity and Local Authority sectors. Prior to joining City University, Polina worked at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at LSE, where she remains a Visiting Research Fellow. She also worked at UCL Institute of Education and the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Her research to date has focused predominantly on disadvantage and social and economic inequalities, as well as violence and abuse, utilizing a range of national surveys, administrative and linked datasets. Polina holds a PhD in Sociology and an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics from City University and a BA in Economics and Sociology from the University of York.

Polina Obolenskaya's current research interests are:

  • Child poverty and disadvantage
  • The impacts of social policies on socio-economic outcomes
  • Definition and measurement of violence
  • Impact of violence on health and mental health

Polina's latest projects include:

Latest

CASEreports
Inclusive data: better data and evidence to understand the lives, circumstances and needs of children and young people from the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities

04 December 2023

Chelsie Dolling, Polina Obolenskaya and Polly Vizard

This research report provides open access to the findings of the project `Testing and demonstrating the value of the Growing Up in England (GUiE) dataset: Gypsy, Traveller and Roma children case study?. The research was ... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers
The Conservative Governments' Record on Health from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: Policies, Spending and Outcomes

28 April 2023

Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya, Jarrod Hughes, Kritty Treebhoohun and Iona Wainwright

This research report examines developments in the progress that was made in promoting good physical and mental health and longevity, and reducing mortality and morbidity inequalities, over the five-year period between Ma... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers
The Conservative Governments’ Record on Higher Education: Policy, Spending and Outcomes, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

27 April 2023

Abigail McKnight and Polina Obolenskaya

In this paper we evaluate the distributional impact of higher education policy in the period since the Conservative government took office in 2015 up until the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. We do this by fo... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers
Going backwards? The slowdown, stalling and reversal of progress in reducing child poverty in Britain during the second decade of the 21st century, and the groups of children that were affected.

13 March 2023

Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya and Kritty Treebhoohun

This paper has been written as part of the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes (SPDO) research programme and provides an in-depth assessment of the slowdown, stalling and reversal of progress in reducing child po... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Notes
Who is at risk of experiencing violence and has it changed overtime?

15 September 2022

Kerris Cooper and Polina Obolenskaya

Published crime statistics show that following a long-term decline in violent crime there has been a flattening out in recent years and certain types of violent crime have increased. This research note examines who is mo... Read more...
CASEpapers
No such thing as a free lunch? Exploring the consistency, validity, and uses of the ‘Free School Meals’ (FSM) measure in the National Pupil Database

12 November 2021

Tammy Campbell and Polina Obolenskaya

This paper examines the existing literature on what the Free School Meals (‘FSM’) measure in the National Pupil Database (NPD) can proxy, and on ways in which the measure is used and understood. Through new empirical ana... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Knowledge Exchange Briefs
Geographical inequalities in England on the eve of the pandemic

20 July 2021

Polina Obolenskaya

This briefing forms part of the Nuffield Foundation funded research programme, Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes in a Changing Britain (SPDO), which examines social policies and social inequalities between the ... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers
The Conservatives’ Record on Adult Social Care: spending, policies and outcomes in England, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

03 November 2020

Tania Burchardt, Polina Obolenskaya and Jarrod Hughes

This paper uses the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes framework to evaluate developments in adult social care policies in England during the period between 2015 and the eve of COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers
The Conservatives' Record on Compulsory education: spending, policies and outcomes in England, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

22 October 2020

Ruth Lupton and Polina Obolenskaya

This paper reviews education policy in England for the period since the Conservative Government took office in 2015 to the eve of COVID-19 pandemic. We consider the effects of policies on the school system, teachers, cur... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers
Flat-lining or seething beneath the surface? Two decades of changing economic inequality in the UK

02 July 2019

Polina Obolenskaya and John Hills

This paper analyses what happened to economic inequalities in the United Kingdom in the two decades from 1995-96. In aggregate, inequality changes were unremarkable, especially by comparison with sharp increases in the ... Read more...

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