- Obolenskaya, P., Fadeeva, A., Barton, E.R., Walker, A., Snowdon, L.C. and McManus, S. (2025). Temporal trends in prevalence of violence in Wales: analysis of a national victimisation survey. Public Health, 245, pp. 105775–105775. doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105775.
- Davies, E., Obolenskaya, P., Francis, B., Blom, N., Phoenix, J., Pullerits, M. … Walby, S. (2025). Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Implications for the Amount and Gendering of Violence. The British Journal of Criminology, 65(2), pp. 261–281. doi:10.1093/bjc/azae050.
- Blom, N., Obolenskaya, P., Phoenix, J. and Pullerits, M. (2024). Physical and Emotional Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse: Distinctions by Relationship Status and Offence Type. Journal of Family Violence. doi:10.1007/s10896-024-00786-w.
- Cooper, K. and Obolenskaya, P. (2021). Hidden victims: the gendered data gap of violent crime. The British Journal of Criminology, 61(4), pp. 905–925. doi:10.1093/bjc/azaa100.
- Vizard, P., Obolenskaya, P. and Burchardt, T. (2019). Child Poverty Amongst Young Carers in the UK: Prevalence and Trends in the Wake of the Financial Crisis, Economic Downturn and Onset of Austerity. Child Indicators Research, 12(5), pp. 1831–1854. doi:10.1007/s12187-018-9608-6.
- Obolenskaya, P. and Hills, J. (2019). Flat-lining or seething beneath the surface? Two decades of changing economic inequality in the UK. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 35(3), pp. 467–489. doi:10.1093/oxrep/grz018.
- BURCHARDT, T., JONES, E. and OBOLENSKAYA, P. (2018). Formal and Informal Long-Term Care in the Community: Interlocking or Incoherent Systems? Journal of Social Policy, 47(3), pp. 479–503. doi:10.1017/s0047279417000903.
- Obolenskaya, P. (2017). Social Policy in a Cold Climate : Spending, Policies and Outcomes since the. Observatoire de la société britannique, (19), pp. 111–135. doi:10.4000/osb.1920.
- Sabates, R., Salter, E. and Obolenskaya, P. (2012). The social benefits of initial vocational education and training for individuals in Europe. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 64(3), pp. 233–244. doi:10.1080/13636820.2012.691530.
- Bruce, I., Harrow, J. and Obolenskaya, P. (2007). Blind and partially sighted people’s perceptions of their inclusion by family and friends. British Journal of Visual Impairment, 25(1), pp. 68–85. doi:10.1177/0264619607071778.
Polina Obolenskaya
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Polina Obolenskaya
City St George's, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom
About
Overview
Polina Obolenskaya is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the interdisciplinary Violence and Society Centre, affiliated with the School of Policy and Global Affairs.
Polina’s current work focuses on methodological and substantive issues in the study of interpersonal violence. Her research addresses challenges in the measurement of violence and its impact on the trends and distribution in national survey data. She also examines the relationships between socio-economic/demographic characteristics and violence and how they change overtime. Polina is a lead of a Crime Survey for England and Wales workstream of the UKPRP-funded consortium on Violence, Health and Society (VISION).
Prior to joining City St George’s University, Polina worked at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (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, utilising 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.
Publications
Publications by category
Chapters (7)
- Obolenskaya, P. and Hills, J. (2022). Flat-lining or seething beneath the surface? Two decades of changing economic inequality in the UK
*. The Media and Inequality (pp. 11–28). Routledge. - Burchardt, T. and Obolenskaya, P. (2016). Public and private welfare. Social Policy in a Cold Climate (pp. 217–244). Policy Press.
- Hills, J., Cunliffe, J. and Obolenskaya, P. (2016). The changing structure of UK inequality since the crisis. Social Policy in a Cold Climate (pp. 267–290). Policy Press.
- Lupton, R., Thomson, S. and Obolenskaya, P. (2016). Schools. Social Policy in a Cold Climate (pp. 59–80). Policy Press.
- Stewart, K. and Obolenskaya, P. Young children. Social policy in a cold climate (pp. 35–58). Bristol University Press.
- Lupton, R., Obolenskaya, P. and Fitzgerald, A. Spatial inequalities. Social policy in a cold climate (pp. 291–316). Bristol University Press.
- Vizard, P., Obolenskaya, P. and Jones, E. Health. Social policy in a cold climate (pp. 147–186). Bristol University Press.
Conference paper/proceedings
- Fadeeva, A., Hashemi, L., Cooper, C., Stewart, R., McManus, S. and Obolenskaya, P. (2023). Violence and abuse exposure and health complications in older age. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.426