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Anastasia Loukianov

Dr Anastasia Loukianov

Research Fellow

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Based at the University of Surrey, Anastasia is working on our Societal Understandings strand of research. She is developing her research under the supervision of Prof. Tim Jackson and Dr. Kate Burningham.

During her PhD, Anastasia has been exploring lay ideas of wellbeing. Specifically, she has looked at the visual and discursive good life narratives used and shaped by young people in describing what it means to live well. Good life narratives are shared, constantly evolving but recognisable stories that are both changed and maintained in their usage. These sociocultural stories provide directives on ways of life to aspire to. They constitute shared resources that can be used to define wellbeing for ourselves and to communicate our definition to others. As such, they play an important role in the possibility of fair and sustainable future good lives.

Anastasia’s thesis looks both at the role played by habitual places of meaning-making in shaping how and which narratives are created, brought forward, and maintained; and at the narratives themselves. Her research has been carried out in the context of a participative filmmaking project with young people aged 10-14 in the South East, and an exploration of Instagram posts tagged #goodlife. Her takes these empirical bases to look at the possibilities of a shift towards sustainable futures and the difficulties facing us in the process.

Since November 2019, Anastasia has also been working on our CYCLES project and assisting in the delivery of the CYCLES survey in Lambeth, London (UK).

Prior to her appointment at CUSP, Anastasia graduated from the University of Manchester where she earned her BASS Sociology (Hons) degree.

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