Kateryna Bannikova, PhD

Research

Research and publications

I study how organisations and communities build, share and protect their values and culture. My work spans sociology, Hispanic studies and translation studies.

Current research

Symbolic practices of corporate values

How organisations articulate and display their values. Content analysis of corporate value declarations. Doctor of Sciences project, Kharkiv University of Humanities.

Buying back time

How workers save to leave paid work early for rest, study or new work, and what forgone income says about the value of autonomy. BSA 2027.

España Profunda

Regional myth and folk belief in contemporary Spanish rural noir cinema and fiction. MRes, University of Liverpool.

Realia in literary translation

Human versus machine translation of culture-specific items, English to Ukrainian.

Selected publications

  • 2025Modern talent management technologies: corporate analysis of practices and innovative methods in different regions of the worldBannikova, K., Mykhaylyova, K. · Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Sciences, 13(2)
  • 2025Artificial intelligence in career coaching: tools, effectiveness and sociological implicationsBannikova, K. · Research Bulletin of Kharkiv University of Humanities
  • 2024Using data and analytics to optimise human resources processesDanilkova, A., Bondar, V., Bannikova, K. et al. · Data and Metadata, 3
  • 2023Effective global recruitment strategy: cultural competenceBannikova, K., Mykhaylyova, K. · Review of Economics and Finance, 21(1)
  • 2023Digital transformations in culture and art: new opportunities and challengesBannikova, K., Fryz, P., Voronova, N., Bondarenko, A., Bilozub, L. · Amazonia Investiga, 12(61)
  • 2022Studying the role of HR in fostering innovation and creativity at work in cross-cultural settingsBannikova, K. · Habitus
  • 2017Organizational memory as a mechanism of formation and development of organizational cultureMykhaylyova, K., Bannikova, K. · IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 22
Full list, including monographs, on Google Scholar ORCID Scopus
Kateryna Bannikova presenting at the BSA Annual Conference 2026, University of Manchester
Presenting at the BSA Annual Conference 2026, University of Manchester

Conference presentations

  • 2027Freedom at work: workers, employers and the limits of autonomyBSA Annual Conference 2027 · submitted
  • 2026Crisis social capital as temporary infrastructure of collective memoryBSA Annual Conference, University of Manchester
  • 2025The fragility and adaptability of crisis social capital in wartimeBSA Annual Conference, University of Manchester
  • 2025Microdynamics of social capital in crisis: trust, reciprocity and everyday solidarityV Congress of the Sociological Association of Ukraine

In the media

Podcast

Starting anew: from being displaced to opening doors for others

Interview on the Revolut Insider podcast.

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Kateryna Bannikova on a hilltop above a river valley in Spain

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