Dr Daria Ukhova

  • Research Associate (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
  • Associate (School of Health & Wellbeing)

Biography

I am an interdisciplinary feminist social scientist with interest in sociology of health and well-being. I am currently a Research Associate in Sociology leading policy workstream of the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling. I am also an Associate at the School of Health and Wellbeing’s Social Scientists in Health group.

Before joining UoG, I completed a Ph.D. in Sociology at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (2021). I also hold an M.Sc. in Comparative Social Policy (health) from the University of Oxford (2010); an MA in Women's and Gender Studies from Central European University & Utrecht University (2009), and a BA (hons) in Psychology from St.Petersburg State University (2007). 

I have more than ten years of experience in applied social research. Prior to and in parallel with my Ph.D., I held in-house research and policy positions and provided research consultancy services at Oxfam, WHO, and European Institute for Gender Equality.

 

Research interests

I am a feminist social scientist with an interdisciplinary background in psychology, gender studies, health policy, and sociology. My main research interests lie at the intersection of these (inter-)disciplinary fields and currently focus on 1) how gender and class–as social structures–impact health and well-being; and 2) equitable health and social policy. I also have broad interests in sociology of gender and feminist research methodologies that I was lucky to have time to explore as part of my Ph.D. Being a Russian speaker and having spent significant parts of my academic and professional life in post-socialist countries, I have conducted multiple empirical studies in those contexts. However, my work has brought me all around the world – from Latin America to Western Pacific, and I also enjoy working on large-scale regional and global comparative policy research projects.

Projects I particularly enjoyed working on included:

  • Evidence review on gender inequities in health in Western Pacific region and development of gender mainstreaming resource   
  • Baseline assessment of health system reponses to violence against women in WHO European Region
  • Case study on how a community led national alliance of Indigenous women’s organisations has improved the delivery of healthcare for Indigenous women in Guatemala
  • Evidence review on women's health and well-being in Europe that has served as an evidence base for the Strategy of Women's Health and Wellbeing in WHO European Region
  • Providing policy advice and background research for Oxfam's global Even It Up campaign 
  • Assessment of gender responsiveness of the National Child and Adolescent Health and Development Strategy of the Republic of Tajikistan for the period 2008-2015

Having always maintained a strong interest in mental health and its structural determinants, in 2021, I joined UoG where I work as part of Gambling Research Glasgow team currently preparing Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling (LPHCG). At LPHCG, I lead policy workstream looking at how countries around the world are integrating public health approaches into their policy responses to gambling-related harms. While in this post, I also co-authored a study on young women sports bettors in the UK (forthcoming in an edited collection).

 

For more details, check my Linkedin and my google scholar profiles.  

For Russian speakers out there, in these podcasts I discuss my feminist research work on gambling and beyond.  

 

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 and Prever, Fulvia (2025) Addressing gambling harms among women: leveraging lessons from the wider field of gender and health. Critical Gambling Studies, 5(2), pp. 77-83. (doi: 10.29173/cgs221)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 and Volberg, Rachel (2025) Gambling harms in the era of legal gambling expansion—a growing health problem. JAMA Internal Medicine, 185(4), pp. 389-390. (doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.8189) (PMID:39960678)

2024

Wardle, H. et al. (2024) The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling. Lancet Public Health, 9(11), e950-e994. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00167-1) (PMID:39491880)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Marionneau, Virve, Volberg, Rachel and Wardle, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-3706 (2024) The expansion of gambling across the Americas poses risks to mental health and wellbeing. Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 37, 100855. (doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100855) (PMID:39176376) (PMCID:PMC11339040)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Marionneau, Virve, Nikkinen, Janne and Wardle, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-3706 (2024) Public health approaches to gambling: a global review of legislative trends. Lancet Public Health, 9(1), e57-e67. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00221-9) (PMID:37944544) (PMCID:PMC10927617)

2023

Biggar, Blair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5733-0164, Kesaite, Viktorija, Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 and Wardle, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-3706 (2023) Young women sports bettors in the United Kingdom: an overlooked demographic? In: McGee, Darrah and Bunn, Christopher (eds.) Gambling and Sports in a Global Age. Series: Research in the sociology of sport (18). Emerald: Leeds, pp. 145-167. ISBN 9781801173056 (doi: 10.1108/S1476-285420230000018010)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Marionneau, Virve, Nikkinen, Janne and Wardle, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-3706 (2023) Embracing public health approaches to gambling? A review of global legislative and regulatory trends. 16th European Public Health Conference 2023 Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth: A Sustainable Future for Humanity, Dublin, Ireland, 08-11 Nov 2023. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1644)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2023) Back to ‘traditional’ family values? Trends in gender ideologies in Russia, 1994–2012. Europe-Asia Studies, 75(3), pp. 446-467. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2022.2107615)

2022

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2022) Doing gender with class: gender division of unpaid work in Russian middle-class dual earner heterosexual households. Journal of Family Issues, 43(12), pp. 3244-3270. (doi: 10.1177/0192513X211042846)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Wardle, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-3706, Marionneau, Virve and Nikkinen, Janne (2022) Embracing Public Health Approaches to Gambling? A Review of Global Legislative and Regulatory Trends. LISBON ADDICTIONS European Conference on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies, Lisbon, 23-25 November 2022.

Kesaite, Viktorija and Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2022) Exploring the Political, Economic and Commercial Determinants of Gambling Harms. Current Advances in Gambling Research, Cardiff, UK, 19-20 May 2022.

2021

Hinton, R. et al. (2021) Specific considerations for research on the effectiveness of multisectoral collaboration: methods and lessons from 12 country case studies. Globalization and Health, 17, 18. (doi: 10.1186/s12992-021-00664-w) (PMID:33522937) (PMCID:PMC7848879)

2020

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2020) Gender division of domestic labor in post-socialist Europe (1994–2012): test of class gradients hypothesis. Social Inclusion, 8(4), pp. 23-34. (doi: 10.17645/si.v8i4.2972)

2019

World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (2019) The health system response to violence against women in the WHO European Region: a baseline assessment. Other. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe.

Yordi Aguirre, Isabel, Nihlen, Asa, Ward, Natalie and Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2019) Health and Gender Equality: Policy Brief. Other. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe.

2018

Kuruvilla, S. et al. (2018) Business not as usual: how multisectoral collaboration can promote transformative change for health and sustainable development. British Medical Journal, 363, k4771. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4771) (PMID:30530519) (PMCID:PMC6282730)

Renner, I. et al. (2018) Improving psychosocial services for vulnerable families with young children: strengthening links between health and social services in Germany. British Medical Journal, 363, k4786. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4786) (PMID:30530840) (PMCID:PMC6282766)

Velásquez, Claudia Nieves, del Rosario Garcia Meza, Maria, Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Xinico, Silvia, Palma, Susana and Simpson, Sarah (2018) Making the health system work by and for Indigenous women in Guatemala: a community led multisectoral collaboration. British Medical Journal, 363, k4677. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4677) (PMID:30530627) (PMCID:PMC6284262)

2016

Rhodes, Francesca, Burnley, Jasmine, Dolores, Maria, Kyriacou, Joy, Wilshaw, Rachel, Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Gibson, Luke and Talpur, Mustafa (2016) Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women's work in Asia. Discussion Paper. Oxfam International, Oxford.

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2016) Women’s Health and Well-being in Europe: Beyond the Mortality Advantage. Documentation. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.

2015

Cavero, Teresa, Hardoon, Deborah, Olier, Catherine, Ruiz, Susana and Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2015) A Europe for the Many, not the Few: Time to Reverse the Course of Inequality and Poverty in Europe. Discussion Paper. Oxfam International.

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2015) Gender inequality and inter-household economic inequality in emerging economies: exploring the relationship. Gender & Development, 23(2), pp. 241-259. (doi: 10.1080/13552074.2015.1055082)

2014

Holt, Jeremy, Newhouse, Samuel and Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2014) Scholarships and the Healthcare Human Resources Crisis: A case study of Soviet and Russian Scholarships for Medical Students from Ghana. Documentation. Oxfam International.

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2014) After Equality: Inequality Trends and Policy Responses in Contemporary Russia. Discussion Paper. Oxfam International.

2013

Brezhneva, Anna and Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2013) Russia as a Humanitarian Aid Donor. Discussion Paper. Oxfam International.

2012

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2012) Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary Russia. Documentation. Oxfam International.

2011

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 and Yordi Aguirre, Isabel (2011) The Impact of Women’s Status on Utilization of Maternal Health Services in Eastern European and CIS Countries. The cases of Albania, Armenia and Azerbaijan. 4th European Public Health Conference Public Health and Welfare - Welfare Development and Health, Copenhagen, 9-12 Nov 2011. p. 212. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckr119)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2011) Maternity Care Certificates as a Tool to Reduce Informal Payments for Publicly Funded Services: Russian and Armenian Experiences Compared. In: 9th Annual ESPAnet Conference Sustainability and transformation in European Social Policy, Valencia, 8-10 September 2011,

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Articles

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 and Prever, Fulvia (2025) Addressing gambling harms among women: leveraging lessons from the wider field of gender and health. Critical Gambling Studies, 5(2), pp. 77-83. (doi: 10.29173/cgs221)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 and Volberg, Rachel (2025) Gambling harms in the era of legal gambling expansion—a growing health problem. JAMA Internal Medicine, 185(4), pp. 389-390. (doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.8189) (PMID:39960678)

Wardle, H. et al. (2024) The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling. Lancet Public Health, 9(11), e950-e994. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00167-1) (PMID:39491880)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Marionneau, Virve, Volberg, Rachel and Wardle, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-3706 (2024) The expansion of gambling across the Americas poses risks to mental health and wellbeing. Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 37, 100855. (doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100855) (PMID:39176376) (PMCID:PMC11339040)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Marionneau, Virve, Nikkinen, Janne and Wardle, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-3706 (2024) Public health approaches to gambling: a global review of legislative trends. Lancet Public Health, 9(1), e57-e67. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00221-9) (PMID:37944544) (PMCID:PMC10927617)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2023) Back to ‘traditional’ family values? Trends in gender ideologies in Russia, 1994–2012. Europe-Asia Studies, 75(3), pp. 446-467. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2022.2107615)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2022) Doing gender with class: gender division of unpaid work in Russian middle-class dual earner heterosexual households. Journal of Family Issues, 43(12), pp. 3244-3270. (doi: 10.1177/0192513X211042846)

Hinton, R. et al. (2021) Specific considerations for research on the effectiveness of multisectoral collaboration: methods and lessons from 12 country case studies. Globalization and Health, 17, 18. (doi: 10.1186/s12992-021-00664-w) (PMID:33522937) (PMCID:PMC7848879)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2020) Gender division of domestic labor in post-socialist Europe (1994–2012): test of class gradients hypothesis. Social Inclusion, 8(4), pp. 23-34. (doi: 10.17645/si.v8i4.2972)

Kuruvilla, S. et al. (2018) Business not as usual: how multisectoral collaboration can promote transformative change for health and sustainable development. British Medical Journal, 363, k4771. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4771) (PMID:30530519) (PMCID:PMC6282730)

Renner, I. et al. (2018) Improving psychosocial services for vulnerable families with young children: strengthening links between health and social services in Germany. British Medical Journal, 363, k4786. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4786) (PMID:30530840) (PMCID:PMC6282766)

Velásquez, Claudia Nieves, del Rosario Garcia Meza, Maria, Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Xinico, Silvia, Palma, Susana and Simpson, Sarah (2018) Making the health system work by and for Indigenous women in Guatemala: a community led multisectoral collaboration. British Medical Journal, 363, k4677. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4677) (PMID:30530627) (PMCID:PMC6284262)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2015) Gender inequality and inter-household economic inequality in emerging economies: exploring the relationship. Gender & Development, 23(2), pp. 241-259. (doi: 10.1080/13552074.2015.1055082)

Book Sections

Biggar, Blair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5733-0164, Kesaite, Viktorija, Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 and Wardle, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-3706 (2023) Young women sports bettors in the United Kingdom: an overlooked demographic? In: McGee, Darrah and Bunn, Christopher (eds.) Gambling and Sports in a Global Age. Series: Research in the sociology of sport (18). Emerald: Leeds, pp. 145-167. ISBN 9781801173056 (doi: 10.1108/S1476-285420230000018010)

Research Reports or Papers

World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (2019) The health system response to violence against women in the WHO European Region: a baseline assessment. Other. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe.

Yordi Aguirre, Isabel, Nihlen, Asa, Ward, Natalie and Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2019) Health and Gender Equality: Policy Brief. Other. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe.

Rhodes, Francesca, Burnley, Jasmine, Dolores, Maria, Kyriacou, Joy, Wilshaw, Rachel, Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Gibson, Luke and Talpur, Mustafa (2016) Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women's work in Asia. Discussion Paper. Oxfam International, Oxford.

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2016) Women’s Health and Well-being in Europe: Beyond the Mortality Advantage. Documentation. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.

Cavero, Teresa, Hardoon, Deborah, Olier, Catherine, Ruiz, Susana and Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2015) A Europe for the Many, not the Few: Time to Reverse the Course of Inequality and Poverty in Europe. Discussion Paper. Oxfam International.

Holt, Jeremy, Newhouse, Samuel and Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2014) Scholarships and the Healthcare Human Resources Crisis: A case study of Soviet and Russian Scholarships for Medical Students from Ghana. Documentation. Oxfam International.

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2014) After Equality: Inequality Trends and Policy Responses in Contemporary Russia. Discussion Paper. Oxfam International.

Brezhneva, Anna and Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2013) Russia as a Humanitarian Aid Donor. Discussion Paper. Oxfam International.

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2012) Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary Russia. Documentation. Oxfam International.

Conference or Workshop Item

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Marionneau, Virve, Nikkinen, Janne and Wardle, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-3706 (2023) Embracing public health approaches to gambling? A review of global legislative and regulatory trends. 16th European Public Health Conference 2023 Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth: A Sustainable Future for Humanity, Dublin, Ireland, 08-11 Nov 2023. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1644)

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604, Wardle, Heather ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-3706, Marionneau, Virve and Nikkinen, Janne (2022) Embracing Public Health Approaches to Gambling? A Review of Global Legislative and Regulatory Trends. LISBON ADDICTIONS European Conference on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies, Lisbon, 23-25 November 2022.

Kesaite, Viktorija and Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2022) Exploring the Political, Economic and Commercial Determinants of Gambling Harms. Current Advances in Gambling Research, Cardiff, UK, 19-20 May 2022.

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 and Yordi Aguirre, Isabel (2011) The Impact of Women’s Status on Utilization of Maternal Health Services in Eastern European and CIS Countries. The cases of Albania, Armenia and Azerbaijan. 4th European Public Health Conference Public Health and Welfare - Welfare Development and Health, Copenhagen, 9-12 Nov 2011. p. 212. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckr119)

Conference Proceedings

Ukhova, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-8604 (2011) Maternity Care Certificates as a Tool to Reduce Informal Payments for Publicly Funded Services: Russian and Armenian Experiences Compared. In: 9th Annual ESPAnet Conference Sustainability and transformation in European Social Policy, Valencia, 8-10 September 2011,

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Grants

Research funding

2019: WHO: Development of products on gender mainstreaming for WHO Western Pacific Region (Co-PI)

2018: WHO: Evidence report and factsheet on the relation between SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 5 (Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment) (PI)

2018: WHO: Technical support to country teams working on the success factors case studies of multisectoral collaboration to improve maternal, newborn and child health in Germany and Guatemala (Co-PI)

2016: Oxfam: Briefing paper on women's work in Asia for WEF ASEAN 2016 (Co-PI)

2016: Oxfam: Case studies on tax system in Lagos, Nigeria and on health insurance system in Ghana for the Oxfam West Africa regional report on inequality (PI)

2015: WHO: Assessment of the implementation of the National Child and Adolescent Health Strategy of the Republic of Tajikistan for the period 2008-2015 from the gender and health equity perspective (PI)

2015: WHO: European Women’s Health Report (Co-PI)

2011-12: World Bank/University of Pennsylvania: Research on foreign-educated academic professionals in Russia



Scholarships

DAAD STIBET Dissertation Completion Scholarship, University of Bremen, Germany; 2020

Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences Study Abroad Scholarship (DAAD standards), Germany; 2017

Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences Ph.D. Fellowship, Germany; 2015-2018

CEU Summer University Scholarship, Hungary; 2011

Hill Foundation Scholarship, UK; 2009-2010

Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, European Commission; 2007-2009

 

Supervision

At Masters level I have supervised dissertations on:

  • Challenges in applying anti-domestic violence law in China (MSc. Global health, 2024)
  • Cultural norms, gender inequality, and menstrual stigma in India (MSc. Global health, 2025)

Teaching

At UoG, I co-teach on two courses in the School of Social and Political Sciences. I teach on gender and health in a BA course on Sociology of Gender and on reproductive labour in an MA Contemporary Approaches to Gender Relations course.

During my PhD, jointly with Dr Anna Wolkenhauer, I designed and taught an undergraduate course Social Policy in International Development at the University of Bremen, Germany. In that period, I was also an invited lecturer on Critical Approaches to International Development at the Annual Alumni Workshop (2017), Hertie School, Berlin, Germany.

Prior to starting the PhD, I had gained experience in adult training design and facilitation within the international development sector. In 2012-2013, at Oxfam, I designed a training on research for advocacy and delivered it for 50+ staff in four country offices (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia). In 2011, at WHO/EURO, I co-designed and co-facilitated a training on gender mainstreaming for the Ministry of Health of Turkmenistan.

In 2008, during my master’s in gender studies, I was a tutor at the NOISE summer school on intersectionality and interdisciplinarity at Utrecht University, Netherlands.


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