Katya Ivanova
Research Officer
Research Focus: Gender-based violence; Gender inclusion; Health equity & inclusion
Ekaterina (Katya) Ivanova is a Russian-born sociologist with expertise in qualitative methodologies and cross-cultural research on families and gender. As a Research Officer within Nossal’s One Health Unit, she is responsible for fieldwork, data collection, and analysis for the project “Climate Community Health Amongst Livestock Keepers in Kyrgyzstan.”
Katya has worked on a mixed-methods project exploring gendered lived experiences in relation to health, family and community across four republics in the North Caucasus, Russia at the Russian branch of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and on projects focusing on the lived experiences of LGBTIQA+ persons with disabilities and hate crimes against LGBTIQA+ persons in Russia, led by Alexandr (Sasha) Kondakov, School of Sociology, University College Dublin.
Katya is deeply committed to the potential of qualitative data and sociological analysis to provide a nuanced and context-embedded understanding of inequalities. She has extensive experience in organising fieldwork and is familiar with a range of methods suitable for the analysis of qualitative data, including narrative analysis, thematic analysis, discourse analysis, and grounded theory.
Katya is passionate about teaching and has been a university tutor in a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses since 2021.
Katya holds a Master’s degree from the European University at Saint Petersburg and a Bachelor’s degree from Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. Her PhD, “Becoming a separated father: a comparative analysis of fatherhood after family separation in Australia and Russia”, awarded in 2025 by the University of Melbourne, explored how fathers’ experiences of family separation were shaped by cultural, institutional, and gendered contexts of Australia and Russia.