Co-founder and CEO of Research Bureau “KB23”, Urban Sociologist, Researcher, Consultant
🏳️🌈 Berlin
💼 2014 – Present: Co-founder and CEO, Research Bureau “KB23”
Urban Sociologist, Researcher, Head of research
💼 2012 - 2014: Flacon Design Factory
Project Manager, Head of the Public Program Department
🎓 2014-2015: Fundamental Sociology, The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (University of Manchester)
Courses: Ethnomethodology, Epistemology, Sociological Theory, History of Sociology
🎓 2007-2012: Specialist in Public Relations (Honors Degree), The Moscow City University
✍🏻 Summary:
Over a decade ago, I identified a significant gap within Russia's creative industries, prompting extensive research aimed at addressing the need for fresh perspectives in urban environments, digital services, and business solutions. As the co-founder of Research Bureau “KB23,” I have collaborated with the largest industrial companies, top architectural bureaus, and cultural institutions in Russia. I possess unique expertise in solving unconventional research tasks to effectively tackle community and NGO issues, along with business challenges, architectural projects, and service development. My motivation as a queer person in research is to achieve inclusivity in services, cities, and communities. I specialize in assisting informed decision-making processes.
🙋🏻 What I Offer:
💁🏻♂️ Accomplishments:
Effective research design and methodology
Analytically based decision-making
Team communication and goal setting
Qualitative methods: Mystery shopping, Jobs-To-Be-Done, UX and CX methods, desk research, in-depth interviews, focus groups, ethnography, content and converse analysis
Quantitative methods: Surveys, statistics, open data, factor and cluster analysis
Developed research methodologies across diverse markets
Led multidisciplinary teams and international consortia
Mentored a team of young scholars and analysts
Established standards for urban research in Moscow
Finalist in international architectural competitions as part of consortia
Forms of Cultural Participation of Citizens and Audience of Cultural Institutions
Conducted sociological surveys and analysis to identify future visitor groups and guide executive decisions for the GES-2 House of Culture. Special attention was given to studying the requests and needs of vulnerable groups for inclusion: wheelchair users, deaf and hard of hearing individuals, visually impaired individuals, neurodiverse individuals, and the LGBTQI+ community.
United Metallurgical Company (OMK)
Educational trajectories of teenagers in corporate town
Researched educational trajectories of teenagers in a corporate town to aid HR strategy for future recruitment.
Nagatinsky Zaton (Moscow)
Research and master plan
Conducted spatial analysis and in-depth interviews to develop a master plan for a Moscow district with a population of 120,000 people.