Vladyslav Kulikov is a PhD student (2022 - present) and Research Officer (2025 - present) in health economics at Bangor University. His PhD project focuses on preferences for the roles of social prescribing practitioners in North Wales and Mid and West Wales. As research officer, Vladyslav is part of a GRACE project jointly co-led by Dr Emily Holmes (Bangor University) and Dr Lisa Ashmore (Lancaster University). He specialises in preference elicitation techniques and mixed-method research.

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• Vladyslav's PhD project is funded by Hywel Dda University Health Board and supervised by Prof Rhiannon Tudor Edwards (Bangor University) and Prof Deborah Fitzsimmons (Swansea University). He studies the roles of social prescribing practitioners, people who facilitate connection between individuals with health-related social need and community-based assets. Specifically, Vladyslav explores the service provision in North Wales and Mid and West Wales, and studies public preferences for the new roles with qualitative (interviews, focus groups) and quantitative (discrete choice experiment) techniques. Conceptually, his PhD touches on themes of demand for health and social care, behaviour change, and the shift of care towards prevention and community-based approaches.
• As a health economist on the GRACE project, Vladyslav is working on a discrete choice experiment to study patient preferences for benefits and risks of radiotherapy for gynaecological cancer. Under supervision of the project co-lead, Dr Emily Holmes, he is conducting formative work in the form of think-aloud interviews, and is collaborating with other work packages to integrate the findings of a discrete choice experiment into new infrastructures for consent for gynae-radiotherapy.

Vladyslav is supervised by Professor Rhiannon Tudor Edwards,  Co-Director of the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME) at Bangor University, and Professor Deborah Fitzsimmons, Director of Swansea Centre for Health Economics at Swansea University.

Vladyslav was born on April 11th, 1999, in Kyiv, Ukraine, in a family of neurosurgeons. He grew up and went to school in Kyiv apart from 2014-2015 when Vladyslav went to live and study in the US. This was part of the Future Leaders Exchange Program, sponsored by the US State Department and set up in the former Soviet republics. In 2016 Vladyslav enrolled in Bogomolets National Medical University, the biggest Ukrainian medical school located in Kyiv. Vladyslav was at home with his family in Boryspil, near Kyiv, when the russian invasion of Ukraine started on February 24th, 2022. The family was displaced to Chernivtsi, in the Western part of Ukraine, where Vladyslav came across the Ph.D. studentship offer from Bangor University. He applied for it in April, and moved to the UK in June of 2022, having graduated from medical school a week earlier. Vladyslav currently resides in Bangor and splits his time between a PhD and project work at the university. He is also a freelance interpreter, helping Ukrainian refugees in the UK by interpreting for them in the healthcare setting. In his free time Vladyslav enjoys reading, playing the guitar, fighting for gig tickets on Ticketmaster, and learning how to play tennis. He is looking forward to the next stage of his career when Vladyslav can apply his skills in the positions that speak to his background and interests.