Uliana Rusetska joins the department

Here Rob and Emma interview her ...

"Uliana, tell us a little about yourself."

I have always been interested in the agriculture and food sector which led me to study agricultural management in my home country, Ukraine, and later join the fantastic AFEPA program, with one year at Bonn University and one year at SLU. Since then I got interested in policy-making, both in Ukraine and at the EU level, and had a blue-book traineeship at the DG AGRI in Brussels and worked on a stategy development project in Ukraine. Finally I worked at IFCN in Kiel on a research collaboration on farm benchmarking in the dairy sector.

"And how about the project?"

I'm supervised by Helena Hansson, with help from Carl Johan Lagerkvist and Gustav Johed, and the subject is management control at large dairy businesses. We want to find out, for instance, how these businesses undertake management control, and use accounting information, and how this affects their performance and environmental footprint. This is typically a 'black box' in research on farm management.

Five quick questions...
"Tea or coffee?" Coffee at work, tea at home.
"Milk or cream?" Cream!
"Microeconomics or econometrics?" I'd say econometrics.
"Cats or dogs?" I never had a dog, so cats.
"City girl or nature explorer?" In practice city girl, but hoping to explore the Swedish nature.