Teaching Associate
MSc (University of Kent), MRes, PhD (Open University)
My key area of research interest focuses on digital innovation adoption. My research investigates how digital innovation reshapes regulatory reporting infrastructures and organisational accountability. Focusing on the digitisation of business-to-government reporting across jurisdictions, I examine how digital standards, reporting taxonomies and automated data exchange systems do more than improve efficiency: they structure what organisations are required and able to report, thereby shaping compliance practices and regulatory outcomes.
This work extends directly to sustainability reporting, examining how digital infrastructure plays a central role in translating normative sustainability goals into operational and auditable requirements. I analyse how sustainability standards are encoded into machine-readable reporting systems and how this digitisation influences organisational behaviour, particularly the tension between short-term growth objectives and long-term sustainability commitments.
Professional experience
Dr Lidia Mishchenko teaches across undergraduate, postgraduate and executive programmes, including the Executive MBA, MSt in Entrepreneurship, and MPhil in Management, with a focus on digital innovation, sustainability and organisational behaviour.
Lidia has held lectureship roles at Downing College and the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, the University of Northampton, and the Open University. At Cambridge Judge Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business, she has led the design and development of executive education programmes in sustainability, translating the research insights into applied learning for senior practitioners. She has also held leadership responsibilities as Deputy Programme Lead, with oversight of curriculum development and programme delivery. Alongside her academic experience, Lidia has worked in audit at PwC. Lidia is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the British Accounting and Finance Association and the Academy of Management.