Dr Igor Shagalov

Dr Igor Shagalov

Research Fellow

Contact details

Email
i.shagalov@bham.ac.uk
Address
Health Economics Unit
Building Y16
Department of Applied Health Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT

Igor is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit, specialising in public sector economics, social policy, the economics of social care, and health economics. He is particularly interested in the feasibility of outsourcing social services to independent providers, the effectiveness of external care quality assessment systems, and the role of competition and transparency in health and social care delivery. Igor is also a Research Associate at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economics (LSE). He leads the policy forum on “Care Home Markets and Regulation,” which he established within the Global Observatory of Long-term Care at LSE.

Currently, Igor is involved in the WISE project, which focuses on how schools invest resources in mental health and wellbeing. He has also worked on a project examining the pros and cons of for-profit and non-profit care homes in England, including the external and internal incentives for care quality.

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Qualifications

PhD in Public Administration 2021, HSE University (Moscow)

Biography

Igor holds a PhD in Public Administration from HSE University. He worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Institutional Studies and as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics at HSE University. He was also involved in the Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Centre (HCMRC), a consortium of four leading Russian universities in human capital research. At HCMRC, he worked on a project studying the outsourcing of social services to the non-profit sector. Igor has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals and has been a speaker at academic conferences and popular science events for the general public.

Teaching

MSc Health Economics and Health Policy, Policy and Economics of Healthcare Delivery module

Research

Research interests

  • Public sector economics, social policy, economics of social care

Current projects

  • Measuring the Quality of Care for the Older People in England: An Empirical Analysis and Implications for Policy
  • Wellbeing Investments in Schools and Employers (WISE) study.
  • Care Quality vs Ownership Status: An Empirical Analysis of English Care Homes for Older People in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Other activities

Igor has the following professional affiliations and commitments:

  • Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG) – Full Member.
  • Global Observatory of Long-term Care (GOLTC) – Expert.
  • Care Home Markets and Regulation Interest Group (GOLTC) – Lead.
  • British Academy Early Career Researcher Network - Full Member.

Publications

Articles in Preparation:

  • Shagalov, I., Johnson, R., Beach, D., Al-Janabi, H. (2025). Wellbeing Investment in English Schools: A ‘Theory-Testing’ Process Tracing study.
  • Shagalov, I., Fernandez, J., Street, A. (2025). Care Quality vs Ownership Status: An Empirical Analysis of English Care Homes for Older People in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  • Shagalov, I., Polishchuk, L. (2025). Evaluation of the Efficiency of External Social Care Quality Assessment System in England.
  • Shagalov, I., Polishchuk, L. (2025). Making Federalism Work: Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Russian Regions.

Published Journal Articles:

  • Outsourcing social services to the nonprofit sector: an economic analysis (with Leonid Polishchuk and Nikolai Zobernius), Voprosy Ekonomiki, (2), pp. 95-119, 2022, DOI: 10.32609/0042-8736-2022-2-95-119 (In Russ). The paper is published in the top-rated Russian-language journal for economists.
  • Managing Collective Action: Government-Sponsored Community Initiatives in Russia (with Leonid Polishchuk and Alexander Rubin), Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 73(6), pp. 1176-1209, 2021, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2021.1935466.
  • Community Self-Governance: Prerequisites, Functions, Evaluation (with Alexander Rubin). Voprosy Ekonomiki, (5), pp.103-121, 2019, DOI: 10.32609/0042-8736-2019-5-103-121 (In Russ.). The paper is published in the top-rated Russian-language journal for economists.
  • State and Society as Co-Production Partners: Theory and Russian realities (with Natalia Vasilenok and Leonid Polishchuk), Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost, (2), pp.35-53, 2019, DOI: 10.31857/S086904990004392-3, (In Russ.). The paper is published in a top-5 Russian-language journal for economists and sociologists.
  • The Effects of Co-production of the Social Infrastructure in Russia, ECO, (4), pp. 153-173, 2019, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30680/ECO0131-7652-2019-4-153-172 (In Russ.). The paper is published in a top-10 Russian-language journal for economists.