Poli Roukova
Biographic Data
| ID | 149271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Poli Roukova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Poli |
| FAMILY NAME | Roukova |
| SIGNATURE | ROUKOVA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-0479-8975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Spatial Disparities in the Bulgarian Labour Market
The transformation of the labour market is a significant challenge for sustainable regional development, especially in countries with pronounced socioeconomic inequalities. This study aims to analyse the spatial disparities in the Bulgarian labour market at the regional level (NUTS 3, districts) for the period of 2021–2024, combining descriptive spatial analysis, multidimensional cluster analysis, and Local Indicator of Spatial Association (Local…
Gis-Based Assessment of the Transport Accessibility of the Material Anthropogenic Tourist Resources in Sofia, Bulgaria
The study aims to present a GIS-based assessment of the transport accessibility of the material anthropogenic tourist resources (historical, architectural, religious, and cultural-institutional) in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria. The method used in the study in order to achieve the objective is measuring the walking distance with the use of the ORC tool in QGIS. A vector point layer of all public transport stops was initially added, where the points…
Stakeholders in support systems for self‐care for chronic illness
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The spread of self-care holds the promise of containing chronic illness burden. Falling within the framework of a FP7 collaborative research project, this paper reports the views of key informants from six countries regarding who the main stakeholders are at different levels in the support system for self-care for patients with chronic illness (SSSC) and how they accomplish their role and collaborate. METHODS: 90 Intervi…
Negotiating Diet in Networks
Food and diet are central aspects of diabetes self-management but the relevance of social networks for the way people are supported in their management of type 2 diabetes is often under-acknowledged. In this article, we aimed to explore the coalescences between these two phenomena among people with type 2 diabetes to increase knowledge of interactions within social network related to daily diet. The article is based on 125 qualitative interviews …
The articulation of neoliberalism
The shift from social democratic to a neoliberal consensus in modern welfare capitalist states is characterised by an emphasis on individual responsibility, consumer choice, market rationality and growing social inequalities. There has been little exploration of how neoliberalism has shaped the environment within which chronic illness is experienced and managed. This article explores the different articulations of neoliberalism manifest in the ar…
Articulations of Capital
Dynamics and nature of support in the personal networks of people with type 2 diabetes living in E urope
BACKGROUND: Living with and self-managing a long-term condition implicates a diversity of networked relationships. This qualitative study examines the personal communities of support of people with type 2 diabetes. METHODS: We conducted 170 biographical interviews in six European countries (Bulgaria, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and UK) to explore social support and networks. Analysis was framed with reference to three predetermined soc…
Meso level influences on long term condition self-management
The results suggest reasons for giving increasing prominence to meso level influences as a means of rebalancing and improving the effectiveness of implementing an agenda for SMS. There is a need to acknowledge the greater economic and policy challenging environment operating in some countries which act as a source of inequality between countries in addressing SMS for chronic illness management and impacts on people's capacity to undertake self-ca…
Reconfiguring 'post-socialist' regions
The global garment industry is currently being reshaped in dramatic ways through processes of trade liberalization, delocalization and interfirm and interregional competition. There has been much speculation about the increasing importance of factor (especially labour) costs in fuelling further rounds of de-localization of garment production towards low-cost production locations, such as China and India. However, the extent to which these process…
Upgrading, Changing Competitive Pressures, and Diverse Practices in the East and Central European Apparel Industry
After a period in the 1990s of rapid integration into the production and trade networks of the European Union (EU) (and to a lesser extent of the United States), clothing manufacturers in East and Central Europe have had to adjust quickly to the changing costs of production with EU accession, the rise of Chinese exports, and the 1 January 2005 final phaseout of quantitative quotas into major markets. In this paper we focus on the changing competi…
Outward Processing, EU Enlargement and Regional Relocation in the European Textiles and Clothing Industry
The European clothing industry faces a number of important challenges which have been at the forefront of policy thinking across the European Union and beyond. This paper provides a set of reflections on the European Commission’s recent Communication on the future of the industry in Europe in the light of pressures of liberalization, globalization and EU enlargement. Based upon ongoing research on the restructuring of the Central and East Europea…
Upgrading, Changing Competitive Pressures, and Diverse Practices in the East and Central European Apparel Industry
After a period in the 1990s of rapid integration into the production and trade networks of the European Union (EU) (and to a lesser extent of the United States), clothing manufacturers in East and Central Europe have had to adjust quickly to the changing costs of production with EU accession, the rise of Chinese exports, and the 1 January 2005 final phaseout of quantitative quotas into major markets. In this paper we focus on the changing competi…
Articulations of Capital
The articulation of neoliberalism
The shift from social democratic to a neoliberal consensus in modern welfare capitalist states is characterised by an emphasis on individual responsibility, consumer choice, market rationality and growing social inequalities. There has been little exploration of how neoliberalism has shaped the environment within which chronic illness is experienced and managed. This article explores the different articulations of neoliberalism manifest in the ar…
Outward Processing, EU Enlargement and Regional Relocation in the European Textiles and Clothing Industry
The European clothing industry faces a number of important challenges which have been at the forefront of policy thinking across the European Union and beyond. This paper provides a set of reflections on the European Commission’s recent Communication on the future of the industry in Europe in the light of pressures of liberalization, globalization and EU enlargement. Based upon ongoing research on the restructuring of the Central and East Europea…
Negotiating Diet in Networks
Food and diet are central aspects of diabetes self-management but the relevance of social networks for the way people are supported in their management of type 2 diabetes is often under-acknowledged. In this article, we aimed to explore the coalescences between these two phenomena among people with type 2 diabetes to increase knowledge of interactions within social network related to daily diet. The article is based on 125 qualitative interviews …
Reconfiguring 'post-socialist' regions
The global garment industry is currently being reshaped in dramatic ways through processes of trade liberalization, delocalization and interfirm and interregional competition. There has been much speculation about the increasing importance of factor (especially labour) costs in fuelling further rounds of de-localization of garment production towards low-cost production locations, such as China and India. However, the extent to which these process…
Outward Processing, EU Enlargement and Regional Relocation in the European Textiles and Clothing Industry
The European clothing industry faces a number of important challenges which have been at the forefront of policy thinking across the European Union and beyond. This paper provides a set of reflections on the European Commission’s recent Communication on the future of the industry in Europe in the light of pressures of liberalization, globalization and EU enlargement. Based upon ongoing research on the restructuring of the Central and East Europea…
Upgrading, Changing Competitive Pressures, and Diverse Practices in the East and Central European Apparel Industry
After a period in the 1990s of rapid integration into the production and trade networks of the European Union (EU) (and to a lesser extent of the United States), clothing manufacturers in East and Central Europe have had to adjust quickly to the changing costs of production with EU accession, the rise of Chinese exports, and the 1 January 2005 final phaseout of quantitative quotas into major markets. In this paper we focus on the changing competi…
Reconfiguring 'post-socialist' regions
The global garment industry is currently being reshaped in dramatic ways through processes of trade liberalization, delocalization and interfirm and interregional competition. There has been much speculation about the increasing importance of factor (especially labour) costs in fuelling further rounds of de-localization of garment production towards low-cost production locations, such as China and India. However, the extent to which these process…
Articulations of Capital
Dynamics and nature of support in the personal networks of people with type 2 diabetes living in E urope
BACKGROUND: Living with and self-managing a long-term condition implicates a diversity of networked relationships. This qualitative study examines the personal communities of support of people with type 2 diabetes. METHODS: We conducted 170 biographical interviews in six European countries (Bulgaria, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and UK) to explore social support and networks. Analysis was framed with reference to three predetermined soc…
Meso level influences on long term condition self-management
The results suggest reasons for giving increasing prominence to meso level influences as a means of rebalancing and improving the effectiveness of implementing an agenda for SMS. There is a need to acknowledge the greater economic and policy challenging environment operating in some countries which act as a source of inequality between countries in addressing SMS for chronic illness management and impacts on people's capacity to undertake self-ca…
Stakeholders in support systems for self‐care for chronic illness
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The spread of self-care holds the promise of containing chronic illness burden. Falling within the framework of a FP7 collaborative research project, this paper reports the views of key informants from six countries regarding who the main stakeholders are at different levels in the support system for self-care for patients with chronic illness (SSSC) and how they accomplish their role and collaborate. METHODS: 90 Intervi…
Negotiating Diet in Networks
Food and diet are central aspects of diabetes self-management but the relevance of social networks for the way people are supported in their management of type 2 diabetes is often under-acknowledged. In this article, we aimed to explore the coalescences between these two phenomena among people with type 2 diabetes to increase knowledge of interactions within social network related to daily diet. The article is based on 125 qualitative interviews …
The articulation of neoliberalism
The shift from social democratic to a neoliberal consensus in modern welfare capitalist states is characterised by an emphasis on individual responsibility, consumer choice, market rationality and growing social inequalities. There has been little exploration of how neoliberalism has shaped the environment within which chronic illness is experienced and managed. This article explores the different articulations of neoliberalism manifest in the ar…
Gis-Based Assessment of the Transport Accessibility of the Material Anthropogenic Tourist Resources in Sofia, Bulgaria
The study aims to present a GIS-based assessment of the transport accessibility of the material anthropogenic tourist resources (historical, architectural, religious, and cultural-institutional) in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria. The method used in the study in order to achieve the objective is measuring the walking distance with the use of the ORC tool in QGIS. A vector point layer of all public transport stops was initially added, where the points…
Spatial Disparities in the Bulgarian Labour Market
The transformation of the labour market is a significant challenge for sustainable regional development, especially in countries with pronounced socioeconomic inequalities. This study aims to analyse the spatial disparities in the Bulgarian labour market at the regional level (NUTS 3, districts) for the period of 2021–2024, combining descriptive spatial analysis, multidimensional cluster analysis, and Local Indicator of Spatial Association (Local…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Diabetes Management and Education (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies (3 works) · Clothing (3 works)