Kristina Hristova

Kristina Hristova, LLM, AFHEA, is a Visiting Lecturer in the following courses: 

- BA Business Management;

- BA Business Management (Marketing);

- BA Finance and Business Management; and 

- BA Accounting and Business Management.

Kristina is a BA Journalism and LLM Entertainment Law graduate from the University of Westminster, London, where she explored, inter alia, issues related to marketing, merchandising, licensing, trademarks, trade secrets and economic rights. She got her Associate Fellowship by HEA in June 2023.

Apart from lecturing at university, she is also an Assistant Editor of the Astrology & Medicine newsletter, a Lecturer at the Astrological Lodge of London and a Trustee of the Astrological Association of Great Britain. She has been an Adobe Certified Associate (InDesign) for page layouts since December 2022, which enables her to create visually appealing magazines and posters.

Kristina was the only recipient of the Students’ Excellence Award for the BA Journalism course throughout the degree from her class of 2021. She was also the first student in the history of UoW to lead, design and create a magazine project about astrology in Level 5. And for her Final Journalism project, she created a lifestyle magazine called U Inspire, which praises the unknown heroes of a new era. As an Entertainment Law student, Kristina was the Top Postgraduate Scorer for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a Gold Employability Award (2022).

For her LLM dissertation 'To be or not to be... ethical? An ex-post-facto analysis of the interconnection between ethics and privacy self-regulation', Kristina explored the interplay between ethics and privacy self-regulation, exemplifying a commitment to ethically sound decision-making in the digital landscape, and addressed an essential gap in the ethicality of press intrusions. 

For her BA dissertation 'Written in the stars: irrationality in print media', Kristina focused on astrology's representation as an irrational practice in online/print major British newspapers between 1995 – 2020.

The rest of her research focuses on regulations of misinformation and disinformation, revenge pornography, deepfakes, gambling, merchandising, trademarks, trade secrets and economic rights.

Apart from that, as a professional astrologer, she has conducted authentic research on topics like astrophysiognomy (the study related to the influence of the planets upon one’s appearance), synastry (the study exploring relationships) and eating disorders as signified in one's horoscope.