department
Department of Social Expertise
Chepurko Gulbarshyn Iskakivna — Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Head of the Department
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About the unit
The Department of Social Expertise (until June 1996 the Department of Social Programmes and Projects Methodology) was established in November 1991. As of 2025 the Department consists of 10 researchers, including 3 Doctors of Sciences and 2 Candidates of Sciences.
Research directions
methodology and methods of social expertise
development of a concept of a social indicator system
development of a concept of an independent expert board as an institution of civil society
conceptual approaches to designing social policy programmes in Ukraine
monitoring of the social and psychological after-effects of the Chornobyl accident
levels of humanitarian development
social policy, social protection and levels of poverty
Members
Amdjadin Liudmyla VolodymyrivnaSociologist I Grade
Chepurko Gulbarshyn IskakivnaDoctor of Sociological Sciences, Head of the Department
Dolia Iryna MykolaivnaCandidate of Political Sciences, Research Fellow
Hlomozda Vira IllivnaLead Sociologist
Klymenko Olena YuriivnaDoctor of Sociological Sciences, Senior Research Fellow
Pliushch Valentyna AnatoliivnaPhD, Junior Research Fellow
Reznik Oleksandr StanislavovichDoctor of Sociological Sciences, Lead Research Fellow
RO
Rokytska Oksana YuriivnaLead Sociologist
Sapelkin Yurii VolodymyrovychCandidate of Sociological Sciences, Research Fellow
Trofymenko Olesya VolodymyrivnaJunior Research Fellow
Research projects
2024 – 2026 · departmental project
Social traumas of modern Ukrainian society as a consequence of Russian military aggression
Principal investigator — Chepurko Gulbarshyn Iskakivna
Researchers — Dolia Iryna Mykolaivna
2022 – 2024 · departmental project
Populist orientations of citizens in a transitional society: the features of their manifestation and the factors of their formation
Principal investigator — Reznik Oleksandr Stanislavovich
2022 – 2023 · departmental project
Society with an excess of challenges: threats and risks
Principal investigator — Rakhmanov Oleksandr Adolfovych
Researchers — Chepurko Gulbarshyn Iskakivna
2021 – 2023 · departmental project
Behavioural strategies of the population amid the spread of socially dangerous diseases
Principal investigator — Chepurko Gulbarshyn Iskakivna
2020 – 2021 · departmental project
Factors of citizens’ attitudes towards state power: a sociological analysis
Principal investigator — Reznik Oleksandr Stanislavovich
2019 · competitive project
Research project under the grant of the President of Ukraine to doctors of sciences for carrying out research «Subjects of civic practices as the social basis of Ukraine’s democratic transit»
Principal investigator — Reznik Oleksandr Stanislavovich
2019 · departmental project
Trends and main factors of the changes in the party system of Ukraine during the years of independence
Principal investigator — Reznik Oleksandr Stanislavovich
2018 – 2020 · departmental project
The modernisation of contemporary Ukrainian society
Principal investigator — Chepurko Gulbarshyn Iskakivna
2018 – 2019 · competitive project
Research project «The regularities of the formation and the sociological dimensions of civil society in Ukraine» under budget programme 6541230 of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Principal investigator — Reznik Oleksandr Stanislavovich
2015 – 2017 · departmental project
Social problems of the civilisational choice of contemporary Ukrainian society
Principal investigator — Chepurko Gulbarshyn Iskakivna
civilisational choice
social coordinates
mentality
identity
culture
historical memory
social risks
2014 – 2018 · external project
Features of the military-political conflict in Donbas: social, economic, political, and military aspects
Researchers — Dolia Iryna Mykolaivna
2013 – 2015 · departmental project
Regulatory functions of social capital in Ukrainian society
Principal investigator — Chepurko Gulbarshyn Iskakivna
2012 – 2014 · departmental project
The regulative functions of social capital in Ukraine's transition processes
Principal investigator — Chepurko Gulbarshyn Iskakivna
social capital
democratic values
social norms
social networks
trust
regulative functions
self-organisation
2009 – 2011 · departmental project
Models of the integration processes of Ukrainian society under contemporary globalisation
integration processes
modernisation
globalisation
social actors
socio-political system
social model
social potential
2007 – 2008 · departmental project
Integration mechanisms of the consolidation of Ukrainian society under social inequality
integration mechanisms
consolidation of society
social inequality
2005 · competitive project
Research project under the grant of the President of Ukraine for supporting the research of young scholars “The civic space of Ukraine: the problem of the institutionalisation of territorial identities”
Principal investigator — Reznik Oleksandr Stanislavovich
2004 · departmental project
The influence of civil-society structures and institutions on the electoral behaviour of Ukraine's population during the 2004 election campaign
electoral behaviour
election campaign
legislature
executive
political parties
political leaders
social expectations
2004 · departmental project
Developing models of labour behaviour in Ukraine's labour market under an insurance-based system of social protection
labour market
unemployment
socio-economic development
critical labour market
social insurance
pension insurance
social consequences
2004 · departmental project
Sociological monitoring of socio-economic, political and socio-cultural processes in Ukraine
civil society
public opinion
public trust
electoral behaviour
political parties
political leaders
election campaign
2004 – 2005 · departmental project
A study of the state and direction of public opinion on current problems of Ukraine's socio-political life and of the population's political activity following the 2004 election campaign
society
public opinion
presidential elections
election campaign
legislature
executive
political parties
political leaders
social expectations
2004 – 2006 · departmental project
The social dynamics of settlement structures: a comparative analysis
settlement structure
social dynamics
social space
urbanisation
2003 – 2004 · departmental project
A study of Kyiv residents' opinions on developments in domestic politics and local self-government
electoral expectations
party organisations
local authorities
political parties
executive
election campaign
self-organisation of the population
local self-government
electoral choice
2002 – 2004 · departmental project
Developing models of life under heightened risk from emergencies and disasters, drawing on the experience of the Chornobyl catastrophe
affected population
dynamics of social processes
socio-psychological consequences
life situations of victims
social adaptation
information model
monitoring
liquidators
legal status
living conditions
nuclear energy
risk
risk reduction
2001 · departmental project
Providing social and informational support for the implementation of pension reform in Ukraine
social policy
pension reform
civil society
transformation processes
1999 – 2000 · departmental project
A national system of social indicators in Ukraine
social policy
social indicators
civil society
1999 · departmental project
Land privatisation and the reform of land relations in Ukraine
agrarian reform
land relations
social policy
1999 · departmental project
Mass consciousness in the post-Chornobyl era: social expectations and the potential for behavioural activity among different groups of victims
Chornobyl catastrophe
social consequences
social policy
social risks
1999 – 2001 · departmental project
Social portraits of those affected by the Chornobyl catastrophe
Chornobyl catastrophe
social consequences
social policy
social portrait
1999 · departmental project
The shadow economy: social problems of unofficial economic activity
shadow economy
unofficial economic activity
employment
social problems
1997 – 1998 · departmental project
Problems of the functioning of the civil service in Ukraine: foreign experience and the grounding of methods for modelling the mechanism of government
civil service
modelling
government
1996 – 1998 · departmental project
Methodological problems of the expert assessment of the design and implementation of social policy in Ukraine
social design
expertise
expert assessment
social policy
methodology
1995 – 1999 · departmental project
Socio-economic risks of eliminating the consequences of the Chornobyl catastrophe: the case of resettlement
Chornobyl catastrophe
social consequences
social policy
social risks
1993 – 1995 · departmental project
Methodology and methods of the social expertise of national and regional programmes and projects
social expertise
social policy
national projects
regional projects
Selected publications
Fenomen stiikosti ukrainskoho suspilstva v umovakh viiny: sotsiolohichnyi vymir (Феномен стійкості українського суспільства в умовах війни: соціологічний вимір, “The phenomenon of resilience of Ukrainian society in wartime: a sociological dimension”) — Dolia Iryna Mykolaivna · Visnyk NTUU "KPI" Politolohiia. Sotsiolohiia. Pravo · 2(70) · 18–28 · 2026 · 10.20535/2706-5626.2026.2(70).367301 · full text
Problema «krytyky movy» u videnskomu moderni (Проблема «критики мови» у віденському модерні, “The problem of the 'critique of language' in Viennese Modernism”) — Sapelkin Yurii Volodymyrovych · The Culturology Ideas · 29(1) · 30-41 · 2026
Sotsialni travmy viiny i novi napriamy transformatsii ukrainskoho suspilstva: monohrafiia (Соціальні травми війни і нові напрями трансформації українського суспільства: монографія, “Social traumas of war and new directions in the transformation of Ukrainian society. A monograph”) — za zah. red. dokt. sotsiol. nauk H. Chepurko · 375 · Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine · Kyiv · 2026 · full text
Trust and Conflict in the Structure of Social Interaction — Chepurko Gulbarshyn Iskakivna · Sociological Studios · 1(28) · 30-43 · 2026 · 10.17721/2306-3971-2026-01-23-23 · full text
Challenges and threats to Ukraine's demographic resilience during the war — Chepurko Gulbarshyn Iskakivna · Sotsiolohichni studii · 1(26) · 41–68 · 2025 · 10.29038/2306-3971-2025-01-43-43 · full text
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