The Sociological Association of Ukraine and the N. V. Panina Sociological Centre announce the competition «Young Sociologist of the Year – 2023». Important! By a decision of the competition committee, in 2023 the age limit for participants of the «Young Sociologist of the Year» competition has been raised to 40 years.

The Sociological Association of Ukraine and the N. V. Panina Sociological Centre

Announce the competition «Young Sociologist of the Year – 2023»

The competition is open to persons who hold a full higher education (a bachelor’s, master’s or specialist’s diploma) and who will not have turned 35 as of 1 September 2023.

Documents for participation in the competition are to be submitted by 20 September 2023 inclusive.

To take part in the competition, three documents must be submitted to the competition committee in electronic form (as attachments to a single message): 

1. One scholarly work by the nominee without co-authors, in the form of an article in a journal or a collection of articles. The length of the work is up to 2 author’s sheets (up to 80,000 characters). The work must have been published in an officially registered Ukrainian or foreign edition in paper or electronic form (confirmed by a full reference to the source of publication). Works are accepted for the competition if at least one month but not more than three years have passed since the day of their publication (that is, since the date the edition was signed off for printing). 

The text of the article should be sent to the competition committee together with the other competition documents in Ukrainian, Russian or English, with the bibliographic details of the publication indicated.

2. A page with information about the author and their professional achievements (CV), which must state: the nominee’s full name, postal and email address, telephone number, details of education and work experience, and a list of the nominee’s publications.

3. An essay with an original author’s title (of up to 20,000 characters) on the topic «Ukrainian society and sociologists facing the challenges of war and post-war development».

All files must be in MS Word format (.doc or .docx)

Documents should be sent as attached files in a single email message to panina.fund@gmail.com. The subject line of the message should read: Competition «Young Sociologist of the Year – 2023».

Winners of the «Young Sociologist of the Year» competition of previous years may take part in the competition (works by two-time winners of the competition are not accepted).

The authors of the works accepted for the competition will be invited to take part in the 17th International Sociological Readings in memory of Natalia Panina (Kyiv, 10 December 2023), where the competition committee will announce the winners, who will be awarded prizes: first prize — UAH 8,000; second prize — UAH 6,000; third prize — UAH 4,000.

The award ceremony is timed to N. V. Panina’s birthday — 10 December.

Within the framework of the competition, the special I. M. Popova prize will also be awarded for the work of the greatest social and practical significance. The size of the prize is UAH 4,000. 

We invite specialised sociological journals to recommend that their best authors take part in the competition.

N. V. Panina Sociological Centre

12 Shovkovychna St., room 313, Kyiv, 01021, Ukraine. 

Tel.: (044) 255-60-65

e-mail: panina.fund@gmail.com

Founders: N. V. Panina Sociological Centre — Ye. I. Holovakha, V. I. Paniotto, M. M. Churylov

Members of the competition committee: S. S. Babenko, V. S. Bakirov, T. Brik, A. P. Horbachyk, S. S. Dembitskyi, O. V. Zhulenova (secretary of the competition committee), N. V. Kostenko, P. V. Kutuiev, O. D. Kutsenko (chair of the competition committee), S. O. Makeiev, O. H. Stehnii (deputy chair of the competition committee), N. Y. Chernysh, R. P. Shulha.