The researchers of the Institute work on various types of projects. On the one hand, the staff of particular Departments carry out Scientific Research Works (SRW), which usually last for three years. On the other hand, the Institute performs large long-term national and international projects. It should be noted that the IS NASU does not have its own survey network, so it commissions surveys from various sociological centres.

Selected long-term projects are listed below with their topics, terms, supervisors/coordinators and executors. For information on methodology, indicators, sample, as well as the main publications on specific projects, see here.

Current Projects (SRW)

• Theoretical Synthesis in Modern Sociology: Grounds, Problems, Prospects (2023–2025). Department of History and Theory of Sociology, project supervisor – Volodymyr Reznik.
• Methodology and Tools for Measuring Sociological Indicators of Social Changes in Conditions of Transit (2023–2026). Department of Methodology and Methods of Sociology, project supervisor – Yevhenii Golovakha.
• Stability and Variability in the Reproduction of the Social Structure and Social Inequalities in a State of Emergency (2024–2026). Department of Social Structures, project supervisor – Olena Simonchuk.
• Changes and Reproduction of Cultural Orders within Ukrainian Society in the War and post-War States: Factors, Mechanisms, Prospects (2024–2026). Department of Sociology of Culture and Mass Communication, project supervisor – Natalia Kostenko.
• Digitalization of Economic Life of Ukrainian Society: State and Prospects (2023–2026). Department of Economic Sociology, project supervisor – Viktoria Smakota.
• Social Expectations as a Factor in Constructing the Interactions in Conditions of Social Instability (2022–2025). Department of Social Psychology, project supervisor – Olena Zlobina.
• Social Trauma of Contemporary Ukrainian Society as a Result of Russian Military Aggression (2024–2026). Department of Social Expertise, project supervisor – Gulbarshyn Chepurko.
• Populist Orientations of Citizens in the Transitional Society: Features of Manifestation and Factors of Formation (2022–2024). Department of Sociopolitical Processes, project supervisor – Oleksandr Reznik.

International Projects

• European Social Survey in Ukraine 2005–2013. The national coordinators of the project were Nataliya Panina, Mykola Churylov and Andriy Horbachyk. Ukraine participated in the five survey waves.
• International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Ukraine participated four times in three modules: Religion (2008), Social Inequality (2009 and 2019) and Digital society (2025). In different years the national coordinators of the project were Serhii Makeiev, Olha Ivashchenko, Svitlana Oksamytna and Olena Simonchuk.
• Attitudes to Change Project (1993, 1995, 1998) in partnership with Nuffield College, Oxford. National coordinator – Serhii Makeiev.

National Projects

• Ukrainian Society: Monitoring Social Changes (1992–2024). In different years the project supervisors were Natalia Panina, Yevhen Golovakha, Mykola Churylov, Mykola Shulga, and from 2020 – Serhiy Dembitskyi.
• Monitoring of Social and Psychological Consequences of the Chornobyl Disaster (1992–2007). The Centre for Social Expertise of the IS NASU, project supervisor – Yurii Saienko.
• Monitoring of Legal and Humanitarian Issues of Reintegration of the Formerly Deported People in Crimea (1997–2002). Project supervisor – Iryna Prybytkova.
• Ukraine after Euromaidan (2014–2015). Swiss-Ukrainian research project jointly with the Interdisciplinary Institute of Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), national coordinator – Victor Stepanenko.
• Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of Social Transformation in Ukraine: Sociological Approach (2020–2021). Project supervisor – Victor Stepanenko.
• Systemic Risks of an Unstable Society: Poverty, Social Tensions, Cultural Involution (2020–2021). Project supervisor – Liudmyla Skokova.
• Stress States of Ukraine’s Population in the Context of War: Prevalence, Risk Groups and Ways of Compensation (2023–2024). Project supervisor – Serhii Dembitskyi.