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Ivashchenko Kateryna Valeriivna

Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Senior Research Fellow

Biography

A graduate of Donetsk State University («World history») and of the Central European University («Society and politics», Prague, and «Sociology», Warsaw). She defended her candidate’s dissertation on «Ukrainian émigré political parties in the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938)» in 1999. In 2004 she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Human Development, Life Course and Aging at the University of Toronto (Canada). She has worked as a researcher and academic consultant on international projects in cooperation with the universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Oxford, the Migration Policy Centre of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (Florence) and others. In 2015/16 she held an ERSTE Foundation Social Research Fellowship. Since 2006 she has taken part as a curator in organising Ukrainian film and cultural events. She has been a member of the staff of the Institute of Sociology since 2004.


Research interests: migration, human development, culture and the creative industries

Participation in international research projects:

Year Project title, main partners and role in the project
2001-2004

Transitions to adulthood in present-day Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia / INTAS / Ukraine Team Leader

2011-2014

Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems / NORFACE and University of Oxford / Country Research Partner

2011-2013

CARIM East - Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration / European University Institute /Coutry Expert

2015-2017 HORISON 2020. EUNPACK: A Conflict Sensitive Unpacking of the EU Comprehensive Approach to Conflict and Crisis Mechanism / Country Research Partner

Selected publications

What does the Donbas think about Ukraine’s geopolitical benchmarks? Notes on the main pre-war tendencies and their subsequent implications — Ivashchenko Kateryna Valeriivna · Ukrainske suspilstvo: monitorynh sotsialnykh zmin · Iss. 6 (20) · 274-280 · 2019 · full text
The Social Challenge of Internal Displacement in Ukraine: The Host Community’s Perspective — Ivashchenko Kateryna Valeriivna · Migration and the Ukraine Crisis: A Two-Country Perspective (edited by Pikulicka-Wilczewska A. and Uehling G.) · 25-48 · E-International Relations · Bristol · 2017
The Impact of the Current Military Conflict on Migration and Mobility in Ukraine — Ivashchenko Kateryna Valeriivna · Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies & Journal of Social Science Research Network · volume 15, no. RSCAS 2015/15 · 2015
Too close or too far: contemporary challenges and opportunities of the Near Diasporas from a Country of origin perspective — Ivashchenko Kateryna Valeriivna · Diasporas, nation states and mainstream societies in Central and Eastern Europe · ERSTE Foundation Working Series, Fellowship for Social Research · Wien · 2015
Ukraine one year on: the challenge of preventing a new migration crisis in central Europe — Ivashchenko Kateryna Valeriivna · Migration Policy Centre Blog · March 13 · 2015 · full text
Academic degree
Candidate of Sociological Sciences
Position
Senior Research Fellow

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