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
Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The country's leading sociology research institution, founded in 1990.