Ivashchenko Olga Vasylivna

Education:

1977 diploma with distinction in the speciality «engineer-economist», Lviv Polytechnic Institute

Academic degree:

1987 Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, speciality: 09.00.09 – applied sociology; Institute of Sociological Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Dissertation topic: «Women’s professional activity and its influence on changes in the family in Yugoslavia».

Research interests:

• studies of social structures, employment and self-employment
• studies of social and economic inequalities
• gender studies
• comparative sociological research

Membership in sociological associations:

• Sociological Association of Ukraine
• European Sociological Association, RN09 Economic Sociology (1997–2017)

Research grants and fellowship programmes:

2003 Visiting Fellow, MZES, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Germany

1997 Visiting Fellow, Pittsburg University, IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board), USA

1994-1995 BC Teacher Fellow, SSEES, University of London, British Council, United Kingdom

International projects and organisational work:

2008-2009, 2019 national co-coordinator of the «International Social Survey Programme» (ISSP)

2011-2013 participant in the programme «Social transformations in the borderland: Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova» supported by the Carnegie Foundation

1997-2002 deputy editor-in-chief of the journal «Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing»

Main publications:

As of the beginning of 2025 she is the author of about 70 scholarly publications.

For the list of main publications by section see here.