Klymenko Olena Yuriivna

Academic degrees: Doctor of Sociological Sciences (22.00.04 – special and branch sociologies), V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, 2016. Candidate of Historical Sciences (07.00.01 – history of Ukraine), Donetsk National University, Donetsk, 2004.

Academic titles: Professor (conferred at the department of the economics of enterprises and social technologies), State University of Telecommunications, Kyiv, 2021; associate professor conferred at the department of the sociology of management, Donetsk State University of Management, Donetsk, 2011.

Education: Donetsk National University, speciality: history (1996 – 2001)

Professional experience:

• Leading research fellow of the department of social expertise, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (01.09.2024 – to the present).
• Head of the department of sociology, State University of Telecommunications (09.09.2019 – 31.06.2022).
• Professor of the department of sociology and political science, National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» (25.04.2015 – 08.09.2019).
• Leading research fellow, Donetsk branch of the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine (01.09.2012 – 24.04.2015).
• Associate professor of the department of the sociology of management, Donetsk State University of Management (01.02.2005 – 13.11.2014).
• Assistant of the department of the history of Ukraine, Donetsk National University (01.09.2002 – 30.01.2005).

Research interests: social expertise, social technologies, the sociology of childhood, economic sociology, the labour market and employment, social policy and social protection.

Participation in qualification boards, research-organisational and expert work:

• 2021 – to the present: member of the editorial board of the journal «Ukrainoznavstvo».
• 2020 – to the present: member of the editorial board of the journal «Sociological Studies».
• 2018 – to the present: member of the editorial board of the journal «Social Technologies: Current Problems of Theory and Practice».
• 2008 – to the present: member of the Sociological Association of Ukraine.

Participation in research projects:

• Research project «Social traumas of contemporary Ukrainian society as a consequence of Russian military aggression» (January 2024 – December 2026).
• Research project «Behavioural strategies of the population under conditions of the spread of socially dangerous diseases» (January 2021 – December 2023).
• Research project «The specific features of the military-political conflict in Donbas: social, economic, political and military aspects». International Centre for Non-Formal Education. (April 2014 to September 2018).
• Expert participation in the working group «National Convention of Ukraine on the EU». Development of recommendations within the project on the topic «Interregional cooperation of the Eastern regions of Ukraine — a platform for cooperation with the regions of EU countries». Under the patronage of the Research Centre of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, participation as an expert in the project «Sharing know-how for better management of the Schengen Border between Slovakia / Ukraine and Norway / Russia», CBC 01018, (SFPA) (2012-2018).
• International project under the Visegrad Fund programme «Visegrad and Ukraine: results of international sociological research» (2011-2013).
• Academic support for the UNICEF programme «Let us preserve childhood», the sociological study «Street children» (2008).