Reznik Oleksandr Stanislavovich

Academic degrees: Doctor of Sociological Sciences (22.00.04 – special and branch sociologies), Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2011. Candidate of Sociological Sciences (22.00.03 – social structure, social institutions and social relations), Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2002.

Academic title: Senior research fellow (22.00.04 – special and branch sociologies), Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2012.

Education: Kamianets-Podilskyi State Pedagogical Institute, speciality: history and the fundamentals of law (1992 – 1997)

Professional experience:

• Chief research fellow of the department of social expertise, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (01.01.2025 – to the present).
• Head of the department of socio-political processes, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (20.09.2019 – 31.12.2024).
• Acting head of the department of socio-political processes, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (15.04.2019 – 9.09.2019).
• Chief research fellow, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (26.05.2015 – 14.04.2019).
• Acting chief research fellow, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (1.12.2014 – 25.05.2015).
• Leading research fellow, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (1.05.2013 – 30.11.2014).
• Senior research fellow, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (1.09.2010 – 30.04.2013).
• Research fellow, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (1.07.2005 – 31.08.2010).
• Acting research fellow, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (8.01.2004 – 30.06.2005).
• Junior research fellow, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (20.11.2002 – 7.01.2004).
• Leading sociologist, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (15.11.2001 – 19.11.2002).
• Postgraduate student, Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine (16.11.1998 – 14.11.2001).
• Teacher of history and geography, Vrublivtsi secondary school, Kamianets-Podilskyi district, Khmelnytskyi region (15.08.1997 – 13.11.1998).

Research interests: the determination of social change in a transitional society, the behavioural aspects of social transformations, the phenomenon of social identity and the mechanisms of identification, civil society and civic activity.

Professional awards and honours:

• Grant of the President of Ukraine to doctors of sciences for carrying out research, 2019.
• N. V. Panina Gold Medal, winner of the competition «Young Sociologist of the Year», December 2010, Kyiv.
• The special I. M. Popova prize for the work of the greatest social and practical significance (within the competition «Young Sociologist of the Year»), December 2008, Kyiv.
• Grant of the President of Ukraine for supporting the research of young scholars, 2005.
• Scholarship of the President of Ukraine for young scholars, 2002–2004.

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

• 2023 – to the present: member of specialised academic council D 26.229.01 for the degree of Doctor of Sociological Sciences.
• 2020 – to the present: member of the editorial board of the journal «Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing».
• 2019 – to the present: member of the editorial board of the journal «Bulletin of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Sociology».
• 2019 – to the present: member of the editorial board of the journal «Ukrainian Society».
• 2012 – to the present: member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine.
• 2012–2017: member of the Kyiv regional committee of the Trade Union of Employees of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• 2011–2018: head of the jury (Section 2 - sociology) of the All-Ukrainian competition of research works of pupil members of the Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• 2004 – to the present: member of the Sociological Association of Ukraine.
• 2003–2006: academic secretary of the scientific and technical council of the state scientific and technical programme 1.4 «Research into the socio-economic and political processes in Ukraine».

Principal investigator of research projects:

• Research project «Populist orientations of citizens in a transitional society: the features of their manifestation and the factors of their formation» (January 2022 – December 2024).
• Research project «Factors of citizens’ attitudes towards state power: a sociological analysis» (January 2020 – December 2021).
• Research project under the grant of the President of Ukraine to doctors of sciences for carrying out research «Subjects of civic practices as the social basis of Ukraine’s democratic transit», 2019.
• Research project «Trends and main factors of the changes in the party system of Ukraine during the years of independence», 2019.
• Research project «The regularities of the formation and the sociological dimensions of civil society in Ukraine» under budget programme 6541230 of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (September 2018 – December 2019).
• Research project under the grant of the President of Ukraine for supporting the research of young scholars “The civic space of Ukraine: the problem of the institutionalisation of territorial identities” (January – October 2005).