Shevchenko Svitlana Leonidivna

Education:
In 2001 she graduated from the International Solomon University in the speciality «sociology», and in 2005 completed the postgraduate programme
of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine. In 2012 she defended a dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Sociological Sciences in speciality “22.00.04 – special and branch sociologies”. The topic of the dissertation was “The cultural diffusion of identities in contemporary society”.
Teaching:
2004-2008 - assistant of the department of sociology of the National Aviation University
2015-2017 - senior lecturer of the department of sociology of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.
Work in applied sociological research:
2017-2019 - the NGO “O. Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute for Social Research” (project management specialist, later deputy director for project work). Conducting sociological studies on a variety of topics: civic identity, informal payments in the sphere of medical care, drug use among adolescents, the reasons for interrupting antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV and others.
Main interests: the sociology of culture, educational processes, the social dimensions of childhood, social change in the age of globalisation.