Strelnyk Olena Oleksandrivna

Education:

1994 specialist diploma, Kharkiv State University, faculty of sociology, speciality: sociologist, lecturer in sociological disciplines

Academic degrees:

2018 Doctor of Sociological Sciences, speciality: 22.00.04 – special and branch sociologies. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Dissertation topic: «Motherhood as a social practice: a structure-agency conception».

2004 Candidate of Sociological Sciences, speciality: 22.00.01 – theory and history of sociology. V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Dissertation topic: «Gender inequality and the social status of women in Ukrainian society».

Academic title:

2010 associate professor of the department of social work.

Research interests:

• Gender inequalities
• The care economy and care work
• The impact of war on gender roles and gender inequalities
• The sociology of the family
• Gender and citizenship

Research grants and fellowship programmes:

2024-2025 Scholarship by the Centre for East European and International Studies (Das Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien, ZOiS). Research project: Seeing invisible: (Gendered) Family Care for the Elderly in a War-torn Ukrainian Society

2022 (April-September) Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich

2019 Prague Civil Society Centre, visiting scholar. Project “Gender as a national threat”: How to empower women and promote gender equality in a challenging context?”

2016 Carnegie Research Fellowship Program / Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, USA, the project “(Dis)empowered mothers. Gendered protests and the war in Ukraine”

Main publications:

As of the beginning of 2025 she is the author of more than 100 scholarly and popular-science publications on gender (in)equality, motherhood and care work, and the impact of the war on women and gender roles.

For the list of main publications by section see here.