{"id":7,"date":"2014-04-25T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T09:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/re-ukraine\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2014-04-28T13:24:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:24:53","slug":"ukraine-research-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/re-ukraine\/ukraine-research-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Research Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine Research Group is an informal cooperation and communication forum for scholars whose areas of interest include Ukraine. Founded at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University (Stockholm) in March 2014, during the peak phase of the Ukrainian crisis, it caters information, emergency analysis and cutting-edge expertise on Ukraine to a wide circle of academics, experts, journalists and wider public. Its main activities include organising roundtables and seminars, maintaining a research blog hosted by S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University, publishing papers and policy briefs, providing accurate and up-to-date information for mass media.<\/p>\n

Organising team<\/h2>\n

Roman Horbyk (coordinator)<\/h3>\n

Roman Horbyk was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. He accomplished his BA and MA degrees with majors in Journalism at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. Roman received an international Master’s degree in \u201cJournalism and Media within Globalisation: a European Perspective\u201d in 2012 with a joint certificate from Universities of Aarhus and Hamburg, having also studied in Amsterdam and completed courses from UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n

Roman is presently employed within a multi-disciplinary project \u201cNarratives of Europe\u201d at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University where he conducts his doctoral research. Academically he is interested in how the media functions within power relations; other topics of interest include postcolonial theory as well as media history, particularly in relation to the popular genres in the 1920s and 1930s.<\/p>\n

Roman has also extensively worked as print and TV journalist with a 10-year career. His reports and columns were published in Ukraine, Germany, Brazil and Denmark.<\/p>\n

Roman Horbyk speaks Ukrainian, English, German and Russian freely, apart from limited fluency in Swedish, French, Polish.<\/p>\n

Interests & expertise: Ukrainian media; classical and contemporary Ukrainian culture; Soviet Ukraine in 1920s and 1930s; languages, identities and ethnolinguistic policies in Ukraine; postcolonial take on Eastern Europe<\/em><\/p>\n

To contact Roman: <\/strong> +46 8 608 5107, mobile +46 70\u00a0233 45 61, e-mail: <\/strong>roman.horbyk@sh.se<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Julia Malitska<\/h3>\n

Julia Malitska is currently a Doctoral Candidate in History at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University.<\/p>\n

Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, she holds a degree of Candidate of Sciences in History from Dnipropetrovsk National University. The Candidate dissertation is devoted to the history of Swedish colonists in Ukraine (Gammalsvenskby<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Her current project deals with Russia\u2019s colonisation policies and imperialism in the Ukrainian Steppe, Azov and Black Sea region in the 1700s and 1800s.<\/p>\n

Interests & expertise: history of national minorities in Ukraine; imperial history of Russia; colonial and gender studies<\/em><\/p>\n

To contact Julia: <\/strong>+46 8 608 4688, mobile +46 76\u00a0568 86 27, e-mail iuliia.malitska [@] sh.se<\/p>\n

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Olena Podolian<\/h3>\n

Olena Podolian was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and obtained a BA in Political Science from the National University \u2018Kyiv-Mohyla Academy\u2019. She holds an MA degree (with merits) in Political Science from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and an MSc degree (with distinction) in Russian, Central and East European Studies from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.<\/p>\n

Olena has worked at the Human Rights Students\u2019 Initiative in Budapest, Hungary, and has undertaken internships, first, with Werner Schulz (MEP) and Heidi Hautala (MEP) at the European Parliament and, second, with the Open Society Institute in Brussels, Belgium.<\/p>\n

Currently, Olena is a doctoral student at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University in Stockholm, Sweden, where she studies the role of stateness in post-Soviet regime change.<\/p>\n

She is fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German, and has knowledge of Polish, Swedish and French (those languages are indicated in the descending order of proficiency).<\/p>\n

Interests & expertise: comparative European politics with focus on post-communist regime change, embracing democratisation, state-building, the rule of law, human rights, and civil society<\/em><\/p>\n

To contact Olena: <\/strong>+46 8 608 4877, mobile +46 72\u00a0944 05 83, e-mail: olena.podolian[@]sh.se<\/p>\n

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Oksana Udovyk<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Oksana Udovyk is currently holding a position as a PhD student for environmental science at the School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University. Her research interests include uncertainty, risk and science policy interactions in environmental governance. Empirically, she focuses on the chemicals management in marine environments.<\/p>\n

Besides, Oksana has journalistic and\u00a0NGO-related experience. She worked with such issues as environmental protection, democratisation in Eastern Europe and youth development in Ukraine, Thailand, Italy, Sweden, Portugal, China.<\/p>\n

Interests & expertise: youth and social movements, environment, governance and democratisation<\/em><\/p>\n

To contact Oksana: <\/strong>+46 8 608 5068, mobile +46 70\u00a0436 94 85, oksana.udovyk[@]sh.se<\/p>\n

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Yuliya Yurchuk<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Yuliya Yurchuk was born in Rivne, Ukraine. She got her Master degrees (with merits) from Universities of Rivne, Ukraine, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, and Deusto, Spain. Currently she is a PhD Candidate in History affiliated to two universities: S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn and Stockholm.<\/p>\n

Her research is focused on memory culture in Ukraine. She is going to defend in November 2014. In her dissertation she studies the memory of the war-time nationalist movement in Ukraine represented by Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).<\/p>\n

She is fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German, and has knowledge of Polish, Swedish, Spanish and French.<\/p>\n

Interests & expertise: state and nation-building in Ukraine, history of Eastern Europe, memory politics in post-Communist states<\/em><\/p>\n

To contact Yuliya: <\/strong>+46 8 608 5017, mobile +46 70\u00a0494 76 49, e-mail: yuliya.yurchuk[@]sh.se<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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