May 2021 - May 202 - Principal research leadership, research project “Social Impact Analysis (SIA): Social Implications of Land Reform and State Land Registration Program in Ukraine”, sponsored by the World Bank
December 2020 -June 2021 - Principal research leadership, research project “Modernizing Ukraine Railways Rapid Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Retrenchment”, sponsored by the World Bank
May 2017 – May 2018 - Principal research leadership, research project of Sociological Association of Ukraine “Social Inequalities Perceived in Ukrainian society”, supported by the Renaissance International Foundation (Soros Foundation)
August 2016 – July 2017 – Individual research “Diagnostics of Social Tension in Regions”, supported by the Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, Albert University (Canada)
January 2014 – December 2015 – Head of research project “Trends in Structural Transformations in Ukrainian society under Globalization and European integration”, sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
August 2011 – July 2015 – Principal investigator, research project “Radicalization of Social Communities towards Support of Terrorism: sociological investigation and mathematical modeling”, supported by the NATO Science Peace and Security Program
June 2013 – August 2014 – Head of collaborative research project “Comparing Demographic Trends and Labor Market Fluctuations in Slovenia and Ukraine during 2000-2014”, sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
August 2009 – June 2012 - Academic Director, ReSET, HESP\OSI project “European visions and divisions: comparative studies for advances in teaching Sociology”
August 2007 – July 2010 - Principal investigator, research project “Critical transition in social networks supporting terrorism: social empirical study and modelling by random graphs”, supported by the NATO Science Peace and Security Program
June 2008 – June 2009 - Principal investigator, collaborative research project “Social Identities and Visions of the Future: comparing Russian and Ukrainian societies”, supported by the National Academy of Science of Ukraine
2006 – 2009 – Head of research project “Institutionalizing of Structural Inequalities and Conflicts in Contemporary Ukraine and East Europe”, supported by the Ministry of Education and science of Ukraine
June 2005 - June 2007 - National team project Leadership, collaborative research project “Comparing Societal Integration of Turkish and Related Minorities: institutional strategies in INTAS and NIS countries”, supported by EU\INTAS
2004 – 2006 – Principal national coordinator, project “Strategic Elites and European Enlargement”, supported by the British Academy
2003 – 2005 - Head of research project “Comparative Analysis of Social Class Structuration in post-Communist Societies”, supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
2003 – 2004 – Head of research project “Monitoring of Interrelations between Local Publics and Local Authority in Lugansk Region”, supported by the Luhansk Public Administration
2001 – 2005 – Head of research project “Monitoring of Political Attitudes and Behavior in Luhansk, Kharkiv, and Dnipropetrovsk Regions” supported by the local Public Authorities together with the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine
Beruflicher Werdegang
June 2022 – August 2022 - Visiting Researcher, Technical University of Berlin
December 2020 till now – Professor, Sociology Faculty, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine) | Courses: Philosophy of science and Innovation, Research Methodology, Social Inequality Study, Comparative Sociology of Europe, Social Structure, Sociology of Extremism
April 2019 – May 2019 - Visiting Professor through Erasmus+ Program, Department of Social Sciences, Lund University (Lund, Sweden) | Course: Democracy Study
September 2007 – November 2020 - Head of Social Structures and Social Relations Department, Sociology Faculty, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
April 2017 – May 2017 - Visiting Professor through Erasmus+ Program, Department of Social Sciences, Lund University (Lund, Sweden) | Course: Welfare Regimes Study
May 2007 – June 2007 – Visiting Research Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)
September 2007 – June 2020 -Professor (part time), School of Sociology, V.Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
March 2006 – December 2011 - Leading Research Fellow (part time), Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
July 2005 – August 2007 - Head of Political Sociology Department, School of Sociology, V.Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
May 2004 – Visiting Research Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)
September 2002 – July 2005 – Professor, Head of Sociological Laboratory, School of Sociology, V. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine) | Courses: Political Sociology, Social Stratification and Inequality, Post-Communist Transformations Study, Comparative Democracy Study, Advanced Sociological Theory
September 2001 – June 2005 – Professor (part time), Political Sciences Department, Kharkiv Regional Institute of Public Administration, Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine (Kharkiv, Ukraine) | Courses: Sociology of Public Policy, Comparative Sociology of Political Regimes, Post-Communist Transformations Study
November 2001 – May 2003 – Visiting Professor, HESP|OSI MA and PhD program on Sociology and Cultural Study, L’viv National University named after Ivan Franko (L’viv, Ukraine) | Courses: Post-Communist Societal Transformations, Social Inequality Study
February 2002 – Diploma of Doctor of Sciences on Sociology, V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
September 1999 – August 2001 - Docent and Senior Research Fellow, School of Sociology, V.Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine) | Courses: Social Stratification, Political Sociology, Electoral Sociology, System Analysis in Sociology
September 1999 - Visiting Research Fellow, Cambridge Hospitality Scheme Program, Cambridge University (United Kingdom)
September 1996 – August 1999 – Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Sociology, V.Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
November 1998 – Research Fellow, CRC Program, Central European University (Warsaw, Poland)
December 1996 – September 1997 - Visiting Scholar, TACIS Program “Training of Trainers on Social Policy”, Association of the Dutch Universities amd Ministry of Education and science of Ukraine (Kharkiv, Ukraine, and Hague & Utrecht, The Netherlands)
January 1996 – April 1996 – Visiting Research Fellow, USIA\IREX “Contemporary Issues” Program, State University of New York (Albany, USA)
September 1993 – August 1996 – Senior Lecture, School of Sociology, Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine) | Courses: Social Philosophy, Sociology, Political Sciences, Political Sociology
December 1989 – August 1992 – Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, Sociological Laboratory and Sociology Department, Kharkiv State University (Kharkiv, USSR\Ukraine)
September 1986 – August 1989 –PhD diploma (Candidate of Philosophy Sciences), Sociology Department, Faculty of Economics, Kharkiv State University (Kharkiv, USSR)
July 1983 – August 1986 – Researcher, Sociological Laboratory,
September 1978 – June 1983 – Diploma cum laude in Political Economy and Sociology, Kharkiv State University (Kharkiv, USSR)
Konferenzen
May 2019: “Zigzags of Political Regime Democratization: the Ukrainian case of anti-establishment civil mobilization”, Lund University (Sweden)
September 2018: “Comparative Study of Welfare State Attitudes”, Special expert meeting on the ESS resources application, Kyiv (Ukraine)
May 2017: “Contradictions in Mass Perception of Welfare State under Post-Socialism (case of Ukraine)”, Department of Sociology, Lund University (Sweden)
November 2015: “Social Effects of Values Legacy in Political Culture: Regional Differences (Ukraine and Eastern Europe)”, University of Warsaw (Poland)
April 2015: “Challenges of Social Inequalities to Ukrainian Society and Sociology”, V.Karazin Kharkiv National University
October 2011: “The Legacy of State Socialism in Ukrainian Political Culture”, Ukrainian Study Centre, Cambridge University (UK)
February 2010: “System Transformations in Eastern Europe: Do Regularities Matter?", Institute for East Europe Study, Free University of Berlin (Germany)
May 2008: “The Forming Institutional Design and Social Uncertainties in contemporary Ukraine” Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest (Hungary)
August 2007: “New Middle Class Revolt: Lust for Freedom and Hobble of Legacy”, University of Helsinki (Finland)