Biography

She obtained a PhD in Organizational and Economic Psychology at the G.S. Kostyuk Institute of Psychology (Kyiv, Ukraine) in 2010 and a diploma of Associate Professor in Social Psychology and Psychology of Management at O. Honchar Dnipro National University in 2011. She is founder and head of NGO “Center for Personal and Social Transformations” registered in 2020 in Kyiv, Ukraine. She was certified as a solution focused coach by Solutions Academy (Germany) in 2024.

At present, she is a Jean Monnet fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies with an individual research project, “Reintegration of externally displaced Ukrainians: attitudes of support and democracy attitudes as meaning content of citizenship identity” during the academic year 2026 – 2027 (Florence, Italy). She was a visiting fellow at the Global Migration Center, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies with individual research theme “Values and democracy related attitudes in conditions of war and displacement” during academic year 2024 – 2025 (Geneva, Switzerland).

She served as a European Commission expert for the evaluation of Horizon projects (2025). Member of the Board of the 29th Research Committee on Political Psychology of International Political Science Association (IPSA) and IMISCOE Standing Committee “Arts, culture and migration”. Founder and coordinator of the annual international conference and seminar “Political and economic self-constitution” (2013 – 2024). She sits on the editorial board of “Journal of Applied Humanities Studies” (Thailand).

She developed a sociopsychological model of citizenship identity as a type of social identity. According to empirical research conducted in Dnipro in 2024, the system of values and attitudes as a meaning content of citizenship identity has the following structure. Universalism being connected both with democracy attitudes and attitudes of support of IDP (internally displaced persons) and legal EDP (externally displaced persons) is to be considered as a basic value of citizenship identity. Benevolence is connected to attitudes of support of both IDP and legal EDP, being a value rooted in citizenship identity, which affects social cohesion of Ukrainian society during the war. Security is connected to attitudes of IDP support.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Eastern Europe as Laboratory of Change

Fields of expertise