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Irina Bondarevskaya, PhD, Associate Professor in Social Psychology and Psychology of Management, Solution Focused Coach.
Founder and Head of the Board in NGO “Center for Personal and Social Transformations” (Kyiv, Ukraine). Associated Researcher in NCCR – on the move project “Attitudes towards migration and democracy in times of intertwined crises”, leader and coordinator of sub-project “Attitudes towards migration and society in Ukraine”.
Founder and coordinator of annual conference and seminar “Political and economic self-constitution” (2013 – 2024) as well as editor of the proceedings. Member of the Board of the 29th Research Committee on Political Psychology of International Political Science Association. She served as European Commission (2020, 2021) expert for projects evaluation.
Member of editorial boards of the journals: “Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology” (Italy, indexed in Scopus) – since 2015, “Bulletin of Postgraduate Education: Social and Behavioural Sciences” (Ukraine) – since 2018, “Bulletin of Alfred Nobel University: Pedagogy and Psychology” (Ukraine) – since 2022.
Author and co-author of more than 100 scientific publications, among them a monograph “Gender identity of female managers” (2011) and scientific articles in the fields of social psychology, economic psychology, organizational psychology, gender psychology, media psychology with special interest in social identity, citizenship identity, values, citizenship activity, citizenship education, migration.
Professional activity
2020 – till now – NGO “Center for Personal and Social Transformations” (Kyiv, Ukraine) – Founder and Head of the Board;
2024 – 2025 – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Global Migration Center (Geneva, Switzerland) – Visiting fellow;
2022 – 2024 – University of Lausanne, Institute of Psychology, Laboratory of Social Psychology (Lausanne, Switzerland) – Research officer;
2018 – 2022 – University of Educational Management, National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Post-Graduate Education, Department of Psychology of Management (Kyiv, Ukraine) – Associate Professor;
2015 – 2020 – Institute for Social and Political Psychology, National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine) – Senior Researcher.
2010 – 2013 – Dnipropetrovsk National O. Honchar University, Department of Social Psychology and Psychology of Management (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) – Associate Professor, Vice-Dean in international cooperation.
2008 – 2010 – G.S. Kostyuk Institute of Psychology, National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Department of Organizational Psychology (Kyiv, Ukraine) – research assistant.
2002 – 2008 – Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University, Department of Foreign Languages (Simferopol, Ukraine) – teacher.
Expert work in international project groups:
National Center of Competence in Research – The Migration – Mobility Nexus (NCCR – on the move) project “Attitudes towards migration and democracy in times of intertwined crises” – Senior Researcher (November 2022 – August 2024).
Leader and coordinator of sub-project “Attitudes towards migration and society in Ukraine”.
Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Network project (28 universities from 19 countries) “Citizenship education in the context of European values” – academic coordinator for University of Educational Management (October 2020 – March 2024).
European Commission expert for Horizon-2020 & Horizon-Europe (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships) projects evaluation (October – November 2020; November, 2021 – January, 2022).
Robert Bosch Stiftung Jury Judge for 35 projects evaluation, Education on Europe program, (February 2019) with meeting 25 – 26 February 2019 in Stuttgart.
Scientific supervision of research traineeship of Sebastiano Finocchiaro, student from University of Catania, in Institute for Social and Political Psychology, NAES of Ukraine (September 2019).
All=In Pathfinder project (March – September 2018) with meetings organized by Federal Agency for Civic Education (Germany), School Development Support Agency (UK) on 16 – 17 April 2018 in Lisbon and on 5 – 7 September 2018 in Marseille.
Project “Media Competencies for Youth” conceptual workshops organized by Goethe-Institute Ukraine and Schwarzkopf-Stiftung on 15 – 16 May 2017 in Munich and on 16th September 2017 in Kyiv.
Expert focus groups “Hard-to-Reach learners”. Meetings organized by Federal Agency for Civic Education (Germany) on 20 – 21 October 2015 in Thessaloniki and 8 – 9 November 2016 in Zagreb.
Regional coordination (Crimea) of INTAS project The quest for ethno-national identity: positive and negative effects (June 2004 – May 2007). Grant agreement ID: INTAS 2003-51-4997
Attitudes towards migration and society in Ukraine
Project duration:
01.04.2023 – 31.12.2024
Team:
Project leader and coordinator – Irina Bondarevska, associated researcher in NCCR – on the move, visiting fellow in Global Migration Center, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Scientific supervisor – Eva Green, Prof., Laboratory of Social Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
Senior researchers:
Maria Dangubic – Laboratory of Social Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
Jessica Gale – Laboratory of Social Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
Emanuele Politi – Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, KU Leuven
Collaborators in Ukraine:
Oles Honchar Dnipro National University – agreement of cooperation with University of Lausanne
Alfred Nobel University – agreement of cooperation with University of Lausanne
Coordinator – Zoya Bondarenko, PhD, Associate Prof., Dean of Department of Psychology and Special Education
This survey extends the SNSF-funded NCCR – on the move sub-project (205605) “Attitudes towards migration and democracy in times of crises” to Ukrainian context.
A quantitative survey was conducted in Ukrainian language among a sample of students specializing in Psychology, Law and Economics at O. Honchar Dnipro National University and Alfred Nobel University. Data was collected using an online questionnaire (Qualtrics) with approval of Ethics Commission of University of Lausanne.
In this research we explore students’ views on current timely topics of debate in Ukrainian society focusing on democracy related attitudes and solidarity. More specifically, the research aims to examine how attitudes and solidarity relate to national identity, values, institutional trust, different facets of patriotism, civil liberties, religiosity, contacts with and perception of difficulties of externally displaced migrants. Moreover, we will elaborate theoretical and empirical explanations of identity and affect (compassion, anger, shame, fear, disgust, indifference) to explain contextual factors which emerge in conditions of intertwined crises. We measure attitudes towards 1) Ukrainians who left Ukraine due to the war, 2) Ukrainians who left Ukraine and returned, 3) internally displaced Ukrainians.
Besides collecting data, we invite our research participants to open lectures, seminars and workshops provided by the research team. Our aim is to offer theoretical and practical insights on social psychology concepts and topics which are not enough present in Ukrainian academic curriculum. Moreover, participants will be able to ask questions about the ongoing research and other topics of their interest. Thus, participation in open lectures, seminars and workshops is expected to enrich participants’ knowledge in Social Psychology and Democracy related topics.
The following educational events has already been delivered online:
How social norms and exposure to diversity shape attitudes and behaviors toward immigrants (lecture – 24.04.2024)
Eva G.T. Green, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Values and democracy related attitudes in the context of citizenship education (lecture – 15.05.2024)
Video recording (in English with translation to Ukrainian) is available on YouTube channel of Irina Bondarevska
Irina Bondarevska, NGO Center for Personal and Social Transformations, Ukraine
Embarking in a new beginning: Resettlement and integration journeys after displacement
(seminar – 29.05.2024)
Emanuele Politi, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology KU Leuven, Belgium
Concept Book “Attitudes towards migration and society in Ukraine” is planned to be published in English and in Ukrainian by Alfred Nobel University (Dnipro, Ukraine) by the end of 2024. In this Concept Book project team will describe main social psychological concepts measured in the survey. Besides theoretical part Concept Book will contain full text of the questionnaire which was used in this survey in English and in Ukrainian. This publication will be available online in open access for all researchers willing to implement it in their research.