CURRENT PROJECT
“Lessons from Ukrainian Higher Education Resilience: Research Dimension and Beyond.” A research study by the URGENT team.
This project combines desk research and the collection of qualitative and quantitative data in Ukraine on Ukrainian higher education stakeholders and their responses to the current full-scale invasion by Russia. This research focuses on key dimensions of resilience including relocation, digitalization, academic mobility, and international cooperation. The new data collected by the team will be complimented by an existing corpus of data from over 45 interviews conducted by Shchepetylnykova during 2022-2024 to offer a longitudinal perspective on the changing approaches to resilience in Ukrainian higher education.
FUTURE PLANNED DISSEMINATION
Conference panels and papers will be submitted for presentation at the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies convention. We will also share our work through working papers, expert blogs, online discussions, social media posts, and other multimedia materials in digital higher education outlets that reach global audiences, such as University World News and other outlets.
OUR TEACHING
EDUC 6640 Education and Resilience: Ukraine, the United States, and Countries in Transition
A virtual course (Spring 2026) team taught jointly by faculty of The George Washington University (GWU) and faculty of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA)
This virtual course will be piloted at the George Washington University in the Spring 2026 academic semester between GW and NaUKMA.
The focus of the course looks at Ukrainian resilience but also resilience in other educational contexts, such as the US and other countries currently experiencing political and social upheaval.
The course includes facilitated weekly discussions, case study analysis, and research-based student projects. Most of the weekly sessions will be led by guest lecturers from Ukraine and the U.S. The course model and findings will be shared with other universities and higher education networks to broaden curricula in the fields of higher education and Ukrainian studies.