Professor Jacqueline Hodgson, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick

Jackie is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Professor of Law. She established the Criminal Justice Centre and the cross-faculty Centre for Operational Police Research, which she co-directs. She holds an LLB and PhD, is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has researched and written in the area of UK, French, comparative and European criminal justice. Her research has attracted funding from the ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, British Academy, Leverhume Trust, AHRC, the European Commission and the Home Office.

Professor Elena Korosteleva, Director, Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick

Elena Korosteleva is Professor of Global Sustainable Development, and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics, which she was awarded twice by the European Commission in recognition of her research and teaching excellence. Before joining IGSD in 2022, she was Professor of International Politics and Director of the Global Europe Centre (Professional Studies) at the University of Kent for ten years. Prior to that Elena was a Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Director of the Centre for European Studies at Aberystwyth University.

Dr Anastasiia Kudlenko, Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick

Anastasiia Kudlenko specialises in societal resilience and security of Wider Europe, with the geographic focus on Eastern Neighbourhood countries (Ukraine and Belarus) and the Western Balkans. She has International Masters in Russian and Central Eastern European Studies from the University of Glasgow and Jagiellonian University in Krakow and holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from Canterbury Christ Church University. Anastasiia is interested in the study of security sector reform, peace-building, security governance and the EU as a security actor.

Dr Denys Nizalov, Associate Professor in Agricultural Economics, De Montfort University

Denys Nizalov is a Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, UK and a Senior Land Governance Adviser for Prindex Project (www.prindex.net) where he supports research and country engagement in the field of land tenure security. Before taking the current positions, Denys worked as a Program Director for "Supporting Transparent Land Governance in Ukraine", World Bank where he was involved into design and implementation of the land reform. Denys works in the field of Agricultural/ Rural/ Regional Development and Impact Evaluation for more than 15 years in countries such as Georgia, Ukraine, US, Colombia, India, Nigeria and Croatia. Denys completed a PhD program in Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University in 2006 and held professorship and administrative positions at the Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine.

Currently, Denys is involved with supporting Ukrainian displaced families coming to the UK and rapid need assessment in the land and real estate sector in Ukraine.

Giles Polglase, Canterbury University

Giles Polglase has been Faculty Registrar for Canterbury Christ Church University since January 2017. Before working at CCCU, he worked as School Administration Manager at the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent; as Operations Manager at Kent Business School, University of Kent, as a staff and academic practice developer at Aberystwyth University; as a research panel administrator for the Arts and Humanities Research Council and for the Higher Education Academy. Giles holds a MBA (with Distinction) from Aberystwyth University, BSc (Hons) in Social Policy and Administration from the University of Bath, a Special Diploma in Social Administration from the University of Oxford and a PGCE from Strathclyde University. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and held fellowships of the Staff and Educational Development Association (FSEDA) and Chartered Management Institute (CMgr MCMI). Giles is a member of the Association of University Administrators (MAUA) and was the Association as Regional Network Coordinator for the South Region between 2016 and 2021.

Outside of his professional sphere, Giles is a trustee of the community interest group, “Canterbury for Ukraine”. The groups mission is to assist newly arrived Ukrainians to integrate into UK society, and find a place of safety after experiencing traumatic displacement due to the un-just war in Ukraine.

Vladislav Davidzon, Journalist and nonresident fellow, Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, France

Vladislav Davidzon is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. He is European culture correspondent for Tablet Magazine and founded the Odessa Review and served as its chief editor until July 2018. He is the author of "From Odessa With Love". His work has been featured in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New Statesman, Foreign Policy, NY Post, Bookforum, World Policy Journal, the New York Observer, and the American Interest. Davidzon holds a master’s degree in human rights and democratization from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights in Italy and earned his bachelor’s degree at the City University of New York.

Dr Hanna Vakhitova, Assistant Professor and Senior Economist, Kyiv School of Economics

Hanna received Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky (USA) in 2006 with concentration in Labour and Public Economics and since then works as an Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher at Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine). She has been teaching at KSE such courses as Public economics, Economics of Transition, Economics of Migration, Time Series Econometrics and Research Methods in Economics. As a policy economists Mrs. Vakhitova has over 10 years of experience in data analysis, impact evaluation and industry analysis for the ILO, World Bank, European Union, Ukrainian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, and commercial firms. Hanna participated in several projects and studies on education and migration issues in Ukraine and Moldova.

Dr Kateryna Bornukova, Academic Director, Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Centre

Dr Kateryna Bornukovais the Academic Director of the Belarus Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC). Kateryna holds an MA in Economics from Kiev School of Economics and a PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Dr. Bornukova’s research interests include macroeconomics, economics of transition and labor economics. She is an MBA professor at the IPM Business School in Minsk and previously served as senior economic advisor to the UN Resident Representative in Belarus.

Dr Vlaliea Mykolayivna Russova, Associate Professor of Ukrainian Philology and Intercultural Communication, Faculty of Philology, Petro Mohyla National University, Ukraine

Dr Russova graduated from the Mykolayiv State Pedagogical Institute in 1997 in Ukrainian language and literature, and English. Since 2008 she has been working at the Petro Mohyla National University. Her research interests include medieval studies, modern Ukrainian literature, literary local lore. She is the author of 50 peer-reviewed publications, including most recent in 2020 the novel "Where the grass is greener", Internationale virtuelle Konferenz der Ukrainistik «Dialog der Sprachen – Dialog der Kulturen. Die Ukraine aus globaler Sicht» Reihe: Internationale virtuelle Konferenz der Ukrainistik. Bd. 2019. Herausgegeben von Olena Novikova und Ulrich Schweier. Verlag readbox unipress / Open Access LMU, München, 2020. P. 415-421.

Dr Muzzaffer Kutlay, Research Fellow, Oxford Belarus Observatory

Dr Muzaffer Kutlay is a post-doctoral at the Oxford Belarus Observatory, University of Oxford. Before moving to Oxford, Muzaffer worked at the GCRF UKRI Compass Project to lead on WP3: Policy Impact and contribute to WP2: Research Integration. Earlier, Muzaffer was a lecturer in European Foreign Policy at King’s College London (2019-2021); and Lecturer in East European Politics at the University of Kent and RA to the Horizon 2020 UPTAKE project (2017-2019). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent and an MA from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Muzaffer’s ongoing research focusses on forced migration and displacement in global politics, inter-ethnic co-existence and resilience. Her most recent publications include “Paths to Reform: EU Conditionality, Double Moderation and Transitions to Rights Regime in Bulgaria, Croatia and Montenegro” (upcoming December 2022) and “The Turks of Bulgaria: An Outlier Case of Forced Migration and Voluntary Return”. (2017) International Migration, 55 (5): 162-179.

Chris Gerry, Professor in Health Economics and Head of the Oxford Belarus Observatory

Professor Christopher Gerry is Principal Investigator of the Oxford Belarus Observatory. Until September 2021, when he took over as Head of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) he was Director of Russian and East European Studies, within OSGA. His research, which has resulted in more than 40 publications in leading field and disciplinary journals, focuses on the political economy of health, welfare and labour in Russia and Eurasia; particularly health behaviours and outcomes, social exclusion and public health policy and reform.

Olena Nizalova, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, University of Kent

Dr Olena Nizalova is a Senior Lecturer in Economics in the School of Economics, and a joint Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics in the Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) and the Personal Social Services Research UnitLink opens in a new window (PSSRU) within the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research (SSPSSR).

She joined the University of Kent in 2013, having completed a tenure as an Associate Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine, where she worked from 2005.

She has an MSc in Business Management from the Ukrainian State Maritime Technical University, MA in Economic Theory from the EERC MA Program in Economics at the National University 'Kyiv Mohyla Academy' Ukraine, and a PhD in Economics from Michigan State University (USA). Her dissertation title was 'Three Essays in Labour Economics and Economics of Aging'.

Olena is a member of the School of Economics' Microeconomics Research Group and the SSPSSR’s Welfare State Research Cluster.

Mariya Bachmaha, PH Capital. Public Health Experts” and Swiss-Ukrainian project Mental Health for Ukraine (MH4U), Kyiv, Ukraine.

Mariya Bachmaha has a background in public health from Brown University (USA) and law from Ivan Franko National University (Lviv, Ukraine). She leads an NGO “PH Capital. Public Health Experts” that unites young Ukrainian experts with experience and education in public health, health care, social police and care, law and policy to systemically impact the public health and related system in Ukraine. Mariya has been working with the SDC-funded project MH4U as national stakeholder coordinator since 2019. In this role, Mariya is tasked with making high quality mental health services more accessible to the Ukrainian people by coordinating national stakeholders. Previously, she coordinated research activities in Ukraine for Brown University Ukraine Collaboration, mainly in the areas of Tuberculosis and HIV. The research focused on patient-level and system-level obstacles for effective HIV/TB patient care in Ukraine. As a WHO consultant in Ukraine and as a researcher, Mariya has focused on the performance of the national immunization system and since 2020 she is a member of the National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG). As a WHO consultant, Mariya has worked on improving access to immunization services in Ukraine and limiting the spread of the measles outbreak in 2018-2020. As a public health consultant, Mrs. Bachmaha is working with national authorities and NGOs on building public health system in Ukraine.

Roberta Bivins, Professor of History and member of the Health Global Research Priority at the University of Warwick

Roberta Bivins is a Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Her work has focused on Britain as a node in extensive global networks of migration and exchange from the late seventeenth century until the present day. Bivins’ first two books examined the cross-cultural transmission of medical expertise, particularly in relation to global and alternative medicine (Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine, Palgrave, 2000 and Alternative Medicine? A History, Oxford University Press, 2007). Since 2004, funded by the Wellcome Trust, she has studied the impacts of immigration and ethnicity on post-war British health, medical research and practice (Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration and the NHS in Post War Britain, Oxford University Press, 2015). From 2015, she has explored the cultural history of the NHS, including its reception in the USA; its visual culture of race; involvement in migrant screening; and state and public attitudes towards overweight in the NHS era.