Information about Researcher Olga Kuzmuk
Researcher: Olga Kuzmuk
Information
| Role | Researcher |
|---|---|
| First name | Olga |
| Last name | Kuzmuk |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Academic title | PhD |
| Organisation | Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University |
| Thematic area/field | HS – Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / HS4 Individuals, institutions, markets |
| Key words | Social inequality, migration, adaptation and survival strategies, motherhood and childhood in conditions of war and forced migration |
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| Short summary of activities and expertise | From May to August 2022, I participated in an internship at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (Warsaw, Poland). The topic of my research is "Woman, War and social inequality". The research focuses on women and mothers with children who, in the conditions of war, learn new roles, adapt to the new reality, and build their lives in a significantly new coordinate system. Mothers with children, who try on new roles in war conditions, are that social group, which is extremely vulnerable due to the fact that a woman has to take responsibility not only for herself but also for her children. Accordingly, quite a lot of women in war conditions experience serious financial difficulties, women and mothers with children face serious dangers such as human trafficking, the risk of falling into labor or sexual slavery. The focus of the study are women's life and survival strategies in the conditions of the new social reality. Study of the objective reality in which women, including mothers with children, have to live. Research is based on data from qualitative research conducted in June-July 2022 in Warsaw by me. The collected material includes 32 interviews (IDI). 32 Ukrainian women of different ages, social status, marital status, levels of education, and financial well-being, from different parts of Ukraine. Different life destinies and one tragedy for all - the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine. Empirical sociological research aimed at factors that increase the life chances in a new country, what difficulties of adaptation had to be faced; what are the prospects of returning to Ukraine and expectations from life in Poland. In addition, the factors of going abroad will be studied, research of starting positions (objective status, level of material well-being, level of education, level of social capital, marital status of a woman, employment of a woman, women’s self-assessment of chances and prospects for upward vertical social mobility |
| Relevant publications and/or research/innovation products | 1. Kuzmuk O. Women, war and social inequality: Ukrainian women refugees on war, seeking refuge, and life chances (the article is being reviewed for a special issue of the "European Societies" journal) 2. Kuzmuk O., Lyubchuk V. Propaganda as a weapon: social discourse. The Russian-Ukrainian war (2014-2022): historical, political, cultural-educational, religious, economic and legal aspects: Scientific monograph. Riga.Latvia: «Baltija Publishing», 2022. P. 976-982 3. Zinchuna O., Kuzmuk O., Liubchuk V., Opeida L. Life and social well-being of Ukrainians in quarantine conditions: according to the results of sociological surveys. Ad Alta: Journal of interdisciplinary research. 2021. Vol. 11, Issue 1, Special issue XVIII. P. 147-152 (Web of science) 4. Kuzmuk О. Social stratificationof society: theoretical and empirical interpretation. Sociological studies. 1(12). 2018. P. 27-31. 5. Kuzmuk О. Middle class in Ukrainian society: perspectives of theoretical and empirical research : monograph. Lutsk : Tower-seal, 2016. 172 p. |
| Other relevant achievements | Programs on television 1. Social inequality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I13f6MYRVkU&t=118s 2. Success https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58-2CKqyIHw 3. Consumer society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P6cnGhfrus&t=827s 4. Sociology of war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWAJ8msBrgo |
| Preferred Host Institution type | Public, Academic, Research centre |
| Additional information | The result of the research should be a prepared monograph on the topic "Women, war and social inequality: challenges, risks and prospects of forced migrant women" |
Contact | |
| Kuzmuk.Olga@vnu.edu.ua | |
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| Website | https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=l7BCn5gAAAAJ&hl=uk |
