Winners of the FOR UKRAINE Programme
dr Anna Wylegała
Anna Wylegała holds a Ph.D. in sociology and is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on issues of biographical and social memory in Poland and Ukraine, as well as the social history of war and the early postwar period in both countries. She is the author of books such as Przesiedlenia a pamięć. Studium (nie)pamięci społecznej na przykładzie ukraińskiej Galicji i polskich “Ziem Odzyskanych” (2014) and Był dwór, nie ma dworu (2021). Moreover, she co-edited such volumes as The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine (2020) and No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe: Vanishing Others (2023).
dr Nataliia Otrishchenko
Nataliia Otrishchenko holds a Ph.D. in sociology and is a graduate of the Faculty of History at Ivan Franko Lviv National University, as well as the Interdepartmental Individual Humanities Studies program and the Institute of Sociology at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She also studied at Berea College in the USA, the IEDC-Bled School of Management in Slovenia, and the University of Warsaw. Currently, she works at the Center for the History of Central and Eastern European Cities in Lviv. Her areas of scientific interest include the methodology and methods of sociological research, projective methods, urban sociology, and the sociology of everyday life.
The primary aim of the project "“Strengthening people’s commitment to volunteering for refugees from Ukraine. Motivations of volunteers and intentions behind volunteering – the role of psychological and social factors” is to collect and archivize personal stories of refugees from Ukraine who became victims of Russian’s aggression in 2022. In order to document the human dimension of this war, dozens of interviews will be conducted and archivized. The interviews will be recorded in Ukraine and countries that have taken in Ukrainian refugees. Partners involved in the project – from Luxembourg and the UK, among others – will make it easier to reach wider audiences.
