Project Description

Viktoriia completed her B.Sc. degree at Dnipro State University (Ukraine) with a specialization in Social Work followed by her M.Sc. in Public Administration at Dnipro National University (Ukraine) in 2001. She has since been a lecturer, a senior lecturer, and then Assistant Professor at Dnipro National University, at Kyiv Bible Institute, and at Lviv Theological Seminary. She got her Ph.D. in Social Pedagogy from Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University in 2015. She is an experienced supervisor having successfully supervised at the Master, Applied Theology Doctorate, and Ph.D. levels.

Before joining CHSS, Viktoriia worked on programs, seminars, training, and youth clubs on school-aged children’s mental health and behaviour, especially aiming at helping adolescents to cope with loneliness. She worked as an author-compiler and designer of the manual ‘Each of Us is Unique! : A Training Program for Overcoming Students’ Loneliness. She also worked as part of a team of 2 co-writing “Not Alone: Theology of Loneliness or How to Help a Lonely Christian” and translating it into English. Currently awaiting publication from Langham Publishing House. Previously, she also worked with Eastern European Leadership Forum and UEFA in a range of roles including teaching and interpreting.

Viktoriia has been involved in quantitative and qualitative analysis in a number of research, evaluating, for instance, the quality management in the Institution of higher theological education of the Ukrainian Evangelical Church; the changes in Ukrainians’ Pentecostals’ Understanding of their mission and role both in church and in society; the changes in contemporary Ukrainians’ attitude toward the Evangelical church since the hybrid war with Russia.