Y.O. (Yuliya) Hilevych, PhD
Associate Professor of Economic and Social History
E-mail:
y.o.hilevych rug.nl
Field/Discipline
Expertise
Comparative social history and historical sociolgy: population and demographic history; histories of welfare provision; history of health and medicine; oral history and lived experiences; the history of gender, sexuality, and reproduction; collective action; 20th and 21st centuries. Eastern Europe (Ukraine), Western Europe (Netherlands, Britain), Northern Europe (Finland).I currently lead an ERC Starting Grant 'Coping with decline: Comparative social-historical analysis of depopulation and community welfare in Europe, 1950-2022' (DEPOP)
http://www.rug.nl/let/depop
Other positions
- Coordinator of MA History track "History, Sustainability and Society"
- Co-Lead of COST Action "National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000" (EuroHealthHist)
- Chair of Roy Porter Prize (Society for the Social History of Medicine, SSHM)
- Open Science Ambassador (ICOG), Faculty of Arts
- FRHistS (Fellow of The Royal Historical Society, UK)
- Member of Research Netrowk 'Global Experiences of Gender in an Age of Care Crises and Transformation', University of Oxford (UK)
- Visiting Fellow, Fertility and Reproduction Study Group, University of Oxford (UK)
- Affiliate, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
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