Y.O. (Yuliya) Hilevych, PhD
Associate Professor of Economic and Social History
E-mail:
y.o.hilevych rug.nl
Field/Discipline
Expertise
social and demographic history, history of health and medicine, comparative history, and oral history. In particular, the history of gender, sexuality, and reproduction; the history of population decline and depopulation; the history of social welfare, care, and public policies; the history of lived experiences, collective action, and social institutions; 20th and 21st centuries. Eastern Europe (Ukraine), Western Europe (Netherlands, Britain). I currently lead an ERC StG project DEPOP: 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 "Un/sustainable Societies: Past, Present and Future"
- 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 for 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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