Y.O. (Yuliya) Hilevych, PhD

I am currently working on two main projects:

The book project 'Stories of Staying: communities' experiences of population and welfare decline accross Europe, 1950-2026' (based on the ERC proejct and to be co-authored with Gijs Hoekstra and Ilmari Railo). The book is a comaprative Europe history of staing in depopulating regions in Europe (FIN, NL, UKR). Within this project, I am also collecting oral histories and regional dataset in Ukraine's Podilya region, as well as the work of Red Cross.

Publications on infertilty advice and activism in Britain, 1950-1990 as put in the wider European history perspective (originally funded by the British Academy Newton International Fellowship at the University of Cambridge).

Current externally funded projects:

ERC-project "Coping with decline: a socio-historical analysis of population decline and community welfare in Europe, 1950-2022" (DEPOP), 2024-2028, PI:  http://www.rug.nl/let/depop 

COST action "National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000" (EuroHealthHist), 2023-2026, co-PI: https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/

RUG Insetive Fund project "Challenging Russian imperialism: decolonising post-Soviet past and present", 2023-2024, co-PI