Iakovlenko, Kateryna
Kateryna Iakovlenko is a Ukrainian visual culture researcher, writer, and curator focusing on art and culture during sociopolitical transformation and war. Currently, she is Cultural Editor-in-Chief of Suspilne.media (Kyiv) and a visiting scholar at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (2022–2023). Among her publications is the book Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art (2019) and Euphoria and Fatigue: Ukrainian Art and Society after 2014 (special issue of Obieg magazine, co-edited with Tatiana Kochubinska, 2019).
Umland, Andreas
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Khromeychuk, Olesya
Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian, writer, and the Director of the Ukrainian Institute. She received her PhD in History from University College London. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at the University of Cambridge, University College London, the University of East Anglia, and King’s College London. She is author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (ibidem 2021 and 2023, Monoray 2022) and ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians. Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division (Peter Lang, 2013).
Chernov, Mstyslav
Mstyslav Chernov is a Ukrainian videographer, photographer, filmmaker, war correspondent, and novelist known for his coverage of the Revolution of Dignity, War in Donbas, including the downing of flight MH17, Syrian civil war, Battle of Mosul in Iraq, the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, including the Siege of Mariupol. His video materials from Mariupol became the basis of the film '20 days in Mariupol', which was included in the competition program of the Sundance festival in 2023. Chernov is an Associated Press journalist and the President of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPF). Chernov's materials have been published and aired by multiple news outlets worldwide, including CNN, BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. He has both won and been a finalist for prestigious awards, including the Livingston Award, Rory Peck Award, Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Prize,[6] and various Royal Television Society awards. Chernov has been wounded several times while working in war. He has been a member of PEN Ukraine since July 2022.
Turnbull, Jonathon
Jonathon Turnbull completed his BA and MSc degrees in geography at the University of Oxford. Since 2018, he has been a PhD candidate in geography at the University of Cambridge funded by the ESRC. Previously, he held visiting researcher positions at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv and at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Turnbull is a founding member of the Digital Ecologies research group and the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network. He is co-editor of Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-Than-Human Worlds which is forthcoming with Manchester University Press. His articles have been published in scholarly journals and other outlets including Progress in Human Geography, Progress in Environmental Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Dialogues in Human Geography, The Geographical Journal, cultural geographies, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology Today, ACME, The Ecologist, and more.
Cheliak, Sofia
Sofia Cheliak is a TV host, cultural manager, translator from Czech, and a member of PEN Ukraine. Since 2016, she has been a Program Director of Lviv BookForum. In 2022, she started work at the Ukrainian Book Institute, as the curator of Ukraine's national stands at International Book Fairs.
Since 2020, she has been working for Ukraine Public Broadcasting Company. Cheliak is the author of three collections of poetry in translation: Václav Hrabie's, Jana Orlova's, and Petr Chikhon's.
Page, Phoebe
Phoebe Page studied Ukrainian literature and culture at the University of Cambridge as part of her BA in Modern Languages. She recently participated in the Ukrainian Institute London’s writing residency Ukraine Lab, which tackled global themes through the prism of Ukraine. Phoebe is currently a Master's student in Political Sociology at UCL’s School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, focusing on Ukraine. She is interested in security and the role of culture and soft power in the context not only of malign influence but also as counter offensive and resistance to hybrid aggression.
Dovzhyk, Sasha
Dr Sasha Dovzhyk completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Since 2021, she is the Special Projects Curator at the Ukrainian Institute London. In 2022–2023, she has also been appointed an Associate Lecturer in Ukrainian Literature at the School of Slavonic and East-European Studies, UCL. Her previous books include Decadent Writings of Aubrey Beardsley (edited with Simon Wilson, MHRA, 2022) and Ukrainian Cassandra: New Translations of Works by Lesia Ukrainka (Live Canon, 2023). Her articles and chapters have been published in, among other outlets, Modernist Cultures, British Art Studies, and Oxford Handbook of Decadence. She has also written for CNN Opinion, The Guardian, New Lines Mag, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Ecologist.
Michalowicz, Kris
Kris Michalowicz won the Creative Future Bronze Prize for Fiction in 2019. In 2022, he was a writing resident with the Ukrainian Institute London. His work has been published in Ukrainskyi Tyzhden and the Mechanics' Institute Review.
Kozar, Olena
Olena Kozar is a Kyiv-based journalist. Her articles have been published in Bird in Flight, It's Nice That, Kunsht, Post Impreza, and Telegraf.Design.
Dr Sasha Dovzhyk completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Since 2021, she is the Special Projects Curator at the Ukrainian Institute London. In 2022–2023, she has also been appointed an Associate Lecturer in Ukrainian Literature at the School of Slavonic and East-European Studies, UCL. Her previous books include Decadent Writings of Aubrey Beardsley (edited with Simon Wilson, MHRA, 2022) and Ukrainian Cassandra: New Translations of Works by Lesia Ukrainka (Live Canon, 2023). Her articles and chapters have been published in, among other outlets, Modernist Cultures, British Art Studies, and Oxford Handbook of Decadence. She has also written for CNN Opinion, The Guardian, New Lines Mag, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Ecologist.
