Halyna Shumytska

Doctor of Philology,
Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Uzhhorod National University (Ukraine),
Coordinator of the Research Center for the Sociology of Language,
expert of the Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities,
member of the Sociolinguistic Commission of the International Committee of Slavists

EDUCATION

1986-1990 – Sambir Pedagogical College (qualification: Primary school teacher, after-school caregiver)
1990-1995 – Faculty of Philology (Ukrainian Department),Uzhhorod State University (qualification: Philologist,Teacher of Ukrainian Language and Literature)
1995-1999 – Postgraduate studies at the Departmentof Ukrainian Language of Uzhhorod State University

1999-2003 – Teacher of Ukrainian language at the branch of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine at the lyceum in Uzhhorod
2003-2005 – Associate Professor of the Department of Methods of Teaching Social Sciences and Humanities at the Transcarpathian Institute of Postgraduate Education
2005-2021 – Associate Professor of the Department of Journalism, UzhNU
2006-2013 – Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Philology for Academic Affairs, Head of the "Media Perspectives Press Club" for Young Journalists
2013-2021 – Dean of the Faculty of Philology of UzhNU, Director of the UzhNU Media Centre
2021 – Professor of the Department of Journalism, UzhNU
2022 – Professor of the Department of Sociology and Social Work, UzhNU
2023 – Coordinator of the Research Center for the Sociology of Language, UzhNU

2006-2007 – Internship in practical journalism at the BBC in London
2010 – Internship in journalism at the FOJO Media Institute in Sweden
2012 – Internship at the University of Educational Managementof the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine
2021 – Internship at the Free University of Bolzano (South Tyrol, Italy)
2019-2020 – Internship within the programme "Development of a competence-based approach to learning and teaching" (organized by NGO "GoHigher" and partners: British Council Ukraine, Pearson, Dinternal Education, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and IT company Grammarly)
2024 – Internship within the programmes "English-language Academic Communication in the Cross-cultural Context", "Global Academic Communication: Advanced Level – GLAC 2024" (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv)
2025 – has successfully completed a three-month English language course "English for Scientists" offered by Science at Risk and the Regional English Language Office / U.S. Embassy, Ukraine; "The comprehensive course on AI in education" (NGO "PROGRESYLNI", Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine)

2006-2007 – Participant of the EU/TACIS BBC project "Media Skills Development - Ukraine"
2015-2020 – Scientific regional consultant of the project "Formation of Multilingualism of Children and Students: Progressive Ideas in the Ukrainian Context" (co-organised by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the OSCE HCNM)
2018 – Project Manager of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting in cooperation with the European Pravda within the framework of the project "Promoting Reforms in the Regions", funded by the European Union under the programme "Support to Civil Society in Ukraine" and the International Renaissance Foundation - "Through dialogue with national minorities - to resolve the language situation in Zakarpattia"
2020-2023 – Participant of the project "Contested Language Diversity - Dealing with Minority Languages in post-Soviet Ukraine" (Giessen (Germany), 2020-2023)
2025 – Participation in the project by the Ukrainian Institute to study the state and needs of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language in Ukraine and abroad (France, Germany, Poland)
2025-2026 – Project Manager of the research project “The Dynamics of Language Awareness among Ukrainian Citizens in Conditions of War and Migration” is being carried out with financial support from the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)

For more (detailed) information, please follow the link: https://shumytska.ukr.ceo/naukovi-pratsi/.