Dr Anastasiya Pshenychnykh
Statement
“My and my daughter’s ‘journey’ started in March 2022 from Kharkiv, a city in eastern Ukraine, which was under constant shelling at the time. By the end of 2022 we visited 8 countries, and 36 cities. This journey started as ‘step into the unknown’, without a destination or compass, and the CARA-Loughborough scheme offered the much needed scaffolding that enabled me find my way, ‘do my job’ as an academic and a parent, continue developing and contributing to Ukrainian science, as well as to international debates in my field. I felt constant support from CARA, the university, my mentors, and the wider community at Loughborough, in different aspects – from well-being, everyday life arrangements to valuable feedback and advice on my work, grants and publications development, networking, future career opportunities and much more.”
Biography
Dr Anastasiya Pshenychnykh currently holds a Gerda Henkel Foundation grant (Funding Initiative for Threatened and Refugee Researchers) and is an Academic visitor at Loughborough University (Communication and Media Department). She was previously a CARA fellow at Loughborough (September 2022 – August 2024), and used the fellowship to conduct research on contested memory in Ukraine, Ukraine-Russia memory and monument wars on social media (including quantitative research within British Academy/Cara/Leverhulme Researchers at Risk Research Support Grant). Between 2015 and 2022 Dr Pshenychnykh held the position of Associate Professor at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine, English Philology Department, where she lectured Media Communications and Multimodal Media Analysis. Anastasiya’s scientific interests focus on memory, heritage and media studies, multimodal critical discourse analysis, and the theory of perspectives. She has been a researcher on international projects on media, including the “Philosophy and Media” (Higher Education Support Program, 2010-2012); “Crisis, Conflict and Critical Diplomacy: EU Perceptions in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine” (2015-2018) and “Contested Narratives of Climate Change: Algorithmic Flows and Human Interactions on YouTube” (2018, National Centre for Research on Europe, New Zealand); “Contested Heritage. A Multilevel Analysis of the Securitization of Heritage and its Challenges for EU and UN Actorness” (2022, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, Belgium) and others. Anastasiya current research, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, examines public engagement with contested pasts through the case of Ukraine-Russia memory wars.