Dr. Olena Strelnyk obtained her Dr. Habilit. Degree in Sociology in 2018 at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv  National University, Ukraine. She is the author of “Childcare as work. A sociological perspective on mothering” (in Ukrainian, 2017). Her research and expert work focused on various aspects of gender inequality and women's rights.  As a gender expert and researcher, Olena cooperated with UN Women, OSCE, USAID, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and a number of analytical centers and NGOs in Ukraine. Olena is a public sociologist as well, she systematically writes for Ukrainian and international media resources on gender topics. 

Olena was a Visiting Scholar at Risk at the Technical University of Munich from April to September 2022. Since October 2022 she is involved in the project as Mercator Fellow. 

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