UKRAINETT deler med sorg nyheita om at vårt medlem Kateryna Karhina gikk bort tidlegare i år. Kateryna vart tilsett ved Universitetet i Bergen i 2021 og viste stort engasjement for å få det norske universitetssamfunnets til å fokusere meir på Ukraina i tida etter den russiske fullskalainvasjonen.
Kateryna disputerte ved Umeå Universitet i 2017 med ei avhandling om sammenhengen mellom sosial kapital og velvære under den første delen av den russiske krigen mot Ukraina. Hun såg særleg på dei frivillige sin innsats i krigen og kva sosial kapital og kjøn betydde for deira oppleving av velvære. Avhandlinga og hennar øvrige artiklar gir viktige bidrag til vår forståing av kva den russiske krigen mot Ukraina betyr for ukrainarane og korleis det ukrainske samfunnet er rusta for å stå imot invasjonen. Vi lyser fred over hennar minne.
UKRAINETT is deeply saddened to share the news that our member, Kateryna Karhina, passed away earlier this year. Kateryna joined the University of Bergen in 2021 and demonstrated a strong commitment to encouraging the Norwegian academic community to devote greater attention to Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Kateryna completed her PhD at Umeå University in 2017 with a dissertation examining the relationship between social capital and well-being during the first phase of Russia’s war against Ukraine. In particular, she studied the efforts of volunteers involved in the war and explored how social capital and gender influenced their experiences of well-being. Her dissertation and other scholarly publications have made important contributions to our understanding of what Russia’s war against Ukraine means for Ukrainians and how Ukrainian society is equipped to withstand the invasion. We honour her memory and extend our deepest condolences to her family, friends, colleagues, and all who knew her.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Psychosocial Science Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen (UiB)
ABOUT
I am a social epidemiologist. I mostly work with various types of inequalities in different settings. I have experience in mental health research, disability studies, military context, gender and other social inequalities.
My PhD project was based on Ukrainian setting and has a title “Social capital and well-being in the transitional setting of Ukraine” that was defended at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at Umeå University in Sweden.
Currently I am involved in a project about social inequality in adolescent mental health in Norway called LONGTRENDS.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Social capital, inequality, gender, mental health, diversity.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON UKRAINE
- Karhina Kateryna, Malin Eriksson, Mehdi Ghazinour, & Nawi Ng. 2019. “What determines gender inequalities in social capital in Ukraine?”. SSM-population health 8.
- Karhina Kateryna, Mehdi Ghazinour, Nawi Ng, & Malin Eriksson. 2017. “Voluntary Work during Times of Military Crisis: What Motivates People to Be Involved and What Are the Effects on Well-Being?”. Psychology, 8(10).
- Karhina, Kateryna, Nawi Ng, Mehdi Ghazinour, and Malin Eriksson. 2016. “Gender differences in the association between cognitive social capital, self-rated health, and depressive symptoms: a comparative analysis of Sweden and Ukraine.” International journal of mental health systems, 10(1), 1-14.