Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova

Researcher

C-LaBL (Centre for Language, Brain and Learning), UiT The Arctic University of Norway / PhD (Candidate of Sciences) in Philology

Email address: oleksandra.hrebenshchykova@uit.no  

ABOUT

Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova is a linguist and language educator whose work focuses on multilingualism, linguistic identity, and language integration in Ukrainian contexts. She holds a PhD (Candidate of Sciences) in Philology from Karazin Kharkiv National University and a Master’s degree in Ukrainian language and literature from Luhansk National University. Her professional background includes extensive teaching experience in both school and university settings: she worked as a school teacher of language and literature in Kharkiv and later taught Ukrainian and Russian to international students at Karazin Kharkiv National University.

Since September 2023, she has been a researcher at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Her research addresses language choice, linguistic identity, and multilingual practices in situations of war, migration, and social change (Language at War project); multilingual language acquisition and attrition, especially among children and adolescents (AcqCESS, Multilingual Minds, MOVA projects); and the linguistic integration of Ukrainian refugees across different national contexts (LINC project).


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Multilingualism; sociolinguistics; psycholinguistics; linguistic integration; language acquisition and attrition

WEB-PAGE

https://en.uit.no/ansatte/person?p_document_id=827577


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON UKRAINE

  • Hrebenshchykova, O. (in press). Navigating language and identity: Ukrainian migrants’ language strategies in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion. In Place, language, and identity: Multilingual lives in mobility, migration, and conflict. De Gruyter/BRILL.
  • Mitrofanova, N., Długosz, K., & Hrebenshchykova, O. (in press). Crosslinguistic influence and the role of micro-cues in gender assignment: Ukrainian refugee children acquiring Polish.


PROJECTS

  • LINC — Linguistic Integration of Refugee Children and their Families
    Time period: 2025–2028
    Funding agency: NordForsk
    Link: https://en.uit.no/project/linc
  • MOVA — Multilingual Onset, Variation & Attrition
    Time period: 2026–2031
    Funding agency: Research Council of Norway (RCN), FRIPRO – Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal
    Link: https://uit.no/research/clabl/project?pid=907432  
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