Iryna Kushnir
Staff Writer
Discipline: Social Policy
Research Interests: Europeanization, Institutions and institutional change, Policy learning, Narrative Inquiry, Higher education, Pedagogy, Gender
If you were a box of cereal what would you be and why: triple chocolate puffs because… single chocolate is never enough!
What did you want to be when you grew up: I wanted to be a Ukrainian-English interpreter because I wanted to wear a striped jacket which I saw an interpreter wearing in a kids book, and I thought all interpreters (well, at least Ukrainian-English interpreters) wear such jackets.
Where are you right now: I am now in a printing room but ready to leave and chill a bit after having finished a very important Chapter of my thesis!!!
Tell us something about another staff writer: I met Alice at a random career development seminar to find out that we were going to share a PhD suite at our school!
Ukraine’s increasing problems has been wider coverage in recent international political and media debates. Opposition about the territory of the Ukraine between pro-Russian and pro-European supporters has been steadily growing and reached two major climax points – the ‘Orange revolution’ of 2004 and the ‘Euromaidan revolution’ during 2013-2014.