Institute for Systemic Alternatives, Kijev

Institute for Systemic Alternatives, Kijev

Ukrajna

Our research team consists of Dr. Oksana Dutchak, the responsible research officer under the CareOrg project, and research assistant Anna Oksiutovych (PhD candidate).

Oksana Dutchak

Meet Our Team

Oksana Dutchak (PhD)

I am a sociologist and the responsible research officer under the CareOrg project, currently affiliated with the NGO Institute for Systemic Alternatives (Kyiv). I got my PhD in Sociology from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. My dissertation focuses on labor power reproduction in Ukrainian garment factories in global supply chains. I have been working on the topics of labor protests, gender inequality and austerity, care sectors and social reproduction. Over the recent years, in cooperation with the Rosa-Luxemburg foundation, Clean Clothes Campaign and Bread for the World, I have been participating in policy-oriented and engaged research, related to the topics of both paid and unpaid female labor. I was a Principal Investigator in the Clean Clothes Campaign projects on working conditions in Ukrainian made-for-brands garment sector. Within the cooperation between the Rosa-Luxemburg foundation and Center for Social and Labor Research (Kyiv), I designed and led the project “Who cares? Kindergartens in the context of gender inequality”. Besides my research work, I am a co-editor of the “Commons / Spilne” online journal.

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Anna Oksiutovych (PhD student)

I am a research assistant in the CareOrg project and a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. In recent years, in cooperation with the Young Christian Workers and the Clean Clothes Campaign, I have been researching the working conditions of Ukrainian workers in different low-paid sectors, including HORECA, the garment sector, and in labor migration to EU. I also worked as a researcher for the Ukrainian department of the War Childhood Museum (Kyiv) and at Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies (Dresden). Besides my research activities, I was also engaged as an educator on women’s and labor rights within the Feminist Workshop NGO (Lviv), of which I am a co-founder.

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