November 2019

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                       University of Cambridge

                       mobile: 31 6 44190804

                       email: yh410@cam.ac.uk

                       Citizenship: Ukraine

                       Residence: the Netherlands (permanent EU resident); the UK (Tier 1: Exceptional Talent Visa)

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              Education

 

2016              Ph.D in Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

2011              M.A. in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Lviv, Ukraine

2010              B.A. in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Lviv, Ukraine

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              Employment

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2018-            Newton International Fellow (British Academy), Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

present          Project: ‘Infertile Identities: Discourses, Counselling and Activism in Britain before IVF’.

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2017              Researcher (0.6 fte), Policy and Dissemination Group, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demo­graphic Institute. Project: UNFPA-NIDI Resource Flows 

                      Survey on Family Planning (on the request of the United Nations).

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2016              Researcher (0.2 fte), Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History, Radboud University, the Netherlands. Project: A national inquiry                          into adoption practices among unmar­ried mothers in the Netherlands, 1956-1984 (on the request of the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice).

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2011-            PhD Student (0.8 fte), Wageningen University and Radboud University, the Netherlands

2016              Dissertation: ‘Strong families and declining fertility. Family relations and reproductive careers in Soviet Ukraine’. (defended 02.11.2016)

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              Other affiliations

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                      Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge (2018—present)

                      Fertility and Reproduction Study Group at the University of Oxford (2019—present)

                      Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (2018—present)

                      Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History (2016—present)

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              Commissions of trust

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2019-             Member of the steering committee, Cambridge Reproduction Strategic Research

present           Initiative (SRI), University of Cambridge, UK.

2018-             Convener and founder of “Health, Medicine and Agency” Research Network, Centre for Arts,

present           Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge.

2018-             Member of ‘Changing (in)fertilities’ International Research Network, Department of

present           Sociology, University of Cambridge.

2019-             Member of ‘Medicine and Catholicism’ International Research Network, Reproductive Health

present          Group, Department of History, University of Leuven, Belgium.

2020-             Convener of a Seminar Series (Hilary Term) ‘Low fertility variations at subnational level: demo-

present           graphic, historical and anthropological perspectives’, Fertility and Reproduction Study Group, University of Oxford 

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              Grants & fellowships

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2017              Newton International Fellowship, British Academy (success rate 8%)

2017              Rubicon Individual Grant, Netherlands Organisations for Scientific Research (NWO), 

                       (€150.000, declined)

2016              Research grant from for the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice (€70.000), co-applicant

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                    CONFERENCE/TRAVEL FUNDING

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2019              Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) Conference Funding,

                      University of Cambridge (£2500)

2018,             CRASSH Funding to Convene a Research Network ’Health, Medicine and Agency’ in 2018-2019,

2019              University of Cambridge (£1500 per year)

2016              Dr Catharine van Tussenbroek Funds Travel Grant (€750)

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              Research visits

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2019              University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economic and Social History (funded by the University of Helsinki)

2017              Population Research Institute Väestöliitto, Helsinki, Finland (funded by Väestöliitto)

2017              École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), Paris, France (funded by INED)

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             Teaching

 

2018-           University of Cambridge

present         Lecturer and supervisor – Sociology of Gender, 3rd year BA level

                     Supervisor – MPhil Programme ‘Health, medicine and society’.

                     Supervisor – World population, development and environment: comparative history and pol-

                     icy (Pembroke-King’s College Undergraduate Programmes): 3rd year BA level.

                     Mentor: PhD student (Wolfson College).

 

2019             Yale-NUS College

                    Guest lecturer – History of Sexuality: 2nd year BA level.

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2018            University of Carlos III of Madrid

                    Guest lecturer – Demography and population issues: 3rd year BSc level.

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2014-           Wageningen University

2015             Tutor – Demography and global population issues: 3rd year BSc level.

                     Guest lecturer – Advances in health and society; Transnational rural gender studies; Gender

                     and diversity in consumer culture: all courses are for 3rd year BSc level.

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2013            Radboud University

                    Guest lecturer and examiner – Life course: from present to past: MA level.

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2011            University of Lviv

                    Lecturer – History and Theory of Sociology: 1st year BA level.

                    Lecturer – Visual Methods of Analysis: 3rd year BA level.

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            Talks and lectures (selected)

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                   *BY INVITATION

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2019*         ‘Infertility and childlessness before IVF: alternatives and activism in Britain’, Centre for Repro­duction

                    Research, De Montfort University, Leicester

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2019           ‘Emergence of infertility grassroots activism and the rise of infertility consciousness’, XI AFIN

                   International Conference “Towards reproductive (in)justice”, University of Granada

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2019            ‘Emergence of infertility grassroots activism and the rise of infertility consciousness’, Confer­ence

                   ’Resistance is Fertile: Reproduction, Politics and Resistance’, Goldsmith College, Univer­sity of London

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2019 *         ‘Prescribing childlessness: advice on infertility before in-vitro fertilisation in Britain’, Modern

                    Social and Economic History & Policy Seminar, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

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2018            ‘The ART of Conception Before Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Identity, Infertility Coun­selling

                    and Childlessness in Britain’, Remaking Reproduction Conference, University of Cam­bridge

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2018 *         ‘Reproduction, relations and paternalism during fertility decline’, Fertility and reproduction

                    seminar series, University of Oxford

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2018 *         ‘Hostages of time. Policy, practice and experiences of relinquishment for adoption by unmar­ried

                    mothers in the Netherlands between 1956 and 1984’, Network of Oral History, Huizinga Instituut, Amsterdam

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2018            ‘From adoption to abortion. Experiences of teenage pregnancy through the eyes of Dutch birth

                    parents in the post-war decades’, European Social Science History Conference, Belfast

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2018 *         ‘Marriage, family relations and paternalism in Ukraine’, Work-in-Progress Seminar, Depart­ment

                     of Social Sciences, University Carlos III de Madrid

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2017 *         “‘Planning” Family in Soviet Ukraine’, ESOPP (EHESS-Science Pro-INED) seminar series,

                    École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris

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2017 *         ‘Family, relations and reproduction: Individual experiences of Ukraine’s post-war fertility de­cline’,

                    the University of Helsinki

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2017 *         ‘Abortion cultures in Soviet Ukraine during the Cold War’, Graduate workshop in gender and

                    sexuality, University of Cambridge

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2017            ‘Donor expenditures, UNFPA-NIDI Resource Flows on Family Planning Survey’, International

                    Family Planning Expenditures Tracking Expert Advisory Group Meeting, FP2020 Secretariat,

                    United Nations Foundation, Washington, DC

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2017            ‘Meeting the needs: Contraceptive profiles of use and expenditures on family planning in the

                    Global South’, Dutch Demography Day, Utrecht

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2016 *         ‘Individual reproductive careers during fertility decline in Ukraine: situating social influences

                     within family systems.’ Summer School of the International Max Planck Research School for Social Anthropology

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2016            ‘Exploring persistence of early transition to first parenthood in Ukraine: importance of family

                     relationships.’ European Population Conference, Mainz

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2016             'Later, if ever: Family influences on transition to second birth in Ukraine, 1950-1975.’

                     European Social Science History Conference, Valencia

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2016            ‘The appearance of a two-child family norm in Europe: a comparative study of Switzerland and

                    Ukraine, 1955-1970.’ Biennial Meeting of the European Society for Historical Demogra­phy, Leuven

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2015            ‘Spacing or postponement? Transition to second birth and family influences in Ukraine,

                     Utrecht, the Netherlands: Dutch Day of Demography

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2015            ‘Uncovering the persistence of early transition to first parenthood in Ukraine: the importance of

                    family systems,’ Wageningen, the Netherlands: International Workshop ‘The Power of the Family.’

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             Organisation and institutional responsibilities

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2020              Organiser: Meeting ‘Maternal Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa’, Reproduction Strategic Re­-

                      search Initiative, University of Cambridge

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2019              Organiser: Conference ‘Let’s talk about Sex (and Reproduction): Counselling for Reproductive

                      Health in Postwar Europe’, University of Cambridge

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2018              Organiser: Session ‘Resistance and Alternatives to Medicalisation of Reproduction’, Society

                      for the Social History of Medicine Conference, University of Liverpool

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2018              Organiser: Sessions ‘Child Adoption Practices in the Long 20th Century: Trends and

                      Outcomes’ & ‘Monitoring teenage sexuality in Europe in the second half of the Twentieth

                      century’, Euro­pean Social Science History Conference, Belfast

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2017              Chair & Organiser: Session ‘Family Planning Policies’, Dutch Day of Demography, Utrecht

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2017              Chair: Sessions ‘Abortion, unborn and counselling’ & ‘Women, health and fertility’, European

                      Association for the History of Medicine and Health, Bucharest

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2016              Chair & Discussant: Session ‘State Control and Popular Practices. Perspectives from 20th Cen­tury

                      Northern Europe’, 11th European Social Science                              History Conference, Valencia

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2015              Organiser: International Workshop ‘Power of the Family’, Wageningen University

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2014,             Convenor: ‘Sociology of Consumption and Households Research Seminars’, Sociology of Con-

2015              sumption and Household Group, Wageningen University

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2014              Convenor: ‘Economic, Social and Demographic History Research Seminars’, Department of

                      Economic, Social and Demographic History, Radboud University

 

2014              Chair & Organiser: Session ‘Individuals’ Reproductive Careers in Modern Europe’, European

                      Social Science History Conference, University of Vienna

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2013              Organiser: Sessions ‘Qualitative Approaches to Demographic Behaviour’, Part 1 & Part 2, So­cial

                      Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago

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              Publications

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                      BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES

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2016              Hilevych, Y. ‘Strong Families and Declining Fertility: a Comparative Study of Family

                      Relations and Reproductive Careers in Soviet Ukraine’, Wageningen University, 191 p. ISBN 978-94-6257­938-5 (Open Access)

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2015              Hilevych, Y., and MacNamara, T. (Eds.). ‘Qualitative approaches to demographic questions’.

                      Special issue in: The History of the Family 20 (1). Including the Introduction: MacNamara, T., and Hilevych, Y.,

                      ‘ Living in the demos: qualitative approaches to demographic questions’, The History of  the Family 20 (1), p.1-8

                      (Open Access)

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                     PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

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2018              Hilevych Y, and Rusterholz C., “‘Two children to make ends meet”’: the ideal family size,

                      parental responsibilities and costs of children on two sides of the Iron Curtain during the post­war fertility decline’,

                      The History of the Family 23 (3), p.408-425 (Open Access)

 

2016              Hilevych Y. ‘Later, if ever: Family influences on transition from first to second birth in Soviet

                      Ukraine’, Continuity & Change 31(2), p. 275-300

 

2015              Hilevych, Y., ‘Abortion and gender relationships in Ukraine, 1955–1970’, The History of the Fam­ily 20 (1), p. 86-105

 

                      BOOK CHAPTERS

 

2018              Hilevych Y., and Sato C., ‘Popular medical discourses on birth control in the Soviet Union dur­ing

                      the Cold War: Shifting responsibilities and relational values’. In: Ann-Katrin Gembries, Theresia

                      Theuke and Isabel Heinemann (Eds.), Children by Choice? Changing Values, Reproduction and Family 

                      Planning in the 20th Century (De Gruyter: Berlin, Boston), p. 99-122

 

2018              Hilevych Y., Generations and contexts in the study of continuity and change. The example of fertility declines.

                      In Paul Puschmann & Tim Riswick (Eds.), Building Bridges. Scholars, His­tory and Historical Demography.

                      A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Theo Engelen ( Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers), p.476-490 (Open Access)

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2013              Hilevych Y., and Rotering P., ‘Entrance into motherhood and women’s social networks in Ukraine’, 1955-1965,

                      (In Dutch: Moederschap en sociale netwerken in Oekraïne, 1955- 1965), In Matthijs, K., Puschmann, P., Janssens, A.,

                      and Bras, H. (eds.) Gender in/en historische demografie. Historisch-demografisch onderzoek in Vlaanderen en Nederland.

                      Jaarboek 2013, Leuven: Acco

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                      POLICY REPORTS: SELECTED

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2017              Boomen van den N., Dane J., Hilevych Y., Hoedemaeckers J., Walhout E., Kok, J., Hostages of time. Policy,

                      practice and experiences of relinquishment for adoption by unmarried mothers in the Netherlands between 1956

                      and 1984 (in Dutch with English summary). Scientific report for the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice,

                      WODC-Onderzoek 2707. ISBN 978-94-92380-40-1

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                    DATABASES

 

2017            UNFPA-NIDI Resource Flow Survey on Family Planning (2015, 2016 financial years)

 

                    OUTREACH: SELECTED

 

2019            Hilevych Y., ‘First public cases of surrogacy in 1978 Britain: can they help us to better under­stand

                    surrogacy today?’ ReproSoc blogpost (November 19, 2019)

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2019            Hilevych Y.: Commentary on BBC Woman’s Hour about the history of artificial insemination in Britain

                    (February 26, 2019; (just after 32 minutes)

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             Reviewer for

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                     European Journal of Population, Medical History, The History of the Family, Continuity and

                     Change, Journal of Family History, Social History of Medicine

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             Technical skills

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                      Atlas.ti, LATEX, SPSS, R

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             Language skills

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                     English (fluent), Dutch (upper intermediate), Ukrainian and Russian (native)

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