Olena Tkachenko
Reviewer of the magazine "Current issues of mass communication"
Olena Tkachenko, D. Sci. (Philology), Professor, Sumy, Ukraine
Chairman of the Board at the NGO Mediacompass, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NSJU)
Education:
1974 - 1978 - A.S. Makarenko Sumy State Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Philology.
1994 - defense of the dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences.
1999 - awarded the title of associate professor of Ukrainian studies.
2007 - defense of the dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philology, specialty 10.01.01 - Ukrainian literature.
2008 - awarded the title of Professor of Journalism.
Experience:
1978 - 1994 - teacher of secondary school in Sumy.
1994 - 2004 - teacher, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Philology, Sumy State University;
2004 - established the Department of Journalism and Philology at Sumy State University, which she headed until September 2021.
I have experience in organizing the educational process in the specialty "Journalism", development of higher journalism education standards, accreditation and licensing of the specialties "Journalism" for bachelor and master education levels, master "Media Communications", graduate school in 27.00.01 - theory and history of social communications and 061 - journalism; introduction of innovative educational technologies; cooperation with domestic employers and international partners.
Education:
1974 - 1978 - A.S. Makarenko Sumy State Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Philology.
1994 - defense of the dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences.
1999 - awarded the title of associate professor of Ukrainian studies.
2007 - defense of the dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philology, specialty 10.01.01 - Ukrainian literature.
2008 - awarded the title of Professor of Journalism.
Experience:
1978 - 1994 - teacher of secondary school in Sumy.
1994 - 2004 - teacher, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Philology, Sumy State University;
2004 - established the Department of Journalism and Philology at Sumy State University, which she headed until September 2021.
I have experience in organizing the educational process in the specialty "Journalism", development of higher journalism education standards, accreditation and licensing of the specialties "Journalism" for bachelor and master education levels, master "Media Communications", graduate school in 27.00.01 - theory and history of social communications and 061 - journalism; introduction of innovative educational technologies; cooperation with domestic employers and international partners.
Grant and international activities:
Head of 5 international grant programs: two Media Development Fund and Democracy Fund of the US Embassy and Media in Transition, Uppsala University (Sweden), Cross-Media and Quality Journalism, EU Tempus IV, Journalism Education in Ukraine for Democracy: Improving Standards, Integrity and Professionalism ”Erasmus + EU Programs (2019-2021).
Head of the Media and Information Literacy Professional Center (supported by the US Embassy's Media Development Fund, 2017-2018).
Head of the Professional Regional Center for Basic Media Education (supported by the US Embassy's Media Development Fund, 2019-2021).
Internships under the programs of the European Union and Tacis "Development of Median Skills in Ukraine" (Institute of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko National University), "New Media" (Institute of Social Sciences of the Higher School of Linguistics in Czestochowa, Poland), "Strategy and mechanisms for student" academic mobility Humanitas University, Poland), Crossmedia and Quality Journalism (University of Passau, Germany), Digital Media in Universities (Mohyla School of Journalism, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), Standards of Journalism in Conflict Reporting (Academy of Ukrainian Press, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom), "School of Bloggers and Public Journalists" (supported by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
Research activities:
Head of research work "Socio-linguistic conceptuality of the Ukrainian national idea in modern media", 2004-2009 (state registration number 0107U001609); "Representation of regional mass communication: historical-theoretical, thematic-typological, genre and philological aspects", 2010-2014 (state registration number 0110U004016); "Peculiarities of the formation of the national information space of Ukraine: from the Soviet media system to the democratic model", 2015 - 2021 (state registration number 0115U001713).
Distinctions:
Diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (2000); Honorary Badge "Petro Mohyla" (2009); Diploma of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (2011); Title "Honored Professor of Sumy State University" (2011); "Excellence in Education" (2018).
