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POSITION
Head of Department of Economic and Social Geography
WORK EXPERIENCE
1994–1997
PhD Student (Aspirantura)
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)
1997–2002
Assistant Professor of Department of Economic and Social Geography
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)
2002–2003
Associate Professor (Docent) of Department of Economic and Social Geography
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)
2003–2006
2003-2006 Postdoctoral Studies (Doctorantura)
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)
2006–2007
Associate Professor of Department of Economic and Social Geography
Taras Shevchenko national University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)
2007–2015
Professor of Department of Economic and Social Geography
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)
2015–Present
Head of Department of Economic and Social Geography
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1993
MSc (Economic and Social Geography)
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)
1997
CSc (PhD, Economic and Social Geography)
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, Kyiv (Ukraine)
2006
DSc (Economic and Social Geography)
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv (Ukraine)
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Urban and Regional Development
Research Fields:
Social Science & Humanities
Previous and Current Research
International Projects:
- Urban Reconfiguration in post‐Soviet Space (Leibniz Community, Germany)
- Civil Society Involvement and Participatory Planning Processes in Urban Development – German-Ukrainian Reflections (DAAD, Germany)
- Migration between Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and the Visegrad Countries (International Visegrad Fond, Hungary)
Research topics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv:
- Spatial Transformation in Ukraine: Models of Urban Modernization and Planning
- Socio-Geographical Studies of the Nature Use Transformation and Regional Environmental Safety in Ukraine
Other projects:
- Regional Policy in Ukraine (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine)
Future Projects and Goals
- Participatory Urban Planning
- Municipal GIS
- Gentrification, sacralization, domestication and symbolics of urban space
Methodological and Technical Expertise
- comparative case-study approach to analysis of socio-spatial urban transformation in the post-Soviet space;
- qualitative (surveys, questioning, visual observations, mental mapping) and quantitative (multivariate analysis) methods, GIS-modelling of urban and regional development.
Selected Publications
Mezentsev K., Pidgrushnyi G., Mezentseva N.
Challenges of the Post-Soviet Development of Ukraine: Economic Transformations, Demographic Changes and Socio-Spatial Polarization.
In: Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization. Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond. Henn, S., Lang, T., Sgibnev, W., Ehrlich, K. (eds). Palgrave Macmillan, - 2015 - pp. 252-269.
Mezentsev K., Pidgrushnyi G.
Ukraine: stable outflow and changing nature.
In: Discovering migration between Visegrad countries and Eastern partners. Budapest, - 2014 - pp. 191-211.
http://www.eastmig.mtafki.hu/results.html
Karacsonyi D., Mezentsev K., Pidgrusnyi G., Donenyi Z.
From Global Economic Crisis to Armed Crisis: Changing Regional Inequalities in Ukraine.
Regional Statistics, 4(2) – 2014 – pp. 18-39.
http://ukrgeojournal.org.ua/en/node/450
Mezentsev K. (2013)
Trends in Urban Settlements Development in Ukraine: Strong and Vulnerable Cities.
Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geography, 1(61): 31-36.
Contacts
Homepage: http://www.geo.univ.kiev.ua/en/departments/department-of-economic-and-social-geography.html
mez@univ.kiev.ua
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