Dr Wolczuk specialises in East European politics and has studied the dynamics of state-building in Ukraine, especially constitutional reforms, institutional frameworks, as well as the conception of nationhood and national identity. She also conducted research on Ukrainian-Polish relations in the context of EU enlargement and, more recently, on relations between Ukraine and the enlarged EU. She is currently working on relations between the EU and the post-Soviet countries within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership.

Dr Wolczuk contributed to numerous policy-related initiatives and cooperated with and advised a number of UK governmental bodies, international organisations and think-tanks on East European politics, the consequences of EU enlargement and the relations between the EU and its eastern neighbours.

She has extensive media experience, including radio and TV interviews, as well as publications in the British and international press.

In 2002-03 she was Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, the European University Institute, Florence.

Her language competencies include:

• Polish - native
• Russian - advanced
• Ukrainian - near-native
• Belarussian - full comprehension
• French - intermediate
• Italian - introductory

Programme Director for the MSc in Contemporary Russian and East European Studies and MA in Russian and East European Studies.

Convening and teaching:

Undergraduate

• Contemporary Russian and East European Politics (2nd and Final year options)
• Cultural Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe (2nd and Final year options)

Postgraduate

• Graduate Russian and Ukrainian Politics and International Relations
• Readings in Russian and East European Studies

Research interests

• Relations between the EU and the post-Soviet states in Europe in the context of the European Neighbourhood Policy
• Institutional framework, constitutional politics and executive-legislative relations in Ukraine
• Nationalism, nation-building and national identity in the post-communist countries

Current and recent projects

• Relations between the EU and the Post-Soviet states (Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan) in the context of the Eastern Partnership
• 'Declarative Europeanisation': Ukraine and its Policy towards the European Union
• RIME (Releasing Indigenous Multiculturalism in Eastern Europe) funded by the EC under EIDHR programme on 'Combating Racism, Xenophobia & Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities & Indigenous People'
• (participant in) an international project 'Ukraine and the Enlarging EU' by the Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw
• 'Fuzzy Statehood' and European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe

Other professional appointments

• Member of the Advisory Board of the Polish-American-Ukrainian Cooperation Initiative (PAUCI) Warsaw / Kyiv
• Member of the Advisory Board of the East European Studies Distance Learning Programme, the Free University Berlin.
• Acts as an Expert to the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament

• Books

Wolczuk, K (with others) (2010) Beyond Colours: Assets and Liabilities of 'Post-Orange' Ukraine (PDF 1.2MB, opens new window)  (Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw).

Wolczuk, K. (2002) The Moulding of Ukraine: The Constitutional Politics of State Formation (Budapest: Central European University Press), pp. XXI + 315

Wolczuk, K. and Wolczuk, R. (2002) Poland and Ukraine: A Strategic Partnership in a Changing Europe? (opens new window) (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs)

Wolczuk, K. and Batt, J. (2002) Region, State and European Enlargement in Central and Eastern Europe (Frank Cass) (co-edited with Judy Batt) [Also published as a special issue of Regional and Federal Studies (Vol 12, No. 2, 2002)]

• Journal articles

Wolczuk, K. (2009) 'Implementation without Coordination: The Impact of the EU Conditionality on Ukraine under the European Neighbourhood Policy', Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61, No. 2 (March).

Wolczuk, K. and Yemelianova, G. (2008) 'When the West Meets the East: Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Eastern Europe', Nationality Papers, Vol. 36, No. 2 (May)

Wolczuk, K. (2008) 'Ukraine and its relations with the EU in the context of the European Neighbourhood Policy', Chaillot Paper No.108 (Paris: EU Institute for Strategic Studies), pp. 87-118.

Wolczuk, K. (2007) 'Whose Ukraine?: Language and Regional Factors in the 2004 and 2006 Elections in Ukraine', European Yearbook of Minority Issues. Vol. 5 (2005/2006), Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Wolczuk, K. (2006) 'Domestic Politics and European Integration in Ukraine', International Spectator, Vol. XLI, No. 4, (Oct-Dec).

• Briefing Papers and Newspaper Articles

Wolczuk K (2008) A Dislocated and Mistranslated EU-Ukraine Summit, EU-ISS Opinion (opens new window), pp 1-3.

Wolczuk, K. (2010) 'Analysis of the national indicative programme 2011-2013 for Ukraine' (PDF 639, opens new window), Ad Hoc Briefing, prepared for the Policy Department, Directorate-general for external policies of the union, European Parliament (Brussels).

Wolczuk, K. (2007) 'The Iron Princess (Profile of Yulia Tymoshenko) (opens new window)', The Independent on Sunday (Magazine), 16 Oct.

Wolczuk, K. (2005) 'Ukraine after the Orange Revolution' (PDF 132KB opens new window), Policy Brief, Centre for European Reforms, Jan.

Wolczuk, K. and Wolczuk, R. (2004) 'Cold Comfort for Ukraine', Wall Street Journal (Europe), 10-12 Sep