Fellowships
Are you involved in emergency documentation or heritage preservation in Ukraine?
The Living Archives project offers remote and on-site fellowships in their partnering institution. Within the framework of a fellowship, you have the opportunity to pursue your (research) project connected to the topic with the outstanding partners of the Living Archive project.
Fellowship holders of the LivArch program
Herder Institute-based (Germany)
Dr. Inna Ganshow
Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
Research project: Researching the Collecting, Preserving, Analysing and Disclosing of Ukrainian Testimonies of the War (U-CORE)”
Period: April-May 2025
Dr. Alona Bilokon
Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University
Research project: Documenting the Impact of Russia’s War on Ukraine’s Energy System
Period: November 2025
Ilami Yasna
Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Research project: Public Wartime Diaries from Ukraine (2022-2026): Building a Corpus Inventory and Methodological Documentation
Period: May-July 2026
Nadiia Bedrina
Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, and Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Research project: Living Archives of Resilience: a Multidisciplinary Framework for Documenting War-Torn Ukrainian Heritage through Academic and Civic Engagement
Period: May-June 2026
Veronika Barankevych
Krakow University of Economics; University of the National Education Commission, Krakow and Institute of New Europe, Warsaw, Poland
Research project: Digital Architecture of Resistance: A Multi-Level Evolution of Gamification, Military Branding, and Social Media Narratives in Ukraine’s Drone Warfare (2025–2026)
Period: May-June 2026
Olena Shevchenko
Odesa Archaeological Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and King’s College London, UK
Research project: Ukrainian Humour about Power Outages in Wartime (2025–2026)
Period: June 2026
Center for Urban History-based (Ukraine)
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Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Research project: Transformation of the Ukrainian Landscape
Period: October 2025
Albert Venger
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Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
Research project: Testimonies of War: From Collection to Archiving in the State Archives of Ukraine.
Period: November 2025
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Ukrainian photographer
Warchive research project, which aims to preserve memory by creating a physical and digital archive of found photographs from bombed-out residential buildings in Izium and North Saltivka in Kharkiv.
Nadiia Pastukh
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Independent researcher
Research project: The Verbal Representation of the Experience of War in the Context of Typological Features of the Construction of a Narrative about the Difficult Past/Difficult Present
Period: September 2025
Iryna Piatnytskova
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Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University
Research project: Destruction of Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage in the Optics of Documentation Initiatives
Period: July-September 2025
Alina Rodina
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NGO “Association of Relatives of Political Prisoners of the Kremlin”
Research project: Returning to the Occupied Territories: Risks of Repeated Illegal Detention, Access to Information from the TOT, and the Ethics of Documenting Testimony in Digital Archives
Period: September 2025
Tetiana Savchenko
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Archive “Wall Evidence”
Research project: Inscriptions of the Russian Military as a source of Research on the War Against Ukraine
Period: July 2025
Oksana Sichova
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Institute of Archival Studies of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
Research project: Archival Classification of Sources of the Russian-Ukrainian War Documented by Private and Public Initiatives
Period: July-August 2025
Nadiia Skobel
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Kherson State University
Research project: Flora of Old Cemeteries Within Right Bank Dnipro Grass Steppe District
Period: November-December 2025
Dr. Alona Bilokon
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Regional GCIP Acceleration Center for Innovation, Technology, and Startups in the Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine
Research project: Ethical and Legal Considerations Regarding the Archiving of Confidential Energy Data During Wartime
Period: April 2026
Hanna Drobot
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Independent online media “Tochka Skhodu”, Ukraine
Research project: Analysis and Systematization of Interviews with Families of Prisoners of War, Civilian Detainees, and Persons Missing in Action (2024–2026)
Period: 2026
George Ivanchenko
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Ukrainian photographer
Research project: “Warchive”: a physical and digital archive creation of found photographs from bombed-out residential buildings in Izium and North Saltivka in Kharkiv
Period: June 2026
Oleksandr Golovko
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M. T. Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Research project: Sensitive Data in Accounts of the Full-Scale Russian-Ukrainian War: Practices of (Non)Representation in Domestic Source Publications and Online Platforms
Period: April-May 2026
Kateryna Homeniuk
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Archives Department of the Bucha City Council, Ukraine
Research project: Voices of Bucha: A Digital Memory Archive
Period: 2026
Oleksandr Kolomyichuk
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M. T. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Research project: Empathy in the “Field” of the Current Russian-Ukrainian War: From Documentation to the Publication of Testimonies
Period: 2026
Roman Koval
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NGO “Truth Hounds”, Ukraine
Research project: The Impact of the Requirement for Evidentiality on the Structure of Sources and Its Implications for Understanding Facts and for Historical Writing
Period: June 2026
Ivan Moysiyenko
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Kherson State University, Ukraine
Research project: The Impact of War on Cultural Heritage Sites Rich in Natural Biodiversity
Period: 2026
Olha Opalenko
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NGO “Truth Hounds”, Ukraine
Research project: Living Archives of War: From Fragmentation to Communication
Period: June 2026
Serhii Rudko
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Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy, National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine
Research project: Archiving of Oral and Semi-Oral Testimonies from Participants in the Kherson Offensive Operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Period: May 2026
Svitlana Scherbyna
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T.G. Shevchenko National University “Chernihiv Collegium”, Ukraine
Research project: Archiving Children’s Testimonies of War: Ethical and Psychological Standards for “Living Archives”
Period: April 2026
Myroslava Smolnitska
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Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Research project: Spatial Metadata in Oral Testimonies of the War
Period: June 2026
Kyrylo Tarasenko
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Independent researcher
Research project: Digital Tools and Infrastructures for Archiving Materials of the “Most Documented War”
Period: 2026
Iurii Rylskii
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Museum of the History of PJSC “Dniprospetsstal”, Ukraine
Research project: Coverage in the pages of the factory newspaper Elektrometallurg of the participation of employees, veterans, volunteers, and PJSC “Dniprospetsstal” in repelling the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine (2014–2021)
Period: April 2026
Yevhen Vorosheikin
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Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Ukraine
Research project: The First Hours of the Invasion: A Chronology of Events in Ukrainian City Telegram Chats
Period: November 2026
Bohdan Zek
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Volyn Regional Historical Museum, Ukraine
Research project: The Russian-Ukrainian War in the Collections of Local Museums: Principles of Acquisition, Potential of the Source Base, and Methodology for Working with It
Period: 2026
Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte-based (Germany)
Dr. Olesia Zvezdova
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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Research project: Historical revisionism in social media as the method of Russian psychological aggression
Period: 2025-2026
Dr. Iuliia Iashchenko
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Sapienza University Rome
Research project: Echoes of Resilience: Oral History and Collective Memory in Odesa’s Urban Landscape
Period: 2025-2026
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)-based (Luxembourg)
Dr. Anna Kryvenko
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Institute of Contemporary History (Ljubljana, Slovenia), National Institute for Strategic Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Research project: Wartime Data Sensitivity and Pseudonymisation
Period: October-December 2025
Dr. Aliesia Soloviova
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European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Research project: Ethical Access to Sensitive Wartime Testimonies in Digital Projects
Period: October-December 2025