Ihor Lyman

Position

Doctor of History, Professor, Honoured Worker of Education of Ukraine

Е-mail

lyman@ukr.net / ii_lyman@bdpu.org.ua

Awards

2001 – Prize from Zaporizhzhia Oblast State Administration for achievements in the field of science;
2002 – Prize from Zaporizhzhia Oblast State Administration for achievements in the field of science;
2005 – Badge of Honour ‘Distinguished Educator of Ukraine’ of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine;
2007 – Prize from Zaporizhzhia Oblast State Administration for achievements in the field of science;
2008 – Prize from the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine;
2009 – Badge of Honour ‘Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi’ from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine;
2009 − honorary title of Honoured Worker of Education of Ukraine;
2014 − Certificate of Honour from the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine;
2016 − Тhe jubilee medal ‘25 Years of Independence of Ukraine’ from the President of Ukraine;
2016 − Certificate of Honour from Zaporizhzhia Oblast State Administration;
2017 − Note of Commendation from the Department of Culture, Tourism, Nationalities and Religions at Zaporizhzhia Oblast State Administration;
2017 − the Order for the ‘Service to Zaporizhzhia Region (class III);
2020 − Certificate of Merit from the Verkhovna Rada ‘For Services to the Ukrainian People’;
2021, 2022 – Notes of Commendation from Zaporizhzhia Oblast Council;
2023 − The K. D. Ushynskyi Medal of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine;
2023 − Note of Commendation from the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance.

Scientometrics

ORCID iD

0000-0002-9349-8500

Google Scholar

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Web of Science

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Scopus

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Education

1993 − Zaporizhzhia State University, programme subject area: ‘History’;
1996 − Zaporizhzhia State University, postgraduate course;
2005 − Zaporizhzhia State University, postdoctoral course.

Academic degrees and academic titles

1996 – PhD thesis in History. Thesis title: The Church System of the Zaporozhian Liberties (1734–1775);
1997 − Associate Professor at the Department of Historical and Economic Disciplines;
2005 − postdoctoral thesis. Thesis title: The Orthodox Church in the South of Ukraine (1775−1861);
2006 − Professor of History.

Work experience

1996−2005 − Berdyansk State Pedagogical University. Lecturer in History (Department of History of Ukraine), Associate Professor;
1999 − present − Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, Head of the Department of History (History of Ukraine);
March 2007−December 2010 − Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, Vice-Rector for International Relations;
December 2010 − present − coordinator of International Activity at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University.

Field of scientific interests

Historical regionalism (history of the South of Ukraine);
Social history;
Oral history;
Church history;
Urban history;
Maritime history;
History of international relations;
Gender studies;
Historiography;
Archaeography;
History of education;
Ukrainian scientific diaspora;
Modernisation of the education system in Ukraine.

Grants

2023 – COST, European Cooperation in Science and Technology. CA21120 − History of documents that identify a person in European states: citizenship, nationality and migration (HIDDEN);
2023 – grant ‘Science at Risk Emergency office’ (Berlin) (Academic Network Eastern Europe);
2023−2026 – Erasmus+ Capacity building in Higher education project ‘Open Science for Ukrainian Higher Education System’ (Open4UA);
2023−2024 – ‘Energy-efficient educational institution. Thermomodernisation of VTE institutions within the framework of the developed energy efficiency courses 2.0’ (ENEFEDU2.0). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH;
2022 – 2023 – Science at Risk Project (NGO “Kunsht”, supported by: Press, Education and Culture Department of the US Embassy in Ukraine, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, National research fund);
2022 – 2023 – Petro Yatsyk Distance Learning Fellowships at the University of Toronto;
2022– 2023 – Fulbright Visiting Scholar Programme 2022-2023 (not yet implemented);
2022 − 2023 – ‘Energy-efficient educational institution. Thermomodernisation of VTE institutions within the framework of developed energy efficiency courses.’ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH;
2021 – Erasmus+ KA107. Mobility of teaching staff among programme and partner countries (University of Genoa, Italy);
2021 – Internship at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on Central and Eastern Europe, Leibniz Association Institute (Marburg);
2021−2023 − Jean Monnet Project of the Erasmus+ programme ‘Rebuilding the capacity of European Studies in the Ukrainian territories affected by the conflict: understanding the challenges and generating solutions’ 619892-EPP-1-2020-1-UA-EPPJMO-PROJECT;
2020−2021 − grant from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS Exchanges with Ukraine Endowment Fund). Project ‘British Consulates in the Ukrainian Port Cities of the Russian Empire: Combining National and Global Perspectives’;
2021 − Erasmus+ KA107. Mobility of teaching and learning staff amongprogramme and partner countries (Wyzsza Szkola Techniczna w Katowicach, Poland);
2020−2024 − Women in Motion (COST, European Cooperation in Science and Technology). Member of the Steering Committee since August 2022, Grant Coordinator since November 2022;
2019−2021 − International project ‘Changes in Pedagogical Faculties and Universities in the 21st Century’ (Masaryk University, Czech Development Agency). Coordinator of the university team;
2020 ‘What is Your History?’ (USAID);
2020 ‘Qualitative study of attitudes towards the system of vocational education and training and related reforms in Ukraine’, within the framework of the project of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) ‘EU4Skills / Vocational Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine’;
2020−2021 – DAAD, Internationalisation Management Training Course and German-Ukrainian Academic Cooperation 2020–2021 (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover);
2018−2019 – International Project ‘Innovative University and Leadership’ (University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, International Foundation for Educational Policy Research);
2019 − Erasmus+ KA107. Mobility of teaching and learning staff amongprogramme and partner countries (Wyzsza Szkola Techniczna w Katowicach, Poland;
2018−2019 International project ‘Formation of a network of experts on quality assurance in higher education’ (Centre for Higher Education Research (the Czech Republic), Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine);
2018 – project ‘German Consuls in the Northern Azov Sea Region’ (Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany);
2015−2018 Erasmus+ CA2 Project ‘QUAERE: Quality Assurance System for Education in Ukraine: Development on the Basis of European Standards and Recommendations’. Coordinator of the project team at BSPU;
2018 – International project ‘Progressive University Management’ (Masaryk University, Brno, the Czech Republic);
2017 – DAAD, Research for university scholars and scientists (host organisation: Leibniz Institute for East European History and Culture, Leipzig);
2017–2018 – grant from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Project ‘Ukrainian South through the Eyes of British Consuls (19th − early 20th century). Volume 1: British Consuls in the Port City of Berdiansk’;
2016 – professional internship: Summer Academy of the University of Koblenz-Landau. Project ‘QUAERE’: Quality Assurance System in Ukraine: Development on the Basis of European Standards and Recommendations (Koblenz, Germany) (Erasmus+ QUAERE Programme);
2015−2016 – grant from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Project ‘Historiography of the History of Southern Ukraine’;
2013−2016 – TEMPUS-IV ‘Training of teachers and educational managers to work with heterogeneous groups and organisations’;
2014 – professional internship at the University of Vienna (Unviersität Wien);
2013–2015 – participation in the international project ‘The Black Sea and its port cities, 1774–1914. Development, convergence and links with the world economy’ (co-funded by the European Union (European Social Fund − ESF) and the Hellenic National Foundation of the Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Framework − Research Funding Programme: THALES. Investing in the Knowledge Society through the European Social Fund), led by the Ionian University of Corfu, Greece;
2012−2013 – grant from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Project ‘Researchers of the History of Southern Ukraine’;
2011−2014 – HESP. Regional seminar on advanced training of teachers ‘Wealth, Poverty and Life Satisfaction in Transitional Societies’;
2007–2008 – short-term grant from the American Council of Learned Societies in the Humanities;
2003 – International School of Humanities of Central and Eastern Europe (Międzynarodowa Szkoła Humanistyczna Europa Środkowo-Wschodniej) (‘Artes Liberales’). University of Warsaw, Poland.

Prizes and scholarships

1999–2001 – scholarship of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists;
2009 – Professor’s Research Fellowship of the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary);
2019 – scholarship programme of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Geheimen Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin);
2022−2023 – scholarship of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the USA (Shevchenko Emergency Fund;
2023−2024 – George Washington University Nonresident Fellowship, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School (IERES);
2023 – CEFRES Nonresident Fellowship for Ukrainian Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Public activity

Co-founder of the Ukrainian Scientific Diaspora initiative;
2023 − present – member of the Ukrainian Association of Oral History;
July2022 − present − coordinator of the Office of Scientist Support (Ukraine);
2021− present − member of the European Association for International Education;
September2019 − present − member of the Board of the National NGO ‘Innovative University’;
2007−2022 − Member of the International Association of Classical Scholars;
1997 − present − Head of the Berdiansk Regional Branch of the Ya. Novytskyi Zaporizhzhia Scientific Society.

Expert activity

October 2023 − present − International expert of the sectoral expert council ‘Humanities’ of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (Ukraine);
October 2019−October 2023 – Head of the sectoral expert council ‘Humanities’ of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance;
2023 − present − member of the Coalition for Research Assessment Reform (CoARA) working group ‘Early- and-Mid-Career Researchers − Assessment and Research Culture’;
November 2023−2024 − member of the working group of the Ministry of Education and Science to develop a methodology for assessing the effectiveness of scientific (scientific and technical) activity of scientific institutions and higher education institutions in terms of scientific (scientific and technical) activity in certain scientific areas during state certification;
2018−2020 − member of the Specialised Academic Council K 12.093.04 for the defence of PhD theses in History (Mariupol State University);
February 2014−October 2022 − member of the Expert Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for the examination of theses in historical sciences;
2012 − present − researcher at the Research Institute of Urban History;
Member of the jury of the National Student Olympiad in History, the regional stage of the Junior Academy of Sciences competition, expert of the Monograph for Grant Competition of the Council of Young Scientists at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, expert of the oblast competition for gifted youth in science, expert in the selection of participants in the science diplomacy courses in Trieste (Italy) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the World Academy of Sciences under the auspices of UNESCO.

Advanced training, internships for the last 5 years

Erasmus+ KA107. Mobility of teaching staff for teaching among programme countries and partner countries (University of Genoa, Italy) (November 2021);
Erasmus + KA107. Mobility of teaching and learning staff amongprogramme countries and partner countries (Wyzsza Szkola Techniczna w Katowicach, Poland) (May 2021);
Internship at the Herder Institute for Historical Research in Central and Eastern Europe − Leibniz Association Institute (Marburg) (September 2021). University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. International project ‘Innovative University and Leadership’ (November 2018 − June 2019).

Disciplines

History of Ukraine;
Methodology of Scientific Research;
Fundamentals of Social Interaction among Cultures, Religions and Languages in Historical Retrospect;
Topical Issues of the most Modern History;
Topical Issues of the most Modern History of Ukraine.

Other, which additionally highlights the activity of the lecturer

2000 − Holik Prize from the Ukrainian (Azov) Branch of the Academy of Economic Sciences and Entrepreneurship;
2008 − winner of the National educational and patriotic competition among the events aimed at commemorating the victims of the Holodomor of 1932−1933: ‘Holodomor of 1932−1933. The Memory of the Nation’. First place in the nomination ‘For the best work among students, postgraduates, scientists and teachers’;
2013 − Medal ‘For a Significant Contribution to the Development of Berdiansk’;
2013 – ‘International Education Faculty Achievement’ − award from the International Association of University Presidents;
2015 − Gold Medal of the sixth international exhibition ‘Modern Educational Institutions 2015’ (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Exhibition World Company);
2015 − ‘Honorary Order of the City’ for significant personal contribution to the development of the city of Berdiansk;
2018 − Note of Commendation from the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany;
2018 − Prize of the Top 10 participant of the National Library ‘Biographical Rating-2017’ for the book British Consul and Industrialist John Grieves;
2018 − Special Award ‘For Contribution to the Development of Research in the History of Diplomacy’, from the Scientific Society for the History of Diplomacy and International Relations for the book British Consul and Industrialist John Grieves;
2019 − 1st degree Prize (nomination ‘Collective Portrait’) of the National Library ‘Biographical Rating-2018’ for the book Ukrainian South through the Eyes of the Consuls of the British Empire in the 19th−Early 20th Centuries. Volume 1: British Consuls in the Port City of Berdiansk;
2019. – Diploma of the participant of the Top-10 of the National Library ‘Biographical Rating-2018’ for the book Ukrainian South through the Eyes of the Consuls of the British Empire in the 19th−Early 20th Centuries. Volume 1: British Consuls in the Port City of Berdiansk;
2019 – Prize of the Top 10 participant of the National Library ‘Biographical Rating-2018’ for the book German Consuls in the Northern Azov Region;
2019 – Note of Commendation from the Federation of Greek Societies of Ukraine;
2020 – Certificate of Merit from the Federation of Greek Societies of Ukraine;
2020 – Prize from the President of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine ‘For Significant Contribution to the Development of Scientific Schools in the Field of Humanities’;
2021 – Yakiv Novytskyi Prize for outstanding publications in local history.