The Interdisciplinary Scientific Center for Applied Research

17 December 2023 Last Updated: 17 October 2024

The Interdisciplinary Scientific Center for Applied Research – ISCAR of the Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State University has been created to facilitate interdisciplinary research by the University staff, students, postgrad and postdoc scholars in the following fields of study:

History, philosophy, and sociology of science.
Economic history. Cliometrics.
Mathematical and statistical methods in the history research. Quantitative history. Historical informatics.
Applied research in special historical disciplines.
Mathematical and statistical methods in social, political, psychological, and pedagogical studies.
Mathematical and computer models of complex systems.
Physical and mathematical modelling of natural processes and phenomena.
Financial matehmatics, random processes and risk management.
Applied linguistics.
Socionics.
Receptive poetics.

Research results

Direction 1. Construction and research of complex gender indices at the national, subnational and corporate levels; carrying out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the results of the gender audit and expertise

Direction 2. Scientometrics of scientific research. Rating of activities of educational institutions

Direction 3. History. Quantitative history. History of science and technology

Center team

Renat Rizhniak – researcher, head of the center (history of science and technology, mathematics teaching technologies, interdisciplinary research);
Kateryna Akbash – researcher (extreme value theory, data analysis, gender statistics, scientometric studies);
Julia Botuzova – researcher (methodology of teaching mathematics, distance learning, ICT in Mathematics Education);
Liudmyla Chystiakova – researcher (theory and practice of technological and professional education, environmental culture, decorative and applied art);
Hanna Deforzh – researcher (history of biology and medicine, history of science and technology, theory of evolution, teaching methods of biology, teaching methods of human health, medicine and health care);
Julia Kharchenko – researcher (social philosophy, ontology, philosophy of science, complex systems, communications, transcendentalism);
Lesya Kindei – researcher (current problems of linguistic didactics in primary school and preschool education institutions, problems of modern Ukrainian grammar, problems of Ukrainian dialect and historical word formation, historical grammar of the Ukrainian language);
Liliia Klochek – researcher (psychology of justice in social interactions; psychological aspects of moral development of the individual; development of self-awareness processes of the individual in adolescence and early youth, psychological assistance to persons with post-traumatic stress disorder);
Oleksandr Kovalkov – researcher (regional history, history of international relations);
Maria Lunyova – researcher (mathematical modeling; wave processes in fluids);
Oleg Marchenko – researcher (regional history, ethnology, history of everyday life, state-building and self-governing processes in European history);
Serhii Mykhyda – researcher (Ukrainian literature, literary theory, psychopoetics, modernism);
Natalia Pasichnyk– researcher (economics and history of economics, methods of teaching economics, interdisciplinary studies);
Alla Rastrygina – researcher (conceptual and scientific direction: pedagogy of freedom in the context of the implementation of the artistic educational paradigm of the 21st century; cultural code of the nation as a basis for the development of national self-awareness of student youth; art communication in the system of domestic and foreign art and pedagogical education);
Olga Rezina – researcher (methodology of teaching computer science, programming, computer processing of texts);
Mykola Sadovyi – researcher (didactics and methodology of physics, labor training, technologies, professional education, technical disciplines; digital educational environment);
Iryna Salnyk – researcher (modern issues of the theory and teaching methods of physics and natural sciences, STEM education, immersive learning technologies);
Yevhen Sobol – researcher (administrative-legal principles of protection of rights and freedoms of persons with disabilities, administrative law, administrative responsibility, information law, administrative-legal provision of vulnerable population);
Andriy Tkachuk – researcher (research of uncooled IR radiation sensors based on InAs and InSb p-n-junctions);
Olena Tryfonova – researcher (digitalization of the educational process in natural sciences and technical disciplines);
Oleksandr Zhytkov – researcher (history and subject historiography of the study of social processes, social groups);