An expert in peace and security from Coventry University has spoken at an event in Kyiv organized by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on education reform and its contribution to the country’s reconstruction and resilience.
The President’s Forum in Ukraine’s capital city heard from a number of important voices, including Sir Ciaran Devane, Director of the university’s Research Centre for Peace and Security. He addressed the forum and spoke on the contribution of higher education to reconstruction in Ukraine.
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Sir Ciaran is a former chief executive of the British Council, which he guided in building connections and trust between the UK and more than 100 countries across the world.
The Group has already joined forces with two universities in Ukraine, trained healthcare workers and rehabilitation specialists to care for those injured and impacted by the war, as well as exploring potential joint research projects.
And the newest initiative has seen Coventry University’s Research Centre for Peace and Security win a project to develop Gender Equality Partnerships to increase the representation of women in senior leadership positions in higher education institutions in Ukraine.
The project will analyze the obstacles preventing women’s representation in higher education leadership in the country and the UK, and look to develop an online course to assist female academics to overcome these barriers.
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It builds on a grant previously awarded to the research centre for the development of a dual master’s degree in City Leadership and Management in collaboration with Alfred Nobel University.
The connection between Coventry University and Alfred Nobel University is part of the Twinning Ukraine project, which sees universities around the world supporting institutions in Ukraine and was set up in the wake of the Russian invasion of the country in February 2022.
Coventry University is also twinned with a second Ukrainian institution – Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUCA) – with the collaboration exploring how KNUCA can offer Coventry University degree programmes, as well as online summer schools and potential joint research between the two institutions.
The impacts of the war with Russia have also been considered by Dr Agnieszka Lewko, Assistant Professor at the university’s Research Centre for Healthcare and Communities, who helped to arrange training for healthcare workers and rehabilitation specialists as they care for those injured in the violent scenes across the country.
“The people of Ukraine have shown, and continue to show, great strength to rebuild and we are proud that Coventry University Group is able to work alongside them to make this possible,” said Professor Richard Wells, Coventry University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International).
“While things are not as they should be across much of Ukraine, our work alongside universities in the country, including leaders in health and other disciplines, is helping to make this happen,” he added.
Other work in the country includes the Research Centre for Global Learning winning a Horizon Europe bid on Education for Democracy which will be using Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), while the College of the Arts and Society is also using COIL in rehabilitation psychology and qualitative research methods in psychology in work alongside Alfred Nobel University.
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