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KOVTUN Iryna Bronislavivna

Full name
KOVTUN Iryna Bronislavivna
Full name (in English)
IRYNA KOVTUN
Academic title
Associate Professor
Academic degree
Candidate of Sciences in Public Administration
Position
First Vice-Rector; Associate Professor of the Department of Public Management and Administration; Chair of the University Methodical Council
Office hours
Monday, Wednesday: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Awards

Letter of gratitude from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, certificates of honour from Khmelnytskyi Regional Council and Khmelnytskyi Regional State Administration.

Education

Born on 14.10.1979.
Has worked at Leonid Yuzkov Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law since 2001; since 2018 as Vice-Rector for Regulatory, Scientific and Methodological Support and Associate Professor of the Department of Public Management and Administration; since 2021 – First Vice-Rector.

Academic and teaching experience

In 2008 she defended her Candidate of Sciences dissertation on the topic "Activities of Local Self-Government Bodies at the Regional Level in Ukraine: Organisational and Legal Features and Ways of Improvement" in specialty 25.00.04 – Local Self-Government, Dnipro.
She has repeatedly acted as an opponent at defences of dissertations for the academic degree of Candidate of Sciences in Public Administration in specialty 25.00.04.
Member of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Organisation of the Union of Economists of Ukraine.

Research interests
Territorial management and local self-government, decentralisation of public management.
Courses taught
"Local Self-Government", "Decentralisation and Development of Local Self-Government", "Local Economic Development", "Management of Communal Property".
Main research publications

1.   Kovtun I. B. Reforming Local Self-Government and the Territorial Organisation of Power in Ukraine: Present-Day Challenges / I. B. Kovtun // Current Issues of Reforming the System of Local Self-Government and the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Ukraine: scientific and practical material / Compiled by: M. I. Baiuk, T. V. Haman, I. B. Kovtun, T. V. Tereshchenko. – Khmelnytskyi: Khmelnytskyi Centre for Retraining and Advanced Training. – 2013. – 278 p. – pp. 63-97.
2.   Theoretical Aspects of the Functioning of the Budget Mechanism for Regulating the Socio-Economic Development of a Territory / I. B. Kovtun, T. V. Tereshchenko // University Scientific Notes. – 2013. – No. 4. – pp. 577-583.
3.   Prospects for Forming Modern Leaders of the Public Administration System in Ukraine / I. B. Kovtun, L. O. Kovalska // Managerial Leadership: collective monograph / general editing by V. V. Tolkovanov. – Khmelnytskyi: PE Melnyk A. A., 2013. – 600 p. – pp. 227-338.
4.   Strategic Guidelines for Forming a System for Ensuring the Social Development of Territorial Communities / I. B. Kovtun, T. V. Tereshchenko // University Scientific Notes. – 2017. – No. 1. – pp. 193-201.
5.   Entrepreneurship as a Factor in Forming the Potential for Sustainable Development of Territorial Communities / I. B. Kovtun, T. V. Tereshchenko // Financial and Managerial Aspects of Innovation and Investment Development of Entrepreneurship in the National Economy: monograph; general editing by Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor V. P. Synchak. – Khmelnytskyi: KhUUP, 2017. – 350 p. – pp. 150-167.
6.   Substantiation of the Principles of Forming the Potential for Sustainable Development of Territorial Communities / I. B. Kovtun, T. V. Tereshchenko // Strategic Directions of the Socio-Economic Development of the State in the Context of Globalisation: abstracts of the 3rd International Scientific and Practical Conference
(Khmelnytskyi, 22–23 September 2017); general editing by Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor V. P. Synchak. – Khmelnytskyi: KhUUP, 2017. – 294 p. – pp. 95-97.
7.   Ways of Intensifying Public Participation in Resolving Issues of Local Importance / I. B. Kovtun // Establishment of the Institution of Starostas: First Steps: scientific and practical manual. – Khmelnytskyi: PE Melnyk A. A., 2017. – 225 p. –

Professional development

Swiss-Ukrainian project DOCCU "Developing Civic Competences in Civil Servants" (90 hours), March–April 2017, Kyiv;
Training of trainers "Advanced Didactics and Adult Learning Methods", Berlin Academy of Public Administration, with the support of the "U-LEAD with Europe" Programme, 05–09.11.2018, Berlin;
"Partnership for Local Economic Development and Democratic Governance" (PLEDDG/PROMIS) project, with the support of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, May–June–September 2019, Kyiv.
"U-LEAD with Europe" Programme, Ukrainian School of Governance, National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service, 16–18.10.2019, Kyiv.