The research framework at the Department of Ukrainian Studies includes interdisciplinary research in Regional Studies, Boundary Studies, Historical Urban Studies, Historical Memory and Collective Identity. The Department is developing the research topic “National Identity of Sloboda Ukraine”. It regularly published V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Bulletin (Series: History of Ukraine and Ukrainian Studies: Philosophy and History).

The Department of Ukrainian Studies has established and maintains international scientific contacts, including the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (University of Alberta), the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University), the Oriental Institute (Poznan University), and the American Council of Scientific Societies.

In 2000 the Department serves as the basis for creating a public research organization (The Kovalski Eastern Institute of Ukrainian Studies (http://keui. wordpress. com/)) affiliated with the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (University of Alberta). The Institute’s publishing body is the International Historical and Cultural Yearbook “East-West” (http://keui. wordpress. com/shid_zahid). The Institute organizes annual nationwide student research competitions, funds Ukrainian scientific projects and publications.