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Dr Maryana Kachynska

Assistant Professor

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Maryana Kachynska

Maryana Kachynska joined Northumbria University in June 2022, where she is Lecture in Policing and Criminology. She is PhD in Law since 2011, has 18 years of police service.

She has published over fifteen articles, including peer-reviewed, SCOPUS, Web of Science, five books. Her field of scientific interest is police prevention and detecting domestic violence, Gender-Based violence; Gender-Based violence during the military conflicts; war, war crimes and war-related crimes in Ukraine; support of military and police officers during the war in Ukraine and other countries; international law enforcement activity. She conducted research via Horizon 2020 EQUALS-EU, Horizon 2020 NOTINES.

Prior to moving to Northumbria University, Maryana was an Associate Professor at Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs (Ukraine), where she also co-ordinated CEPOL exchange program, including development of international relationship of the department. Worked as a trainer for ICITAP (2021), OSCE (2015-2018) in the field of conducting police training. 

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  • Marshalling the traffic: a preliminary exploration of the illegal firearms trade in Ukraine during martial law, Kotzé, J., Kachynska, M., Kononets, V., Antonopoulos, G., Sanakoiev, D., Morhunov, O. 12 Apr 2025, In: Trends in Organized Crime
  • Preventing domestic violence and animal abuse in Ukraine during a full-scale invasion: the case study of Kharkiv (Ukraine) , Kachynska, M. 18 Jun 2024, In: Urban Crime. An international Journal
  • The Impact of UK Modern Slavery Policy on Eastern European Migrants, Davies, J., Kachynska, M. 1 Dec 2024, In: International Criminology
  • Розслідування злочинів, пов'язаних із отриманням коштів від торгівлі людьми у Сполученому Королівстві, Antonopoulos, G., Kachynska, M., Dzhafarova, O. 24 Jan 2023, In: The Journal of Eastern European Law

Science PhD November 10 2011


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