Elina Paliichuk, PhD

Affiliation: Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University

Dr. Elina Paliichuk is an Associate Professor at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, Ukraine (since 2015), and holds an MA in Linguistics degree from the Kyiv National Linguistic University. She initiated studies on warning human trafficking victims (WHTV) with a focus on metaphor, storytelling, schemata, and sensory language in discourses and empirical methods. Dr. Paliichuk is implementing Changing Young Minds: Student Awareness of Human Trafficking under War Conditions at the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (https://cefres.cz/en/elina-paliichuk/) and has been a laureate of residential and non-residential fellowship programs (https://cefres.cz/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Rapport-dactivite-CEFRES-2024-seul-1.pdf (p.29). She also worked on Ukrainian legislation to align with the EU acquis standards as an Associate Translation Fellow at the EU-funded Project “Association4U” (2017-2019) and as a national expert at the 3E4U EU-funded project (GIZ / ICON Institute, 2025).

Research Interests:

  • Human trafficking primary prevention and awareness

  • Social sciences and humanities

  • Cognitive linguistics

  • Empirical studies

  • Media studies

  • Translation studies

  • Stylistics

  • Prosocial pedagogics

  • EU Acquis and Translation for EU integration

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