Alexey Serdyuk

Head of the Research Lab for Psychological Support of Law Enforcement, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs
Dr. Alexey Serdyuk (Oleksii Serdiuk) is a Head of the Research Laboratory for Psychological Support of Law Enforcement, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine; Lieutenant Colonel of Police. He was born in 1974. PhD Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs (Sociology), 2003; BA/MA V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Psychology) and Kharkiv Institute of Management (Economics), 1997. Associate Professor in Sociology, 2006. Visiting Scholar and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, Addiction Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, 2015. His previous appointments include Deputy Head of Research Lab on Combating Crime; Head of Research Lab on Distance Education; Head of Sociology and Social Work Department; Deputy Head of Research Lab for Staff, Sociological and Psychological Support of Law Enforcement. He is author of over 150 publications. Has extensive experience in international research on sociology, psychology, criminology, policing and epidemiology of substance abuse.
Research:
2019 – present, Ukrainian Longitudinal Study (ULS) – measuring behavioral development of Ukrainian children across the transition from middle to high school and then to college with special focus on substance abuse risk factors with interdisciplinary methodological approach (Principal investigator)
1995 – present, Youth and Drugs – Substance Use Monitoring Among Youth in Kharkiv City (Principal investigator) in cooperation with Sociological Association of Ukraine within the Regional Community Safety and Public Order Ensuring Program and Development Strategy for Kharkiv Region
2013 – present, Trust and Safety – Measuring of police performance in Kharkiv region (Principal investigator) in cooperation with Sociological Association of Ukraine and European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM), within the Regional Community Safety and Public Order Ensuring Program and Development Strategy for Kharkiv Region
2013 – present, Corruption in the Everyday Life – Survey on corruption in Kharkiv region (Principal investigator)
2014 Survey on socio-political situation in Kharkiv region and identifying ways of overcoming the crisis (Principal investigator)
2013 – 2014 Like mother, like daughter: Intergenerational criminality of Ukrainian women, in collaboration with Ohio State University – Marion, USA (Co-Principal investigator)
2011 – 2012 Study of the effect of internal and external migration on the criminal situation in Kazakhstan, in collaboration with International Organization for Migration (scientific consultant on criminology)
2010 – 2011 Migrant workers and crime: where Kings Lynn meets Moscow. The study in England, Russia and Ukraine, in collaboration with Anglia Ruskin University (Co-Principal investigator)
2007 – 2009 Corruption in State traffic inspection (STI) of the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine (Project director / Principal investigator)
2007 – 2008 Drugs-crime connection: the study of convicted offenders in Ukraine In collaboration with Anglia Ruskin University (Co-Principal investigator)
2005 Monitoring of illegal spread of drugs among young people in Kharkov region (Co-Principal investigator)
2001 Injection drug use in Kharkov region: WHO survey of injection drug use, stage 2. (scientific expert of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs)
2000 – 2001 Organizational and methodical aspects of drug abuse prevention among youth. Measures in Ukraine, Germany, Spain and Russia (Co-Principal investigator / scientific expert of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs)
1998 – 1999 The dynamics, socio-cultural context and subjective conditions of illegal spread of drugs among young people Since the Second World War (Co-Principal investigator / as scientific expert of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs)