Olga Maxwell is a Senior Lecturer in ESL and Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics, the University of Melbourne. Her research expertise includes bi-/multilingualism, language contact, varieties of English in multilingual societies, intonation and prosody, second language acquisition, language ideologies and language attitudes. Her research focuses on linguistic variation in post-colonial varieties of English, migration and globalisation, and on the phonetics and prosody of Ukrainian as well as language use, ideologies and identities in the Ukrainian diaspora setting in Australia.

Natalia Kudriavtseva is Professor of Translation and Slavic Studies at Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University and currently a Fellow at Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, Bulgaria. Her research focuses on language policies, identities and Ukrainian language revitalisation. Her recent work explores the post-2014 transition to Ukrainian among Ukraine’s L1 Russian speakers, particularly the influence of language ideologies on their willingness to learn and use Ukrainian in Ukraine. She has written for the US Kennan Institute’s Focus Ukraine blog and has held fellowships at Kennan, the University of Cambridge, and other academic institutions in Europe.

Iryna Skubii is a historian, a PhD Candidate in History at Queen’s University, and a Candidate of Science in History from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Her current research delves into the history of consumption, materialities, and human-environmental relationships during the Soviet famines in Ukraine. She has published on Soviet social and economic history with a focus on trade, consumption, food, and material culture. Previously, Iryna held visiting research positions in Germany, Poland, Austria, and Canada, and in May 2024, she will join the University of Melbourne as an inaugural Mykola Zerov Fellow in Ukrainian Studies.