Chepelieva Nataliia Vasylivna

Associate Member of the APS of Ukraine, Doctor of Psychology, Professor

N.V.Chepelieva was born on 14^th July, 1949 in Lviv.

1971: graduated from T.H. Shevchenko Kyiv State University, computer science faculty .

1979: completed and defended the thesis “Psychological features of understanding the text by students of higher schools as a factor of their self-education” and was granted the Candidate's degree in psychology.

1992: defended the thesis for the Doctor's degree “Psychology of reading of textbooks and scientific literature in the system of professional education”.

Since 1994 to now: works as a professor at the Chair of psychology and pedagogy.

1999: elected as an Associate Member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine.

2004: was awarded with the honorary title “Honoured Scientist of Ukraine”

1971-83: worked as junior researcher, then senior researcher; completed the post-graduate course at the Scientific Research Institute of Psychology of the UkrSSR.

1983-97: occupied the position of the Associate Professor, then Head of the Chair of psychology and pedagogy at the M.Gorky Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute (now M.P.Dragomanov National Pedagogical University).

Since 1997 to now: occupies the position of the Deputy Director of Science at the G.S.Kostiuk Institute of Psychology, NAPS of Ukraine.

N.V.Chepelieva studies the problems of cognitive and practical psychology. She founded the new direction of research in the Ukrainian psychology - the domain of psychological hermeneutics, which covers the problems of understanding and interpretation of reality, including mental reality of an individual and his/her personal experience. She also developed and substantiated the conception of the professional training of practical psychologists, the personality model of the practical psychologist, and the conception of psychological service in higher schools.

N.V.Chepelieva is the author and co-author of 362 scientific papers, including "Culture of reading", "Problems of psychological hermeneutics", "Narrative psycho-technologies", and "Social and psychological factors affecting understanding and interpretation of personal experience".