Victoria Donovan is Professor of Ukrainian and East European Studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She works at the intersection of heritage studies, urban history, visual anthropology, and the public humanities. She is the co-producer of academic research, literature, exhibitions, archives, community workshops, and artistic practice exploring the industrial history and heritage of Ukraine and the UK. Her work has received grants and prizes, including a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award, an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker Award, and, in partnership with the Centre for Urban History in Lviv, a European Heritage Award/EuropaNostra Award for Citizens’ Engagement and Awareness Raising. She is the co-author of Limits of Collaboration: Art, Ethics, and Donbas, published by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in 2022 and author of Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East, published with Daunt Books Publishing in 2025.