"Graduate School of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus"

 

Vera Dmitrievna Ostreyko, Ph.D. head of the Humanities Department

 

Education and Career History

1985  -  finished school № 21, Minsk

1985 – 1990 – Belarusian State University, Russian-Belarusian Department of the Faculty of Philology

March 1988 – January 1991 –laboratory assistant of the Russian Language Department of the Philology Faculty of the Belarusian State University

1991 – 1992 – senior laboratory assistant at the scientific research laboratory of Belarusian Folklore and Dialectology of the Philology Faculty of the Belarusian State University

November 15, 1992 – November 15, 1995 –  postgraduate student at the Institute of Linguistics named after Yuakub Kolas of NAS B

November 1995 - 1998       junior research associate of the Dialectology and          Linguogeography Department of the Institute of Linguistics named after Yuakub Kolas of NAS B.

December 19, 1997 defense of a thesis on the topic “North-western zone vocabulary in the denominations of animate nature phenomena (linguogeography and origin)”

1998 – 2005 – research and later a senior research associate at the Institute of Linguistics of NAS B.

December 31, 2005 – December 30, 2008 – post doctoral student at the Institute of Linguistics of NAS B.

2008 – 2009 – senior  research associate at the Institute of Linguistics of NAS B.

September 1, 2010 – September 18, 2013 – Head of the Belarusian Language Department of the Graduate School of NAS B

September 19, 2013 –  till now - Head of the Humanities Department

 

 

 

Research and Instruction Experience

1991 – 1992 – in charge of the folklore practice of first-year students  

1998 – visiting lecturer at the Belarusian Language Department of the Training Center of the Presidium at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Preparing postgraduate students for the graded test on the Belarusian language.

1999 – 2008 – visiting lecturer at the Humanities department of the State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of the Belarusian State University. Teaching course “Professional Belarusian” for students specializing in Management, Law, Psychology and Social Work.

2009 –  till now – Preparing master and postgraduate students for the graded test on the discipline “Belarusian language in scientific and professional activities”. Teaching  foreign residents Russian as a foreign language. Lecturing on the discipline “ Psychology and Education Science of the Higher education school”, management of externship of master's degree students in the specialty "History of Art", participation in the work of candidacy examinations commissions as well as in the work of the State Examination Commission.