The Faculty of Design of KNUTD has been training postgraduate students in the specialty "Design" since 2016. During this time, many candidates of art history and doctors of philosophy have been trained, who are now successfully working as lecturers at KNUTD and other educational institutions in Ukraine and around the world.

In 2025, 4th-year postgraduate students successfully completed their postgraduate studies and defended their dissertations: Valery Bulatov (lecturer of the Ukrainian Humanitarian Institute), supervisor Natalia Chuprina, Doctor of Art History, Professor; Laura Ovakimian (designer, stylist), supervisor Tetyana Krotova, Doctor of Art History, Professor; Mariia Vorobchuk (lecturer of Lutsk National Technical University), Tang Zhongyan (citizen of the People's Republic of China), supervisor Kalyna Pashkevych, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor.

Defense of Maria Vorobchuk

The opponents of the defended dissertations were associate professors and professors, high-level specialists: Tetyana Kara-Vasylieva, Doctor of Art History, Professor, Rada Mykhailova, Doctor of Art History, Professor, Inna Yakovets, Doctor of Art History, Professor, Alla Rudenchenko, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Oksana Fomenko, Doctor of Architecture, Professor, Valery Safronov, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Olga Galchynska, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Serhii Luts, Candidate of Art History, Associate Professor.

Defense of Valery Bulatov

Each of the defended dissertations offers new scientific results in a certain field of design, offers effective solutions for improving the aesthetic and ergonomic characteristics of design objects.

Defense of Tang Zhongyan

Defense of Laura Ovakimian

We congratulate the graduate students on their successful defense of their dissertations, and wish them further success and new scientific achievements!

11.09.2025