Olga Onuch (born 1982) is Professor (Chair) of Comparative and Ukrainian Politics at the University of Manchester.
[3] In 2010 she gained a DPhil at the University of Oxford, with a thesis comparing processes of mass mobilisation in Argentina (2001–2002), and Ukraine (2004).
[5] Onuch's publications include the books Mapping Mass Mobilization: Understanding Revolutionary Moments in Argentina and Ukraine and The Zelensky Effect, co-authored with Henry E. Hale, which considers the role of civic national Ukrainian identity and its influence on president Volodymyr Zelensky,[6][7][8] drawing extensively on Onuch's multi-year research on mass political mobilisation.
She has identified the value of people who have mass-protested and she sees this behaviour as reinforcing pro-democracy views and a willingness to stay in Ukraine.
[3] In 2023, Onuch became the first person to be appointed a full professor of Ukrainian politics at a university in the English-speaking world.