About Dïaspora

Dïaspora was created amid the greatest challenge Ukraine and its people have faced in recent history, at a moment when highlighting Ukrainian voices worldwide has never mattered more. What began as a small, determined project has since grown into an independent charitable organisation with a large and dedicated team. Our name comes from the Ukrainian phrase Дїати Пора, or ‘time for action’. Coincidentally, this sounds remarkably like the English word diaspora. The wordplay both underscores our mission to highlight Ukraine around the world and reminds us of our connection to the millions of Ukrainians living abroad.

We do not believe that a journal about Ukraine must be solemn or purely academic. Our pages hold scholarly essays alongside personal writing, poetry, and much more. We seek to convey the full breadth of the Ukrainian experience and publish work that looks for answers to difficult, unresolved questions. What does it mean to leave a homeland you love? How can remembrance become a dispute? How does culture become a form of resistance?

As one of only a few Ukraine-focused publications in Britain, Dïaspora has a unique mandate. We seek to combine the rigor and depth of academic life with the intimate feelings of a diasporic community. That mission has already taken shape across two issues. Our first, published in September 2025, was well-received by a broad audience, reaching the Scottish Parliament, university classrooms, and the Ukrainian Student Union summit in Cambridge. Our second, published in March 2026, concentrated on a single question: Why Study Ukraine? This question was designed as a wake-up call to the field of Slavonic Studies which has for so long viewed Eastern Europe from Russia’s point of view.

Dïaspora exists to give students and scholars of Ukraine a space to contribute their thoughts, to make sense of this perilous time through writing, and to celebrate Ukrainian culture as more than a footnote to war.