Zakhozh Natalia Yakovlevna

🇺🇦 Захожа Наталія Яківна

← Department of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy

Academic degree:

Candidate of Science in Physical Education and Sports

Academic title:

Associate Professor

Position:

Head of the Department of Health and Physical Culture

Scientific profiles:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1095-5738

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RxAyEwMAAAAJ&hl=uk

Contacts:

E-mail: Zakhozha.Nataliya@vnu.edu.ua

Distinctions and awards:

• Gratitude from the Dean of the Faculty of Physical Culture, Sports and Health for conscientious work;

• Gratitude from the Head of the Volyn Regional State Administration;

• Gratitude from the Department of Youth and Sports of the Lutsk City Council;

• Certificate of Honor from the Volyn Regional Council (2024).

Education, internship and advanced training:

• Volyn State University (1994–1998) - secondary school physical education teacher;

• Foreign internship without separation from production "Education and Science without Borders" - University of Social and Natural Sciences named after Vincent Pohl (Republic of Poland), Department of Physical Education (23.12.2016 - 23.06.2017);

• Advanced training courses at the international seminar-training "Nordic (Walking)" - Shatsk, Base of the "Gart" camp of the Lesya Ukrainka SNU (06/13/2018–06/24/2018 (56 hours));

• International advanced training without separation from production - Scientific Research Institute of the Lublin Science and Technology Park, Republic of Poland (05–12 April 2021 1.5 ESTS (credit 45 hours));

• Advanced training courses - Ternopil National Pedagogical University named after V. Hnatyuk at the Department of Theory and Methods of Olympic and Professional Sports (02/04/2022 – 05/04/2022 (180 hours));

• Course "Self-defense of the Civilian Population" - Department of Youth and Sports of the Lutsk City Council, KZ "Lutsk MCPFZN "Sport for All"", Community Center "Lutsk City Youth Center", Patrol Police of Volyn Region (07/11/2022 - 07/25/2022 (20 hours));

• Courses for improving professional competence of scientific and pedagogical workers in the field of distance learning - Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

Lesia Ukrainka Volyn National University Department of Technical Training "Center for Innovative Technologies and Computer Testing" 1 ESTC (credit 30 hours) April-May 2022));

• Advanced training courses for track and field judges - Public Union "Federation of Track and Field of Ukraine" (May 16-18, 2023);

• Advanced training courses in the discipline "Massage" - Volyn National University named after Lesya Ukrainka (04/30/2024 – 06/20/2024).

Professional activities:

• postgraduate student of Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University (1999)

Stages of work at the University:

• 1999 – assistant professor of the Department of Health and Physical Culture;

• 2000-2007 – senior lecturer of the Department of Health and Physical Culture;

• 2007-2020 – associate professor of the Department of Health and Physical Culture;

• since 2020 – associate professor of the Department of Fitness and Cyclic Sports;

• since 2025 – head of the Department of Health and Physical Culture.

Teaching educational components:

• "Athletics with teaching methods";

• "Organizational practice";

• "Industrial practice according to the profile of the future profession".

Scientific and promotional activities:

• Zakhozha Nataliya Yakivna. Organizational and methodological foundations of propaganda and advertising activities in the field of physical culture and sports: dissertation candidate of pedagogical sciences: 24.00.02 - physical culture, physical education of different population groups / Zakhozha Nataliya Yakivna; Lviv State Institute of Physical Culture – Lviv, 2003

• Scientific consulting of trainers-teachers and athletes in the Sports Club “SDYUSSHOR Swimming of Lutsk City Council from 2018 to the present

• Member of the Athletics Federation of Ukraine from 2020 to the present

• Judge of the 1st category of the Athletics Federation of Volyn Region since 2017

• Participation in the project “Improving the living situation of victims of National Socialism by activating their social contacts and promoting physical health” from the German Foundation “Memory, Responsibility and Future” (Berlin). Project duration: 01.05.2022-01.11.2023

• Scientific consulting of trainers-teachers and athletes in the Sports Complex "SDYUSSHOR Swimming of the Lutsk City Council from 2018 to the present

Author of more than 80 publications, of which 45 are scientific, 23 works are educational and methodological (including 1 manual)

Science interests:

• physical education;

• physical motor activity;

• Nordic walking;

• athletics.