Historian, Ph.D. (2014). Dissertation about the official Soviet policy of memory of the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, using the example of Kharkiv. Graduated from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (major in history of Ukraine). Holds a master’s degree in History (2008). Worked at Kharkiv National University and the Kovalsky Eastern Institute of Ukrainian Studies (Kharkiv). 

A member of the Kharkiv Historical and Philological Society. Participant of several international projects about historical memory and oral history, including "Region, Nation and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconceptualization of Ukraine" (research sub-topic "Political Death Cult of the Fallen Soldiers in Ukraine in the Past 20 years "), "OpenHeritage (Organizing, Promoting and Enabling Heritage Re-Use Through Inclusion, Technology, Access, Governance and Empowerment)" and "Un/Archiving Post/Industry: Engaging Heritage and Developing Cultural Infrastructures". She co-authored and co-edited a book “Labor, Exhaustion, and Success: Company Towns of Donbas” (2018, with Volodymyr Kulikov) and special issue of “Region” journal “Donbas Imaginaries: Heritage, Culture, Communities” (2021, with Victoria Donovan).

Iryna Sklokina had several international internships and scholarships: at the University of Toronto (Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2013), a scholarship of the Ukrainian-German Historical Commission (2017); fellowship at St. Andrews University, UK, supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund grant (2019); a fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (2020-2021); fellowship at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Regensburg, 2023).

From 2022, Iryna is a postdoc researcher affiliated with the SOCIOBORD project (Social Politics in European Borderlands. A Comparative and Transnational Study, 1870s-1990s). Her research is related to social provision for working-class women in the Galician (Polish-Ukrainian) borderland.

Among Iryna's research interests: Soviet and post-Soviet politics of memory, historical heritage, museum studies, and oral history. At the Center for Urban History, Iryna Sklokina focuses on historical heritage, in particular industrial and Soviet heritage in Donbas and Lviv.