Assoiate Professor of Interdisciplinary & Social Studies
Edinburgh Napier University
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Inequality expert, years of evaluation & vice-chair 4 EU Horizon Europe. Interests: geopolitics, gender, critical regionalism, social epistemics, Eastern Europe
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My expertise are in the interdisciplinary gender and sexuality studies, combined with social and epistemic geopolitics, particularly focused on regional dynamics between Western and Central-Eastern Europe (CEE).Full profile here.
Over the years, I have built a coherent research profile around the following 4 pillars. On macro- and meso-level perspectives:
1.Interconnections of gender, sexuality, and nationalism in Poland.
2.Global sexual politics, particularly between the West and CEE.
3.Geopolitics of knowledge production & decolonial epistemologies in critical studies.
In the last 3 years, I have started developing also micro-level focus on interpersonal relations, especially:
4.Friendship & resilience of LGBTQ communities in Poland and the UK.