Biography
Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Gdansk. She is also an Associated Member of the Centre de Recherche sur les Liens Sociaux (CERLIS) at Université Paris Cité. Her research focuses on the sociology of couples, family life courses, career trajectories of women and men in STEM, and interspecies families.
She is the Principal Investigator of the project Till Death Do Us Part... Everyday Life Practices of Couples Aged 50-64 with at Least 20 Years of Shared Life Experience, funded by NCN (UMO-2018/30/E/HS6/00159, 2019-2023).
Magdalena is also the co-editor of the upcoming book:
Żadkowska, M., Skowrońska, M., Giraud, C., & Schmidt, F. (2024). Reconfiguring Relations in the Empty Nest: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50403-7
She is currently involved in several projects, including:
Towards Gender Harmony in the EQUAMAN Masculinity Navigator project
MINDtheGEPs: Gender Equality in Research
RE-WIRING: Realizing Girls’ and Women’s Inclusion, Representation, and Empowerment
Her latest articles have been published in the Journal of Family Studies, European Journal of Women's Studies, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Gender, Place & Culture, Scientific Data, Studia Socjologiczne, Journal of Pragmatics, and European Journal of Social Psychology.