DrBarbara Gornicka

Dr Barbara Gornicka is an Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology (UCD) and a Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin. She is a Fellow of Centre of Figurational Research at University of Warsaw.

Her current research interests focus on women's health, and more specifically on women living with chronic pain and conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS etc. She also researches the impact of Irish history of medicine on the quality of care women receive in Ireland, and the processes that may relate to it. She is also keen on long-term history of medicine and anatomy, specifically women's reproductive anatomy.

She currently collaborates on the ERC funded project "Abortion Figurations: Using Human Rights to Change Abortion Law" conducted by Professor Marta Bucholc (University of Warsaw).