Assoc ProfessorDorota Szelewa

I am an Associate Professor in Social Justice, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland. 

Other roles:

Co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Family Studies 
Steering Committee Member of the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics.
Head of Gender Studies subject
Associate Member of the International Network on Leave Policies & Research (representing Ireland).

I graduated from the European University Institute in Florence. After completing my doctoral studies I worked at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences and at Warsaw University (Institute of Social Policy). I have published articles in journals such as the European Journal of Social Security, Social Politics, Journal of European Social Policy or Social and Legal Studies, Social Policy&Administration, European Journal of Cultural Studies, or Social Policy & Society. My research interests are interdisciplinary and include the issues of gender, politics, comparative social policy transformation in post-communist countries, gender studies, reproductive rights, migration, theories of institutional evolution, public administration and public management, and the problems of Europeanization.

Ph.D. Supervision Interests:

comparative social policy/comparative welfare state

gender and politics
gender and public policy
family policy/childcare
social investment
reproductive rights
political economy of the welfare state

migration policy 

gender, religion and public policy

right-wing populism and anti-gender movements