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Agnieszka Król

Sociologist and PhD Candidate affiliated at the Jagiellonian University where she is leading the research “Disability, motherhood, care. Reproductive autonomy and motherhood experiences of women with disabilities in Poland”. Her main interests are located in the fields of gender, disability studies and qualitative and participatory methodology. As a researcher she has been working in various scientific projects tackling social exclusion to reduce inequalities. In 2017 she published book “Różnym Głosem. Rodziny z wyboru w Polsce”[“In different voices. Families of Choice in Poland]” with (prof. J. Mizielińska and dr J. Struzik) on queer kinship and families created by non-heterosexual persons. She has been engaged in fieldwork on enforced resettlements after II World War (Ukraine, Poland) and border studies (German-Polish-Czech) that resulted in co-authoring documentary movies based on oral histories. She received scholarships at University College London (UK), Lethbridge University (Canada) and University of Iceland. She is a fellow of the Tokyo Foundation, The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund. She engages in local civil society initiatives and has collaborated with various international non-governmental organization among others in Poland, Ukraine, France, Sweden, India, Azerbaijan, Brazil. "

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