University of London, Birkbeck College

Department Member, Psychosocial Studies

Research Fellow

Birkbeck Institute for Social Research

Thesis Title: Gender and Generation: Women's Experiences of the Transition from Socialism in Bulgaria

About

I joined the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research in June 2007 as a Research Fellow. I am part of a research team working on a EU integrated project ‘Intimate Citizenship in Multi-Cultural Europe: the impact of contemporary women’s movements’ (FEMCIT, www.femcit.org). As part of FEMCIT I am working on transformations in intimate citizenship in Bulgaria.

My research interests fall into the areas of changing cultural discourses and policy contexts about intimate life and citizenship in Bulgaria; socialist and post-socialist gender regimes; feminism in South Eastern Europe and women’s agency; biographical narrative research methods.

I have completed a PhD on ‘Gender and Generation: Women’s Experiences of the Transition from Socialism in Bulgaria’ in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds (2004-2008). I also hold a First Class MA degree in Public Relations from Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’. I was awarded The Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORSAS) Award (Universities UK, United Kingdom in 2006/2007 and 2005/2006), as well as the Global Supplementary Grant Program Award (Network Scholarship Programs of Open Society Institute, in 2006/007 and 2005/2006).

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