Helen Kowalewska

Dr Helen Kowalewska

Assistant Professor in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Bath

Helen Kowalewska

My research examines women’s employment across industrialised countries and how social policies reduce or potentially increase gender inequalities in paid work. I currently hold a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for a project looking at older women’s labour market experiences and have recently completed a New Investigator Grant funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. I am also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Family Studies.

My research has been published in European Sociological Review, Work, Employment & Society, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, and Socius and has been featured in the media, such as in The Independent and the BBC.

Curriculum vitae

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Experience

2022–

Assistant Professor in Sociology and Social Policy

Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath

2019 to 2022

Postdoctoral Research Officer

Oxford Martin Programme on Inequality and Prosperity, University of Oxford

2018 to 2019

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), University of Southampton

2018

Research Fellow

ESRC-funded project ‘Female-Breadwinner Families in Europe’, University of Southampton

2017 to 2018

Researcher

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government