Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a sociologist with additional educational background in psychology and anthropology. She joined the CASIN team in 2012, initially serving as a Technical and Managerial Specialist. She has participated in numerous CASIN initiatives, most notably the Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN. Since 2022, she has been the Principal Investigator of a grant titled ‘Paltry pensions’ in the Context of the Sense of Social Justice and the Goals of Pension Policy. A Multidimensional Sociological Analysis, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland. She is also a member of the Qualitative Data Archive team at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, PAS.
Research interests:
life course approach, sociology of poverty, sociology of ageing, biographical approach, social data archiving, methodology of social sciences
Contact: [email protected]
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3478-3544
ResearchGate/Academia/Linkedin: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danuta-Zyczynska-Ciolek, https://independent.academia.edu/ŻyczyńskaCiołek
CV: https://ifispan.pl/members/dzyczynska-ciolekifispan-waw-pl/
Selected publications:
Życzyńska-Ciołek, Danuta and Robert M. Kunovich. 2023. “How the Past Shapes the Future: A Life Course Perspective on Poverty.” Pp. 75–103 in Poland: Thirty Years of Radical Social Change. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004678675_006
Filipkowski, Piotr and Danuta Zyczynska-Ciolek. 2023. “Between Life Story and Life History. Contextualizing Biographical Narrative Interviews With Questionnaire Data.” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-24.3.3985
Bieńkowski, Stefan and Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek. 2023. „Caught in a Matrix of Factors: A Pilot Study of Female Retirees Receiving Below-Minimum Pension Payments.” Qualitative Sociology Review 19(3): 52–72. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.19.3.03
Życzyńska-Ciołek, Danuta. 2021. “The Roots of Poverty, Poverty at the Root: The Relation between a Wartime Childhood and Material Hardship in Adulthood.” Polish Sociological Review 216: 493-516. https://doi.org/10.26412/psr216.04
Życzyńska-Ciołek, Danuta, Marta Kołczyńska. 2021. “Does Interviewers’ Age Affect Their Assessment of Respondents’ Understanding of Survey Questions? Evidence From the European Social Survey.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 33(2): 460–476. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edaa015
Życzyńska-Ciołek, Danuta. 2019. “The Experience of Systemic Transformation in Contemporary Biographical Narratives of Older Poles.” Qualitative Sociology Review 15(4): 20–45. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.15.4.02
Oleksiyenko, Olena and Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek. 2018. “Structural Determinants of Workforce Participation after Retirement in Poland.” Journal of Population Ageing 11(1): 83–103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-017-9213-3