Dr Zofia Łapniewska

Zofia Łapniewska, PhD in Economics, is a Visiting Fellow at the Gender Institute for the Lent term 2015. She is an independent academic working on cooperatives as an innovative governance structure in the European market and their analysis from a gender perspective. She is a lecturer at the Gender Studies at the University of Warsaw (Poland). Her areas of scientific interest are feminist economics, institutional economics, and cooperatives.

Research Interests

• Feminist Economics
• New Institutional Economics
• Energy, Sustainability and Green Transformations
• Gender and Well-being Budgeting
• Participation and Participatory methods

Selected Publications

• “(Re)claiming Space by Urban Commons”, Review of Radical Political Economics, SAGE 2015 (forthcoming).
• “Well-being and Social Development in the Context of Gender Equality”, Working Paper in the project Gender equality and quality of life - how gender equality can contribute to development in Europe. A study of Poland and Norway, 2014, RePEc.
• “Economics from Gender Perspective” [in:] Gender. Krytyka Polityczna Reader, 2014, Warsaw: Publishing House of Krytyka Polityczna, pp. 168-179 [in Polish]
• “Gender Budgeting as a Condition of Growth of Citizen's Well-Being” [in:] Gender Budgeting  and Quality of Life. Report from the project “Equal Chances Budget. Gender Budgeting for Local Governments”, 2013, Warsaw: UNDP Projects Office in Poland, pp. 12-60 [in Polish]
• “Budgeting for Equality” [in:] Women in Polish Society, Eds. A. Palecka, H. Szczodry, M. Warat, 2011, Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, pp. 135 – 152 [in Polish]
• “The Costs of Violence, Negligence and System Inefficiency towards Domestic Violence” [in:] Intervention in Crisis. Crisis in Intervention. Reflections/analysis/critique, Ed. B. Zaduminska, 2010, Krakow: Crisis Intervention Society, pp. 113 – 131 [in Polish]
• “The Analysis of the Influence of the Economic Crisis on Women’s Situation in Poland” [in:] Women on the “Green Island”. Crisis in Poland from Gender Perspective, Eds. A. Czerwinska, Z. Łapniewska, J. Piotrowska, 2010, Warsaw: Feminoteka Foundation, pp. 19 - 59  [in Polish]
• “Investigating the Role of Knowledge Based Technologies in the Sector of Non Governmental Organisations” (co-authored with Edward Szczerbicki), Cybernetics and Systems 2009, 40 (08), Taylor & Francis, pp. 724 – 738.
• Gender Budgeting as a Management Strategy for Gender Equality at Universities, (co-edited with A. Rothe, B. Erbe, W. Frohlich, E. Klatzer, M. Mayrhofer, M. Neumayr, M. Pichlbauer, M. Tarasiewicz, J. Zebisch), 2008, Munich: Frauenakademie Munchen e.V.