I am a feminist researcher, interested in the inequalities at the intersection of gender, policy, family, and care with a particular focus on developments in Central and Eastern Europe. My research has focused on leave policy for fathers and has more broadly been concerned with with questions of how to best conceptualize and operationalize gender, policies and their effects. In a new reserach direction, I am interested in the effects of different family policies on the production of a hierarchy of normative and non-normative families along different axes of marginalization, based on their perceived value for the future of the nation.

My training and work are interdisciplinary, I draw on and contribute to critical social policy, demography, and sociology, and  feminist economics. My work is driven by a commitment to imagining better worlds and I focus on policy, policymaking and politics as means to achieving them. I am a Junior Member of the International Network on Leave Policies & Research and regularly contribute to its work.

I completed my PhD at the LSE Department of Gender Studies. I hold an MSc degree in Public Policy and Administration from the LSE, as well as an MSc in Economic Policy and International Relations and BA in European Studies, Media Studies and Journalism from the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic