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Editorial Staff
Elżbieta Kowalska-Dubas
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7803-3369
Professor of social sciences in the field of pedagogy, Department of Andragogy and Social Gerontology of the University of Lodz. Pedagogist. She specializes in andragogy and geragogy. Areas of study: development and education of adults, informal learning of adults, adulthood and maturity as andragogic categories, pedagogic philosophy of loneliness, educational and spiritual support for elderly people, biographic approach in andragogy studies. Co-editor of the series entitled “Biografia i Badanie Biografii” and “Refleksje nad Starością” (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego).
Piotr Soszyński
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7544-1394
Pedagogue, music theorist, IT specialist, Doctor of Humanities in the discipline of Education, assistant professor at the Department of Art Education and Pedagogy of Creativity at the University of Lodz. Author of the book IT competences of music teachers. Postulated and actual state. Research interests: art education, application of computer technology in music education, music didactics, diagnosis and evaluation of TPACK.
Eleonora Bielawska-Batorowicz
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3177-6026
Psychologist, professor of social sciences, research interests in reproductive psychology and clinical psychology, particularly in prenatal attachment, perinatal depression, infertility and its treatment, menopause, andropause, and research ethics. Member of editorial boards of several journals, including: The International Journal of Fertility and Sterility, Menopause Review, Health Psychology Report, Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology (also Book Review Editor). Member of the Psychology Committee of Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee member of the Society of Reproductive and Infant Psychology.
Katarzyna Gajek
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2610-5842
Social pedagogue, a Doctor of Humanities in the discipline of Education, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Łódź, Department of Social Pedagogy. She is the author of the book “The Experience of Domestic Violence. Autobiographical Narratives of Women” (2018). Her research areas include social issues and social problems, social inequalities, the phenomenon of social exclusion and empowerment processes, the phenomenon of violence (domestic violence, bullying, human trafficking), Gender Studies, equality/equity education, social work as a field of socio- pedagogical action, social research methodology (qualitative research methods including e.g. biographical research, critical discourse analysis.
Mariusz Granosik
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6987-031X
University of Lodz, Department of Social Pedagogy. Research interests: critical social work, participatory action-research, social problems in public discourse, interpretive methods of social research. Co-editor of the book Participatory Social Work: Research, Practice, Education (2019). Member of the board of the Polish Association of Schools of Social Work (PSSPS) and the European Association of Schools of Social Work.
Marcin Kafar
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0679-8992
Interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of human and social sciences; to express his own voice he combines the fields of anthropology of culture, education, literary studies, sociology, and philosophy. He is assistant professor at the Department of Educational Studies of the University of Lodz. He is the editor-in-chief of the book series “Biographical Perspectives” (originally “Perspektywy Biograficzne”), and serves as member of the editorial boards of two other book series, “In Search of the Idea of the 21st Century” (originally “W Poszukiwaniu Idei XXI Wieku”), and “Biography and Research on Biography” (originally “Biografia i Badanie Bografii”), conducted by the Lodz University Press. He has authored, co-authored and edited several monographs, e.g. Scientific Biographies: Between the “Professional” and “Non-Professional” Dimensions of Humanistic Experiences, Łódź – Kraków 2014, In the World of Strangers, Widows, and Orphans: On a Certain Variant of Engaged Anthropology (originally W świecie wygnańców, wdów i sierot. O pewnym wariancie antropologii zaangażowanej, Łódź 2013). Recipient of internships (2010, 2016) and visiting professor (2018) at the Department of Communication, University of South Florida, USA. Promoter of autoethnography in Poland.
Krzysztof Szmidt
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3951-4669
Pedagogue, professor of social sciences. His scientific interests include the pedagogy of creativity and abilities, artistic education and socio- cultural animation, particularly social and educational conditions of creativity development and institutions helping in creation. Member of the Art Pedagogy Section of the Pedagogical Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the editorial board of “Creativity: Theories - Research - Application”, chairman of the scientific council of the series of the University of Lodz Publishing House “Education for wisdom” and “Therapy and Education”. Founder and honorary president of the main board of the Polish Creativity Association, scientific advisor to the Odyssey of Mind Poland.
Renata Szczepanik
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7443-0463
Professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Lodz. Member of the Stanisław Batawia Polish Criminological Society and the Resocialization Pedagogy Team at the Pedagogic Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her scientific interests include convict criminology, social rehabilitation, and field research.
