Joanna Marczak

Experience Keywords

Gender equality; Polish migration; care workforce and migration; child bearing; comparative social policy; cross-national comparisons of social policies in Europe; family; gender equality; informal and formal care, comparative social policies in Europe; informal and formal care; informal care; long-term care, prevention in social care; long-term care; low fertility in Europe; low fertility; migration in the EU; migration within the EU; prevention in social care; social policies in Europe; wellbeing; work-family balance

Research Summary

Joanna’s research interests focus on a broad range of social policy related issues, including long-term care and prevention, fertility, migration, gender and labour markets, poverty and family. Her PhD at LSE’s Social Policy department examined childbearing intentions of Polish mothers and fathers living in Poland and in the UK. Joanna has been working with Dr Jose-Luis Fernandez on a number of projects including evaluating prevention effects in adult social care (ASC) and testing new eligibility criteria for ASC in England. She is also a coordinator of the International Long-term Care Policy Network (ILPN) which promotes the global exchange of evidence and knowledge on long-term care policy among researchers, policy-makers and other stakeholders.

Research Countries

Europe; Poland; UK

Languages

Polish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]