“Innovative Methodologies in Gender Studies” – an international workshop

28 04 2026

How can new methodologies help us capture something as layered as gender — attitudes, policies, participation, intersections — without flattening it?

We have some answers.

We invite you to participate in an international workshop “Innovative Methodologies in Gender Studies” on 19–20 May 2026 organized by the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw. This two-day event brings together leading women sociologists and political scientists who are developing new ways to study gender and politics — quantitatively, qualitatively, and across the boundary between research and policy.

The program features keynote sessions led by expert speakers:

Dr. Olga Lavrinenko (University of Warsaw) will use latent class analysis to map the multiple dimensions of gender-role attitudes — public, private, and essentialist — and show why treating them as a single scale obscures more than it reveals.
Dr. Vera Beloshitzkaya (University of Salzburg) will tackle one of the hardest problems in gender research: how to move intersectionality from a concept into something we can actually measure — with Poland as a test case. She will also lead a session on academic career paths, comparing systems in Europe and the United States.
Dr. Kateryna Gryniuk (University of Warsaw) will present methodological tools for studying, influencing, and evaluating gender policies, with applications for both researchers and practitioners.
Dr. Monika de Silva (University of Gothenburg) will demonstrate how qualitative methods open up dimensions of gender and politics that numbers alone leave unanswered, drawing on practical examples from her research.

The workshop includes lectures, discussions, and a final plenary panel on innovative methodologies in gender studies with all speakers.

We encourage students, doctoral candidates, researchers, and anyone interested in gender studies and social science methodologies to attend.

For inquiries, please contact our PhD researcher, Isti Marta Sukma (i.sukma@uw.edu.pl)

Join us in Warsaw to learn how today’s leading women scholars are reshaping the way we study gender and how these methods can help answer questions that matter!