Dr. Olga Lavrinenko – PhD in Social Sciences in the discipline of Sociological Sciences (IFiS PAN, 2020). Assistant Professor, head of the project “Gender Gaps in Political Participation: Examining the Links Between Gender Equality and Attitudes Towards Gender Roles in Europe, 1999–2021,” funded by the National Science Centre (grant no. UMO-2023/51/D/HS6/00026). From 2021–2024, she led the project “Fragmentation of Women’s Organizations and Women’s Political Empowerment Worldwide, 1999–2020,” funded by the National Science Centre (grant no. UMO-2021/40/C/HS6/00150). Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at IFiS PAN and a research fellow (postdoc) in the project “Political Voice and Economic Inequalities Across Countries and Over Time” (NCN grant no. 2016/23/B/HS6/03916). She has presented papers at international conferences in Ghent, Tilburg, Ljubljana, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna, Kaunas, Tartu, Porto Alegre, Uppsala, and Stockholm, among others.
Research Interests
Political participation, political power, social inequalities, gender studies, political attitudes and behaviors, political protest, quantitative methods, mathematical modeling.
Unit
Department of Political Sociology and Political Marketing
3 latest publications:
Lavrinenko, O. 2025. “Fragmentation of Women’s Transnational Social Movement Organizations and Women’s Political Empowerment Worldwide, 1990–2021.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 66 (4): 560–83. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152241279299.
Lavrinenko, O. 2024. “WINGOs as Conduits of World Culture, Their Relationships with Emancipative Values, and Women’s Political Empowerment Worldwide, 1981–2020.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 65 (5): 561–78. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152231188316.
Lavrinenko, O., J. K. Dubrow, and I. Tomescu-Dubrow. 2022. “Contacting a Public Official: Concept and Measurement in Cross-National Surveys, 1960s–2010s.” Social Science Quarterly 103 (4): 810–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13177.