Kurowska Anna
Professor Anna Kurowska, PhD, DSc – Dr habil. in Political Science (2018). Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw. Chair of the Department of Policy Research Methodology at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, and Vice Chair of LabFam – the Interdisciplinary Centre for Labour Market and Family Dynamics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. Member of the Scientific Council for the Discipline of Political Science and Public Administration. Between 2015 and 2024, she served as a member of the University of Warsaw Anti-Mobbing Committee.
She is a member of the International Network on Leave Policies & Research, the Work and Family Researchers Network, and the European Network for Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet Europe). Between 2020 and 2025, she served on the ESPAnet Board. She is also International Editorial Advisor of Social Policy & Society and serves on the editorial boards of Scientific Data (Springer Nature) and Studia Demograficzne. She has long been an expert for both the European Commission and the National Science Centre Poland (NCN).
She has been repeatedly awarded in competitive research calls of the National Science Centre and the Foundation for Polish Science. She currently leads two NCN-funded research projects:
– Fathers’ freedom of choice (not) to use parental leave (OPUS 18)
– Short and long-term effects of the COVID-19 outbreak policy responses on partners’ division of paid and unpaid work and their labour market outcomes (OPUS 19)
Between 2023 and 2025, she participated in the Polish team of the rEUsilience project under the Horizon Europe programme. Earlier, she led, among others, the following research projects:
– State and company-level work–family reconciliation policies and maternal employment: An analysis from a capability approach perspective (NCN/DFG, 2011–2022)
– Łączenie pracy zawodowej z życiem rodzinnym w Polsce z perspektywy capability approach (NCN)
– Joint influence of family and labour market policies on labour market participation and fertility decisions of men and women (Foundation for Polish Science)
Between 2013 and 2018, she coordinated quantitative research within the Polish teams in projects funded by the European Commission (LIVEWHAT – FP7 and TRANSSOL – Horizon 2020).
She is a regular speaker at leading international conferences such as ESPAnet Annual Conference, the ECSR General Annual Conference, the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, and the Community, Work and Family Conference, where she also serves as thematic session chair. In 2023, she organized the 21st ESPAnet Annual Conference at the University of Warsaw, for which she was awarded the title of Ambassador of Polish Congresses.
Her publications appear in leading journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, including Journal of European Social Policy, Social Indicators Research, Social Policy & Administration, European Societies, American Behavioral Scientist, Acta Politica, Politics & Policy, and European Journal of Population. She is also a reviewer for numerous prestigious journals, including Journal of Social Policy, Social Forces, Journal of Family Studies, Demographic Research, and Community, Work and Family.
Research Interests
Social policy; comparative family policy; care regimes; the effects of social policy reforms on women’s employment, fertility, division of unpaid work within families, and work–life balance; cultural determinants of these effects; working from home; the capability approach; and social indicators.
Affiliation
Department of Policy Research Methodology,
3 Recent Publications
Kurowska, A., Kasperska, A., & Kaufman, G. (2025). When working from home fails to support work–life balance: The role of childcare- and work-related demands. Journal of Family Issues. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X251356260
Kurowska, A., Cukrowska-Torzewska, E., Kasegn, T. D., & Rokicki, B. (2025). Life and work–life balance satisfaction among parents working from home: The role of work-time and childcare demands. Applied Research in Quality of Life. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-025-10467-5
Joecks, J., Kurowska, A., Pull, K., & Schober, P. (2024). Multidimensional gender ideologies: How do they relate to work–family arrangements of mothers with dependent children in Poland and Western Germany? International Journal of Comparative Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152241293463
