Research Fellow at University College Dublin
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Dr. Ieva Žumbytė is a gender and political sociologist. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research examines how policy actors shape welfare systems and how welfare systems shape gender inequality. Currently, she works on two main projects. First, she examines work-life balance policy implementation in Europe for the TransEuroWorks project funded by Horizon Europe (entitled “Transforming European Work and Social Protection - A New Proactive Welfare State Fit for The Future World of Work”). Second, she is working on a book project, “Adapted Delivery: How Childcare Workers and Parents Produce Care in the Neighborhoods of Chennai.” The book is based on ethnographic observations and over 200 interviews with childcare workers and parents examining how neighborhood-level dynamics give rise to unequal quality of care services. She has conducted many quantitative and qualitative research projects and published in academic journals, such as the Journal of Marriage and Family and Sociology of Development.
Besides academic research, Ieva consults international organizations on childcare and various social development issues. Before her PhD, Ieva worked in the World Bank’s Social Development Department researching policy issues on gender, social exclusion, poverty and social impacts of policy reforms in the Global South. Her country experience includes the EU (Ireland, Lithuania, UK), India, and Vietnam. Ieva holds a Ph.D. and MA in Sociology from Brown University, USA, an MA in Economics from University College London, UK, and a dual BA in Economics from Edinburgh Napier University, UK and ISM School of Management and Economics, Lithuania.
Ieva was one of the coordinators of LT Big Brother project - USA region from 2012 to 2016.
Hobbies: Hiking, biking, travelling, reading.
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