About
Dr Magda Mogilnicka is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology.
Magda’s research interests are in the field of everyday sociology, with expertise in migration, ethnicity, citizenship and lived diversities and experience in qualitative research methodologies.
She is a co-founder of a research group Bristol Research on Female Genital Modifications.
Research
Research interests
- Member of
- Polish Migration Group https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/anne-white/ssees/research/polish-migration
- Bristol Research on Female Genital Modifications https://brfgm.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/
- Migration Mobilities Bristol https://migration.bristol.ac.uk/
Publications
Teaching
Magda teaches on a variety of undergraduate modules, including Key Thinkers and Big Ideas: Foundations in Social Theory; What's the problem? Debating responses to contemporary social challenges; Real World Research; Delivering Justice: Mapping the Criminal Justice System and Inequalities in Everyday Worlds.
Biography
Magda joined the University in 2024. Before joining the University, Magda was a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol.
Magda has been contributing her expertise in qualitative methods and experience in conducting research with marginalised communities to interdisciplinary research projects on Female Genital Modifications (FGMo).
Magda also worked on the international Festiversities project, conducted collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team across five European countries (the UK, Ireland, Poland, the Netherlands and Denmark), exploring gender and cultural diversity in music festivals spaces.
Her ESRC-funded PhD in Sociology was awarded in 2019 at the University of Bristol. Her thesis examined Polish migrants’ lived experiences of diversity, offering conceptual contributions to the everyday multiculturalism scholarship.