Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher

Email: alicja.bobek@tudublin.ie

Alicja is a Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher at RINCE. She recently completed work on the RESISTIRÉ project, which investigated the effects of COVID-19 on inequalities in Europe. Prior to joining TU Dublin, Alicja completed several research projects in the area of work and employment, migration, workplace diversity, and social integration. She also worked as the Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, where she taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules in research methods, sociology of migration, and European Societies. Alicja has a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, an MA in Sociology and an MA in Migration and Ethnic Studies from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0957-0419 

Research Interests:  
Social inclusion and equality; employment and working conditions; international migration and migrants’ integration

Selected publications:
Share, M. and Bobek, A. 2024. Introduction. In:  Polish Families in Ireland. A Life Course Perspective, eds. Michelle Share and Alicja Bobek. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1-24. ISBN: 978-3031546334.

Lesniak, M. and Bobek, A. 2024. Becoming in Ireland? An Autobiographical Story of a ’1.5 Generation’ Child. In:  Polish Families in Ireland. A Life Course Perspective, eds. Michelle Share and Alicja Bobek. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 27-43. ISBN: 978-3031546334.

Bobek, A. 2024. ‘If You Are Moving Forward Then You Are Not Going Backwards’: Reconfiguration of Family and Migration—A Longitudinal Study of Polish Migrants in Ireland. In: Polish Families in Ireland. A Life Course Perspective, eds. Michelle Share and Alicja Bobek. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 97-121. ISBN: 978-3031546334. 

Bobek, A. and Share, M. 2024. Conclusion: Converging Paths and New Directions of Polish Migrant Families in Ireland. In: Polish Families in Ireland. A Life Course Perspective, eds. Michelle Share and Alicja Bobek. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 275-290. ISBN: 978-3031546334. 

Share, Michelle and Bobek, Alicja. (eds.). 2024. Polish Families in Ireland. A Life Course Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-3031546334  

Delaney, C. Bobek, A. and Clavero, S (2023). It was too much for me: Mental load, mothers and working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Frontiers in Psychology-Organizational Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1208099

Bobek, A., Clavero, S., Ryan, M. and Gavigan, S. (2023) The COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland and the Gendered Division of Care Work: The Impact of the Pandemic on Childcare, Policy, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 30(3): 949-971.  https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxad011 

Bobek, A., Wickham, J. and Pembroke, S. 2020. Living in precarious housing: non-standard employment and housing careers of young professionals in Ireland, Housing Studies. DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1769037. 

Bobek, A. 2020. Leaving for the money, staying for the quality of life. Case study of young Polish migrants living in Dublin’, Geoforum 109: 24-34. 

Bobek, A. and Wickham, J. 2018. Blurring boundaries: informal practices in formal employment in Ireland, Industrial Relations Journal, 49(4): 336-351. 

Bobek, A., Wickham, J., Moriarty, E. and Salamonska, J. 2018. Is money always the most important thing? Polish construction workers in Ireland, Irish Journal of Sociology, 26(2):162-182. 

Bobek, A. and Wickham, J.2017. The ownership of time: Work in the Irish hospitality sector, Irish Journal of Social Anthropology, 20(2): 17-25. 

Bobek A. and Devitt, C. 2017. Workforce diversity in Irish hospitals: perspectives of Irish and foreign-born professionals and their managers, Employee Relations, 39(7): 1015-1029.