Joanna Frątczak-Müller, PhD

tel.:  (+48) 789442039
e-mail: J.Fratczak-Muller@wpps.uz.zgora.pl

Joanna Frątczak-Müller – a sociologist, she is particularly interested in social policy, active citizenship and cooperation networks. She researches quality of life and strategic programming and supports local governments in implementing their strategic planning tasks. She likes water sports, growing plants and meeting people. Travelling is her greatest passion.

A sociologist by education (graduate of sociology at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Zielona Góra), she obtained her doctoral degree with distinction in 2009. Her doctoral thesis was awarded a distinction at the request of the Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Wrocław.

Her research interests include the sociology of family, work, social policy, social economy and social revitalization. She is currently interested in the subject of public sphere activities in Poland. She conducts research on programming social development and civic involvement in the processes of social change.

Winner of six awards from the Rector of the University of Zielona Góra. Expert of the Regional Social Policy Center for programming the development of social economy in the Lubuskie Voivodeship. Researcher and active participant in local revitalization processes.

Her most important publications include: Family, work, social policy, Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, Warsaw 2014; Cross-border partnership- the impact of institutions on creating the borderland communities (the case of Spree-Neisse-Bober Euroregion) [in:] Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 2016, Vol. 29, Issue 1 – co-author Anna Mielczarek-Żejmo; The social economy sector in the Lubuskie Voivodeship. Status and development prospects [in:] Rocznik Lubuski. New trends in social research, Zielona Góra 2013. Transformations of marital and family life patterns in the Lubuskie Voivodeship [in:] Family: condition and transformations, ed. M. Świątkiewicz-Mosny, Jagiellonian University Publishing House, Kraków 2011; The importance of social resources in the process of meeting the living needs of families [in:] Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, Studia Sociologica 2011, no. 21.

In her free time, she likes to travel. She likes sports, especially skiing, squash and water sports. He is passionate about gardening and plant cultivation.