Jolanta Perek-Białas
Jolanta Perek-Białas is Associate Professor at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow in Poland (Institute of Sociology), she is a Director of the Center for Evaluation and Public Policies Analysis, as well she works at the Institute of Statistics and Demography at the Warsaw School of Economics.
Her research interest focuses on socio-economic situation of older persons in Central and Eastern Europe, including active ageing, ageism in the labour market policy, social exclusion of older persons, care for older persons and she has many publications on these topics. Recently: Vanhuysse, P., & Perek-Białas, J. (2021). The Political Demography of Missed Opportunity: Populations and Policies in a Younger but Faster-Ageing East Central Europe, 1990–2040. In Global Political Demography (pp. 373-399). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham and Vidovićová, L., Alisch, M., Kümpers, S., & Perek-Białas, J. (2021). Ageing and Caring in Rural Environments: cross-national insights from Central Europe. In Social Exclusion in Later Life (pp. 223-236). Springer, Cham.
She has been PI and participated in many national, international projects related to gerontological topics and as well as being an expert for policy makers at the local (city of Cracow), regional (Małopolska, awarded by the Bronze Medal for Achievements in Senior Policy for region, 2018), national levels in Poland (like Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy) and international ones (like OECD, EC, UNECE, and in 2021 for ASEM (20TH SEMINAR “HUMAN RIGHTS OF OLDER PERSONS”).
She was a Polish representative in the COST ACTION 1492: Ageism – a multinational, interdisciplinary perspective and in COST ACTION Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion: Collaborations in Research and Policy. She has been also supervisor in a Marie-Curie Sklodowska Action – Innovative Training Network project EuroAgeism (Coordinator: Prof. L. Ayalon), while currently she is involved in Extending Working Lives project (EIWO) and in „City&Co: Older Adults Co-Creating a Sustainable Age-friendly City”.