Dr Magda Mogilnicka
PhD
Expertise
Current positions
Research Associate
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Research interests
My research interests are in the fields of ethnicity, lived diversities, cultural difference, whiteness studies, everyday racism.
My PhD thesis investigated everyday encounters with difference of post-accession Polish citizens living in Britain. Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork combined with in-depth interviews, the research explored the complexities of Poles’ everyday practices with cultural others that reflect their understandings of racial, ethnic and cultural diversity in the British context. The research elaborated on concepts such as conviviality, everyday cosmopolitanism, everyday racism as ambivalent practices expressed by individuals, depending on a social context. It situated these complex practices within the broader context of British national hierarchies of belonging.
Recently I have been involved in an interdisciplinary project documenting the experiences of local Somalis with female genital mutilation (FGM)-safeguarding services. This resulted in a launch event with local authorities, practitioners and communities, and a number of publications.
I am currently working as a Research Associate on a large European research project European Music Festivals, Public Spaces, and Cultural Diversity (FestiVersities) funded by the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) network as part of their joint research programme Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Research Associate
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
When Safeguarding becomes Stigmatising: A report on the impact of FGM-safeguarding procedures on people with a Somali heritage living in Bristol
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
31/05/2018 to 31/03/2019
Publications
Recent publications
21/01/2021Prevalence of FGC/M in the UK: What can official data tell us?
Prevalence of FGC/M in the UK: What can official data tell us?
'Putting salt on the wound'
BMJ Open
When Safeguarding Becomes Stigmatising
When Safeguarding Becomes Stigmatising
Female genital mutilation
BMJ
Pathological integration, or, how East Europeans use racism to become British
British Journal of Sociology
Thesis
Lived diversities of conditional citizens
Supervisors
Award date
25/09/2018