Małgorzata Kostrzyńska, PhD, University of Łódź is a university teacher, social pedagogue and art therapist. She has vast experience in qualitative research: long-term participant observation, narrative interviewing, qualitative analysis (Grounded Theory), action and participatory research.
Her interests focus on perception of homelessness street work stigmatization social inclusion and exclusion social welfare and ending homelessness. As a Vice-Chairman of the Council for Solving the Problem of Homelessness at the Municipality of Łódź she is active in networking governmental and non-governmental stakeholders including experts by experience as well as representatives of science and business sectors to implement systemic and individual solutions to end homelessness.
She has also worked as a street worker and assistant to people with experience of homelessness. Both in her research and social activities she concentrates on changing social awareness, breaking stereotypes and most of all presenting the perspective of people with lived experience of homelessness.
Kostrzyńska, M., Wygnańska, J. 2022 "Badanie potrzeb osób doświadczających bezdomności w województwie łódzkim. Desk research", Regionalne Centrum Polityki Społecznej w Łodzi, Załącznik nr 1 do SOPZ
Kostrzyńska, M. 2022 „Piętno w procesie demokratyzacji. Przykład bezdomności”, Wydawnictwo UŁ, Łódź, recenzja
