Olga is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN) in Warsaw. Her research interests cover social movements in Central and Eastern Europe, political and social inequalities. She holds a PhD from the Graduate School for Social Research, IFiS PAN and has work experience in the Ukrainian non-governmental sector.

She is affiliated with the Foundation “Open Society” , independent Ukrainian think tank focused on the issues of effective and transparent governance, public finances and anti-corruption. She also cooperated with The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  and The Broker (The Netherlands), the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation and the Institute of World Policy (Ukraine), The Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (Hungary).

Recent publications:

• Zelinska, Olga and Dubrow Joshua K. 2021. “PaReSoGo: Dataset on party representation of social groups for 25 countries, 2002–2016”. Party Politics. doi:10.1177/13540688211023859
• Zelinska, Olga, Alexi Gugushvili, Grzegorz Bulczak, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Zbigniew Sawiński and Kazimierz M. Słomczyński. 2021. “The Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN) Dataset: Capturing the impact of socio-economic change on population health and well-being in Poland, 1988-2018” Data in Brief, 35, 106936. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.106936
• Zelinska, Olga. 2021. “How Social Movement Actors Assess Social Change: An Exploration of the Consequences of Ukraine’s Local Maidan Protests.” International Journal of Sociology, doi: 10.1080/00207659.2021.1910429

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Contact details:

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

72 Nowy Swiat, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland

olga.zelinska[at]ifispan.edu.pl