Country of residence

Lithuania

Brief introduction

PhD student and junior researcher, Lithuanian Social Research Centre (Institute for Ethnic Studies)

Education

MA in Sociology, 2009, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

Academic profile

Dissertation: educational field (Bourdieu: methodological relationism, habitus and reproduction of social structure through education); sociology of children (children as equal research participants, methodological approach); ethnography in school (participant observation), historical analysis (Roma policy in USSR, especially Belarus and Lithuania).   Current research interests: social integration of ethnic groups in Lithuania (strategies of adaptation), ethnic policy, social housing policy, public attitudes towards ethnic groups (public surveys), children rights in Lithuania. Previous research experience: urban sociology and anthropology (MA thesis), sociology and architecture, social theory.

Publications

• Petrušauskaitė V. 2010. Dropping Out of School – an Issue of Disaffection, Non-participation or Social Exclusion? Analysing School Policies towards Roma Schoolchildren in Lithuania.// Ethnicity Studies 2010/1-2.  p. 105-120.
• Petrušauskaitė V. 2011. Starting with a failure: first steps of Roma children in school.// Paper presented at the conference Schooling in Anthropology: Learning the ‘Modern Way’, at Brunel University (London), December 5–6, 2011.
• Petrušauskaitė V. 2012. Volunteers as supermen? Analysing the role of NGOs in education of Roma. // Presentation at the public discussion Education of Roma children: can volunteering fill in systemic gaps? in Vilnius University, March 26, 2012.

Keywords

Education sociology, Roma, children sociology, social integration

Contact

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