Staff members

University Professor
Institute of Educational Sciences
room no: 349, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń
tel.: +48-56-611-3120
e-mail: borbesz@umk.pl
www: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Beata_Borowska-Beszta
ORCID: 0000-0002-2133-4400
Interest:
1. Culture and disability. Disability studies. Anthropology of Disability.
2. Research on reservoirs of culture and disability from the perspective of anthropology of disability.
3. Disability in institutions: social welfare (day care and stationary facilities, homeless shelters), health care (hospice), cultural (museums, art galleries), religious, military and financial (banks)
4. Cultural production and transmission of cultural knowledge about disability in Poland and abroad (Japan 2016, 2024-2027; France 2012; Scotland 2017, 2023; 2024-2026)
5. Congenital and acquired disabilities in the cultural constructs of anomaly, artefacts, vulnerability, access, hate, taboo, empowerment
6. Comparative studies on disability and dependency
7. Representations of disability in media and technology
8. Qualitative methodology in pedagogy and social sciences
Office Hours:
Konsultacje w sesji letniej 2024/2025
Czwartek: – 13:10 - 13:55 (in situ) INP WFiNS ul. Lwowska 1; 2 piętro p. 349.
Piątek: 8:30 – 9:15 (zdalne) MS Teams.
Consultations in the summer semester 2024/2025
Thursday: 1:10 pm – 1:55 pm (in situ) Building 1Lwowska Street; 2nd floor, room 349.
Friday: 8:30 – 9:15 am (online) MS Teams.
See profile in Research Portal