Lina Šumskaitė

Assistant Professor at Vilnius University at the Sociology and Social Work Institute, Social Policy Department. She defended her PhD in sociology in 2014 entitled Fathering Practices of Men. She currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on family, social policy, gender studies and qualitative research in Social Policy and Social Work programmes. Her research interests include fathering and mothering practices, procreational intentions, LGBT studies and qualitative studies on childlessness.

Lina has published the following article:

  • Childless Women’s Relationships with Children of Others: Narratives from Two Generations in Lithuania